American Rock Music

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Especially American punk rock is a massive cunt. A manufactured pile of shit remake of UK punk because like most things those yank cunts try to replicate off us, its fucking shit! All them cunts like Blink 182, Sum 41 etc. are the cunts I’m referring to.

(aside from “Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)”, Green Day are tragically and one dimensionally crap too – admin)

Every day I hear that droney terrible shit on the radio and I’ve had to start muting it when it comes on because it annoys me that much. Luckily the cunts haven’t quite tarnished the likes of The clash or Sex Pistols’ reputation, but made good fucking effort of it. All their songs have the same wrist slitting cuntish tone to them with all the cunts looking like hippy doloids with their blue and pink fucking hair (GROWN FUCKING BLOKES WITH BLUE FUCKING HAIR).

American punk epitomises everything I hate about yanks. Rehashed, manufactured cunts who take good things from other countries especially us and drag it through the fucking dirt. Shame on you horrible yank cunts and those cunts on Radio X for always promoting them. Those cunts are also part of the fucking problem by playing their shit. I suggest a petition is started to outlaw all of their shit music anywhere outside their cuntish wasteland.

Nominated by: Lord Cuntington 

103 thoughts on “American Rock Music”

  2. The Yanks have always seized on something artistic and then trivialised it .

    • Agree totally on this nom Lord C.
      Theyve taken punk, stripped it of anger, attitude, sneering, political message, edginess and kept a studded belt and spiky hair.
      I dont recognise it as punk.
      Remember that punks in London used to charge yank tourists to take their photo in the 80s.
      I loved punk rock, especially the Sex Pistols,
      My favourite interview of all time was Rodney Bingenheimer telling them to come to the states, saying you can get anything there,
      Sid Vicious-“can you get egg & chips?”😁
      Bingenheimer confused presses on,
      “We’re not repressed here!”
      Sid-“your mentally repressed.
      Hangs up bored.
      Bingenheimer -“hello? Hello?”

      Haha ever get the feeling youve been cheated?

    • Thank fuck! Although I agree with the sentiment of this nom I can’t agree with the content because I’m aware that the Ramones pretty much invented punk rock (although I believe that the Velvet Underground had some hand in their influence and genesis…. I may be wrong).

  3. 1.) Use these chords: C, G, Am, then F.
    2.) Write some banal lyrics about lurrrve.
    3.) Style your hair like a poodle.
    4.) Pull on some spandex trousers.

    Success

  4. I’m no music buff and enjoy a wide range of musical styles. I suppose people could look at the likes of Green Day and Blink 182’s sales figures and say that they can’t be that crap if so many people are willing to pay to listen to their efforts.

    I must say that Youtube is sometimes good for recommending bands that I would never have stumbled on. My current favourite is this….https://youtu.be/jSR9CLcVBMM

    • Morning Mr F…good recommendation, I rather like that.
      As you say there is tons of great music on Youtube if you’re prepared to step off the path of mainstream tedium.
      In the past, I’ve recommended music (specifically to RTC, if I recall correctly) and people were a bit freaked out by my somewhat odd taste.
      But far more listenable (as far as rock goes) is the “where post rock dwells” channel. There’s hundreds of fantastic albums on that channel alone. A good and interesting toe-in-the-water:
      https://youtu.be/1yMTISmF-CY

    • My tastes can confuse some. I sometimes put on a ‘mix’ CD or two on. One CD can contain a song by The Clash, then Pavarroti, followed by The Doors, The Bee Gees, Chic, 10cc, The Beatles, Blondie, Puff Daddy (haha), Rod Stewart, Chris Isaak (and his one hit wonder), The Smiths, The Stranglers, The Stone Roses and maybe a bit of James Brown, Dire Straits, Stevie Wonder, The Eagles, John Denver and The St Winifred’s School Choir (OK I made one of them up, I’ve never been a big fan of the Beatles).

      • Ah. The St winifreds.
        I often go down to dressing room 59b , and I swear you can still smell the bitches.

    • Only really the Stooges and the Ramones, Johnny thunders and New york Dolls.
      England made the punk ‘look’ and most of the bands.
      The clash, pistols, Damned, stranglers, Buzzcocks etc

      • Saw the Ramones at Birmingham Hummingbird in 1992. They were more punk than any of the manufactured bands today. We had an issue with fake punk in Britain with bands like Busted and McFly. If your audience is screaming teenage girls, it ain’t punk. Morning all.

