on 6/10/03 9:45 AM, SUGAR in their vitamins? at yol@esophagus.com wrote:
On Tue, 10 Jun 2003, skip Heller wrote:
In some cases -- "London Calling" is a Jaguar commercial, the Jello-less Dead Kennedys etc -- the new focus on old punks has been terrible and demoralizing to anyone who believed these guys in the first place.
believed in what guys? the bands?
That the people in those bands believed in the content of their lyrics.
so, is this only the beginning or just a minor trend? or... is this simply the same old, same old practice in corporate co-opting of the counter-culture?
If the counter-culture wasn't saying yes to the highest bidder, it couldn't/wouldn't be co-opted. Remember -- punk rock failed largely because it started out as an alternative to corpo-rock, but, the moment most of these bands did real well in the indie marketplace, they signed to major labels, hooked up with the established rock booking agencies, and played established rock venues. It didn;t replace anything. That punk rock has become the new corpo-nostalgia means only that those records sold better than any of us were told. skip h