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To hell with the canon
screwjack:
Don't like Sex Pistols or Dead Kennedys. I Do like the Dead Milkmen though.
Don't like Cradle of Filth or post Barnes Cannibal Corpse much (Not that I like Six Feet Under). Metallica (especially anything after and including the Black Album), Led Zepplin, The Beatles, or Bob Marley.
Well to be more general... I don't like most bands that people say they like, then can only sing you the lyrics that the compilation CD commercials show. Or maybe its just the people that say they like those bands whilst only knowing the 2 lines that happen to be on a commercial.
Still love Modest Mouse, Type O Negative, Bile, Dead Can Dance, Evergreen Terrace, Wumpscut, and MSI though.
Kai:
So you don't like bands because... other people say they like the singles..?
screwjack:
Not so much the single thing. I think its the people who profess to like a band then can only name you popular songs by said band who really just get my goat. Oh you like Bob Marley? YEAH! No Woman No Cry is amazing!
Mostly, (And I realize this, but don't work too hard on changing it) I just don't like music other people listen to (or anything other people do for that matter). I havn't purposefully listened to the radio (aside from the occasional talk show) in about 4 years. I think one of the saddest moments I ever had was when I saw Modest Mouse on The OC.
Kai:
Why should bands you like actually making it somewhere and actually maybe being able to afford a goddamn sandwich or something to eat depress you? That sounds ridiculously crass.
As for not liking bands because other people say they like them (even when they have just heard, as in Bob Marley's case, No Woman No Cry, a single), who gives a shit about those people? Just listen to the music you like and be done with it.
screwjack:
I'm kind of torn on that subject... and I guess bands do have to cater to the larger demographic to sell albums, ie teenage girls or whoeverthehell watches the OC.
I don't begrudge a band selling albums, but a band that sells itself to corporate America to sell said albums is not cool with me. But hey that's the way things generally work so who am I to argue with it right?
The other saddest moment in music I had was at a Metallica concert when I was a senior in high school (96-97) During Nothing Else Matters or Wherever I May Roam (can't remember specifically without listening to both those songs again) James was sitting on a barstool playing guitar, when it got to the *harder* part of the song he jumped up off the stool and kicked it backwards. There was a stagehand who jumped up from the lower area of the stage and caught the stool before it hit the ground.
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