Unfortunately with the advent of pirated music software, Youtube, MySpace, Facebook et al - you don't need to have any musical talent today whatsoever to get a song out. Look at T-Pain, all he does is use a vocoder and he made millions... Rebecca Black can't sing for **** even with auto-tune and she stands to make millions in advertising from Youtube. Back in the pre-internet days, the musical companies only took on people they knew they could sell and make money from with record sales and touring. Great bands like Guns & Roses, Creedance Clearwater Revival and the Beatles were sellable because they were good. Nowadays, they take a bunch of rejects from the solo section of a waste of space tv program like Britain's Got Talent, throw them together, call them One Direction and release them upon the stupid kids of today who wouldn't know good music if it beat them to within an inch of their life with a guitar. Even turning on the radio nowadays (which i VERY RARELY listen to) you can tell that all the Rhianna's, Lady Gaga's, J-Lo's, Britneys, etc use the same beat, they just change the lyrics, and maybe add another instrument and release that. All the music sounds the same. I am a huge EDM fan, but i preferred it when it wasn't as big. The music you got out was alot better in the past. Even some rock songs down here in Oz are ****e. A radio station down here called Triple J (JJJ) likes to think it is at the forefront of music. Admittingly they have discovered alot of great artists in their "Unearthed" comp. But as soon as those bands are played on commercial radio they drop them from theirs. But because they want to move away from commerical sounds, some of the music i hear on that station is crap. They only play it because it is 'different'. I miss the music of the old days. And Im even gutted I wasn't around in the 60's/70's to witness some of these awesome bands at their peaks
Cracking post mate, Personally i'm glad i missed the 60s music, and from what iv'e heard from the 70s also.... Although it did seem to improve in the latter part of that decade.
Every band I like I've been lucky enough to see, but the list could go on and on.... Joy Division, Stranglers, SLF, Clash, Massive Attack, Bloodhound Gang, Undertones, John CooperClarke, Stone Roses, Smiths, Radiohead, Damned, Dead Kennedys, Specials, Ian Dury, Elvis Costello and of course the Wurzels!
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The Jam totally awesome band Weller has always been a hero never got to see the Jam live. The Clash another favourites saw them live at Newcastle City Halls first ever gig. nomoregeordies Strummer's father was a low level diplomat and as with anyone working for the diplomat service was entitled to send their children to boarding school payed for by the Tax payer. Back to bands Angelic Upstarts, Leatherface , Secret Affair Lambrettas Purple Hearts Ramones Levellers Carter USM all 2Tone skate Oi! Punk Psychobilly Northern Soul. Love Jack White and Imelda May.
So because Paul Weller, (who lived in Woking in Surrey, hardly an impoverish area) called him pretend, that makes it ok to presume something that he not be.?
Woking is a town that splits down the middle. Weller's father worked on building site, his mother was a cleaner. Hardly the son of the diplomat like Strummer @i fought the law' did ya fck 'daddy was a bank robber' was he fck . Strummer was a fcking arse/.
Ok mate, i'm not in the mood or condition to argue......i only lived there for 8 years, so don't need a lecture on Surrey.....
The Chills - Heavenly Pop Hit (1988) My favorite [video=youtube;yvYihKlgzOg]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvYihKlgzOg[/video] The Chills - The Frost (1982) This one launched them [video=youtube;CAcZtIwnOXs]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAcZtIwnOXs[/video] F*** I'm gettin old
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