You addresses how dumb it is for people to like bands that they like for the lyrics sake.. the vocals. This is the definiton of pop/rock music. Yes the music would sound empty in many cases with out the singing.. but that's because the singing is the lead. And when there is no singing, decent bands do solo's etc to fill in for it, and make it complete. I'm not necessarily saying that I think it's a good way to have it set up or anything, but I'm just pointing out that singing defines pop/rock music, so it is unfair to attack that aspect of the music.
 
 
 

    Yeah I know what you're saying about the lyrics thing, and I agree with you.  My point was basically what your point is, maybe I just didn't make it clear since I was ranting.  I was saying that I think it's a shame that to most people, "music" means pop music, which is based on lyrics as you said, and not what I consider to be the real intent of music, which is communication without words.  Of course, the usual exceptions apply:  I'm not saying that pop music is worthless, obviously I like a lot of it too.  I'm just saying its a shame that a lot of people ONLY listen to bands and pop music, which isn't truly "pure" music.  know what I mean? So yeah, lyrics define pop music, and I'm not really attacking that, I'm attacking the ignorance certain people have of the other worlds of music.