Reverend Joe
03-22-2009, 17:25
So I was sitting in my room desperately trying to ignore some VERY irritating girls in the kitchen next to me (have you ever had the experience of being near a group of girls who, upon reaching critical mass, begin to radiate stupid?) when suddenly they decide the whole building needs to listen to the Beatles.
Just for the record, listening to the Beatles to me is about as desirable as eating rotten meat.
So I decide I have to drive them out somehow. I gotta get that douchebag Lennon out of my head as fast as possible. So I start listening to their mortal enemies, the Rolling Stones. Yet by the time one song was over, I was already muttering to myself about how freakin' BORING these guys are. Yeah, they have a few good songs, but those are roughly one per album. No joke; every album has one classic and about 7 or 8 other filler songs to make up for their lack of originality. Sure the albums may have had more than one hit each, but aside from the one song the rest almost always suck regardless of their popularity.
Suddenly it occurs to me: what about the Yardbirds?
What ABOUT the Yardbirds? Nobody listens to them anymore. Irritating college chicks love the Beatles and drunks know all the Rolling Stones by heart, but nobody is REALLY keeping the Yardbirds alive. They were a better band; they rocked harder, they weren't incredibly pretentious and they didn't get into the classical experimentalism crap that made the Beatles the world's worst band, but nobody cares. Nah, we want to listen to Lennon croon some more (and oh, he's so goddamn dreamy because of his political views) or listen to Jagger warble some more about how we can't always get what we want (No ****, really? Oh, wow, that's absolutely profound, Jagger, do you have any more wisdom to impart upon us?) and forget about the fact that the best musicians were playing the good stuff, the blues-rock, the REAL rock.
Aargh! :wall:
Just for the record, listening to the Beatles to me is about as desirable as eating rotten meat.
So I decide I have to drive them out somehow. I gotta get that douchebag Lennon out of my head as fast as possible. So I start listening to their mortal enemies, the Rolling Stones. Yet by the time one song was over, I was already muttering to myself about how freakin' BORING these guys are. Yeah, they have a few good songs, but those are roughly one per album. No joke; every album has one classic and about 7 or 8 other filler songs to make up for their lack of originality. Sure the albums may have had more than one hit each, but aside from the one song the rest almost always suck regardless of their popularity.
Suddenly it occurs to me: what about the Yardbirds?
What ABOUT the Yardbirds? Nobody listens to them anymore. Irritating college chicks love the Beatles and drunks know all the Rolling Stones by heart, but nobody is REALLY keeping the Yardbirds alive. They were a better band; they rocked harder, they weren't incredibly pretentious and they didn't get into the classical experimentalism crap that made the Beatles the world's worst band, but nobody cares. Nah, we want to listen to Lennon croon some more (and oh, he's so goddamn dreamy because of his political views) or listen to Jagger warble some more about how we can't always get what we want (No ****, really? Oh, wow, that's absolutely profound, Jagger, do you have any more wisdom to impart upon us?) and forget about the fact that the best musicians were playing the good stuff, the blues-rock, the REAL rock.
Aargh! :wall: