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I've nabbed this of a block called Abnego:

"I have a kind of half formed theory that the phenomenon of the global enormo-band only 'mattered' for a relatively short period of time: it had its cultural apotheosis in the 1970s, achieved super-predator chrome-plated moneymoneymoney meaninglessness in the 1980s, slowly ossifying into the Nuremburg rally comfort blanket heritage industry that we all know today: the touring exhibition of the holy relics for the faithful......speaking of which, I saw The Verve peddling low-rent emotional catharsis in a stadium one time, the audience all around me appeared to be sobbing and hugging as if Derren Brown had touched them on that special place on the back of their neck and told them it was OK to stop blaming themselves about their dead mum (though actually, I suspect it was something to do with being western, white, well-educated and well off but spiritually a bit unhappy, like...)...I felt like the undercover reporter at the Scientology induction, and had to get the hell out before they all turned, and sacrificed me as an unbeliever (you know those crowd scenes in the zombie films, where the protagonist has to pretend to be a zombie too, in order to get to the car and escape)......anyway, they all do this feel-bad shtick: Coldplay, Keane, Athlete, Snow Patrol, James's Blunt and Morrison, Katie Melua, the whole sordid bunch...all they have to offer is a mimsying non-specific communal group hug..."yeah, sometimes things seem really bad, I know, we're all kind of to blame people, but you know what, together we can work it out, here's a mid-paced piano-based ballad that'll heal those psychic wounds, yeah, you and me, we're the same, I used to work in a call centre, I feel your pain man, we'll get through this"...is it just me, or was there once a time when stadium music events were straight up, balls out Viking fun rather than passive-agressive miss-the-point maudlin communions?"

I trust everyone is well?