Dr. Frank's What's-it

Bah. If only Bad Religion's dissent *had* been stiffled. That song "Los Angeles is Burning" is crap.

i have to admit i kinda like it,but i also like
a lot of bad music. there's a whole list of
musical guilty pleasures that i desire.
one of the old favorites is even Barry Manilow.

that said,the thoughts make me think Beavis and
Butthead for some reason.

huuh huh fire's cool...and deeply meaningful.

The thing I find dumbest about the remarks is that if the video was so powerful, he'd let it speak for itself.

He's right about dissent being silenced after 9/11 (on a certain level, anyway) and that would be fine if that were the point he was making, but he's just bringing it up to illustrate his point about his band being really brave and radical. Everything he says here is so self-serving.

There's an incredible incoherence to suggesting BOTH that dissent was stifled right after 9/11 AND that they're so brave and radical.

If BOTH propositions are true, why weren't they making a great big clamor in September of 2001?
(My memory could be faulty, but I recall no such thing. Most "anarchist" bands ran for their dear lives. Tom Morello had to issue a denial of support for terrorism -- a lie too, if their 90s Spin interview is any indication -- to stop his songs from getting pulled from radio.)

And if dissent isn't stifled now, how really brave and radical are they to speak out now?

What a load of excrement.

"Their lyrics reflected Weasel's anti-everything apolitical orientation." is what's on Wikipedia right now.

Rewriting history! Revisionism! Memory hole! 1984!!!

Personally, I always just thought that Screeching Weasel sounded terrible. I hadn't noticed any sort of political orientation at all, being unable to listen to it for any significant length of time.

i have a confession to make...I was curious to see if mtx had an entry since screeching weasel
had one. they didn't...i made one.

it may not be that good and not being as well
versed as some I didn't dare a discography.
i'm also too lazy to copy it from somewhere else.

so if anybody cares to add or fix it..it may be a little silly...i put it under Mr T Experience.
i guess a search would find other versions of the name but just in case that's where it is now.

correction...i gues they hated it enough to
take it off. but somebody else should give it
a shot and see if its good enough.

correction...i gues they hated it enough to
take it off. but somebody else should give it
a shot and see if its good enough.

I'm not saying that I think they're brave and radical. I'm saying that they themselves think they’re radical, and instead of speaking on political issues for the sake of debate or raising awareness, they only talk about said issues in reference to themselves and how they’re able to rise above the oppression, making themselves out to be martyrs when they're not. Bad Religion taking a political stand through music is not the same career-ending martyr-making thing that it was to, say, Sinaid O'Connor. Dissent has been silenced, before and especially after 9/11, but not the dissent of people like Bad Religion, who are under the radar and preaching to the choir. For example, ny favorite author, Chuck Palahniuk, started writing horror novels because he knew he wouldn't be able to get his normal violent, social commentary stuff published in the current climate. People are afraid to touch it.

By the way, Rage Against the Machine and Bad Religion aren’t anarchist bands. Where did you get that idea?