[kj] Top 10 and the "throwback" era

[Pssyche]

I watched this last night - got the book when it came out and thought Blush
was a twat the way he dismissed everything post-86 as 'not being hardcore',
but I can now see what he meant by it.
Do you know why there is bugger all on the Kennedys and the Misfits in the
film when they are a major part of the book?
Cheers

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From: "B. Oliver Sheppard" <bigblackhair at sbcglobal.net>
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Subject: Re: [kj] Top 10 and the "throwback" era



>

> Also, another note on this topic that we're in the 'throwback era' of

> music: This YouTube video -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0yJpaI3v4U

> -- has Ian MacKaye (Fugazi/Minor Threat/Dischord Records) essentially

> saying he has never watched the _American Hardcore_ movie, has never

> read the book, doesn't read any of the retrospectives of the '76 -

> '87-ish era of punk/post-punk/hardcore, doesn't want to but may some

> day, they all seem to be written by mainly white males in their 30s and

> 40s and are sort of indirectly giving the message to young kids: "Wow,

> you guys really missed the boat -- sorry!" (Paraphrase.)

>

> The YouTube vid is actually an interview on the Internet-only TV show

> "Soft Focus," hosted by Ian Svenonius, singer of Nation of Ulysses (who

> made the really great early 90s aggressive punk album _13 Point Program

> to Destroy America_, produced by MacKaye -- what a coincidence!) and

> seems to have patterned his faux talk show on a kind of 70s

> European/French philosophical, Situationist-y kind of public access

> program, with himself in a kind of Serge Gainsbourg-meets-Sartre role as

> Socratic philosopher. In front of a live audience in Wash DC. Amusing.

>

> They discuss _American Hardcore_ and if Dead Kennedys' political

> predictions have come true, etc.

>

> -Oliver

>

>

>

>

> B. Oliver Sheppard wrote:

> > Leigh,

> >

> > Oddly, a friend and I -- well, an online "friend," have never met him

> > in person -- were discussing exactly how in the mid-1990s it seemed

> > like music began to enter a period of recapitulation and reformulation

> > that hasn't let up since. I've read his blog for awhile and we got the

> > discussion started over this entry of hi, but via email:

> > http://redstateson.blogspot.com/2007/03/doll-play.html [His blog is

> > called Red State Son.]

>

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