A horrible experiment in which it was discovered that otherwise talented musicians could create really shitty music. Phenomenal albums if what you like is really fast songs with no apparent melody because lisening to d-tuned garbage played at 166 bpm makes you "hardcore."
"Hey, I want to get back at my more talentedfriends for being more talented than I am. How can I make a total embarrasment out of myself?"
"Get all these great musicians together, record a really crappy album, and sell it through Wal-Mart. And use a really stupid band name - Superjoint Ritual sounds good. If that doesn't show the world what a turd you are, then nothing will."
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. PenguinBooks,1992. p. 38)