Not a song but so good, look at the time, come back when you have the time.
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Re: Top 7 Songs to Blame for Stomp Clap Hey
This video was entertaining to watch. But also hard to watch. So many of the best songs of the last 20 years just talked about as if they are the worst thing to ever happen to music. Its ironically funny, but also painful to listen to.
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Interestingly it is also smattered with appearances from BotB contests that used to be run on the AO. Songs that performed very well, in general.
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I didnât realize Nanci Griffith had died. I had a very minor brush with greatness. I went to Anderson Fair in Houston on a NYE a long time ago and Nanci Griffith was going from table to table handing out party favors, along with Lyle Lovett. The funny thing is I donât remember if either of them sang that night.
I donât really mind the pretentious assumption that stomp clap hey is somehow bad. I donât agree with that take, but I like the gathering and tying together of influential genre changing songs.
I agree with Alex Ebertâs quote, found at the 23 minute mark.
Really, stomp clap is like the monstrous answer to the monstrous hypocrisy of rock ânâ roll. Where you have the orthodoxy of nonconformity, but no one wanted to realize that because it was so safe. I mean, what a nice convenience to be thinking that youâre being unsafe when you are perfectly safe. To feel like youâre rebellious while youâre not at all. To feel like youâre part of a counterculture that is just the culture.
People bitch about music genreâs, thatâs what they do. Music critics and reviewers make pretentious statements, thatâs what they do. Stomp clap is like any trend or style or technique or technology in music if it is good (whatever that means) then it gets imitated.
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Agree all around. I really liked tying it all together. Was interesting, even if conjecture in some cases. And cool to see the story all pieced together.
I also like that quote. It reminds me of when I was in high school. And there were the jocks, the nerds, the freaks, etc. The goth kids. And the freaks or the goth kids would all wear the same non-conforming stuff. So you are wearing all black and painting your nails pink to show you wonât conform, but boy you are sure conforming to the 20 other people trying to make the same statement.
Even if I somewhat disagree with the quote. Rock and Roll music, at one time, was a rebellious thing. And certain types of Rock music along the way was rebellious. But at this point it is largely main stream, and I donât think many rock musicians are thinking to themselves that they are counterculture. I mean to some extent rock music is a little bit of a counterculture to âpopâ whatever that means. But pop has crossed over into all the genres.
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Just hard to sit here and say that this style that sounds objectionably good to the ears, has a nice melody, nice rhythm, good instrumentation, and is fun to sing along to is then inherently bad. As âsubjectiveâ as art and music are, there are still objective components of the artform. Some styles fly in the face of these and some donât, but they exist.
I think that, in general, rebellious must be fairly current. If it lasts, it becomes mainstream almost by definition. If it doesnât, it is forgotten.
I was just laughing yesterday when I heard the song 1985 for the first time in a very long time (which in itself has the level of irony of being quite an oldie - weâre farther from the release of the song than the song was from 1985) and heard the best line - âWhen did Motley Crue become classic rock?â
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Saw Benson Boone in concert. The sex appeal and flips are definitely part of the whole experience.
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And little Sir John and the nut-brown bowl
And his brandy in the glass;
And little Sir John and the nut-brown bowl
Proved the strongest man at last
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Your love is fading! I feel it fade ah, your love is fading. I feel it fade, ah, your love is fading woman, I feel it fade. Ah, woman, woman, your touch! Your touch has gone cold as if someone else controls your very soul. Iâve fooled myself long as I can!