I Wish I was a Punk Rocker!!!

I think we are going through i musical renaissance, cos the music is getting better. Is it the current no one..? (i don't keep up with the music scene as much as i should)
 
I think we're approaching a tipping point with popular music. Late 60s, you had the counter-culture hippie explosion, the Beatles in their heyday. 20 years later, late 80s"”alterna rock started to explode with the Replacements, Pixies, R.E.M., Jane's Addiction, Chili Peppers...peaking with the Seattle scene and Nirvana.

Now, it's nearly 20 years later again. We're almost due for another explosion, a clear readjustment of the pop-music landscape. Many of you young pups feel like the music's getting better, cos it's becoming more about you and your sensibilities, and less about genX all the time (just a theory, maybe it's BS, lol).
 
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C'mon! You forgot The Screaming Trees? STP? Where's the love, man?
That was a cute song, not that accurate but cute.
The only flowers I remember in anyone's hair was in the 60's but there was always weed in the air with every change of music gendre.
I missed most of the 60's but I've seen it all since disco and like Goldenboy said there is a revolution in music every 20 years or so.
If the wheel is going to stop on this kind of music I just may have to turn the radio on again.
 
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I really like that song, What other songs would you be considering in this musical renaissance??

I thought this was interesting, I read it on Play.com, checking out her CD

Too broke to go on the road, 24 year old singer/songwriter Sandi Thom decided to set up a webcam in her South London flat and staged a three week world tour from the basement. Part of a new breed of internet-made acts that include the Arctic Monkeys, Gnarls Barkley and Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Sandi spread the word about the `21 Nights from Tooting' tour via Myspace.com and her own site, inviting fans to watch the tour live on the web or in person at the very modest underground venue of her basement (capacity 10 people, byob and a sleeping bag). Pulling in an audience of 70 on the first night, news of the gigs spread like wildfire on the internet and by the end of the `tour' she had 70,000 web viewers from as far afield as Russia, the USA and Pakistan! Drawing on a musical palette that varies from Bob Dylan and Jeff Buckley through Carole King and Stevie Nicks to Stevie Wonder and Aretha Franklin, Sandi Thom joins the dots between black and white music. Throughout `Smile' It Confuses People - which was produced in a barn by bandmates Jake Field and Duncan Thompson - she seamlessly blends folk and soul strains and influences. Sandi takes a similar approach lyrically, bringing together a diverse range of themes and subjects from broken hearts and newborn relationships through musicians and musicianship to the current worlds preoccupation with progress
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For the last ten years(more if i'm honest) i've found music kinda....lacking.
Lets be honest(i'm going by the UK) the biggest acts are manufactured BoyBands and GirlBands, from Spice Girls to Take That.
The biggest TV shows have been about taking a mixture of Karaoke singers and turning them into further manufactured tripe, from Girls Aloud to Will Young.
Fact is, i haven't listened to the Charts in a long time, but recently, the likes of KT Tunstall, Kaiser Chiefs, The Cribs and now this Sandi Thom(i could go on) are starting to bring back a passion to the music scene, i'm beginning to get excited by bands and singers that are being signed and getting the freedom and exposure they deserve.
 
Yeah i defiantly agree, I had grown very bored with Music, but last Summer there has been a good few that have really grabbed my attention.
 
Miffed67 agrees: C'mon! You forgot The Screaming Trees? STP? Where's the love, man?
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Aw man, Screaming Trees, sheesh. Forgot about those guys. I had one of their records...had that song..."Nearly Lost You", I think? Melvins, Mudhoney, Alice in Chains...L7, Dinosaur Jr, Sonic Youth, The Breeders, Lemonheads, etc, etc. And that other alterna phenomenon...Jesus and Mary Chain, My Bloody Valentine, Happy Mondays, Stone Roses, Inspiral Carpets, Charlatans, Blur, Teenage Fanclub, Suede...

I'm clinging to the dying remains of Xer rock while it's still being produced. I say give it 2-3 more years and the media will officially slap some new label on the new pop music.
 
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OMG, completely forgot about L7!!!!
really dont like this song... not my type of music... also cant get round... i wish iwas a punk rocker with flowers in my hair.... sorry but i dont know any punks or rocker who have flowers in there hair.... hippys maybe... lol
 
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perhaps you missed the point :)
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master kenobi said:
really dont like this song... not my type of music... also cant get round... i wish iwas a punk rocker with flowers in my hair.... sorry but i dont know any punks or rocker who have flowers in there hair.... hippys maybe... lol
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I saw an interview with her in it, and in i she said that she was using Punk Rocker as a metaphor because they used to be the symbol of rebellion against authority, It's not that she actually wants to be a punk rocker, she just using it for it's theme of Rebellion.

I would say the streaker is the same thing, it would be considered a symbol of rebellion.

This song has become one of my fav's I have listened to it countless times over the last few days, I checked out the rest of her album, I don't think it's as good as this song, but It good.
 
You know what strikes me about that song: it's basically R&B. It an R&B anthem, almost like a spiritual, referring to the hippies and the punkers... pretty different musical streams. Odd, heh. I guess it makes sense, in the way Hip Hop has come to totally dominate pop culture...it's the new vocabulary.

I think I'd be feelin it more if the song actually incorporated hippie music and punk...modern R&B's not really my thing...

(Hmm...but maybe the references aren't so odd. The punkers and the Reggae Rastafarians did get together in the 70s....and apparently Jamaica/Dub/Reggae played a pivotal part in the creation of New York rap music in the 70s...)
 
I think the internet has been quietly, in the background working it's will on music, and yeah something profound is happening.

Up until now the music industry has controlled the gateway between what's actually out there, and what our ears are allowed to hear.

The internet is changing that. Stuff like filesharing, and what's been described briefly above is connecting us to new and revolutionary ideas in music which in the past would have been suppressed.

Also, I think we ain't seen nothing yet. The big five music companies still have a lot of control over what gets out, but they're losing that control more every year.
 
Yeah, you could be right N4H. I definitely get the sense that the Net speeds up the cross-pollinization of music...maybe innovation happens more quickly, easily...
 
Here's a little tidbit to illustrate what I mean.

While the Big Five have been screaming in our ear the lie filesharing is theft, and robs artists of being compensated for their music, Independent music companies, or Indies, have been quietly accepting the new technologies, and are noticing a steadily larger, financial slice in their tiny piece of the pie.
 
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Also, I think we ain't seen nothing yet. The big five music companies still have a lot of control over what gets out, but they're losing that control more every year.
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And thanks, God for that. It's tiresome being constantly spoon-fed what I'm supposed to like. That's one of the reasons I attend South by Southwest every year, you get to experience a lot of different genres, see bands from all over the world, as well as some old favorites. I like popular music, too, but sometimes I want to listen to stuff that's not mainstream.
 
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