Sinister: The Rules of R!O!C!K! (heh)

[Brian Pennington (Mick McMick)]

Hello Sinisterines,
	It occurred to me that posts requesting people to stop posting about
the Blair Witch Project have become the new posts about the Blair Witch
Project. I'm sorry I ever even thought about mentioning the damn
thing...
	On to other matters, Arantaxa (I do hope I've spelled that correctly)
mentioned what would be a good selection of people for a B&S tribute
album.
	First of all I am sick & tired of tribute albums for bands who haven't
even been around very long, such as the Cardigans. Can you believe it?
There was a Cardigans tribute! This was a year or two ago, as well. It's
not as if there aren't already enough bands that history has neglected
to serve up with this sort of thing.	
	But...I wish now to launch into some sort of diatribe against nostalgic
impressions of tribute albums. I feel that in a few ways tributes are
like socialism: they both sound absolutely lovely on paper, but when
implemented they have come to usually turn out all wrong, and yet we
continue to advocate them in the hopes that they might actually work out
as well as they sound. Er, well sort of, anyway =)  Oh, and they both
glorify the working-class and discourage greed.
	Seriously, though, most of the tribute albums I've heard dedicated to
bands I'm a fan of are downright awful. Take that recent Clash tribute
album, for example. The best one I've heard was the Joy Division tribute
A Means to An End from sometime back. I found a rough half of the songs
to be tolerable to good, which I think is unusual for a tribute album.
	As far as bands covering B&S, I'm sort of against the idea of covering
relatively new bands. I've thought about this and....well I can't really
explain why I am against it. It seems one of The Rules of Rock, like not
wearing a band T-shirt to a show of the band you're seeing (which, as
we've seen, can of course be broken) or not yelling out song requests
when the band doesn't ask for them or doesn't appear to be willing to
play anything from a request. Again, I wouldn't fiendishly flick the
earlobes of the offending individual for any of these, but they're the
sorts of faux pas that we have...
	But getting beyond that, I don't think anyone is capable of improving
upon the songs B&S has written. Perhaps someone could turn one of their
songs into a different genre successfully, which could be downright
interesting. So...how about Sergio Mendes w/Brasil '66 and Joao Gilberto
on vocals doing "Ease Your Feet into the Sea," the "Rollercoaster Ride,"
or "Seeing Other People"? Yeah, that'd be interesting...

	Mick McMick @ work
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