Time accelerates and I struggle to understand how there can be 15 years between Love Me Do and the Sex Pistols, but nearly 30 years since the release of Common People.
Time accelerates and I struggle to understand how there can be 15 years between Love Me Do and the Sex Pistols, but nearly 30 years since the release of Common People.
Eventually time will have accelerated so much that we all disappear back into our father’s testicles.
PS: that was an entry for the crap first comment competition.
It’s a phenomenon of easily available cheap recordings. At one time music was serial. These days all music is in the now. One will have heard music of the past 30 years played over & over again. Unless the style is particularly dated one struggles to remember when it was originally made
It’s not the tempura, it’s the moranis.
2011 Movie adaptation: Anne Hathaway of the unfortunately pointy elbows plays love interest Emma Morely.
2024 Netflix adaptation: Emma Morely is now an unattractive Indian woman, because fuck you, that’s why.
They pulled the same dirty trick on young Spiderman. He used to shag Kirsten Dunst, now his girlfriends are four pinters with the sexual glamour of a cleaning lady. Look how they massacred our boy!
Constantine still begging for its sequel after an unbelievable 19 years. The vastly underrated Black Butler still begging after 10. So much effort wasted on Woke Spiderman, or Snow Black and the Seven Vertically Challenged Persons in the meantime.
Btw there are stunningly beautiful Indian women in Bollywood movies, so why do Western films cast uggoes?
Steve
Did you ever watch The Mindy Project on telly ? Stone me that was a shocker, the young Indian lady in that looked like she could handle herself in any self repsectig front row.
I was listening to kraftwerk’s The Model a little while ago and I am always amazed at its modernity.
Otto – Mindy Kalig looks like a food goblin.
Steve, Zendaya can do the hoovering anytime.
BiG, did you catch the all too brief Constantine TV show? Matt Ryan was more convincing in the role (mostly because Keanu looked too young despite being 40 (and played it American)). Some shoddy production values but worth watching.
PJF – Harvey Weinstein (PBUH) would never have cast Zelda-whatsherface, not even as the female lead’s unthreatening plain friend.
You got a better standard of erection on Harvey’s watch, so of course they had to destroy him.
It doesn’t help that all the male leads are interchangeable 5 foot twinks with delicate little chins. Timothy Chalet stunk up the screen with his Elton John take on Paul Atredes. Which was completely unnecessary, as David Lynch already improved on the book with his 1984 masterpiece starring Sting and a guy who has to milk a cat.
Where have all the good men gone, and where are all the gods? Women don’t fantasise about being wooed by moody homosexual midgets. They like blokes who are more like Big Dave from 2000AD.
Much of the problem arises from pushy Indian women obtaining Hollywood writing or producing gigs but, once there, being unable to resist the temptation of writing about themselves while casting absolute munters (incidentally did anyone see the short-lived animated catastrophe “Velma” – another Mindy Kaling cringe fest) in order to feel better about their unlovely selves.
The Mindy Project was unusual in this respect as she played the role herself. However the entire shtick of this character was that she only dated white men, normally a great big no no in itself, who inexplicably found her attractive. Any similarities to Ms Kalings extremely private personal life are purely coincidental.
– Where have all the good men gone, and where are all the gods?
Try Reacher, Steve. He’s a nice big boy for you to oggle at.
… I struggle to understand how there can be 15 years between Love Me Do and the Sex Pistols…
Moron.
The people that sang Love Me Do did so when they were in their early 20s. By the time the Sex Pistols came around those same people were in their mid to late 30s. So what it comes down to is this: What 18 year old wants to listen to someone the age of his uncle sing rock songs?
And who wants to argue that the mid 1960s were just about the same as the late 1970s for the 18 to 22 crowd? The late 1970s sucked out loud in a way that nobody in the mid 1960s could have imaged.
BiND,
“It’s a phenomenon of easily available cheap recordings. At one time music was serial. These days all music is in the now. One will have heard music of the past 30 years played over & over again. Unless the style is particularly dated one struggles to remember when it was originally made”
It’s also that music ran out of new tech. The whole era from the 50s to the 90s and new music for new generations is about a constant feed of new music tech: electric guitars, tape recording, stereo, Hammond organs, effect pedals, synthesizers, samplers, drum machine, digital recording. Rio by Duran Duran has influences like Roxy Music, Bowie, Chic on it, but it doesn’t sound like them because of synthesizers and samplers being added. You literally couldn’t make a record sound like that until 1979.
