[kj] Shot in the dark question for any fans of "martial pop, " "military ...

[B. Oliver Sheppard]

One of the frustrating things (to me, anyway) about "Military pop" is 
that little of it actually has percussion that reminds me of military 
marches, etc. Some of it does, but a lot of it is just audio collage 
with rousing, nationalist-sounding anthems and the like, with audio 
clips from fiery dictators and all that stuff. I always thought the 
drumming style Crass had on, say, "Do They Owe Us a Living?" was really 
innovative, and still is, and I have heard so few bands copy it or 
utilize it the way Crass did.

I'm downloading and listening to stuff now from the "bands" Militia and 
Organized Resistance, two martial pop/militaristic pop bands, and I 
ain't hearing any martial drumming, dammit. A lot of it is really just 
experimental noise -- p.e.d.i. as they say.

-Oliver



Alex Smith wrote:

> NMA-wise, it might've been "Here Comes the War" and -- yeah, there's 

> one on THUNDER AND CONSOLATION (a great, great record, by the way), 

> but the title escapes me...

>  

> It's the one with that "yours, yours, NOT MINE" refrain.

>  

> Alex in NYC

>

>

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

>     From: Devacor at aol.com

>     Sent: May 7, 2007 2:08 PM

>     To: gathering at misera.net

>     Subject: Re: [kj] Shot in the dark question for any fans of

>     "martial pop, " "military ...

>

>     In a message dated 5/7/2007 1:23:03 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,

>     thepunisher at blueyonder.co.uk writes:

>

>         "Smalltown England" is the NMA track from Vengeance

>

>     The question is is there really such a thing at this term "martial

>     pop" , "military pop" etc??-- seems even us music nerds couldn't

>     really come up with enough to warrant an actual name for a genre

>     as such.

>      

>     Adam Helfer

>     President

>     Omkara World

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