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I was once chatting with this lad I worked in a bar with about music and he asked who I'd been listening to recently and I said Bob Dylan, so he replied that he really didn't rate Dylan that much, and when I asked why he said...
"Because if you ever see any of his songs written down, they're just poems"
...which stands to this day as perhaps the stupidest comment I've ever heard on the subject of music. Anyone else heard any little gems that are worth sharing?
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A girl attempted to justify to me why exactly she respected Britney Spears for what she's contributed to the music industry:
"Everyone seems to hate Britney but I don't understand why, I mean she's so pretty!"
No, she wasn't joking, and yes, she is my age, although this conversation did happen a couple of years ago.
Uhhhmmm yeah.
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heh, today my friend Joe said about Kurt Cobain
"Kurt Cobain was just [Dramatic Pause] diffrent "
I laughed then told him that we had enough miserable emo kiddies before he came along.
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I once argued with a guy called Alex about his (ir)rationel love of Usher, his defence was a bit odd:
"I know his lyrics and the music is kind of bad but he sings well!"
or something to that effect. Keep in mind he's extremely mainstream-minded, his idea of rock is Linkin Park who he has recently discovered. I have actually played Enon, My Bloody Valentine etc. which he dismisses as either bad or weird. However he likes M.I.A, mostly because she's hot apparently. We have had many shit-throwingfest based on our different tastes, but we're still pals, just not musicwise.
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I was explaining to a friend how something like Taste of Chaos only produces homogeny among the genres one day, and I don't quite think she understood, because all she said in response was "Yeah, I like all kinds of music."
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I once played a girl Liquid Tension Experiment. She asked if it was considered "techno".
SHOOT! FACE!
Also, I have heard countless people say that 50 Cent is a good rapper because he is a "real gangsta".
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SHOOT IN THE FACE TWICE
Also, I think I saw 50 Cent hawking off shoes on TV the other day.
And some kid I know said that Linkin Park invented metal.
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I let my friend listen to In Flames, to try and break her out of her mainstream shell (im still fairly mainstream, but like some indie)
She died in my eyes
She said they sounded like a mix of My Chemical Romance and Mindless Self Indulgance.
Also, why stop at 2 shots in the face. They deserve worse.
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That comment right there? MCR and MSI? Yeah. Sixteen thousand FUCKING SHOTS IN THE FACE. End the thread right there folks.
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Except if he was being snide about Soundtrack to Your Escape, in which case that's wit.
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I have heard countless people say that 50 Cent is a good rapper because he is a "real gangsta".
Most rappers don't strike me as being all that "gangsta" anyway. However, I will say that Young Buck is a true gangster. Who else would stab a guy at an awards show?
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Me. But then again, Carson Daily doesn't count. EVERYBODY would stab him.
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A TV documentary that said Nevermind was Nirvana's first album.
Now, every day people saying that would be normal, because the Great Unwashed as a whole are stupid. But a TV documentary? Do your fucking research.
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most of the ones I've heard are pretty standard, mostly of the "Good Charlotte is so punk"/"The Aquabats are totally a ska band" variety.
DynamiteKid, are you sure they said "first" or "debut"? because those are two different terms. if they did say "first", though, that is terrible.
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I made fun of one of my buddies cause he liked Nine Inch Nails. I referred to it as "goth rock", and he replied "It's not goth rock! It's industrial hardcore!"
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EDITED OUT BECAUSE I HAVE NO SPINE.
Also, you can buy 50 Cent Vitamin water from our school vending machine - it is called "Formula 50." And it is colored purple and grape flavored. It tastes pretty good, though.
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My friend keeps thinking that Beck's Guero is somehow completely different than Odelay and is his most diverse record. She also ignores the fact that EVERYONE IN THE WORLD WHO IS SMART knows that Odelay and Guero are the SAME THING and that the former is better. She says that I have bad taste.
FUCKING SHIT NO.
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I like Beck but I haven't even listened to Guero. I don't really know why.
Someone I know said that "all current bands sound the same," but he is amazingly ignorant. He listens to mostly classical music, I think. He also got me in trouble during French class because he kept talking to me. Bahhh.
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I'm devastated. I was talking to my dad the other day, the man who used to drive me everywhere when I was Dead Little with Led Zeppelin and Jimi Hendrix tapes in his car, the man who made me appreciate Miles Davis' Bitches Brew when I was only ten years old, the man who taught me to truly love music, and he was trying to copy some good rock and roll for a colleague, so I suggested The Ramones, to which he replied...
"The Ramones aren't really a rock and roll band, are they?"
...not as bad as the Bob Dylan comment, but still pretty disapointed about it.
