I'm not a fan of Green Day and I'm familiar with only a handful of their songs but I do remember them being called a "flash in the pan" way back in the early 1990s when even those Nirvana people were still around.
Well the Green Day people are definitely having the last laugh and they continue to cash very large checks down at the bank.
Don't know anything about this "Psy" fellow except he apparently got a billion views on YouTube for some electronic "dance" number of his. Well, maybe that guy really is a flash in the pan. I guess we'll know for sure in 20 years. But I have a feeling that Green Day will still be doing concerts in 20 years regardless.
The Rolling Stones...now that is a band that hasn't had a creative thought for the past 30 years but they continue to tour and sell records for aging Baby Boomers at $200+ per ticket. I remember seeing the Rolling Stones on the 1981 tour at the L.A. Coliseum and even then they were considered a dinosaur rock band. At least back in 1981, they jumped around on stage a little bit and did not have too many wrinkles.
I don't know which is sadder: Some Korean guy getting a billion YouTube views for an electronic "dance" number or Mick Jagger at age 70 prancing around on stage to a bunch of toothless, drooling senior citizens trying to relive the 1960s.
Now the Rolling Stones are legends, love them or hate them, they are legends even in their aging.
Yep. I don't agree with their politics at all but they are very talented songwriters and American Idiot was a truly brilliant record if you listen to the whole thing. Truly a record deserving of album of the year unlike the vast majority of other stuff out there. I saw them on their 21st Century Breakdown tour and it was one of the best live shows I've seen and I've seen hundreds.
-— I remember seeing the Rolling Stones on the 1981 tour at the L.A. Coliseum and even then they were considered a dinosaur rock band ——
I remember that. Just 9 years after “Exile on Main Street,” they were over the hill. The music world sure changes fast.
Looking back over their career, they were a real bunch of bleep heads. Mick was a very dark and creepy guy, going back to the beginning. I was reading about him in the “Performance” era. Disgusting guy.