Icon Re: The Clash...Uninteresting??
E
edlorah (view)

...."Most people wouldn't know music if it came up and bit them on the ass". -Frank Zappa

Okay, I've edited some (not all) of the sarcasm out of my original post. The best popular music, especially rock and roll music, embodies a spirit of change, possibility, optimism (or conversely its description of how fucked up things are may be brutally frank but the hope for change is still implicit) but the sense of hope and even revolution (and danger) exists in the best rock and roll music. There exists a sense of subversion in good rock and roll.

Woody Guthrie had it, Velvet Underground, Patti Smith, Little Richard, The Beatles all had it. David's 'Triage' and 'Boomtown' certainly have it. The Clash had it. If you don't understand that- if you can't feel that in your bones then you should probably stick with Joe Walsh singing 'I Love Big Tits"....

Like the punchline of a joke, some things can't- and shouldn't have to be explained. It's what people used to call 'soul'...

–--
"It was done only for political reasons only anyway. "
posted 2008.05.07
[login] | [register]

you need to be logged in to post and reply to message board posts