A Thing or Two
Coldplay is really the Wallflowers of this iteration, meaning that they manage to go quad-platinum (or so) with music that is generally disparaged outside of your VH-1, Inside Edition, and other feedback-loop-enhancing media outlets. Maybe REM and (dare I say the sacrosanct) U2 fall into this category in further traversals into the past.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
(Had to get an REM dig in there.)
I heard one band that sounds exactly like the Foo Fighters, and then there’s that one band that sounds exactly like Zeppelin and actually fesses up to it and rationalizes it!
If I want Zeppelin, they are readily accessible to me. I need no help, and the lack of Jimmy Page pretty much destroys 50%+ of the point, given that Robert Plant (or a suitable soundalike) was/is just a piece of the puzzle.
In other news, the Wii is going to be good, or if it’s bad it will be the kind of historically important bad that makes it still worth owning. Remarkably enough, I am considering adding myself to a pre-order list whenever that occurs, given the price point is about where I would like to see it. Plus, the full-featured model comes in comfortably under 50% the cost of the other next-gens, and it actually looks like fun.
I would love to mess with the tennis game, and that swordfighting and gun game looks cool, too. The golf game looks great. I think the system would be great for little kids (forever, kind of like an SNES with Mario Kart), and Nintendo’s vision of a living-room game for the entire family really seems feasible here.
I was a hater early on, but seeing how the Wii-mote works, it’s just flat compelling (even if it’s a little shaky).
The PS3 has been delayed to March 2007 in Europe, so Sony better start getting ready to get reamed. I would buy a 360 twice before I bought a PS3, and I don’t want a 360 (except as a Media Center Extender, but I can get that 50%+ cheaper on its own).