Music, the media and me.

I was sitting here drinking and thinking about how annoying music lately. how the media shoves tons of shit down our throats. About how people call bands like, the Deftones or Godsmack, heavy metal. Then I think back to the days when I sat on the floor of my dads garage, just playing with my Tonka trucks. My pops would be listening to Hank Williams or Johnny Cash, then my brother would get home and be loudly playing some Blue Oyster Cult in the tape deck of his '76 Suburban. "Turn that racket off!", my dad would yell. To wit my brother would grumble and turn it off. I should say that some kids would have continued to play the music but my dad is one of those dads you never messed with. My bro would mumble about BOC still being music and how good it was, my father, for his part, still thought it was crap. I will say that the song 'Don't fear the Reaper', is pretty sweet, especially when they used it as the opening song for the mini-series version of Stephen Kings, The Stand, that was awesome.
Soon I start thinking about music and how it changes. Years later I was in my fathers garage trying to turn over a stuck 454. I was listening to one of my favorite albums, Anthrax, Among The Living, which, strangely enough also has a lot to do with Steven Kings, 'The Stand'. The song Among the Living is all about 'The Walking Dude'. Of course 'I am the Law' is about Judge Dredd but 'Skeletons', is all about the story 'Apt Pupil'.
So, okay, popular music sucks but this seems to be opening a new idea for me, remember how popular Rob Zombie was for a while? Now all he does is make horror movies that are pretty sweet. So that's it. Wow, I just realized it. You never hear a crappy song, in a good horror movie. Damn it, that's the connection. All the music you hear on the radio is crap because it was made by non-violent and whoafully boring people. I get it now. Johnny Cash was a lunatic in his youth and most likely until his death. Even Earnest Tubbs from the Grande Olde Oprey was a violent person. That's it, that is the connection the media doesn't want you to see. Violence is a creative outlet and creative and talented people are violent. All the popular bands right now are pussies, hell, a lot of them are European, or have a Euro-trash lean. I am blown away by this discovery. Intelligence+ mediocre horror novels + musical talent= decent music, where as no intellegence + stupid hairdo+ whining - testes = scott Stapp. It is all so simple. Look at the good bands out there and tell me these equations don't work. I dare you.