..Discuss:
1) English artists are consistently the best in the world by a fairly long shot. Agreed, Ireland fights above its weight too IMHO.
2) country - some classics plus its a fair chunk of Amerikay so it has a right to life, rap Always found Eminem good , 'modrin' R&B Aye its the s word... with a few exceptions, it's all crap really isnt it?
3) American late 20th century early 21st century 'punk' is horrible anodyne glossy kak (Green day, Blink whassernames etc). I always think of it as "college rock" -most songs sound the same but tolerable
4) Very few bands truly 'rock' anymore - it's all embarrassingly artificial. There a lot of flavour du jour stuff, the underground-cool-embarassingly mainstream-bloated & finished lifecycle appears accelerated, so you go from underground to "so last season" in about 2 years, must be very hard to have a career anymore
5) BBC4 has saved my life. That a radio station then?
Damien Hirst is first although... 1) English artists are consistently the best in the world by a fairly long shot...
Yes, wearing cowboy hats (sorry Mr. Hewson), dressing like Mr. T and winning a competition to record as many swear-words as possible over a drum machine keeping time with a sampled phrase from Strawberry Fields Forever just doesn't seem to do it for me in a creative sense.... 2) country, rap, 'modrin' R&B... with a few exceptions, it's all crap really isnt it? ...
Yeah, blink and you've missed it; lucky you.... 3) American late 20th century early 21st century 'punk' is horrible anodyne glossy kak (Green day, Blink whassernames etc) ...
Yeah I found a recording of Little Wing recorded live by Simon McBride... 4) Very few bands truly 'rock' anymore - it's all embarrassingly artificial...
My name is mathepac and I'm a recovering country n' weshtern fan. I used to be playin' Big Tom and the Mainliners 20 times a day on me Sony Walkman in the oul' Zetor tractor and then the missus left BBC4 on wan night she was at an ICA meetin' and it changed my life. Now its Bob Harrison, Tom Pretty and the Heartachers, Later with Jools that Dutch lad and them other boyos, 10 Litres or Pints or CCs or whatever and it saved my life. Thanks BBC4 and thanks for lishening. (Background chorus - "Thanks for sharing"),... 5) BBC4 has saved my life.
Only really from 1960 - 1979. I may even go as far as saying 1975 is largely when England stopped really rocking.
Surely this is flaming! Agree on modern R&B, especially when you consider what R&B is supposed to be. But you can always find class in any genre, there's plenty of amazing country albums and artists and rap has its moments with the likes of Public Enemy.
That's the MTV generation "punk" try the stuff before that from the 80s, that's my era. That's the era america dominated the underground scene with early REM, Replacements, Black Flag moving onto Husker Du, Dinosaur Jr, Sonic Youth, Pixies, and they're just the ones you'll find in HMV.
Punk? post punk/new wave? NWOBHM? Pretty much the entire indie scene? C'mon!
Try it?! Do you know who you are talking to my friend? I live and breath it!
I'm just flabbergasted at the way they actually call this bouncy shiny clean cut Green Day type stuff "punk".
Discuss:
5) BBC4 has saved my life.
Hey man, Cav is the man! You're welcome, spread the love.... a big thank you to Caveat and Mathepac for the heads up ...
The new Massive Attack album is quite good (Heligoland) - have only listened a few times but it's growing on me. Caveat I think that Muse album (The Resistance) is from last year no? Or have they another new one since?
She sure is Doc. The deal includes a tank of diesel, goodish tyres, full service history from Killnascully Motor Engineers & Boarding Kennels, the Walkman and me two Big Tom tapes. The PTO needs work and she sometimes needs a good kick in the hydraulics, but other than that she's in PMO. I'm open to all reasonable offers, for the Zetor that is.... mathepac, is that Zetor still for sale?
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