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Look guys, I just got annoyed at one more documentary that presents the history of rock in such a dull and inaccurate way, and it made it even worse that it's been told by old men who haven't listened to anything new since The Beach Boys or something, but remain all too smug about giving an account of it at any opportunity. Rock music is some of the laziest music when it comes to evolving, and that could be because a lot of its fans are prone to smoking too many drugs and nod like sheep at any notion of cool that has little to do with the finished product, and those notions are thrown at them on a daily basis. I don't like that because it makes it stagnant, and in a way it tells them to listen to the same 4 records over and over again without checking out so much stuff that has been produced underneath it and is just as valid as what's commonly recognized as the best or most representative of the genre. The fact that the perpetrators are generally ageing dudes who still try to follow the dream makes it worse and more depressing. Good post by Everyneurotic, by the way.
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