#OTD #LAWeekly's #NewWave Music Album Chart for this week in 1981...
Early 80's faves including #BowWowWow at #1, U2 's #October at #3 and locals #SuburbanLawns' self-titled LP at #9.
#OTD #LAWeekly's #NewWave Music Album Chart for this week in 1981...
Early 80's faves including #BowWowWow at #1, U2 's #October at #3 and locals #SuburbanLawns' self-titled LP at #9.
Some classic hate for classic #rock #music performers. Coming up on its ninth birthday, this #LAWeekly Jeremiad is absolutely excoriating.
#JerryGarcia's "candyass jamming" paved the way for "spineless hippie quasi-folk"
"[John] #Fogerty’s self-propelled legacy of sanitized bubblegum blues and all around douchery is unparalleled."
"David #Crosby’s appalling legacy of faux-folk rock epitomizes the worst of hippie-era dreck"
#Springsteen is a "lifeless groaner"
Enjoy!
https://www.laweekly.com/the-10-biggest-classic-rock-douchebags/
While rock ‘n’ roll is necessarily classified as a form of pop music, it is actually an idiom whose radical, destructive primitivism established a new type of socio-cultural disorder. It’s about rejection of the status quo and celebration of the dis-imprisonment it instills. Always exploited for profit, rock’s unmanageable aspects...