Lame tunes

Inspired by lazy rappers, talentless though smoking hot female singers, moronically childish country western and above all, predictable hipster folk bands.

Do new bands play guitars today
or do they slaughter cats
I quote the name of Jimmy Page
I get who the hell is that

At least most know who Hendrix was
and maybe good old Kieth
The man's a real life zombie show
What language does he speak

Eric Clapton and Stevie Ray
Eddie from Van Halen
Remember Slash don't say it's so
He's sober clean and shaven

Ziggy Stardust spiders from mars
Iggy and the Stooges
The Sex Pistols and Joy Division
Heavy weight influences

Public Enemy east coast posse
old school hip hop rap
NWA west coast gangsta
Now it's sell out crap

These kids today what can I say
They listen to any trash
They wouldn't know great music if it
shot cocaine up their a*s

So I'm getting old and cranky
as I shake my fist at youth
In my day music was better so
f**k off you little d****e

Author's Note

NWA (Niggaz with attitude) caused one of the biggest ruckus at my house ever when I was a lad. As soon as my parents started hearing raps like "Crazy mutha fucka named ice cube/ in a gang called niggaz with attitude/ when I'm called off/ I got a sawed off/ squeeze the trigger and the bodies are hauled off' (NWA straight outta Compton) coming from my bed room they went ballistic. So like any kid I put on my headphones so I couldn't hear them. Mama didn't raise no fool

Reviews

[Eddie Phillips]

HAHAHA! Truth my brother! I just sat down to write a screenplay about a gangsta rapper and I pulled some videos on youtube. it was sickening and I could not believe what was passing for music. Sad, but at least we have the classics!

[Baby Ricochet]

Yes we do. Thank you Eddie

[TL Boehm]

I was born in 65 and learned that the dials on the radio turned in 74. I wasn't really into the old school rock and leaned more toward soul/funk and what evolved into disco - and in the 80s I stuck to the mainstream rock and new wave for the most part - but Hendrix and Clapton can flipping play the strings off a guitar. Both were/are amazing. This is a great poem.

[Baby Ricochet]

Thank you TL

[Colt 45 & 9/16]

Love the image! I couldnt agree more. Everybody wants to be a DJ nowadays. But its just not the same as being a musician

[Baby Ricochet]

That's for sure. Thanks colt

[Rosalind Gale]

Joy Division - my favorite band, probably ever, with the Pistols and Bowie, you got me hooked. I enjoyed this one a lot, thanks Rico, I am totally with you here.
-x-

[Rosalind Gale]

PS. I played my baby girl Unknown Pleasures, just the other night.

[Baby Ricochet]

Unknown pleasures is flawless. Bono said joy division were like a dark cloud over a clear blue sky. With out doubt joy division were one of the most innovative and influential bands of the 1970s. For the 1980s i gotta go with the pixies

[Rosalind Gale]

The Pixies are wonderful, I agree. The Dead Kennedys are the best band I ever saw live (with Biafra up front) - such a prophetic writer, and with East Bay Ray on guitar I think they had a hand in a lot that came later.

[Baby Ricochet]

The pixies came up with the wide dynamic. That's the slow, melodic verse with the thunderous chorus.
There's a great documentary on them on YouTube called "gouge" they talk to bowie, pj Harvey, the guys from radiohead and of course everyone in the pixies except for Kim deal. (maybe she was in rehab) bowie said the pixies and sonic youth were the most important bands of the 1980s, I've not seen to many bands save some of the people who played for the troops. I suffered though a Toby Keith show in kewait. That was one long, torturous show. Country ain't my thing

[Rosalind Gale]

I shall take a look for it - definitely Radiohead are in the Pixies sound. Sonic Youth too, quite underrated really. Toby Keith anywhere would be a bust. You have gone above and beyond the call of duty with that one.

[Baby Ricochet]

Lol! I thought so

[Ees]

I don't know. I live in this social circle that knows all music. Appreciation for new and old. And there is a ton of fantastic new stuff out there. I don't know what's on the radio, but I know what comes to town and what is town and who is playing live music out there and what is in my itunes. there is just so much music. And my baby friends, not old enough to drink, they come with me to see Bob Weir and they listen to the albums that their parents handed down from those old college days...

I really enjoyed this stanza:

" Eric Clapton and Stevie Ray
Eddie from Van Halen
Remember Slash don't say it's so
He's sober clean and shaven "

very funny and well phrased!

Everybody loves Iggy and the Stooges!!! Everybody.

I was at a party a month or two ago. It was Scotty and my friend Travis's birthday party. They are both a year or so older than me. It was kind of a rag-tag party, a house with long haired boys for the most part. There were some used-up jock types there and, well everybody there might have been a bit usual and there were a lot of musicians there...

but I can't forget the young man, who pulled me into the garage and said we were going to be friends. He was one of those lost teenagers. He looked like Bowie. He had the stooges on his ipod through the speaker and he danced in stilted, beautiful movements, held his can of beer with a kink to the wrist...
he was all image. But look at the image he chose.

and I see thousands of those kids around these days.

(I just realized how inappropriate I just revealed my life to be. lol)

Well written and funny, but you do come off like a cranky old man a bit. Hang with children and teach them. Haha, that's how we do it. Ugg, that sounds so much more wrong than it is in action.

[Baby Ricochet]

Just having some fun playing the old codger. Iggy was the original rock and roll wild man. Bowie borrowed quite a bit from the New York Dolls and Iggy as well for Ziggy Stardust. He had a thing for Kabuki theater too.

[Tom]

I blame reality TV, i.e. X-factor etc. And I'm pretty dam sure James Hetfield would concur !

A witty ditty that has a very pertinent point !

[Baby Ricochet]

thank you Tom

[Inda]

This is so true dude, there are no musicians left, or at least very few.

[Baby Ricochet]

That's for sure

[Carolann Dowsett]

You're so right music used to be so much better than it is today. Nicely written.

[Baby Ricochet]

Thank you carolannn

[Annabelle Lee]

okay okay, Ricochet, I'm totally guilty of listening to the new trash. I am right now tuned into Avril Lavigne's Pandora Channel. But my dad made sure I had a high level of appreciation for classic rock and some other oldie genres. Sitting on the fence here......

[Baby Ricochet]

Lol! Thank you annabelle

[Nia Hope]

I agree with everything you've said! A lot of "music" on the popular radio stations is crap. But then again I'm that one senior who will listen to Stevie Wonder or jazz just because I feel like it lol :)

[Baby Ricochet]

Thank you Ankara