NEW LOOK.

Because Blogger decided to go re-write all my html and render the original template useless in order to put their new task-bar feature, I've been forced to upload a new template (one of theirs). Maybe I can get Mistress Lisa to get me another original one... Lets hope.

-V

Pointless False-Metal Worship: Musicianship Vs. Garbage

Lately, I've been on this debate with people who consider Curt Cobain as one of music's few elite. Calling his lyrical ability "pure genius" and crediting him with "inadvertently ushering in the grunge era." At the risk of getting numerous hate mails, let me dispel this myth right here and now.

After Nirvana changed the face of music back in 1991 by refusing to wash, learn more than three chords, or look at the audience as opposed to the floor, metal took a big dump. Bands that looked and acted like rock stars were replaced by people who thought they could play, but couldn't, making every idiot who ever picked up a guitar a canidate for the music world.

After Curt blew his brains out with a .12 Gauge (ironic, eh?), RIAA spawned Nu-Metal. The American audience had actually grown a pair and demanded a return of metal. However, RIAA gets off on controlling people's taste in music. And, consequently, knowing most Americans are apathetic and mindless, knew they could get by with what amounts to glorified Alternative Rock.

Kids are continually fed half rate bands who know 3 chords and are also highly disposable. No Rock fan in America seems to have enough bullocks to step away from FM Radio and form his own taste in music. Rather, they seem satisfied with letting moronic rock DJ's who are controlled by the major labels (RIAA, to be exact) to spin this garbage until it catches on. The DJ's are so full of crap, they even believe themselves when they tell the listeners, "This Music is incredible.... What a great CD! System Of A Down is genius!" They refuse to acknowledge bands with more talent in their thumb than someone like, say, Godsmack has in their whole arsenal.

And the live shows. I'm so sick of hearing jocks at local WAAF tell you how great Localbazooka is with all these no-talent bands while Savatage has to tour Europe and Asia where Metal is still respected because they aren't respected by their own country. Thanks RIAA. I hope you drown in a sewer. The live shows blow. When bands aren't shoe-gazing, they are hopping around like a bunch of gay Kangaroos. Sure there may be lights, but forget the spectacle we USED to get, that's long gone.

A note: I actually have a lot of respect for the Jocks at WAAF, 107.3 in Boston MA. The personalities clearly make that station. I just can't stomach the playlist... Will someone out there please make their own playlist and get away from RIAA?