I worry myself sometimes. I was reading This article on Salon and found myself nodding along and agreeing. I guess that's the how it starts. The insidious creep in to old-fartdom. On the other hand, I do listen to some of the more "relevant" music today and there are some good things being produced. Unlike the author of this article, however, I say metal is dead and good riddance. It had it's day. I even still have a few treasured thrash CDs but I definitely don't pine for "the good old days" of the genre.
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More in a bit.
Hmm if you were wondering everstar it's Megadeth. For some reason they deicded to leave out the extra 'a' in deth. I own two or three of their cds and they are actually pretty entertaining, but I suppose they come from the "old school" housh of deth (cuz we can't spell) metal.
While the author of said article seems to constantly bash and do very little research, from what I can tell, into the bands he's talking about. It makes me wonder how old this guy is. I grew up in the late 80's, spent the late 90's in college, and I'm now part of the "work force" in the early 00's and either I'm not that picky about the music I listen to, or this guy must be my parents age.
Every generation pretty much has had some sort of "new" music style to listen to even though a lot of the time it's just some sort of new twist on an old style. Every new onslaught of bands also has plenty of cookie-cutter style bands just trying to get in on the same fad or a twist on the fad that made someone else famous. I'm sure there have been plenty of Beatle knock offs over time and you never hear anyone talk about them other than perhaps Oasis. So what makes this freshmen crue of "rockers" any different. Just because they have what I would call the ebonic plauge within their lyrics doesn't make the music and better or worse than the previous generations' music.
If the nu music of today sucks so bad then this guy needs to do what I do. Don't listen to the radio. Listen to what you like and forget about the rest.
The whine in the author's writing is no better than the whine in the music he spent four pages bitching about. Lame. But the guy's just a music critic anyway. His words hold about the same value as a flaming pile of dog excrement.
And that's all I have to say about that...
She said, "Yeah, they were never as mandatory for me as Megadeath." (I think I misspelled that.)
I said, "Uh huh."
Mind you, I don't know exactly what point this makes about either of us. Actually, that's not true. Having never liked heavy metal, umlaut or no, I've apparently been an old fart since about... let's see, the age of six. I guess I'm not sure what it says about her. :)