Wednesday, January 31, 2007

Music that makes my brain hurt





Whiny guy rock: High pitched nasally vocals, basic guitar rock cords (toned down for future muzak conversion) and greasy, unshaven mama's boys round out this class of music. They snivel and whine about their girlfriend leaving or the hangnail they got last Tuesday. These poseur assholes sound exactly like a million other bands with nothing to say. Some just have better management.
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Reborn crooner It's really fashionable these days to remake other peoples music. Usually a has been tries to get other has beens together and do some old Vegas dead crooner bullshit. "YAWN" Sinatra and Dino could pull it off, but that's becuause they kicked ass. Luckily for these fuckers there are a bunch of old ladies that get sucked into buying this re-manufactured silly bull shit. (Cough) Rod (Cough) Stewart.

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Has beens: They rocked in their heyday, sold millions of records, played to sold out shows. Now twenty, thirty, or forty years later they are rich, sober, married, and have absolutely nothing to sing about. /Singing/ Oh yeah baby, I'm so rich, and I married a supermodel woo wee my life is great ha ha... Give it up has been. Nobody wants to hear that shit. I'm of the firm opinion that really inspiring music is born of suffering. Once the suffering ends, hang up the microphone or go trash your life and start over

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DIVA. Cmon' all this shit sounds exactly the same. Some chick is up there bellowing through talented vocal cords to uninspiring fru fru elevator music. Maybe the lyrics could be poetic but they are all the same. I'm sure people are impressed by the sequined dresses, pretty lights and the 30 second high notes but to me it's phony baloney nonsense. I think people eat this stuff up because paying $175 for a concert ticket sounds good when trying to impress the neighbors.

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(C)RAP. Back in the early eighties I could listen to some rap music. It was catchy, sometimes funny and had a good beat. It had some musical elements in it as well. These days it's nothing but a bunch of thugs droning about ho's and gats to a monotonous electronic beat while trying to look tough and gangsterish. It's boring at best and annoying at its worst. How many music videos can you fill with phat booty ho's, diamond encrusted teeth and Caddilac Escalades? .....about 734,904 so far

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Girl Idol. Disney execs take and old mouseketeer who is too old for their shitty sitcoms and still has a few years on their contract, sluts them up and puts them on stage so they can make a few more million before they head for the glue factory. Once their singing career starts petering out, these girl idols cannot stand being out of the limelight. They end up making a sex tape with a donkey, flashing their stretch marked woo hoo's every time they step out of a limo and pretty much make pathetic asses out of themselves until they are finally ignored forever.
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Boy bands: luckily, I think this era is nearly over. Some music money man grabs some pretty white boys that he'd like to corn hole, makes sure they can carry a tune and then markets them to a captive ready made audience loaded with prepubescent girls. It's important that the handlers keep the girls and "guys" thinking they are going to marry one of these gay boys one day. The music is inconsequential next to the teen magazines, the fashion and tabloid expose's. Every once in a while, a catchy tune will accidentally surface out of this mess.. but don't count on it.


11 Comments:

At January 31, 2007 at 3:02 PM , Anonymous dr.alistair said...

i read somewhere that ronnie james dio had a band in 1957 called ronnie and the rockets.

now assuming that he was sixteen then, that makes him two hundred and forty eight now.

i`m going to see him front for the new sabbath in march unless he has a stroke before then.

real rock never dies, it`s just reborn.

my hair is gone forever though.

 
At January 31, 2007 at 3:32 PM , Anonymous Kat said...

Okay Hammer, what music is left? Classical, Jazz, Opera and Heavy Metal?

 
At January 31, 2007 at 3:36 PM , Anonymous Rachel Schell said...

HA! there is something mean to be said about every time of music. This is funny though! love the diva part.

 
At January 31, 2007 at 4:33 PM , Anonymous Infinitesimal said...

ok i am going to minneapolis on friday to hook up (80's slang, not 90's slang) with some old high school buddies.

they are really excited to take me out to some punk rock shows

i could really care less

i mean, really, i would rather go bowling.... seriously rather go bowling

damn, i hafta go to like, 3 effing shows and feign interest and we are going to the bob dylan exibit too, which won't be too bad, these guys have seen him live like, 50 times.

and by the way, they are going to be at the dio/sabbath show too.

(shudder)

well, at least i am getting out the house and off my ass

 
At January 31, 2007 at 4:36 PM , Anonymous BobG said...

Personally, I like almost all rock except rap, disco, and screaming heavy metal. I also listen to a lot of jazz, blues, and baroque music. I like country western, but prefer the older one like Cash, Williams, Jennings, etc.
Never could get into opera; if I want to hear a bunch of fat people yell at me in a foreign language, there are neighborhoods I can walk through for free and get that.

 
At January 31, 2007 at 5:00 PM , Anonymous Ryan said...

That was good...

"sluts them up and puts them on stage so they can make a few more million before they head for the glue factory"

....pretty much sums it up for me.

 
At January 31, 2007 at 5:57 PM , Anonymous Hammer said...

Dr Alistair: Ronnie is about 65. I guess he made a deal with the dark prince or something cause he doesn't look that old and can still belt one out. He had a small bit in "pick of destiny" funny flick.

kat: I'll get to making fun of those too ;D

Rach: lol I can talk mean about all of em. ;)

infinitesimal: I like a good concert. Some punk is ok but I prefer regular rock and roll myself. Bowling is my sport. I would rather do that any day.

bobg: I like almost all kinds of music too. There are some in all genres that can stand some criticism though ;)

Ryan: thanks I like to tell it like it is.

 
At February 1, 2007 at 7:25 PM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

Sluts them up? You mean they do that deliberately? (The people backing the idol and not the idol herself.)

Jeez. So much for Disney being a family-oriented company.

I don't mind people showing off what they have once they're over the legal limit, but there's something deeply disturbing about fuck-me clothes for teenage pop stars and eight-year-old girls.

- ISU Tinkerer

 
At February 1, 2007 at 9:38 PM , Anonymous Hammer said...

ISU: You and me too. Too much underage erotic crap going on these days I think the media is playing a double standard on this issue.

 
At February 1, 2007 at 10:47 PM , Anonymous Scott from Oregon said...

This is one of those post where I have to say WTF? So what? You don't like talented people making music and making money.

Even MJ had talent. He was just loony.

I give kudos to ANYBODY who can sing and entertain.

If you are not moved, more's the loss for you...

Why all the negativity toward people like Rod Stewart, Paul McCartney, Keith Richards... et al...?

How many lives have YOU touched with your music?


Bad form! Bad form!

 
At February 2, 2007 at 2:58 AM , Anonymous Hammer said...

"How many lives have YOU touched with your music?"

About six and 1/2 if you count the pomeranian.

Maybe I need to invent a tongue in cheek emoticon.

 

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