Rock Minutes » bruce springsteen http://www.rockminutes.com/rock The place for all things a little more rockin' Wed, 08 Sep 2010 20:36:30 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Music Sucks http://www.rockminutes.com/rock/2008/02/27/music-sucks/ http://www.rockminutes.com/rock/2008/02/27/music-sucks/#comments Wed, 27 Feb 2008 21:34:09 +0000 Nick http://www.rockminutes.com/rock/2008/02/27/music-sucks/
I hate to sound like my dad, but what the hell has happened to popular music? It was not that long ago that I could turn on the radio and hear some great artists in their primes. I could hear music that meant something and would transcend genre and time. I am talking about groups [...]]]> I hate to sound like my dad, but what the hell has happened to popular music? It was not that long ago that I could turn on the radio and hear some great artists in their primes. I could hear music that meant something and would transcend genre and time. I am talking about groups like Van Halen, Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Artists like Tom Petty, John Mellencamp, and Bruce Springsteen. I understand that these people may not fit into the format of radio stations these days. Time waits for no one and room has to be made for the up and coming bands of today. I guess my question is who are the bands on the radio that are going to carry the torch for the next 20 years? Are they really going to stand the test of time?

For example, is some 15 year old kid really going to be sitting around in 20 years saying, “Boy, I really miss the good old days of music when I could hear a really good band like Fall Out Boy.” It really seems far fetched to me but maybe I am just old fashioned or close minded. When I listen to their music it seems soulless and the only thing worse than the sound might be the titles of their songs. Maybe you are not familiar with Fall Out Boy and some of their steller material. I encourage you to try out some of their songs. May I suggest some of these rock nuggets:

- Thnks Fr Th Mmrs
- Carpal Tunnel of Love
- I’m Like A Lawyer With The Way I Am Always Trying To Get You Off
and don’t forget the rock classic, I Slept With Someone In Fallout Boy and All I Got was This Stupid Song Written About Me.

If you are familiar with this future Rock and Roll Hall of Fame band then you are already familiar with these titles. If you are not familiar with them these really are song titles. Now I am not saying every song written needs to be the next Like A Rolling Stone, but come the fuck on! Is that really the best you can do? Is anyone really going to look back on these these steaming piles of shit they call songs and think they have any redeeming qualities at all? Oh well, maybe I am getting all worked up over nothing. I guess I will just look to country music and hip hop for songs that will stand the test of time. I already have a few in mind that I think we will never forget.

Honky Tonk Badonkadonk by Trace Adkins
Tequila Makes Her Clothes Fall Off by Joe Nichols
Get Crunk by Lil Jon
Big Shit Poppin’ by T.I.
I Miss My Dawgs by Lil’ Wayne

I am sure we all look back someday and say they don’t make music like they did in 2008.

Later,

Nick

For the Fall Out Boy fans

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There are a ton of cool cover songs that I really love and I am going to do you, the reader, a favor and list 10 really cool covers. These can all be found on records that you can buy at your local record store or from Amazon mp3.

Artist Song Original Artist
Patty Griffin Stolen Car Bruce Springsteen
Wallflowers Lawyers, Guns and Money Warren Zevon
The Black Crowes The Night They Drove ‘Ol Dixie Down-Live The Band
Mathew Sweet Cortez the Killer-Live Neil Young
Chris Thile of Nickel Creek Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground The White Stripes
Rich Robinson of The Black Crowes Green Pastures The Stanley Brothers
Johnny Cash Heart of Gold Neil Young
Linda Ronstadt Willin’ Little Feet
Tom Petty Change the Locks Lucinda Williams
Dwight Yoakam Suspicious Minds Elvis Presley

Do yourself a favor and check some of these out. Do yourself another favor and never listen to the songs below. These might be the worst cover songs ever made and the artists who made them should be arrested and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

Artist Song Original Artist
Korn Another Brick in the Wall Pink Floyd
Britney Spears My Prerogative Bobby Brown
Madonna American Pie Don Mclean
Motley Crue Anarchy in the U.K. The Sex Pistols
Sheryl Crowe Sweet Child O’ Mine Guns N’ Roses

Later,

Nick

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