#rockist

[fivedollarradio]

I've never been a 'Top of the Pops' kind of guy. My impact has been my influence, I think. The fact that I still have a career today, and will Britney Spears have one in 35 years? You know, maybe a talk-show host or something. I'll be doing this when I'm 60 or 70.

Paul Westerberg in the St. Paul Pioneer Press in 2002

Britney’s in Vegas. Paul, who will turn 59 next month is in his basement.

[jeffhort-blog]

Here is a '90s jam that sounds like @cjehr would enjoy it. The Moles - What's the New Mary Jane. h/t soundopinions my newest source for songs of the day: WBEZ Chicago's Sound Opinions - incredibly rockist bias in their criticism, but that's a bias that speaks to my own biases.

[tchaparian]

Rockist Part 2 - School of Language

[meegeebabes]

Idol Mr Tyler of Aerosmith! #idol #Rocker #Rockist #Singer #Singist #Don'tWannaMissAThing

[makingelectronicmusic]

when someone launches into a detailed description about how to get a specific band's sound out of a guitar

[anatomyofaneedle]

Are you a Rockist?

Hi Hater!

We even let you hate!

[traevyla-blog]

Rockist by School of Language. I just found this. Listen to this now.

[natlbag]

Butthole Surfers in Jem Cohen's Witness (1986)

Continuing to make my way through Our Band Could Be Your Life. Butthole Surfers are another act to whom I've never really paid all that much attention before. In a book with a generally rockist point of view (blech!), they are like a breath of fresh air (or a refreshing breath of smelly air?). With strobes, films, fire, a go-go dancer, and copious drunken shenanigans, they are more like a Wooster Group acid trip than a "rock band" per se, more concerned with showmanship than staying "legitimate" or getting their sound perfect. That is most definitely not a criticism.

(I am fighting the urge, however, to play devil's advocate with myself here.)

Jem Cohen's film apparently documents their infamous Danceteria show which involved much in the way of their usual strobes and fire, as well as on-stage sex acts, spraying urine on the audience, and guitarist Paul Leary "discretely poking screwdriver holes in every PA and monitor speaker in the place." At which point they have crossed the line between performers and, well, assholes.

Watch part two here.