When Billy Joel wrote "Only the Good Die Young", it was at first banned by many radio stations.  It was a controversial song to the Church, and the religious forces did everything they could do prevent it from receiving any air-play.  Of course, what happened was all the young kids caught wind that they weren’t allowed to listen to it, and so they all ran out to buy it, and it became a number one hit.

On a different note, we recently received a CD that I can easily classify as the worst album submission ever.  The artist, classified his music as "Classical".  He even stated a variety of great composers as his influences.  He sent in a CDR.  I don’t have any complaints about that.  A lot of artists have sent CD-Rs, and a lot of those artists sell them as well.  I only point it out, because it is bewildering what the artist (in this case) is trying to achieve.  Apart from the fact that their is horrible marketing presentation, the music itself can only be heard as some sort of morbid fascination.

What the artist describes as Classical Guitar Solos, are actually 5 or 6 tracks of almost identical music which simply plays a diatonic scale with no metric system.  It’s something you would have to hear to appreciate how awful it is.  And even for those who are into modern art, this would be the equivalent of rubbing feces onto a canvas to make a picture of nothing.

Strangely the whole thing makes me angry. Do you think Music Forte should decline and refund music that sucks without a doubt? I am certain that it is impossible for this artist to not know how bad his CD is, and it almost makes me wonder if he’s laughing in the background as if he’s pulled off a some sort of joke.  Maybe it would be equally funny to set up a new genre called "s**t" and simply place it there all by itself.

So there is my review of the artist I have so far decided not to mention.  I hope for his sake that their is another motivation behind this "CD release".  With that said, I wonder if everyone wants to rush out and hear it now. Hopefully you have something better to do with your time.  Apparently, It was enough to compel me to write about it.