as far as im concerned...EVERY punk/pop/indie/emo/etc... band roots off of
the pixies and mc5.
love and lemmings
~blake
- Original Message -
From: horatio gomez alonzo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, July 24, 2000 2:55 PM
Subject: [MMouse]: another old bands post
> I could be wrong here and it might have already been
> said but when listening to music from another time
> period, one needs to consider the context in which it
> was made. Modern music, espically within the last
> decade, has basically been created in the same stable
> social atmosphere. Sure, MM is kick ass and all, but
> is there anything they've said or played that hasnt
> been said or played before? Are they revolutionary?
> Do they mark something momentous and new in the worlds
> of art or sound? As much as I like MM, i'd have to
> answer those questions with a ...well, not really. I
> think people forget sometimes that when artists like
> chuck berry, elvis, the beatles, the who, black
> sabbath, zepplin, the clash, and even early eighties
> bands like minor threat, black flag, or maybe big
> black (not to mention a million others) were making
> music, thought, and performance one, society was a
> much different, much more constricting and
> confrontational place. Consider music in regards to
> when it was made and how those people were pushing
> their limits, the way people push them now. I mean,
> when you really consider how close minded society was
> when chuck berry was rockin out, or how one generation
> was finally discovering freedom from the old guard
> with the beatles as they came of age, it seems like
> such a more beautiful and admirable, almost magical
> thing. People fighting to just be able to express
> their confusion and exasperation from life. I know, i
> know, no one was disrespecting the past or what they
> did, but i just think maybe you should think about
> music not in relation to what it sounds like today or
> five years ago, but in relation to what else was
> around at the time that it was made. Dont look at
> something and think "cockrock hair band" when that
> term never even existed until after they were gone.
> Oh lordy.
>
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