wc - welcome to my life!! haha
seriouslly, over the last, 3 years, ive only listened to hauraki, unless someone else was in the car, in which i would give them a choice of hauraki, the rock, or hauraki. and since then i have cut myself off from all current, top 40, and contemparary music. and loving it. sure it limits what i can listen to, but in saying that, you also find a hell of alot of new stuff that you like. ie, i like the beatles, so i look up songs by mccartney, starr, lennon, and harrison. then i find out that harrison played with (phill collins, jools holland, eric clapton, list goes on (and yes, i was a fan of collins and clapton pre this theory)) and then you link them togeather too.
and its funny, i always joked about it, but my flat mate didnt know how serious i was. like he said to me that at work they got everyone to do the soilder boy dance, or something, and i genuinly do not know what it is. it sounds f***ing stupid. and im sure it is. theres a million shitty emo bands out there, indy bands etc - which are aparantly huge (ala big day out) that i simply have not herd of, untill the bdo, in which they were played on c4, and then i thought - meh i really am not missing out on much.
now on to rap music. im not normally one to really have a dig at something (well try not to) that i dont like. i try and find good things in things i really dont like (eg, australian rugby ahah :lol: - im a fan of the force) and such. back in the early 90's rap was about what it was about. it was fresh. and it was cool to say fresh back then too. it had substance, and even though i didnt like it then either - at least i let it be. now its commercal crap (along with 90% of rock and every other genre)
music has lost its sole, and is most obvious in rock, i will admit. but i would rather have no sole currently, but have the legacy of music from the 60's,70's,80's and somewhat of the 90's. people today, cling onto rhcp - whos latest 2 cds have been utter dribble. rage reforming (who are highly overrated(and by overrated i mean there good, but not jesus. they arnt bigger than the beatles)) smashing pumpkins also in the same boat. all very good bands, but really - could they crash a website, get millions of hits, and petitons like led zeppelin did. would they get the same attention pink floyd got at live 8? i think not.
someone should find that interview with gene simmions that he did a week ago, really digging into todays music.
im with you though wc. music is about sex violence and egos. it clearly is more successfull, and better when its sex, drugs, and rock & roll.
