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Published: 2004-12-18 21:45:12 +0000 UTC; Views: 259; Favourites: 2; Downloads: 16
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Anything the mainstream accepts with fulll embrace will quickly be turned into a formulaic selfmockery. ANYTHING. This includes: religion, art, politics, philosophy, and normalicy... but the clearest example occurs in the evolution of what rock and roll was in the time of the Big Bopper and Bill Haley to what it what become. For as silly as "Great Balls of Fire" might seem by today's standards, it was that genre of music that was banned from radio play by x-ians and concerned citizens. It was that music that was breaking ground and reaching. It was that music that was a unifying force amongst people- whether for or against. Compare that to today's rock and roll. Its like the aging star watching old videos to see how he should dance for the reunion tour, with a little bit of product placement thrown in for good measure.If you love a genre, the worst thing you could wish it is popularity.
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i agree.. i dont like the confidence with which people talk about knowing something.. i dont think anyone can master anything.. i mean the more you know .. the more there is to know...
and as much for rock and roll ..
i never tell anyone when i get a new counting crows cd!!! they just cant respect it man....
bitch slaps.. and shut up
it was all quiet..
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Geeze- pretty quick to bitch slap yourself there! It makes sense- we all have our guilty pleasures ( 
Insofar as mastery goes: I think you are correct, I am not certain though because I have chosen to be diverse over narrowly focused on one skill.
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I agree, to the fullest. It's really weird seeing how bands I liked before they became popular turn and loose the gist and the spark they had before they became puppets on strings for the public.. doesn't apply to only rock n roll either, but everything. It just turns POP when it gets popular, no matter what it was before. All my friends say I'm judging and narrowminded when I say I don't like pop, but there's a reason.. it sounds all the same, and it tries to swallow up everything that doesn't sound like it.
I like your message. Music is an issue close to my heart, I couldn't do without it.
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Exactly. Yes it applies to everything the mainstream adopts. To quote the mission statement of the Church of the Subgenius "We are going to turn this religion into a lot of little jokes before the conspiricy turns it into one big one"
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Hehe, good statement! What's the Church of the Subgenius about?
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Ahhh the COTSG is a glorious org. If you ever get the chance to read the book of the subgenius I *HIGHLY* reccomend it. Ive studied religious beliefs most of my life and the levels of parody that these folk who wrote it achieve is breathtakingly funny in the most inellectual AND crass manners at the same time. There were pages where I thought "my god, I have always thought that" and then a few sentances later "you insidious bastards". Satire occurs on every religion that has ever held a longterm stronghold from Sumerian to Taoist to Xian. The funny thing is that while doing this satire so well they actually manage to deliver a very sound philosophy.
Really, I rank it among the best books I have ever read or even heard about.
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It sounds neat! But also a little obscure, I doubt I'd be able to find it any Norwegian bookstore.. do you think Amazon could have it?
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Most likely- it has a degree of a cult status
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Many thanks, both for the fav and the reinforcement
Its too bad, conceptually speaking, that this is the case. I think it is a symptom inherent in a money driven macro social order (on the corporate side of the fault) coupled with a competing-for-alpha image driven micro social dynamic (on the individual's side of fault).
Really gets in the way of evolution.
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Yikes...if I knew what that all meant I might agree with you. Too much for my poor little brain.
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More than happy to rephrase: the corporations jump on anything that makes money and try to imitate it so as to make more money, to do so so they sell it as 'cool' and since most people are trying to be 'cooler-than-the-next-guy' they lap it up like dogs and thusly are kept on leashes by their own doing.
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This is really awsome. The picture is confusing though, if you don't read the comment. I never wished my music popularity, I only wished for it not to be judged so harshly.
Praise dead music, it's heart still beats with us.
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Grateful Dead? I didnt take you for a hippie.
Actually I agree, it is a shame that people were so damn reactionary but bear in mind that we are now starting to see the sickness of the opposite: social apathy.
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Greatful dead isn't the best, but I do have one of those big wall sheets of theirs...
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But I like long hair and insence...
I'm really sure what wake-n-bake is...
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Thats a sidestep away from long hair, incense, putruli oil, and wake-n-bake my friend- fair warning.
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