Originally Posted by: grizzlymintI'm just sick of people telling me that the virtuoso guitar players are jerk off artists. They don't seem to understand what I/we do.

I don't like shred virtuoso music at all, but I wouldn't say it's not music. It's obviously a very skilled thing, I just don't find it interesting.

To me music is about chords going to the right place at the right time, if that makes sense. There are some chord changes in songs that just make me go "holy ****, now that is music."

Lyrics are important to me too. I like songs that are heavy on the rhyme scheme and aren't typical of anything else. The Dresden Dolls and the Tragically Hip are pretty much the best bands I can think of as far as lyrics go. I wish I could better describe what kind of lyrics I like, but it's tough.

Yeah, I don't know. It's a tough thing to explain. All I know is that some songs just strike me as amazing right off the bat, and that's what music is to me.