i realize that the cliche isn't quite true...
and is a bit overstated,
but let's face it:

a good number of punk rockers could barely play their instruments.



i mean, obviously... hitting a sound that you
programmed into a sampler
is not as difficult as executing a note on a horn.

i don't think anybody is disputing that.



but let's face it,
a lot of punk rock might be laughed at
by folks that dig jazz and classical... on the same grounds that you
are marginaizing sampling. (they ain't even playing,
anybody can do that, etc.)




anyway... my point is,
we can debate which genre is harder to play all day.

i know for a fact that speed metal
is exceptionaly difficult to play,
but i'd never want to listen to any of it. ever.


i would, however, listen to kanye west's "space ship."
(which sounds nothing like "distant lover," by the way).




yeah, i know the speed metal is harder to play.





but at the end of the day,
isn't it always about songs?

some of the the punk rockers had songs. (or, at least the grove. or whatever it was they were doing. they had "it.")

and clearly, some of the rap producers have "it," too.





i mean, we can do the
"my favorite genre is harder to play" game all day.
but what the fuck for?

they're all doing their own thing.
"every music has a soul" (c) qunicy jones.


this post is abusing my eclectic sensabilities.