Posted on 08/28/2006 10:40:29 AM PDT by qam1
Ping list for the discussion of the politics and social (and sometimes nostalgic) aspects that directly effects Generation Reagan / Generation-X (Those born from 1965-1981) including all the spending previous generations (i.e. The Baby Boomers) are doing that Gen-X and Y will end up paying for.
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Taking shots at The Man in Black? Blasphemy!
I caught you knockin' at my cellar door
I love you, baby, can I have some more
Ooh, ooh, the damage done.
I hit the city and I lost my band
I watched the needle take another man
Gone, gone, the damage done.
I sing the song because I love the man
I know that some of you don't understand
Milk-blood to keep from running out.
I've seen the needle and the damage done
A little part of it in everyone
But every junkie's like a settin' sun.
This guy seems to judge artists (at least in part) on whether they used drugs. Hey, I'm anti-drug, and I never defend or rationalize their use. But the quality of someone's art should judged on it's own merits or lack thereof.
So, anyone over 40 is just a drain on a society that identifies itself by all the depth and excitement a single letter can conjure up?
You might want to pick up a bottle of O2 next time you're out, sounds like the air in that bubble you're living in is getting a little stale.
Kind of a rambling, jumbled mess of a column, but not too bad.
That said, Springsteen isn't worthy to be mentioned in the same paragraph with Cash.
But WTH, if we had to identify with the lyrics of every rock tune we listened to, we'd have to be all kinds of crazy.
Nowadays (that's a pre "gen X" colloquialism for the kiddies trolling here) we'd have to be both crazy AND satanic, so I'll be satisfied with just being crazy....after allllllll these years.....still crazy, after all these years :~)
Both Springsteen and Young have succumbed to the mental disorder known as liberalism, one of whose chief current manifestations is is Deranged Bush Syndrome. This has forever contaminated my perception of their music, even their superior early stuff that made their reputations. So maybe it is better that the immortals like Hendrix and Morrison died young -- otherwise they would be spouting the same leftist anti-Western BS today, and sabotaging their own musical legacy.
Kurt Cobain was one of the greats. I hope when I get older I don't lose my ability to appreciate a legitimate musical genius. It's symptomatic of every generation, though. Boomers' parents probably would have thought it blasphemy to consider Lennon and Hendrix "geniuses" or "legends."
Why the dig on Johnny Cash? The man was talented, entertaining, had a great voice and a unique persona. SO what of he didn't write all of his own material or if he wasn't a hardened criminal (that's a bad thing??).
Rock and Roll Ping
Like a friend of mine says, Spingsteen belongs in that class of musicians who had one or two good songs 20-30 years ago, and have been milking and stretching it out for all it`s worth ever since. 3 good songs and the rest are fillers.. It`s like blah blah blah...then he plays Born to run, then blah blah blah..then he plays 10th avenue freeze out...then blah blah blah..Thunder road (which I think sucks just as much as a filler song) .All the other songs are fillers for those 2 or 3 good ones, and in his mind that gives him the right and mental superiority above everyone to dictate national politics.
Kurt Cobain is the most overrated rock star ever. You couldn't even understand the guy's lyrics.
His bandmate, Dave Grohl has made much better music with the Foo Fighters, than Nirvana ever dreamed of.
bttt
Acid ruined Syd Barrett's career and altered John Lennon's brain to the point that he found Yoko Ono attractive. Very bad stuff!
I don't like Brucie. But just by chance I caught a 1975 concert of his on PBS during fundraising week. It was really good and a bit raw and ragged. The band was having great fun
LSD messed John's mind enough for him to be happy as Yoko's house-husband. John was an aggressive, masculine and nasty person prior to acid which zoned him out
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