The Song Remains The Same (Or Something)

The Best Parts Of The 1970s Get No Play Today

A bunch of handsome black men singing a love song with no irony. The clothes make total sense. It's a great fucking song - but, if it wasn't for YouTube, you'd never hear it.

Not to get too racial on you (you know we won't) but this is what's wrong with letting white folks have too much control of determining what's cool nowadays. They always have to remind us of some shit they laughed at, like The Brady Bunch singing or cheesy '80s New Wave nostalgia, when America has a legacy of greatness that they'll overlook (probably because they were never exposed to the good stuff, or - if they were (Thanks, Barack!) "a typical white person" of that time - they were laughing at it, because it was what blacks were into, while whites were worshipping at the feet of Led Zepplin and claiming blacks didn't make good music - a cultural line they kept up all the way through to Rap's destruction of their entire world.

The fact music like this is overlooked is why so much of what's made today sucks - it's informed by a history of crap. Crap white people think is clever when, really, it's just a mirror of their oh, so boring lives. Sorry to say it but, seeing and hearing this again gets the emotions all worked up, and reminds us of how much this country is willingly missing, overlooking, and holding back. Anyone or anything that says we have (and can) do better than what white devise is shunned. Don't get us wrong - we're not saying there's anything wrong with white people - love y'all to death:

But, to the detriment of all, you are (and have been for decades) the masters of cultural marginalization.

And that's a crying shame.

Believe In Something

Go on - take you pick - It'll be about as much help as the god you're using now. Go on - "Believe" me - I'm pushing "spirituality" on this post. And, you know, no one doing that would lie to you, right? Of course not.

All the God/gods pushers have got nothing but your best interests at heart. Now go on:

Pick one.

Hat Tip: Little Green Footballs

Saving The Music Industry? TMR Has An Idea: Sign The Real Artists Who Can Make An Album

"The industry should by now understand that the way to get 'Back in Black' is not in album CDs, which remain the biggest source of revenue. Instead, the future is sales of digital songs and ring tones, licensing to video games, and trying to get rights to concerts and other revenues associated with the musicians."

-- L. Gordon Crovitz, claiming to help the music industry by advising it to adopt the marketing plan of the know-nothing pack of awful celebrity "artists" who seem capable of writing only one good song per outing, in The Wall Street Journal.