job wrote on Aug 10
th, 2015 at 6:48pm:
sirmoonie wrote on Aug 10
th, 2015 at 1:25pm:
job wrote on Aug 10
th, 2015 at 12:41pm:
sirmoonie wrote on Aug 7
th, 2015 at 9:36pm:
Killed by punk music (Pistols).
LOL...the Pistols were The Partridge Family of Punk.
Please explain. Never Mind the Bollocks is critical rock and roll in my opinion.
The Sex Pistols were a manufactured band who couldn't play their instruments, sing in tune or play live; they relied entirely on shock value, reputation & hype to fuel their questionable success in the form of several lucrative record contracts before they disappeared from the scene. The parallels to today's boy bands, The Voice & X Factor contestants is uncanny – the lack of musical ability in abundance and careers based on hype - it is almost a replica.
My understanding was Vicious was the only one who couldn't play an instrument. Someone was playing guitar, drums, and bass on Bollocks, and Lydon was certainly singing. In tune was not the goal, and while shock value was definitely part of it, Bollocks did get made and stands high today. Townshend dedicated Rough Glass to them, FPS.
I'm not seeing the parallels between the Pistols to boy bands, or even to manufactured bands like Kiss or the Monkees.
Black Flag and X made some incredibly boring music. If any punk bands were overrated, it had to be those two bands.