That Pete Wentz bass thread got me thinking. I don't like Fallout Boy. But once I was at a bar and about three beers deep, and one of their songs came on. In that state I kinda enjoyed Fallout Boy.
Then there's that old joke:
What did the sober Deadhead say to the other sober Deadhead?
"What's this awful music playing?"
And thinking back to highschool, I worked with this kid who was a really good rapper. He could have had a career at it if he wanted to. Then he discovered weed and downers, and was thereafter always high. The music he made before was really good. The music he made after was terrible.
And the more I think about it, the more it occurs to me that lots of people spend a lot of their free time intoxicated. I'm not judging, I've had my stretches of working a crappy job and wanting a couple drinks after work every night. But it's more and more common for people to talk about it these days, it seems.
I hear more discussion about people smoking every day or taking edibles, or coming in to work on Mondays badly hung over.
I think that no matter what genres you listen to, you'll probably agree that most of it is not stuff you'd choose to hear. It's not all stuff that would make you change the radio, but what really stands out and makes you want to listen is the exceptional stuff, not the majority of what's available.
Looking at my own experiences of tolerating, or even enjoying, what I think of as bad music while I've been in an altered state, it makes me wonder: is there as much less than great music around because people are intoxicated a lot?
Then there's that old joke:
What did the sober Deadhead say to the other sober Deadhead?
"What's this awful music playing?"
And thinking back to highschool, I worked with this kid who was a really good rapper. He could have had a career at it if he wanted to. Then he discovered weed and downers, and was thereafter always high. The music he made before was really good. The music he made after was terrible.
And the more I think about it, the more it occurs to me that lots of people spend a lot of their free time intoxicated. I'm not judging, I've had my stretches of working a crappy job and wanting a couple drinks after work every night. But it's more and more common for people to talk about it these days, it seems.
I hear more discussion about people smoking every day or taking edibles, or coming in to work on Mondays badly hung over.
I think that no matter what genres you listen to, you'll probably agree that most of it is not stuff you'd choose to hear. It's not all stuff that would make you change the radio, but what really stands out and makes you want to listen is the exceptional stuff, not the majority of what's available.
Looking at my own experiences of tolerating, or even enjoying, what I think of as bad music while I've been in an altered state, it makes me wonder: is there as much less than great music around because people are intoxicated a lot?
