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Future Shock
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The future isn't all it's cracked up to be...A little Dylan-esque wordplay with a techno- edge.
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Folk music for postmoderns
I am what you might call a musical generalist. I listen to pretty much everything and I compose in pretty much any style, though I concentrate mainly on folk, folk-rock, rock, synth-pop, alternative, comedy, musical theatre, jazz, new-age, film music, avant-garde, and the occasional lullaby (why sing your kid to sleep with "Rock-a-bye Baby" when you can can create something personalized?). I've done most of my professional (i.e. paid) work in the theatre, where I've been musical director for dozens of productions. I was also musical director of Mental Floss, the legendary Miami improv group, for over 500 performances; I recently did a stint with Laughing Gas, which rose from the ashes of Mental Floss 11 years ago to become the longest running improv group in South Florida. As a singer-songwriter, I've concentrated most of my energy on my signature style of synth-driven folk-rock (sort of Indigo Girls meets Vangelis). I'm also something of a minor celebrity in the world of Filk (folk music for science fiction fans), where I am proud to be the object of the worlds smallest international fan base.
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Genre
Rock Folk Rock
Charts
Peak #357
Peak in subgenre #25
Author
Darren Zieger
Rights
1996
Uploaded
November 07, 2005
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MP3 3.1 MB 128 kbps 0:00
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Caught in the big net silicon jet set Everybody always saying have you logged on yet Second wave punk rock freedom rings death knocks Every new Rolling Stone sends you into culture shock What's new what gives God is dead Bird lives Virtual culture brings virtual culture vultures I have seen the highway and the road is blocked Stuck my thumb in the socket but I was not shocked I have read the readout and we're sitting ducks I have seen the future And it sucks Techno rave in waltz time no one loves a false rhyme Nail down the furniture you're living on a fault line Death metal retro southern rock a go-go Tony Bennett's in who's next Barry Manilow What's def what's fly what are you gonna buy? If everything's "alternative' is anything alternative? I have seen the highway and the road is blocked I have heard the single and it does not rock I have read the readout and we're sitting ducks I have seen the future And it sucks In the mirror today one more hair gray Lines on my face that weren't there yesterday Day break body ache started eating bran flakes Quicker to tire out slower on the uptake The new music's too loud a fact of which I'm not proud Back in my prime I could've thought of a last line I have seen the highway and the road is blocked Stuck my thumb in the socket but I was not shocked Threw out my blue jeans got a rented tux I have seen the future...
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