[kj] OT: somewhat rapturous Bauhaus CD review...

[LONESTYLE at aol.com]

Yes, I do Alex. 
 
I actually downloaded some of their stuff. Not so bad.
 
~ LB
 
 
In a message dated 12/16/2007 12:14:22 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,  
vassifer at earthlink.net writes:


Anyone remember Senator Flux?  I didn't mind them. But,  honestly, fuck  
all that shit.

Alex in NYC


On Dec  16, 2007, at 2:53 PM, Leigh Newton wrote:


> When I started becoming  aware of emo as a musical genre in the late  

> 90s, it was mostly  bands like Braid, The Promise Ring, Dashboard  

> Confessional,  Saves the Day and whatnot that I was hearing about.  

> Mostly  clean-cut, very handsome looking young men singing songs of  

>  love-lost whilst jacking off in front of a full-length mirror. At   

> some point, most of these bands really came to terms with the  fact  

> that there was no difference between them and the likes of  Bon Jovi,  

> which explains why the eyeliner started coming into  play. That  

> started the snowball-effect of emo and goth  coalescing into one big  

> melting chocolate cake (or that's what  most of these gaylords look  

> like to me anyways). It's  definitely a weird evolution. When I was a  

> lad, there wasn't  much difference between an emo-kid and an indie- 

> rock type kid as far  as fashion went. Just some dude in tight,  

> thrift-store clothes,  Buddy Holly glasses and a fuckin back-pack.  

> That was  emo.

>

> And it SUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCKED too.

>

> -----  Original Message ----

> From: B. Oliver Sheppard  <bigblackhair at sbcglobal.net>

> To: A list about all things Killing  Joke (the band!) <gathering at misera.net 

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> Sent: Sunday,  December 16, 2007 11:12:36 AM

> Subject: Re: [kj] OT: somewhat rapturous  Bauhaus CD review...

>

>

> I'll be forever amazed at how  "emo," which I always understood to be a

> mid-80s post-punk musical  movement, came to be conflated with  

> "goth." A

>

>  few years ago on a discussion forum someone said, "Just you wait,

>  they'll come up with a way to combine emo with goth, and it'll be

>  called

> goth-mo or some shit." Looks like that really did  happen.

>

> This is Ian MacKaye of Minor Threat expaining,  derisively, "emo," in

> ...

> 1986:

>

>

>  http://youtube.com/watch?v=mbdh0Qm_5A0

>

>

> Now, how what  he is describing would come to mean eyeliner, a black  

>  80s

>

> skater flop, bangs-over-one-eye hairdo, etc., is beyond  me. Basically,

> America's cultural stewards need to be sent to the gas  ovens, because

> whoever is in charge of steering this shit has no idea  what they're

> doing.

>

>  -Oliver

>

>

>

> LONESTYLE at aol.com wrote:

>>  Nice Oilver. ;)

>>

>>  ~LB

>>

>>

>> In a message dated 12/15/2007 1:18:25  P.M. Pacific Standard Time,

>> bq at soundgardener.co.nz  writes:

>>

>

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