Not made by great men
There's a show on TV, makes headlines in newpapers, all part of a strategy, a dangerous one, the greatest men, you have to choose who was the greatest man of your country. It's creating passionate debates, ah, a cause! A lost one? And it's raising a stupid faschizoid nationalism among the people, especially when some of the names are truly fascist dictators or extreme rightists behaviours. I saw that in Holland, and now in Portugal. In the Netherlands, they wanted to elect Pim Fortuyn, that caricature assassinated by an extreme leftist, homo, racist, skinheaded figure, living with a blackman from Green Cap, extreme rightist, xenofobe, anti-muslim, and defensor of the family values. Getting sick here, I'm bouncing between one extreme and another. In Portugal, it´s the sacred name of the lost facist paradise that they want to recover, I´m falling off my chair with such bouncing.
There was a song a few years ago saying, it's not made by great man. I'm starting to agree with that since leaders are all gorgeous failures...
One of the most interesting name of this recent years, I mean truly capable to suscite feelings in one's person, like looking, or like laughing, in the good sense of the term, for being genuinely, a word that's disappeared, funny, at least at first sight, the Artic Monkeys, brought me, without noticing it, back to things like the Clash, or early things from the eighties, away from the flangers and chorus, may'be through their clean approach to the guitars. The Bloc Party also, although in a different way. What I want to say is that the sound is something we don't hear for years. No sampling, no rock, no blues, or American influences, or perhaps just a little, just that European sound, that continental flavor, lost to those 70's revivals and big rock gods that are recovered for a few years, since the mid 90's, I suppose.
AnthraxHe'd send in the armyEtherThe sound and construction brought me back to a thing called Gang of Four. A kind of atitude we don't see for a while, the politically and socially motivated bands like Au Pairs and to a certain extent the Fall, though on an other side of the fence. Which side? Yours, I suppose. Let´s remind we are constantly bombarded by american rap and clones or deviates, that's lost any identity in mud, since ... Puritans, he? Yeah, the cover with the V sign of Mark E. Smith, remember it?
Right, the Gang of Four and their topics that nobody else uses or talk about. I've rediscovered an atitude, a position in a way ofended and sick in front of the TV news, located on the oposite bank of the river, any kind of oposition, oposition to any social situation but not in a brutal way of protest, or social discontentment. It's more a categorical NO or NOT than a f... off. Sharp, raw, a sound with almost no production, contradicting, nowadays more than ever. Some bands can survive, others don't.
Damn rap orgies, I can´t get enough!
What We All Want
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