Irrelevance Glorified

Okay, I admit it…I just love it when Jon Stewart swears.

This is from over a month ago, but it’s still funny.

Sometimes, I see things like this, and then I realize that I have wasted my entire life.

For the record, that guy is using something called MidiHero to play a legendarily difficult Guitar Hero song using drums instead of a guitar.

Strangely enough, I’ve had a number of musically related thoughts recently. Lately, the topic of my cogitations has been U2. For much of my early music-consuming life, I considered U2 to be my favorite band. By now, I would say that Radiohead has taken up that mantle. That’s not a huge dig on U2; I really only started listening to music a bit after U2 came out with Achtung Baby, so effectively I came into the music world just when U2 had passed their creative peak, almost 14 years into their now 29 year career, while I caught Radiohead on their way up.

Recently, U2 came out with a new album, No Line On The Horizon. At this point in their career, I’m not exactly waiting at the record store at midnight for their newest release. At best, I hoped that it wouldn’t be horrible. At worst, I cringed at what this would do for their legacy.
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