Who needs a unifying theme anyway?

reallyreallyreallytrying:

“We’re not talking about whether or not Powderfinger and Silverchair are shit in 2k11. Of course they are! Golden Rule LOL. Young Modern LOL. What are those garbage album titles all about? Those are album titles that sound like old dads who don’t give a shit anymore trying to come up with something intriguing/poignant. “Let’s call it Golden Rule because of that saying about golden rules, I guess.” “What saying?” “Go clean your room.” - legitimate actual conversation between Bernard Fanning and Jon Coghill. “What are we not anymore?” “Young.” “Modern.” - almost definitely what went down in the Silverchair rehearsal room.”

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I wrote another column for pedestrian.tv, comparing wealthy old Australian rock bands Powderfinger and Silverchair.

Actually, the album is called Young Modern because that’s what Van Dyke Parks took to calling Daniel Johns during their many collaborations.

If you want to write like this, you gotta have the encyclopaedic rock brain to back it up. There’s more to being Richard Meltzer than run-on sentences and a disregard for punctuation.