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.

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Due to work stuff, I'm very busy this week, and I don't have time to write a detailed pathological language post, so I chose something that doesn't take a lot of explanation, but
While browser over at programming.reddit.com, I came across something simultaneously hideous and amazing.
I saw it at Julie's.
"American Music," the Violent Femmes "California Stars," Billy Bragg and Wilco "The City of New Orleans," Arlo Guthrie "Song to Woody," Bob Dylan "The Body of an American," the Pogues

well this post is more scientific than most other economic posts and it got music.

By zombie_bot (not verified) on 31 Dec 2008 #permalink

Love it... Am a physics major but mainly blog on economics... love your site and postings... good to meet you.