My taste in music sucks, evidently

While waiting for the laundry to finish, I was flipping through my new issue of Rolling Stone. Don’t worry, it’s a free subscription- it’s not like I pay for that rag. Anyhow… on the back page, with all the charts, they have their “My List” section, wherein a musician talks about what songs or albums or musical styles they’re digging at the moment.

This issue, the list for for Corey Taylor of Slipknot and Stone Sour. I hate both those bands. Slipknot has always been, to me, a serious disappointment. When “Wait and Bleed” came out, I was totally expecting a new wave of awesome metal that dealt with actual topics and had lyrical content, along with some cool new influences (the beer keg drums reminded me a lot of Einstürzende Neubauten). Then I heard “People=Shit” and was pretty fucking let down.

The point I’m trying to make here is that two of the five songs Taylor picked are songs I fucking LOVE, those songs being the Cramps‘ “Bop Pills” and Stiff Little Fingers‘ “Suspect Device.” Seriously, two of my favorite songs.

I can’t believe this asshat likes the same stuff I do. On the bright side, what he likes about the Cramps is that “they took rockabilly and made it really gross.” That’s deep, Corey. Really fucking deep.

Stiff Little Fingers – “Suspect Device