I'm with you on the prissy part Arch. Our American culture is full of dudes with earrings and eyeliner getting manicures and exfoliating themselves. It's all a little nauseating. I can't even make fun of them either because they'll use their gym-toned bodies and Ti Chi to kick my chubby butt if I piss them off. Plus they get all the chicks.
Silence is golden but here in the big city you just can't ever get it. It makes it that much more special when you can get away and soak up some nature. I agree the Ipod stays at home on camping trips. You'll be happy to hear I modified some ear muffs I use at work to use as head phones. Not doing my hearing a favor but at least I don't bother anyone. I do occasionally get pencils or note pads thrown in my general direction, however. Barbaric ingrates. dj On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 5:59 AM, archytas <[email protected]> wrote: > > What you 'musak farties' can never understand is that there is no > message in any of the dross that can beat the sound of silence or a > few bits of birdsong. You will inflict your fetish on innocent > travellers, some of you stuck so far up the unsunlit passage of > narcissism that you irritate a whole coach on the train whilst > blasting what is left of your mind behind headphones that don't work > to protect us from your illness. That musak is now so bad is > illustrated by the need to make it appeal through gormless butt-cheek > waggling and a prissy avant-garde, as ever the actual rearguard that > hasn't realised 'cool' is turning to the bitter winter of a forced > retreat. Music has a place - watch Bill Bailey maybe - but if it was > any good a few chords would expose all the lies and bring us tumbling > into happiness and plenty. You guys still think the Pied Piper was a > good guy and haven't realised the dungeon he led you into for what it > is and the role of musak in getting you into the mess. Copyright > reserved - just in case Dem Totally Hosed steal my lyrics! > > On 21 Mar, 10:25, frantheman <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 21 Mrz., 08:50, Slip Disc <[email protected]> wrote: >> . Maybe the new sound to hit the >> >> > airwaves will be a revival of some Bavarian Folk music with a Rock >> > spin. >> >> Hendrix preserve us! There is actually a good German music scene, has >> been since the beginning of the eighties. In fact, I think innovation >> in rock may be more prevalent in other language-culture groups than >> the English-speaking one. There are all kinds of things happening in >> Africa, for example. Peter Gabriel's "realworld" project keeps >> bringing really good stuff to a wider audience. But the English- >> speaking world is sometimes isolated in its own dominance. >> >> Ever since "die neue deutsche Welle" [New German Wave] (reaching a >> wider world with Nena's "Nine and ninety red balloons") an indigenous >> German scene has been thriving, a scene where the artists sing in >> German - when you think about it, it does seem more sensible to write >> songs in your own language(!). This has expanded into all sorts of >> areas, like hip hop (Fanta Vier, Sido, Bushido) and bombastic heavy >> rock groups like Rammstein, who have a respectable international >> following:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4w9EksAo5hY >> >> Other examples of good popular German rock (come on, gabby, contradict >> me here, please!) are >> >> Bap, a band from Cologne who sing in the local dialect and thus have >> to be translated so that other Germans can understand them. I would >> claim that every German between five and fifty would recognise this >> song, and most of them could sing along with the >> chorus:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKkVV3QGJpA >> >> Die Toten Hosen are a punk group who've been around forever. They are >> also wildly popular in Argentina for some >> reason:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15apenkfeF8 >> >> Die Ärzte are punks for intellectuals, with lyrics unsurpassed in >> cynical cleverness. The video isn't bad >> either:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DJ0Inxfmyk&feature=related >> >> Wir Sind Helden are one of the younger groups to have become very >> popular in the past few years (they were one of the acts at the Live 8 >> Berlin concert):http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gr0FBBKT65s&feature=related >> >> (Yeah, I know I've left out Grönemeyer and Westernhagen and Die Böhze >> Onkels and Silbermond and Rosenstolz, etc., etc., etc. But I also left >> out Pur. On purpose.) >> >> Francis > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" 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/Minds-Eye?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
