Anyone get upset..

[leftoverrec]

Does anybody get as upset as I when they hear the old east bay music and wonder why nothing compairs today? Really, there was this adreneline, this missing link put back with this music. Now that it is done, because most EB music today does not compair today, I feel that I am missing a puzzel piece or something. Music is my life, so it really means something to me. I dunno, I just thought this up while I was listening to the Shop Assistants on the stream.

[Harry]

I don't know about upset, but I do find a lot of the current offerings less than compelling. In particular, I look at what Lookout is doing these days and it seems like one Ramones knockoff after another. The energy and intensity of the "good ol' days" has been replaced by a certain smugness and goofy humor. Raw emotion has been replaced with knowing irony, earnestness with cynicism.

Which is not to say these bands suck, just that there has been a dramatic shift in the tone of the music coming out from Lookout specifically and the Bay Area as a whole.

Of course, I realize how typical this sounds: "why back in MY day, punk rock was uphill through the snow, BOTH WAYS!"

Still, other than Dillinger Four, I've yet to find anything to hold a candle to my old faves.

-Harry

[skoigurl]

I get upset. it's sad. Like all the music I love the most is gone.

[danhoust]

Nothing compares with the stuff you listen too when you first get into punk rock. when you are 15 it is pretty hard to be jaded, the older you get the more faults you begin finding in bands and music. I remember some older punks telling me(during the Gilman era) how I missed out on on real Punk like Black Flag and TSOL and that all the stuff I was into was just a retread of stuff that had already been done. I am sure there are great new bands out there that the 15 year old version of me would have been into, but life moves on...and I am still listening to OPIV-(Energy and the Hectic ep) just like I was in 1989.