American Music Rocks

The American standard of living is falling.  We're stuck in a pointless war.  Gas is at three dollars.  Our most exotic city is destroyed by an act of God just 4 years after our cultural and economic capital was attacked and deeply scarred by terrorists.  Our atheletes take steroids. Television is crap.  The commercials are crap.  The news isn't the news anymore--it's just media now, the same as the commercials.  We're running up debt, exporting our manufacturing, and losing our bookstores, music stores, and other expressions of culture to a censoring WalMart business model.  Morale is low in these States.

Tonight I was listening to an old Radiohead album and got to thinking about why British and Irish rock music takes up more than half my CD collection.  What about this big country I live in?  So I dragged out my old CDs and pulled up my mp3s to find some good ol' American music.

We rock in America.  Our best stuff always comes from the rough edges.  Maybe we're not as existential as the Brits or as spiritual or nihilistic as the Irish, but we rock better.  I'll poll the few bands I love best.  Choose your fav, or name your own fav.