Live Oak Blues What happens.

I remember the night the venerable Hugh Downs (!) did a news story on the Sex Pistols. I was watching with my parents. My mother was appalled, my father silent, and I was so excited I could barely contain myself. One look at my mother’s face and I knew there was no way to close the gap, to get her to understand that this band had done the impossible: it had cleared my palate of Journey, REO Speedwagon, Styx, and all the wretched bands that infected Virginia Beach radio in the 70s and 80s.

So given that I am older now, but not so out of touch as some of you might think, could one of you please explain dubstep to me? What is the appeal? Is the only forum for it a sweat-and-ecstacy-soaked dance club? Do people like it because they think other hip folk like it? I ask, because I think it sucks. And believe me I’ve tried to like it. I’ve hit up YouTube, Turntable.fm, and various other forums to see if there was something I was missing, because I am nothing if not open-minded when it comes to music.

Or is it simply a matter of my old ears, as brilliantly illustrated by the instant classic South Park episode where the hip new music trend sounds like literal shit to Stan? Because it does. It sounds like unmelodic, pan-rattling, unoriginal, caterwalling shit to me. I welcome your enlightenment, good reader.