freeform goodness

I’m busting out the Joy Division for the first time in a while, and it’s reminding me how powerful a vocalist Ian Curtis was. It’s not that he was a “great singer” by current standards, but then, that hardly matters, does it, when you’re writing songs that great, and so perfectly suited to you?

I don’t want to sound like the sort of whiny old fuddy-duddy rocker guy I used to make fun of back when I had more hair, but I’d really like to see the pendulum swing away from oh-so-pretty-vacant and back towards records that stand as coherent statements. These things usually run in cycles, of course — remember, the Beatles and Stones drove out nonsense like Fabian, and the punks in ‘76-‘77 showed up in time to kick snoozy SoCal pop-rock and fatuous prog down the stairs, and Nirvana killed off hair metal… so who’s going to put an end to committee-written fluffy “Now That’s What I Call Music 48”?

:: Dave Walker 21:26 (EST/EDT) [+] ::

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