"And to my favorite fan darkwolf377
I just want to say thank-you
you mean so much to me!"
Posted on 02/19/2006 4:02:01 PM PST by Archerfish
So who do you listen to? Andy Williams and Brittney Spears?
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Carlos Santana does not need any 2 bit singer to make his music worth while...
He helps singers who might have a chance at a hit record achieve one....
He is still going strong...
Yeah 33 albums... I guess his label wanted to keep him around for 32 more just in case he had another hit. But that's not including solo projects.
The only problem with your thesis is that much of the Anime, deals with Japanese issues. Also much that is being shown in the US is over 10 years old.
Cartoon network showed the "Gundam Wing" series (originally from the 80's) which contained several references to the Cold War.
Dude (or dudette), while I share your apprehension about people shoving their politics down my throat, I think you may be overly paranoid in this case. If you're doing a benefit CD for Doctors Without Borders, there's only a limited number of songs that will fit with the charity's theme. And unfortunately, since the attitudes behind the charities listed tends to be "look at the evils of war", the only songs that fit the theme are the whiny 60s songs. I mean, if you put songs like "Hit Me Baby, One More Time", "I Drink Alone", or "Zombie Nation" on the CD, you're going to get some weird reviews.
(Yeah, they could put original songs on the CD, but I don't think that would sell better than a bunch of covers would.)
" The only problem with your thesis is that much of the Anime, deals with Japanese issues. Also much that is being shown in the US is over 10 years old.
Cartoon network showed the "Gundam Wing" series (originally from the 80's) which contained several references to the Cold War."
Fair enough. I have seen very few of these cartoons, so I don't know anything about them (was just guessing). It just seems to me that the work of Leftists is always infected with Leftism, as a general rule. Maybe too general.
Every time I hear about this 70s retro protest vibe you mention, I see some washed-up broke songwriter saying to himself, "Man, screw this 12 Step sh#t. I'm gonna have drug money again!"
What is anime? Kinda like cross-stitching or something? You need a new hobby. Go outside, get some fresh air and sunshine.
The left co-opts EVERYTHING. Punk rock was originally a backlash against hippy commie socialist political correctness. By 1977 (the 3rd rebirth?) the marxists pushed their agenda and claimed to be the originators.
The lack of expression from the middle or right does not mean that there are no performers from those perspectives in those fields. There IS a blacklist of those who dissent from the liberal group think.
Some have the good manners to keep politics out of entertainment. The left can only take power through deception.
Vocals are by Greg Ayres, Christopher Ayres, Chris Patton, Tiffany Grant, Brittney Karbowski, Kira Vincent-Davis, Jamie McGonnigal, Mike Sinterniklaas, Amanda Winn Lee and Jan Scott-Frazier.
I don't recognize any of these names. I know some actors (like the people who dubbed the original Speed Racer) are still alive and working. Are they among these names?
Do they sing in recognizable voices?
The original songs are hard enough to listen to. Do they really believe that there is a sizeable market to purchase an album of these covers?
There is a sense of fatalism in some Japanese anime. Some say that comes from the Hiroshima bombing.
I'm not familiar enough with pre/post war entertainment/literature in Japan to draw that conclusion.
"There is a sense of fatalism in some Japanese anime."
(Thanks for the info.) This is common in modern media and of Leftist origin, in my opinion. Everyone has something to gripe about, but some choose to be positive despite that. I try to take that path.
So that's the proof rock is alive and kicking, that bunch of corpses raked in a ton of cash from old fogies like me?
The whole idea of a "rock" show in a stadium is anti-rock. Your point is making MY point--that ain't rock, it's more like a Vegas act. <
Offtopic but relevant to the above posts...
(dirtbombs)
note: the audio fidelity of the Amazon samples pale in comparison to the actual album and the audio excerpts don't do much to give a flavor of many of the tracks (they come in at odd points) but this 2 CD set with 52 tracks collects up many of the Dirtbombs' singles over the past 10 years or so. Disc 1 is all original compositions, Disc 2 is all covered material (including the Rolling Stones, Yoko Ono, Lou Rawls, and the Bee Gees). Do I like all of the cuts? No, some are too noisy for me and the style can vary from track to track but then I compiled my own single disc "jukebox" from the 2 CDs and have a very listenable 80 minutes (and I had a difficult time making some cuts).
