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Spinless:
Yeah, the UK is a strange place. You can be a complete jerk and treat people like shit and get away with it as long as you sing along to 'Under the Bridge' when it plays. But once you say 'Nah, this isn't my thing' you might as well have said 'I want to fuck babies'.

schimmy:
I've gotten used to pretty much all of my friends being instantly dismissive, or at least disinterested of and in the music that I listen to, after all, if it's not been on the radio or music television, then how could it possibly be good? They will, however, concede that in some select circumstances, I have miraculously been right about a band, if they break through into the 'real world'. But these occurances are rare, and every other band that I listen to is shit.
My friends and I have figured out that we're just never going to see eye-to-eye on matters of music, so we don't bother trying to talk about music that often. When we do, it'll usually involve me saying that a band is absoloubtly fucking amazing and unmissable, and them saying that they're shit. Or they'll mention a band ("I love the new XXXXXXX song.") and I'll tell them that I haven't heard them, and chances are, haven't heard of them. They fail to notice that I'm not particularily interested in hearing the band, since we have never before liked the same music, but still they'll force it on me. I'll politely tell them "They're okay..." and perhaps mention some bands I listen to that are sonically similar.
But there is one guy, who actively, every time I see him, goes out of his way to tell me that the music I listen to is shit because nobody else has heard of it.
Once, I mentioned to him that, actually, the Shins and Modest Mouse did pretty well in the US, and got really high on the billboard 200. His comeback to this was that there are too many Americans, so the charts are, somehow, scewed towards making it look like unpopular bands are popular.
One day, I plan on sitting down with everyone, and telling them politely, that, to me, the music I listen to isn't all that obscure. It just so happens that the community and people I get my reccomendations for music from aren't here. It's effectivley a different culture, and to me the music that my friends listen to is pretty obscure, since I haven't heard of half of it.
I do not listen to the radio, I do not like the songs that I like to be ruined by being overplayed. I do not watch music television, I have never found a channel that plays music I like . I discover new music by listening to the opinions of people who like music similar to mine.
Why is that so wrong?

Valdemar:
When I converse with people, the topic of music rarely comes up. When I am asked however, I am just as clueless as you lot. The yoke of nerdery.

Next time though, I am going to use a good one, I heard some time ago: "Anything with a steady beat!"

It would be a lie of course but one has to keep up appearances eh?

Spinless:

--- Quote from: schimmy on 16 Sep 2007, 08:41 ---Once, I mentioned to him that, actually, the Shins and Modest Mouse did pretty well in the US, and got really high on the billboard 200. His comeback to this was that there are too many Americans, so the charts are, somehow, scewed towards making it look like unpopular bands are popular.

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Man, that would frustrate me so much. Who taught this guy math? In what backwards universe does his logic work?

SeanBateman:

--- Quote from: MusicScribbles on 15 Sep 2007, 22:23 ---Man, there is nothing wrong with IDM at all. If you listen to that and they listen to Menomena, I would say you're ahead of them (Not that I have anything against Menomena. I don't.)

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I have a lot against Menomena. If you want stereotypical BTS rip off Indie-Rock, why not listen to Modest Mouse? They did it first, better, and have a much less retarded name.

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