tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post5454094442497307972..comments2024-03-27T23:28:20.274-04:00Comments on Face to Face: Bygone left populism in musicagnostichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-14990832909557302262013-11-04T17:24:06.335-05:002013-11-04T17:24:06.335-05:00I guess grunge is a product of the very end of the...I guess grunge is a product of the very end of the crime wave, when things were getting out of control and people wanted it to stop. Grunge reflects this through its negativity.<br /><br />-CurtisAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-4762243937424320192013-10-30T10:50:27.115-04:002013-10-30T10:50:27.115-04:00Man in the Box
Sea of Sorrow*
Bleed the Freak
Them...Man in the Box<br />Sea of Sorrow*<br />Bleed the Freak<br />Them Bones<br />Would?<br />Rooster<br />Down in a Hole<br />*ironically, a relatively upbeat tune.<br /><br />That's just from the first couple of Alice in Chains LPs. What are their videos like? I don't know, music is for your ears rather than eyes. And music played by real human musicians is different from a machine looping a sample.TGGPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11017651009634767649noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-32070692402999455632013-10-29T21:23:28.051-04:002013-10-29T21:23:28.051-04:00I don't think that Agnostic is saying they'...I don't think that Agnostic is saying they're good, but rather that they're sincere. Unlike the manufactured, self-aware music of the 90s-till-present.<br /><br />-CurtisAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-70680660825716529322013-10-29T19:08:41.860-04:002013-10-29T19:08:41.860-04:00>sudden suckiness of 'rock' music from ...>sudden suckiness of 'rock' music from the mid-nineties onward.<br /><br />Well, what is rock? Out of drums, by guitar. What's today's top 40? Out of disco, by rap. That's by drums (drum machines, plus samples) out of guitar (or other twangy strings). It doesn't suck. Quite okay, in fact: Take a mediocre white girl disco singer, say Lady Gaga, add a mediocre black rapper, you get an okay duet. <br /><br /> The only good Lady Gaga song, the one about being the cute drunk girl at the party, she was better than mediocre. Pretty okay, really. The rapper was worse than mediocre, though not much. High end ineptitude. The song still went okay, because the basic duet form was as clear as the message: 'Just Dance'.<br /><br />By comparison, the only good video from grunge, the one with the anarchist cheerleaders? It was okay. One good song does not a thriving genre make.<br /><br /> Go ahead. Prove me wrong. Tell me a bunch of good grunge songs. i'm not asking geat, just high-end okay.<br /><br />Brucebrucenoreply@blogger.com