    • The mid /late ’60s in fact. Punk originated in the States.

      13th Floor Elevators, Chocolate Watch Band, Music machine, Standells, Electric Prunes, Iggy Pop & The Stooges, MC5,
      to name a few.

      • Kick out the jams muthafuckas?..
        Wayne Kramer got them (MC5) mixed up with serious revolutionary types, they walked away when guns started to appear Ruff.

      • Not Kramer, it was their manager John Sinclair who did that Miserable.

      • Your right it was, it was Kramer saying how he shit hisself, never a good idea, revolutionary terrorism and rock n roll.😁

  6. Seems to me the nom should be about Yank punk music.

    Music in general is shite now. That could be me getting older and ‘not with it’ or that it really is shit (which is more likely). It’s all tinny, packaged shite with some dumb cunt ‘rapping’ at some point and some dancy cunts and bright colours. Music for retards. As for other Yankee rock music though, I think some of it is OK.

    For example, this isn’t too bad is it..?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdCZR9M5EKY

  7. An excellent nom, despite being a little wide of the mark. And a great quote from dave grohl there.
    The reason music in general is shit is because it is poorly constructed with very few of the compositional techniques that make music interesting and show the composer has at least a little understanding.
    The reason people lap it up is because very few people play music themselves anymore and therefore do not know they are being peddled an inferior and lazy product.
    The modern incarnation of punk does well saleswise because (apart from the image stuff aimed at teenagers) it at least features a change in the beat. Even your subconcious recognises the benefit of variety even if you know nothing about musical theory.
    Historically popular music made use of the many techniques available thanks to musical theory. Songs would have an intro, verses, chorus, a break in the middle and an ending. Even the beatles used 6/8 and 7/8 timing and would modulate using things other than a perfect fifth.
    Popular music these days makes use of one beat, 4/4, and only uses verse and chorus.
    Thanks to rap there will soon be just one long string of repetition that contains no changes whatsoever. Very boring indeed.
    It’s like watching a movie that has the same plot each time. Oh, wait…..

    • The marvel cinematic universe springs to mind, or every bond film since Goldeneye…

  8. A lot of punk music = badly played heavy metal. What do the septics know about music when Emerson, Lake & Palmer are not in the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame. Not popular enough apparently (I asked them). Cunts.

  9. Rap is authentically American street music and looks stupid when done by anyone else.

    Punk is authentically English and is just watered down commercialised crap when copied by other countries. The anger and energy is simply lost in translation.

  10. Best rock bad is Canadian, rush, its 3 of them
    Alex lifeson, geddy lee, and Neil pratt, Neil passed away from brain cancer in January but if you were luck to see them live they were and still are rock gods, American rock? Fuck off! Morning all

    • Lost count of the times I’ve seen Rush – certainly at least once on every UK tour (did all 4 nights at Wembly Arena in the early 80s). A great band – RIP Neil.

      • Yeah hold your fire your…I had the t shirt..wore it till it fell apart..poor neil..will be missed

    • America – kindly come and take your culture back.

      We’ll keep Jimi Hendrix and Frank Zappa , and maybe a couple of others. But the rest you can shove it.

      Since punk has it’s roots in Dada-ism – then you have to look back at least to the 50’s to see it’s possible origins in music.
      Frank Zappa’s Negative Dialectics of Poodle Play will explain things quite nicely for you.

      All this talk of fashionable boys with recording contracts is a bit off the mark when considering true punk.
      99% of British Punk was pure manufactured pop.

  12. Just got myself some new recording software. Whilst it’s way better than my old system, it’s geared up for modern music production – that is, little chunks of cut ‘n’ paste ideas from someone else which you can drag and drop into a sequence “of your own”.

    That’s why modern music is crap, from both sides of the Atlantic. Dua Lipa’s Physical and The Weeknd’s Blinding Lights – both recent examples of a 4 chord repeat, all the way through the song, with just a change in melody line. (Both harking back to the 80s)

    English punk ? Pistols too manufactured, never got the Clash. The Damned all the way for me :

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiHv7K47D3g

    • The Damned all day for me too. The album Damned Damned Damned, volume up whilst driving. You know it makes sense.

      • Say next to the Captain once on a flight from Newcastle back to London. I said “Captain”, he said “What?”.

  13. Best punk for me was the pistols, clash, Stranglers, Damned, and xray spex.
    Stateside Dead Kennedys.
    Wasnt a fan so much of the 2nd wave bar the Exploited, GBH, anti nowhere league.
    Modern stuff is all candyfloss.

