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This’ll wake you up.

The Men, “Open Your Heart,” live, SXSW (Austin, Tx.), 3/6/12

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lagniappe

musical thoughts

The pop music being made in the 1960s sounded nothing like that of the 1920s. But, today, the formula employed by The Men (and many other bands)—electric guitar + bass + drums + volume + energy—is the same one the MC5 was using when I first heard them in August of 1968, in Chicago’s Lincoln Park, during the Democratic Convention. What, if anything, does it mean that pop music—some of it, anyway—has changed so little in the last 40 years?