Oh, It Gets Worse
August 18, 2008
The new Obama “buy American” logo looks like it was ripped off from the cover of possibly the worst album by possibly the worst band in recent history. Okay, maybe not the worst band — that honor probably belongs to STYX — but its close and its disturbing. REO Speedwagon should be scrubbed from the annals of history and any good songs attributed to other bands of the same era whose institutionalized irony outweighs their connection to mullets.
I still think this is either a Banksy-style modern art campaign, but it could be an ill-advised way of appealing to the “bitter” Americans he feels he needs to win. If his team is really as disconnected from Americans as they appear to be, its not a stretch to think that they associate hardworking, blue collar, union Reagan Democrats with mullets, MGD, Trans Ams, acid washed jeans and low budget arena rock, and thought they’d edge themselves in a little closer by disguising the Obama union symbol as the Bat Signal of cougars the country over.
I’m just surprised they didn’t pick Journey.
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August 18th, 2008 at 1:46 pm
Jim Anchower is going to be so pissed at you.
August 18th, 2008 at 2:37 pm
Jim Anchower’s stash is dry. He won’t even notice.
August 19th, 2008 at 4:10 am
Reo Speedwagon was to the 80’s what Coldplay is now…
*duck*
August 19th, 2008 at 6:22 am
Oh, man. You did NOT go there.
August 19th, 2008 at 6:26 am
Okay, now that the steam has escaped my overheating brain, let me explain why Coldplay is not REO Speedwagon.
1) Coldplay’s songs are MUCH longer.
2) Coldplay’s songs often involve entire orchestras to create their magic. REO Speedwagon had to make do with the standard crappy four-man formation.
3) Two words: electric violin.
4) REO Speedwagon never went on a ‘break’ because the lead singer’s movie star wife needed him to stay home with the kids while she made Iron Man. Not that it probably wasn’t tried, but REO Speedwagon’s frontman would never be caught dead sacrificing his hard rocking ways to be a mommy.
5) Coldplay is just more awesome than REO Speedwagon could ever hope to be.
Some of those are negatives. Hmm…
August 19th, 2008 at 7:41 am
Heh Heh.
That was quite a spirited defense of Jeff Buckl–errr–Coldplay.
I have to come clean…I don’t like Chris Martin and that’s probably why I don’t like Coldplay. I also don’t like Dave Matthews…which is probably why my millenial friends won’t engage in music discussions with me…I’m hopelessly addicted to Classic Rock.
August 19th, 2008 at 7:52 am
You know, there has been a lot of Coldplay muzak springing up lately. Just sayin…
August 19th, 2008 at 7:59 am
Thats an insult to Jeff Buckley…
I f&#$ing HATE Dave Matthews and it has nothing to do with his idiotic politics (plus, if I made political views a method of weeding out my musicians, I’d be stuck with Ted Nugent and bad country music). I used to like DMB back in the day, when everyone liked DMB and it was still cool to like jam rock. He kind of fit in loosely with the whole Grateful Dead resurface/Phish when Phish was good era. “Crash” is a decent, if somewhat perverted song, and he had a few others that have musical value, but then that era passed, everyone got into alt-country and Emo and indie, and some branched off into hip hop and ska, and he became the sole purview of Yuppie tools. Now, okay, I’m a yuppie, no doubt. I even live in a kind of yuppie neighborhood (though my neighborhood is totally gay, so that recovers it a little) but this is a different class of Yuppie. This is the group of Yuppies that go to golf school and talk about their vacations to retarded islands in the Bahamas no ones ever heard of, and talk about how food at the local five star isn’t worth it “for the price,” own like ten pairs of New Balance tennis shoes, some form of human-powered watercraft because its “earthy,” etc. They listen to Dave Matthews.
If you’re of the variety of people who still listen to DMB for its musical value and contribution, okay, but if you have a DMB sticker on your car and go to DMB concerts because you think smelling pot smoke is how you let loose…don’t talk to me.
/rant
August 19th, 2008 at 10:42 am
em, were u not the one that said you have x 1000’s of songs that all sound alike ?
Personally, whatever the genre…rock, indie, what have you….. if i can predict the last 3 bars from the first bar, its pretty much over, with exceptions……
August 19th, 2008 at 2:04 pm
What’s a coldplay?