Ecliptic musical taste? You have my sympathy. Guess you'll just have to learn to live with it. Hope the sun comes out for you soon!
PS re: "It boils my piss when people generalise an entire genre based on the poppy/chart side of it" - can't stand most of the 'poppy/chart' stuff either.
Just enjoying the 'Best living rock star in the world' ( or whatever it was that the fat git claimed to be) having his claim shot to pieces by a couple of 70 somethings. Playing live too - not with backing tapes that reduce the performer to the status of a Karaoki singer (and I use the term...