[kj] Jaz's Hilarious Rant on Hypocrite Rock Stars in Politics

[jpwhkj at aol.com]

Geldof's public pronouncements have indeed been pretty tiresome; I'll be surprised if anyone here defends him on that score.

Tonic for the Troops is a reasonable album of its time, and I thought the singles of that era (Mondays in particular) were pretty good.  (Though you can tell that he was taking himself way too seriously even then... like most vocalists, admittedly!)

Midnight Oil.  My girlfriend at the time bought Diesel and Dust, and it was ok.  Musically mainstream, of course, but ok.  At least it was a lot better than most of her musical taste!  Sparked by that, I bought their supposedly punkiest, supposedly seminal, supposedly non-mainstream album, and was underwhelmed.

As for their politics, I don't know enough to comment.  I guess they (or at least Garrett) get some respect from me for taking politics seriously enough to get into it full time, rather than the usual rock star approach of adopting the current right-on cause for as long as it's in the news, but mostly getting on with the serious business of drugs and sex (with a bit of time for rock-n-roll).

I think the idea that rock stars of any flavour (including Jaz) have a special insight into politics / current affairs is laughable (up there with the idea that celebs will make good actors / singers / whatever).  Their opinions are no more (or less) valuable than yours or mine, though *likely* to be less well-informed as they already have a full-time passion that hopefully soaks up most of their brain-time.  But people pay special attention to them just because they like their music - true for a lot of Gatherers in regard to the Joke, I'd guess.

Jamie




-----Original Message-----
From: Brendan Quinn <bq at soundgardener.co.nz>
To: 'A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)' <gathering at misera.net>
Sent: Tue, 10 Jul 2012 5:09
Subject: Re: [kj] Jaz's Hilarious Rant on Hypocrite Rock Stars in Politics


I was living in Australia at the time - guy's a tosser as far as I'm
oncerned. I had a similar Peter Garret rant to Jaz's at about the same
ime. And I have always thought Midnight Oil suck shit as a band...realise
ot everyone here agrees of course (ditto with U2).
But I'm sure no one's got poor enough taste to stand up for the Boomtown
hits.
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Brendan Quinn wrote:
Musically Killing Joke are totally beyond the reach of bands like U2 and the
hittown Rats.
Geldof had the gall to come down to NZ a few years back and berate us for
ot giving enough money to charity - the govt that is - when on an
ndividual level we're some of the most generous people in the world. As are
mericans & British I might add.
++++++++++++++
You'll love this:
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/its-a-bit-rich-sir-bob/story-fna7dq6e-1111118042
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T.B.

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