Will I beat Steve to this one? A venerable Albany band called the Hanslick Rebellion has released a funny video on YouTube of their song "You Are Boring the Shit Out of Me." A reference to the Hanslick? Sure enough! According to the band's site, "The Rebellion takes its name from Eduard Hanslick, a 19th-century music critic of the Vienna Neue Freie Presse. A feared writer whose opinion could make or break a composer's career, Hanslick was responsible for such gems as 'Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto brings to us for the first time the horrid idea that there may be music that stinks in the ear.' As Gen-X kids pimping out the ideology of the band they might become, Keaney and Davis would sit in Denny's and rant until the wee hours about how Hanslick's 'rebellion' against musical excess should be revived to bring back rock and roll in its purest form, to strip away the decadence and the bullshit." And they say classical music criticism is dying....
