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Has Alternative Become The New Mainstream?

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öde:
Who the fuck is Nick Drake?

KharBevNor:
The Mainstream is for...


PISSING IN!

Are you ready boys?



"Yes!"

LETS GOOOO



The media is a tool designed to mold us into slaves
Drugging us into an empty, apathetic daze.
The trick is that we think that everything is going fine
But the truth to our reality lies buried in the mind



I don't give a fuck about the Hollywood elite;
I don't really care if models can't fucking eat.
I don't give a fuck a fuck about which movie is on top.
But what I really know is that the shit has got to stop.

Consumer appetites are never satisfied in full,
Cause the objects that they buy can simply never fill the void.
A constant need for meaning, and accumulating shit,
drives the lust in their obsession just to get another fix.



I don't give a fuck about the TV ratings game,
The Real World is not a party, just a place for the insane.
If that reflects reality, then pass another drink
You try to be a millionaire, I'll vomit in the sink.



What the fuck is left to try,
on an avaricious nation on an economic high?
If Rome could last 500 years,
who then will throw the wrench inside our gears?

The bottom line is money on the Western power scene,
where celebrities and porn can let the population dream.
They're pathetic human living in an advertising glut,
who devour with a passion what the mainstream vomits up

Shadows Collide:

--- Quote from: zerodrone on 30 Dec 2007, 20:50 ---I don't see what's wrong with "1 2 3 4".

Speaking of songs in commercials, I really wish there was a recorded version of that Cat Power song in the necklace commercial that's a cover of a Cat Stevens song.  It's so beautiful.  But she only did it for the commercial.   :-(

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I don't dislike it, in fact her sliding vocals are quite nice, but just in comparison to the rest of the album its overshadowed the other stuff.

sandman263:

--- Quote from: öde on 30 Dec 2007, 21:28 ---Who the fuck is Nick Drake?

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Seriously?

I reallly, truly, hope you're joking here. If you're not, I'm scared.  :wink:

Nick Drake was the influence for a huge number of musicians over the last 40 years, across a very diverse number of genres.

sandman263:

--- Quote from: E. Spaceman on 30 Dec 2007, 19:47 ---Alternative become the new mainstream????
What the hell do you think this is, 1994?

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My main point is the fact that the universe of non-mainstream music is hugely larger than the universe of mainstream - however, we see the non-mainstream converge on the same popular albums again and again, similar to the mainstream. When I originally got into what was then termed non-mainstream (which can now be measured in decades), this didn't happen - end of year lists (where you could find them) were far more divergent, with very little overlap, and browsing through them would expose me to a huge number of new artists. This doesn't happen as much anymore. Maybe I should rename my post: "Why Has Alternative Music Behaviour Become Mainstream Music Behaviour?"

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