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>
> chris wrote:
> >
> > charles wallace wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > Is ANYONE on this list currently listen to anything
> > > that is actually CURRENT? As in NEW?
> > >
> > > contemoparily yours,
> > > -C
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> > Well there isn't too much out there that's new and good is there? I'm
> > sure I'll get pummeled by saying this but the only worthy record to come
> >
> >
> > out lately is Radiohead's 'Kid A'. I hate to say it but I think they're
> > the "great white hope". Looking through the charts during this past year
> >
> >
> > is enough to make a grown man cry (or anyone with good taste for that
> > matter). For fuck's sake, Sleater-Kinney's last record was getting all
> > sorts of accolades and that record was a bunch of garbage. Not a song to
> >
> >
> > be found. Macy Gray finally made the record I've been waiting for
> > someone in the current R&B world to come out with; the last Cardigans
> > record was delightfully depressing; actually those two were released in
> > '99. But that's about it. The fact that Radiohead can, in their
> > artsy-fartsy kind of way, thumb their noses up to the industry and make
> > the record they wanted to make, not tour, no interviews, no videos, AND
> > still hit number 1 in the States is fucking astonishing. And hopeful.
> >
> > So let's wait for good when George W. Bush sinks the U.S. into a
> > recession. Things are going too good with the economy right now - hence,
> >
> >
> > Backstreet, NSync, Limp Shitsket, et. al. How can anything good come out
> >
> >
> > of an economic boom? Mark my words, we may be getting a total idiot for
> > a president but it's gonna spark something good on the music front.
> >
> > Sorry to go into a socio-economic discourse but I think it would be a
> > bit more constructive than what that "LaBadass" was lowering this
> > current thread to.
> >
> >
> > -chris
> >
> > p.s. see ya when you get back charles! (i'm assuming you know who i
> > am...)
>
>
>
> Jesus, why does something have to be in the charts to be of interest to
> you?
> ANY music, if you haven't heard it yet, is NEW MUSIC! I get so annoyed
> with people getting
> on a supposed "mod" list and talking about Skrewdriver (again) and
> Radiohead.
> Don't you people have enough imagination to dig a little deeper into the
>
> VAST archives
> of 60s (or older) music out there, beyond the oldies stations?
>
> OK here are two current bands, that aren't on any chart, indie or
> otherwise.
>
> EMBROOKS- "Our New Day" LP out on Voxx
> CONQUERORS- Anything by these guys...especially the three self-released
> CDs
>
> Dan
I don't look at the charts looking for new bands. Since I work in the
business, I am forced to be aware of the all the charts. I was using the
charts to make my point at the vapid state of rock and roll and the
music industry in general. I love finding obscure 60's stuff and I
would be nowhere if I had never listened to the mainstream stuff like
The Who, The Creation, Small Faces, Kinks, Action, The Pretty Things,
Jam, etc. Though I've gotta say that from a purely musical perspective
and my own personal opinion, most obscure music is obscure for good
reason. A lot of it is utter rubbish. Most of them couldn't write a
decent song to save their lives.
Yes, any music that you haven't heard could be called NEW music. However
if you limit what you listen to to 60's stuff (not that I'm saying YOU
do), how can we expect good music to be produced again. With that type
of mentality, none of those obscure 60's bands would have been able to
make a record to begin with. They were doing what was current to them
because their audience wanted to hear something current and not
something that was over thirty years old. Wouldn't it be nice if you
turned on MTV or the radio and actually saw/heard something of value?
Something that was of the same artistic merit such as that which was
produced in the 60's? Wouldn't it be nice if the two bands you
mentioned, Embrooks and Conquerors were able to force the general public
to raise the bar of what is considered good and worthy? The music
industry puts out crap because we let them. The industry doesn't sign
new bands of any worth because we, the buying public, don't seem to
care.
For the record, I've no idea who Skrewdriver were nor do I care. The
purpose of my post was not to begin a discourse on the value of
Radiohead. I fully understand that this is "modslist" and that Radiohead
has nothing to do with mod. I was just using them as an example of a
band who are a good alternative to the crap we're currently being fed
like Korn, Limp Biskett, Boy bands, Hip Hop/Rap, etc. I've got a broad
taste in music and it doesn't always revolve around what is termed as
Mod. I definitely have no interest in any groups that would call
themselves Mod when they're merely a regurgitation of what someone
already did thirty years before them and did it a lot better. All I was
trying to do was to spark an intelligent spirited debate but just as
expected, I was shot down.
Let's get back to the typical modslist forum and all that is "mod"
approved:
How did everyone interpret the ending to "Quadrophenia"?
a) Did Jimmy jump off and toss the scooter off the cliff just before it
went over as a symbol of his denouncing his affiliation with Mod
or
b) Did he go off the cliff with the scooter thus committing suicide?
-chris
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