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[heretic]

Are you making a joke out the optically impaired? Personally, having vision problems, I find that terribly offensive.

oh come on, are you serious?

this whole thing is stupid now, it's just a indie-dick show. decided by backing further and further away from what is percieved as a "poser" (yeah that word is still usable) indie/scene kid.

i guess i win huh?

oh wait, irony's dead...

[ASturge]

Am I the only person who actually likes sp2?

I like him!

These guys just fear him

[Se7en]

Indeed. You can take your badly recorded lo-fi with awful vocals fetish, and stick it somewhere cramped and smelly. I dont give a toss if the killers have had some popular sucesss, infact, thats part of why i like them! They are improving the standard of popular music, and bringing rock back to the radio! I think that is a far better thing for a band to do than to deliberatly hide in obscurity, surrounded by a clique of indie snobs desperately trying to keep the band an indie secret, and even more desperate to hide the fact that their beloved band is actaully pretty crap.

[ASturge]

Nah, The Killers are just bad music to me.

Give me some Boombox recorded Mountain Goats any day of the week!

[Kid Modernist]

I'm either/or about The Killers but saying they are trash and terrible? You should buy some black rimmed glasses to go along with your act.

Are you making a joke out the optically impaired? Personally, having vision problems, I find that terribly offensive.

No I wasn't, but I probably was making a joke at your expense.

Man, Im sorry to pick on you

You're hardly picking on me. I don't claim to have indie cred, and don't want any. I'm saying that you guys are trying to claim your own. You say the Killers are trash and have only buzzwords of stuff you probably picked up on some review for music somewhere "They are overly produced" what do you mean? Explain it. I wasn't talking about me at all, I'm talking about you guys that all of a sudden jumped on some bandwagon because you thought there would be some fraternity in bagging on a band.

Example:

Come on, no one but the force fed idiot teens of the western world 'like' the Killers

OMG guys, AMIRITE?

I'm with Heretic on this though.

[Se7en]

Copying all "your" opinions from pitchfork is only marginally better than copying them all from MTV.

[Storm Rider]

The Killers are not 'rock' by any sense of the word. The Killers do not 'rock out', with their private areas exposed or otherwise. They're just boring.

[Se7en]

And coldplay do?

[heretic]

*high fives kid modernist*
not a fan of the killers, think they're largely pretty bad, but you like em so have at it.
same with coldplay, i hate coldplay, but if you like em good for you, enjoy. if their marketing stunts don't bug you, fine! go to their shows or whatever it is you want to do.

[peep101]

Is liking a band just because they 'rock' the same as liking Coldplay just because they're 'nice/emotional/safe'?

Mmm, nice comfy fence.

[Thrillho]

The Killers are not 'rock' by any sense of the word. The Killers do not 'rock out', with their private areas exposed or otherwise. They're just boring.

They're pop-rock. i.e. they are rock.

Rock need constitute rocking out.

[lastclearchance]

Nah, The Killers are just bad music to me.

Give me some Boombox recorded Mountain Goats any day of the week!

As long as he's got places for "Going To" and writing songs about, I'm happy. *grin*

[Sythe]

I devoured a child for Coldplay once.

[tania]

it makes me want to shove credit cards through thier eyes.

Heretic, did I ever tell you that I love you? This made me burst out laughing so loud my neighbor ran in to see if anything was wrong.

Also, WHAT THE FUCK. I don't care what you say, this entire scheme basically translates to "you are only allowed to see us if you can prove HOW MUCH YOU WUV US BY GENERATING HITS." It shouldn't even care if someone hates their guts or not, you buy a goddamn ticket to their show, they play for you. When you make music for profit that is how it works.

GEEZ.

[rive gauche]

Are you making a joke out the optically impaired? Personally, having vision problems, I find that terribly offensive.

oh come on, are you serious?

No I wasn't, but I probably was making a joke at your expense.

Wow, as if you guys even thought I was being serious. Also, how would you be making a joke at my expense? I don't understand.

[Luke]

I've noticed in the past how easy it is to refer to something stupid or uncredible that you said earlier, and say "oh I was kidding" or "I was being sarcastic." If you're kidding, you certainly could've made an effort to indicate such, since people do often get pissed off at others around here for no good reason.

[Valrus]

NO WE DON'T

GEEZ

[Luke]

WHO THE HELL ASKED YOU

WHY DON'T YOU SHUT YOUR DAMN MOUTH FOR ONCE

GEEZ

[Thrillho]

I've noticed in the past how easy it is to refer to something stupid or uncredible that you said earlier, and say "oh I was kidding" or "I was being sarcastic." If you're kidding, you certainly could've made an effort to indicate such, since people do often get pissed off at others around here for no good reason.

You mean you didn't find what he was saying to be a blatant joke? I certainly saw through it as a fellow member of the visually impaired...

[tania]

LOUD NOISES

[Luke]

[size="infinity plus one"]REALLY BIG TEXT[/size]

OH CRAP IT DIDN'T WORK

[tania]

P.S: Man, you would not believe how politically incorrect searching "owned" on google can be.
I decided to go for a safe-for-children image.

[KharBevNor]

Jeez, so many new ones have been made since I was a member of the type of forum where people think they are the height of witty discourse.



Brutal.

[SpacemanSpiff]

I wonder why nobody linked Coldplay's site on Slashdot.

