I Want To Dance With This Guy

[Kristy]

Okay, granted he's no Ace with a cape, but those are some sweet moves.

[FORD]

Think I'll stick with Elvis Hitler for my neo-rockabilly fix.....

[Kristy]

Those asshats can't dance.

[Kristy]

My all-time fav rockabilly act (modern) has to be The Nomads.



My dad used to play 'Where The Wolf Bane Blooms' for me and my sister when quite, quite young and I'd just dance to it like Eddie on meth. Think my first crush was Nich Valberg (or whatever his name is) the lead singer. And then came Hanson and scarred me for life.

Get this (if you can find it)



You know what? Fuck that, get this instead:



Check out their versh of Link Wray's 'Fire And Brimstone' if not for the guitar solo alone. One of my all-time fav, fav guitar solos. Now that I come to think of it. I kind of wanted to be the illegitimate daughter of Link Wray and Satan.

[Kristy]

Oh, and deffo get this!



Yes, I know it was re-worked by The Clash (who did it quite well, I thought) but there is something about rockabilly guitar that does things to me

You know what? Fuck that, listen to this:



Yeah, I know it's not the original by Johnny Kid & The Pirates but The Vooster's versh makes me want to punch a lover in the face - right before I want to fuck him.

[binnie]

There's a real revival for this kind of stuff at the moment - it adds so much colour to the music scene.

[FORD]

Yeah, I know it's not the original by Johnny Kid & The Pirates but The Vooster's versh makes me want to punch a lover in the face - right before I want to fuck him.

Funny, I would think The Who's version from Live at Leeds would be more likely to inspire violence

[Kristy]

The Who's versh was more of a tribute to Johnny Kid (who was British by the way) rather than a sexual innuendo. I never cared for it - there just no rockabilly vibe.

[binnie]

I seem to remember that Iggy Pop did a pretty bad ass version.....

[Kristy]

There's a real revival for this kind of stuff at the moment - it adds so much colour to the music scene.

I think it's because it's about as anti-emo/goth/nu-metal as one can get. And it's just fun to dance to without anyone coming off as a self-centered douche. There use to be a club here in Denvoid on 17th where they play the likes of Vince Taylor, Nomads, The Creeps, Johnny Kid a lot of the late 50's rockabilly (which was the genesis of punk as far as I'm concerned) and it was a great club. Great until the goths showed up along with their emo breatheren and turn it into another dismal, dull and depressing avenue which having fun is shameful and the likes of Boyd Bennett and Wanda Jackson have been replaced by that FAT fuck of The Cure.



Not that I don't like The Cure myself but to hear shit like 'Love Song' over and over doesn't help me to dance over my problems it only exacerbates them.

[binnie]

I know what you mean.

I get pissed off when people say there's no great music anymore - there are TONS of great bands, it's just that they don't appear on MTV or the radio. In fact, I would say that rock/metal has been flourishing for the past five years. However, what none of those bands have is a sense of FUN - there's plenty of introspective, or cathartic, music around, but little that celebrates life or acts as a form of escapism. I think that's where rockabilly comes in.

Have you checked out Imelda May's album? Well worth a spin.

In my drinking days, I would have loved for stuff like that to have been played in clubs.

[Kristy]

Yes, I actually like that album - sort of a Irish take on rockabilly (and she does have a great backing band).

Saying that so much of today's music sucks has come cliche. I don't know the reason for this other than I'm not hearing anything I like. To quote the Who a bit my generation has no balls, no rebellion, little ideas, no substance, nothing. We had shit like Hanson and Green Day where, I dunno Chefcraig in his (old) age had The Clash. My generation doesn't care about upsetting their status quo or even pissing their parents off, they are more concerned about XBox, iPods (loaded with shit like 'A Fine Frenzy'), their cell phones, laptops then having a care of picking up an instrument and learning how to play the god damn thing in order to get under the skin of some people. Plus, music is supposed to be "fun" - isn't that what the mighty Roth himself once said? Now it takes itself way too seriously. I can't go out and dance to the likes of Gaga or Maroon 5 - to sound like I'm old myself that shit just hurts my ears.

[Nitro Express]

There's nothing original. Lady Gaga is just a 50/50 mix of Madonna and Marilyn Manson. It's all shock value but in this day and age we are looking for sanity and quality instead of making grandma freak out. The whole rebellion thing was about one generation who served in World War II telling the younger generation to shut up and serve in Vietnam. The younger generation was smelling a rat thinking maybe the government was trying to pull one over on them so they rebelled. Hindsight being 20/20 the government had gone too corrupt and citizens just passively taking it has resulted in more wars, more government abuse and the connected getting richer at our expense. We do need rebellion but rebellion with a brain. The rebellion now is just gimmicks and stupidity that accomplishes nothing.

[binnie]

Yes, I actually like that album - sort of a Irish take on rockabilly (and she does have a great backing band).

Saying that so much of today's music sucks has come cliche. I don't know the reason for this other than I'm not hearing anything I like. To quote the Who a bit my generation has no balls, no rebellion, little ideas, no substance, nothing. We had shit like Hanson and Green Day where, I dunno Chefcraig in his (old) age had The Clash. My generation doesn't care about upsetting their status quo or even pissing their parents off, they are more concerned about XBox, iPods (loaded with shit like 'A Fine Frenzy'), their cell phones, laptops then having a care of picking up an instrument and learning how to play the god damn thing in order to get under the skin of some people. Plus, music is supposed to be "fun" - isn't that what the mighty Roth himself once said? Now it takes itself way too seriously. I can't go out and dance to the likes of Gaga or Maroon 5 - to sound like I'm old myself that shit just hurts my ears.

There's plenty of great music about, it's just not in the charts. I count Rage Against the Machine as part of our generation, and you can't tell me that there's no fire there?

It's not just a case of today's charts been full of shit, however, but a case of selective memory. There was plenty of goodawful, trite, banal, music being made in the '60s, '70s, '80s and '90s, it's just that only the good stuff has entered the collective memory.

[Kristy]

Oh, there are plenty of good bands out there no matter what your personal musical taste may be. Problem is there are too many bands out there in general. I blame the internet and shit like MySpace (remember MySpace...anybody?) for such a glut where anyone with a guitar in hand could say that had talent without ever so much as strumming a single chord in front of an audience. What you get is a result of the good with the horribly, horribly bad and in most cases the horribly bad wins. I really don't follow many bands much these days for that reason. The other avenue is to go the way of nostalgia but that can last for so long because I long to hear something new by um...somebody who with talent (hopefully) that has something to say worthwhile. Like I said, I can't dance to Gaga or this onslaught emo shit (i.e., Taking Back Sunday, Snow Patrol) for there seems to be way too much self-introspection going on for it to be enjoyable.

When I go back and listen to 'Jump' where I think the lyrics are bit inane and dry they somehow work in that what that tune represents to me is an attitude of saying "fuck it" when life beats you down. From the mundane to the serious: your girl or guy leaves you, your landlord is abut to evict you, just been fired or laid-off, don't feel like you have a single friend in the world, whatever, you just say "fuck it" and might as well jump - as in dance not in suicide, mind. Songs such as that are no longer written because most bands I hear are so in love with themselves to give a fuck about anything but themselves. And what gets me is how people can get a song like 'Jump' I've seen emo kids dance to it rather than Death Cab For Cutie although they do dance to it in a rather paranoid fashion as if their peers would laugh at them for it.

So I agree with you- there are some wonderful acts out there but if they are not being played or listened to then it's only frustrating that they are out there doing it. I fear so many great bands have already fallen by the wayside never to be heard from again.