lux

And for this, I listened to The Incredible Jazz Guitar of Wes Montgomery, which surprisingly I quite enjoyed!

Fuck, you’ve piqued my curiosity too, and I’ve hardly dabbled in Jazz!

"...in the sense that from an artistic point of view, maybe the value of indie is not overrated, but from a strictly musical standpoint (and I emphasize STRICTLY), in the end, it’s just 4 chords and a bit of fucking noise guitar and cute little melodies... like Teenage Riot, to be clear." ---- But how can an album be artistically valid but not musically???? It's obvious that if you accept the first, you automatically admit the validity of the second. Artistically valid album = musically valid album. Music albums can only be artistically relevant in a musical sense, they have no other properties... anyway, the fact that you awkwardly brought up the anthem song of Youth allows you to climb to second place on the podium!

Okay, as I suspected...great, you’ve made it to the podium of human cases!!!

I bet you'll bring up the issue of technique, formal elegance, and structural complexity, which in indie (thankfully) are not predominant!!?

It's not false modesty; it's the reality. After all, there will always be some album I haven't listened to yet, so I can slip up at any moment. Do you think I'm putting on airs simply because I've tried to reason in front of individuals like Chinaski, who say "indie is an overrated genre, albeit fun," a statement that oozes ignorance and a lack of understanding of the genre in industrial quantities? So when a simple enthusiast like me encounters someone who wants to push the idea that Dinosaur Jr (and all indie) are just fun and carefree, with no great ambitions, well, it's normal for the average enthusiast to seem like they're putting on airs. But we shouldn't fall into the trap: it's actually the other individual who should keep quiet for everyone's sake, because with the next idiocy they spout, they'll earn their spot as a case study in humanity.

No, but then... who would overrate indie, gentle Chinaski? Which portion of humanity? Let's hear it.

"of which lux has proven to be an expert connoisseur"—I'm not sure if you're being ironic, but I assure you that “expert connoisseur” sounds very, very bad. I limit myself to listening to records, at least those of the most important bands, that’s it.

"and even if indie is overrated" double minkia, the holes in the ground you make when you talk are terrifying. I would almost ask you for the history of indie in a few lines, dear Chinaski. Better the ultra-intellectualized rock for its own sake with baroque and grandiloquent arrangements, right? Oh, let me guess, you're a fan of Dream Theater by any chance?

Damn, you really got everything about Dinosaur Jr, truly Chinà.