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I'm devastated. I was talking to my dad the other day, the man who used to drive me everywhere when I was Dead Little with Led Zeppelin and Jimi Hendrix tapes in his car, the man who made me appreciate Miles Davis' Bitches Brew when I was only ten years old, the man who taught me to truly love music, and he was trying to copy some good rock and roll for a colleague, so I suggested The Ramones, to which he replied...
"The Ramones aren't really a rock and roll band, are they?"
...not as bad as the Bob Dylan comment, but still pretty disapointed about it.
Surely it depends on your definition of rock 'n' roll...
Oh, someone once told me that the Jet album was the freshest, most original debut he'd heard in years.
Haaaaa.
And yes they definitely said 'first' not 'debut'.
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I'm devastated. I was talking to my dad the other day, the man who used to drive me everywhere when I was Dead Little with Led Zeppelin and Jimi Hendrix tapes in his car, the man who made me appreciate Miles Davis' Bitches Brew when I was only ten years old, the man who taught me to truly love music, and he was trying to copy some good rock and roll for a colleague, so I suggested The Ramones, to which he replied...
"The Ramones aren't really a rock and roll band, are they?"
...not as bad as the Bob Dylan comment, but still pretty disapointed about it.
your dad is cool for not knowing about the ramones because, frankly, they're fuckin' terrible.
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My dad bought me my copy of The Ramones when I started University. I should probably have mentioned that.
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He probably just thinks of 'em as more punk than rock 'n roll. Your dad probably uses an older fashioned, more rigid genre descriptor for rock 'n roll.
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Well...there were all the comments on Wintersun that I kepot hearing throughout the day.
"Just like System of a Down"
"Mudvayne? Disturbed?"
"Sounds like a cross between Slipknot and Iron Maiden".
It was pretty entertaining.
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I said that Slipknot sucked to somebody that obsesses over them and she told me that I had bad taste in music if I didnt like Slipknot.
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I totally told my friend that From Autumn to Ashes was some hardcore shit, and he's all "Dude, A Thorn For Every Heart packs it harder than that shit."
Stupid AMIRITE?
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I said that Slipknot sucked to somebody that obsesses over them and she told me that I had bad taste in music if I didnt like Slipknot.
Well, it's true.
Oh wait, no it isn't.
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NO YOU GUYS, I WIN
"KISS WOULD HAVE BEEN EVEN BETTER IF THEY HADN'T SOLD OUT"
-MY BROTHER, AKA MY OWN FLESH AND BLOOD, AKA THE PERSON I WILL BE CONNECTED TO UNTIL THE DAY I DIE
BOOYA
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Wow.
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I herd something if not stupid then interesting on the radio the other day. Apparently they did a world wide poll of 700,000 people (Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't there 6 BILLON people in the world??? But apparently 700,000 is enough to be called a world *coughjusttheUScough* poll) anyways.... and they asked the question of what (in your oppoinon) is the best song ever...(also a stupid question because no one chould have heard every song so it fails right there).... I can only remember the top three
1. Queen - We are the champons (Good but the best??)
2. britany Spears - Toxic (At this point, I thoght the whole thing was a joke, but no its not.)
3. Michel Jackson - Billy Jean ( For some reson I like this one.. Don't ask why)
AND I THOUGHT THAT WAS PRETTY STUPID!
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I once played a girl Liquid Tension Experiment. She asked if it was considered "techno".
SHOOT! FACE!
holy shit yes that deserves a death sentence.
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Some months ago, on a train ride to work, I overheard a couple of youngsters (about age 12) talk about music. One of them, typically the kind of kid the others would look up to, had a discman. He was telling the others how the song they were listening to was called "hey ho let's go" by the "Ramoness" (pronounced like that, yes, in Dutch). I felt like getting up and shoving the kid through the window of the moving train, but sadly, I managed to do nothing more than shake my head in disgust. I don't think I've listened to Blitzkrieg Bop ever since.
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i had some stupid emo try to convince me that "At the drive in" was an emo band...
another one that was funny...
another stupid emo tried to convince me that nirvana was a better grunge band then soundgarden or pearl jam then turned around and called helmet bad nu metal.
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Some months ago, on a train ride to work, I overheard a couple of youngsters (about age 12) talk about music. One of them, typically the kind of kid the others would look up to, had a discman. He was telling the others how the song they were listening to was called "hey ho let's go" by the "Ramoness" (pronounced like that, yes, in Dutch). I felt like getting up and shoving the kid through the window of the moving train, but sadly, I managed to do nothing more than shake my head in disgust. I don't think I've listened to Blitzkrieg Bop ever since.
That is actually a pretty easy mistake to make. Don't really understand why you'd be so mad.
