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Originally Posted by humndislocation
By your logic, britney spears is more talented than Wagner. If you think that, then quite frankly, you're retarded.
The majority of people will just buy what's fashionable, or whatever facile love song is popular at the moment. Devin Townsend is more talented than just about everything in the charts, but he's completely unknown outside alternative music circles. I could say this for a lot of bands. Therion for example, more talented than 90% of what's popular, but unheard of outside of metal circles.
Just look at the way most slate metal, based purely on the fact it's not fashionable. Most people overlook the complexity of the music entirely, based purely on the fact that some metal bands use shouty vocals. Even then, many of the bands that have shouty vocals, play very complex and classically influenced music.
That's not to say that a lot of bands aren't unpopular for a good reason of course.
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I didn't say that either was more talented. What I said was that I'm sick of the sight of everyone on this forum bitching because a large number of people like music that they don't think is "good enough". I didn't say that if you like an unpopular band you were wrong or that your taste in music was inferiour.
What I am saying is that your taste in music
not superiour to a fan of popular music.
Although presumably this will just draw more flames as no-one here can be objective about music.
EDIT: Quite frankly I am also sick of the "everyone only likes things because they're fashionable" bollocks. For something to get in fashion there has to have been a reason for people to like it in the first place. Stop underestimating people who listen to different sorts of music than you. That's the first step to drawing equality with them.