Sorry, I saw
avant-garde jazz and experimental rock and lost consciousness for a few seconds. But I'm okay now...
No need to apologize. I didn't mean to suggest that all musicians suck now. Just all rock musicians. But it's still a widely varied field, so happily they all suck for different reasons, and you never have to be bored.
For example, MUSE is talked about around here, and I saw and heard them for the first time a couple Saturday nights ago. They may be fine musicians, I don't know, they only played a couple notes, but god damn it, they sucked the asses of diseased monkeys. What a barrelful of pretentious, unrelenting
shit. I watch imbeciles like these and try to listen for as long as I can, trying to get what they're going for and give them the benefit of the doubt. But those boys are a waste of space and plastic or electrons or laser beams or however they sell that "music." It sounded like a 12 year old on his first day with a new computer music recording program. And that
singing --- Jesus wept. Then he threw a beer can. Even Jesus thinks the MUSE singer is a miserable fag, and he loves everyone (and he invented fags, as well, so that's really saying something).
(Now all you real fags calm down - TheBicycleTragedy, Bill Sikes, you lot - I'm not insulting you. I find your lifestyle charming and productive, and you are a tidy bunch, which is important - nuff respect! It was hyperbole. You of all people should understand hyperbole and grand overstatement used for dramatic effect. Get over yourselves, bitches!)
Well now this has spun off its axis, as these threads do. But since we're orbiting Jupiter now, I should also add that most of the musicians who play behind the prefab pop stars are "good," in the accepted meaning of the term.
I don't think they're good, but they are schooled, and they can read music and all play the same song at the same time without ever making mistakes, and that's all that's really required.
But it's boring as shit.
Some kids realize that, most don't. Nothing ever changes. Every gaggle of malcontents that start every new musical movement or fad are disaffected and unsatisfied (are those the same thing?), so they tear down the status quo and replace it with something else. One in every ten of those tear-downs results in the building of something that is actually interesting. The rest of them are just change for change's sake. We are deep in a change-for-change's-sake cycle, and have been for many years, but it will end some day.
