Something must be up, or maybe it’s just me.
Now don’t get me wrong, I have a strange affinity with Jimmy Nail, I love his music, always have, always will. The fact that he was in AWP, one of my favoroute shows ever, doesn’t go a miss.
Yet what bugs me is that for all the thousands of new bands knocking around in 2007, all the songs that have been written, played on the radio, on TV and online, I’m still yet to find one that I really, truelly like.
I mention Jimmy Nail as, digging through a selection of old stuff to play whilst doing the dishes the other day, I found my ‘Crocodile Shoes’ cassette (OLD SKOOL!), played it and remembered just how good it is.
Then, almost immedietly it depressed me that I couldn’t for the life of me remember a time when I did that with a new band. Sure, over the last six months I’ve found myself turned on by bands that are now either no longer or ageing rapidly, but I just simply can not remember the last time a band formed, got signed and released an album that I listened to me and cried “BLOODY HELL, THAT’S AWESOME!!”.
More or less everything I hear on the radio sounds exactly the same, the local scene is both dying on it’s arse and plagued with two-bit, boring and bloody shite indie bands, neither indie, emo or even the recent crop of metal bands have any substance to them and it all makes me rather upset.
Now before we go any further, I understand what you’re probably thinking. It’s the same thing that I would probably think if I’d just so happened to glance over this blog and not pay much attention to who it’s by, and it’s this:
”Here’s some whinging old fart who doesn’t get today’s music, probably wears nothing but denim and leather, still can’t understand why The Scorpions haven’t been named ‘best band ever’, and thinks that, of all people, Jimmy Nail is better than anything else out there. What a saddo.”
BUT I’M 23 FER CRYIN’ OUT LOUD! I love music, I love going to gigs and getting thrown with abandon into the throes of a moshpit, I love that feeling you get when you hear a band for the first time and they immedietly become one of your favourites.
Where’s that feeling gone?
I interviewed the guy from Hundred Reasons in January (sorry, mind’s gone blank, can’t remember his name!) and when I asked him about the state of new music, he raised a good point that there’s more quantity over quality these days.. There are scores of new bands out there.
Unfortuantly, I hate most of them.