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BECOZ THEY'RE POZEURZ OMG!!
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"KISS WOULD HAVE BEEN EVEN BETTER IF THEY HADN'T SOLD OUT"
-MY BROTHER, AKA MY OWN FLESH AND BLOOD, AKA THE PERSON I WILL BE CONNECTED TO UNTIL THE DAY I DIE
Everyone should know that the brother in question has also admitted to living in a stupid tree.
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The Ramones are really bad, and I still get pissed at those kids who wear the Ramones shirt when they don't own an album. Seriously, kiddies.
I was listening to the Dead Kennedys and some kid said they sounded like "a crappier My Chemical Romance". I seriously am going to kill somebody.
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The ramones are WHAT?
BAD?
You what?!?!
Shrimp sings.. Bam bam bam bamabam I wanna be sedated
then begins singing Sheena is a punk rocker, sheena is a punk rocker....
I LOVE THE RAMONES!!!
(kill me if you must!)
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Alright kiddies, my sister heard a good one a while back. It was:
"Greenday invented punk"
WHAT THE FUCK PEOPLE?
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I made fun of one of my buddies cause he liked Nine Inch Nails. I referred to it as "goth rock", and he replied "It's not goth rock! It's industrial hardcore!"
So, uh. You know NIN are industrial, right?
On the topic at hand, I was speaking to some fellow fresher at Uni, and he informed me that he hated all dance music because you can't dance to it. I'm still not entirely sure what the hell he was talking about.
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I made fun of one of my buddies cause he liked Nine Inch Nails. I referred to it as "goth rock", and he replied "It's not goth rock! It's industrial hardcore!"
So, uh. You know NIN are industrial, right?
Bull. NIN are called industrial all the time, but their music is far too human to be industrial. Compare it to fucking Fear Factory or someone and there's very little correlation.
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Yeah. I think i'd maybe take more issue with the word 'hardcore'.
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The Ramones are really bad, and I still get pissed at those kids who wear the Ramones shirt when they don't own an album. Seriously, kiddies.
I was listening to the Dead Kennedys and some kid said they sounded like "a crappier My Chemical Romance". I seriously am going to kill somebody.
A mate of mine who I have known for many years made the effort of phoning me up from America in the middle of his holiday to tell me that I really, really had to check out My Chemical Romance. Oh, and Coldplay's new album. I'd desperately like to believe that, for the duration of the phone call, he thought I was someone else.
Also, at my young lady's the other day she put on Kelly Clarkson's album. I mean, fair cop, her place her music, but she brought it round to mine last night and tried to get me to turn off my Tom Waits. Not a 'stupid comment', I'll admit, but an outrageous breach of etiquette.
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A now ex-friend said that all the bands I like are pointless because they'll never be even remotely popular and I should like linkin park because they are succesful, which makes them good. The saddest thing was that the person who uttered such a statement was twenty instead of twelve.
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One of my coworkers insists that Motley Crue were the 'last great rock stars'.
She got upset when I laughed at her.
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You don't find shoving phones into the vaginas of groupies "great?" Who would do that nowadays?
I hate myself for having read The Dirt.
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^ I would.
WHERE ARE MY GROUPIES DAMMIT.
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i had some stupid emo try to convince me that "At the drive in" was an emo band...
Um...that's not much of a stretch. Although they are more Fugazi than Rites of Spring, it is a fair assumption.
EMO = RITES OF SPRING, EMBRACE, NATION OF ULYSSES
NOT GOOD CHAROLETTE, THE CURE, DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE
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"Greenday invented punk"
WHAT THE FUCK PEOPLE?
I saw a documentary on MuchMusic once entitled Much Music's Evolution: from the Ramones to Green Day. It intrigued me only because they had mentioned the Clash a bunch of times in the commercial.
Bands like Blink 182 and Simple Plan were named as "real punk revival."
I'm sorry, but putting Joe Strummer on the same level as that guy from Simple Plan who can't stop whining about his parents or school or something?
NO, JUST FUCKING NO.
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my friend Kieffer once alleged that one of the most common topics of punk rock songs was "raping women".
what makes this claim all the more baffling was that this was in eighth grade, when his perception of punk rock was Green Day and New Found Glory.
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I've always thought of Nine Inch Nails as "pop industrial".
Some of thier stuff is obviously different than others, but I can hardly think of a better description for Pretty Hate Machine than pop industrial. Broken is more industrial metal. Downward Spiral = pop industrial again, as is With Teeth. The Fragile kinda goes all over the place, but it certainly has it's industrial moments.
So where'd the goth come from again?
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my friend Kieffer once alleged that one of the most common topics of punk rock songs was "raping women".
what makes this claim all the more baffling was that this was in eighth grade, when his perception of punk rock was Green Day and New Found Glory.
