Musical Elitist
I listen to everything. No really. Everything.
Have you ever met one of those people that says
they listen to everything, and while they have a pretty interesting
music collection and they may very well have various tastes in music,
they still come off as kind of a blow-hard? I'm not one of those.
When I say I listen to everything, I really do listen to everything. I will relax to Miles Davis and then rock out to Deftones. Scream with The Used and dance to VNV Nation. I'll get depressed with Elliott Smith and get psychadelic with Love.
My musical tastes tend to be a bit more obscure than most people's as well. I also love listening to obscure solo and side projects (notably John Frusciante and Peter Murphy) and I'm a stickler for crazy obscure covers like Devo covering Nine Inch Nail's "Head Like a Hole".
Yes. It exists.
Then of course there's always the genre skip. You might listen to a lot of different things, but you don't listen to every genre. I listen
Yes. It exists.
Then of course there's always the genre skip. You might listen to a lot of different things, but you don't listen to every genre. I listen
to nearly every sub-genre of every genre you could think of.
Rock, dance, new wave, goth, metal, psychadeleia, punk, grunge, synth-pop, rap, country, classical, surf, industrial, soul, funk. You name it.
I may listen to everything, but there is still music that I just can't listen to. I hate it and it forces blood to seep out of my ears. I'm elitist when it comes to music. If I don't like it than it sucks. There's too much music in my life to be concerned with shitty bands and their shitty music.
My biggest problem comes from when I tell someone I hate a band that everyone likes. I tell someone I hate U2 (Especially that pompus dick of a lead singer and their overrated guitar player) or that Pearl Jam can shove it and people look at me like I'm insane. "How could you not like U2!? They're great!". No. They aren't. Don't even get me started on Dave Matthews Band. God forbid I mention that I merely appreciate Pink Floyd (they're not THAT good people).
It's a real shame when the rest of the world listens to almost everything that I think sucks. Nothing that's popular these days is any good. All I hear is crappy bands with nothing interesting going on in their music. Shitty rap with annoyng, repetative beats with uninteresting awful lyrics (that more than likely dumb down society). If you're going to rap about stupid shit and ho's, at least do it over a beat that does something. The only musicians that are really doing anything right these days are the guys that have been around for at least a few years. With a few exceptions mind you. Wolfmother comes to mind, and even then they sound like Zeppelin and the Doors.
I guess that's what happens when corperations and "THEY" try to make money off of art. Corperations only know how things work with business plans and numbers. Art works off of risks and passion, pretty much the complete opposite. They've tried to turn art into business plans and numbers.
Either way. It's only wishful thinking. At least there's still SOME good music being made today, and different people like different things. I just don't think people actually listen to what they listen to. Unlike me.
I'll end here. I hope I've written enough to start some sort of discussions with the outside world. Maybe a heated debate. Until then I'm off to listen to something with depth, I just hope you don't listen to anything that sucks.
Oh. While I'm at it. Let me just recomend the new Deftones album "Saturday Night Wrist". Deftones keep getting better. And Incubus is great. Incubus is one of those bands that you don't actually realize how utterly amazing they are until you actually sit down to listen to them. I've been listening to them recently and I'm digging their shifting styles of music (psychadelic/metal/funk/rap). Really their music is completely insane, but somehow it works. Check it out.
Rock, dance, new wave, goth, metal, psychadeleia, punk, grunge, synth-pop, rap, country, classical, surf, industrial, soul, funk. You name it.
I may listen to everything, but there is still music that I just can't listen to. I hate it and it forces blood to seep out of my ears. I'm elitist when it comes to music. If I don't like it than it sucks. There's too much music in my life to be concerned with shitty bands and their shitty music.
My biggest problem comes from when I tell someone I hate a band that everyone likes. I tell someone I hate U2 (Especially that pompus dick of a lead singer and their overrated guitar player) or that Pearl Jam can shove it and people look at me like I'm insane. "How could you not like U2!? They're great!". No. They aren't. Don't even get me started on Dave Matthews Band. God forbid I mention that I merely appreciate Pink Floyd (they're not THAT good people).
It's a real shame when the rest of the world listens to almost everything that I think sucks. Nothing that's popular these days is any good. All I hear is crappy bands with nothing interesting going on in their music. Shitty rap with annoyng, repetative beats with uninteresting awful lyrics (that more than likely dumb down society). If you're going to rap about stupid shit and ho's, at least do it over a beat that does something. The only musicians that are really doing anything right these days are the guys that have been around for at least a few years. With a few exceptions mind you. Wolfmother comes to mind, and even then they sound like Zeppelin and the Doors.
I guess that's what happens when corperations and "THEY" try to make money off of art. Corperations only know how things work with business plans and numbers. Art works off of risks and passion, pretty much the complete opposite. They've tried to turn art into business plans and numbers.
Either way. It's only wishful thinking. At least there's still SOME good music being made today, and different people like different things. I just don't think people actually listen to what they listen to. Unlike me.
I'll end here. I hope I've written enough to start some sort of discussions with the outside world. Maybe a heated debate. Until then I'm off to listen to something with depth, I just hope you don't listen to anything that sucks.
Oh. While I'm at it. Let me just recomend the new Deftones album "Saturday Night Wrist". Deftones keep getting better. And Incubus is great. Incubus is one of those bands that you don't actually realize how utterly amazing they are until you actually sit down to listen to them. I've been listening to them recently and I'm digging their shifting styles of music (psychadelic/metal/funk/rap). Really their music is completely insane, but somehow it works. Check it out.
Comments
and i still have no qualms about telling others their music sucks
as for U2,OMFG!!
I detest them, they make me want to stab people.