will ever see their music on iTunes.
As far as Good Charlottee being punk, there was an interesting article
in last week's Washington City Paper on the influence of Fugazi. The
cover had a picture of Ian and the boys, all dressed as puritans. The
theme of the article is that Fugazi is big it has crushed DC's scene
with high moral values.
HMV is okay, if you like someone preaching at you, but most people are
more are excited by the fun side of music. The scene around DC is really
changing. While there are a lot of bands that still want to be Fugazi,
there are a bunch of power-pop and Oi bands popping up.
They don't have overt political messages in their songs, they tend to
not be sXe, and they are really, really fast and low-fi (think New Bomb
Turks, the Mummies, Mike Mariconda, etc.). While I am not punk (having a
child precludes me from any such identity definition) I have friends who
are still in bands and give me music all the time.
The thing about these guys (and Good Charlotte is an example, they
started off playing shows in Silver Spring and Frederick) is they have a
radically different mindset about music than people before them did.
They would rather be seen in MTV than in MRR, and their music is mostly
focused on 1) frustrations with the ordinariness of life, 2)
girlfriends, and 3) how dumb they are.
I mean, political consciousness is still around, but you didn't see
bands like this back in the day.
M
-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Ihrig [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, October 24, 2003 6:34 PM
To: CF-Community
Subject: RE: Punk as F*** (Was: Re: Threat to the Internet)
actually i don't want to pay for another album that i have purchased 3+
times in my life time...
its the albume "walk among us" not the track, or the cd americxan psi...
any who minor threat was fun in its day...
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