Hahaha. That is great. Apparently, American Idiot is just one boy's journey through the world of serial rapists. Once I find that album again, I am going to take another look at it with that in mind.
It'll probably be funner to listen to this time.
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Yeah. I think i'd maybe take more issue with the word 'hardcore'.
Industrial, yes. Hardcore, no.
Sure as hell more industrial than 'goth rock'.
Bear in mind I listen to a grand total of 2 industrial artists (:wumpscut: and Haujobb), so I'm hardly a fan, let alone an expert. So yeah, bear that in mind, but I'm still right.
Also, new stupid quote! I was listening to Brothomstates, which as not many of you will know are IDM. Think bleeps and broken drum machines. Not so much as a hint of any real instruments, or indeed much of a melody. A passerby kindly enquired "Oi, mate! Why are you listening to that classical shit?". I expressed suprise at his classification with a witty "What?". He elaborated with "You're listening to Beethoven or summat, ain't ya, dickhead?".
I felt suitably enriched by the exchange, and bid him good day.
The story is much better if you know the song, trust me. So here it is (http://s58.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3H981GWEOM6YF24YU2Q9UGK8IP). Maybe you'll instantly think Beethoven, but I doubt it.
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my friend Kieffer once alleged that one of the most common topics of punk rock songs was "raping women".
what makes this claim all the more baffling was that this was in eighth grade, when his perception of punk rock was Green Day and New Found Glory.
Well, with a name like Kieffer, your life is already screwed up unless your last name is Sutherland.
I've always thought of Nine Inch Nails as "pop industrial".
To be fair, "Only" was practically a disco-pop single.
Some of thier stuff is obviously different than others, but I can hardly think of a better description for Pretty Hate Machine than pop industrial.
This is true, Reznor may have a black heart but he can write catchy motherfucking melodies, and his music is pop.
Broken is more industrial metal.
Fixed is borderline nu-metal half the time.
Downward Spiral = pop industrial again, as is With Teeth. The Fragile kinda goes all over the place, but it certainly has it's industrial moments.
So where'd the goth come from again?
Duh, he wears black a lot. Anyone in black is a goth.
Including me, despite the fact that I like Weezer.
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I'm sure referring to Nine Inch Nails as industrial in the presence of a proper rivet-head would be an invitation to be vomited over. 'industrial pop' must be one of the most oxymoronic genre descriptions ever. I'd prefer riot-pop, which is what Angelspit call themselves, or just industrial rock, which it is.
Nine Inch Nails is to rivetheads as Green Day is to punks. You get my drift?
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Stuffing musical expression into tiny, rigidly defined boxes is where it's at, y'all.
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I love it how some people seem to imagine that somehow music defies definition 'because it's artistic expression!!!'. I don't think anyones enjoyment of Toulouse-Lautrec was ever harmed by people calling him a post-impressionist. Music is as categorisable as any other form of art. A small percentage of truly original individuals cause some problems, and the rest are easily categorised and cross-referenced.
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Nine Inch Nails is to rivetheads as Green Day is to punks. You get my drift?
Completely. But that doesn't mean both nails and Green Day make terrible music. They just make the more accessible mainstream versions of genres that consider themselves the alternatives to popular music.
Popular != terrible.
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1. Queen - We are the champons
2. britany Spears - Toxic
3. Michel Jackson - Billy Jean
AND I THOUGHT THAT WAS PRETTY STUPID!
britney as one of the best songs for anything?
OOOHHHHHHHHH THAT IS BAD. VERY BAD.
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"Pink Floyd is the new Sigur Ros."
And then I shot him in the face.
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Are you sure he didn't say it the other way around?
Cuz seriously. If it was said like that, his ears should be repossesed.
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Some months ago, on a train ride to work, I overheard a couple of youngsters (about age 12) talk about music. One of them, typically the kind of kid the others would look up to, had a discman. He was telling the others how the song they were listening to was called "hey ho let's go" by the "Ramoness" (pronounced like that, yes, in Dutch). I felt like getting up and shoving the kid through the window of the moving train, but sadly, I managed to do nothing more than shake my head in disgust. I don't think I've listened to Blitzkrieg Bop ever since.
That is actually a pretty easy mistake to make. Don't really understand why you'd be so mad.
Yeah I suppose it'd be harsh to kick his lily ass just for not using the right song title - Blitzkrieg Bop would probably be a little too complex a wording for him to use anyway - but it wasn't just that. The fact that this kid was succeeding at impressing his friends with his "knowledge" when he didn't even know the right song title and how to pronounce the band's name, basic things if you're going to try and show off, that was just beyond me.
