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Am I the only one to find Green Day’s “American Idiot” a bit contradictory? They’re decrying media influence on America: “One nation controlled by the media,” I believe the lyric is.
Ummm…Aren’t they a component of the media? Like…uhh…they’re being BROADCAST on BROADCAST MEDIA and being MASS DISTRIBUTED via stores?
These are the anti-establishment, homo-curious guys of my junior high days here, using the Viacom publicity engine of MTV among others (I’m sure they’ll show up on the Daily Show soon, as well) to institutionalize a corporate image of anti-corporate anti-institutionalization. Great, guys. Great job.
If you want to use your listening time more effectively, go pick up a Five for Fighting album. Mostly-self-produced singer-songwriter experimental stuff. I’m certainly not going to waste money on this corporate anti-corporate crap. Hootie beats this. My $10 Sting Greatest Hits album beats this. Caedmon’s Call (sans the girl-sung songs) beats the heck out of this. Maybe we can get Green Day out of the way and knock out Nickelback, Good Charlotte, Sum 41, New Found Glory, and that “look for the girl with the broken smile” group that I can’t remember the name of now. Yeah, it is a good line. I don’t care. I’m on principle here.
Kill that Switchfoot song, too. What the heck? Like more than a year old? It’s a little much now. “We were meant to live for so much more”. Yeah, I know. I remember when I was laughing at the stuff I’m now going back to buy for $18/CD 5 years late. I’m about to go buy a Silverchair album, if they haven’t all been melted into Blink 182 CD’s. Hootie, anyone? Goldfinger. I wonder if they made good stuff.
I need a Crosby, Stills, [&] Nash, [& Young] album. That’s about the last 70s group I like (well, other than Steve Miller Band) that hasn’t sold a CD to me yet.
The downward quality curve of Dave Matthews Band has a lot to do with this, I believe. I didn’t even jump at the offering of the last live album. Didn’t even think about buying it. We’ll see what comes out of the studio in the next decade or so.
I’m wondering why A Perfect Circle didn’t put that crazy minimalistic mix of their new single on the CD. I go nuts whenever I hear it on the radio.
Oh, and happy birthday to me (yesterday, now). White Russians are good.