<div class="quote_poster">phunDamentalz Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">I just mean you'd have to listen to a LOT of demos to hear guys as good as Timbaland, the Neptunes or Just Blaze. In my experience, talented artists, even minorly talented, are few and far between. Out of every 100 musicians, struggling/unsigned or whatever, seems like only 2 or 3 actually have the ability to create anything original or good, at least on a level where it will travel and be liked by even a semi-sizeable group of people. So even the bands that are crap are still in that 2 or 3 out of 100, so I try not to be so critical of music that is mediocre. I'm listening to the Good Charlotte album right now at work (quietly), and it's okay, it's nothing ground-breaking or genius, it's pretty damn corporate but it's still in that top 2 or 3 per 100 CDs so I"m not going to say it's complete feces just cause it's not OK Computer...... know what i mean mayn??</div> You're not looking hard enough then. I seriously have a problem in which I have yet to listen to some of the music I've downloaded because of the vast majority of it. That said, even that music while some I haven't heard is hailed as groundbreaking and visionary by some of the smartest people in music. As for your Good Charlotte reference, that's not my cup of tea. I try to explore and listen to music that is in fact groundbreaking and genius. I can't backtrack on something. If I've listened to an album like OK Computer, then it's hard to go back and listen to something that isn't up to that level in that genre. I see where you're coming from, but it seems to me that we listen to music differently and that's why our opinions differ.
