Inside the Head of a TV Junkie

<rant>I dislike Dave Matthews and his music. I switch the radio station when one of his songs begins to play. People who love Dave annoy me, especially when they try to make me love Dave. I do not love Dave nor will I ever love Dave. I have listened to my fair share of Dave songs and I do feel that I have enough exposure to all that is Dave to form the opinion that he and his music suck.</rant>

The main reason I dislike Dave Matthews: People like him because “it’s cool” and treat you like you’re a crazy person if you don’t like him just as much as they do. I still can’t get over the way people react when I tell them that I don’t like DMB.

“What?! What’s wrong with you? It’s such great music. You obviously know nothing about good music.”

Yet, ask a DMB fan to name one song that has touched them deeply or has deep meaning to them and I bet they’ll be hard pressed to name a song.

The music is bland, lacks passion or integrity, and is intended only as background noise. Each song sounds the same or at least very similar which shows a lack of talent in music writing.

I just don’t get it. Dave has managed to somehow convince good people that like good music that his music is good. I guess I can’t fault him for that, it’s definitely working out well for him. He certainly isn’t hurting for cash.

Let me just finish by saying that I don’t think every song I listen to has some sort of deep meaning or has changed my life in some way. That would be ridiculous. I’m also not saying that you have to not like Dave Matthews. What I am saying is please don’t act like Dave Matthews is the standard by which all other music should be compared. He is not the Jesus of music and will not go down in history as one of the greatest musicians of all time. Enjoy your Dave songs, silently, and allow me to voice my opinion of dislike for him and his music without being made to feel as if I’ve just punched a sweet new born baby in the face and enjoyed it.

I bought my cousin’s old iPod from him today. I have a MSFT Zune but I wanted something that I could use at work that would allow me to rate my music in iTunes. This iPod is the answer to that need. I will still keep my Zune because I love it but I’m going to use this iPod for the next month or so to get some of this music rated in my iTunes. One nifty feature of the 5th generation iPod is the ability to display lyrics for the song you are listening to. This is a nice feature. Problem is, you have to cut and paste these lyrics into each song in iTunes. Not so bad if I only had about 100 or so songs. I have over 4000 tracks so this whole cut and paste thing isn’t going to work so much. I have found a solution to this problem though. It’s called EvilLyrics and it automatically updates the lyrics in iTunes once it finds them for the song you are listening to. It works 95% of the time and I love it. Anyway, today I have been listening to a lot of music in iTunes trying to get these lyrics updated. Of course, getting lyrics for every song is probably not feasible and would easily take months to complete, but today was a small step in the right direction.