I could not agree with you more, in general, and with your examples.
Two points, however:
Limp Bizkit is not "punk". Punk rock stopped occuring in about 1988 or so. It started in the mid-70s. It was a bunch of kids who were fed up with suburban platitudes and a blue-sky future that was painted on. Their songs were about being silly and having fun, or fucking with the system and making people aware that they were living a lie. Nothing Limp Bizkit does can remotely be compared to the social revolution through music that was punk, and I can't see a single band out there today whose music shakes up the social order (which would seem to be something you'd approve of, from this posting and others) like a real punk band has/did/would.
Second, Behind Blue Eyes is a famous song from the 70s by The Who, and it was just covered by LB. They didn't write it. When the song originally came out, it was actually a bit of a slap at the social order, since people were very big on burying the difficulties and pains of certain lives; think Vietnam, women's lib, racial strife for the US, at least. While the song may be very dated today, The Who were a pretty seminal band in terms of delivering a message that things were not as they should be, and that this needed to be shouted from the rooftops. Look at the message they delivered about incest via their rock opera, Tommy. Who would have dared, in the 60s and early 70s, to confront incest in such a public forum? Even more telling, the rock opera became wildly popular, spreading the idea that incest = pain and damage (heck, the poor kid was autistic!), a far cry from "forget about it, things like that don't happen, so buck up and quit whining" that was in place for so long before then (and is still being fought today). And yes, as a survivor of incest, these sorts of things take on a special significance for me.
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Date: 2006-05-06 07:31 pm (UTC)Two points, however:
Limp Bizkit is not "punk". Punk rock stopped occuring in about 1988 or so. It started in the mid-70s. It was a bunch of kids who were fed up with suburban platitudes and a blue-sky future that was painted on. Their songs were about being silly and having fun, or fucking with the system and making people aware that they were living a lie. Nothing Limp Bizkit does can remotely be compared to the social revolution through music that was punk, and I can't see a single band out there today whose music shakes up the social order (which would seem to be something you'd approve of, from this posting and others) like a real punk band has/did/would.
Second, Behind Blue Eyes is a famous song from the 70s by The Who, and it was just covered by LB. They didn't write it. When the song originally came out, it was actually a bit of a slap at the social order, since people were very big on burying the difficulties and pains of certain lives; think Vietnam, women's lib, racial strife for the US, at least. While the song may be very dated today, The Who were a pretty seminal band in terms of delivering a message that things were not as they should be, and that this needed to be shouted from the rooftops. Look at the message they delivered about incest via their rock opera, Tommy. Who would have dared, in the 60s and early 70s, to confront incest in such a public forum? Even more telling, the rock opera became wildly popular, spreading the idea that incest = pain and damage (heck, the poor kid was autistic!), a far cry from "forget about it, things like that don't happen, so buck up and quit whining" that was in place for so long before then (and is still being fought today). And yes, as a survivor of incest, these sorts of things take on a special significance for me.
Now, back to your regularly-scheduled rants. :D