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Originally Posted by Urban Hatemonger
Although I do think thats true in some ways I don't think always the case.
I don't see good or bad musicianship as the be all & end all of everything.I enjoy a bit of difficulty. I'm more likely to listen to a song more if I can't decide if I like it or not because every listen of it is a challenge.
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Me too but I think sometimes they just use it as something to defend bad songwriting. Id say that Sonic Youth's first album is incredibly difficult because of the compositional style and the recording quality but to me it has a character no other album Ive ever heard has. Same thing with some of Smog's albums. The sort of stuff Im talking about is like Jandek or the Shaggs. That stuff has no redeeming features but the Pitchfork types will always defend stuff like that under the pretense that the total lack of talent makes it 'purer in its naievety' than somthing by somebody who actually knows three chords.
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