Random Annoyances

originally posted TUESDAY, MARCH 25, 2008

Velvet Revolver is supposedly splitting up.
Excellent. Never liked them. Anybody who does is just nostalgic for Guns and the Pilots. They’ll only be remembered as a novelty.
And I would have lost all respect for the entire world if they had actually been Led Zeppelin’s opening act.

Fall Out Boy to set record by playing shows in all seven continents in nine months.
In the words of Juno, “WHOA! DREAM BIG!” What have they really accomplished? Getting booked in Antartica and flying to all seven continents in a span of NINE MONTHS. That’s an average of less than one continent per month. That’s not exactly a talent, boys, especially in the day and age where we use airplanes, not viking ships. If you had done it all in a week or two, that would have been more impressive. Infinitely so.

Smashing Pumpkins suing Virgin Records
Billy. I love you. Okay? I do. I admire you to the ends of the earth. But you should know by now that the number one way to get people to hate you is to file a lawsuit. Metallica did it, and lost most of their fans. (Load and ReLoad didn’t help either.) We’re both part Irish, so I know it’s in our blood to seek revenge, no matter how many years it takes, but when you’re in the public eye, let it go. Especially after you reform your band with only one original member and release a new album. Because I am the only person in the world who is not going to mock you for using the phrase “artistic integrity.”
Especially when you release five billion different formats of said new album. We’ll not comment on the fact that I bought three of the different formats. (Each purchase was for a good reason and I can and will defend myself if necessary.)

Only Rob Sheffield likes the new Panic At The Disco album.
I think you can safely count me in as well. The fans are pissed because it’s not A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out. Everyone else is pissed because they tried to sound like the Beatles or whatever. I respect them for making a follow up that’s not their first album and for coming out not sounding like teenage musicians with a lot of MySpace friends. Give them some credit - they're barely in their twenties and they've come out with a very mature sound that most of their older contemporaries can't even touch. It would have been spectacularly easy for them to continue to ride the wave and release Another Fever You Can't Sweat Out, but it shows great musicianship on their part that they didn't.