SO THERE I WAS BLOBBED ON THE SOFA GOING THROUGH THE CHANNELS WHEN I CAME TO ONE OF THOSE FREE MUSIC CHANNELS, YOU KNOW THE ONES, THEY PLAY BEYONCE AND HER ILK AND THEIR LAME LIFT (ELEVATOR) MUSIC BACK TO BACK ALL DAY USUALLY. BUT I GOT A SUPRISE BECAUSE THE SHOW I CAUGHT WAS CALLED 'PUNK ANTHEMS', "OOH" I THOUGHT, "SOMETHING WORTH WATCHING THIS IS A FIRST FOR THIS CHANNEL".
BUT DEAR GOD WHAT A LOAD OF SHIT. THE ONLY BRITISH BANDS THE PROGRAMME MAKERS COULD COME UP WITH WERE THE SEX PISTOLS AND THE CLASH-OH, AND BILLY IDOL (WHITE WEDDING? PLEASE.) COULD THEY NOT AT LEAST TRY AND FIND A MORE RECENT BRITISH/IRISH BAND? ITS NOT HARD. THE LAZY FUCKERS! SAYING THAT, THE AMERICAN BANDS CHOSEN WERE MODERN. THE ONLY PROBLEM WAS THAT THE BANDS CHOSEN WERE ALMOST ALL UTTER SHIT.
I EVEN HEARD A BAND WHO COULD QUITE POSSIBLY BE EVEN MORE OF A SACK OF GREEN BABY SHIT THAN 'GOOD CHARLOTTE', THEY GO BY THE NAME OF '+44' -SO BE WARNED!.
WHAT I FOUND THAT WAS SO BAD ABOUT THE BANDS ON OFFER WAS THAT THEY ALL HAD THE SAME WAY OF STANDING ON STAGE, THE WAY THEY HELD THE MICROPHONE WHEN THE CAMERA WAS ON THEIR FACE, AND THAT CO-ORDINATED KNEES BENT, GUITAR NECKS UP 'JUMP' AS ONE IN TIME DURING CERTAIN PARTS OF THE SONG, AND THE DRUMMERS ALL ACTED THE SAME, JUST LIKE BLONDIE'S DRUMMER AND THE WAY HE USED TO COPY KEITH MOON'S STYLE.
EVERY BAND DID IT SO ALIKE THAT YOU COULD SWOP HEADS BETWEEN BANDS AND NO ONE WOULD NOTICE THE DIFFERENCE, I'M NOT MAKING THIS UP, THERE REALLY WAS NO DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE BANDS STAGE MOVEMENTS.IT WAS ALMOST EMBARRASSING!
AND AS FOR THEIR MUSIC, A BLIND PERSON WOULD THINK THEY WERE LISTENING TO AN LP BY ONE BAND SO SIMILAR WAS THEIR SOUND ABSOLUTELY NO IMAGINATION.
AND, I NOTICED THAT THE SINGER/GUITARIST OF SUM 41 LOOKS LIKE MR POTATO HEADS SON, THE SPITTING IMAGE OF HIM HE IS, AN AMAZING SIMILARITY.
SO IN SUMMING UP I WOULD LIKE TO LET 'SUM41', '+44', 'YELLOWCARD', AND ZEBRAHEAD' THAT THEY ARE A DULL TURD WITH NOT A NANOBYTE OF ORIGINALITY WHEN IT COMES TO SONG WRITING AND STAGE PRESENCE, AND WHY ARE THOSE BANDS (AND MANY OTHERS) ALL NOW THROWING THERE ARMS ABOUT AS IF THEY ARE IN A SNOOP DOGG VIDEO? THOSE HIP HOP GESTURES REALLY LOOK SILLY WHEN ITS DONE BY A WOULD BE 'PUNKER'. FOR THEM I HAVE A SUGGESTION WHICH IS- DON'T DO IT YOU LOOK SILLY.
SO IN SUMMING UP I WOULD LIKE TO LET 'SUM41', '+44', 'YELLOWCARD', AND ZEBRAHEAD' THAT THEY ARE A DULL TURD WITH NOT A NANOBYTE OF ORIGINALITY WHEN IT COMES TO SONG WRITING AND STAGE PRESENCE, AND WHY ARE THOSE BANDS (AND MANY OTHERS) ALL NOW THROWING THERE ARMS ABOUT AS IF THEY ARE IN A SNOOP DOGG VIDEO? THOSE HIP HOP GESTURES REALLY LOOK SILLY WHEN ITS DONE BY A WOULD BE 'PUNKER'. FOR THEM I HAVE A SUGGESTION WHICH IS- DON'T DO IT YOU LOOK SILLY.
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