Rock Belief: Pink Leather Jackets

How can you not get nostalgic about good ol’ rock n’ roll once in a while? Why there used to be a time when a great rockin’ number could just about change your life. People would swear by its power. Rock bands would be followed around the land like modern-day faith healers. 

Frankly, for those used to that kind of standard, little of what masquerades for rock music nowadays will do. Yes, yes, record labels know that these people are out there. Graciously, once in a while, they offer them bands meant to impersonate their favorites. But is it all the same when you close your eyes?

The spirit has been saved up by a few fanatics. Their goal is to get the world back to a place where unbeknownst to it at the time, it had reached a genuine state of grace. These devotees, in turn, get treated by the rest of the world like weirdos. If only they could understand…

Pink Leather Jackets’ Rock N’ Roll Is Dead dares to wrap its powerful, hooky song around lyrics that spell out what we’ve all been afraid to admit to ourselves. The greatest kind of popular music was murdered, and we sat around watching it happen. For a while, we can take hope from believing things will go back to the way they were. Still, when we realize that’s all just a pipe dream, we should be just as angry as Pink Leather Jackets are here. - Alt 77