Chuck Klosterman Will Save Music

I almost finished Fargo Rock City in one day and while I'm not going to peddle the book on anyone unless they are incredibly interested in Rock Culture, it is awesome to read things from a high and mighty music critic that make you feel good about any music you listen too. All he does is write about how much he absolutely LOVES glam metal and heavy metal. He breaks everything down associated with it.

My favorite thing he said was something like that Tubthumping by Chumbawamba will always be more important culturally than the grammy winning Bob Dylan album Time Out of Mind released that same year. It definitely says more about that time's culture than Dylan did, if for no other reason than its record sales. If you don't believe it, who would you be more interested to listen to again in 20 years? If you say Dylan's Time Out of Mind you're a liar because while anyone can always argue the technical and talent merits of a band, you can't argue how important and significant that fucking song was in 1997. That's right, from that logic, Insane Clown Posse is more important than probably 99% of all bands from the last 15 years. It doesn't mean its good or bad, but its definitely more important than any pretentious art-folk from a 3 piece in Montreal. Ridiculous as that may seem, I definitely stand by that.