musical revolution please.

First John Lydon with the butter advert. Next there’s this Aviva Ad with Ringo Starr and Alice Cooper.

The final straw is seeing Iggy Pop on the new Swift car insurance ad.

I mean what is going on? Are these people really suffering from downloading and the credit crunch? … REALLY?

What happened to the whole anti-capitalism, anti-establishment, punk ethics IGGY?? Atleast John Lydon admitted having the Sex Pistols reunion for cash. Everyones reforming this year. The Specials, Magazine, rumours of the Stone Roses. All great news because yes unfortunately not all of us were old enough/alive when they were in their prime. But at the sametime, are they just in it for the money as they know they’ll get good cash out of it?

But it just goes to show, the music industry sucks now, does anyone actually do it for the music? It’s all money, money, money, and selling out. I read something yesterday on a blog about young people not getting music anymore (unfortunately didn’t bookmark the post so i can’t link it)… there needs to be a revival of proper experimental, art rock, DIY instead of recycling the same stuff just cos it sells.

Musicians used to be passionate about not just the music but they had political views, infact the music was as important as their politics sometimes. Look at the 70′s, 80′s and there’s plenty of bands you can relate to what was going on at the time. Interviews would be around current issues, not who their music was inspired by, blah blah. It feels like most acts now want to be as neutral as possible (except like Radiohead) off the top of my head.

Even stuff like Live 8 just feels like a big “look at me, i’m so amazing caring for people.”
And i think that’s what lacks now, cos i don’t feel like musicians use music to the full advantage they use too. Actually bringing together like minded people to change the shit that’s going on.

New bands get grouped into a new scene etc, and then it’s hard to get out of that. And then you get this outbreak of a new scene (nu-rave etc) and it all sounds the same. And it’s all about the style, e.g. nu-rave as above. A good percentage of it’s about the look than the music. I know there’s always been this selling of acts, but more so now it feel so forced sometimes to have a band look, where they all have a certain look say “dark” e.g SCUM, Horrors etc. just to sell music.

So many bands now rip-off post-punk, and people just aren’t aware or even care to go and look up where the inspirations come from. It’s just here’s the “new Echo and the Bunnymen” where all their songs sound completely ripped, and are not interesting nor exciting. I have nothing against being inspired by a band, it’s pretty hard to make music without being influenced by other genres, musicians.
I guess that’s why the 80′s was great, with bands like Talking Heads or X-Ray Spex mixing up genres, and opening up reggae to punk fans etc.

I know i’ve been excited about all the reformings, but then at the sametime some of them blatantly are just doing it for the money, mortages to pay etc. It’s quite a sad time we live in, where people just please the crowd to pay off bills. The people who were singing against the establishment 20 years ago.

There’s nothing that exciting out there, or radical. It makes me want to actually start a band, i can’t pay an instrument but isn’t that where most of the greats started?

There needs to be some musical revolution, while most music eventually comes back round into the mainstream, it’ll never be the same, look at how watered down punk and goths become, everythings commericalised now.