[quote=Allan from Fallbrook]Fredo4: You’re right about those kids. The really funny thing is that they wear the t-shirts and listen to the music like they just discovered it.
The music WAS original 25 – 30 years ago. Back before our sprawling American monoculture destroyed it and original thought and replaced it with bland soulless Kenny G. and Michael Bolton insipidity. It’s pretty fucking sad when you start considering Michael Bolton a crass, crappy Barry Manilow knockoff. I can’t help but think of Rush’s song “Subdivisions”: “Conform, or be cast out”.
Spinal Tap is frickin’ hilarious. David St. Hubbins and crew: They don’t make ’em like that anymore.
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Jesus, I hate it when I am more American that u.
Seriously, the bands you mentioned were in films like Liquid Sky and Repo Man. They did not grace the soundtracks of Tom Selleck and Michael Keaton films (though Batman was a start).
Its not like people respected them as actual music.
That only comes with early adopters like you and then that legacy cache they get.
Fifteen years from now, kids will be wearing Rocket from the Crypt t-shirts in grammar school and Lady Dottie and the Diamonds baseball caps. Also, Operation Ivy will be on a compilation entitled “Alterno-rock: Sounds of the 80’s, 90’s and oughties”.
By then, also, we will have flying cars and Avery Brooks will record voicemail greetings.
