MIKIVERSE ALTERNA-POP
Monday, August 22, 2011
THE DEAD KENNEDYS MTV GET OFF THE AIR
Fun Fun Fun in the fluffy chair
Flame up the herb
Wolf down the beer. (repeat)
Hi, I'm Your Video DJ
I always talk like I'm wigged out on Quaaludes
i wear a satin baseball jacket everywhere I go.
My job is destroy whats left of your imagination
by feeding you endless doses
of sugar-coated mindless garbage
So don't create, be sedate
Be a vegetable at home and thwack on that dial
If we have our way
even you will believe
This is the future of rock'n'roll
MTV GET OFF THE AIR!!!!!
How far will you go?
How low will you stoop?
To tranquilise our minds
with your sugar coated swill
You've turned Rock'roll rebellion
into Pat Boone sedation
Making sure there's nothing left of the imagination
MTV GET OFF THE
MTV GET OFF THE
MTV GET OFF THE AIR (REPEAT)
See the latest rejects from The Muppet Show
Shake their tits and their dicks as they lip sync on screen
There's something I don't like about a band who always smiles
Another tax write off for some schmuck who doesn't care
MTV GET OFF THE
MTV GET OFF THE
MTV GET OFF THE AIR (REPEAT)
And so it was, our beloved corporate gods
claimed they created rock video
Allowing it to sink as low in one year,
As commercial tv has in 25.
It's the new frontier they say,
It's wide open, anything can happen.
Well you've got a lot of nerve to call yourself a pioneer
when your too god-damn conservative to take real chances
Tin-eared, Graph papered brained,
Accountants, instead of music fans,
call all the shots at giant record companies now
the lowest common denominator rules.
Forget honesty,
forget creativity,
the dumbest buy the mostest
that's the name of game,
but sales are slumping,
and no one will say why
Could it be thy put out one too many lousy records....
MTV GET OFF THE AIR, NOW.
Written from memory, don't hate me if I got something wrong, I think I've remebered it mostly right. :D
Wednesday, August 10, 2011
SHOCK DEMISE A BLOW TO LOCAL MUSIC
Ben Butler
August 4, 2010 - 3:00AM
AUSTRALIA'S largest independent record label, Shock, has been sold after hitting hard times, costing up to 40 warehouse jobs.
The sale to CD duplicator Regency Media will hurt the local music scene, as Shock's warehouse provided a stable source of employment for a clutch of Melbourne's rock musicians.
But they will stop work in October, when Shock's distribution operations move to Regency's Sydney warehouse.
Regency managing director Fiona Horman declined to say how much the company had paid for Shock's business, but it is believed to be between $5 million and $10 million.
''We see it as a great thing that we've managed to save a like-minded music company and now it can continue on and flourish,'' she said.
Shock, founded in 1988, boomed in the 1990s as the rising tide of grunge and alternative rock delivered chart hits for artists such as The Offspring, whose album Smashbecame the company's first No. 1 in 1994.
It also built a solid roster of Australian artists, including masked shock rockers TISM and Australian Idol star Ricki-Lee Coulter.
But in June Shock's mounting financial problems forced it to close three subsidiaries, including its publishing arm, in a bid to save the group.
In a statement released yesterday, Shock chairman David Williams said the sale was due to ''the collapse of bank funding due to the global financial crisis and tough market conditions''.
A National Union of Workers spokesman said Shock's warehouse ''employed that niche market of local musicians and local artists''.
''The beauty of what Shock Records did was that it catered to the local music industry,'' the spokesman said.
''There was the ability for a lot of those workers to do things such as tour and record and so on - that sort of flexibility was allowed.''
Warehouse employees would get all their entitlements, he said. ''A lot of these workers have been there 10 years plus.''
This story was found at: http://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/music/shock-demise-a-blow-to-local-music-20100803-115ij.html