Saturday, November 21, 2009

My opinions on supergroups.

EVERYBODY has one or two.

Each one of you loves some band that somebody hates.

SOME EXAMPLES

Strapping Young Lad
Dream Theater
Opeth
Tool
Fear Factory
The Mars Volta


The thing is, each one of those band has their own little pretentious aura, each one LOVES to wank. Petrucci taking the fucking cake with that one. But everybody likes their particular little band for a million reasons and hates yours for no reason in particular. I'm an Opeth SYL and Tool guy, the latter being my favorite band if I had to choose one.

The problem with these bands for everyday shmucks is that they are all, each memeber of each band, incredible and sometimes obscenely talented in one way or another. The issue with all this is basically that with this sort of talent comes some seriously headstrong nonsense from time to time. Ever listen to Opeth's watershed? It's got some weird stuff going on that a few years back those boys never owuld have pulled. Know why? They're big now. They can pull of whatever the fuck they want. Go listen to the end of bleak, do it! It's creative, and the story behind it is funny...but...
WHAT.


Yeah so, everybody hates your favorite band because they all think they're gods gift to fucking music, and for that fact alone, technical prowess and writing skill may eve be ignored entirely. Fuckin eh.

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