9. Music Sucks

What follows is a concise list of truths about music.

 

1.  Country music, while a power house of an industry, gets little of the respect it so deserves.  Two separate awards shows solely for the country genre PLUS nominations in major awards shows like the Grammy’s as well as inclusion in other Pop and Billboard shows too.    It’s here to stay, and if you give it an honest chance, it’s NOT that bad.

2.  Real punk is dead.  It died a long time ago.  Kids like me, and the bands we listened to killed it.  However, no one will ever accept this, as long as anyone should remain alive.  What exists now is a post-punk tribute to the music of the past and whiny low price pop music laced with guitars so that guys have something to relate to that isn’t considered too feminine (i.e. Beiber(sp? I don’t care enough to check)).

3. Metal isn’t metal anymore, and the 7,000 subgenres of it were created specifically because frontmen and guitarists are too convoluted and involved in themselves to stick their creation into such a broad spectrum.  These messy guitars, triple bass, and throat destroying renditions of love and hate are not…I repeat NOT metal.  The term “Metal” should be reserved specifically for those bands that produce sweeping and epic albums about fire and brimstone and riding dragons into the fires of Mordor with an ice mage and sexy thief at your back.  You want complicated music?  Tony Iommi, guitarist of Black Sabbath, the dude had 3 fingers.  Rick Allen, lost his arm and continued to play the drums for Def Leppard after the accident.  That’s difficult.  That’s metal.

4.  Justin Timberlake was a gift.  And you all squandered it.  So did Timbaland, but that’s a personal complaint.

5. The fact that bands like LMFAO exist says worlds about the state of music and where it’s heading.  And where it’s heading is a dark and twisted place that I dare not travel to.  Anyone continuing down that path is on their own.

6. Dubstep isn’t music.  All Skrillex does is press play.

7. Fight and argue all you like about music, nobody is right.  Nobody is wrong either.  Let’s face facts, a fake rap band who wrote songs about cumming early and being on a boat was Grammy Nominated.

8.  There are two things no one can ever deny.  Rush and Garth Brooks.

 

Stop fighting and stop hating, unless it’s truly warranted.  Start embracing and accept what others like and don’t like.  The first step on the path of harmony is mutual respect.  You don’t demand it, you earn it.