the fall out from fall out boy

i know this has nothing to do with anything to do with the dark, long nights behind the bar or the semi-drunken dirty rock that represents my current lifestyle but i was aghast when i discovered the most inane, out of date, trite band i have ever had the displeasure to hear in....well it hasn't been that long.  they are called you me at six.  i was initially interested because they are from surrey, a surrogate home for me in the UK from a few years back.  being from long island, i understand surrey bands, you either get greatness spawned from the basements and garages of suburbia (and quickly move to london) or you get total and utter generic crap.  there's no in between.  i think my shock came from the fact that epitaph would sign this.  i know why, their manager is the guy who brought the world bullet for me valentine, gallows and bring me the horizon to name a few, but that is no excuse.  it's just old fall out boy with no personality.  picture that!! 

 i know, this is so out of my realm i shouldn't care but if this represents any music scene in the UK, it makes me sad.  get out of the ice age.  maybe shitty american bands need to be officially banned from great britain.  except in scotland where they always seem to do something interesting when turning their influences back  on the world.    

the other night i was watching a local show called new york noise.  it's always good to upset me with some hipster bullshit like animal collective or something but i saw two videos that astounded me.  the first was by a two piece (how original) called no age.  it wasn't so much as it sounding like a sonic youth b-side i.e. waste of precious time, but the fact that sub pop put it out.  their bio says things like "pop songs done as performance art" or "experimentation", you know that means?  you might write ok songs but you make them sound like shit so pitchfork will like you.   i'm sorry.  it's crap and they will probably stop playing music, like so many others, when they get into grad school. 

 another band i saw was titus andronicus,  whose song was such an awful rip off of the clashes "white riot" (check out the "titus andronicus" chord progression).   they were listed as being on xl recordings.  whaaaaat?  i'm so over it.  indie labels are trying to stay a float?  well, not hard enough.   i'm all for bands struggling with just being a band these days.  i support anyone but please just write a fucking decent song.  just don't put some old crap together, record it lo-fi to make it cool.  i'd say i'm sorry for being a jealous, shitty, typical NY musician but no one read this blog so who cares.  

 i hate capital letters.  

i really don't care.  i need to get in the shower and get to bowling....