[kj] OT: somewhat rapturous Bauhaus CD review...

[Brendan]

What's most disturbing about that is the fact that emo has apparently been
around for 20 years?!

This is our cultural equivalent to turning a blind eye to Nazis parading
down the Rhine...look what we have let happen through our negligence.

Apologies to anyone on the list old enough to have fought in WWII...


> I'll be forever amazed at how "emo," which I always understood to be a

> mid-80s post-punk musical movement, came to be conflated with "goth." A

> few years ago on a discussion forum someone said, "Just you wait,

> they'll come up with a way to combine emo with goth, and it'll be called

> goth-mo or some shit." Looks like that really did happen.

>

> This is Ian MacKaye of Minor Threat expaining, derisively, "emo," in ...

> 1986:

>

>

> http://youtube.com/watch?v=mbdh0Qm_5A0

>

>

> Now, how what he is describing would come to mean eyeliner, a black 80s

> skater flop, bangs-over-one-eye hairdo, etc., is beyond me. Basically,

> America's cultural stewards need to be sent to the gas ovens, because

> whoever is in charge of steering this shit has no idea what they're doing.

>

> -Oliver

>

>

>

> LONESTYLE at aol.com wrote:

>> Nice Oilver. ;)

>>

>> ~LB

>>

>>

>> In a message dated 12/15/2007 1:18:25 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,

>> bq at soundgardener.co.nz writes:

>>

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