http://blogcritics.org/ A sinister cabal of superior bloggers on music, books, film, popular culture, politics, and technology - updated continuously. en Copyright 2005 by the authors Thu, 12 Aug 2004 11:05:00 EDT http://backend.userland.com/rss Blogcritics.org custom software http://blogcritics.org/archives/2004/08/02/105122.php#comment-79423 Good point Mark. It is new to them I guess. 79423@blogcritics.org Thu, 12 Aug 2004 11:05:00 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2004/08/02/105122.php#comment-77718 given the limited shelf-life of bands these days, the fact that they may be recycling older material isn't really a problem. what i mean is that (at least as i perceive it) kids listening to music today aren't generally aware of bands from days past. when i listen to the Yeah,Yeah,Yeah's i hear echoes of guitar from Gang Of Four...and i sorta doubt most young'un have heard of them. 77718@blogcritics.org Mon, 2 Aug 2004 14:14:35 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2004/08/02/105122.php#comment-77706 Oh...I'd also rather listen to a cat with its tail in a meat grinder. 77706@blogcritics.org Mon, 2 Aug 2004 13:42:41 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2004/08/02/105122.php#comment-77704 It's one thing to borrow from your contemporaries. If your contemporaries are moving forward, and you borrow from them, or are influenced by them, then you can't help but move forward yourself. It's quite another to pillage, as you put it, an essentially dead artform. Pillaging implies that they are sifting through the wreckage of long dead artists. These psuedo punk, revisionist, nihilist, crap mongers make my ears hurt. SLAYER RULES. 77704@blogcritics.org Mon, 2 Aug 2004 13:41:41 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2004/08/02/105122.php#comment-77690 Interesting post. I have actually been THRILLED with the current crop of alt-rock sorta hits. Modest Mouse are way overdue for some recognition, and between them and Franz Ferdinand, Radio Four, and some other lesser known groups, it's wonderful to see that Gang Of Four are finally becoming as influential as I hoped they'd be. If anything, that's what I hear in this music-- the first wave of post-Punk like the Mekons, GoF, Mission of Burma, Souxsie, and the like. I can see where you get the Talking Heads, but I think the kids are pillaging more worthy and heretofore ignored old sounds. 77690@blogcritics.org Mon, 2 Aug 2004 12:47:43 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2004/08/02/105122.php#comment-77667 All of these revisionist bands do nothing but regurgitate, almost note for note, renditions of old pop that was already tired even in its own day. While not a fan of Dave Matthews I at least have to praise him for doing something fairly original. New bands need to pave their own roads. They are out there, but with the current sad state of radio there is no way any bands other than your "dime a dozen alt rock" bands will be played. I guess I shouldn't blame the bands because they suck. I should blame the record industry and the radio stations that have turned into advertising media for album sales. 77667@blogcritics.org Mon, 2 Aug 2004 11:12:06 EDT