Posted: 04 Aug 2011, 19:55
Guilty! 
3, actually - Motorhead and Killed by Death are the other two. Not sure that I would call myself conservative - I think Lemmy's philosophy of "do one thing*, and do it well" makes him interesting from a musical perspective. Other bands evolve, Lemmy refuses to. You could equate him to a musical James Bond - would we continue to go to the pictures to see the latest Bond film if he were to be some sensitive new-age renaissance man who always wore a condom, treated women with respect, and agonised over wasting some hot blonde Russian assassin? Probably not - we like him precisely because he is such an anachronism, and I suspect that we like Lemmy and 'head for the same reasons. They remind us that it's ok to rock out with your cock out when you feel like it; to break up with someone, go home, put Ace of Spades on the turntable, and turn the volume to 11; and to forget that the last 30 years of full-time employment, mortgages, marriages, kids, and car-payments ever happened, to relive if just for 2 hours what it was like to be a kid, head-banging along to some bangin' choons, drinking more than you should, and kicking over the traces. For most people its an escape, not a way of life - just like film, or books, or whatever we use to get outside our heads every so often. So, your ears bleed for a while, and you're deaf for a week. That's the price of entertainment - it's still more fun than many others things you can do with your clothes on.Sita wrote:I don't get the whole thing either. Must be because people are at their heart deeply conservative. If you look at Lemmy, it's like the last 30 years didn't exist. And apparently people love him for that.
There's nothing wrong with that, of course, it's just that in the Motorhead case I find it so extreme. They even have only one bloody song!!!
*That one thing, of course, is being louder than any sound ever recorded in the history of mankind
), but I'm sure we have enough in common not to allow it to come between us 