Originally posted by Scorpions
hahaha!
they are an iggy pop wannabe band
i like the strokes but obviously it's much more enjoyable to listen to the likes of iggy pop, velvet underground, the stooges, mc5 (they almost played here
), television, cars and others.
anyway, i like their music but i just love to make fool of them... or something like that.
there's an article by joe hagan i posted months ago here i find it very good. he calls this current rock scene "pop neoconservativism". here's what he says about strokes:
"Their spiky haircuts and skinny ties are cut and pasted directly from the Cars, their guitar riffs from Television’s 1977 album, “Marquee Moon,” lead singer Julian Casablancas’s blah-blah-who-cares vocals from Debbie Harry and Lou Reed. (...) The whole thing sounds like it’s carved out of the same monotonous gray slab of Lower East Side attitude we hear on the historic recordings of Lou Reed. (...) If the Strokes are original in their way, it is by such a marginal degree as to be meaningless — except, of course, to kids in their late teens and early twenties who have never heard the source material and who are desperate to touch the hem of history if only for some sense of that old-time rock religion."
you can read the full article here:
http://www.msnbc.com/news/981196.asp
by the way, there's a recent documentary called "kill your idols" which is very cool for rock fans. it's about rock in new york, from no wave (suicide, teeenage jesus & the jerks) to the new bands (strokes, yeah yeah yeahs -- the latter actually appear in the film).
it's funny as hell to watch things like thurston moore of sonic youth ironically talking about some party for the strokes sponsored by levi's or some other guy (i think it was arto lindsay but i may be wrong) saying he thinks rock is entering something like an interpretative stage. classical is all interpretative -- people interprets works by bach, beethoven, mozart, etc. -- and today jazz is very much interpretative -- records of people playing music by john coltrane, duke ellington, paul desmond, tom jobim, etc. are often released. now it's time for rock.
and karen o looks so dumb in the film...
try to watch it! i did it last week but i don't know if it was already released to the public.
Originally posted by ::shinji::
ah, see I knew rony wouldn't let me down, hehe! ..anyhow, what bands are these, I didn't know there was such a thing these days? Are synthesizers back, have I been living under a rock?
actually, i might be wrong and then rony just hates bands such as spandau ballet.
so let's wait rony's answer.
it's difficult to define a "80s style". we had such different artists (flock of seagulls, duran duran, madonna, michael Carlos*son, new order, depeche mode, the smiths, r.e.m....)