tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4520528486728008071.post7694557381071198309..comments2024-03-22T17:14:36.551-04:00Comments on Wasteland And Sky: The End of Pop CultureJD Cowanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03548340507655076198noreply@blogger.comBlogger42125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4520528486728008071.post-44723437318249410812017-08-09T12:06:25.778-04:002017-08-09T12:06:25.778-04:00I'm looking forward to Sonic Mania as well. Se...I'm looking forward to Sonic Mania as well. Sega's decision to embrace a fan/crowd driven project and even elevate it to an official release is pretty interesting and could even start a new trend.<br /><br />(Sonic Forces is looking like it'll be fun as well. Should be a good season for the ol' hedgehog.)Knighterranthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00822024160361226180noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4520528486728008071.post-73964766385902546082017-08-08T22:35:34.186-04:002017-08-08T22:35:34.186-04:00ND
Agreed and since the field is wide open I look...ND<br /><br />Agreed and since the field is wide open I look forward to see what comes. I guess I have a mix of optimism and concern but in the end I'll be happily surprised because people want to enjoy themselves and have fun for a short period of time. It's nice to have a beer with an enjoyable book, movie music, video game or fun entertainment :)<br /><br />xavierxavierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15924047562026242210noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4520528486728008071.post-81922250865781912422017-08-08T11:34:48.767-04:002017-08-08T11:34:48.767-04:00There is definitely a change occurring, Xavier. It...There is definitely a change occurring, Xavier. It's been due for years but it's finally getting around the gatekeepers who have been holding it back.<br /><br />In a few years things will be very different.JD Cowanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03548340507655076198noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4520528486728008071.post-24209982713631740702017-08-08T10:12:04.850-04:002017-08-08T10:12:04.850-04:00JD
I think we're slowlyvseeing the replacemen...JD <br />I think we're slowlyvseeing the replacement culture through pulprev superversive. In Europe the Scanandavian dectective fiction has really impacted European literature especially the detective/crime genre in other European languages. Same goes for Italian detective fiction.<br />There's a lot of genre mixing (can't call them mashups yet)<br />So there's a lot of dynamism but It's tougher to find because of the fragmentation but It's there.<br />xavierxavierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15924047562026242210noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4520528486728008071.post-36026012489239131302017-08-07T14:29:50.535-04:002017-08-07T14:29:50.535-04:00Niemeier: "Want to know how you can tell the ...Niemeier: "Want to know how you can tell the innocent from the guilty? When accused of a crime, an innocent man will be shocked. He'll assert his innocence.<br /><br />A guilty man will attack the accuser's credibility."<br /><br />Well said. Now apply that to every public figure you know, especially our trendsetters, pundits, celebrities, newscasters, and politicians.<br /><br />Hmm...Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15912975310943543908noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4520528486728008071.post-43143063799969135872017-08-04T11:21:43.590-04:002017-08-04T11:21:43.590-04:00That's a good way of looking at it. It has all...That's a good way of looking at it. It has allowed a lot of smaller artists and producers to make a dent they otherwise wouldn't have.<br /><br />Good take.JD Cowanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03548340507655076198noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4520528486728008071.post-81903750177713528992017-08-04T10:16:04.940-04:002017-08-04T10:16:04.940-04:00I'm not particularly sure if the end of "...I'm not particularly sure if the end of "pop culture" is a bad thing. I'm already starting to see dozens of tiny blips of divergence appearing among my circle of friends. Instead of us all hearing the same music on the radio, we find strange outliers of music that we like and tell each other about them. It's resulted in a situation where my iPod is packed with music that my coworkers have never heard of from artists like The Megas, The Protomen and the like. <br /><br />Music is found on youtube, bandcamp and artists are spread by word of mouth. <br /><br />I'm not saying that in an indie "I like weird stuff" way but more that maybe its a better thing if we all consume what we like, and make discoveries of it through our friends, instead of being brainwashed into thinking that certain musicians 'speak for a generation' or other nonsense. <br /><br />That way we end up with not as many "superstars" and "celebrities" and perhaps entertainers and actors go back from a target for our aspirations, to the place they used to occupy in society. Spookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08964225365016966994noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4520528486728008071.post-58511299526555021412017-08-02T18:39:40.449-04:002017-08-02T18:39:40.449-04:00It also helped that Michael Jackson had genuine ta...It also helped that Michael Jackson had genuine talent and was able to bridge the genre gap (he had ties to rock and hip hop, and wrote songs to show it) to show everything great about music at the time he was around.