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Anyone here dislike Sufjan Stevens?

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ScrambledGregs:

--- Quote from: tommydski on 03 Dec 2006, 01:40 ---I lived with the biggest Tool fan in the world for two years while at Uni.
There's something about the really hardcore Tool fans. Like they always consider them to be somehow 'above' music. Their music just sounds like a metallic edged version of King Crimson to me and I don't get why they are so revered. I assume most of them grow out of it but I'm not so sure.

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Funnily enough, Tool opened for King Crimson back in the early 00's. Or maybe King Crimson opened for Tool. Either way, yuck.

FireStarter:
One, I'm not a "fanatical" fan of anything, execpt Counter-Strike: Source, maybe Jethro Tull.....eh, yet again I digress. I'll cover what I see in Tool first, then how Sufjan could make himself more likable to me.  My introduction to Tool whilst I was living at ASMS (google you'll find something it's a highschool if that helps any) I used to put my roomate's Aenima CD in while I fell asleep at night, don't ask me why...I just did ok? Then years later I came across the Lateralus album, which I purchased because I had heard some of the songs around. (shush, I download now, so stfu) And what really hooked my was the intro to the song Lateralus. While I was a child, and my father was pursuing a degree in Mathematics, he took a class based on a little known book called Goedel, Escher, Bach. WITH IT, came a cd that included some Bach Tracks, and an interesting little composition based around the Fibinacci sequence. I loved that composition, it was intricate beautiful, and very very "meditative" anyways, the intro to Lateralus is a metal rendition of that concept. So, I saw that Tool was a bit more than just a hardcore metal band screaming angst and anger. There was ALOT of intelligence and talent behind their music, and I came to respect them.

And now how Sufjan could make me listen to his music. Oddly enough it would be him becoming yet MORE pretentious than he already is. He would have to translate all his lyrics into Elvish (tolkein elvish) and Accompany himself on a Zither, whilst the entire percussion section of the Boston Pops backed him up.  I think I could dig his voice meandering around elvish lyrics while some classically inspired percussion is played behind a Zither. That would be >AWSOME<

Kai:

--- Quote from: Gryff on 03 Dec 2006, 10:30 ---This thread is really terrible. Like worse than the wookiee sex thread.

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Johnny C:
Tommy's "magic eye" theory is pretty good. That last post has a dolphin jumping over a yeti.

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