One of the hardest things about being a music journalist is the need to be succinct. Sometimes you just want to prattle on until the world has run out of pages, and trees from which to make them, about a band or a record you love, but you cannot because your uncaring editor has given you a 100 word count to sum up their/its genius.
All hail Beavis and Butt-Head, then, two animated dorks whose wisdom you may have been underrating, because in a few handfuls of words they can pretty much nail the appeal, or lack of appeal, of every band and well-known song from the '90s. Often with the brutally simple judgement "This sucks."
The clip below, in which our heroes offer their thoughts on Radiohead's Creep, is, perhaps, the apogee of their devastating wit and wisdom.
