OLD AT HEART

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No one I know can seem to help me now:

Guns and Roses. Those guys were some pretty good songwriters. Sure, they had rock star attitudes and their instruments were sometimes harsh to listen to, but they managed to come up with some evocative melodies without turning into Barry Manilow.

Musicians these days seem to stick to the "one note: one song" or "two bar phrase: one song" school of melodic theory. Example: "Bittersweet Symphony", a song which was created by sampling two measures of someone else's music, and playing it over and over until the song was over. It won praise and awards, for "revolutionary combination of rock and orchestral" music. Hmm. (Quotes indicate supposed reasoning of critics.) Led Zeppelin doing it a decade ago notwithstanding, this was hardly a working combination. It was like putting a fish on a picture of a hamburger bun and calling it "the revolutionary new fish sandwich".

Song - Activity association:

Artist - Title Association Roxette - The Look 8 bit Nintendo "Superman", Matt Wagner's "Mage" Estrayk - Outlive Blodness Reading Heinovision for the first time Nine Inch Nails - The Only Time Walking around town at night in L.A., alone. Seefeel - Plainsong sex, sex, and more sex Wedge/Fairlight - II Every lonely night living in Honolulu Guns 'n' Roses - Locomotive Playing AD&D in intermediate school Megadeth - Symphony of Destruction Me & Kris playing music badly in my room Ministry - Dream Song Reading the story of Cyric, god of thieves and murder Faith No More - Falling to Pieces Sawdust scented basement practices, crappy drum machine Mr. Bungle - Girls of Porn Driving around in Kris' Subaru DL, yelling lyrics His Name Is Alive - Livonia Sam sam sam sam sam. John Philips Sousa - King Cotton Select Band; Herman, Cheryl. The Doors - People are Strange Nights out with Bronson; being lied to by trusted friends Morphine - Thursday BJ's extremely messy room ? - Klisjepaaklisje Hot afternoons spent tracking MODs KMFDM - Crazy Horses Nelson, stoned, watching me move verrrrry slowly KMFDM - Ultra Beating the hell out of everyone at Subspace (da game) Dream Theater - The Mirror Transformative isolation in Seattle, 1994

Hmm. I guess this makes it two years.