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Music Nerdism Part 3

“EXPLICIT LYRICS VERSUS EXPLICIT REALITY“

Showing one‘s differences has never been so scrutinized as it has today.  In a world of political correctness, it seems that people have lost sight of common sense versus the bureaucratic decrees of governments to tell us what it good for us, as the well known moral entrepreneurs known as the Parents Music Resource Center aka the PMRC advocated for parental advisories for “bad”  music:  meet the “filthy 15“

1 Prince Darling Nikki sex, masturbation
2 Sheena Easton Sugar Walls sex
3 Judas Priest Eat Me Alive sex
4 Vanity Strap on Robbie Baby sex
5 Mötley Crüe Bastard violence
6 AC/DC Let Me Put My Love Into You sex
7 Twisted Sister We’re Not Gonna Take It violence
8 Madonna Dress You Up sex
9 W.A.S.P. Animal (Fuck Like A Beast) sex
10 Def Leppard High ‘n Dry drug and alcohol use
11 Mercyful Fate Into The Coven occult
12 Black Sabbath Trashed drug and alcohol use
13 Mary Jane Girls In My House sex
14 Venom Possessed occult
15 Cyndi Lauper She-Bop sex, masturbation

Ahhhh most of you kids don’t even know who these artists are anymore.

And yet… nothing exists to censor the media and their constant stream of coverage of fear-mongering government leaders.

The censorship of what artists (contemporary philosophers, if–you–will) fucks with my head when I consider George W. Bush telling people “You’re either with us or them.”
Why bother to use your brain when someone‘s done all the thinking for you; as my good friend Rene drawled to me in his drunken pop stupor one night:

“Kesha doesn’t say anything, and this is why people love her! I hate her, but I can‘t stop listening to her because she‘s everywhere!”

Yes. The world has gone crazy, and liking music that doesn‘t reflect a mainstream brand or lifestyle is “the workings of hipster faggots.”  Really, the wrong people are getting targeted here. The most popular music is the music that has nothing to say. We are steadily becoming a society of idiots that prefer some “hired geek“ to work out all the details of our lives. We want to look like Paris Hilton because she is commercially “sellable” but things were never like that before…

(Just wanted to give the big girls some love.)

It’s a shame and it’s life.  All I can say is that piracy is awesome, enjoy it while you can, because one day the internet will not be so free (unless you act now), and your lives will be touched by the winged-goat monstrosity of corporate culture and the police state.  If you actually think that we will have the freedoms to have information at the tip of our fingers forever, think again.

-DJ Moshi Moshi

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Music Nerdism Part 2

“Kill the Emos“

Today you can argue that one can still get this music per subscription to extra channels of cable or get that satellite radio crap, but really, what has happened is that music itself has been commodified and packaged where the music industry, not the artists themselves, say who you get to hear and what you should like.  If you have money, you can afford to hear subcultural resonance, if you don‘t— HELLO KESHA!  Commercialism and tin foil hats aside, we are getting gypped. (Don’t even get me started on small-town DJs).

Today‘s vacuous and post–apocalyptic landscape of reality television and the public‘s fascination with media whores of all calibres has eroded the fabric of entertainment as we used to know it.  Now if you display any sort of “insider” knowledge on the next cool thing, you are a hipster.  The negative connotations of such need not be emphasised in this piece of writing.  Why bother?  I have already heard what the mainstream has to say about it. The fact of the matter is this: we are an ignorant species despite our “civilised” demeanor.   The more knowledge the average person does not know about something, the more one rejects it. It‘s better to throw rocks and scream like a monkey at the fire that burns rather than learn what it can do for you.

If you follow my metaphor you will see that what I really mean is that music and art are the provocateurs of critical insight.  Our lives, our governments, our society as a whole; depend on the willingness to question what others tell us.  To demonise something like one‘s taste for music that is “cooler than the shit you listen to“ is to play into the mob mentality mindset.

This can go awry in terrible ways.  Emo kids in Mexico still get the crap beaten out of them for being douchey little emo kids. It‘s a problem that any Telenovela (Spanish Soap Opera) is not afraid to have a “serious dialogue” about.  I kid you of course, but I did see an episode where a tearful mother asked her daughter if it was really true, “Eres..Emo?” (Are you Emo?)

-DJ Moshi Moshi

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Music Nerdism Part 1

The quest to be taken seriously.

When I was a kid, my best friend and I would get together and listen to records, tapes and cds at her tiny Houston, TX suburban home after school. Yes, we did listen to that Iron Butterfly drum solo for “Inagaddadavida.” Yes, we did play Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven“ backwards.  We experimented. Music was so important to the shaping of our lives from that point onward. We weren‘t just listening to her dad‘s vintage collection of classic rock vinyls either. Those, my friends, were the fundamentals to music. We were staying up all night to watch MTV back when music was still a basic cable commodity and the internet was the wild west… essentially a burgeoning frontier… But we’ll get to that later.

“Empty-Vee” now differs so much to what used to exist back then. For one, it had plenty of real music programming.  Late nights were filled with music of all persuasions ranging from riot grrl, punk, hardcore, avant garde, trip hop and much, much more. King Missile, Green Jello, Sonic Youth, Faith No More, Portishead, Sex Pistols, Built to Spill, Etc.  The world of music was rich with opportunity. Now you couldn’t find a music video if your life depended on it.  The Buggles wisely warned us of these problems.  “Video Killed the Radio Star“, ironically, is covered by one of the shittiest country music singers I’ve ever heard.  I won‘t bother to name names in this case, but FUCK!  Way to anally rape our revolution and pour sugar down the creative gas tank.  The fact that I can‘t escape that music because I’m shopping in the grocery store makes me want to claw the stock boy’s eyes out, screaming obscenities like a crazy cat lady.

Clean Clean by The Buggles.

-DJ Moshi Moshi

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