At least he showed a budding taste in music and hopefully spread it too, that's about the only positive thing I can say about the whole thing.
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Creativity comes from the ability to hide one's sources, as it's said. If that kid can get away with it, good on him. He'll probably figure it out later, as will his friends.
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I'm sure referring to Nine Inch Nails as industrial in the presence of a proper rivet-head would be an invitation to be vomited over. 'industrial pop' must be one of the most oxymoronic genre descriptions ever. I'd prefer riot-pop, which is what Angelspit call themselves, or just industrial rock, which it is.
Nine Inch Nails is to rivetheads as Green Day is to punks. You get my drift?
Oh, come on, Khar. Everyone knows that even the most serious rivethead has a copy of The Downward Spiral they listen to on rare occasion for nostalgia's sake.
Plus, rivetheads are a bunch of twats for the most part, anyways.
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3. Michel Jackson - Billy Jean ( For some reson I like this one.. Don't ask why)
Dude, everyone knows "Billie Jean" is the best song ever.
One of my coworkers is a Nickelback fan (hang on, it gets worse), and she loves Chad Kroeger's "raunchier" lyrics on the new album. I keep fighting the urge to shove a 20-year old Prince record in her face.
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Duh, he wears black a lot. Anyone in black is a goth.
Including me, despite the fact that I like Weezer.
I blame America... you lot have ruined goth and it's related genres for everyone.
Whilst wearing a KMFDM t-shirt: "KMFDM... that American heavymetal band?"
I don't know what to say... they're German, they live in Seatlle but they're German. Heavy metal...? Ummm no.
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The story is much better if you know the song, trust me. So here it is (http://s58.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3H981GWEOM6YF24YU2Q9UGK8IP). Maybe you'll instantly think Beethoven, but I doubt it.
I just downloaded that song and I can honestly say it is one of the most boring songs I've heard in my entire life (In my opinion).
Out of genuine interest, what makes you want to listen to this?
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Whilst wearing a KMFDM t-shirt: "KMFDM... that American heavymetal band?"
I don't know what to say... they're German, they live in Seatlle but they're German. Heavy metal...? Ummm no.
Oh, but come on, no-one, generally SPEAKING, knows jack shit about metal. Hell, I can remember when I was 13-14 and I used to lump AFI, Rob Zombie and Metallica together as...goodness knows actually. 'heavy music' or something. I really should remember this more when I shake my head at peoples ideas of music, but meh, more people should put the effort I have put in.
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Everyone needs to listen before they judge and have a better idea about genres.
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Duh, he wears black a lot. Anyone in black is a goth.
Including me, despite the fact that I like Weezer.
I blame America... you lot have ruined goth and it's related genres for everyone.
Whilst wearing a KMFDM t-shirt: "KMFDM... that American heavymetal band?"
I don't know what to say... they're German, they live in Seatlle but they're German. Heavy metal...? Ummm no.
'You lot?' I'm from the Midlands...
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I just downloaded that song and I can honestly say it is one of the most boring songs I've heard in my entire life (In my opinion).
Out of genuine interest, what makes you want to listen to this?
Well, mainly because it's awesome, but also partly because I'm awesome. I'd say it's about 80/20.
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I sent Carl(Fabio) an .mp3 of Colin Meloy's version of 'Sister I'm A Poet'. His response; "Hey! This sounds a lot like The Decemberists' singer!"
His excuse: "I didn't read the title."
Needless to say, I laughed. REALLY hard.
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"Pink Floyd is the new Sigur Ros."
And then I shot him in the face.
AARGH! I THINK I'M HAVING A BRAIN HAMEORRHAGE!(sp?)
Of course, if he said it the other way round, then he's not far off.
I would also accept 'Radiohead.'
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I just thought of another one. One of my best friends thinks Green Day's latest is their best album up to this point, because they managed to escape into mainstream (or something like that). He named Blink 182's latest as another example of how a band successfully did that. This guy taught me music years ago, and then that... There is no god. And worst thing is, he can't stop ridiculizing my taste in music. "With friends like these, who the fuck needs Cointelpro?"
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Of course, if he said it the other way round, then he's not far off.
I would also accept 'Radiohead.'
I would also accept 'The Mars Volta', oddly enough.
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i once played Assorted Jelly Beans for someone, and they described them as "a cross between Sublime and AFI". what??
i also heard someone once claim that ska was created in the 1980's as a mix of reggae, punk, and swing. i really wanted to smack him.
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'You lot?' I'm from the Midlands...
I'm making gross baseless generalisations. Some of the best "goth" in years has come out of the USA but also most of the worst has too.
Well, mainly because it's awesome, but also partly because I'm awesome. I'd say it's about 80/20.
