Rock and Roll Truisms

Entertaining discussion thread over at The Word : What are the things in rock that are clearly obvious to you if not necessarily anyone else? Some examples :-

Bruce Springsteen can't sing or play guitar.

Velvet Underground were crap.

Lots of heavy metal songs are about hell and the devil. Very few are about 16th century metaphysics.

Pete Doherty and Amy Winehouse - over rated and over exposed.

I fail to see the point of Leonard Cohen.

"The only reason you're in this band is because you've got the bloody PA."
There is generally a very good reason why rare and unreleased tracks are rare and unreleased.

Here are my contributions:

1) The readers of music magazines are often more astute than the writers, and can more often spot a load of hyped up baloney when they see it.
2) Very few albums are 100% good. There's usually at least one duff track (e'g Yellow Submarine on Revolver).
3) Just because you can fit 80 minutes of stuff on a CD doesn't mean you have to.
4) It is really depressing that The Daily Telegraph now has a staff rock music 'journalist'.
5) Phil Collins should have stuck to just playing the drums.
6) Keith Richards should be dead by now.
7) George Martin made the difference between The Beatles being a great pop group and The Best Thing That Ever Happened To Music.
8) The world would be a different place if Jimi Hendrix had lived.
9) Electronic drums should be disinvented.
10)The 1980s were generally pretty crap all round - big hair metal, New Romantics, Thatcher, Reagan, synthpop, McCartney's Frog Song. I could go on.