They are freaking awesome baby. It’s been a long while since I heard some REAL Rock N’ Roll. Not the crap that is the pseudo wanna be rock. Today it just seems that the acts today, don’t even know how to play. I don’t even want to talk about today’s R&B/Rap/Hip Hop because it is incredibly different from the past. There is no originality, no effort into actually creating a song. Just sample a hit from the pass , like Sting’s “Every breathe you take” and throw in Puffy or Diddy or whatever the hell he is calling himself today and there instant hit. FROM 20 YEARS AGO! There is not thought process, perhaps its from our society today not putting an pressure on kids to actually think for themselves but follow the sheep as they voluntarily jump off the cliff, because the Paris Hilton Sheep said it was “Hawt”.
Back when I grew up in the 80’s and early 90’s (pre 1995, I still say music has went downhill after 1995) rock and even rap had a meaning. If it was political OK. Fine. But it was done in an intelligent way where it wasn’t so in your face. It was more like an informative and “Hey, let me just stop you for a moment so you can see what is going on in my perspective”. For example, Marvin Gaye’s “Mother, Mother”, Joni Mitchell’s “Big Yellow Taxi”, Bruce Springsteen’s “Born in the USA”. Subtle, intelligent, political , informative, and classics. Today’s generation has The Black Eyed Peas and P. Diddy speaking for them. They are told to Vote or Die, not because voting was important and what ever citizen should be apart of and be informed in what was going on in the world and not just their personal world, but because it was cool because you get a cool T-shirt and you can be like Diddy or Paris, or whatever other pop star just wanted to be seen at that time. Some of these people didn’t even vote, even after they were telling the youths of today to vote ::cough Paris Hilton cough::
I know I am picking on her a lot, but she represents EVERYTHING that is wrong with today’s youths, especially the girls. This is a woman who does nothing but tries to be in the spotlight for whatever reason. She doesn’t stand for anything except being an attention whore, wearing next to nothing, getting into car accidents but not paying the same penalty us regular people would have to, telling girls not to “give it up” so easily but clearly is a hypocrite in that department. Why would any girl want to be like her. Just because she is beautiful to some people, I’m not one to think she is, anyone that appears that shallow without even knowing them is definitely ugly to me. Someone who doesn’t have convictions or is knowledgeable or aware of what is going on in the world or even their own country, is ugly. She is the worse role model anyone could have. She will make girls be easy and boys think all girls are easy because they dress and act like Paris. (and yes, I did hear her new song. It’s total crap. She can’t sing. Kudos to the back-up singers that are pumped up high enough to try and drown her vocals out. This is a clear rip-off of Blonde’s “The tide is High” and a rip-off on Gwen Stefani and Debbie Harry’s vocal styles. This girl can’t do anything original and she will never do it better.)
And yes, I am a product of the 80’s so before you even say I can’t talk about my role models, Madonna was a role model. She made it OK for girls to be strong and accept their sexuality without flaunting it but embracing it. She made us aware of political issues. She stood for expression and free speech. Whether it be the cross burnings or her Sex book. It was about knowing who you are and standing up for expression when other tried to pull you down and call your art anything but. Madonna today….hmmm that’s another rant.
Anyway, back onto the subject of rock. I watched Supergroup on VH1. I love Damnocracy and I hope they do put out an album at least. I would love it if they toured, especially around the Philly or South Jersey area. And not because I am a total drooly fan girl of Jason Bonham, but also it’s great to hear the Bach man sing. Skid Row was just insane. He is insane. Ted Nugent, what can you say, he is freaking cool as shit. Bonham, yes I am biased but his skills and his lineage say it all. I’m sad to say I only listened to a few things of Anthrax from back in the day, mostly because that metal really wasn’t my thing. And Evan, well ya, Biohazard isn’t my cup of tea either. I’m not saying they are crap. I just don’t listen to that type of music. But I may DL a few songs just to sample that style.
My taste in music ranges from all over. I listen to jazz, to blues, to motown, to rock, to southern rock (love this style the most…just has that southern flavor I miss), to heavy metal, Glam rock, Hard rock, Classical music, and even some old school rap.
I’m not really into punk. I like a few songs, but to me it seems like they got so frustrated at their attempts to play/write rock that they just started slamming into each other and call their angst music.
I love acts such as Billie Holiday, Dizzy Gillespie, Etta James, Bessie Smith, Temptations, Louis Armstrong, Stevie Wonder, Chuck Berry, Johnny Cash, Queen, Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Fleetwood Mac, Pat Benetar, The Cars, Talking Heads, INXS, George Thorogood, Steve Miller, David Bowie…etc….
Queen has to be my absolute favorite band. No one can out sing or out shine the frontmanship of Freddie Mercury. He was just electrifying and his voice was captivating and just pure rock.
Anyway, as I sit here writing this post I have completely forgotten why I decided to write this in the first place. My mind is a total blank right now so continuing on would seem like utter ramblings. So I leave you with these 2 links to Damnocracy. One for the official site and one for the Myspace site. I have a myspace page but I don’t update it anymore. So check here for more of my rants. But if you want to check out my myspace page, check my links on the side, it’s under “My other sites” category.
Here are the links:
Damnocracy Myspace (Updated by Sebastian and Scott from what I read on the blog. Plus you can hear 3 songs from Damnocracy)
Official Damnocracy Website
And I command you all to see this classic mockumentary of the greatest Fictional Heavy Metal Band to ever exist. It’s funny, it’s eerie, it’s just a classic that all rock, metal, and music fans should watch…over and over and over again.
Tags: Damnocracy ; Rock and Roll ; Jason Bonham ; Music ; VH1 Supergroup
that they were there because I am a huge fan of Jason Bonham. Not only does he come from great genes…His Dad was the amazing drummer for Led Zeppelin, but he is just so freaking handsome. (look to the right. Don’t you just love the tat?)
I went onto my google hompage and saw on my Entertainment tab something about Cindy Sheehan, the woman that is protesting the war…don’t ask me my views on this woman. All I will say is I’m sorry for her loss, but her son did go into the military and this was expected to happen, and when you are in the military then you do what you’re told, if not then never join in the first place. I respect her choice to protest, her right, but she needs to get over it. The government will not listen to her.
Who would you save if you were in a burning house and could only carry one child out? They are all in the same room all in the same crib. Who would you take?
