Bloc Party: Thanks For A Song I Hate, Really

It takes a lot for me to truly hate a song. I can find the silver lining in just about any song, regardless if I like the artist or the genre.

But sometimes, I REALLY hate a song.

So thanks, Bloc Party, for making a song that I hate as much as any song I can remember. They're new song, "Mercury" is horrible. The lyrics are weak and repetitive, the beat is a redundant and the effects sound like a high-budget basement recording. It is a truly atrocious song by a band who has released a quality work for the last five years. It is an example how a big budget and big label can destroy an artist and a genre.

Honorable mention goes to The Faint's new songs, "The Geeks Were Right" which, while not as bad as "Mercury" is another example of a formerly grand artist in a horrible state of decline.