Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Junk Music Generation

You know how some people rant 'n rave about all their favorite musicians or bands from their adolescent/young adult years? Like, "Man! Van Halen, Rolling Stones, and The Doors were awesome! - they really rocked!!"

Well, here's how "cool" I sound when I repeat something similar but using musicians/bands from my time, "Man! Vanilla Ice, Paula Abdul and MC Hammer were awesome! - they rocked!!


...and wait, I almost forgot, so did Milli Vanilli!! - ooooo, blame it on the rain yeah yeah...

So maybe these songs are dorky and don't have a profound message...but hey people - like I had a choice? It was a junk music revolution and I was lucky enough to have the opportunity to dance in front of my entire family to songs like "Ice Ice Baby!"

I have a signature Ice Ice Baby dance if you ever want me to perform it for you...haha!!

So with junk music under my belt without effort (born into it), and some music exploration over the last decade or so, I would say I have quite a variety of lyrical knowledge. This is not saying I know all music (by any means), but I do know a ton of dorky music (like the ones listed above), and some artists such as;


They Might Be Giants, Violent Femmes, Melanie Safka, Loreena McKennitt, Bone Thugz n Harmony (haha), Cyndi Lauper, Dixie Chicks, Fiona Apple, Fleetwood Mac, Tracy Chapman, and even Hootie and the Blowfish, to name a few.

One group I've noticed that everyone knows except for me (that cover bands always sing) is the Beastie Boys - somehow I never listened to them during my journey to musical enlightenment, but I'm not sad about it - I don't really care, I just sit those songs out and drink a little more of my Crown 'n Coke to get ready for the next song I most surely will know;)

So basically I'm the girl that knows pretty much all of the cover band type music - plus a little hippie stuff, and the current teenie-bopper music you hear on the radio.

This is me giving you permission to laugh your ass off if you see me dancing to any of this music - it may be dorky, but then again I'm dorky - so we're a perfect match (me and my music).

1 comment:

TarBabyJim said...

Well, I guess you could call Melanies #1 hit (brand new key) a "dorky" song. I just call it a fun diversion from all the craziness tat was going on in the world in 1971. Melanie sang MANY songs that were hits in the late 60s early 70s. Check her music out sometimes. Get her 1976 album "Photograph", it's a masterpiece of rock music! There is a GREAT rhyno remaster avalible at CCmusic dot com

Thanks for the read.
Jim Baldwin
Spokane WA
My personal Melanie website: LetHerIn dot org