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Date Posted: 17:28:58 03/14/03 Fri
Author: will
Subject: Re: well excuuuuuuuuuuuse me
In reply to: Kevin 's message, "Re: well excuuuuuuuuuuuse me" on 13:12:44 03/14/03 Fri

no, being boring and uninspired makes you shite. if i want a political insight, there's a lot better places to get it than bad religion, and regardless of that, having world views doesn't make great songs.

regardless, as you said, it's all about opinion. let's be honest, there's people out there that actually genuinely LIKE pop music. weird.

entertainment business? i would disagree with that, but i suppose it's harry's place to rebuff or confirm it. in the end though, if you don't like break these walls gigs, don't go to them. in fact, why don't you start a band and put your own on?

what else? oh aye, i'm fairly sure that the bands you like when you get into a musical style will always be important to you, but it doesn't mean you can't listen ot anything else, surely? i imagine the first "punk" i listened to was the offspring circa smash, which i came to via the wildhearts, oddly enough, but i don't really listen to either of those with any great regularity any more. music - by its very nature - is constantly evolving and changing, amazing new bands are appearing all the time, the goalposts are constantly being moved. i try to make apoint of listening to as many new bands as i possibly can, be it through mp3, compilation cds, gigs, whatever. 90% of them are shit, sure, but that other 10% is what makes it for me. without evolution we become stagnant, through stagnation we die. someone probably said that a lot better than me. and - to me, the untrained ear - bad religion haven't really changed in the last 10 years.

i'd call the 4ft fingers pop punk. but then agin, i wouldn't even put the word punk near the likes of blink 182 or whoever of their ilk is popular now. power pop i believe would be an appropriate time. d'you know, i once had an argument with a kid who was convinced nofx were a hardcore band. now i like nofx a lot, but they're really not hardcore.

i'm really waffling now. time for bed, i think.

oh, yeah. what is hardcore? it's more or less an obsolete term i think, a genre that has become subdivided and pigeonholed beyond all recognition. or, an all encompassing label for what is really a hugely diverse body of music. whichever you fancy really.

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