Bruce Lee and the Streetfighters – Think About Me
I’ve heard a lot of complaints about how there’s simply too much music being released every day. I’ve heard how it’s hard to keep up despite having the wonderful help provided by Alt77. I’ve even heard that with so much music needing to be digested, it gets awfully hard, for some, to distinguish anymore between what sounds good and what doesn’t.
But, to me, those just sound like the words of quitters and champion complainers. The fact that there’s so much music being released and we have access to it should thrill us. And, the other fact is that most of it sounds absolutely terrible because it was probably recorded on an iPhone or designed by AI in three seconds flat. That makes a group like Bruce Lee and the Streetfighters stand out.
You gotta be pretty smart to make dumb, fun punk-rock music, and don’t let any of the big-name music websites tell you any different. “Think About Me” shines through because it sounds like someone gave this punk band access to a big studio and an excellent producer. It also sounds as nice as this because the singer is good enough to make it all feel like he’s fronting a punk band by mistake when he really could’ve been heading some smooth soul combo instead. In a world where a gazillion songs get released every day, “Think About Me” stands out.
Highwayman – Dr. Morbid & Iguana Bob
Yeah, the shadow of capitalism hangs over everything, for better and for worse. No, you don’t need to be a punk-rocker trying to make a living in New York City to be feeling it, or some kid from a small English town considering strategies to move to the capital.
Once, not long ago, the countries that didn’t operate using a capitalist design knew ways to keep things this way. In Eastern Europe, for example, the propaganda machine told citizens that the U.S. was on its way out, and censored most mentions of so-called evil Western entertainment.
But one system has won out. England and the Netherlands invented it, and the U.S. branded it, and everyone in the world feels pushed by it. Scary world news happens to everyone of us, and this is what Russian punk project Highwayman is looking to remind us.
There are no borders anymore. Not really! And that means that while there’s no way of stopping information, there’s also no way of keeping evil wars, corporate greed, or celebrity gossip at bay. This is what this song, which sounds like modern Green Day, the surreal punk of Highwayman’s “Dr Morbid & Iguana Bob,” asks us to remember. The Revolution is a global concern because it’s failed.
