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batskeetsI'm home now. And I'm posting again. Yes, I'm a dork. :p
I was in the car earlier going to the bank, and I found myself listening to the radio for a few minutes and thinking: Does anyone *else* think that at least 50% of the lead singers in these new alternative/rock groups sound a bloody lot like Eddie Vedder and/or Scott Weiland circa 1993? I'm just sayin'.
I really, really hate the american music scene sometimes. When I was growing up, I knew and liked a lot of bands before the other kids did. I was a proud disciple of Smashing Pumpkins since their first album was released, the rest of the world discovered them after Siamese Dream. (which was *such* a second album, but I liked it, all the same) But the popular kids thought I was just being trendy, even though they were the ones who wouldn't know a Gish track if it clobbered them upside the head. I was the first kid in school with the Hole t-shirt that had the sparky silver heart on the front, and two years later when like 6 other chicks were wearing it around school on a weekly basis, some of them had the nerve to say that *I* hoarked the idea from *them*. Pshaw. Dumb bitches.
And now, fast forward to 2001, when "alternative" has long since stopped being alternative, and everyone's listening to it... but lord only knows why, because the vast majority of the new bands sure as hell don't bring anything new to the table. I can't even tell most of these groups apart anymore, because they all sound the same, and a lot of them sound exactly like stuff that I liked in *middle school*. Listening to these "NEW ROCK!" stations is kind of like the monotony of listening to a Candlebox CD, only applied to like 30 different bands.
I guess the difference between then and now is that back in the day, I knew a hell of a lot more than your average putz about music, and they just thought I was ignorant to it all. But nowadays, I really *am* ignorant to it all, because 95% of the popular radio play is boring crap, and I'm too apathetic towards it to actually find out what all those cookie-cutter bands are called. And that's okay by me... I'll just say "who's that?" and say it with PRIDE as I turn back to something like Bis or Portishead or Nerf Herder, or dance like a moron to cheesy 80's pop and/or hair metal, or retreat into the fun and yaoi-filled world of j-rock. At least then, I can be assured that I have a *good* reason for liking what I like.
And in closing: More LJ fiends! WILKOMMEN KYUUSUKE!!
I was in the car earlier going to the bank, and I found myself listening to the radio for a few minutes and thinking: Does anyone *else* think that at least 50% of the lead singers in these new alternative/rock groups sound a bloody lot like Eddie Vedder and/or Scott Weiland circa 1993? I'm just sayin'.
I really, really hate the american music scene sometimes. When I was growing up, I knew and liked a lot of bands before the other kids did. I was a proud disciple of Smashing Pumpkins since their first album was released, the rest of the world discovered them after Siamese Dream. (which was *such* a second album, but I liked it, all the same) But the popular kids thought I was just being trendy, even though they were the ones who wouldn't know a Gish track if it clobbered them upside the head. I was the first kid in school with the Hole t-shirt that had the sparky silver heart on the front, and two years later when like 6 other chicks were wearing it around school on a weekly basis, some of them had the nerve to say that *I* hoarked the idea from *them*. Pshaw. Dumb bitches.
And now, fast forward to 2001, when "alternative" has long since stopped being alternative, and everyone's listening to it... but lord only knows why, because the vast majority of the new bands sure as hell don't bring anything new to the table. I can't even tell most of these groups apart anymore, because they all sound the same, and a lot of them sound exactly like stuff that I liked in *middle school*. Listening to these "NEW ROCK!" stations is kind of like the monotony of listening to a Candlebox CD, only applied to like 30 different bands.
I guess the difference between then and now is that back in the day, I knew a hell of a lot more than your average putz about music, and they just thought I was ignorant to it all. But nowadays, I really *am* ignorant to it all, because 95% of the popular radio play is boring crap, and I'm too apathetic towards it to actually find out what all those cookie-cutter bands are called. And that's okay by me... I'll just say "who's that?" and say it with PRIDE as I turn back to something like Bis or Portishead or Nerf Herder, or dance like a moron to cheesy 80's pop and/or hair metal, or retreat into the fun and yaoi-filled world of j-rock. At least then, I can be assured that I have a *good* reason for liking what I like.
And in closing: More LJ fiends! WILKOMMEN KYUUSUKE!!
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Re: Ahem :) *Steps up on soapbox*
Date: 2001-09-05 08:56 pm (UTC)And it's not as though I don't find things in modern music that I like... for instance, I just discovered Mary Prankster the other day and I totally enjoy her tracks. (Of course, right now there are probably very few people that know who the hell she even is, but that's beside the point ^^;)
I guess what I'm saying is, my post wasn't so much about my generation versus the next, as much as it was about popular music sucking, or latching onto a band during a period of relative mediocrity for said band. It seems that a lot of folks listen to certain groups because it's the In Thing, and that sucks. I'm going to like what I like regardless of whether or not the general populous loves it or hates it. It'd just be nice to see a bit more diversity, perhaps more exploration of a popular band's prior work, or more obscure groups. There's some hella cool stuff out there.
And I also gotta say: I *never* liked NKOTB, and that's the honest truth. :D
Re: Ahem :) *Steps up on soapbox*
Date: 2001-09-05 11:12 pm (UTC)