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What in the hell happened to MTV? (and other random thoughts onmusic)
Sad to say, bad gangster rap, cheesy boy bands, and international dance crazes sell, aparently well. So who is to blame beside the throngs of music zombies who feed My friends in Cider Cyber ravenously on these talentless World, as you know yours truly corpses, now is where the fun never suffers from a lack of begins. opinion and or the desire to stir Heavy Rock; Well this is what up the Sunday gravy a bit. Much they call in tennis a lob serve, an of the current scene in the music easy offering. Back about forty business is a well documented plus years ago bands like Black turd sandwich, albeit a highly Sabbath, the Stooges, the polished turd. There's plenty of GTO's, Alice Cooper, and the in front of the camera culprits MC5 planted some strong ass that are too numerous to count seeds that were to blossom into in this truncated format, as well heavy rock. These bands who as many "entrepreneurs" who were influenced by many less help to serve up this slop on a then mainstream bands kicked daily basis. But, my friends they some serious butt without the can't sell what you ain't buying. burden of "making it big. The
only thing they wanted to make was noise, loud and somewhat unapologetic. A few years later came, the Misfits, the Crammps, the Ramones, the Sex Pistols, Wayne County, and many other authentically hard bands, who forged ahead and created a sub-genre of "heavy rock”. Then came the Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Motörhead, and Black Sabbath again bands that forged what was to become "heavy metal" But record labels and Madison Ave saw the potential to "move tons of product" and yes my friends "poseur metal" was born. The Aqua Net generation of watered down metal started, and like a deranged cannibal ended up eating its own hand with exemplary bands like