Isn't The Reason OBVIOUS...?cunninglinguystNovember 9 2006, 01:54:18 UTC
Because one of popular musical history's pre-eminent hard rock acts has--just as so many flowering groups did BEFORE them--submerged themselves completely in the loch of contract-over-quality. This is a complete label-necessitated ploy by guys who don't like to play with each other anymore, but DO like the marginal wealth PRETENDING to like to play together can bring....
PERSONALLY, I became dubious of their "output" once they made the Soul Brains swap. Dig this: A--for all intents and purposes--washed-up/ past-the-expiration/ whatever-you-want-to-call-it band gets a virtual new lease on life VERY late in the game through contractual voodoo, even though their reputation as highly undependable is accurate and THEN some. They are reassigned copyrights to their own back catalogue, they finally stop fucking punching each other out backstage long enough to record ANYTHING, and there seems, for some inexplicable reason, to be a resurgence in interest in a band that hasn't produced "lauded" material since the very late 80's, and who even get shit-talked and about and avoided by bands that claim them as their primary influence. What do they do with this miraculous stroke of fortune! Make their FIRST OFFICIAL RELEASE as a philosophically "new band" with reliably-tested talent A LIVE RECORDING! OF THE OLD MATERIAL, NO LESS! But under the NEW name? This isn't the way that the band that popularized hardcore, and practically INVENTED skater punk and its subsidiary genres should--but HAS been, for about the last 5 years--going out! THAT'S why you needed to write this! Jesus GOD!!! How disappointing. And I was sort of jonesing after the great Democratic midterm showing before I read this...
Although, admittedly, I hadn't heard of this "new" release before your entry here, I gotta state the now-obvious: Bad Brains have become too Rolling Stones to be even partially funny. Do you agree?
PERSONALLY, I became dubious of their "output" once they made the Soul Brains swap. Dig this: A--for all intents and purposes--washed-up/ past-the-expiration/ whatever-you-want-to-call-it band gets a virtual new lease on life VERY late in the game through contractual voodoo, even though their reputation as highly undependable is accurate and THEN some. They are reassigned copyrights to their own back catalogue, they finally stop fucking punching each other out backstage long enough to record ANYTHING, and there seems, for some inexplicable reason, to be a resurgence in interest in a band that hasn't produced "lauded" material since the very late 80's, and who even get shit-talked and about and avoided by bands that claim them as their primary influence. What do they do with this miraculous stroke of fortune! Make their FIRST OFFICIAL RELEASE as a philosophically "new band" with reliably-tested talent A LIVE RECORDING! OF THE OLD MATERIAL, NO LESS! But under the NEW name? This isn't the way that the band that popularized hardcore, and practically INVENTED skater punk and its subsidiary genres should--but HAS been, for about the last 5 years--going out! THAT'S why you needed to write this! Jesus GOD!!! How disappointing. And I was sort of jonesing after the great Democratic midterm showing before I read this...
Although, admittedly, I hadn't heard of this "new" release before your entry here, I gotta state the now-obvious: Bad Brains have become too Rolling Stones to be even partially funny. Do you agree?
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