Ramblings From Justin Penney

I actually watched part of the Mtv2 - Rock Countdown. I left part way through so I'll only comment on what I saw....

What the f*ck happened to New Found Glory? I'm a proud pop-punk lover for a long time and have a few older New Found Glory CDs but what the hell are they doing. How much more whiny can his voice get? Oh yeah... Leaving the autotune on auto for the whoel song really sucks! This video had things going backwards, as in running the video backwards.

Hoobastank... I don't actually remember this one.

This whole video was backwards. What's with these "pop-punk" ballads?

I really dig the Interpol video and need to get the new album. I really liked Turn on the Bright Lights. I really dig the "Joy Division-like" bands. Maybe I just need to listen to more Joy division though. This video had stuff that had been broken play backward so that it became unbroken!

Jet is truly the most derivitive band I ahve heard! Every song they do sounds like a direct rip off of some classic band. This song, "Look What You've Done," is nearly a diorect rip off of the Beatles... actually it makes me think of Oasis which is a bad rip off of the Beatles... so this is a 3rd generation rip-off. Nice. However... there was a refreshing lack of backward video!

No matter how black you dress or how big your mohawk is or how tattooed you are if you sing like N'Sync you are just as lame. Oh and also you can't joke about getting your "cred" back if you never had any to start with. Good Charlotte could never make another sound and I would be much happier!

Secret Machines also make me think of Joy Division. I like them. There's lots of lights in the video. My wife and I were arguing about the backwardness of the video. She thinks that the lights could be backward. I don't think that would count anyway since it's not horribly obvious if they are.

The last one I saw was "Always" by Blink 182. Ok... here it is in writing... I like Blink 182. I've got most of their albums and would listen to them if the local alternative station didn't have such a tight playlist that incorporated at least 2 Blink songs per half hour. This is also a cool video. I like the concept and the production. I'm a cheeseball. Sorry.

Anyway... at this point I left to record The Last Call Girls at the Brick.

# posted by Justin @ 10:07 PM