We're in a bit of a transition phase now, though, as hiphop starts to displace classic rock as your reliable indicator of poor life skills and decision making.
Which provides an amusing dichomatically-imparted twang of irony to "To Those About To Rock (We Salute You)" - because they sure aren't about to rock, nor will they rock anyone.
I would go so far as to say that their false teeth are carved from wood and they are suffering from osteoporosis, so far removed from any mineral are they.
I don't know how old you are - I was born in 1980 - but I suspect that when GnR and ACDC came out, they were considered "heavy metal" - particularly GnR. But yeah, now I'd have to call them hard rock.
Classic rock I still consider to be Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, et al. Or is that oldies now? And if so, then what is Buddy Holly and Elvis?
Well, all they are now is rich old dudes hanging on to whatever they had in the 80's. But what I was talking about is what they were back in the day, the shit they're still trying to milk.
These comments are reminding me of an interview i saw with Warrent (of the 'she's my cherry pie' fame). The lead singer looked straight into camera and said: "Yes. it was us. WE killed rock and roll".
I'd buy a second tattoo as a confirmation, for sure, but there's too little intersection between the single-tat set and the classic-rock+hiphop segment of the underclass.
Well, yeah, but by the time GnR came along you were starting to get your split between hair metal and thrash, and they were kind of right on the line. It's an open question whether touring with Metallica in 1992 improved their metal cred, or diminished Metallica's.
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Date: 2008-08-18 09:11 pm (UTC)We're in a bit of a transition phase now, though, as hiphop starts to displace classic rock as your reliable indicator of poor life skills and decision making.
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Date: 2008-08-18 09:13 pm (UTC)I would go so far as to say that their false teeth are carved from wood and they are suffering from osteoporosis, so far removed from any mineral are they.
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Date: 2008-08-18 09:20 pm (UTC)I don't know how old you are - I was born in 1980 - but I suspect that when GnR and ACDC came out, they were considered "heavy metal" - particularly GnR. But yeah, now I'd have to call them hard rock.
Classic rock I still consider to be Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, et al. Or is that oldies now? And if so, then what is Buddy Holly and Elvis?
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Date: 2008-08-18 09:25 pm (UTC)"Who?"
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Date: 2008-08-18 09:36 pm (UTC)Chinese Democracy, produced by Wallmart in the People's Republic of China where saying the _word_ might get you "misplaced".
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Date: 2008-08-18 09:44 pm (UTC)The lead singer looked straight into camera and said:
"Yes. it was us. WE killed rock and roll".
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Date: 2008-08-19 12:08 pm (UTC)Frankly, I'm astonished that people even still want to steal music by those dinosaurs.
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Date: 2008-08-19 01:01 pm (UTC)Way, way, way back when.
But they only ever really had, like, three songs, and they just kept making up new verses and rerecording them.
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Date: 2008-08-19 07:12 pm (UTC)— born in 1974 and therefore old enough to remember and also GET OFF MY LAWN
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Date: 2008-08-19 07:13 pm (UTC)Except even the verses weren't all that new...
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Date: 2008-08-19 07:16 pm (UTC)HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
I think I was still in COLLEGE when that album was first announced.
Since I don't shop at Wal-Mart (there aren't any in Seattle) I guess I won't be getting either of these.
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Date: 2008-08-19 07:21 pm (UTC)It's been in production longer than Duke Nukem Forever.
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Date: 2008-08-19 07:38 pm (UTC)I've long since ceased giving a shit what that band (or whatever's left of it) does.