Chill rock

Alright, there is a type of rock out there that I like to call 'Chill Rock'. Bands like The Killers, Death Cab for Cutie, Coldplay, OneRepublic, and many others. Now there are some good songs by these bands don't get me wrong. The thing I don't understand is how can people listen to it as their main music? I mean sure if you wanted to go to sleep it would be good, or if you wanted time to seem like it was going really slow. Maybe it'd be good if you wanted to calm down after being angry, or if you were excited and you wanted to be bored. But other than those situations that I just described, what is the allure of this substandard art? Its like drinking caramel instead of just having a little with your ice cream. I guess I'm just not a caramel drinker.

For me OneRepublic is easy listening. Their songs vary enough that it doesn't become overly repetative. The lead singer changes his volume and pitch in order to avoid listeners becoming bored. I am the kind of person who can see the good in music that is not necessarily my favorite. For example I hate rap, but I do recognize good rap when I hear it. Likewise with country, it rarely happens but sometimes there is some talent that comes out of the genres. Death Cab is pretty good. My main beef with them is that the lead singer sounds fairly emotionless. Seriously, there is a part in one song where he is obviously dealing with some anger, but he sings like he's bored. Because of the amount of songs released by this group there is obviously going to be some repetitive sound. Its the same with a lot of big bands, Death Cab, Nickelback, Pearl Jam, The Beatles, it happens to the best of them. Coldplay is even a little worse. Actually I listened to 2 different songs and had no idea. There is definitely room for improvement there. They did just win song of the year, but Katey Perry won a grammy as well so thats not saying much, in fact its not saying anything at all really.

Another problem I have with it is the total lack of instruments. Not that necessarily but the bands refusal to master the instrument they play. It's like they played guitar in middle school and thats the best they can do. C'mon guys, you need to learn how to rock. Thats not to say the lyrics of the songs aren't good. Actually many of the lyrics are pretty great. It's the noise that ruins the moment. Most of these bands could put and angry Billy Parksen to sleep without even trying. So, those are my thoughts. Let them pitter patter around in the cranium for awhile, soak up the genius of my word and listen to something that rocks. P.S. the bands I mentioned above do not rock.