Championships for MY teams in my lifetime:
Cincinnati Reds - 75, 76, 90
Chicago Blackhawks - 10, 13, 15
University of Kentucky - 78, 96, 98, 12
Chicago Bulls - 91, 92, 93, 96, 97, 98
“Everything that happens before Death is what counts.”
― Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes
His death was the end of the last musical movement that meant anything to me. I pretty much hate everything on the radio now.
In my car the only station I listen to, outside of 700 for the Reds, is the alternative station on satellite radio that only plays music from 89-96 or a classic rock station that will play stuff from the 60s and 70s from Dylan, the Stones, the beatles etc...
It's not just Nirvana, I like everything from that era from Hope Sandoval to Alice in Chains to Mudhoney to Mother Love Bone.
Now, music, like MTV is just a wasteland.
Last edited by NeilHamburger; 09-19-2010 at 05:13 PM.
Yep.
I do think music in general is pretty healthy now, what with people like Avett Brothers, Black Keys, Arcade Fire, etc., it's just not filling the airwaves.
It is on the whole probable that we continually dream, but that consciousness makes such a noise that we do not hear it. Carl Jung.
The internet has boomed a whole new subculture where talent has so many ways to travel other than just being connected to a scene.
For example I wouldnt have know about the Black Keys when I did a few years ago, if it wasnt for some video game I played with a kid from Atlanta.
Reality television was/is rotten from the very start. "The Real World," even in it's early incarnation, was no different than any other reality show in the key awfulness components.
Sure, various networks have attempted to hit new lows along the way, but let's not pretend the genre was anything other than a voyeuristic mess right from the start.
Cincinnati Reds: Farm System Champions 2022
"I prefer books and movies where the conflict isn't of the extreme cannibal apocalypse variety I guess." Redsfaithful
So, why Doug? Why didn't they stick around?
Alice in Chains is actually still around but most musical acts just don't last 20+ years. Hell, alot of them don't last a decade. That doesn't mean that they weren't "worth their salt" Doug. I bet most of the acts that you listen to won't be around for 20+ years either. Would you say they're not good because of that?
Yep, the fact is music is a hard business and being present on national media is not the only barometer for success, otherwise there would be no Sun- Ra, Taj Mahal, Albert Collins, David Lydley, Ben Lee, Calexico, Guided By Voices, etc....
Worth their salt?
Depends on how much salt one likes I guess.
Alice in Chains is the only only of those groups listed that I had even heard of. It tells me enough about the rest of them. Either they all hated each other, had some serious drug issues (maybe both), or just weren't very good at appealing to the masses and that last part isn't the fault of MTV. I have a ton of cd's from bands that never have been on MTV and never would even if they still showed videos all the time. They are never on the radio and never will be. It isn't MTV's fault, they just don't play music that appeals to the masses. That is their fault, not someone elses. And there is nothing wrong with it, but lets not blame the fact that large groups of people don't listen to you on the fact that MTV doesn't play you.
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