I recently gave a friend a Lee Ranaldo solo album, the reaction to which being "This is awful. It's just noise." This wasn't an unsolicited offering, mind you. But it got me to thinking. I'm sure this person had some kind of expectation for the album, an expectation that was quite clearly unfulfilled. What it got me thinking was that the reason I like things like that is because I'm interested in both the creation of music and its destruction. Look at a lot of my favorite artists as well. What do a majority of them have in common? They were revolutionaries of their craft. But going back, the reason I like the destruction, or maybe deconstruction, of music, is because it sheds far more light on to what goes into its creation than the actual creation itself.
To each their own, and the judgement of others.
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