    • @MNC:
      I would have thought with your age n all, you would have been into Phycobilly punk-The Meteors, The Cramps etc

      • Morning CG.
        Like both those!👍

        But like all kinds of music, from the softest of folk music to hardcore punk.
        Even like that most persecuted form of music, country, think Johnny Cash and Hank Williams are great, but hate jazz.
        Jazz should be put in a category with genocide, incest and cannibalism.😁

      • Hitler singled jazz out for extermination, on several of the same reasons as yours

      • Genocide, incest and cannibalism?

        Sounds like a great name for a death metal band to me…

    • Best punk band I saw live was Buzzcocks.

      And although not ‘punk’ , both The Jam and Joy Division were great live acts too.

  15. Music is boring now, full stop.
    It is so easy to sit in a small room with various effects pedals and a Telecaster, a microphone and a basic pc and produce something that sounds like most of the other shite around.
    A good mate of mine is a session guitarist-a couple of years ago I went to his home studio, plugged in his tele and put a few riffs into a pedal, it auto filled bass and drums. We added lyrics and from start to finish produced several tracks in under an hour.

    By the way, punk was completely birthed in America, championed by folk like Hilly Krystal at the CBGB club.

  16. My nominations for totally crap music – coincidentally both American :

    (1) Gabba. Abba songs in the style of the Ramones. No, really.

    (2) Anal Cunt. My favourite track is “Hitler was a great guy, he was just misunderstood”

    How the fuck did these cunts get record deals instead of me? They make me sound like Clapton.

    • Chas C@
      Had to check out Gabba that piqued my curiosity!
      Yeah your right- doesnt really work.

      • My band, The Lillyput Men, had a slot where we played stuff like Abba in the style of Captain Beefheart (circa Trout Mask Replica).

  17. Ironic that quote from Grohl since the Foo Fighters were whiny and tinny sounding bollocks that, along with audioslave, heralded the end of the rock era altogether like some aging derelict who was once kool but just pissed himself after half a bottle of JD.

    As for punk, just a load of pretentious tryhards. The original edgelords. Fucking weak.

    • Agreed TBCC. I’ve give more credence to Grohl’s comment if he hadn’t allowed all manner of current “pop stars” to murder “Times like these” during lockup, sorry, lockdown.

    • Agreed.
      Snot and vomit and piss and shit , razor-blades and safety-pins and incurable pestilence. Spotty , scummy zero-talent failures – with millions pumped into the genre.
      Fuck all to do with music – which describes most music.

  19. Excellent nomination and discussion subject, I salute you Lord Cuntington.

    As a fan of rock, but in particular metal, and as a frequenter of music venues from pubs to arenas i’m surprised that the epitome of this subject has yet to have been brought up yet. Metallica. How on earth can a group get so famous for rehashing old Saxon and Diamond head riffs is beyond me, yet, as it’s mass produced American studio rubbish it sells like hotcakes to the “edgy,” uneducated and unwashed. They even played Glasto. How cringe.

    Metal is a very much a Birmingham export, done well by Scandinavians and Southern Europeans but perfected and refined by the British:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QEb0iZ9uxc
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVXy1OhaERY

    • Whiskey in the jarrrohah. Some of their older material was acceptable, but again around the early 2000s like with foo fighters it all went to gash.

      Can’t listen to it much these days as I’m an old grumpy fart now.

    • Maybe Sabbath did epitomise the idea into a working project.
      But looking at the perms , leather and the spandex – one must consider the possibility that grandiose groups of whatever type are populated with narcissistic cross-dressers – who’s best friend is the mirror.
      The denim brigade are equally pathetic , in so much as they are only one step away from Bay City Roller fans – but thicker.

  20. Original punk was hard, visceral and shocking (as it should be). We now have plastic snowpunk for grown up children.
    Quite like the Foo Fighters – they are like Nirvana but with showers and talent – La-Dee-Da is raw when played on a good system at bad volume!
    They’ll never be a patch on Don Manilow though – the Godfather! 😄👍

  21. For me American music is the Byrds, Beach Boys (especially the Brian years), Creedence, The Band, Jefferson Airplane. Or singers like Glen Campbell, Johnny Cash, Merle Haggard, and Kenny Rogers.

