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(A continuation of my occasional series, "Things Which Many People Like, But Which I Do Not")
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etcet: How can the refrain/chorus of "Punk Rock Girl" be so catchy, while the verses suck so badly?
critus: IF YOU DON'T GO MOJO NIXON THEN YOUR STORE COULD USE SOME FIXXXXINNNNNN
etcet: See, exactly. If it's rhythmic deconstructionism in the name of the punk aesthetic, that's one thing, and somewhat understandable... but if it's an inability to have any sort of rhythm or rhyme... dude, get a day job.
Maybe I'm just getting old[2]. No, that's not true... I've never liked punk. I can be angry and simplistic and bitchy and dissatisfied with the establishment all on my own, and a three-minute, four-chord polemic doesn't do a lot for me. I'd rather go deaf than listen to bands like The Cramps do songs like "Naked Girl Coming Down the Stairs."
This isn't to say that I don't hate the genre - there are some great songs there, but they stand on their own. The thing about punk is that a lot of it is so polarizing - love it or hate it - and a much larger proportion of it falls into the latter category for me, along with the subcultural folderol that goes along with it (skateboards, drugs, the bizarre fixation with the Union Jack).... I didn't/don't get it.
Zombies and Punk Rock.... your guess is as good as mine as what's next in this litany of my bile.
[1] To paraphrase Oliver Wendell Jones
[2] I figure I've been twenty-seven for the last eighteen years, for what that's worth.
etcet: How can the refrain/chorus of "Punk Rock Girl" be so catchy, while the verses suck so badly?critus: IF YOU DON'T GO MOJO NIXON THEN YOUR STORE COULD USE SOME FIXXXXINNNNNNetcet: See, exactly. If it's rhythmic deconstructionism in the name of the punk aesthetic, that's one thing, and somewhat understandable... but if it's an inability to have any sort of rhythm or rhyme... dude, get a day job.Maybe I'm just getting old[2]. No, that's not true... I've never liked punk. I can be angry and simplistic and bitchy and dissatisfied with the establishment all on my own, and a three-minute, four-chord polemic doesn't do a lot for me. I'd rather go deaf than listen to bands like The Cramps do songs like "Naked Girl Coming Down the Stairs."
This isn't to say that I don't hate the genre - there are some great songs there, but they stand on their own. The thing about punk is that a lot of it is so polarizing - love it or hate it - and a much larger proportion of it falls into the latter category for me, along with the subcultural folderol that goes along with it (skateboards, drugs, the bizarre fixation with the Union Jack).... I didn't/don't get it.
Zombies and Punk Rock.... your guess is as good as mine as what's next in this litany of my bile.
[1] To paraphrase Oliver Wendell Jones
[2] I figure I've been twenty-seven for the last eighteen years, for what that's worth.
