I was going to say, I mean I guess everyone was on drugs as Creed and POD were big Christian rock bands. Limp Bizkit is in the same group minus the christian slant. But I thought all of that shit was awesome back in the day, except creed who I thought blew nuts. I was just an idiot teenager with too many hormones and no outlets except the shitty rock I was into. As I grew up the only bands that stuck with me were actually semi to decent bands. I listen to Rammstein and Marilyn Manson a whole lot less, cept when Im gettin my pump on, but everything else from that era I have found aged like dog shit on a hot sidewalk.
There's that and the fact that he lumped them in with Tool and APC. If Maynard ever got word of this, he would permanently hurt ballsack's ballsack. But pearl jam and the chili peppers suck? Yea...
Willem do Kooning, say what you will about art but his stuff is just unaesthetic to me. Same goes for Kandinsky, and Mondrian. I get the whole non-representational thing, but it looks like shit in my opinion.
Someone needs to explain Courtney Stodden and that dude she married to me. They are obviously some long term performance art project or the world's best troll. They can't possibly be a real couple.
Don't forget also proudly loud-mouthed vegans. Some artists from when I was (most of) your age: Presidents of the United States of America "Lump" is one of the worst songs ever made, and fuck you if you liked it. And it was their biggest hit! Remember "Peaches" or "Mach 5"? You h=would have to be eleven years old not to roll your eyes when the radio played these retards. Fionna Apple. Shut. Up. Never, EVER speak again with a microphone in front of you. Other people have problems aside from you, if you gave a shit. Oh, and fucking EAT something. Your figure grosses out Kate Moss. "1990's Fag Rock": Better than Ezra Gin Blossoms Sugar Ray Goo Goo Dolls Soul Asylum Third Eye Blind (kill them with hellfire) ...all sold better than truly unique and awesome bands like Helmet or The Melvins. Figure THAT out.
P.O.D is n't bad, better than some of the Nu Metal that came out such as: Stuck Mojo, Videodrone, Pushmonkey, Out Of Your Mouth, Dope, Skinlab, Kittie, Drowning Pool, Coal Chamber, Limp Dickshit etc etc etc. And Sugar Ray's pre-"Fly" music was good, BECAUSE THEY WERE A METAL BAND. They sold out their entire musical history because of one ENTIRELY shitty song. Sucks.
He's a bit part actor who's biggest role was that guard in the Green Mile. And he has 2 ex-wives. Its not like she was marrying some bankable movie star.
Not sure if one thread is enough to contain my ire, but I'll try. Hip Hop. I think 95% of it blows. Since I'm not patient, I don't want to have to mull through the 95% to find the 5% that's decent. New Country. I think 95% of it blows. See above. Pop. Not much there. 'New Metal.' Garbage. Same as above. Actually, come to think of it, other than my dog and my imaginary lawn, there's not much left in this world that doesn't irritate me. Some stuff irritates me a little less than other things, but generally speaking, I find most pop culture horrendous.
Exactly. He is low hanging fruit and she is a fucking teenager. Neither has the good sense God gave a billygoat.
When I think of Nu-Metal, I think of the rap rock mash ups like Limp Bizzzzzzkit or that cccrrrraaaaaaaaawwwwwling in my SKIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIN band. Kittie and Dope were basically straight heavy metal, albeit terrible and only listenable to awkward teens or uneducated factory workers or methheads.
Re Third Eye Blind, while they were largely terrible, am I the only one that thinks Jumper was actually a good song? Anyone? Granted I was in high school when it came out, but I still like the line 'you're the first to fight, you're way too loud, you're the burst of light on the burial shroud'. I'll crawl back in my hole now.
There isn't a lot of music or art that really gets my blood boiling. Yes, I think some pop is crap, but I just ignore it. And I do think some "art" is idiotic and is worth nowhere near the price, but hey that's capitalism. If someone wants to pay that price then wonderful. However, there is one thing that drives me up the wall, and it should come as no surprise to anyone what the subject matter will be. Enough with the first person shooters. Seriously. How many Call of Duty game are out there right now? Modern Warfare? For fucks sake, this is the new Madden. It's the same shit, over and over, and they make FUCKING MILLIONS. Games like Amnesia: The Dark Descent go mostly forgotten because dude bros need to shoot more terrorists or russians or what the fuck ever. Or, even worse, yet ANOTHER WWII re-imagining. Because shooting Nazis never, ever gets old. Enough already.
<rant> There's a lack of originality in general with video games. Take a look at the PSX library. Sure, the platformer genre was the default, but there was an enormous variety of games. A lot of it sucked, but there was a lot of very original stuff going on. And even within the genres, there was variation. Play Vagrant Story, Final Fantasy 7, and Final Fantasy Tactics, and there's completely different mechanics going on despite being made by the same company in the same couple years. Today, we got Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, Battlefield 3, Halo 3, Gears of War 3, and Duke Nukem Forever. Not even close. The rest of the action games aren't much better; they're all ripoffs of God of War. What happened to the freshness of new ideas? Guitar Hero was a new idea. Rock Band after it was a new idea. But it stopped there. Now we have Rock Band 3. One thing I think art should do is challenge what art is. When SimCity came out, no one had that idea. "Build a city however you want and make it prosper." It was completely new. Nowadays there's SimTrain and SimAnt and SimFarm and SimCity 4000 and whatever the fuck. It's tired, and something new needs to come along. Then someone can combine the two together and make something out of that. And so on. That's art. I hate to be nostalgic, but I look at a lot of abandonware games on Abandonia and love the spirit of early DOS games. These guys made games on being a football team manager, (just the manager; you don't see the games) a brain surgeon, and a guy stick in the mountains after a plane crash. The execution is terrible by today's standards, and plenty of ideas sucked, but there's a shitload of good ideas there. I would LOVE to play a realistic wilderness survival game with PS3 graphics. But no, we're in for remake after remake of the same shit. </rant>
Can someone explain to me the Bush hate? I can understand the criticism of Nickelback, to a point, as they changed their style and objectives once they became famous, essentially pandering to the mass media for the next big single. They sold out. Is the same true with Bush? If not, what gives? Admittedly, I am not well-versed with the band's history or even their library much beyond their singles, but I feel Bush is pretty worthy of the Grunge genre, with a possible exception of their new music. Crown Royal, teach me the ways of the overcritical, mainstream-hating, all-knowing musical purist.
I like Bush (oh gawd, Ive turned into dixiebandit) and think Sixteen Stone is still a fantastic album, but Gavin Rossdale wrote some of the most ridiculous, nonsensical, trying too hard to sound cool lyrics of the 90s. So maybe people get on them for that.