recovery through angry music

a wise commenter over on Calculated Risk noted that the economic crisis will not be over until music has turned to anger again

see, this is how it goes:

this is where we are.
Insufferably cheerful and phoney, but with a kinda snappy dancable beat...

Don't believe me?
This is AOL's "best music of 2008".
I'd almost rather take "Russia's Greatest Love Machine".

We need to start here:

maybe it has already started somewhere, unnoticed.

Then you really get going, like so:

or like this:

Irony comes, with all its temptation and cynicism:

they never did mention "genetic engineer" or "web designer"... or investment banker.

Then we all get rich:

again.

I wonder where it will start this time.
Maybe Detroit still has it in it.