rock and roll musings by Tim Byrnes

'The Antichrist' Is Brought To You, In Part, Tonight By Lexus

     The title above was actually spoken by a tv announcer during a History Channel documentary on the Antichrist that ran a few minths ago amidst all the 'da Vinci Code' hoopla. I about spit my tea out when I heard it and thought I'd share it w/y'all. Not much to report so just a few random thoughts, OK?

    Apparently Sting is 'fed up' w/rock and roll saying that modern music has lost something (probably Sting's interest, since he, like I, am an ooooooold guy) and, taking the Richie Blackmore route, has released a CD of medieval lute tunes. Way to rise to the challenge, Gordo! Could have been worse, I suppose, he could have covered 'The Wall' in it's entirety.

    I'd like to take the All-American Rejects, the Fray, Augustana, Keane, Hinder and all the rest of these whiny-ass college punks (and not the good kind either) that are pretending to be rock and roll bands and ship 'em off to some kind of Afghan Whigs Be A Rock and Roll Man Fer Chrissakes Camp.

    Say what you will about Paris Hilton - I know I have - but she paid for a couple of catchy poptunes to play in the background of her videos. Blondie lives.

     I know Blondie herself still lives. I thought they were a joke in 1977 and nothing's happened since to change my mind.

     'When You Were Young' by the Killers is my favorite song of the week. One of the few new video bands that don't make me reach for my revolver.

     Now that the punk wars are over and cbgb is closed I think it's safe to admit that I kinda liked some of K.C and the Sunshine Band's music.

     But not Journey. Never Journey.

     The New York Dolls have a new record out. Even though the only living members left are David Johansen and Sylvain Sylvain (who's main discriminating feature is he's the guy who isn't Johnny Thunders) from what I've heard the spirit of the band is intact and the production is light years better than the original two records. Of course one could almost accidently make a better sounding record than those two, but it's nice to hear the Dolls - and America - get a second chance. Viva rock and roll!

Posted by: timbyrnes at 17:56 | link | comments (1)

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#1  02 November 2006 - 18:04

 

Now THAT was a depressing column.... :P

And if you'd said Lexis-Nexis, I could have provided empirical evidence of antichrist-bringing. Alas.

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