USA in for four more years of great music?

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is the bad times = good music equation valid?

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Wednesday, 3 November 2004 07:20 (twenty-one years ago)

more warped tour bands singing about bush. yay!

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 3 November 2004 07:24 (twenty-one years ago)

WOODEN WAND AND THE VANISHING VOICE

― LE CHUCK!™ (ex machina), Wednesday, 3 November 2004 07:25 (twenty-one years ago)

I WANT TO FUCKING DIE.

― djdee2005 (djdee2005), Wednesday, 3 November 2004 07:29 (twenty-one years ago)

actually i have a vague theory that america's class-understanding of itself is mirrored in the state of its pop output. i don't have the chops to flesh it out but it hinges mainly on the fun of telling people "if we're ever going to get get control of this country again, indie has to be put to the sword"

― g--ff (gcannon), Wednesday, 3 November 2004 07:32 (twenty-one years ago)

the logical endpoint of anti-rockism?

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 3 November 2004 07:33 (twenty-one years ago)

haha maybe! er my first sentence sounds super pompous now that i look at it, tons of people have said similar stuff.

― g--ff (gcannon), Wednesday, 3 November 2004 07:35 (twenty-one years ago)

well ok here goes, in brief: plenty of ppl (incl tom frank in _what's wrong with kansas_, who i heard talk a while back, very funny) think that the key to dem/progressive victories is to return to explicitly voicing the pains of working people, the "working class", even.

tho the problem is that i have to put that in quotes!! the southern strategy/wedge-issue bullshit/vote-yr-hate stuff that has such alarming traction in poor america isn't going to be countered by some sepia-tone "return" to blue collar values (ie father-provider union member etc)

― g--ff (gcannon), Wednesday, 3 November 2004 08:01 (twenty-one years ago)

(woah, bunch got eaten out of that post)

...that way of life has been erased -- the archetypical proletarian is no longer the polish catholic family man who builds cars, it's a dominican single mother working as a telemarketer. (this isn't news either)

the next problem is that the right is (i think actually all too) correct about the left's internal divisions: finding, or building, or uncovering the link btw the DNC's beloved degree'd urban (latte swilling, etc) professionals and our archetypical telemarketer is the holy grail, i really think so. and it'll much more change in the former as in the latter.

― g--ff (gcannon), Wednesday, 3 November 2004 08:03 (twenty-one years ago)

it'll require much more change...

jesus christ it's been a long day.

― g--ff (gcannon), Wednesday, 3 November 2004 08:05 (twenty-one years ago)

America is about to start raving on a fucking grand arsed scale

― lukey (Lukey G), Wednesday, 3 November 2004 09:29 (twenty-one years ago)

FUCK EM

AND THEIR LAW

― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Wednesday, 3 November 2004 11:34 (twenty-one years ago)

it hasnt made hip hop much better or more political in the states like everyone predicted, so it probably wont during the next four years either. bring back reagan (even if he is dead).

― titchyschneider (titchyschneider), Wednesday, 3 November 2004 11:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Nas thinks the 80s were the golden age of hip-hop. fuckin' Reaganite.

― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Wednesday, 3 November 2004 11:44 (twenty-one years ago)

clinton era hip hop was the second golden age though.

― titchyschneider (titchyschneider), Wednesday, 3 November 2004 11:47 (twenty-one years ago)

I love music but this is not a trade-off I can accept.

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Wednesday, 3 November 2004 14:04 (twenty-one years ago)

I hope you all loved the fucking fifties, cause that's where we're headed. I predict four more years of brainless Britney™ garbage dominating the charts. If anyone needs me, I'll be in the garage inhaling gas fumes.

― darin (darin), Wednesday, 3 November 2004 17:41 (twenty-one years ago)

It seems like you started already.

― djdee2005 (djdee2005), Wednesday, 3 November 2004 17:59 (twenty-one years ago)

FOUR MORE YEARS OF NU-METAL

― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Wednesday, 3 November 2004 18:08 (twenty-one years ago)

2004 = 1972

― Ian John50n (orion), Wednesday, 3 November 2004 18:23 (twenty-one years ago)

ohmygod - awesome! slider part two, coming soon!

― peter smith (plsmith), Wednesday, 3 November 2004 18:39 (twenty-one years ago)

here is my submission for the cover of the slider ca. 2004.
http://photos.friendster.com/photos/38/62/812683/7333515148982l.jpg

― peter smith (plsmith), Wednesday, 3 November 2004 18:44 (twenty-one years ago)

All I know is hope we get four more years of really cool music because punk/post-punk/braggachio bullshit rap/post-rock/trustfund country/avant-folk/experimental pop/noise has been so much more politically effectual than those naive Beatles, Doors, Sly Stones, Country Joes, etc.

― David Crosby, Wednesday, 3 November 2004 20:06 (twenty-one years ago)

lame.

― peter smith (plsmith), Wednesday, 3 November 2004 21:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Republican periods are almost always producing quite awful music and movies. Sadly.

― Margus Kiis, estonian rock critic (Margus Kiis, estonian rock cri), Wednesday, 3 November 2004 22:42 (twenty-one years ago)

4 more years of Britney = awesome but inevitable.

Now that y'all have expressed your opinions, perhaps the more civic-minded amongst you should start executing Bush voters in the interest of the world not returning to 490 A.D. during the next 4 years.

― noodle vague (noodle vague), Thursday, 4 November 2004 00:26 (twenty-one years ago)

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