Will we have yet another silent Spring? In any other era, we would have expected Popular Music to reflect the political shenanigans of the era, there are many example, from The War as we Boomer still refer to it, the soldiers gladly marched to their deaths singing. We'll meet again, White cliffs of Dover, There will always be an England (vera Lynn), When the lights go on again (Vaughn Monroe), or even "I did what I could with my gas mask "(George Formby)., or It's a long way to Tipperary(WW1).So the messages from popular culture were designed to boost morale, and they did, since in those days, morale was regarded as vital to national/cultural survival.
Even the vietnam war had a sound track, Ride of the Valkyries Wagner , the End the doors. Satisfaction, the stones. And John Lennon's (war is over if you want it...)
Yet where is the soundtrack to the covid19 Pandemic, were the doors right and it was The End of protest by songs? Has the Downing Street nudge unit got its claws so far into MSM, that THEY have silenced popular culture. Where are the Beatles and Stones of the present era? Where is pirate radio and radio luxembourg when you need them? All dead or perhaps they are merely Vloggers now, where they are suffocated under a blanket of fact-checkers…. is that how our culture died?
Will we have yet another silent Spring? In any other era, we would have expected Popular Music to reflect the political shenanigans of the era, there are many example, from The War as we Boomer still refer to it, the soldiers gladly marched to their deaths singing. We'll meet again, White cliffs of Dover, There will always be an England (vera Lynn), When the lights go on again (Vaughn Monroe), or even "I did what I could with my gas mask "(George Formby)., or It's a long way to Tipperary(WW1).So the messages from popular culture were designed to boost morale, and they did, since in those days, morale was regarded as vital to national/cultural survival.
Even the vietnam war had a sound track, Ride of the Valkyries Wagner , the End the doors. Satisfaction, the stones. And John Lennon's (war is over if you want it...)
Yet where is the soundtrack to the covid19 Pandemic, were the doors right and it was The End of protest by songs? Has the Downing Street nudge unit got its claws so far into MSM, that THEY have silenced popular culture. Where are the Beatles and Stones of the present era? Where is pirate radio and radio luxembourg when you need them? All dead or perhaps they are merely Vloggers now, where they are suffocated under a blanket of fact-checkers…. is that how our culture died?
This is the sound-track of the Lockdown. Bleak, angry and not buying the media or authorities BS. On any subject.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhdGipqrKNY
There is stuff out there at the moment that is just as good as The Subhumans or as angry as The Exploited back in the 1980's. And that means very very angry.
There again a lot of the younger people are just getting on with life. As long as you have bands like Wet Leg still producing songs like this the world will be OK. Eventually.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UB3PJwPMHzQ
Who thought Croydon could look interesting.
And where the heel in Punk Rock when you need it?We used to sing 'sex and drugs and rock and roll', now we sing 'masks and jabs and the NHS!' Where did it all go wrong?
