Any good concerts lately?

[Batz Kage]

I know mixing type of music can have good effects, like with the Transplants, punk mixes a bit with rap, or GWAR, whose one good song sounds a bit like rap, & they're heavey metal I guess you could say. Then there are the really weird mixes. A Hardcore Ska band, Choking Victim. Yeaah, but their music rocks, which I guess that's because it's basicly harcore vocals, with a bit of ska like duming in the background.



Another thing I'm mostly against, is how these new bands will play in movies, do commercials, & junk like that, but when you track down their roots, they all origninaly listened to punk bands that try to keep their videos off public air (Ranicd & NoFx). That's like saying yes, I love them, they basicly taught me everything I needed to know about the ways of puink, then I turned around flushed it all to hell, & made a good buck. Now I guess I can't really comment on the fact that a band is in a popular teen movie for the cash, & I guess I shouldn't say they're doing it for the advertisement, but still.
It reminds me onf the Wayne's World movie where they're talking about mainstream crap, or something like that, & then start showing off pepsi, pain killers, & shoe brands.

Side Note: Like my father, I actualy liked Avril Lavinge, that is until for some "great" reason, I came to the point of when hearing her music, & the music of the other two girls out there that sound just like her, I almost cry. That really ruined the music.

"Same with punk music, had to start somewhere. A few guys who already espoused the ideas began to develop them into music. The newness and purity of the genre speaks for itself, (or did back then)."
"So I am all for creation, not for the procreation happening in most of today's scene. Bands like Sum 41 and Blink 182 are just cowards retreating into proven musical road-ruts."

Yeah, back then it was some angery 40 year old man, screaming out junk most people think is crap, & doesn't even sound like music, more like a dying cow. But, yet their music has the ability to carry the intensity of a live performence even when it's recorded.
Now days you have stupids kids out there singing about their parent's sex, blow jobs, & stuff they think is rejected, while taking a commical point of view. Sure it's entertaining, but it's just not punk.

Also one thing I never admit to most peol;e is the fact I listened to Blink 182 back before they became so hip with all the kids around here (back when one of the kids said they were a band of faggets, & their music sucked), & still listened to them when they getting popular with my friends, but then I grew up, & went from listening to them to the more "underground" stuff, sure I still listened to them every now & then, but only their more serious stuff, like I think one of them is Stay Together for the Kids. I also kinda like Sum 41.

I know a lot of people who listened/listens to radiohead. I've only seen one of their msuic videos on MTV (a long time ago), & it didn't impress me, which then again back then i think I was into country (*gag*), Pop, & starting to like Rock.

As for Mindless Self Indulgence if I had a p2p program I'd try d/ling some of their stuff, because as CDs go, I only buy comps. Cheap comps: For two reasons. One, I'm poor, & two, I'm cheap.


My music tastes went basicly like this:

Growing up I could only listen to Country, Pop, & OLD Rock stuff. Bands: Don't know any of the country ones, unless you count my dad who has been on a local channel. Rock: Basicly all bands played on the radio from the 70s-80s. For pop, I guess I Micheal Jackson.

Then later I basicly went like this:
Pop
Rock
Rap
Rock
The year I discovered PUNK!
Punk & Rock
Punk & Ska
Punk & Hardcore
Punk, Ska & Hardcore

& Now I basicly listen to a bit of everything only focusing around certain types depending upon what I'm trying to do (write).


In ending: I basicly agree with everything you've said, so how did your music tastes develop?