Tirade Against The Converted

Listening to Drive Like Jehu's 'Turn It Off', it's scouring, angular rhythms perfectly soundtracking the end of one HELL of a day, it reminds me that there is so much in the music world which helps me, heals me, makes me feel alive that would, in other people's eyes, be switched straight over to something safer like Chris Moyles' inane drivel. Whether that's safe or worthy of a government ban is a debate for another time.
Funnily enough Chris Moyles was briefly referenced earlier today by a young lady when hearing a most amusing song being played on Radio 1. She heard it, imagined it to be Chris Moyles doing his hilarious (read deathly boring) pastiches (read lame re-write) and left it at that. In fact, it was Gorgol Bordello's 'Start Wearing Purple'. How could she dismiss this, admittedly ridiculous sounding, but awfully fun, gypsy punk riot as, well, a shamefully tired DJ ridiculing some far superior talent?
Easy.
It's not aimed at her. So, will people stop going on about how their favourite bands have gone 'commerical'. I fear this to be the crybaby holler about Liars' new self-titled effort (commercial? well, only in the way that The Stooges or the Icarus Line is commercial). There is no chance that your favourite band will appeal to many music listeners outside of your little circle of Pitchfork, Cokemachineglow, Drowned In Sound friends.
People don't want to be challenged or confronted. They want to escape and dance and laugh and shoot rainbows out of their eyes. They don't want to feel like society is being ground underfoot by cogs of death or be shocked into action by yet another ambient (read boring) independent thinker.
Hell, if you're so bothered stop saying Slint's Spiderland is your favourite record (please never say this in my presence....that is bollocks) and start doing some charity work. I mean REAL charity work, where you go build schools and houses and toilets and provide running water for third world countries.
Don't force people into thinking they are inferior for their music tastes - they are just as valid as yours. You just happen to want to explore music's 'outer regions' rather than warm your cockles to the newest Coldplay heart-warmer.
I count myself as someone who likes to hear noise, sonic manipulation and fierce experimentation but sometimes, you know, I'm quite happy to hear something beautiful like Low's 'Breaker' or the gorgeous soul stylings of Jeff Buckley's 'Everybody Here Wants You'.

Really I just want to rant about unreliability of people, their unrealistic expectations and the fact that they can only blame themselves for their mistakes, but I'll save that for a poor unsuspecting friend's ears instead.