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Originally Posted by canabero
STP were never too famous
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Actually (and deplorably), they were pretty massive at one point ('92-'94), thanks to the stupidity of the masses who made their first worthless LP reach #3 in the Billboard chart and their second dung album debut at #1.
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Originally Posted by canabero
you're telling shit saying that they were pop ( or mainstream) you can't compare , they could have changed their style when grunge/alt. rock dead ( to the masses)
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Designed to sound like the best-sellers at the time, by very definition they were mainstream. And they did change when their brand of mimicry was no longer as lucrative: it's called Velvet Revolver.
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Originally Posted by canabero
And YYY art??? OMG  a girl that sing like a teenager and some guys that have basic technique. |
You could take those same features and use them to describe one of the most exhilarating, innovative, irresistible, sublime and rockin' albums of all time: the unsurpassable
Cut. 41 years after the Pop & Pies & Fun manifesto, 36 years after Forest Hills' finest first blew up their amps at a certain Bowery dive, 20 years after "punk broke" and 3 years after SY picked up the "Goodbye Talent" headline hurled at them by the NME and proudly stamped it over the SYR7 cover, it's hugely appalling that some STILL miss the point in a calamitous fashion by citing technique as a sine qua non condition for rock and roll. And as for your reactionary dismissal of "pop", fuckin' A I wants me some pop, junior! From Dusty Springfield to Best Coast, Brenton Wood to Prince, Spector to Blondie, Randy Newman to The Go-Betweens to Jenny Lewis and beyond, the amazing musicarchitecture contained in each glorious minute of the greatest pop songs remains —just like blues changes on one hand and the most daring avant-garde on the other— a fundamental force in art and nature and a paramount reason to just get up in the goddamn morning.