[kj] Top 10 and the "throwback" era

[B. Oliver Sheppard]

Also, another note on this topic that we're in the 'throwback era' of 
music: This YouTube video -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0yJpaI3v4U 
-- has Ian MacKaye (Fugazi/Minor Threat/Dischord Records) essentially 
saying he has never watched the _American Hardcore_ movie, has never 
read the book, doesn't read any of the retrospectives of the '76 - 
'87-ish era of punk/post-punk/hardcore, doesn't want to but may some 
day, they all seem to be written by mainly white males in their 30s and 
40s and are sort of indirectly giving the message to young kids: "Wow, 
you guys really missed the boat -- sorry!" (Paraphrase.)

The YouTube vid is actually an interview on the Internet-only TV show 
"Soft Focus," hosted by Ian Svenonius, singer of Nation of Ulysses (who 
made the really great early 90s aggressive punk album _13 Point Program 
to Destroy America_, produced by MacKaye -- what a coincidence!) and 
seems to have patterned his faux talk show on a kind of 70s 
European/French philosophical, Situationist-y kind of public access 
program, with himself in a kind of Serge Gainsbourg-meets-Sartre role as 
Socratic philosopher. In front of a live audience in Wash DC. Amusing.

They discuss _American Hardcore_ and if Dead Kennedys' political 
predictions have come true, etc.

-Oliver




B. Oliver Sheppard wrote:

> Leigh,

>

> Oddly, a friend and I -- well, an online "friend," have never met him 

> in person -- were discussing exactly how in the mid-1990s it seemed 

> like music began to enter a period of recapitulation and reformulation 

> that hasn't let up since. I've read his blog for awhile and we got the 

> discussion started over this entry of hi, but via email:  

> http://redstateson.blogspot.com/2007/03/doll-play.html [His blog is 

> called Red State Son.]