[kj] OT: why I hate cats..shittiest decade?

[Brendan Quinn]

I see your point, but You can't say any decade is worse than another, except
when the genre is dead. 

 

Some things start smelling before they die... 

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From: gathering-bounces at misera.net [mailto:gathering-bounces at misera.net] On
Behalf Of Jaye Royal
Sent: Saturday, 12 April 2008 1:15 p.m.
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Subject: Re: [kj] OT: why I hate cats..shittiest decade?

 

I am not gonna go on about this, but I am a vinyl junkie who just can't
resist this.    I think that Robert Johnson, Howlin Wolf, Bukka White, et al
are indebted to the call/response of slavery days which evolved into gospel.
The Blues were the platform for Rock n Roll to a marked extent (and yeah, I
would have a talk with Coleman if/when he was lucid about
this....HA!!!!!!!!!).  
 
Janis Joplin didn't buy Bessie Smith a gravestone for kicks.  It was a sign
of respect.  
 
Also, in the 50s the genre of Jazz also broke from the Big Band era's
versus/chorus/improv/verse structure, and paved the way for female torch
singers.  On the down side, the fifties made "that rock n roll" nice and
sparkly white for viewers of the new medium of television.  
However, there were some outlaw geniuses of that era, such as Little
Richard, Gene Vincent (a personal fave), and Bobby Darin (another favorite).

 
You can't say any decade is worse than another, except when the genre is
dead.  
I only see that NOW.  The 90s had Jane's Addiction, the Verve, PJ
Harvey......the list goes on.
I keep looking for a band today that aren't corporate funded mimics.  They
all look like robots bought and assembled by Worst Warranty.
 
-Bette



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From: bq at soundgardener.co.nz
To: gathering at misera.net
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 14:44:15 +1200
Subject: Re: [kj] OT: why I hate cats..shittiest decade?

the "greatness" of every other decade since is inevitably indebted to those
years of music in the 50's.

 

I don’t believe it’s always 100% accurate to attribute so much of the glory
for what comes after to the thing that started the change, personally. I
mean, playing Devil’s Advocate here (because I realise there’s probably no
way you could ever successfully argue with a good philosopher that musical
taste of any sort is anything more than personal opinion)…50s music is
fucking crap, if I had to listen to it on a road trip I’d get out and hitch
hike. Or walk. Or crawl. Backwards.

 

Maybe I’m biased because I had to endure it a lot when I was growing up.
Ugh.

 

Sure it changed an awful lot and got the ball rolling, but fuck’s sake…so
did fire. 

 

Oh crap, now you’re gonna bring up Fire Dances…

 

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On 10/04/2008, Brendan Quinn HYPERLINK
"mailto:bq at soundgardener.co.nz"<bq at soundgardener.co.nz> wrote:
  

Ooh a downer buzz, my favourite. Let me contribute...
 
 This has been the shittiest decade for music since the 50s.

wait, you mean to say that the 50's a decade when rock n roll stormed the
scene and frightened  popular culture into developing some cajones, while
saving the masses from the naive glucose oblivion that had consumed it's
soul was the shittiest decade????!! 

that's like saying the people who drove and drug their wobbly archaic
covered wagons full of furniture and everything they owned with a family in
tow, across 2000 miles of uncharted virgin soil, rock, river, tundra, desert
and forest finally reaching the destination after loosing two kids and a
wife to disease and torment, has accomplished less than the fast food junky
who drove his  ford mustang over tarmac and through stop lights down the
same path beaten by those covered wagons! 


the "greatness" of every other decade since is inevitably indebted to those
years of music in the 50's. 





 Two zero zero x
 should be locked in a room and fed gruel grudgingly until it goes mad and
 dies, while Robbie Williams plays in the background.
 
 "Oh but he's such a wonderful entertainer!"
 
 So is a football.
 
 Fuck, the late 80s beat this, this is how bad it is.
    

 
That's it.
 
Mass suicide pact anyone?
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