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February 04, 2006
By Request Blogging, Part I: For Sarah
I turned over the blog this weekend to the request line... which was a dangerous thing, because I should have seen it coming that I would be given subjects I have no interest whatsoever in blogging about. Led Zeppelin, for example. This band makes the top of my list of Bands I Hate The Most. Because unlike one-hit-wonders like OMC responsible for infuriatingly get-in-your-head pieces of sludge like "How Bizarre," people actually for some god-forsaken unknown reason actually insist on taking Zeppelin seriously. You know, as if inhuman, banshee-like screeching passed for singing, derivative hack axing passed for good guitar work, or vomiting passed for percussion.
Robert Plant has the voice of a drunken ten year old girl -- in both octave and ability. Jimmy Page may well be the single most overrated musician since Pat Boone. Speaking of overrated, Paul McCartney's "Silly Love Songs" featured John Paul Jones on bass -- whose willingness to play on such an insipid piece of AM Gold automatically disqualifies him from inclusion in any list of musicians with dignity. Bonham, I'll give credit for actually being talented... would that he was as talented at puking as he was at drumming.
Still, Sarah asked me to do a Zeppelin post, and this is all-request Curmudgery... there was no way in hell that I was going to even listen to one of their albums, much less three (like I even own one?), so this was an impossibility. Instead, I give you an Internet animation set to one of the only two Zeppelin songs that I can stomach: The Viking Kitties, performing "The Immigrant Song."
The rules were that I'd blog about what you asked... but not necessarily the way you wanted me to.
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I don't like people who are afraid to change their mind, or at least be open to ideas.
Posted by: Sarah at February 5, 2006 03:10 PM
For example, I loathed indie & alt rock before I got to college, and look, now I'm getting a radio show 66% based on them. See? Open to new ideas.
Posted by: Sarah at February 5, 2006 03:12 PM
Sarah, I've been "open" to Led Zeppelin for 25 years. I don't know why you realistically thought that - wow, he's going to listen again to a band he's HATED his whole life and suddenly his 25 years of hearing them and hating every song and their very sound... well that's going to go away and suddenly he's going to hear them the way I hear them!
There's nothing "new" about Led Zeppelin. Their songs have been the same since before I was even your age. Nothing's changed, nothing is new. People either like them or they don't. It's not like they have a new song out that I should listen to open-mindedly. Their stuff is the same.
I'm willing to bet that this new stuff you're listening to... songs you never heard before, right? Not songs that you've loathed your whole life and suddenly have developed a liking for. Just a wild-ass hunch.
If you don't like brussels sprouts, and I serve them for dinner to you, and they're cooked the same way they always have been and they're the same brussels sprouts you've loathed since you were a kid, I hardly see where I could accuse you of not being open to a new idea, or how I could be disappointed that you still loathe them even though nothing was different about them when I served them. Led Zeppelin are brussels sprouts. I loathed them as a kid, as an adult, and having someone new serve them up the same old way with the same of songs I have always loathed... isn't going to change my mind about them.
Posted by: Curmudgeon at February 5, 2006 03:28 PM