I think this user review is a fair assessment:
I just saw the Dirtbombs last week in NYC and once again, they completely tore the roof of the joint. Once the double drummers kicked in, it was on! Within seconds, I was a pogoing sweaty mess.From start to finish, Mick and the band put on an awesome display of rock excellence. And they managed to do it despite the fact that one of their 2 bass players had to run to the hospital with a sliced-open hand just a song or two into the set.
The Dirtbombs are rock deities.
I bow down. I bow down. I kiss their feet.
There is no question that the Dirtbombs are the current kings of the Detroit rock scene, as they have been for several years. Don't get me wrong, there's a lot of other great bands coming out of the Motor City, but let's be serious, folks. It all begins and ends with this band.
Buy this collection of songs and douse yourself in some rock'n'roll kerosene!
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(bellrays) 
(the ponys) 
(holly golightly) 
(the sadies) 
(billy childish) 
(Total Sound Group Direct Action Committee)
These bands/performers have been playing for decades and they all have current bands/projects that don't try to live off the "fame" of past successes. And if they ever happen to come to your town, it will be at the bar level, not the "big arena" or even the Clear Channel owned concert fall for midlevel touring acts.
These acts don't follow the trend, they established it. Same core that was there before the grunge AND "garage rock" hey days.
Having heard the caliber of some "professional dubbing", he probably couldn't do any worse securing the rights himself and starting his own distribution company.
Too much anime is dubbed by fans (with proper licensing) rather than genuine voice actors (people who also do radio/tv ads, foreign film dubbing, etc.).
THIS is where rock will revive, not in some stadium. Garage bands have always been the source of real rock, because the bands are obviously not in it for the money (yet) because there IS no money.
The ultimate symbol of the death of rock as a mass movement is the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame. It's indicative of the mindset of people who grew up with rock as an outsider music, rebel music, now wanting to be part of the Establishment. Once rock went from music your parents didn't like you to listen to and became the music your parents listened to it became Pop.
In order to thrive once again, rock has to stop being comfortable music. I don't mean it has to be thrash or punk but it DOES have to be rock 'n' roll, not this stuff with nothing lyrics, PC politics, and completely unadventurous music. The Stones used to be "devil music," now they're this Vegas act that performs on the Superbowl! THAT's "rock 'n' roll"?
Rap has that dangerous quality to some extent (not really, as the rappers are praised in all the "right" magazines and Entertainment Tonight shows because they are easily-used props to show how "hip" the 'entertainment journalists' are), but the reason has nothing to do with artistry in the music or lyrics, only on the need to push SOME black culture in order to show 'multicultural sensitivity'. Rap, IMHO, has the completely opposite problem rock has--it's ONLY shock, without the musical excitement or creativity. It is almost anti-rock in its sensibility in that the songs seem completely calculated TO shock, whereas rock's greatness was its lack of uselfconsciousness. A great song isn't calculated to shock someone, it just DOES sometimes (though not all).
So again, thanks for posting these, I will definitely check them out.
I also listen to rock and roll from the 1950s and 1960s that is considered "noise" and "too loud" for oldies radio (Link Wray, the Sonics...).
The castrated sounds are illegitimate. The Ramones and the Saints and the Dictators lurked under the radar in the mid-1970s. And the Saints had horns on some cuts so don't I hope that FReepers don't typify "punk" as british/LA hardcore. The Standells' Dirty Water was a punk song. Iggy Pop was punk. The Ramones were punk. The Dictators had their album out on Epic in 1974 AND they covered the then contemporary Sonny & Cher "I got you babe".
I find it "funny" that the Mass Media pushes rap and hip hop and divas as the only voice of black entertainers (past or present). James Brown isn't dead yet. Mick Collins has led bands including The Gories, Blacktop, The Dirtbombs, and some side projects. The lead singer of the Bellrays is a black woman (Lisa, I can never remember her last name) .
Where are the clips of black rock and rollers like Roy Brown, Little Richard, Jimi Hendrix, the Chamber Brothers, and the above acts on BET? What about the recently deceased R.L. Burnside? T-Model Ford? Older clips of Cab Calloway, Lionel Hampton, T-Bone Walker and others?
Gang bangers and pimps are no musical movement. They are in it for cash and celebrity. Thugs for life. Don't believe the hype. I hated Kiss as a kid too (they absolutely refused to be seen without their makeup).
I think the only way to revive rock is to do what these bands are doing--start it up all over again, from the ground up, spending years being ignored but plugging away until college stations and people who just want something with that vibe come around.
It won't happen over night, but rock can be the "rebel" music it once was again. As long as these bands resist the siren song of cash and MTV and stick to their guns.
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