Already I hear comedians that say they will miss the Bush administrations as it just gave them tons of martial to make fun of.
I don't think the Bush era was good for musicians, at least not for those who wrote about it (I won't get into the list of crappy "war on terror" movie Hollywood made...).
Unlike some past musicians that were build on their interpretation of the "times" or are even one of the first that come to mind when you think of an era, like Bob Dylan.
I don't see any artist whom I can think of which would represent the Bush era.
I can't even think of songs that can represent it... if in the past we had Neil Young with "Rockin in the Free World"
or Springsteen with "Born in the USA" (acoustic version)
what do we have from the Bush years? probably covers of those songs.
It's not that no artist was effected, Pearl Jam's last two records are heavily influenced by the Bush era, but I can't say it got the best out of them.
All the "Rock against Bush" albums during the bush/Kerry elections weren't much good and didn't achieve much... maybe A Perfect Circle's eMOTIVe
The only Band I can think of that got some more appreciation is Green Day, which transformed from a cute Punk-Pop band to political artists with American Idiot.
Well I hope the Obama years will get those artists off the "No more war" road and we'll get better albums.







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