<br /><br />You're not going to get that without any cultural cohesion and the record labels locking down the industry like they have been for the last 20 years.JD Cowanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03548340507655076198noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4520528486728008071.post-24221856447196899102017-08-02T18:16:07.594-04:002017-08-02T18:16:07.594-04:00When Michael Jackson died, somebody commented that...When Michael Jackson died, somebody commented that nothing like him could be possible again because he was the last cultural phenomenon that *everybody* liked. Young, old, black, white, male, female, native, immigrant - everybody loved Michael Jackson. That makes a lot of sense, as his height of popularity - the 80s and early 90s - was the last time we had enough cultural cohesion for a phenomenon like Michaelmania to happen. Now we've culturally balkanized too much, and it's hard to imagine how we'd un-balkanize. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04747355044621879902noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4520528486728008071.post-31365828324971571542017-08-02T12:16:24.164-04:002017-08-02T12:16:24.164-04:00Glam rock has been threatening to come back for a ...Glam rock has been threatening to come back for a long time now. Personally, I think it's the only rock style that has a chance of breaking out the way the climate is now.JD Cowanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03548340507655076198noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4520528486728008071.post-90444398343853868622017-08-02T02:06:46.477-04:002017-08-02T02:06:46.477-04:00Next up in pop culture is a glam rock revival. Its...Next up in pop culture is a glam rock revival. Its been brewing behind the scenes and overseas but hasn't quite hit the US as of yet. Hopefully it won't be an LGBT version of Fox On The Run replayed ad infinitum urthshuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08345449473467415176noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4520528486728008071.post-26676133607472945102017-08-02T00:11:32.713-04:002017-08-02T00:11:32.713-04:00Now adding Taeko Ohnuki to my ever-growing list of...Now adding Taeko Ohnuki to my ever-growing list of music to check out....<br /><br />I'm a big fan of Japanese jazz fusion. T-Square might be my favorite band.<br /><br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1vwlTZ5EGQ<br /><br />If you've played a lot of video games you'll probably recognize their sound.Pat D.https://www.blogger.com/profile/16006319840697102258noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4520528486728008071.post-51827974614815386372017-08-01T22:31:33.717-04:002017-08-01T22:31:33.717-04:00Check out College - The Teenage color mix. Excelle...Check out College - The Teenage color mix. Excellent music in the same style: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuZl4Ywpt0Q&index=1&list=RDiuZl4Ywpt0QAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4520528486728008071.post-83748835728514360542017-08-01T22:29:22.630-04:002017-08-01T22:29:22.630-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4520528486728008071.post-76391961920481212842017-08-01T20:08:47.507-04:002017-08-01T20:08:47.507-04:00But the problem is... they're SO Japanese! It...But the problem is... they're SO Japanese! It's great for their own market, but it will only ever be niche appeal in Western civilization. We need our own alternatives to anime and manga and J-pop or whatever, that are OURS.Desdichadohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14774274812688958457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4520528486728008071.post-50768416379215704672017-08-01T20:07:29.885-04:002017-08-01T20:07:29.885-04:00FM Attack for the win! But there's a lot of g...FM Attack for the win! But there's a lot of great acts in that set.Desdichadohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14774274812688958457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4520528486728008071.post-17017302769826606792017-08-01T18:56:04.845-04:002017-08-01T18:56:04.845-04:00You can't run, You can't hide, You get hel...<i>You can't run, You can't hide, You get helicopter ride</i><br /><br />Pinochet is My Copilot.