Richard and H-L in Nu Metal shocker!

[baratron]

As some of you know, I'm not really into popular music. The only CD I have that was released this year is the newest Izzy Stradlin effort, "River". OK, he was in Guns N'Roses a long time ago, but his solo albums have all been laid-back blues rock, released with no advertising at all - hardly the sort of thing that is fashionable! I have only 5 albums dated 2000 (Blur - "The Best Of", Elastica - "The Menace", Grand Theft Audio - "Blame Everyone", Silver Ginger 5 - "Black Leather Mojo" and The Yo-Yos - "Uppers and Downers"), and only one of those could be described as a chart record. The majority of CDs I have were released between 1990 and 1997. Richard's usual choice of listening material is even older - most of the albums in his collection were originally released on vinyl, many before he was even born.

So I was somewhat surprised when he came home the other day with the Blink-182 album. Having previously laughed at people who like this sort of modern punk stuff (they're mostly all 14), I was even more surprised to discover that I like the album. Does this mean that my goth credentials will be taken away?

Comments

[inquis.livejournal.com]

Blink 182? No! They're cool. They're only popular because of a video they did for All the Small Things, which was a very silly pisstake of boy band videos (apparently the references were specific, but I dont watch boy band videos). It seemed that there was this long stream of kids who failed to notice how much they were taking the piss, and were therefore conned into liking good music for once.

Blink 182 Videos

[narenek.livejournal.com]

There current video is nicely cool. They took the cheque for their budget, cashed it and went around paying for daft things (here's $1000, can we video you having all your hair shaved off please?).

They tried to give some of it to a homeless guy, but he didn't want it, but accepted their offer of a makeover and a trip to a strip club :-)

Re: Blink 182 Videos

[baratron.livejournal.com]

Yes, that is a cool video. It has even managed to seep its way into my consciousness, which is quite impressive considering that I only get to watch MTV if I'm at Richard's work waiting for him to finish for the day, or round at Marcus & Cath's. Hadn't realised who the band was, though.