The Beatles wrote let it be, the stones wrote let it bleed. But we have a beatles vs. stone thread....
For all the green day bashing out there, I used to not understand why Blink-182 didn't get bashed alot more. While Greenday moved away from their original sounds (albeit slowly), Blink-182 did an about face at dude ranch and only got worse from there.
What makes it easier to bash Greenday is that they were more successful, and the more a culture loves something, the more the counter-culture loves to be against it. Therefore, bands that really inspire adoration in a demographic (which can denote talent) is hated far more than bands who actually deserve it.
An interesting question that might make you mindless lemmings think for once is "what band is rated poorly, and deserves that rating" with nothing to 'rage against' I wonder how you might answer.
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