Originally Posted by
veteranof1000psychicwars
You just have to take a deep breath and rise above this kind of dogshit, my friend. It is much more fun to have a laugh at the cluelessness of the yobs who compile these "Best Of" lists. It's only a desperate device to generate sales, in place of actually taking the time to write articles (!), however short, about bands and musicians, from the 60's to the present, who added their piece of the puzzle of the HUGE mosaic that is "progressive rock".
I fucking resent when magazines resort to this cheap and dull tactic to sell their mags, as if their writers have the definitive say on fucking greatness, or whatever...yet I'd stand a pint to any one of those pricks who know more about prog rock than you, or I do.
And goddamnit, I really dig MOJO, but their allergy to progressive rock has begun to grate on me over the years. For some reason their staff reveres Hawkwind, Can, and Robert Wyatt....but why stop there? Why, instead of another god damned Ramones, Clash, or Sex Pistols article, why not tell the stories of Caravan, Nektar, Camel, etc, each of whom sold more than all of those overrated shit bands combined?
It hurt my heart when I realized that MOJO is in the fashion-peddling business, just like Rolling Dogshit....not the music. Tell me over and over how great The Band was, and Bob Dylan, the fucking unbelievably overrated Clash, and the motherfucking Ramones. Over and over.
Anyway...take a deep breath as I do, and laugh at these fucking yobs who think their opinion is gospel. None of them know shit.
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