This only prompted eye rolling from me. This isn't a specific critique, just generalised griping. Besides, nothing has ruined music, least of all shredding. Th

This only prompted eye rolling from me. This isn't a specific critique, just generalised griping. Besides, nothing has ruined music, least of all shredding. There is plenty of good music still being made, I feel awash with awesome stuff myself. I like extremely complicated, technically proficient guitar work myself -- Indricothere, Behold.. The Arctopus etc. It's purely a matter of taste. That's the real point; music snobbery is lame. There is nothing wrong with saying what you do and don't like, but terms like Musical Masturbation are about trying to make your taste someone else's problem. Here is a quote from Steve Albini, talking about John Peel: "John Peel said something that I thought was really profound. He said when he gets a record from somebody and he doesn't like it, he assumes that it's his problem and that the band would not have made that record if there wasn't something valuable about it."