I can't really argue with that.
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ok, one of my best friends is an elitist scene-kid, and when he heard me listening to a mixed cd that had spoon and rage against the machine, among about 7 other bands, he went into an elitist scene craze!
"what the fuck are you doing?!?! rage against the machine!! everyone and their fat mother knows them! nine inch nails?!?! what the fuck man! get away from your fucking radio!.."
it went on for quite a while. he completely ignored the fact that i discovered none of these bands on the radio. nevermind any mention of liking a band because they make good music, and not caring about their level of popularity, one way or the other.
i know a lot of "radio" music can be unoriginal and often just lame, but come on. rejecting bands because more than ten people know who they are? i thought people had gotten over that stupidity. that's just as idiotic as rejecting them because they've gotten no radio play. it its good, enjoy it. sorry, end rant.
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Or it's more of Rage Against the Machine and NIN kinda suck ass.
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New stupid comment!
I was humming "Hey Jude" in class and a guy sitting next to me asked what I was humming. I told him the name of the song and he asked, "Oh, who's that by?" I was already horrified at this point but I managed to keep a straight face in explaining that the Beatles wrote it. His reply:
"The Beatles? Uh.. yeah.. I think I've heard of those guys."
Needless to say it was difficult to not snap and do something drastic. Instead I'm pretty sure I winced and bit my lip or something. It's still pretty terrible.
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Or it's more of Rage Against the Machine and NIN kinda suck ass.
.....you....just....ok i can't even respond to that idiotic comment without risking getting kicked out of here.
except to say that, since his arguement REALLY was that all bands played on the radio suck automatically, making it a stupid arguement no matter what bands he was talking about.
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NIN is just really bland quasi-industrial tripe. Rage Against The Machine is just really annoying rap-whatever the fuck you want to put here, and they're made worse by the good amounts of high school bands covering RATM songs. Seriously.
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Needless to say it was difficult to not snap and do something drastic.
You should have slammed his head into a wall, removed his leg with something blunt, and beat him to death with it.
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ok, one of my best friends is an elitist scene-kid, and when he heard me listening to a mixed cd that had spoon and rage against the machine, among about 7 other bands, he went into an elitist scene craze!
"what the fuck are you doing?!?! rage against the machine!! everyone and their fat mother knows them! nine inch nails?!?! what the fuck man! get away from your fucking radio!.."
it went on for quite a while. he completely ignored the fact that i discovered none of these bands on the radio. nevermind any mention of liking a band because they make good music, and not caring about their level of popularity, one way or the other.
i know a lot of "radio" music can be unoriginal and often just lame, but come on. rejecting bands because more than ten people know who they are? i thought people had gotten over that stupidity. that's just as idiotic as rejecting them because they've gotten no radio play. it its good, enjoy it. sorry, end rant.
When's the last fucking time RATM got played on mainstream radio?
Rage Against The Machine is just really annoying rap-whatever the fuck you want to put here, and they're made worse by the good amounts of high school bands covering RATM songs. Seriously.
Despite having one of the most innovative guitarists of the nineties?
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shush dynamite kid altho he is speaking blasphemy against the RATM gods we will ignore him and go on our merry little ways *hugs* its ok were better than him
and i love NIN too ....
damn straight
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shush dynamite kid altho he is speaking blasphemy against the RATM gods we will ignore him and go on our merry little ways *hugs* its ok were better than him
and i love NIN too ....
damn straight
Ew, it touched me.
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:o last time i try and be nice and stop WW3 breaking out in yet another music thread
*sulks off to the free hugs/makeout thread for some lovin*
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:o last time i try and be nice and stop WW3 breaking out in yet another music thread
*sulks off to the free hugs/makeout thread for some lovin*
You know I wuvz you normz.
Despite your gay emo faggot avatar.
Literally!
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the part about my avatar made me giggle (like actually out loud) .... it will change soon tho once i find something worthy of my awesomeness
oh yeah something stupid my little sister said the other day 'avril is so original, your just jealous cause she's really talented normy'
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This one doesn't have too much to do with music, but seems related to me.
I live in an old port city near the Canadian border that had three big industries in its early days, mining, fishing and logging. It grew together as a conglomerate of I think four or five other towns. Now it's grown into a bustling college town, with a decent music scene. But it's not just dominated by college students, it's got retirees, tourists, and small business owners up the wazoo. Not to mention a stupid number of visual artists and writers. There are all sorts of political factions and divides, the major one being between land developers and people who've lived here a long time and liked it the way it was in the sixties. There are old hippy communes, and community gardens, and dojos, and poetry circles, and boat people... Basically, it's a complicated place with a big history.
