If there was any justice in the world...... (in other words use your imagination)
what's the state of music in 2004? Well let me tell you.. that MTV has really turned around after they were bought up by those 20 year old internet millionaires who changed it's direction back to music at all levels..... We hear good music, no matter what 'genre' it is, at 8 p.m. you can see Willie Nelson and The Damned picking videos and talking music. The documentaries aren't 'Behind the Music' they are about the music and the people who make it.
what's that, who are the biggest bands in the USA? (google them if you want to open your ears and eyes.)
The Hellacopters, with their mix of 70's rock and high energy mania are riding the top 10 with their song '16 with a Bullet' featuring Rationals and Detroit rock legend Scott Morgan
The Bellrays continue to energize the Rock'n'Soul legacy of the late 60's and early 70's we haven't had it this good since the heyday of Motown
Soundtrack of Our Lives, more Swedes who have managed to create a their own sound by mixing psychedelic rock, Detroit Rock and Roll and Glam into something that makes a million times more sense than that fake garage rock stuff that was pushed a couple of years back
Deadbolt continue to find fans of fun story tunes with their psyched out surf and hillbilly albums
Southern Culture on the Skids have released one of the best and most fun country-garage albums ever and even baby boomers are buying it
The kids are all listening to poppy rock groups like: Thee Ultra Bimboos, Sahara Hotnight, The Launderettes who all seem to be channeling the best elements of the girl bands of the past
those with more punk leanings are listening to The Groovie Ghoulies who have reportedly just turned down their own saturday morning tv show.
and while parents worry former Marlyn Manson fans continue to flock to the cult of Turbonegro, and Denim Demons seem to crawl the hallways of every high school in the USA.
Up and coming acts like, The Staggers (on hellKat Records), Adam West, Hammerlock, Rickshaw, the Coffinshakers, and the Mainliners are all poised to enter the charts...
this years Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees include: Hawkwind, Radio Birdmand, The Stooges, The MC5, Nick Lowe, The Damned, and the Troggs...
but here in the real 2004, most of these people are unknown, and many of them are only known as bands that people with no taste or who are trying to be obscure in some kind of 'I'm punker than you' name drop talk about... but in my 2004... this is what I see around me and what I hear.....
go back to your approved punk rock that is all
I never knew there was a class system in America until i moved to Ann Arbor Michigan. This town was populated dominated might be a better word- by rich, spoiled college students. I can see how Liverpool gave us the Beatles, but Ill never understand how Ann Arbor gave us Iggy and the Stooges.
-Dee Dee Ramone, Lobotomy: surviving the Ramones. P. 255
what's the state of music in 2004? Well let me tell you.. that MTV has really turned around after they were bought up by those 20 year old internet millionaires who changed it's direction back to music at all levels..... We hear good music, no matter what 'genre' it is, at 8 p.m. you can see Willie Nelson and The Damned picking videos and talking music. The documentaries aren't 'Behind the Music' they are about the music and the people who make it.
what's that, who are the biggest bands in the USA? (google them if you want to open your ears and eyes.)
The Hellacopters, with their mix of 70's rock and high energy mania are riding the top 10 with their song '16 with a Bullet' featuring Rationals and Detroit rock legend Scott Morgan
The Bellrays continue to energize the Rock'n'Soul legacy of the late 60's and early 70's we haven't had it this good since the heyday of Motown
Soundtrack of Our Lives, more Swedes who have managed to create a their own sound by mixing psychedelic rock, Detroit Rock and Roll and Glam into something that makes a million times more sense than that fake garage rock stuff that was pushed a couple of years back
Deadbolt continue to find fans of fun story tunes with their psyched out surf and hillbilly albums
Southern Culture on the Skids have released one of the best and most fun country-garage albums ever and even baby boomers are buying it
The kids are all listening to poppy rock groups like: Thee Ultra Bimboos, Sahara Hotnight, The Launderettes who all seem to be channeling the best elements of the girl bands of the past
those with more punk leanings are listening to The Groovie Ghoulies who have reportedly just turned down their own saturday morning tv show.
and while parents worry former Marlyn Manson fans continue to flock to the cult of Turbonegro, and Denim Demons seem to crawl the hallways of every high school in the USA.
Up and coming acts like, The Staggers (on hellKat Records), Adam West, Hammerlock, Rickshaw, the Coffinshakers, and the Mainliners are all poised to enter the charts...
this years Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees include: Hawkwind, Radio Birdmand, The Stooges, The MC5, Nick Lowe, The Damned, and the Troggs...
but here in the real 2004, most of these people are unknown, and many of them are only known as bands that people with no taste or who are trying to be obscure in some kind of 'I'm punker than you' name drop talk about... but in my 2004... this is what I see around me and what I hear.....
go back to your approved punk rock that is all
I never knew there was a class system in America until i moved to Ann Arbor Michigan. This town was populated dominated might be a better word- by rich, spoiled college students. I can see how Liverpool gave us the Beatles, but Ill never understand how Ann Arbor gave us Iggy and the Stooges.
-Dee Dee Ramone, Lobotomy: surviving the Ramones. P. 255
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