Falun Gong Love Song

Mick Jones (The Clash, Big Audio Dynamite) and Tony James (Generation X, Sigue Sigue Sputnik) have a band that I just heard about. On the band's blog Tony James answers a question that has come up for them a lot since the release of their first record. They've been posting mp3s for free download on their site for 4 years, so why release a record?

The funny thing is his answer jives with my experience of discovering the band. They only hit my radar after the CD was released and they did interviews and TV to promote it. So the CD is still the motivation for people who control media to write about a band and for record companies to promote a band. They aren't really promoting the band, just the record. I had never thought about that fact before - that the band and the record are different things in the eyes of the sales people.


Falun Gong Love Song is the song I've been listening to today. The title is a good description of the song's content. Mick lets clarity of message trump poetry in a couple spots but I think the song still holds up. If you're gonna write a message song, you should probably make it pensive and give it a hook.