Is this the part where Greg Kot flies the rockist flag?

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This is the kind of intelligent debate we need more of.

"Intelligent debate" is the last thing we need. It's fucking music. Get over your own alleged importance.

I've long switched over to extra lean ground beef, but I find a little worscetshire (sp?) sauce and garlic powder mixed in with the beef makes for a tasty burger!

U2 might be a lot of things, but it's not Fucking music.

You are such a load.

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One's in the MoMA's permanent collection, if you think I'm being a cheese-hound.

as an "indie rock" musician I gotta say Bono's actually kinda right - I *do* prefer my music to be in "a ghetto", because I don't see any virtue in being willfully absorbed into the larger marketplace. just let me have my little corner over here where no one's looking and I can do whatever I want....

Anyway, since when was this thread about music? I thought it was:

TS: Bloated Rock Hax0rz Who Should Have Retired A Decade Ago And Would Have If Not For The Opportunity To Do Good In The World That Comes With Money And Fame But Somehow Come Off As Even Bigger Douches Than If They Just Did It For The Money vs. Music-Writer-Slash-Consumer-Advocates Who Position Themselves As The Temple Guardians Of Teh Realness

Meanwhile, I can't believe George Foreman allowed his name on a kitchen gadget. Sellout/Douche.

I kiss you M@tt. There's the thread in a nutshell.

Off now to check the going rate to have "GoldenPalace.com" tattooed on Iggy Pop's back.

Now, that I've shilled... where's my money?

BONO: That's a really important point that I want to get across to you. There's this poverty of ambition, in terms of what rock people will do to promote their work. That's a critical issue to me.

The excitement of punk rock, in the Irish and UK scene when we were coming up, was seeing our favorite band on "Top of the Pops," right next to the "enemy." That would be exciting. We did talk shows, TV shows, back then. The great moments of rock 'n' roll were never off in some corner of the music world, in a self-constructed ghetto. I don't like that kind of thinking. I know some of it exists, and some of our best friends are part of it. It's not for me.

Progressive rock was the enemy in 1976. And it still is. And it has many, many faces. This beast is lurking everywhere. It can describe itself as indie rock. It's the same [blanking] thing. It's misery. I have seen so many great minds struck down by it.

Lol is that a recent quote?

no, from the article upthread