MARQUEE MOON was a climax of punk’s promise—the cannibalization of the prior twenty years of rock ‘n’ roll and rhythm & blues into a synergistic essence—and a transition into the polymathic world of post-punk and indie. It’s easy to cry “overrated” or “overplayed” now, but c’mon.
I’m endlessly fascinated by the CBGB punk scene and how disparate bands with no meaningful shared musical identity coalesced as a scene. Like, what connects Television to the Ramones? Or Blondie to Suicide? Or Talking Heads to the Heartbreakers? Amazing!
marquee moon as a song is as good as anything in the upper echelons of the beatles catalogue. honestly, fuck me, imagine writing it, performing it, imagine recording it and having that sound come out. one of those songs that makes you think humans might possibly be worth a damn.
ceremony by new order is, to me, the best example of “killing yourself music for people who have been into killing themselves for years”. ian curtis, the volatile, wrote a song about how everything HAS to work out because YOU KNOW what he’ll do if it doesn’t. and then he did it.
Kirk Herbstreit (terrorist) said on Gameday: “Who has Miami even played?”
Meanwhile, we are propping up SEC resumes for wins over 3 loss teams in the first week of November.
So once upon a time College Game Day would be looking at being in Big Rapids Michigan on 11/14 for potential 41, a record, and highlight the program, the heroes of it, the close calls along the way, etc
But now they’ll probably be at 1 of 3 sec sites to revisit the same stories they have all year
@LitMedallion@Firstand16_Pod It’s incredibly hypocritical to advocate that 6 conferences lose access the playoff for poor performance when your own conference isn’t even performing that well. Also are you so sure the actual power wouldn’t eventually do the same to the XII/ACC?
@LitMedallion@Firstand16_Pod Well by that logic, maybe the Big 12 doesn’t deserve to get more teams in the playoff considering Tech got their doors blown off last year