SLTS and Stairway does attract a lot of crappy covers.
This is why I don't understand why people think being simple and basic is what rock music should be all about. This is my problem with the punk rock motto, just because anybody can pick up an instrument and start a band doesn't mean they should. I think a lot of music from the past 10 years has taught us that.
Just because a song is simple and easy to play doesn't mean EVERYBODY should butcher the f*ck out of it and then post it on youtube, and put in those misleading titles and tags that trick you into clicking on one. If the US government wants to put an end to torture that's where they should start.
This is why complex and technical music deserves it's props, weither it be classical or jazz or avant garde or prog or IDM, it's music that's not easly spoiled by constant repetition, being heard time and time again on every radio station, every tv commercial and every guitar shop. I'd still rather listen to Nirvana than Paganini, but at least no 12 year olds force me to listen to their sh*tty cover of Caprice No.24
It's really hard to get me to hate a song from simply hearing it too much though, I still love Stairway and Money and Iron Man and Bohemian Rhapsody and Layla and a lot of other classic rock staples.
But Dream On by Aerosmith. Somebody f*cking ban that song already. And Foreigner. OH GOD the Foreigner.
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