sunchild1 wrote:

ya'll have to listen to bright eyes, iron and wine, augustana, stereophonics, the shines, sia, dissociatives, reactor...there are so many.. i love indie.

Stereophonics are awesome. Dakota is a great song and it makes me glad that music may be turning a corner toward being good again. Speaking of which, I heard a theory that music is on somewhat of a 15 year loop. It is poppy/not so good at one point, then it becomes good after that. That takes about 15 years to cycle. At the end of those 15 years, it becomes poppy/worthless again.

There might be a little bit of truth in that... depending on your taste in music. I loved Poison in the late 80's, but (in my opinion) they couldn't compare to Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Screaming Trees, Alice in Chains, etc. in the early 90s. So say that Poison was at their peak around what... between 1986-1989 somewhere? 15 years after 1986, what did we have: Justin Timberlake, the onset of a lot of female "songwriters" like Michelle Branch who have talent but are a dime a dozen, Britney Spears, and so on.

Now let's say that the height of Nirvana, Screaming Trees, Alice in Chains, Pearl Jam, and so on's popularity was somewhere around the 1990-1992 mark. Fifteen years later, in 2005, music seems to be getting a little bit better: which is where the Stereophonics fit.

You could argue against this theory, or say it's totally dependent on music tastes, but it's still pretty interesting.




End disclaimer: I hereby apologize to Bret Micheals, C.C. Deville, Bobby Doll, and Rikki Rocket for comparing them to Justin Timberlake. You guys might have been "glam", but Unskinny Bop was still the shit.

Syd Lexia wrote:

Kubo wrote: End disclaimer: I hereby apologize to Bret Micheals, C.C. Deville, Bobby Doll, and Rikki Rocket for comparing them to Justin Timberlake. You guys might have been "glam", but Unskinny Bop was still the shit. Yeah, it's definitely not fair comparing Poison to full-blown pop acts. Justin Timberlake, Britney et al are the second coming of 80s pop acts like Tiffany, New Kids On The Block, Debbie Gibson, The Bangles, and New Edition. If I was going to compare any newer bands to Poison it would probably be Andrew W.K. or The Darkness, neither of whom ever reached a level of popularity anywhere near Poison did in their heyday. A lot of the emo/indie bands tend draw from 80s kitsch, so you could possibly argue that they're the new glam.

Good point. I never thought Andrew WK or the Darkness got enough credit, coincedentally. From what I've heard so far, the new Darkness album is really good, and I already have two of Andrew WKs. Okay, fair deal, replace the word Poison in my original argument with New Kids on the Block, and the theory still holds up OK. I just had to put in the disclaimer since Poison was probably the first band I actually remember liking.