You described Yngwie Malmsteen perfectly, IMO.

Note that EVH's Eruption was just a practice / warm up thing he used to do in the studio and the recording engineer was like, "What is that? We should put it on the album!"


I'm not bashing repetitive music. It's just not for me. Dance music hinges around repetitive beats and electronica is prevalent in dance music, so that's 2 things that already put me off a bit. I'm a clumsy person and awful dancer, so dance music doesn't appeal to me. It's not fair, but it's subjectively true for me.

I have to admit that many of my favorite songs are very repetitive if you take away the lyrics.

I'm not saying anything is "bad" music. Not at all. I know better than to underestimate the power of music that doesn't appeal to me.


I saw Aphex Twin live in 2000, I think. In a small bar in Seattle. There were maybe 30 people there in small, scattered groups and they were giving off a fairly strong hipster vibe, if I'm remembering correctly. I sipped a gin and tonic and tried to wrap my head around what I was hearing and came away thinking something along the lines of, "I guess that was music." in a kind of eye-opening but not inspiring kind of way.