From this week's The Onion:

Horrible Band Obviously Not Listening To Its Influences
SAN DIEGO— Puddle Of Mudd, a dreary nü-metal rock band that cites Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, and Metallica as influences, is obviously not listening to those influences. "Zep, Sabbath, Metallica, Maiden, Aerosmith—growing up, that's what we listened to, and that's what shaped our sound," said lead singer Wes Scantlin, whose mopey, monotone vocals in no way bear the stamp of Robert Plant, Steven Tyler, or his other idols. Scantlin, who made the comments during an interview Monday with Spin reporter Charles Aaron, failed to say which part of Puddle Of Mudd's atrocious new ballad "Drift & Die" resembles "When The Levee Breaks" or "Sweet Emotion."

Speaking of which, Live 105 has a new show on Monday's where the DJ brings in some record execs/music critic's and have them play new songs that they recommend to the audience. Then they all sit around and talk about what they think of the song. Pretty cool, right?

Anyways, they got two guys involved with record labels, one from a big label the other a small one. Both of them rave about some new track that they have and plays it, but every song they select is one of those generic, Tiger Beat, Wannabe Blink-182 pop-punk crap bands. Every single one of them. We're talking every song sounds like every song used on a WB promo or in a Freddie Prinze movie. But after each song was played, everyone, including the DJ, was like "wow, that song rocks. I love the energy in that song, it's great!" And I'm listening to all of this and wanna scream at them. I mean it's bad enough that they all wanna sound like Blink-182, a pretty disposable band that occasionally writes a good song, but there's not one hint of originality, not one hint of creativity, not one hint of anything that doesn't smack of major suckage.

I just wanted someone- the DJ, one of the other execs, the music critic (who was a bit of a Britpop snot)- anyone, to just say something like, well, what I said up above.

What's up with the kids today?