One day, I heard a college student saying, "If you live in Bellingham, you're either a 'scenester' or a 'whitehat.'"
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If "whitehat" means what I think it means, in Bellingham, even the whitehats are scenesters! Whatever the heck "scenester" means...
OK, I'll go take this rant down to the bus depot now, where it'll fit in better with the mental patients displaced by Ronald Reagan's administration....
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Rage Against The Machine is just really annoying rap-whatever the fuck you want to put here, and they're made worse by the good amounts of high school bands covering RATM songs. Seriously.
Despite having one of the most innovative guitarists of the nineties?
Wow! Dude! I didn't know Jason Göbel from Gordian Knot ever played with RATM!
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look what someone put on Mindless self indulgence's my space thing:
"I wish to extend my sincerest gratitude to you all for being the most original band I know of. I was wondering if you guys could go out to Norfolk or Hampton, Virginia. Thank you, for a greatful sailor!"
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"Music doesn't really matter anyway, there are more important things in life like cars"
DOESNT MATTER, DOESNT MATTER??????
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Its perfectly true. Music is reliatively unimportant compared with the joys of building and driving exotic cars.
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Like for example the one in your avatar?
I want one of those, if I had one I wouldn't mind going deaf.
or a musical apocalypse where all musicians(actual and wannabies) spontaneously combust along with any recordings and notes.
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Its perfectly true. Music is reliatively unimportant compared with the joys of building and driving exotic cars.
Yeah but... what do you listen to when you're driving or when youre in the garage for 8 hours welding stuff??
Plus he wasnt talking about exotic cars he was talking about his SKODA. *shudders*
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If you have a good car, it doesnt even have a radio. You dont want one iether, the induction, exaust, and gearbox make sweet music for you.
Dont knock skodas too much.. they make nice rally cars. Course, if his is iether standard, or a neon covered barrymobile, feel free to laugh at him.
The "one in my avatar" is a drawing of my 1959 austin mini. Its little 850cc engine just burbles and clatters away.. Course, its a mini, so the sky is the limit with performance tuning. I'm just watching a video of a friends mini on a sprint track. 190 brake horsepower in half a tonne of the best handling car ever made. The origional giant killer, and still the best :)
Really, when you own a mini it puts all the mundane things in life in perspective. Music is just a plesant diversion for wet evenings when you have a mini.
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ok thanks normz and dynamitekid. i'm glad im not the only sane one. i would also like to point out that rage's lyrics don't get nearly enough credit. the choruses are appropriately simple, the rest is on point and easy to remember phrases, where every word is chosen for a purpose, so that the average RATM song can be sung by a mass of people intelligent enough to understand what is going on around them. in other words it is the "rap, whatever" version of old protest music.
and i don't know about where you live by my local rock radio station loves RATM. they've also been playing Tool for as long as Tool's been around, and played grunge and alternative before it started getting national acclaim. they also frequently play local bands, and local requests, to balance out all the mainstream they have to play to be able to keep going. i think that is why my friend was so offended by them, cuz our local station plays them frequently.
as for NIN, like many bands worth listening to, they are not contained in a single genre, but rather reznor lets himself be influenced by many sources. this can cause problems with hardline fans of a particular genre, but for those of us who appreciate artist who keep an open mind, this is a beautiful thing.
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Really, when you own a mini it puts all the mundane things in life in perspective. Music is just a plesant diversion for wet evenings when you have a mini.
The wet nights are the most fun when you own a mini...
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Maybe when i get some halogens.
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"Dashboard have to be the most emotional music ever, plus Chris Caraba is hot"
I'm not sure exactly what the guy looks like, so I couldn't argue to that. I was also so speechless that I couldn't argue back at all.
I couldn't agree more.
My diary at the age of 12 was the most emotional thing ever, but that doesn't nessesarily make it, you know.. good.
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then again, maybe it was a bad idea to take my volkswagen golf in the wet that night... hmm beerwah gravel/dirt 89 special stage... lets see how fun it is.. wrap car around tree and damage my neck and back muscles as well as break my collar bone
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I was talking with my manager yesterday, and I mentioned Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, and obviously didn't know that it was an album by the Beatles. She was saying that everyone on the world thought it was great, but when she saw it in theatres, she thought it was just crap.
In other words, she thought that the Bee Gees version was the only Sgt. Pepper out there, which is slightly heartbreaking.
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One of my friends on another message board I frequent said that Terry Balsalmo's guitar playing was on the same level as Jimmy Page, Eric Clapton, Steve Vai (I think that was his name), Jimi Hendrix, *add whatever guitarist you want*.