    But American music has been shite for years. From the coke fueled hippy shite much loved by those cunts at Rolling Stone. Stuff like Jackson Browne and Eagles and CSNY when they went up their own arses. Nirvana were overrated and all. Everything they did was nicked: the band name, the band logo (both from the original Nirvana from the 60s) and riffs like Smells Like Teen Spirit and Come As You Are ripped off from bands like Killing Joke and Boston.. Nirvana had a good rhythm section, but Cobain was as much a plagiarist as Noel Gallagher was in Oasis. He -like John Lennon before him with Yoko Fucking Ono – also inflicted one of the most irritating talentless ugly self serving attention craving and charm free beings ever onto the world at large in Cuntney Love.

    And American ‘punk’ has always been more or less ridiculous. Green Day are absolutley laughable. Manufactured cartoon knobheads who are about as tough as an unset jelly and about as working class as all those little cunts who got parts in Harry Potter because of rich parents (Daniel Twatcliffe, Emma Twatson and so on). The latest ‘edgy’ and ‘punk product’ from the ‘US of A’ is Billie Eilish. Another processed pre-packaged ‘rebel’ who is a record corporation blueprint, is about as attractive as a bad egg and as talented as a dog turd. Having green hair, black fingernails and whining all the time like a female Neil from the Young Ones does not make Eiliish ‘different’ and ‘out there’. It makes her a cunt.

    Oh, and Marilyn Manson is a fucking joke too. And anyone who takes him seriously is a mong.

    • No.
      Actually Nirvana were the first group in a long time , to come up with a different modal approach to melody.
      This set them well apart from anything else that was around at the time.
      They deserved their success.

  22. Amercan ‘punk’ sucks big, fat, elephant dicks.

    The Macc Lads all the way for me.

  23. I’ve not heard enough of the genre in question, which probably says a lot. Like everything else in life, there is good quality and bad quality. From what little I have heard of Punk, I am underwhelmed by it; to my ears, it sounds like music that is bereft of groove, rhythm, feeling and soul. There are some gems out there — Ziggy Pop’s ‘Lust for Life’, The Stooges’ ‘Down on the Street’, The Sex Pistols’ ‘Anarchy in The UK’ & ‘God Save The Queen‘, for example — but it’s mostly just bland and vapid garbage, imo. Yep, I would throw the Punk genre into room 101 without hesitation.

  24. Raw Power, top album.
    The pistols were manufactured to a degree but were the linchpins of English punk, forget that Nancy boy Malcom Mack.
    Jones’ guitar riffs just drove those songs full tilt through the wilderness of pap music.
    Never forgotten.

    • The Pistols fucked up when they let Malcolm shit stir and force Glen Matlock out of the band. They were going downhill the minute that cunt Vicious joined them. He was so shit that Steve had to pull double duty and overdub the bass parts on Never Mind The Bollocks.

  25. Was lucky enough to see both these bands live a few times in the old days.
    The Jam were tight, had the best rhythm section and firepower. And If Ian Curtis was on his day, he was unstoppable and the band followed him. America could never produce two bands like this in a thousand years.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xrRkLlol9Q

    • Love both Joy Division and the Jam and while not strictly punk they both got a break due to punk, ‘no love lost’ by Joy Division and ‘A bomb on wardour street’ stand up to anything punk.
      Both truly AAA great bands, you were lucky to see em Norman.

      Ian Curtis RIP

      • Seen Weller live loads MCN-has a pint with him in a theatre back in 99-he was a nice bloke, then again I don’t suffer bollocks from any cunt😉

      • Yeah. You’d be ‘nice’ if you were trying to hide years of faggotry.
        The Jam were a group with American AOR melodies , presented in a staccato/aggressive over-manly fashion – to attempt to mask the fact that they were doing each other up the fucking shitter.

  26. I would say the music industry died a long time ago. Here’s a fun experiment: go into a store or supermarket and see how many songs they play from the last decade. Even better, see how many they play from the previous year. It’s because nobody likes the new “music”. We need to actually invest in music, encourage musicians to actually play instruments, create a system that works, pay musicians real money and make the world a better place, because songs are intrinsically linked to good memories.

    • Excellent point Angryman. I’ve long thought “What music from 2000 on wards will still be played on Radio 2 in 25 years time ?” R2 play stuff from the 60s, 70s, 80s, a bit of 90s maybe… In 25 years time they’ll still be playing those, but anything post 2000 ?!

    • The day anyone started paying anyone anything – was the day real music was dead.

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