What Is Rockism ?

needs a uk version. noone listens to shite like kiss here!

that was posted on the facebook wall of 2 friends of mine both in the uk.
i wish people in the UK actually did listen to more Kiss.

also, not rockist. it has some women, some gays, and some black people.

Oh, wait. I didn't even see the caption!

it's just generally retarded

i worked at a KISS gig at the SECC in Glasgow 2 years ago. people in the UK do listen to KISS. And they dress themselves and their kids accordingly.

Whenever this thread is revived, my first thought is 'lol W@gem@nn's back'

xxp: yeah, it's pretty bad. I was just looking to meaninglessly scrap about rockism.

actually i do know some kiss fans. but still.

The Clash and The Misfits are classic rock?

it's called classic rock because it's rock that's classic, duh.

especially when it's also hip-hop.

The Clash is definitely, definitely classic rock, but we called it "new wave" back then.

are all those bands on the poster Rock N Roll Hall Of Fame honorees except Foghat?

ah and misfits. also not sure about humble pie or canned heat.

foghat isn't in the rock-n-roll hall of fame?

http://www.nextmovie.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/jim-carrey-hippie-mtv-movie-awards-220.jpg

WHAT THE F--K?

Damn, is that what chuck eddy looks like?

Still not dead! Thanks Michael Des Barres!

http://www.thewrap.com/music/blog-post/rock-and-roll-not-energy-drink-or-kardashian-55631

http://www.thewrap.com/music/sites/default/files/imagecache/image_640x150/banner/DesBarres.hollyblog.jpg

Boys and girls smoked grass and hashish, dropped acid, experimented with each other’s bodies, read Arthur Rimbaud, Lord Byron, Aldous Huxley, William Burroughs, Henry Miller and Krishnamurti.

"Me, I just got wasted, dude."

>Let’s move to the unprocessed and unaltered spontaneity of authenticity.

This sentence makes me want to pluck out my eyes with salad tongs.

Your eyes or his?

Mine for having read it.

BRING ROCK BACK

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kupMnltNcf8

read Arthur Rimbaud, Lord Byron, Aldous Huxley, William Burroughs, Henry Miller and Krishnamurti.

Rockers were reading dudes, huh?

I was holding it together okay until he referenced CHEETOS.

Whenever this thread is revived, my first thought is 'lol W@gem@nn's back'

― D. Boon Pickens (WmC), Saturday, October 29, 2011 3:22 PM (10 months ago)

dropping acid will make you like henry miller, dropping ecstacy will make you like spiderman. got it.

Being lectured on RAWK by a guy whose biggest accomplishment was marrying Miss Pamela of "I'm With The Band" fame? Yeah, I don't think so.

Men suddenly had bangs.

So where does that put you, Mr. DesBarres?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tcexWRFTp0

In the beginning God gave us musicians and vocalists - then came vocorders, harmonizers and mellotrons, which begat click tracks, drum machines, and sampling, which begat auto-tune and quantizing. Today, a degree in programming and Internet marketing trumps the God-given talent that is music. I hunger for the days of VOX amps with frayed cabinets and sweat stained Stratocasters. You were part of the dream back then Michael, and I am so grateful that your return is clothed in the cape of rock glory. That's all the bling you need. Rock on brother. Carnaby Street is an amazing work

Yes, the Marquis has little need for bling.

Take me to your vocorder.

Old boring white man, please ignore.

We're back! Kinda?

http://thequietus.com/articles/22389-rockism-poptimism

https://www.funpic.us/funny/were_trapped-1522/

https://media.tenor.co/images/044f83a239b94e5a4e0c527118f65434/tenor.gif

lol tim

y'd u do it bud

y'd u quote ilx in the comment section

I read that article because I love Ned.

Nedism is an obscure belief but I'll allow it.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_msHZhK8UVUE/SqFIbpYCqqI/AAAAAAAAAlA/9jYs743ngEE/s1600-h/ned.jpg

o ffs

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_msHZhK8UVUE/SqFIbpYCqqI/AAAAAAAAAlA/9jYs743ngEE/s1600-h/ned.jpg

i hate everyone

^^^ sadist

So THAT'S what poptimism is. I had always read the term around here, but every time I asked what it meant I got mocked. #TheMoreYouKnow

this article is a) simultaneously long and under-developed on every point b) entirely built on its own preconception, which is that pop music is, by default, bad and that anyone who likes or analyzes it must be cynical or lying c) part of the reason I never, ever trust anyone who compliments my work, given how the first half is a rundown of how shit various takes are that ends with "but I commission them anyway." I'm sure the writers of those takes heard how great their pieces were

^^^ this. My conclusion after reading it, "He's lying or he's one cynical guy or he hated having to publish all those Dylan pieces once upon a long ago."

like, we all know writers are sometimes commissioned because they're monetizable and are told they're good in order to keep the monetization going, but it's very demoralizing to hear someone cop to it

s/sometimes/always, I mean, *any* commission is done for monetization but ideally the recipe has at least a dash of "and we think these are good, useful thoughts"