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Well, the clear statement of beliefs of the "seminal American punk rock band", Bad Religion, who just joined the Fuzz community, about the current human condition as set forth in their Fuzz profile says it all. For more background [not all verified] here is some more information about how Bad Religion got here. [If you don't agree, become a Wiki-editor.]
The first Bad Religion upload at Fuzz, "Los Angeles Is Burning", is a 2004 Brett Gurewitz song from The Empire Strikes First. "Catch it on Prime Time" because it is, indeed, show time for us all. in more ways than one in the web-based era of communications Here are the lyrics of all the fires burning around us in a media-controlled world to ponder while listening to the unique Bad Religion wall of sound.
Concert staple, "Infected", an earlier release from Stranger Than Fiction, to me foreshadows where Bad Religion is today [as described in the the group's Fuzz profile]. This song is now popular in Guitar Hero - perhaps because of this work's "breakthrough" reputation of a move of signature punk into mainstream rock. This is the direction of punk that, in my view, is both inevitable and good. [I have said the same thing about Hip-Hop - so at least I'm consistent].
It will be both fascinating and instructive to see how Bad Religion's "impassioned sound of reason, anthems of a bittersweet idealism and a guarded hope" resonate in the new environment of digital chaos that clearly requires special navigational tools and perspectives that are largely dependent upon the complex interplay of (i)cynicism for street cred and (ii)privately-held, almost naive and endearing, optimism of a younger generation.
This puzzling combination of attitude and hope is unique to technology-driven "twenty-somethings" now operating in the new new world of web-based social networking, upon whom much of the change in our lives depends. Pretty "awesome" - and scary. But, face-it, it's reality.
It is, indeed, a great time to see how "social capital" [an abiding interest of mine] might discover new points of much-needed leverage into real values led by path-finders such as, we hope, the now more worldly-wise, Bad Religion, and the technology-driven Gen-Xers. This is why music excites!
The first Bad Religion upload at Fuzz, "Los Angeles Is Burning", is a 2004 Brett Gurewitz song from The Empire Strikes First. "Catch it on Prime Time" because it is, indeed, show time for us all. in more ways than one in the web-based era of communications Here are the lyrics of all the fires burning around us in a media-controlled world to ponder while listening to the unique Bad Religion wall of sound.
Concert staple, "Infected", an earlier release from Stranger Than Fiction, to me foreshadows where Bad Religion is today [as described in the the group's Fuzz profile]. This song is now popular in Guitar Hero - perhaps because of this work's "breakthrough" reputation of a move of signature punk into mainstream rock. This is the direction of punk that, in my view, is both inevitable and good. [I have said the same thing about Hip-Hop - so at least I'm consistent].
It will be both fascinating and instructive to see how Bad Religion's "impassioned sound of reason, anthems of a bittersweet idealism and a guarded hope" resonate in the new environment of digital chaos that clearly requires special navigational tools and perspectives that are largely dependent upon the complex interplay of (i)cynicism for street cred and (ii)privately-held, almost naive and endearing, optimism of a younger generation.
This puzzling combination of attitude and hope is unique to technology-driven "twenty-somethings" now operating in the new new world of web-based social networking, upon whom much of the change in our lives depends. Pretty "awesome" - and scary. But, face-it, it's reality.
It is, indeed, a great time to see how "social capital" [an abiding interest of mine] might discover new points of much-needed leverage into real values led by path-finders such as, we hope, the now more worldly-wise, Bad Religion, and the technology-driven Gen-Xers. This is why music excites!
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