The Importance of Being Relevant

If you haven’t listened to our past few podcasts, we’ve started pre-empting our album reviews with the reading and discussion of a few music related articles. Last two weeks I’ve addressed the fact that there are just too many damn artists giving their two cents, although they haven’t been relevant for over a decade.

Look, I get being a fan of the Smashing Pumpkins, or U2. If I didn’t put the time and effort to seek out new artists and roll the die on new, and sometimes awful (see next post) music, I’d live in the past too. The point is, Bono might be a humanitarian, but there’s a lot of road and tumble weeds between Joshua Tree, and this Get On Your Boots garbage. They jumped the shark on Pop. Since then it’s all been Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me- Crappy!

Move on to their Batman OST mate, Billy “There Shall Be Only One” Corgan. Yes, he’s the last one standing. I always thought it’d James Iha left alone on stage because no one told him the gig was over. Like the MTv Movie Awards where Stevie Wonder guested with Will Smith on the craptacular rip-off sampling on Wild Wild West, and everyone left the stage, lights went down, next nominee was announced, and Stevie’s still at his piano waiting for a stage hand to put him back in the box till someone else needs to dive back into the Motown riff well. (note: Who’da thunk DJ Jazzy Jeff would be the one with any Street Cred left?). Jimmy Chamberlin left last week, and not a moment too soon, seeing as Billy’s been sucking Satan’s Cock (see: Bill Hicks), endorsing anti-trust and all around greediness.

In the meantime, Courtney Love is selling away Kurt’s memory because she sucks at life, and needs a bail-out. You remember her, the hose beast that killed Kurt, stole his music, released one good album post mortem even though her music sucked prior to Live Through This, only to follow up with the mediocre Celebrity Skin that Corgan had to sue because he insisted he had written twice the amount of songs he was actually credited for? Once she ran out of ATM’s to give ATM, she coincidentally ran out of material again. Yep, you know she did, in your heart of hearts, you know it, and now she’s dragging Frances Bean down with her.

But there is a hero. There is a champion in fishnet. Trent Reznor will save us, or at very least give us free shit and call a spade a spade. Yep, he called Billy on his crap, then turned around and release an EP called NINJA (well, NIN/JA), after Nine Inch Nails, and Janes Addiction, who are touring, and opened by Street Sweeper who also appears on the EP. I guess naming it NINJA “SS” would have just been too cool for school him.

Trent, you rock… hard! I used to think, like many, you were a weird little Emo bitch, who’da thunk you’d still be relevant after all these years. You’re now networking and getting your buddies to bit torrent with you. How Web 2.0! And with Mr.. Lollapalooza himself, Perry Ferrell none the less. Let’s hope this trickles down my friend.

Trent, this one’s on me.

For being a shining beacon in a world of tarnished memories, stagnant “Artists”, and an industry that’s trying to devoid the passion and purity from Music:

Thanks for all the years of Relevance!!!