cleome46
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[waves to Stealth]
Turns out I didn't make it to PA, but mr_cleome's there right now. Probably trying to consume his own weight in Iron City beer, or something. :/
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Even though Julian Cope achieved his greatest fame in the 90s, it's his 1983 solo debut, "World Shut Your Mouth" that I spin most often. It was recorded during a particularly bittersweet time in his life -- debt-ridden, isolated, and stoned full-time, yet also revelling in his freedom from the prison the The Teardrop Explodes had turned into and in his new relationship with future second wife Dorian Beslity (they're still together today).
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Even though I generally defend the 80s, I'm not blind that there were terrible things about the 80s, and they're often the ones that most stubbornly refuse to go away.
Case in point: Bon Jovi has their latest single and music video in rotation right now.
Nineties apologists will probably cringe at what I'm about to say, but I'll say it anyway: Jon Bon Jovi was to hair metal what Kurt Cobain was to alternative rock. They were both greedy, cold-blooded bastards who piggybacked onto a music scene that was vital and thriving just outside the mainstream, and ruined it with their bland, safe-as-milk, toothless music and whiny voices. Sure, it sold like hotcakes, but the effect on the scene and on music in general was catastrophic.
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This song is one of many reasons why the music of the eighties can never hope to be favorably compared to the music of the sixties...
Get your motor runnin' Head out on the highway Lookin' for adventure And whatever comes our way Yeah Darlin' go make it happen Take the world in a love embrace Fire all of your guns at once And explode into space
I like smoke and lightning Heavy metal thunder Racin' with the wind And the feelin' that I'm under Yeah Darlin' go make it happen Take the world in a love embrace Fire all of your guns at once And explode into space
Like a true nature's child We were born, born to be wild We can climb so high I never wanna die
Born to be wild Born to be wild
-------------------- Soon, Legion World, Soon your time will end.
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You, comin' here Tellin' me how proud you are Some clown just handed you A shiny little silver star You say, over there, the men are brave While the chickens stay away 'Cause they're all too much afraid To fight for somthin' they should believe in I'm sorry friend, you've got it backwards
They won't follow when your whistle blows Won't come runnin' when your rooster crows Don't eat the same old corn until their minds have gone They don't fear the squawk of the little silly chicken hawk Uh, uh huh, help us clean our own backyard Before you go to preach abroad Believe me, it won't be easy
As you well know, not ever bird can roam the sky I see your wings, man, but can you fly? All I see when I look down, something jumpin' on the ground, scratchin' dirt Cluckin' in the barnyard, tell me, could that be you? In that case, lay another egg Try to save yourself from the barbecue
-------------------- Soon, Legion World, Soon your time will end.
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In the Forgotten Ear Candy Gems of the 80s category is Karla Bonoff's "Somebody's Eyes", from the "Footloose" soundtrack album. As re-inventions for singer/songwriters of the 70s go, this synth-pop bauble is hard to beat. IMO it should have been a much bigger hit, but then, if it had been, a lot of people would have gotten sick of it years ago.
cleome46
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quote:Originally posted by Stealth:
Nineties apologists will probably cringe at what I'm about to say, but I'll say it anyway: Jon Bon Jovi was to hair metal what Kurt Cobain was to alternative rock. They were both greedy, cold-blooded bastards who piggybacked onto a music scene that was vital and thriving just outside the mainstream, and ruined it with their bland, safe-as-milk, toothless music and whiny voices. Sure, it sold like hotcakes, but the effect on the scene and on music in general was catastrophic.
I'm reminded of the old Terry Laban comic where the artist meets with a board of directors at an entertainment conglom. (Fictional, of course.) He's trying to pitch his work as being something special and new. One exec bursts out, "Is it Grunge?! If it's grunge, you're hired!" Another exec explains, "Well, we don't really like to create anything special and new. We let others do that. Then we buy them."
So, regardless of what Cobain's/Bon Jovi's characters might be on a personal level, blaming either of them for ruining a certain "school" of music is like blaming a worker in a factory where they make those Wolfgang Puck frozen pizzas for ruining gourmet food.
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Point taken. I just enjoy any excuse to badmouth Cobain. "Punk rock martyr" -- HA! That's a laugh!
Plus, his suicide left his daughter fatherless, and that's unforgivable. I haven't forgiven Michael Hutchence, either, and him I did like when he was alive.
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