magicalpigthrowaway

magicalpigthrowaway t1_iyf4uur wrote

I kinda feel bad listening to the Rolling Stones but there's a couple songs I still listen to once in awhile. Plus I was never that big on them to begin with so it doesn't bother me to not listen to it as much. On the other hand, I listen to Zappa all the time and I barely think about the fact that Roy Estrada is a convicted pedo. I feel better about it because he actually went to prison and I don't think of it as his music.

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magicalpigthrowaway t1_iy4xaa2 wrote

They're just kind of okay and not that great. They have some good songs but it's not good enough to really get into. Plus people like to pretend that they were chill hippie dudes and John Lennon was some kind of martyr. A lot of people don't understand that you can just like someone's music without liking the person they are or were. Especially when it's a dead guy.

It's kind of cool that they influenced so many people, but that doesn't necessarily make the music all that good. It's catchy and different than what people were used to at the time, but since everybody's heard it all by now and there's more exposure to different kinds of music, less people like it.

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