The 'Bands I don't Get' thread (3 Viewers)

[ann post]

Neil Diamond is Neil Young for squares.

A diamond is usually just a square with notions in any case.

 

[ann post]

Blue collar fantasies for the middle class office manager.

There's a thread for this FYI

 

[Space]

There's a thread for this FYI

Bruce Springsteen ain't punk. Punk is more for the office workers than the managers.

 

[therealjohnny]

King Diamond is for Jim Diamond and Neil Diamond fans who actually don't like what they at all do but enjoy theatrical horror-themed heavy metal

 

[Lili Marlene]

Blue collar fantasies for the middle class office manager.

My understanding is this is pretty much Springsteen's review of his own music and he feels pretty bad about it.

 

[Lili Marlene]

Cancelling Bryan Ferry for not being born an aristocrat.

 

[ann post]

Bruce Springsteen ain't punk. Punk is more for the office workers than the managers.

The punk thread is all band from the 70s. Was i supposed to take it seriously?

 

[JohnnyRaz]

Cancelling Bryan Ferry for not being born an aristocrat.

not a great comparison - posh arty sleaze ponce was always Ferry's brand.
its not like he ever presented himself, or was presented as being in touch with the common man on the factory floor.

 

[Lili Marlene]

not a great comparison - posh arty sleaze ponce was always Ferry's brand.
its not like he ever presented himself, or was presented as being in touch with the common man on the factory floor.

I thought we were critiquing the reality of the upbringing of the artist vs their image here? I suppose we're critiquing their fans as well.

I'm not being entirely serious either, I have little interest in Springsteen but if he wants to write romanticized songs about New Jersey blue collar life that's fine by me. Same as Ferry never writing songs about council estates and labourers.

 

[JohnnyRaz]

I thought we were critiquing the reality of the upbringing of the artist vs their image here? I suppose we're critiquing their fans as well.

I'm not being entirely serious either, I have little interest in Springsteen but if he wants to write romanticized songs about New Jersey blue collar life that's fine by me.

think it was more a go a springsteen for presenting a 'working man' persona and quite happily riding his fans financially rather than his class origin.

and a go at the fans as well.

 

[Kermit McDermott]

Stephen Hawking was working on a book called "What is punk?
Unfortunately he never got to finish it.

 

[JohnnyRaz]

Stephen Hawking was working on a book called "What is punk?
Unfortunately he never got to finish it.

alternative title 'brief history of talking about who is or isn't punk'

 

[Space]

My understanding is this is pretty much Springsteen's review of his own music and he feels pretty bad about it.

Good.

 

[Space]

The punk thread is all band from the 70s. Was i supposed to take it seriously?

Seriously?

 

[seanc]

Jim Diamond is Neil Diamond for Scottish people

Celebrity Death Match Jim Diamond?

Springsteen,Young, Diamond, Dylan, vs the ghost of Crosby, featuring Steely Dan and Meat Loaf for some reason. And yerman out of Ink ployd, whichever one. It'd be worth watching.

 

[Lili Marlene]

Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Glitter.

 

[seanc]

Glitter and R. Kelly vs a vengeful Judy Garland. Featuring Alanis Morisette.

Every grey haired musician you've ever heard of watching nervously in the crowd.

 

[JohnnyRaz]

Glitter and R. Kelly vs a vengeful Judy Garland. Featuring Alanis Morisette.

Every grey haired musician you've ever heard of watching nervously in the crowd.

no matter who wins we lose...

 

[Unicron]

If people want to have a go at Springsteen for the reality of his life no longer* reflecting the characters he inhabits/portrays/depicts in his songs I hope they also have problems with the professions of acting and novel writing.

* If it ever did, he might have started writing out about the people and places he knew as a young man but he'll readily admit that he's never had a "real" job.

 

[Kermit McDermott]

I would love to hear King Diamond singing jim Diamond songs