Response to : http://noisey.vice.com/en_uk/blog/the-123-worst-musicians-of-all-time

Apparently opinion constitutes fact now. The hipster trash that decides what is on the “not-hot-list” dont truly understand music for what it is. Its not about who plays better, what scales you use, and how popular you measure up to be, its just …like…your opinion man. Now, Im going to keep this rant somewhat short.

Taking one band on the list, The Beatles, and saying they are one of the worst musicians in history is absolute bull-shit. Then, calling yourself a music-expert when you know what shit they pulled to create their albums, what effort they had to put into some of the most unimportant parts of the song to add to the aesthetic really proves how amateur you are. It always amazes me when people say The Beatles were “just another boy band who happened to get big”. They put in their 10,000 hours well before being discovered. Now Im not saying I LOVE The Beatles but I respect and appreciate them for what they have done. Had their albums come out now they would have tanked, but for the time they came out the music was revolutionary.

Foo Fighters are on the list? How?? I may be slightly jaded but how is Dave Grohl, the songwriter to many songs you could hum in your sleep, one of the worst musicians? It is almost laughable how easy it is for these people to sit behind their glass walls saying what bands are great and who are terrible based on their opinion of musicianship. Others on the list include Jimi Hendrix (how?), Marvin Gaye, The Rolling Stones, The Sex Pistols, The Strokes, Stevie Wonder and Ray Charles were lumped into one, and Queen. QUEEN?? You try writing a song like Bohemian Rhapsody.

For the record, I saw Stevie Wonder at last years Global Citizen fest. Now I am no dancer by any means. I do not like to shake my hips, but as soon as he came on I was like John Travolta in Saturday Night Fever just like everyone else around me. His ability to get everyone feeling the music so much they started dancing was astounding, even that girl…uh….Adele Dahzeem was feeling it.

I wonder what kind of music these people listen to? In order to put down all of these artists, from all these different genres, they have succeeded in alienating themselves from most music. But hey, I bet they have a plethora of Mongolian Throat Singing, Bollywood classics, and Gamelan music they would love to share with the world then compare to the Dead Kennedys and the Beach Boys. Thats like comparing an apple to a battery.

Now, again its not about who plays better, its about creating a feeling, displaying and recreating an emotion, or even just getting a tune stuck in your head. I may personally agree that some of these artists don’t belong on the hit-list but somehow they got there. Because their fans liked them enough to listen, and listen, and listen, and listen again, enough that they got their friends into the music. That ability to gain that much of a following, to gain support through music, is fact enough that these people don’t deserve to be on this shit-list. I may be wrong, this may be a comedic article (and god I hope it is), but if not then I hope that people don’t just read the article and blindly follow Vice because of the name. Some of these artists helped create new genres, which if you have ever picked up and instrument in your life you would know is hard to do. How ignint do ya gotta be to publish that?