The reference to Green Day was not a sign that I am a fan. In regards to most pop music that comes out today I have either heard it all before or it just bores me. Even some of the newer bands that are pretty good don’t drive me to listen or buy because if I look into my LP collection I already have something similar or better. The “hope I die before I get old” is telling because one of the purposes of pop music is to reject the music of young peoples elders(me) and create something they can call their own. Even if it is just a re worked version of something from the past. Green Day is simply a power pop band and there hooks and even their look is borrowed from the past. But for the young people buying there CD’s it is all brand new. And as far as their new political lyrics they are simply borrowed from the placards that you can read at any anti-war protest. Dylan was a poet. Whether one agreed with his politics or not it is hard to claim that he is not a writer. Green Day’s lyrics are tired agit-prop that rhymes. No one will be reprinting their lyrics 20 years from now.Mick saw what was selling and decided to toss a little politics in to help sales. I don’t admire him personally but his marketing skills are a wonder.

Has anybody laid out the boomer quandry any better? At least the Stones haven’t sunk so low as to have Kerry play guitar with them; not that I would care except the MSM would be all over something that “edgy”.

Aging rockers: STFU and go away.

He’s insayayane.

I said I know it’s only rock and roll. . .

…and hype!

Kevin P! Green Day!

http://www.rogerlsimon.com/mt-archives/2005/05/start_me_up_too.php#comments

The Freepers are saying-he uses the same How come? question or phrasing that he used in Brown Sugar…..

Special…

Sweet Neo-Con how come your always wrong..?

Gee if it has the same melody maybe he can “master-sue” himself for plagiarism.

Kevin, this should clear it up for you:

Well, I’m left of Reagan, I can tell you that. But one sort of questions 60s American liberalism now, in retrospect. I think liberals made a lot of mistakes in foreign policy, and some of the right-wing people have scored major succeses. The British Labour governments never HAD a foreign policy. Reagan never had one either, I don’t think. That dictator we supported in Nicaragua was definitely – I mean, anyone could tell that guy had to go. So if the Americans had wanted to be in control of that – which they were paying these people to be – they should have said, OK, your time is up, we’re gonna put somebody else in. A centrist government, a left-wing coalition, whatever. Same thing with the shah of Iran. We were supposed to be in control of events in those countries – and we just never really, in actual fact, were.

- Mick Jagger, 1983, asked about his ideological allegiance