Essay Test

[mrdankelly]

1. Some people say the Velvet Undergound were the greatest rock band ever. Explain. Use both sides of the paper and attempt to answer without rolling your eyes, making disdainful "psssh!" noises, or employing other band names as adjectives. True or False: Is your answer crafted in fear that your buddies may be listening

Comments

[matthardwick]

1. The Velvet Underground were the greatest rock band ever because Lou Reed, John Cale, and (at least for the first album, anyway) Nico used to be in it. It also inspired a whole lotsa Punk RAWKrszz that I cannot name because of your "employing other band names as adjectives" prohibition. Or at least Reed, Cale, and maybe Nico did, anyway.

Oh, yeah, and Andy Warhol was involved, thereby influencing a whole lotta art RAWK pretense, some good, some bad.

True or False: Is your answer crafted in fear that your buddies may be listening?

Probably False.

2. Well, the notion of Excess is supposedly tantamount to the notion of Rebellion, even though Cake's "Rock N' Roll Lifestyle" was able to conclusively argue against this in the space of 3-4 minutes or so...

3. Erm, who are the Shaggs? They a real band, or something?
;-)

I always thought they were akin to the Banana Splits or whatever that early-70s group of people who dressed up in cartoon animal costumes was called. Perhaps because Shaggs puts me in mind The Shaggy Dog and The Shaggy D.A.

4. My CD player doesn't have a turntable. No, I don't really listen to this crap; I just listen to it ironically. (Whether or not I am in fact a homosexual has little to do with how I listen to the Blow Monkeys, so there. Besides, I'm bi.):-P