July 5, 2007

Bigmouths Strike Again: Hindsight Is Always '60s/'60s Edition

If you think the state of musical creativity is healthy, and that today's songwriters are synthesizing past influences to build something harder, better, faster, stronger ... that's 'cause you're dumb. At least, so says today's Bigmouth...

I often think throughout the centuries people have gotten stupider -- you can see it in art, actually. No one can paint anymore like they used to paint in the Middle Ages. I think the same has happened with music. No one can write songs like they did in the '60s, 'cause I guess people don't care as much or something. There's a kind of spirit that existed there that doesn't quite seem to exist now in songwriting or anything else. I guess people aren't as hungry as they were then.

Name that proponent of the devolution theory, take the jump to see if you're right. But if you were born after the '60s, don't bother, stupid.

(via Spinner)

Posted at 1:40 PM in Bigmouths Strike Again

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16 Comments

What an idiotic thing to say. Someone should beat her with a copy of OK Computer.

Posted by: Eddison at 07/05/07 2:09 PM | Reply
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someone should beat her with a copy of Nothing Compares 2 U

Posted by: muddy water at 07/05/07 2:12 PM | Reply
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No doubt she includes herself in the devolution, using nonexistent words like "stupider."

Posted by: Shea at 07/05/07 2:12 PM | Reply
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nobody paints like the middle ages because it's been done, art evolves

Posted by: a at 07/05/07 2:16 PM | Reply
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I'm sure there are plenty of people over 40 who believe the same thing.

Posted by: Jeff at 07/05/07 2:50 PM | Reply
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Look, I'll be the first to admit our culture is dumbed down to an alarming degree. Through a synthesis of fear and laziness, all manner of bad has happened in recent years.

But inferring that the 60s was a pinnacle of songcraft and all that came after was garbage is ignorant. OBSERVE:

Incense and Peppermints
Good sense, innocence, cripplin' and kind.
Dead kings, many things I can't define.
Oh Cajun spice, sweats and blushers your mind.
Incense and peppermints, the color of thyme.

Who cares what games we choose?
Little to win, but nothing to lose.

Incense and peppermints, meaningless nouns.
Turn on, tune in, turn your eyes around.
Look at yourself, look at yourself,
Yeah, yeah.
Look at yourself, look at yourself,
Yeah, yeah,
Yeah, yeah.

Tune-a by the cockeyed world in two.
Throw your pride to one side, It's the least you can do.
Beatniks and politics, nothing is new.
A yardstick for lunatics, one point of view.

Who cares what games we choose?
Little to win, but nothing to lose.

Good sense, innocence, crippled and kind.
Dead kings and many things I can't define.
Oh Cajun spice, sweats and blushers your mind.
Incense and peppermints, the color of thyme.

Who cares what games we choose?
Little to win, but nothing to lose.

Incense, peppermints, incense, peppermints.

Sha-la-la, sha-la-la....

Yes, Sinead. You sure told us off.
DwD

Posted by: Dw Dunphy at 07/05/07 2:52 PM | Reply
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old people are dumb

Posted by: awol at 07/05/07 3:15 PM | Reply
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i like "nothing compares 2 u" as much as the next hetrosexual male, but, damn, sinead o'connor says a lot of stupid stuff

Posted by: seth at 07/05/07 3:33 PM | Reply
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Yep, evolution, physics, medicine telecommunication. All of these things were superior in the Middle Ages, we just can't undestand what they had back then, because of our de-evolved brains. Shame.

Posted by: Mark Swiderski at 07/05/07 3:37 PM | Reply
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She's not as right as she thinks, but she's a hell of a lot more right than any of you apparently realize.

And with that cryptic statement, I'm going to bed.

Posted by: The Other Matthew at 07/05/07 4:06 PM | Reply
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Someone forgot to close the hyperlink tag.

Posted by: duh at 07/05/07 5:14 PM | Reply
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well i still behead people! is that enough middle age?
classic picture.

Posted by: patty2fatty at 07/05/07 9:27 PM | Reply
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am i doomed to think my generation was better than the current one as well? comments like this have a way of announcing what an idiot a person is.

Posted by: Jeff at 07/06/07 3:15 AM | Reply
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If no more new music was written after 1969 I think I would go on a muderous Charles Manson style rampage.

Tell me, did any song in the 60s encompass the infection spirit of Plastic Bertrand's Ca Plane Pour Moi? Fuck no.