| Steve Albini's PSW forum [message #62625] |
Sat, 07 January 2006 09:37  |
uptown jimmy
Messages: 441
Registered: September 2005
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Wow.
I try not to be a hater. I really do. It just seems too easy, ya know? Too
negative.
But I was doing my weekly skim through the various online forums, and ran
across a thread on Steve Albini's PSW forum, started by Steve himself,
concerning who was more important, Wang Chung or Minutemen.
It immediately degenerates a pathetic display of all the most heinous,
cliched, eye-roll-inducing indie-rock crap you'll ever read. And the thread
just goes on and on for pages and pages, with the god-like Albini baiting
them with little Zen koan-type comments appropos of nothing but his own ego
and silly puckishness.
I found myself thinking: "Damn, what a bunch of fucking losers."
I cannot believe anyone takes this "punk/indie" stuff seriously anymore. If
the music's great, then great. But the whole "punk/indie" lifestyle
choice...it seems even more trite than other lifestyle choices because of
its incessant insistence that it isn't a lifestyle choice at all but a
position of moral/aesthetic/fashion authority. Meanwhile an entire
generation of spoiled, oblivious white kids have co-opted the sound and the
style and made it into the candy-coated, mass-marketed cartoon of an empty
fashion it always wanted to be anyway.
Sorry for the rant.
Jimmy
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