Fall Out Boy – I don’t think there is anyone as ugly as Pete Wentz. And their music sucks

No band makes me as inexplicably angry as Rascall Flats. I actually feel like my eyes glaze over and I can’t function except to blurt out curse words. GAhhhhh, just THINKING about them! Its like a physical reaction that I actually cannot control.

That said, Cup My Balls Say Ah is horrid, overrated anti-rock.

I should’ve clarified my statement. What I meant to say was that for a lot of these hipster types “anyone who has clearly discernible talent in a classic sense–ie they can play their instrument at an above average level and/or can actually sing–is immediately suspect.” Pure instrumental dexterity–or lack thereof–should not be the main criteria to judge something, unless it becomes an actual hindrance to the music.

But Yngwie is a great example: before consigning him to the dust heap he should be listened to before dismissing him. I did and I did.

I guess my point was about judging music on its own merits and what it may or may not mean to you, as opposed to what so-called arbiters of taste–dubious and otherwise–have deemed it to be.

I also think I am allergic to Coldplay. There is nothing wrong with it per se, it’s just so damn blah I don’t understand the point.

I really can’t work up the energy to hate music. I’ve grown to the point where I can tolerate a lot more than I used to and what I can’t tolerate I can usually understand how someone could like it. I don’t really like Red Hot Chili Peppers, but they are good musicians who write pretty good songs. I don’t ever want to listen to Rush but I guess I can understand why someone would. Death metal bothers me, but, again, I can see where a fan is coming from. On the flip side of the coin, I can understand why someone would hate, say, “On the Corner,” but I’d like to think I can articulate to them why it’s so awesome.

Oh, and Fleet Foxes? If I woke up one morning and I could write songs that tight and pretty I’d probably shit my bed.
Animal Collective haters? Have you heard “Grass”? To find any other songs that beautiful I’d have to dig into, like, “Mingus Ah Um.”

I was totally ambivalent toward them until I had the accidental misfortune to catch them live a few years ago. At first they were just a poor man’s DMB. Then they had the temerity to sing “Sunday Bloody Sunday.” For an encore. At a Christmas show. With a saxophone in the instrumentation.

Who does that?

I don’t hold U2 or Bono on any pedestal, but this song is pretty special. And if you’re not U2 or even from fucking Ireland you should NOT be performing this song.

I also loathe Ray LaMontaigne.

rant:
I don’t usually dislike particular bands, I save all my hate for entire scenes. I steer clear of the Next Big Blog Band not because I dislike the music, but because I hate the entire hipster scene. Your holier-than-thou style and music preference is conformism at it’s worst! Down with Pitchfork!

Ack, it seems other people have the same problem as I do, (like KikoJones). Hipsters, you’re not cool because you listen to something every other clueless kid your age listens to, just because you’re the first in your group of friends to read about it on Stereogum.

I’ve always figured emo scene kids go to college and become hipsters, then they move out to the suburbs and become soccer moms. They pride themselves on their scene, not actually the music, and then they grow out of it… and into another stereotype they can comfortably live in.

I overcompensate because I’m fat, so I just don’t listen to any bands that resemble the indie/hipster scene. You’d think that I was bitter because some hipster did something to spite me long ago. Unfortunately, I can’t even use that as an excuse. I’m just blindly nonconformist (which is a drawback as well). Death to cliques!
/rant