[kj] Top 10 and the "throwback" era

[B. Oliver Sheppard]

I was quoting one of the main opinions out there, of course (the 
"rockist" stance?), not my own. I like stuff that deviates from three 
chord rock & roll, obviously, or else I wouldn't be on a Killing Joke 
list, or have them in my Top 10 fave bands ever.

But I do sympathize with the view that when prog gets to the point of 
Peter Frampton, it's like, okay, fuck this. That type of prog is not my 
bag. A recent punk band that have been becoming more & more prog are 
Fucked Up. People either love'em or hate'em. Their debut on Jade Tree 
was a bloated double LP monstrosity (_Hidden World_: 
http://www.jadetree.com/releases/product/JT1122) that I hated -- many 
songs were over ten minutes long. It's prog-hardcore punk, but I don't 
hate it because it's prog-punk. I just hate it because it is just boring.

I like no-wave and post-punk and some ambient/industrial (Coph Nia are a 
recent addiction); it's not either/or for me -- but it is for some, 
which is what I said. I like Chuck Berry and Lydia Lunch, personally. I 
don't want to have to choose between the two.

-Oliver


Geoffrey ODonoghue wrote:

> Yeah - it was just so wrong to try and expand the boundaries of rock 

> by incorporating jazz, classical and other influences and also trying 

> to challenge the traditional song structure etc etc. Those poor 

> misguided fools - everybody knows rock should just be three chords and 

> three minutes.

>

> */"B. Oliver Sheppard" <bigblackhair at sbcglobal.net>/* wrote:

>

>     Punk rock ... setting rock 'n roll ... away from the "mistaken"

>     turn it had taken in the early 70s 

>