campfire anthems____________________________burning away

over the course of my musical life i have often commented on how music can be disappointing. it seems like, these days, all the new bands and music that is hitting the airwaves and record stores all sounds the same. everyone screams. every uses the same progressions, adding only their little lead licks to give it a somewhat unique flair. hip hop artists sample other people’s music. country artists remake rock songs. what’s wrong with this scenario? are these artists so desperate to make a catchy tune/lost their creative ability, or are we (as buyers/listeners/fans) that blinded that we can’t recognize that there is a steady decline in this generation’s quality of music? i don’t have the answer. i even venture to say that no one does.

i remember several years back, either in high school or middle school, when the godzilla movie came out. puff daddy p diddy diddy sean jean the enigma that rapped with notorious big sampled kasmir, a led zeppelin song for the movie’s soundtrack. jimmy page even played on the track and appeared in the music video. everyone i went to school with thought that this was the greatest new song out - having absolutely no idea what the original song was, or even ever hearing of zeppelin. ridiculous i say. and then, maybe last year, some country band redid lips of an angel, originally by hinder. i admit, that wasn’t the greatest song as it was, but it was made even worse with a country flair.

::blows steam from ears::

which leads me to my main point today. for years i have been saying that nickelback has been doing something with their music which is far worse than the actions of these other artists. what is it you ask? they haven’t sampled other’s music…no…they have ripped themselves off. i once said that they took the same exact music from how you remind me and just came up with some new words - creating someday. now i have the proof. someone, i love you whoever you are, took the time to mix the audio tracks of these two songs together, and reveal for you america the world the galaxy the universe to see/hear. so hear it is. my proof. but you don’t have to take my word for it.