BonsaiSuperstar
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Sky News are doing a piece all morning on the recession and music that speaks about.
it started off talking about bands like "The Specials", UB40 and The Jam singing about the bleakness of the recession.
It then went said that bands today could also be political and draw parallels between the 80s and now.bands like The Streets and the Enemy were seen as bands that currently do this. Enemy are also from Coventry, just like the Specials!
Other points of note are that Hard-Fi are sexy music and probably wouldnt write about negative things like hte recession. And Kaizer Chiefs were seen as great social commentators.
Now you would expect Sky to churn out this sort of rubbish alright. But are there any bands out there yet (with a bit of cred) out there being political or talking about the recession.
Is it too early yet to expect bands to write about it?
it should be noted they Elvis Costello and U2, two previous recession commentators played some pretty big bigs the other week for Mr Obama and Martin Luther King.
To me recession music is typified by someone like Joy Division.maybe not in terms of lyrics but definitely in terms of the bleakness of the music itself.
it started off talking about bands like "The Specials", UB40 and The Jam singing about the bleakness of the recession.
It then went said that bands today could also be political and draw parallels between the 80s and now.bands like The Streets and the Enemy were seen as bands that currently do this. Enemy are also from Coventry, just like the Specials!
Other points of note are that Hard-Fi are sexy music and probably wouldnt write about negative things like hte recession. And Kaizer Chiefs were seen as great social commentators.
Now you would expect Sky to churn out this sort of rubbish alright. But are there any bands out there yet (with a bit of cred) out there being political or talking about the recession.
Is it too early yet to expect bands to write about it?
it should be noted they Elvis Costello and U2, two previous recession commentators played some pretty big bigs the other week for Mr Obama and Martin Luther King.
To me recession music is typified by someone like Joy Division.maybe not in terms of lyrics but definitely in terms of the bleakness of the music itself.