[La Creme]

[Sythe]

[tania]

SO HOW ABOUT COLDPLAY YOU GUYS ARE THEY JERKS OR WHAT

[Luke C]

Coldplay are good but this idea does suck a fair bit tho.

But sheesh. What a flamefest this thread is

[Cpt.Fantastic]

LET'S GET IN ON THE ACT AND GET THIS THREAD LOCKED!


AGAIN

[Switchblade]

Okay, seriously, I am now in favour of a blanket lockdown on all Coldplay-related threads on this board from now on, because some people here are complete ASSHOLES when it comes to them. So you don't like them. Fine. Nothing anybody can say or do is going to change your opinion, but PLEASE stop reaffirming said opinion every five seconds so that those of us who do enjoy their music can get on with our lives without having to live with the irritating desire to argue the point.

This is one sticking point on an otherwise pretty cool board, and it's obviously not going to go away, so how about we raise the endorphin levels on both sides of the issue by just avoiding it altogether?

You don't have to like them, I don't have to agree with you, and vice versa. Let's leave well enough alone. Please/

[Se7en]

Seriously, there was nothing wrong with this thread until some tards started with that "owned" bollocks. It wasnt funny even when it was new.

[tania]

YEAH BECAUSE POINTING THE BLAME AND HATING EACH OTHER FOR PETTY REASONS IS COOL NOW.

Switchblade, the point of this thread wasn't even to bash Coldplay or their msuic. It was to draw attention to how bloody pretentious their new marketing scheme is. Their music doesn't even have anything to do with it, hell I enjoy a few Coldplay songs, but I still agree that with that much fame and money and millions of adoring fans, saying that they have to generate a certain amount of hits before they will tell their fans where they are even going to play is still a really jerkish thing to do. The quality of the music doesn't have anything to do with it.

[Switchblade]

I agree. They're already famous and rich, why the hell do they need to do something like this?

Others, however, seem to feel that we can't HAVE a thread on Coldplay in any form without it's degenerating into an almost-war between the "Likes Coldplay" and "Really Hates Coldplay" camps.

I like a lot of the people around here, and I'd really rather avoid a whole issue entirely than have to wrestle with the impulse to think of them badly over a difference of opinion.

Besides, you can't deny that pretty much ever Coldplay thread we've ever had got pretty retarded at some point or another. Maybe a blanket lock policy's a bit extreme, but we should probably tone down the whole "OMG CODPALY SUXX0RZ!!!!1" - "STFU N00Bz0R!1!!" thing and try to keep it civil.

EDIT: and since when were Coldplay supposed to be rockers?

[tania]

Okay, I do agree with you on that. This thread started out with the intention of "hey you guys, this is kind of a jerk thing for them to do right" and too many people saw it as an opportunity to just mindlessly bash Coldplay whil actually ignoring what the thread was supposed to be about. That part I agree is disrespectful, and.. doesn't really.. make sense. You would think after like 536724513 million threads on the subject of how much coldplay apparantly suck, everyone's hate would just die down on its own, but I guess not...? The fact that someone can hate them THAT much actually kind of scares me. Yeah okay they're pretentious, yeah okay maybe to some people their music really sucks, but that's about it. It is not like they ever murdered anyone or something. The Coldplay-hating is seriously getting ridiculous.

Also, the owned thing WAS funny, or else no one else would have joined in. Trying to derail the argument and point the blame at completely random other people for no reason is a lame way to resolve things.

[Valrus]

If there wasn't a Coldplay, there'd just be another band occupying exactly the same position in the music world as they do. They would be completely interchangeable with Coldplay, and everyone here would hate them exactly as much.

[SickBoy]

and i have high hopes for the artic monkeys.

yeah, good luck with that...

[Switchblade]

If there wasn't a Coldplay, there'd just be another band occupying exactly the same position in the music world as they do. They would be completely interchangeable with Coldplay, and everyone here would hate them exactly as much.

This is precisely my point: Some of us DON'T hate them and are sick and tired of people opining how much they suck! Go talk about somebody else if you don't like them! PLEASE!

[sjbrot]

If there wasn't a Coldplay, there'd just be another band occupying exactly the same position in the music world as they do. They would be completely interchangeable with Coldplay, and everyone here would hate them exactly as much.

I gotcha. You cut off one head and two will rise in its place and all that jazz.

This advertising tactic is either pure label handling, ego massaging on the part of the band or something in between. But, that's pretty much the fate of any band that's on a major.

[Patrick]

You could set a fucking tax form to music, and it would be more inspiring and meaningful than goddamn coldplay.

Dude thanks for the album idea. I am SO going to do that.

[Soidanae]

For some reason I've been having desperate urges to set pi and e to music.  Less meaningful than a tax form!

[Tomservo]

Jeez, so many new ones have been made since I was a member of the type of forum where people think they are the height of witty discourse.



Brutal.

How does that kind of accident happen?

[Patrick]

I'd hit that.

[Not An Addict]

Wow, y'all are overanalyzing this thread.

[TrueNeutral]

Are you making a joke out the optically impaired? Personally, having vision problems, I find that terribly offensive.

Black hornrimmed glasses are a staple of the emo scene. It has nothing to do with vision problems. I am optically impaired and I've made the same joke.

[Thrillho]

I'd hit that.

She already did, going on that picture.

I'll get my coat.