{"id":2110,"date":"2011-07-12T11:58:36","date_gmt":"2011-07-12T17:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/?p=2110"},"modified":"2011-07-12T11:58:36","modified_gmt":"2011-07-12T17:58:36","slug":"chain-the-gang-musics-not-for-everyone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/2011\/07\/12\/chain-the-gang-musics-not-for-everyone\/","title":{"rendered":"Chain &#038; The Gang &#8211; Music\u2019s Not For Everyone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/chain-and-the-gang-musics-not-for-everyone.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2115\" title=\"chain-and-the-gang-musics-not-for-everyone\" src=\"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/chain-and-the-gang-musics-not-for-everyone-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n\u201cIf  you feel like you\u2019re not good enough then you\u2019re probably not \/ And you  know what \/ You never, ever will be.\u201d Singing this silently for a whole  week may seem to be disparaging to the extreme, but after listening to <em>Music\u2019s Not For Everyone<\/em>,  it could hardly be helped. Chain &amp; The Gang have written 14 catchy  blues and garage rock tunes, each one with clever and simple lyrics that  you will find yourself singing incessantly. On the surface, the  defining themes of these lyrics would be drug taking, and music making,  however, these guys are not some superficial rock &amp; roll losers.  When you listen to the lyrics of \u201cDetroit Music\u201d: \u201cWith all these  factories closing down \/ Who is gonna make that sound!\u201d You\u2019ll realize  that these guys have political and philosophical convictions. \u201cMusic\u2019s  Not For Everyone\u201d is a Jim Morrison type psychedelic spoken  word-and-musical piece about the appreciation of music. \u201cDoes a moth  know a flame just because it\u2019s drawn to it? \/ Does a body know a bullet  just because it got hit? \/ Do people who are listening to music even  like it? \/ Do people deserve it, even when they buy it?\u201d \u00a0Also notable  is the theme of self-loathing in \u201cNot Good Enough\u201d and \u201cCan\u2019t Get Away  From Myself.\u201d This album is the band\u2019s second full-length and I would be  remiss if I did not mention that these guys are a bunch of filthy  Marxists. Their first full-length album is <em>Down With Liberty\u2026Up With Chains!<\/em> \u201cLiberty\u201d is used as a symbol of Western greed and capitalism. Ian  Svenonius, the lead singer of Chain &amp; The Gang has released a book  called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Psychic-Soviet-Other-Works-Svenonius\/dp\/0965618390\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Psychic Soviet<\/em><\/a> which might well be worth a read through! I love every single track on  this brilliant album. (K Records, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.krecs.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.krecs.com<\/a>) <strong>Kyra Leib<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIf you feel like you\u2019re not good enough then you\u2019re probably not \/ And you know what \/ You never, ever will be.\u201d Singing this silently for a whole week may seem to be disparaging to the extreme, but after listening to Music\u2019s Not For Everyone, it could hardly be helped. Chain &amp; The Gang [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[179],"class_list":["post-2110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-chain-and-the-gang"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}