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I didn't know who Terry Balsamo was before I wikipedia'd it. Now I think I want to shoot myself. This guy has a bad track record; Was the Guitarist for Cold, is the guitarist for Evanescence, and was the guitarist for limp bizkit in their "early years" (according to wikipedia). So yeah, shoot myself.
And yeah, Steve Vai is his name and he is crazy show-offy good.
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When I was talking about the Beatles, this kid said, "Who are they?" Right before I started yelling at him, he proceeded to say, "Oh, are they those guys with Jesse McCartney in them?"
AND THEN I STABBED HIM IN THE FACE
WITH BULLETS
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Bonus points for the VGCats reference.
...I have reached the level of nerdiness when I can recognize webcomic quotes without proper context. Pray for my soul.
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When I was talking about the Beatles, this kid said, "Who are they?" Right before I started yelling at him, he proceeded to say, "Oh, are they those guys with Jesse McCartney in them?"
AND THEN I STABBED HIM IN THE FACE
WITH BULLETS
This has happened to me like, six time (without the Jesse McCartney part), but I still want to kill myself after each one. A good portion of kids I know have NEVER CONSCIENTIOUSLY listened to a Beatels song.
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"yeah, the david bowie concert was amazing...he randomly did a cover of nirvana's "man who sold the world!"
unlike most of you, I didn't end up stabbing him in the face though.
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"Omigod the Fall Out Boy concert was SO amazing!"
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"Hilary Duff can sing better than Robert Smith."
It was said with clear sincerity. I stabbed her in the face as well.
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"yeah, the david bowie concert was amazing...he randomly did a cover of nirvana's "man who sold the world!"
unlike most of you, I didn't end up stabbing him in the face though.
Dude, you really should have stabbed him in the face... hard.
Why do all these 13 year olds go round with RIP Curt Cobain shirts... they can't remember that time, they can't possibly understand the significance of those days... Or am I just being picky?
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"because Kurt Cobain was like, the greatest thing to happen to rock, dude."
It's the same thing with all the kids who wear the Dark Side of the Moon tshirts or the Ramones Tshirts. STOP BUYING THEM. We know, every teenager goes through a Pink FLoyd phase, but at least choose a different album! ONCE!
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My only Pink Floyd shirt is a tie-dye Wish You Were Here shirt, which I got not only because it looked awesome, but also because everybody has a Dark Side shirt.
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One of my friends on another message board I frequent said that Terry Balsalmo's guitar playing was on the same level as Jimmy Page, Eric Clapton, Steve Vai (I think that was his name), Jimi Hendrix, *add whatever guitarist you want*.
Has this friend of yours, by any chance, ever played with Cold? Because a friend of mine (fellow Californian, to keep confusion low) once tried to get me to join a band with him and this guy who played with Cold.
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We know, every teenager goes through a Pink FLoyd phase
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i didn't.
on topic: there's this guy who argued that The Pietasters are not a ska band, but a "Chicago/R&B band". this after he had attempted to convince me that The Hippos' self-titled CD was "totally a ska album, you just aren't listening close enough"
also, his band sucks: http://www.purevolume.com/kaysplace
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Well, I would wear a The Wall shirt, but I can't listen to that album without suffering major emotional damage. So freakin' depressing.
So freakin' brilliant.
But still about as fun as getting kicked in the head repeatedly.
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a commercial for green day's 'bullet in a bible' comes on
me "ANOTHER album? what the hell..."
kid "i hope it is, American Idiot was their best album ever."
me "...."
i stared at him for a minute, wondering if he was serious.
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Green Day's making another album already? Sweet!
(Yes, I know that qualifies as a stupid quote, but I love Green Day.)
Also, I made my Pink Floyd and Ramones shirts, as well as Led Zeppelin and the Who shirts. Screw you, corporations! Fight the power!
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every teenager goes through a Pink FLoyd phase, but at least choose a different album! ONCE!
1. Every teenager? That's utter, A-grade bullshit.
2. My t-shirts are Animals, Division Bell and The Wall.
P.S. Green Day have a new album coming out? When did that happen?
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My Pink Floyd shirt:
(http://altura.speedera.net/ccimg.catalogcity.com/200000/205400/205477/Products/7617303.jpg)
I know a kid who thinks Killswitch Engage are the worlds best emo band. That kind of opinion is wrong on so many levels that it hurts my brain.
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EDIT: Research is fun.
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The 'new green day' in actually a live dvd.
Don't get too excited.
You know what? about 5 seconds of google told me that. I didn't even have to click any links.
*shrug* I'm lazy.
I went to their website and it just said it was coming out, not what it was. Handy.
And I saw that shirt when i was looking for a Wall one.
What I actually wanted was sew-on patches with the goose-stepping hammers on and a black jacket to sew them onto.