Originally Posted by bigmuff

My opinion is that music isn't stale. It's the fact that there are so many brainless idiots buying so much stale music that it's only too easy to get the impression it is stale. There's so much interesting exciting music out there, but all that seems to be getting through are whatever blazer-clad-fuckwits of the week NME are pushing, Panic At My Chemical Fallout or whatever Kerrang are into, or coffee table bland merchants for the over-30 crowd.

Certainly, the problem here in Glasgow is that any emerging band will be struggling to get crowds/gigs/CD sales etc., unless they perpetuate this stale state. The audiences are now so accustomed to accepting rehashed clone music, that the only way for a band to be successful is to cater to that particular taste, and there's a whole pile of creatively bankrupt morons more than happy to take on the task. My big problem is that at the moment it's not about the music you play, it's about how you look or what you say and do.

My prime example of this would be Dundee band The View. I'd call them nothing more than a bunch of wannabe Libertines ripoffs, and that's nothing to be proud of, given that IMO, the Libertines were little more than overhyped style-over-substance rubbish who got lucky by getting the "NME golden touch". Of course, The View were total unknowns until... shock... their drummer got arrested for being in a car with Pete Doherty! All of a sudden, this gave them this stupid false rock credibility, the NME were all over it, and all of a sudden they're all over the radio and MTV. Thoroughly stupid if you ask me.

As for the internet, I think freely available music is a great thing, although still definitely no substitute for having a real, physical CD in your hand. I think at worst, all it'll do is make some greedy greedy people less money, but with their attitudes, I'm only more than happy to see their bank balances fall a little. It's the artists like Metallica that really get on my tits something awful. And Zakk Wylde too, I used to have quite a lot of respect for him, then I read the following quote in an interview on www.ultimate-guitar.com...

"It's a good thing I never ran into him because I swear to Christ, I would have broken his legs and beat the fuck out of him. You think I'm fucking joking? I ain't fucking joking. It would be no accident. I swear to Christ the crucifixtion that they did to Christ, would have been a laughing joke compared to what I would have done to that cocksucker. Let me get this straight, basically you're stealing."

Originally Posted by indigenousinsight

can i ask a question to you people how much is nme in the uk?as well as q?and mojo?

and how much are the american versions of spin,rolling stone,blender,etc.

i was at barnes and noble the other day and i think q and mojo were like 8 or 9 dollars which is insane but yet i bought them.i know tard.q had the 20 best albums in q's lifetime and i have more then half of them.


honestly i havent been blown away as much as in previous years with this last 2 years perhaps im just getting old and thats it or quality of tunes could be stronger.