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Cernunnos:
Pixies. They just don't do it for me. As is nearly always the case, this is simply my personal disposition, not a denotation of the quality of their music.
same with the Talking Heads, and alot of avant-garde stuff (though there is still a bunch i do like).

speaking of alot of atonal, or soundblock-based music i.e. the more conceptual incomprehensible side of avant-garde, it usually does not do it for me, because it hurts to listen to. Shoenberg is almost unlistenable. But i am thankful it was done, because it really needed to be done. i guess i can dislike something as music but love it as art without feeling conflicted.
 

rynne:
Godspeed You Black Emeperor and Sigur Rós are probably tied for most boring live show ever.  GYBE is soft part/slow cresendo/loud part: repeat 20–30 times, then call it a night.  Sigur Ros doesn’t even bother with the loud part.  My biggest memory from any time I’ve seen either is the incredible back-pain from standing still for an hour and a half trying (read: failing) to convince myself that their shows were interesting. 

I think both are overrated on their studio work, as well.  Ágætis Byrjun is great, but also at least twice as good as anything else Sigur Rós has ever put out.  And frankly, the two tracks on Sløw Riøt før New Zerø Kanada is as much GYBE as I’ll ever want.

Kid Modernist:

--- Quote from: tommydski on 02 Oct 2006, 12:06 ---i've heard everything the clash ever did.

if you play 'london calling' after 'entertainment' by gang of four it sounds laughable.

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This is sort of going off subject (or actually maybe not) but I was reallllly unimpressed with entertainment. It's the only thing by Gang of Four I've checked out and I thought it was boring, and that it definitely inspired Franz Ferdinand but Franz Ferdinand does it better.

And I don't like Franz Ferdinand either. hah.

I'll agree with the poster who said Sigur Ros is boring live. I saw them at Coachella and it was dreadful, I'm hoping it was the open air and lots of people though, they seem like a smaller venue band to me.

BeoPuppy:
I'm with everyone who said that punk is boring. Total crap, all of it. The fact that punk as a genre couples a 'We do whatever we want'-attitude with the inability to actually DO anything new, original or exciting is just ... irony. Or really fucked up.

The Rolling Stones are a classic example of recycling at work. I think there hasn't been a new record by them in decades. they just recut and sample or their old shit into new 'songs'.

I dislike Slayer. Pretentious, off-key, uninteresting.

...what else has been slayed in this thread/

... oh, yeah. Indie-stuff. That just gives a whole new meaning to pretentious. Plus, I don't GET pop music. At all. Indie or otherwise. Why would anyone create music that just ... bounces of the senses? Does nothing? Is wall-paper?

Splunkle:

--- Quote from: BeoPuppy on 03 Oct 2006, 00:15 ---... oh, yeah. Indie-stuff. That just gives a whole new meaning to pretentious. Plus, I don't GET pop music. At all. Indie or otherwise. Why would anyone create music that just ... bounces of the senses? Does nothing? Is wall-paper?

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Firstly, not all pop music bounces off the senses.... just most of it. ^_^

Anyways, music that bounces off the sense does have its place - advertisments, for example.  The focus should be on the product, not on the music, but you want music that is happy and bouncy so people associate the product with happiness.

I suppose I should declare myself a fan of some electro-pop... Kraftwerk are fucking awesome.

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