Tuesday Confession

"You just don't get it." With regarding Lo-Fi, have you ever heard this response from someone when you argue your point as to why you don't, or can't, jump on the flannel wagon? Personally, I have. What is there to really get? Is there something that I totally missed in the last couple years that is so profound, so life changing, that it's the Rosetta stone of music? No! I really don't want to put out the vibe that I am totally against lo-fi. I'm not. Sometimes songs sound better in lo'fi, but sometimes they don't and they're shouldn't be bands that are exclusively, "Lo-Fi." . It all depends on the song itself. Example: I have a shitty tape deck in my truck and occasionally the connection gets faulty and all of a sudden it's half radio, and half tape player. Sometimes, like lets say with Wire Chairs Missing, the radio will start leeking in, turning it into, "lo-fi", and it gives it a totally new essence. In this instance it's awesome and might arguably make the song better!

Nowadays, it seems that a good majority of these bands coming out aren't these crazy gifted and talented musicians who know how to use the art of low fidelity to their advantage, but are bloggers who just picked up an instrument for the first time. In all honesty it doesn't really matter if these bands aren't good. They've catered to everything else besides the music itself. If you've seen some of these bands live you know what i'm talking about. They have an image, they're fashionable, and most of all they're, "cool." To be seen at their show, or having someone notice that you downloaded their whole catelog to your itunes is "Cool."

Sorry folks. I'm not fucking, "Cool." Sorry some of us have taken the time, growing up, to learn how to play an instrument, "Not Cool." Sorry if some of us don't choose to wear cutoff's, with some flannel, riding down the street on a fixed gear, "Not Cool." And most of all, Im sorry that in high school i was the punk kid at the corner of the library while you were the jock, and several years later you're trying to question me as to what I know about the, "scene." Not Cool.