agreed. i've been inclined to point out to any twenty-something alt. music kid i know that what they're listening to sounds an awful lot like what i usually listen to. take my friend nick for example. he looked like a hip kid and works two blocks away from me at a CVS. we had a "are you a musician?", "yeah, are you a musician?" moment and started exchanging computer burned CDs as a swap project. and i was amazed at what i found from him. GREAT bands that he and his friends all buy their CDs but more often just download, that sound energetic and creative and real (analog's a big, hip, "new" thing) and sound an awful lot like the kinks, zombies (seems to be an especially big influence recently) and so on and on and on and so... we really don't have the monopoly on innovative and clever rock music. high school kids all across the country are digging "bright eyes" (amazing band!), "the shins", "goldenboy", "the unicorns","mates of state", "postal service", "the decemberists", "wolf parade" (incredible band!), "radiohead" (most mainstream obviously), "death cab for cutey" (i had to tell a couple of fans where that name came from!), "the islands", "the new pornographers", "the mountain goats" (amazing!), "of montreal" (even better!) and probably many more i don't have the time to know about. it does seem to me that these kids are listening to bands who have a keen sense of the past, but their fans aren't always clued into "from whence their influences came." so, the best of these young bands wear their influences on their sleeves but don't get too retro. some of them do get a bit too retro and altho i really DO love "of montreal", i had to give nick a copy of "odessey and oracle" to show him where they got their sound and songwriting style for "the bird who continues to eat the rabbit's flower" and "the gay parade". i think there really is nothing new under the sun. and that since music will always recycle itself, we should at least give credit to these newer bands who recycle from the best and credit to the younger people who buy their music and go to their live shows. most of these bands chart way up there on the college charts and some break thru to the mainstream. and that's my rant of the moment. and now i'm gonna go take my meds.
(by the way, the new "decemberists" CD sucks. and p.s. - i wuz just riffing off the previous post, not disagreeing with it at all.) On Jul 12, 1:30 pm, Eidem <[email protected]> wrote: > Like I said, all these musical ideas just seemed to explode out of > nowhere, and out of the heads of all these kids barely in their > twenties (I call them kids now because I'm in my 50s), but they were > kids, essentially, with amazingly fertile imaginations, and really no > musical boundaries other than those set by the earlier rockers of the > Fifties. I don't think there will ever be another musical explosion > like that again, basically because it's all been done already. I > think it would have been amazing to be a part of that musical and > cultural explosion, and be a part of the Swinging London/Sunset Strip/ > San Francisco scenes. What heady times. Absolutely why'60s music is > my favorite over any other decade. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Diamond Headz" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/michaellenz?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
