>RANT MODE ENGAGED
>STAND CLEAR
>STAND CLEARI just wish he'd either shut the fuck up, or pull that
bent little head of his OUT of his arse, and accept that some people have different opinions, and maybe we don't want to hear about how much he dislikes them EVERY FUCKING TIME HE POSTS.
Coldplay are instead insulting to anyone who likes music.
What kind of a fucking stupid statement is that? I play piano to grade 8 standard (basically professional grade, if I could be arsed to actually BE professional). I am a tuba player, trombonist, and bassist. I have WRITTEN music, studied music to A level, and wish to become a music and audio designer in the games industry (I'm studying computer games design, with modules in Performance and Instrument Technology right now). My music collection covers anything and everything from Bach to Built To Spill, and a great many points in between.
I am, in short, pretty fucking musical, and have what I like to think of as a broad, educated taste. Coldplay is easily one of my favourite bands. "X&Y" in particular is one of my favourite albums. Purely because I believe that they are, in fact, excellent musicians and songwriters who are doing superior quality music in a world dominated by mountains of crap.
I OBJECT to the above statement simply on the grounds that he seems to be holding himself as an unassailable standard of musical appreciation for all humanity, and is simply refusing to accept that anybody else's opinion is at all valid, regardless of that person's individual tastes, musicality and personality.
sp2: we get it. You don't like Coldplay. That's cool with me, even though I DO like them. Please stop reminding us, it just makes you look like a jerk.
Thank you.
>RANT ENDSEDIT: and yes, I know I'm overreacting. Unfortunately, that knowledge just irritates me further.
EDIT: to address this:
For example, I'm currently listening to Iron Maiden, a legendary and long-lasting heavy metal band who kept a fresh sound and loyal fans over twenty plus albums, unlike some bland, derivative musical products that attract legions of young and feckless fans through the power of advertising and a totally inoffensive formulaic approach, for example Coldplay. Looking back through my audioscrobbler list, I see that before Maiden I was listening to Type O Negative, a band whose effective and tasteful use of keyboards to compliment and enhance the thrust of their music sits at odds with the biege-tinted tingling pianos that drown the music of bands like, for example, Coldplay. Before them it was Japanese experimental rocker Yasushi Ishii. The talent and innovation of this almost entirely unknown artist, skipping easily between the diverse genres of punk, jazz, electronics and alternative rock, throws into stark relief the bland, repetitive, uninteresting music of mainstream artists such as Coldplay.
Where is it written that music has to be doing something new and innovative in order to be meritorious? I mean, folow that line of reasoning:
Modern rock borrows chords from 50's rock and roll, which took many of their features from early 20th century jazz, which was an evolution of the so-called "modern" school of classical music, which evolved from the "Romantic", which evolved from the classical style, which was really more of an advanced form of the Baroque music, which in turn was a more structured and stylistically regulated evolution of renaissance music, which in turn developed from medieval styles... and so on and so forth, right back to Ogg the Unusual, who first beat out a rhythm on the hollow log by the river.
If all music is derivative of something else, then how can anything be said to be truly unique and unusual? If you're going to pan Coldplay purely because they're not doing anything that someone else, somewhere, hasn't done before, then your only hope is to completely abandon the last few million years of musical advancement, grab a pair of sticks and a hollow log, and beat something basic out after skinning and eating a wild deer.
It all becomes too much effort. I like them because I like them, not because of some high-handed concept, or because I believe they've attained some kind of creative epiphany... I just enjoy what they do.
that is, to me, the foremost importance of music - that it should be enjoyed. Not
analysed. You analyse bacterial cultures.
