I will take a moment to rant slightly: When I say "this is crap" it is my opinion and not fact and what you should hear from that is "I dislike them". Similarly, when I say "this is good" you may disagree, and I'm not stating it as a fact, you should hear, or have it implied that "I like them" so maybe if we didn't take every single word to its literal extremities there would be a lot less of the whole "don't say that's gay, say it's not good" mentality. A genre of music does not have sexual reproduction organs and obviously can't have sex, so I don't mean that it is actually gay, but that I don't enjoy it.
Anyway, now that I've got that off my chest. Etheon, while your points are very valid, I classify "music" and "songs" differently, and while a song relies upon the lyrics more than the playing, music relies much more on the playing than the lyrics. Dream Theater manages to combine great lyrics with great instrumental sections, and I won't say, indeed I didn't say that technical complexity is the be all and end all of music. My opinions are less founded on listening and more on playing. It's much more interesting to play a jazz bass line than to sit there with a punk song and play the root note of the exact chord the guitar is doing, and that's it. I'm incredibly biased because I play bass, and am willing to admit it, but if a song's bass line is comprised of "root note, root note, root note, root note while he solos, root note" then it just doesn't appeal to me. I also immediately drop my opinion of a band if I see their bassist playing with a pick. Again, I am not stating fact, merely opinion, and I believe that the punk and pop genre should be able to deliver their style of music and still have great backing. The best example of what I'd enjoy music to be if it's pop-ish is Dream Theater's "These Walls"
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