Open up your eyes

[dove95]

You know, these entries are going to go unnoticed since no one's around (hardly) on a holiday weekend. *le sigh*

I don't care. There are just a couple political issues I need to get out there.

The ONE Campaign

Are we all really being duped/lied to, or does it really matter?

ascii_70_85 brings up a good point in this entry in that the Live 8/ONE campaign

Comments

Rock '95-'05

[ascii_70_85]

Name a great band which has come out in the past 10 years, to wide popular success?

Coldplay
Perhaps, It's definitely their year.
I've even dug some of the songs ('The Scientist').
now, ... name another?

Imogen Heap/Frou Frou
Probably a good band...
but that's not what this is about.
... to most of the rest of the world a one hit wonder. I don't know their name, just the music that goes with the 'Garden State' trailer.

Ben Folds/Five--Have some flexibility here. Their first album came out on June 12, 1995, but I don't think they hit it until "Brick" came out. Not really sure if they're "popular."
I know of them... I know "Brick"...
Not really.

Dixie Chicks--They make country music fun, and it's not all that stereotypical country bullshit. "Goodbye Earl" from their second album is like what the movie Mortal Thoughts should've been.
I was more meaning rock, and ...
NO!

But really, that's all I can think of from the last ten years.
That's cause there really hasn't been. This is because rock and roll has generally been killed.
50's Buddy Holly, Elvis, Little Richard etc. etc.
60's Beach Boys, Beatles, Stones, Jimi Hendrix, Grateful Dead, etc. etc.
70's Doors, Kiss, Allman Bros., Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, etc.
80's Cars, Police, REM, U2, The Cure Metalica, Guns and Roses, etc.
90's Nirvana, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Nine Inch Nails, Smashing Pumpkins, Marlyn Manson... ?

Now Rock is no longer really a force... it's just a good fringe band here and there... I don't blame Nirvana grunge for pushing the limits, or even bands out there for not being as good (I'm sure many of them are), I don't even blame the kids (and me) for stealing the music. I think at some point the mainstream marketing .. gave up on rock.

In a sense this is just as well as rock isn't about them.
With rock you can't market shoes, bling bling, alcohol (well not exactly), or materialism in general.
Rock is about (or is supposed to be about rebellion, excitement and passion). Hard to market that stuff.

You look at iTunes, only half the stuff in their top 100 is current. It really astounds me.

Unfortunately without marketing these bands will die quicker and go unnoticed. I think this goes back to the record industry blaming theft for their troubles. There's a lot of money to be made, and they are letting it go to video games and slacks so the kids can look preppie ... ugh.