SacredAndProfane wrote:I'll tell you WTF...this post supports my ongoing belief that, generally speaking, most people that buy "rock music" are a bunch of dumbasses. There's a very small amount of people in the "rock-buying community" that are interested in bands that are doing something besides cranking...
Hmmm. I think you're making some big assumptions here!
Anyway, I'm not saying that Blink-182 is a great band. Hey, I called them CRAP. But I think that I could have fun at one of their dumb shows. What the hell? I can name a thousand bands that I'd rather see, but I'm not so dogmatic that I couldn't go to the show and try and take it for what it's worth.
Plus, they seem like nice enough guys? Maybe? I don't know? Being nice is something that matters?
And their drummer is, in fact, really good.
And they at least
tried to do something different on their last record. It's not particularly good, but at least they tried.
It's faint praise, and they're not a good band, but I'll give them whatever slight due that they deserve, which isn't much. But I'm still pretty sure that I could have fun at one of their dumb shows, and I wouldn't be embarrassed for doing so. I mean, I think a person can go to the Art Institute and Great America and take away something from each place, however inconsequential that thing might be. Again, wtf?
Or maybe the show would be terrible and I would scream at them things like, "You are a bad band!" Ha ha! That would show them!
So here's the bottom line, SacredAndProfane.
I love music that cranks.
I love music that takes me away.
I love music that colors my perception.
I love music that challenges my preconceptions.
I love music that physically affects me with its power.
Blink-182's music does none of these things. But you know what? Sometimes I don't mind a little stupid energetic CRAP. In my book, that's okay.
Am I really arguing in defense of Blink-182? I guess that I am! Mark the day! The thing is that I just can't see getting that bent out of shape over them. They're not really part of my world, so maybe it's easy for me to treat them as an abstraction. I certainly don't see them as the enemy.
DKM supreme.
By the way, did someone really just call me a dumbass? I don't think that's ever happened before! I don't think that I'm a dumbass, but I'll let other folks be the judge of that.
A dumbass!