The problem is that people quickly exhaust the possibilities of new tech and there really hasn’t been any since the early 90s. It’s got a lot cheaper, so anyone can do the things Kate Bush was doing with a £16K Fairlight for £100, but it’s hard to make a new sound. So you then get Britpop, which was very nostalgic. And Beatles re-issues and outtakes.
Not saying there aren’t good songs written since, but it nearly all could have been made 30 years ago.
PJF – Except the Tom Cruise version, who could barely Reacher.
PS – speaking of shagging, remember Russell Brand?
A few months ago, he was supposed to be some kind of dangerous sex criminal.
So dangerous, Dame Caroline Dinenage, chairtwat of the House of Commons media committee, wrote to his internet host to demand that he be urgently demonetised.
So where are all those accusers now?
What 18 year old wants to listen to someone the age of his uncle sing rock songs?
Where do you go, Dennis? The answer’s lots of them. Friend’s 16 y/o son discovered Hawkewind a while back. (Early 70s?) Couldn’t get enough of them. To him they’re in the now. No doubt if they were still gigging doing the old stuff & he could get to the gig, he would. Don’t suppose seeing geezers in their 70s rather than 20s would bother him.
The problem is that people quickly exhaust the possibilities of new tech and there really hasn’t been any since the early 90s.
If only. You’ve overlooked the pitch correcting software. Now people couldn’t sing to save their life can through a mike. Even in real time. So an endless stream of pretty bints/boyz doing stuff all sounds the same. Sells on pretty bint/boy dancing I guess. Shakira? Dua Lipa?
For those fed up with tedious viewing try Sky Rojo on Netflix. All you could ask for in tasty totty including unadorned tits & bums etc. Telenovela set in a Spanish girl club. Believe it might even have a plot.
Recently watched Boss Level on Netflix, basically Groundhog Day with death and violence
BiFR, you may be in luck – it looks like Constantine is going to be getting a sequel after all.
Wouldn’t mind seeing a sequel to Dredd too, though I doubt it will ever happen.
Sadly, we are also going to be getting a whole load of reboots/remakes/prequels & sequels that we never asked for. Let’s hope they don’t destroy the legacy of Gladiator or Bullitt for example.
@bis – Hawkwind still going and touring this year. One of the few groups I’ve seen several times live. Plus I still have many 12″ black vinyl thingies…
https://www.stereoboard.com/hawkwind-tickets#:~:
Shame I’m in NZ!
Dennis.. I vehemently protest the mere thought of the suggestion that “Love Me Do” had anything to do with rock.
Along with the rest of the output of that particularly overrated band.
The Stones did rock. And they and their music have survived the decennia far better, and then some.
BiS @ 5.12, back in their heyday, I vividly recall watching a vid of Simon Le Bon singing in a booth. Can’t remember what song, but fuck me was he out of tune.
And surely, Chers’ life after love has to constitute a crime against humanity…..
I volunteer for my local heritage society. I do history bits for them, but their main concern is poking their noses into other peoples’ planning requests.
They have a coffee morning each Saturday which is well attended by local crinklies. One of the volunteers thought that it’d be a good idea to have some music and played some Mrs Mills type jolly cockney music hall rubbish on her ghetto blaster. It was not a success. As one of the 80 year old ladies complained “What a racket, why don’t they play some Stones ?”
Tempus fugit abd all that.
Minority-of-one opinion here: I’m all in favour of there being more ugly film stars, TV personalities and so on. Normalise ugliness – and late middle age for that matter. Not everyone has to look good. There’s a lot of econ research on the penalty not being conventionally attractive – even in jobs that should have nothing to do with your looks, where you’re not on public display, people get discriminated against, lower acceptance rate at interview, lower pay etc. Meanwhile younger people seem to have a bigger self-hatred of their looks and bodies than ever before. Difficult to blame them when society seems to have decided there’s something wrong with you if you’re a total munter. There isn’t and we should be more assertive that there isn’t.