Public Carmodism

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Discussion on the tournament thread about GHOST TOWNE by the Specials - is this the biggest example of Carmodism being generally accepted and written into the executive summary of rock history?

(Definition of Carmodism for the 99% of you who won't know what I'm on about: the belief that the state of the charts reflects the state of the nation, or at least the belief that it makes for more interesting analysis to pretend it does. From Robin Carmody, cultural critic and high practitioner of the art.)

Comments

[koganbot]

The charts do - somewhat - reflect the state of the nation, but what they reflect is the state of the nation's musical preferences. There's not always a strong correspondence between the musical preferences and the nation's TV-news-watching preferences. (I assume that the TV news is the closest most people ever got to the "riots that were sweeping the nation.") (Btw, pop stars in rehab is sweeping the nation right now, if you're in the U.S.)

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Yes, it occurs to me that I mean "state of the state" more than "state of the nation".

[skyecaptain.livejournal.com]

Just got my first issue of Star -- the REHAB issue!