How do you even compare?

2010:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hXO1v7OEpc

1989:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEL6_SuQCu8

is 22 years a long time? My goodness yes but...it's just not the same

No one's voice and demeanor stays the same forever, but the same drive in the 80s just isn't there in how they play now...

Do I say retire? No. But man, listening to their live shows from the last year compared to shit from over 20 years ago, I don't understand how they've gotten more and more boring to listen to.

I've probably watched that Seattle video a thousand times, hell I own the damn DVD, it's probably one of my favorite live performances ever.



A great friend recently made me consciously aware that I like what everyone else likes so nothing I listen to ever conflicts, and although it's not the entire idea, it's pretty much the truth. I don't like conflict, and getting told "your music sucks" over and over has gotten so tiring to the point where I don't even feel like standing up for myself for any reason. If all standing up for myself is going to do is provoke more anger for the music I like, what's the purpose in even arguing?

Do I generally like the music everyone else likes? Yeah because I'm not picky in my music. I always ask people what they like and I listen to it, and if I think it's good I'll just add it to my list of ever growing music. I can pretty much confidently say I probably have a wider array of genres, artists, and songs in my itunes library than most people (I may not have heard EVERY song in my 8k song library, but I've listened to every artist in it).

So do I have music on my library that I listen to that most people would argue "sucks"? Absolutely. I just don't play it all the time because I KNOW the majority of people would not want to listen to it.

I like the top of the charts radio top 200 bullshit, I like bands that pretty much no one has ever heard of. It's standings in relation to others means nothing to me. Influences mean nothing to me. I once wore a rise against shirt and some girl told me to listen to some band because it sounded just like rise against, went home found them and listened and it sounded like them but at the same time sounded absolutely retarded.

I dunno what the purpose of this is, I was just going through some old metallica and realized that I don't know why I don't stand up for my music. Is it because I'm lame, or is it because I'm not passionate enough, or is it because it shouldn't matter why I like something? Who knows

I'm lazy and don't want to study anatomy, peace out blogger