> 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.
***Oh poor baby...."forced to be aware"...how can ANYONE not be aware?
I was using the
> charts to make my point at the vapid state of rock and roll and the
> music industry in general.
***And this is NEW? The charts have sucked since the 60s if you ask me!
Sure there was some cool stuff in the late 70s /early 80s, but the VAST
majority of the stuff never charted.
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.
OK, you just gave yourself away there.... dig a little deeper rather
than hide
behind the tried-and-true "it didn't chart for a reason" excuse.
>
> 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.
>
***I USED to care about that about twenty years ago. It's NEVER gonna
happen
in a cool way (witness the recent swing and ska revival revival) and
would you
REALLY want it to? I don't give a flying fuck WHO the record companies
sign,
or WHO the general public is willing to care about. I really don't.
It will always be about the grassroots thing, and the independent labels
putting out cool
stuff for the people that know. Is Oasis REALLY where you think it's at
man?
'Cos that's as fucking close as it will EVER get to mainstream
acceptance.
> 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.
***So someone not agreeing with you is "being shot down"? You just
explained yourself
away there. You are not interested in 60s music (other than the
obvious namedrops)
or bands that sound 60s. What the hell is your interest in "mod" then,
other than to latch onto some name to hang your indie hat. If you want
to be so current...
then go be current....it's not so difficult to do, is it?
>
> 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?
>
***Well this is your fallback defense isn't it? Obvious and boring.
Just like you.
Dan
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