Well, first of all, to be subjective, there are indeed alot of crap bands doing crap originals in the "scene". However, it doesn't mean that because you are doing crap that all the other bands out there that play originals are crap. When you meant that you're bored to death listening to bands playing originals it could probably mean a few things; that you've a non-musical ear that is unable to digest anything unheard of at the point of time, or it could probably mean that the bands that were doing originals were crap. To give you the benefit of the doubt, I'd go with the latter reason. As for the issue regarding covers, you guys essentially prefer bands doing covers and whatnot, but take it in mind that these songs would not be there if the bands of yesteryears had your kind of mentality, to lovelovelovelove all and just do covers. Music is supposed to be forward thinking, I'm sorry I had to burst your bubble and pull you out of that well that you're stuck in. And for the love of music, please do not slam bands that put in alot of effort to write quality originals and stuff like that, because your Metallicas and Iron Maidens wouldn't be up there today if they hadn't worked their asses off. As for the bands that play shitty covers, take it as a learning experience and do better in the future, and for goodness sake, please remove your horrid jam recordings.