I like the Killers. (They aren’t emo, but stay with me here) I don’t like Vegas. To echo a sentiment borrowed from a friend who feels the same way about the Killers and Las Vegas as I do, having experienced first-hand the anemic cultural situation of the city, we want very badly to pull for any band to climb up out of the filth and become successful. We both want very badly for Panic! at the Disco to be good. Aside from their asinine name (band names in general are getting so bad lately that you can’t really fault any single band for their name because you know somebody has a worse name) and one other quality, I really do like them. They have extremely large amounts of potential to be a great band. If only they could quit their emo posturing. Emo as a subculture has reached an accelerated demise at the hands of myspace. It has acquired the dress code, sexuality, and dis-intellectualization that upgrade the sub-culture to a (marginal) mainstream cultural movement. Punk fell victim to the same painful living death in the mid-eighties, Metal in the early nineties, and grunge in the mid-late nineties. Hate me if you will but the progression does roughly go punk-metal-grunge-emo. But hear this first, the end (current point) of that progression represents the falling-off. It was okay when disenchanted poor kids from Seattle were screaming about being hungry, but things started going downhill once angry rich kids from the suburbs started whining about being sexually confused because Hilary Duff won’t sing into his microphone (wink wink) ’till they get married. (Thank you Good Charlotte) And this isn’t going anywhere productive so I’ll “end it on this” sexual innuendo.

P.S. Anya, on 94.9 is one of the few female DJs on the radio here in SD, but she is the only DJ that I know of (guys included) with the balls to play Dead Kennedys. Yay Anya, and yay California Uber Alles.

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They’d know I’m thinking of you…

Seriously, though, what I’m getting at includes a joke about mind-reading and I can never seem pass up an opportunity to quote the Vandals.

We’ve all probably seen the commercial for satellite radio where the spokesman appears from nowhere to explain that they are not actually reading your mind to know exactly what music to play, it just seems like they are.  C’mon, just admit that you watch TV enough to know what I’m talking about… Okay, now that we’ve got that out of our way, ever since I wrote about being a musical dinosaur and commented on the Clash no longer being the only band that matters I have heard, I shit you not, Armagiddeon Time (twice), Clampdown, Career Opportunities, Clash City Rockers, and Should I Stay or Should I Go.  Not to mention a deep track from the Mescalero’s last album, and about enough RHCP (other than Dani California) to fill a greatest hits album.  I would make a joke about the local independent rock stations being the ones who should assure us that they aren’t reading our minds to know what to play, but I’m convinced that they couldn’t be because in between each of those songs was Youth.  How many times can two independent rock stations play the same novelty single?  Not that I have anything against Matisyahu, he’s not bad, but why so often?

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