Quote Originally Posted by CultureCherryPopper
Music for music's sake died with jazz.
Strong statement there. On one hand, I agree that jazz as a genre, in its glory days, was as pure as blues in its glory days. High quality, low hype musical experience. On the other hand, I wouldn't write jazz off as 'dead' quite yet, although crap acts like KennyG dancing around the edges of the genre make me CRINGE.

I think Nirvana and freakin Creed are by far the most over-rated, and the standard by which I judge this is the ratio of hype to apparent musical talent. It's not [just] that I don't dig the music as much as the media says I should... well, that too...

As for all the hatin' on U2, pish posh. Old U2 has great musical merit, no matter what you think of the personalities associated with the band. The songwriting is top notch and it's rare to see a band gain both commercial success and earn respect as a political voice. The Joshua Tree is just a stellar album start to finish. Perhaps if you don't like that sort of rock, you won't get as much out of it as someone who does, but it's excellent; IMHO one of the greatest albums ever recorded in any genre.

And you may notice this thread has gotten a hair shorter... we can't be calling names here and the offender ironically got a warning ON THIS THREAD last YEAR... knock it off.