NineFeetUnderground said:
you think everything is pretentious...and fault every band with a hint of it and refuse to enjoy the positive aspects, such as YES.
so that being said, why should i waste my time? maybe some indie is a bit pretentious and possibly passionless, but certainly not all. but i forgot, you know everything right? :Smug:
but less we forget the total irony of this sentiment, that youre discussing pretention on an Opeth message board. i think im going to pee that concept has me laughing so hard.
Ok, first of all, I don't dislike Yes because they're pretentious. I dislike Yes because they're boring. Frankly, listening to a bunch of musicians (that could be fucking virtuosos on all their instruments for all I care) jamming while on a ridiculous amount of heroin simply does not interest me. And I did not decide that before I listened, but after. So stop whining, Yes is not the be all and end all of prog-rock, or taste in music for that matter.
Second of all, perhaps I need to elaborate. Pretentious, in that context, is referring to that which is unjustifiably pretentious. While thinking of Opeth, or Richard Bona, or Schoenberg, pretentious is not the first adjective that comes to mind, though it may be apt, simply because any presumptiousness inherent is justified. With all the indie music I've encountered, said attitude is completely injustified. Judging the genre based PURELY ON THE INDIE-MUSIC I'VE ENCOUNTERED, the genre sucks. I said this before.
Lastly, I think I'll pee myself laughing at the suggestion that I'm the one who thinks he knows everything.
However, my request still stands. So if you're done trying your best to pwn me, it would take all of 7 seconds of your time to throw 3 band names at me and be done with this.