if the sound is grating on you, you suck at listening to music. open your mind.
learn to enjoy it.
it sounds like what it sounds like. it wasn't a mistake or a misperception. that's what they wanted the drums to sound like. what fault can be found in doing what they set out to do? if somebody set out to have a drum sound like fucking Pantera or something and they ended up with the St. Anger sound, then
that could maybe be considered a failure of some sort.
i think most people on this earth qualify "good" and "bad" by how much something sounds like other things that they've heard or how well it stacks up to other more familiar things on some arbitrary scale of "quality" that they made up one day, more familiar being "better", less familiar "worse".
the only way to properly perceive and judge art is by seeing it as exactly what it is and nothing else, not projecting our own biases on it. do not say "it sucks because it sounds like this", simply say "it sounds like this".
it's not a question of pleasant and unpleasant. you should always enjoy the act of perceiving new art, stretching your mind in a way you never have before,
learning to listen better, more freely.
if your ear isn't trained enough to find and appeciate whatever redeeming qualities something
does have, and all you can focus on is your perception of it's "failures" when compared to other more familiar works which you, in self-righteous ignorance, arbitrarily have tagged as the bar of "good", then you are not experiencing that work in it's entire self, and therefore you are not truly experiencing it at all, merely using it as a soapbox for justifying your own ignorant parameters of perception.
that makes me really sad and slightly disgusted.
uke:
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