Is the global recession producing any good new music?

[xilddx]

Usually, the sh*t times generate some new music, new bands rattling on about how sh*t the world is, hippie folkies telling us to cheer up, deth metallers saying old Nick told 'em this would happen ages ago, etc.

Has the global recession produced any good bands you know about?

[bobbass4k]

Not that I'm aware of, there's a lot of young indie bands doing the faux working class schtick, which is at best annoying, and at worst insulting and patronizing.

[Skol303]

I'm not a big fan of Plan B, but I did quite like his track Ill Manors (link [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Trlqd9CUZIM"]here[/url] of it live on Jules), which I thought was one of the more politicised chart songs of last year.

Some interesting [url="http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/planb/illmanors.html"]lyrics[/url] anyway

[xilddx]

[quote name='bobbass4k' timestamp='1360586894' post='1972691']
Not that I'm aware of, there's a lot of young indie bands doing the faux working class schtick, which is at best annoying, and at worst insulting and patronizing.
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Oh gyod, yeah I hate that. I hate the class system and class-based us-and-them music usually pisses me off.

[Skol303]

Oh and PS: the underground rave/warehouse scene seems to be starting up again; at least it is in the north west. Not on the same scale as during Thatcher's reign, but good to see nonetheless (<that smilie is particularly apt).

[Musicman20]

Not that I know of, although I've been outside the more politically charged hardcore punk scene for a year or so.

I have a feeling all of this negativity will have an affect on upcoming bands.

[xilddx]

[quote name='Skol303' timestamp='1360587666' post='1972721']
I'm not a big fan of Plan B, but I did quite like his track Ill Manors (link [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Trlqd9CUZIM"]here[/url] of it live on Jules), which I thought was one of the more politicised chart songs of last year.

Some interesting [url="http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/planb/illmanors.html"]lyrics[/url] anyway
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Not quite John Cooper Clark, but not bad.

[xilddx]

[quote name='Musicman20' timestamp='1360587813' post='1972729']
Not that I know of, although I've been outside the more politically charged hardcore punk scene for a year or so.

I have a feeling all of this negativity will have an affect on upcoming bands.
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I was thinking the other day that music prospers in hard times.

[neepheid]

Nah, it's just slowly grinding the life out of us.

[fumps]

[quote name='Skol303' timestamp='1360587666' post='1972721']
I'm not a big fan of Plan B, but I did quite like his track Ill Manors (link [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Trlqd9CUZIM"]here[/url] of it live on Jules), which I thought was one of the more politicised chart songs of last year.

Some interesting [url="http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/planb/illmanors.html"]lyrics[/url] anyway
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Erm wow love the lyrics

[Skol303]

[quote name='xilddx' timestamp='1360587885' post='1972733']Not quite John Cooper Clark, but not bad.[/quote]
Indeed. PS: your new avatar is even more intense than your old one. Good work!

[quote name='fumps' timestamp='1360587979' post='1972738']Erm wow love the lyrics[/quote]
Yeah, I think he wanted to get something off his chest by the sound of it! I was amazed it got such widespread airplay at the time (peaked at no. 6 in the chart according to Wiki).

[bobbass4k]

[quote name='xilddx' timestamp='1360587675' post='1972723']
Oh gyod, yeah I hate that. I hate the class system and class-based us-and-them music usually pisses me off.
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This is definitely worth a read then:

[url="http://thequietus.com/articles/08813-the-enemy-streets-in-the-sky-review"]http://thequietus.co...-the-sky-review[/url]

And this one probably makes a better point, but is less entertaining:

[url="http://drownedinsound.com/releases/17021/reviews/4145008"]http://drownedinsound.com/releases/17021/reviews/4145008[/url]

Edited February 11, 2013 by bobbass4k

[xilddx]

[quote name='bobbass4k' timestamp='1360588681' post='1972769']
This is definitely worth a read then:

[url="http://thequietus.com/articles/08813-the-enemy-streets-in-the-sky-review"]http://thequietus.co...-the-sky-review[/url]

And this one probably makes a better point, but is less entertaining:

[url="http://drownedinsound.com/releases/17021/reviews/4145008"]http://drownedinsoun...reviews/4145008[/url]
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They're from my hometown. I'm not any more

I had a listen, the reviewers were right, dreadful rubbish.

[Dr M]

[quote name='bobbass4k' timestamp='1360586894' post='1972691']
Not that I'm aware of, there's a lot of young indie bands doing the faux working class schtick, which is at best annoying, and at worst insulting and patronizing.
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The irony being that it's often middle-class performing-arts school graduates trying to seem raw and edgy, and ending up with a middle-class audience who are also trying to seem raw and edgy...