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Originally Posted by Rob Instigator
everything you describe is EXACTLY why I do not enjoy surf rock music
boring boring boring
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it's just personal taste.
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You're putting it as nice as possible there. (Although Rob certainly didn't put it nicely when he named the topic sensationally and included the modifier "shitty.") Now I will never expect everyone, indeed
anyone, to have the same tastes as my own, but I will strongly aver via empirical knowledge that I do know what makes good art good and good music good moreso than most and that, in the end, it simply comes down to aesthetics. And aesthetically, surf rock is a
subgenre that, although not entirely devoid of any merit, is essentially hackneyed and unchallenging. I simply will not ever be
that guy who listens to or cares about every Tom, Dick, and Harry to assume surf rock's formulaic and, yes,
boring mantle. It arose from a notoriously empty-headed subculture, and these days contemporary surf rock performers clearly deal in
novelty and not art.
Obviously, every passionate fan of rock should know the surf rock pioneers like Dick Dale, Duane Eddy, The Chantays and The Surfaris, so please don't put words in my mouth and start to mislabel my sentiments with spin control and nonsense and misunderstanding begat by willful malignant ignorance. The artists above and their stylistic peers made some exceedingly fun and energetic recordings that capture a moment in time and should never be forgotten. So there you go. To argue that I'm ignoring a whole genre is not even accurate. Artists like Elvis Presley and Bob Dylan and The Beatles brought poetry into popular rock music, and the highly instrumental style present in surf rock is simply no longer valid. And it is no longer valid for those that experience the world with a depth of feeling similar to my own.
Instrumental noise is not valid either unless it deals with
complex emotion through its sublime tones and textures. It's all a fine line, and I certainly understand why someone may disagree. Life is a process and such is only bound to happen accordingly.