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Urban Hat€monger ? · 08-29-2008, 10:49 AM

64 : Scenes

It doesn't matter which part of the world it happens in and when it happens. It's always the same thing. Whether it's Merseybeat in Liverpool in the 60s , Punk in London in the 70s , Bay Area Thrash in the 80s , Britpop in Camden or Grunge in Seattle in the 90s the same thing happens every single time.

One or two good bands get a bit of momentum behind them and then all of a sudden about 100 shit bands copying them suddenly appear from nowhere. And the worst thing is that these anonymous fuckwits without a single original idea ALWAYS get signed by some dumb label trying to make a quick buck. Of course they all get dropped after one album , sometimes two but they still spend the next 10/15 years or so stinking up the music industry refusing to die (Pearl Jam , 17 years and counting ... Oh yes , you have an entry all to yourselves and boy is it going to be a fucking long one).

And you can bet when one of these scenes pops up in a city the next time you go there it'll be full of scruffy youths and japanese tourists looking for THAT pub where THAT guy in THAT band drinks in.

08-29-2008, 10:49 AM	#483 (permalink)
Urban Hat€monger ? The Sexual Intellectual Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Somewhere cooler than you Posts: 18,626	64 : Scenes It doesn't matter which part of the world it happens in and when it happens. It's always the same thing. Whether it's Merseybeat in Liverpool in the 60s , Punk in London in the 70s , Bay Area Thrash in the 80s , Britpop in Camden or Grunge in Seattle in the 90s the same thing happens every single time. One or two good bands get a bit of momentum behind them and then all of a sudden about 100 shit bands copying them suddenly appear from nowhere. And the worst thing is that these anonymous fuckwits without a single original idea ALWAYS get signed by some dumb label trying to make a quick buck. Of course they all get dropped after one album , sometimes two but they still spend the next 10/15 years or so stinking up the music industry refusing to die (Pearl Jam , 17 years and counting ... Oh yes , you have an entry all to yourselves and boy is it going to be a fucking long one). And you can bet when one of these scenes pops up in a city the next time you go there it'll be full of scruffy youths and japanese tourists looking for THAT pub where THAT guy in THAT band drinks in. __________________ Urb's RYM Stuff Most people sell their soul to the devil, but the devil sells his soul to Nick Cave.