lol, well you can laugh without me writing all that up, given that you're also not a fan. It defeats the purpose when all the person asking wants to do, is trash the guy regardless of if he makes any sense.

I like you Urban, but I'm not going to. It sort of takes away the mood to talk about it when people just trash me for liking this band, for liking Richard, and there's that constant judging of my own personal taste in music over one damn band. It doesn't bother me if someone says they don't like Filter. What bothers me is when it's done in a really demeaning manner, and it's only meant to get a rise out of whoever likes the music. Sort of impossible to have any kind of conversation when things are like that.

I don't have an opinion of that band one way or another.

All I saw was some guy whining for half an hour that things are not what they were like 20 years ago when he had his one and only hit.
Pop music is safe?
No shit Sherlock it's been that way for decades, it's not a new thing just because nobody cares about your band.

Fair enough.

He did a lot of stating the obvious, but points were made, and I didn't agree with absolutely everything, just a majority of it even though I've heard it all before.

They've had a few hits actually, haha but yeah, was a pretty long while ago now.

When I say hit I was being generous, what I actually mean is track on a movie soundtrack that I usually skipped.
That's probably the closest they got to having any fame outside the U.S.

What does his popularity have to do with the validity of his opinions?

Everything if you go back and read what I said.

Would it be irony if I said they played outside of the U.S. more now than they did when they were popular in the U.S.?

nobody buying ur jacket

Well I'll guess I'll have to spell it out to you.

He was complaining that pop music is safe and dull.
Well it was safe and dull 20 years ago, the only difference was back then bad post grunge bands and generic alt-rock were what was popular. Which just so happened to be the kind of music he plays.

Now it's moved on to other things being popular and just as generic and dull and all of a sudden he says 'Hey, pop music is safe and boring'.

It always was, it's just he didn't care when it was him selling records.

That seems like an excessive amount of guessing but okay, I was just curious. :soccer: