I suppose your vehemence, re: your criticism connotes denegration.
Fair enough. I get wound up about things, it's my nature.
I have a huge category in my brain of very talented musicians that I can't stand.
I suppose we all do.
I prefer the jazz and classical scene. At least the assholes there bathe occasionally, and refer to rehearsal as "rehearsal," not "practice."
Ha - good point. I think we quit "practising" when we were about 15 and rehearsed after that. But you do still hear grown people talking about going to "practice." Thanks for reminding me, I can steal that now.
No, you generalise more, I think.
I thought that was part of my
charm?!
There is just too much going on under the cover-all label of Jazz, that to speak of Jazz simply ends up in multiple separate conversations.
I could be wrong (more than likely) but I thought Punk was a more unified or consistent endeavour when it came to its expression in music. No?
No. That's the point that I (and
Purple Stickpin) have been trying to make for weeks around here.
The RECORDING INDUSTRY and the media pigeonholed punk, the musicians did not do that.
Go dig out an old CBGB's ad from the
Village Voice archives - in one night they'd have Talking Heads, Blondie, the Ramones, the Brats, Jonathan Richman...those groups are all over the place and that club was ground zero for punk.
The Sex Pistols album sounds nothing like the Ramones album. Yet when the Sex Pistols came to America and and made headlines for bleeding and spitting on people (who wantd to be bled and spat upon), suddenly the Ramones couldn't get a booking. Because they were "punk." Just like the Sex Pistols. But absolutely nothing like the Pistols. Make sense? It didn't at the time either.
So blame the UK and their propensity for ruining everything that is good.
But really, you asked for direction, so go listen to
London Calling or
Sandinista. The third and fourth Clash albums. Then try to define punk. When the Clash branched out beyond Ramones-type music they made a point of continuing to call themselves a punk band at every opportunity. They were perhaps
the punk band, because they lived out the attitude definition and ignored any media-imposed musical definition.
Great punk music is
protest music, if you have to define it. It has more in common with Peter Tosh (who sang, "I don't want no peace, I need equal rights" long before the people of Los Angeles chanted it in the streets in 1992) and Woodie Guthrie than a bunch of clowns thrashing about with three chords and leather jackets.