The essence of music

Where has music gone? I too was just thinking about this myself just the other day while taking a shower. I must be listening to all of the new wrong music that is coming out, but most new tunes carry very little draw for me because of their weak message. Admitedly, Kiss's Lick it Up and Quiet Riot's Cum on Feel the Noise have very little in terms of message value. Taking it back to the slightly old skool...Rock. Whatever happened to real rebellion and thought? The first time I listened to Metallica, I was blown away. And justice for All was amazing...rebelling. It wasn't without a cause...same shit that goes down today. Wire taps, oppression of people, etc. That's what And justice for all was talking about. One was based on the book Johnny Got his Gun...a guy who gets all four limbs blown off in Vietnam, goes blind and prays for death. I bet a lot of our boys in Iraq feel like that. For Whom the Bell Tolls in Ride the Lightning. Spin-off of Hemingway, not the poem. Talking about a band of brothers fighting for a cause. Punk: Bad Religion. American Jesus, I want to conquer the world...fighting the ignorance and hypocrisy of our culture. Call it counterculture, but it's a sociological analysis of our culture. It's what speaks true to our hearts. Tupac: Life Goes On...I'm not from the streets or the ghettos, but I can relate to the struggles of living day to day and missing the friends that I grew up with. Even basic emotions that transverse across human experience: love. Eric Clapton's Wonderful Tonight...hands down the most romantic song ever written in my honest opinion. Dire Straits' Romeo and Juliet make me believe in love. Maybe some of these thoughts are too complicated for our youth...but shit. I think it's all the video games, the tv, the pr0n, all those things that destroy those things in life that give meaning to human existence. I'm not trying to be a hater, but whatever happened to Bryan Adams summer of '69 and Bruce Springsteen? They captured the essence of the ephemeral bliss of childhood. Driving with the top down, wind blowing in your hair. Playing your guitar and jamming with your boys. Rolling in the grass. The feeling of seeing a new Mustang or whatever flips your lip. Even television shows...remember the Wonder Years? Remember that cheesy guitar riff they played whenever Winnie Cooper came on screen? Whatever happened to the romance surrounding the anticipation of your first kiss, girls who could stop time and steal your heart with a single glance. Our life is a continuation of the wonder years...you know how it got all disorganized in the end and everything went to shit, except the drama never ended and things never got easier. Bringing this all back to youth...I saw a rusted Spiderman lunchbox today in the cafe.

Whatever Happened to Bender's Lunchbox?