<br /><br />Wup wup wup wup wup ...Man of the Atomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15936961988929608221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4520528486728008071.post-68435534514393595322017-08-01T18:50:58.516-04:002017-08-01T18:50:58.516-04:00In the Japanese music industry you can still hear ...In the Japanese music industry you can still hear ska, rockabilly, metal, punk, and alternative on the radio alongside their pop artists. They haven't deliberately hobbled themselves yet.<br /><br />Great song!JD Cowanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03548340507655076198noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4520528486728008071.post-28930338784708054942017-08-01T18:44:41.197-04:002017-08-01T18:44:41.197-04:00Funny that Japan was walking the same path as West...Funny that Japan was walking the same path as Western music through the 70s and 80s, but then, when the West started to shit on itself musically, they followed their own path, an alternative musical world based on a different path, divergence, from the 70s and 80s.<br />This is the kind of song they decided to preserve, and that had an overlife in Europe:<br /><br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxBOBHWMNLM<br /><br />About the article per se, yeah, Pop-Nerd-Culture is dead, I've been feeling these signs since the "Big Bang Theory" fever and the first Avengers movie.<br />People are just tired of this shit.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4520528486728008071.post-41976610605647772682017-08-01T18:08:56.622-04:002017-08-01T18:08:56.622-04:00In 1997/1998 there were a lot of bands that were f...In 1997/1998 there were a lot of bands that were freshly signed to record labels, had hits, and were growing in size.<br /><br />Within a few years, all of them were ousted from the major labels and back in the underground again. That was at the same time major labels were pushing rap metal and teen idol/boy band pop.<br /><br />Far be it from me to be paranoid, but it was intentional. Now the labels own every artist's image, voice, songs, and interchangeable worldview.<br /><br />Most everyone I know went underground in the 00s, because you pretty much had to.JD Cowanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03548340507655076198noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4520528486728008071.post-86638792882115911512017-08-01T18:03:54.968-04:002017-08-01T18:03:54.968-04:00RetroWave is fantastic. It's a perfect example...RetroWave is fantastic. It's a perfect example of folks going back and continuing a tradition abandoned when Miami Vice was canceled.<br /><br />Personal favorite would be Miami Nights 1984. I'm hoping he finally releases that third album this year.JD Cowanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03548340507655076198noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4520528486728008071.post-45155659993050810822017-08-01T17:58:58.037-04:002017-08-01T17:58:58.037-04:00NewRetroWave is amazing.NewRetroWave is amazing.Pat D.https://www.blogger.com/profile/16006319840697102258noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4520528486728008071.post-83870298720156414162017-08-01T17:56:56.476-04:002017-08-01T17:56:56.476-04:00When it comes to music, I would like to propagate ...When it comes to music, I would like to propagate RetroWave a little bit. Mainstream is killing itself while there is tons of good music being produced in the vein of 80s. Again, it's not about aping or pure pastiches (at least, most of the time), but creative synthesis of old and new. It's a ground where that reverb driven sound and analog synthesizers meet modern production techinques and possibilities.<br /><br />There is a channel called NewRetroWave where they collect all kinds of 80s-style retro music. Check it out!<br /><br />https://www.youtube.com/user/NewRetroWave/videosLauri Starkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02748366350796622609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4520528486728008071.post-22636301873325546692017-08-01T17:49:56.785-04:002017-08-01T17:49:56.785-04:00"Kurt Cobain is dead, and so is radio rock.&q..."Kurt Cobain is dead, and so is radio rock."<br /><br />Radio boggles my mind. There actually is a lot of good new rock (and funk, and jazz, and...) being made, but you'd never guess it from mainstream radio. I'm lucky to have a couple of listener supported stations in my area that play good stuff.<br /><br />I've been an underground dweller since circa 2000 when I discovered the thriving-but-ignored metal scene.Pat D.https://www.blogger.com/profile/16006319840697102258noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4520528486728008071.post-55341542749973502512017-08-01T17:42:30.801-04:002017-08-01T17:42:30.801-04:00Regular Show is another good one (my favorite Amer...Regular Show is another good one (my favorite American cartoon of recent years), it had a very 80s atmosphere but integrated into the story rather than just namedropping. But Cartoon Network didn't promote the last few seasons at all; that channel has gone to crap.Pat D.https://www.blogger.com/profile/16006319840697102258noreply@blogger.com