I don't have mixed feelings, it sounds like shit. If someone didn't tell me what it was I'd assume it was made by a band of not especially talented amateurs who you can tell are never going to go anywhere in music, like maybe they'll have one of the songs people tend to skip over in the soundtrack to a Tony Hawk Pro Skateboarder game on gamecube.
What, do old men just obsessively look up nothing but bands from their youth because the idea of listening to anything by newer or less socially approved bands is too stimulating to their already elevated cholesterol laden blood pressure that once they can't stand one more playthrough of Purple Haze or Kashmir they have to go find slightly reorganized versions of them? And it isn't even the sort of cool stuff from the beginning half of the 20th century, like delta blues and whatnot. It's the stuff from the couple garbage decades where every young adult was a decadent moron because daddy got shot at by Germans to ensure their kids could be mentally stunted layabouts and now they're all poisoned by nostalgia from a time when their happy trail wasn't littered with grays and they didn't look straight out of a hair club for men brochure.
I am done. I've about had it up to here with this site and these fucking dementia riddled boomers pretending music from the late 60s to the late 80s wasn't 99% tripe. Every music thread, the metal thread, the guitar thread, all neurodegenerative old men trying to relive high school. I am done with it.
I will absolutely start slipping cyanide into you people's metamucil if you geriatics don't stop with this shit Get your hearing aids checked.
I'd give you a MATI Top Hat but you took such grand effort in this (rather unexpected) takedown of Boomers I was just thoroughly entertained by reading it. For real (no sarcasm) your writing style is great.
But anyway I like that song because it gives me
nostalgia of Guitar Hero 2. I'm hardly the person who is going to go to bat for the discography of Iggy Pop. In my eyes Punk Rock is by and large a dummy's genre, but there's nothing wrong with that when played with sincerity. I mean jesus christ The Ramones only did 2 minute songs for obvious reasons as they all sounded the same, frankly speaking that goofy band was no more authentic than KISS. The difference is KISS just knew how to sell out with style. And don't get me started on The Sex Pistols, it's a fact they were a boyband.
But the radio hits still have fun to them for me and many people. I ultimately agree with your rant that we obnoxiously romanticize every old pop band with a couple decent songs as if they were literal artistic majesties. Jim Morrison, a drugged out failed poet is the best example but goddamn I still love a sappy novelty song like "Love Street."
At this point in time there's only a handful of rock musicians from my parents generation I still hold in ridiculous high regard as musical geniuses, on the top of my head an unfinished list would include John Lennon & Paul McCartney (HOW DID THEY MAKE SO MANY CATCHY SONGS IN A FIVE YEAR PERIOD?), David Bowie, and Walter Becker & Donald Fagen. Roger Waters & David Gilmour would be there too but god everything after Dark Side was massively overrated especially The Wall.
The large swath of them, mostly all semi-talented guys who got lucky and made 3 or 4 memorable songs in their lifetime. I still like em. I'll still nerd out when it comes to understanding technical work on music mixing because frankly I really don't know shit about that technical field but it fascinates me and I can still judge whether I think a song sounds better or worse depending on mix.
And hey, if you're still mad about my silly music tastes which shouldn't infringe on yours. I'll I got to say is,
"Yeah, well you know, that's just like uh your opinion, man."
