https://www.wired.com/story/generati...ent-throwback/
By arrogant I mean performatively arrogant. The reality is that I like all kinds of music. For me, music is just music and all the categories just an easy way to search for and talk about what I like. That's it. However, after a half-century, the snarky critics who use Prog Rock as a tired one-liner continue to worship at the altar of a booze infested drug fiend named Lester Bangs and something named Robert Christgau - a man who epitomizes someone who is trying to get laid by attaching himself to people others actually want to have sex with. Down to a person their devotees remind me of all the people who bullied me in school.
So I do my act in places where people lazily think Punk was actually a response to Prog featuring all the slathered on nose-in-the-air opinions and chuckling dismissals of the troglodytes that have opinions that sounds like someone asked ChatGPT, "Write me an article that sounds like Lester Bangs wrote it right before he inevitably dropped dead."
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