I've never bothered to write it down really (because I'm a lazy shite), but this is definitely one of my *pet* pet peeves. Same applies to basically anyone who purposefully make complete crap, just so that they'll be non-mainstream and different, and when something harmonic yet composed in a "classical" manner comes along it's instantly just "bland crap" because it isn't done with an off-beat purpose in mind but distinctively so that it will work from a musical POV. It seems these days it is more mainstream to be different, than actually being mainstream. Fucking eternal teenagers. Some just never seem to grow up out of this adolescent rebelliosity, the idea that you have to oppose everything just because of a principle instead of opposing things that actually are bad.
Obviously I agree. The genre, background or the attitude behind the work are irrelevant - whether it holds your attention and displays at least some wit or imagination is the important thing.
Punk was such a force for the good in that it persuaded people to have confidence in their own ideas again, to not worry about whether they were from the right background or whether they were virtuosos. That was definitely needed at the time, and so much of the music I love came out of that period. However, I think the downside of it is that a lot of really dull people have since used it as a means of excusing their own lack of charisma or imagination, as if having your own fanzine or your own unoriginal band is enough to be worthy of a pat on the back and a gold star. In many cases it's become a prop for the horrendously insecure, which was surely never the original point?
Although actually, it probably was part of the original point - but I always thought that people originally used the punk ethic to develop and grow and have a greater influence on society, rather than hiding away in a cellar criticising their immediate peers.
Exactly so. Pretty much all genres/styles/directions in art have lost their original meaning because the general mass of asshats misinterpreted it the first times around, so they've simply de-evolved (it happens in individual humans too where a homo sapien basically goes back a couple steps and emerges as a neanderthaler).
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Punk was such a force for the good in that it persuaded people to have confidence in their own ideas again, to not worry about whether they were from the right background or whether they were virtuosos. That was definitely needed at the time, and so much of the music I love came out of that period. However, I think the downside of it is that a lot of really dull people have since used it as a means of excusing their own lack of charisma or imagination, as if having your own fanzine or your own unoriginal band is enough to be worthy of a pat on the back and a gold star. In many cases it's become a prop for the horrendously insecure, which was surely never the original point?
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