From: owner-oppositeview-digest@smoe.org (oppositeview-digest) To: oppositeview-digest@smoe.org Subject: oppositeview-digest V6 #73 Reply-To: oppositeview@smoe.org Sender: owner-oppositeview-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-oppositeview-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk oppositeview-digest Sunday, June 27 2004 Volume 06 : Number 073 Today's Subjects: ----------------- OV: Music's dead - it's official [NIGELBLUES@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2004 21:15:57 -0400 From: NIGELBLUES@aol.com Subject: OV: Music's dead - it's official Anyone been watching/listening to the bleedin' godamn awful Glastonbury this weekend which is proving all that is all currently and, let's not mess about, f**ked about with music. Oasis may, and should have been, the best tribute act in the business but have carried on 5 years too long. I couldn't even be bothered to watch the Glastonbury headline this weekend but everything, media or independent, confirms they bombed. R.I.P. Gallagher boys. The fact I wasn't bothered to go out of my way to see them says a lot too. Their last gig in Cardiff 2-3 years ago already proved they were on their way down. As for Glasto, if Paul McCartney is Saturday's headline artist - a legacy his songs undoubtedly are - it underlines the a problem. The only populist rock music these days is "safe" - I'm talking about Coldplay, Starsailor, Keane & co. The Welsh groups - although partly due to being in their prime - have shown that too. Having just come back from America and two weeks earfull of the less than average Hoobastank, or should it be Hoobastuuk, or the rest of the assorted crap that fills rock radio - and it;s better there than here, believe me, it6's no better anywhere else. The exciting groups such as The Strokes just can't cut it in the big arena - having seen them play in arenas as diverse as Clwb Ifor (a small 200 capacity Welsh club), Birmingham Academy (upto 1,500 capacity) and their hugely disappointing Cradiff CIA gig last Xmas (now 7,000), I should know. Super Furries are a brilliant live group but will never breakthrough and get their dues. OK, I'm getting on but I just don't believe there is anyone or anything around today to match my youth idols - that's why The Clash will forever be revered, The Damned, SLF, Buzzcocks, Stranglers and Co still gig. Ian Dury, Joy Division/New Order. Smiths/Morrisey and the Ska revoloution will always live within those of us who were there. The Yank groups like Ramones, New York Dolls, Tubes and DEVO (ok, not many like them or remember them but they're still my heroes) are still revered. I love what Muse are about, Idlewild could/should have been bigger but Franz Ferdinand are this month's thing and will do well to still be talked about by the Autumn - they won't. I'm sure I've missed loads but I've had to get pissed to get over Glasto tonight which makes Euro'2004 football/soccerseem interesting by comparison when we all know that's as boring as f**k! Apart from England being crap again and I can't wait til Wales get them at Old Trafford in October = not soon enough. John Peel - what a guy - doesn't give away what he must be feeling looking at this year's effort, does he? He disappeared early. Let's Knight him, he's affected my life more than any politician ever has .. and then some. The Red Hot Chillis played my hometown this week ... luckily I was in US. the local rag was praiseworthy but they, and my mates, talk about their "simple entertaining" set. That's the problem, isn't it? Music, more than ever, is about simple music for simple people with simple shows with no imagination or great effort, isn't it? Jeez, I just brushed this list and everyone appears to be discussing Fountains of Wayne. Q.E.D. without a doubt. ------------------------------ End of oppositeview-digest V6 #73 *********************************