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Is anyone else noticing an ever increasing trend in the next generation of what I've taken to calling digirock, as much for its method, as the feeling of a (more safely disposable) digipak, that it gives me? The genre more generically, is sort of the latest dance-rock.

I'm not much of a fan myself, but it seems like over half of what I hear on 'indie' radio these days - college radio or a station like KEXP, traditionally, sources that feed the mainstream eventually - is made up of this stuff: songs with only 1 or 2 lines, essentially the chorus, and that's it.
A few offenders off the top of my head: MGMT, Crystal Castles, Fuji & Miyagi, Lykke Li...

Maybe it's a result of societies overabundant 'treatment' of ADD 'afflicted' youth? Maybe it's consumer preference in our I want it now, got no time, imploding culture of unmotivated consumption? Is it an Invasion of the Body Snatchers and I'm just left out so far?


Part 2 tangent:
'Zombie' movies are as popular as ever, with ever more increasingly gory versions of the same outcome. Knowing how it generally turns out, would you spend your time fleeing or just give into your new zombie evolution?

At first, I tried hard to avoid becoming a zombie, but eventually just gave in and learned to live with it. Perhaps the acquiescence had something to do with my Lutheran upbringing.

Electronic music has freed songwriters from the old verse/chorus/bridge formula, but you need a good arrangement to keep things from getting boring. Daft Punk's "Around The World" from a few years back was when I first thought "This is a great chorus in search of a song."

Fatboy Slim's probably the big influence here. He said when he worked in record stores, customers looking for a particular song would always sing the chorus. He thought, sensibly, that if that's the memorable part of the song, emphasize it: "chorus, chorus, chorus, breakdown, chorus, chorus, bigger break, chorus." Which works really well on songs like "Rockerfeller Skank" (aka "right about now the funk soul brother"), thanks to clever arranging. There's still no substitute for imagination.

Zombies? Pro: you get to live forever. Con: you're all dead and messed up, staggering around, looking for brains. That's gotta get old after a while. I'd resist.

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> Zombies? Pro: you get to live forever. Con: you're all dead
> and messed up, staggering around, looking for brains. That's
> gotta get old after a while. I'd resist.


pro: could sing with the no neck blues band
con: perpetual morning breath

Rod Argent was much better as a Zombie than solo, although I suppose "Hold Your Head Up" is good advice to give a zombie, as it's much easier to shoot them in the brain then.

I thought zombies only responded to Grandmaster Flash's "The Message."

Weren't most disco songs the same way? Except those went on for a long time.

I accept disco and true dance stuff like Fatboy Slim has always been light on (lyrical) concept. I guess maybe I have the feeling that this is spilling over heavily into more rockist genres? Granted it wouldn't have far to go, but is new rock getting dumber?

I know when I hear stations like ZRock or whatever others are trying to cross over from the classic rock format, I can barely distinguish between the bands at all (of the Nickelback school.) Ummmmm, braaaaiiiins!

I wouldn't go so far as to say that rock is in a completely irrelevant phase again - Drones and others from the Best of 2008 thread prove otherwise.
I guess I'll just have to go listen to Chinese Democracy and search for a pulse. =p

It was said:

'Zombie' movies are as popular as ever, with ever more increasingly gory versions of the same outcome. Knowing how it generally turns out, would you spend your time fleeing or just give into your new zombie evolution?

To which I conjure this (fictional) reply:

Zombies are cool again? Damn! We have yet to see dime one!

Yours,

The Hooters.
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steve.mountain@cornerstonemgmt.net


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And it was also said:

Con: you're all dead and messed up, staggering around, looking for brains. That's gotta get old after a while. I'd resist.

Which elicits:

You forgot to mention the tie-dies, patchouli and touring in general getting old after a while. Resist indeed!

Yours,
HollowbodyKay