Political Does Not = Good

A lot of people having been talking recently or rather explaining to me how political bands are becoming these days especially with the 2nd win for the bush administration. These people list off bands like Sum 41, Offspring, New Found Glory, Green Day, Mathew Good… well okay Mathew Good was always quite political (he’s an exception to this) but these people are justifying listening to bands because they are quote on quote “political”. No dipshit, it doesn’t work that way there are millions of groups out there that are “political” by stating that "Geroge Bush is a Moron" and entitling a song after that is hardly a deep and meangful political statement, it's about as deep and meangful as me switching the channel during a commercial. These people are just shoving their uninformed opinions down everyones throats with an overly simple an ineffective way of doing it. Garbage.

People seem to forget that because a band is not directly bashing a political figure it does not mean that they don’t have a political standpoint. People tell me how great it is that all these bands are becoming political and are creating “an awareness among their listeners” bullshit. These guys are about as competent of sending a meaningful political message as I am at hockey. And I suck at hockey. Take “The Stampeders” for example “Cherokee Nation” is a beautifully political song about a real world issue that still fucking affects anyone in North America. But does anyone say “yeah I love the Stampeders they are so fucking political now” NO they don’t. instead a million people would probably laugh at that person and tell him/her that they have bad taste in music.

Or better yet Iron Maiden, there are few bands that can compare with Iron Maiden, their stance on war/propaganda/death penalty/First Nation’s rights etc… is almost incomparable…. Except there are few to no fellow 80’s mulleteer’s that would say “fucking rights man! I listen to fucking Iron Maiden because they are sooo political Man!” no. they listen to Iron Maiden because Iron Maiden kicks ass, they don’t justify it with it being political. It is just a givin that they kick ass, the same way that gravity is an active force working on every object at any given time. You don’t fuck with gravity and you don’t fuck with Maiden.

“As the reasons for the carnage cut their meat and lick the gravy, We oil the jaws of the war machine and feed it with our babies.”

Is that not just the most poetic thing you’ve ever read?

“The body bags and little rags of children torn in two And the jellied brains of those who remain to put the finger right on you. As the madmen play on words and make us all dance to their song, To the tune of starving millions to make a better kind of gun.”

Beautiful

Just because a band is political doesn’t mean it is good. Don’t justify your shitty taste in music just because it is anti-bush. The Dixie Chicks were anti bush and it didn’t improve their music by any means so don’t give me that shit.

“The bugle sounds and the charge begins But on this battlefield no one wins The smell of acrid smoke and horses breath As I plunge on into certain death.”