[Brooks]

Listening to The Stooges strikes me as a more rewarding move than paying any heed to this... band and their biting, tedious, cookie-cutter early-Noughties ilk, but whatever - taste-fascism's a trait I ever strive to keep in line.

[Brooks]

Actually, I think I only typed that I'd recommend listening to the Stooges over bands like The Hives (they sound similar enough to me to make the comparison, and I prefer one over the other). Which no one is obliged to do, incidentally, but I was under the impression this thread was an opinion-gathering exercise, so, uh, one was given.

There's very little logic in matters of Taste, I find.