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Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Adult Orientated Rock

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Rock music is now only really a nostalgia re-packaging industry for… er… the 'increasingly-more mature' adult (who seem to rather fervidly do their utmost to deny the fact of their aging) rather its traditional market of an adolescent fantasy of imagined authenticity. Therefore, in order to keep sales levels up, it has become essential to rewrite many - of what the record industry likes to call - 'classic' songs in order for them to retain their appeal to this newly emerging audience demographic.

Work on this has already begun, and so, today, the record companies have - in a joint statement - published a list of several of these re-worked songs that will be released over the coming weeks in time for the pre-Christmas sales rush.

The re-worked songs scheduled for release so far are:

Waiting For My Gran - Velvet Underground

I'm A Gran - Bo Diddley

Gran Of Constant Sorrow - Bob Dylan

Walk Like A Gran - Bruce Springsteen

Grannish Boy - Muddy Waters

Solitary Gran - Neil Diamond

Gran On The Moon - R.E.M.

Gran Of The World - Fleetwood Mac

Street Fighting Gran - Rolling Stones

This Charming Gran - The Smiths

(White Gran) In Hammersmith Palias - The Clash

Sharp Dressed Gran - ZZ Top

Southern Gran - Neil Young

Hoochie Coochie Gran - Muddy Waters

The Gran Who Sold The World - David Bowie

RastaGran live up! - Bob Marley and the Wailers

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