Thread: Do you believe that bands/musicians need to push the boundaries of music to be considered "great"?
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Old 11-12-2011, 08:37 PM   #73
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I think Animal Collective are decent enough but I don't really enjoy a lot of the wave of electronica/distortion/ambient/whatever stuff. I think Wavves and No Age are fucking dreadful. I think suggesting you have to push the boundaries and experiment to be great is, for many people, more a way of legitimising why you think your music taste is better than everyone else's (i.e. pretentiousness). I only say that because I look back at some of the things I thought and said when I was younger, and much of it was that kind of attitude and it was basically being a pretentious bastard. Being able to write great songs is more important than being willing to make your music sound dense and difficult.
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