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1. 1. Basil Twisk

   To me this article appears written in code…like, who cares? Who listens to that stuff? Teenagers, maybe. All I can say is that video clip is awful.

   November 13, 2012 - 7:23 am   Link to this Comment | Reply

   

   
   • Scott R.

     Pretty much my thoughts as well.

     The Stones have a new album out? Really? Oh wait, it’s just a very expensive compilation of stuff that real fans have had for years with two new tracks to sucker them in. Yawn.

     November 13, 2012 - 11:33 am   Link to this Comment | Reply

     

     
   • Basil Twisk

     I was referring to the Soundgarden video. I liked the patriotic song, but not very interesting musically.

     November 14, 2012 - 8:12 am   Link to this Comment | Reply

     

     
2. 2. Fail Burton

   This generation seems to be having trouble finding a unique voice. Listened to the clips, have Lana’s new album. There’s nothing there.

   That will happen when the drummer, guitarist and bass player are treated like a GarageBand program. What I’m hearing aside from that, are tired arrangements I’ve heard a zillion times, like this Soundgarden clip. Listen to Jeff Beck, Tal Wilkenfeld and Vinnie Colaiuta at Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club. That’s music. Whatever you think of it, it’s a happening with the entire band fully engaged and they don’t care if you like it or not – there is no pandering.

   Again, whether you like them or not, when you listen to Ram by Paul McCartney or the Layla album or The Who, among many, many others, you hear unique expressions whose artistic energy, integrity and enthusiasm is simply hard to match for the current generation.

   You can screw up your faces and sweat all you want, when it’s not real it’s not real.

   The gamechanger of course is that young people prefer music aimed at their generation, no matter how bad it is compared to what came before. I cannot make that leap. You see the same thing in film and literature today. We need new things – that’s the nature of pop art. It’s consumed and we move on to the next, no matter what it is, choosing the best, even when it’s the worst relative to what came before.

   In truth, we’ve gone back to the 3 min. hit record like in the early ’60s, but without the songwriting, producing and arranging talent. The new, current and hep generation are bigger rednecks than the mythical conformist rednecks were.

   November 13, 2012 - 8:09 am   Link to this Comment | Reply

   

   
   • Richard Gibbard

     Wasn’t it “Derek & The Dominoes” (Eric Clapton, Duane Allman, and some studio hands) who released “Layla?” Good album, but give the proper credit.

     November 13, 2012 - 12:34 pm   Link to this Comment | Reply

     

     
3. 3. Richard Gibbard

   I’ve heard that new song by the Strolling Bones. It’s not bad.

   November 13, 2012 - 12:36 pm   Link to this Comment | Reply

   

   
4. 4. TC

   Soundgarden is probably the only band listed that I’d spend a little money on. Other than that, the rest of the list rates a “meh” at best.

   November 14, 2012 - 6:34 am   Link to this Comment | Reply

   

   

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