February
14th 2013
Posted under Music
Built to last till time itself
Falls tumbling from the wall
Built to last till sunshine fails
And darkness moves on all
Built to last while years roll past
Like cloudscapes in the sky
Show me something built to last
Or something built to try
C Bowen on 16 Feb 2013 at 12:31 am #
The Dead came off very favorably in Thomas Woolfe’s ‘Electric Acid KoolAid Test”–but Garcia narced for the FBI so I have mixed feelings about the jam band scene.
Skynard combined with the American folk tradition gave us Drive By Truckers, Uncle Tupelo/Son Volt & Wilco.
The Jam band crowds are just alien to Alt Country.
Weaver on 16 Feb 2013 at 12:58 am #
Jam Bands are an unwanted subculture, lots of Hippies at the shows, lots of drugs; but this particular song is good.
There’s not much to choose from, and I think it’s positive to appeal to those who’ve developed a taste for such music. I certainly grew up with Jam Bands, among other bad genres. A fair number of Americans enjoy “every genre but country”.
Here’s a song by O.A.R., a band that’s strongly anti-paleo. The song lyrics though are paleoesque: “I Feel Home“. If you’re short on time, the song is just about how he loves his home. It’s not good otherwise.
I’m half-tempted to post Prodigy’s Omen for simply encouraging belief in something more than reason. It’s a deeply corrupting band though, and the song might be about the inevitable downfall of Western Civilisation.
However bad my musical taste, it’s 100x better than Kyle Rogers’s at CofCC, haha. He used to post the worst (worst as in worst-sounding not corrupting) heavy metal songs at the CofCC website. I like anything with virtuous lyrics.
What would Communists do? They’d encourage songs with corrupting values. Genre wouldn’t matter as much to them, though they’d push Grunge over Heavy Metal (Metal is more conservative in some ways) and everything over Country.