The Automatik

Something is wrong with the world when I start feeling less annoyed by crappy bands like Korn, Rage Against the Machine, or Crazy Town in the face of bands like Godsmack, Full Devil Jacket, and Linkin Park. Even Moby and Gwen Stefani now seem appealing. At least Gwen is a more positive role model than the singer from Snake River Conspiracy. Wes Borland from Limp Bizkit (you know, the one that looks like a mime on crack) has a new album out called Big Dumb Face. And while I am sure that it is more than his face that is dumb, even that doesn’t turn my stomach like Mudvayne, who must be seen and heard to be believed. MTV2 has a special on this week about “new artists” and Mudvayne is being spotlighted. Riiiiiiight. They are artists in the way an infant is an artist when it craps in its diaper.

One could argue that I should just TURN OFF THE TV if I don’t want to hear or see such horrible bands. But I watch cable music channels in the (often) vain hope that I will see a video by a band I do like or could like. If I thought that just saying no to all this junk would make it go away, I’d write a million more rants on this topic (but I probably will anyway). If I could only blame it on the record industry for giving contracts to such morons, I would gladly do that. They piss me off anyway with their crying about Napster and their abuse of musicians that they don’t know how to market. If they would try to sell real artists like Sloan or Jason Falkner I firmly, and perhaps idealistically, believe that people would like it. But I still blame the sheep of this world for closing their eyes and ears and sucking greedily on their bad music pacifiers.