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Re: Great bands you don't care for?
« Reply #300 on: 30 Dec 2006, 11:58 »

It is pretty ambiguous.
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Re: Great bands you don't care for?
« Reply #301 on: 30 Dec 2006, 12:02 »

That's the most backhanded praise I've ever heard.

I can do better.

Radiohead are brilliant because they help me define what decent music sounds like.

Think about that one.
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Re: Great bands you don't care for?
« Reply #302 on: 30 Dec 2006, 12:07 »

I only seem to hear of Pavement as the punchline to jokes about indie. I seriously can't recall anyone, either online or offline, ever actually talking about their music, recommending them or even commenting about them as a band.

This is basically because they're the most neutral band in the history of anything. I downloaded a couple of albums awhile ago to see what all the lack of fuss was about; it was the most unremarkable thing I've ever heard. I couldn't think of a good reason to turn it off, but neither could I think of any way to describe why I would want to continue listening to it.

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Re: Great bands you don't care for?
« Reply #303 on: 30 Dec 2006, 12:15 »

That's the most backhanded praise I've ever heard.

I can do better.

Radiohead are brilliant because they help me define what decent music sounds like.

Think about that one.

Actually, that's not very good unless you indicate what else helps you define what decent music sounds like.  For example, I can't define what good music sounds like based on Cradle of Filth, but I can based on them and Jethro Tull.
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Re: Great bands you don't care for?
« Reply #304 on: 30 Dec 2006, 13:00 »

cradle of filth?  i like some of their stuff, especially the songs with sarah jezebel diva.

and as a chick i have to say, i give excellent high fives.  and really rippin indian burns.
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Re: Great bands you don't care for?
« Reply #305 on: 30 Dec 2006, 13:03 »

That's the most backhanded praise I've ever heard.

A girl once told me I sing pretty well, for a guy.
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Re: Great bands you don't care for?
« Reply #306 on: 30 Dec 2006, 14:26 »

I have been told on a few occasions by girls that I'm such a fantastic friend and all around nice person, that they sometimes forget I'm a guy.
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Re: Great bands you don't care for?
« Reply #307 on: 30 Dec 2006, 14:35 »

I've been told "You're just one of the girls."

How emasculating.
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Re: Great bands you don't care for?
« Reply #308 on: 30 Dec 2006, 20:54 »

A lady once told me she was convinced I was gay, then slept with me.

I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE HELL TO THINK.
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Re: Great bands you don't care for?
« Reply #309 on: 30 Dec 2006, 22:59 »

I think "Score" ought to do.
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Re: Great bands you don't care for?
« Reply #310 on: 31 Dec 2006, 02:27 »

I've been told "You're just one of the girls."

How emasculating.

Does that get you into the girls' locker room though?
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Re: Great bands you don't care for?
« Reply #311 on: 31 Dec 2006, 02:58 »

Getting relegated to Let's Just Be Friends status probably does not secure locker room entry... even if you are gay
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Re: Great bands you don't care for?
« Reply #312 on: 31 Dec 2006, 03:28 »

If you think about it, homosexuality renders the seperation of locker rooms by gender somewhat amusing, as does letting little kids in them with their parents when they're under a certain age. Unisex with cubicles would be the way to go I think.
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Re: Great bands you don't care for?
« Reply #313 on: 31 Dec 2006, 03:29 »

Definitely would be the way to go. Plus can you imagine the possiblities for locker room quickie orgies?
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Re: Great bands you don't care for?
« Reply #314 on: 31 Dec 2006, 04:06 »

"orgasmic glee"
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Re: Great bands you don't care for?
« Reply #315 on: 31 Dec 2006, 07:06 »

God-DAMN that's awesome.
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Re: Great bands you don't care for?
« Reply #316 on: 31 Dec 2006, 07:19 »

ZOMG GUYS LEZBEENS!
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Re: Great bands you don't care for?
« Reply #317 on: 31 Dec 2006, 09:57 »

TEH VAGINA SEXXXX
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Re: Great bands you don't care for?
« Reply #318 on: 04 Jan 2007, 12:13 »

Have we argued and fought enough in this thread yet??

If not, let's start again: you're a fucking idiot if you don't like Pavement. And I mean that literally. Only dumb people don't like Pavement.
Oh, I thought it meant I don't like listening to shit, my mistake.
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Re: Great bands you don't care for?
« Reply #319 on: 17 Apr 2007, 23:16 »

Red Hot Chili Peppers are so boring.

Shut up about California! I've never even been and I'm sick of the place!

dude not ALL of their songs are about california, just the big hits usually
if you find them boring, i recommend their cds FREAKY STYLEY and THE UPLIFT MOFO PARTY PLAN, just to get you warmed up. if you still dont like them after those.... fine. hate them. more funk for me.
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Re: Great bands you don't care for?
« Reply #320 on: 17 Apr 2007, 23:26 »

I don't really dig either Deerhoof or Xui Xui. Maybe they're too weird for me or something.
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Re: Great bands you don't care for?
« Reply #321 on: 18 Apr 2007, 01:18 »

Holy Crap, thread revival from beyond the grave!

I'm still undecided about Modest Mouse. Isaac Brock is just really silly.

Also I'd like to publicly state that the last two pages of this thread is pretty good reading.
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« Reply #322 on: 18 Apr 2007, 07:34 »

Wow guys.  This really is from beyond the grave.  Anyways, I like some Modest Mouse alright.  I have "This is a Long Drive. . ." and "Lonesome Crowded West."  Pretty decent listening.
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Re: Great bands you don't care for?
« Reply #323 on: 18 Apr 2007, 10:52 »

I like the former but not the latter, Julia. I guess it's because Deerhoof make frequent concessions to the idea of "melody."
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Re: Great bands you don't care for?
« Reply #324 on: 18 Apr 2007, 19:44 »

Radiohead...I know
Nirvana
Rolling Stones
Led Zeppelin
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Re: Great bands you don't care for?
« Reply #325 on: 18 Apr 2007, 19:46 »

I don't really dig either Deerhoof or Xui Xui. Maybe they're too weird for me or something.

You might like Xiu Xiu, though.
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Re: Great bands you don't care for?
« Reply #326 on: 20 Apr 2007, 00:23 »

I could never get into The Flaming Lips.

And I have a friend that absolutely hates The Beatles.
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Re: Great bands you don't care for?
« Reply #327 on: 20 Apr 2007, 00:55 »

Wonderwall, in defiance of all human logic, being made worse.

You are a cruel human being for unleashing that on the world. I now have to go listen to "Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others" on repeat to cleanse my soul.

I am undoubtedly going to get an internet beating for this but, The Arctic Monkeys. They need to shut the fuck up, stop insulting other musicians, stop calling the radio stations that have made them famous out for playing crappy music (ironic, no?), and stop releasing garbage music.
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« Reply #328 on: 20 Apr 2007, 02:52 »

The Arctic Monkeys had an awful live show one time, they had no energy and were on stage talking about how they were only there because they had to be.  They didn't even play that well, it ruined them for me as a band.


Also, and a lot of my friends get pretty perturbed about this with me: I CAN NOT STAND THE SMASHING PUMPKINS
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« Reply #329 on: 20 Apr 2007, 08:22 »

I am undoubtedly going to get an internet beating for this but, The Arctic Monkeys.

No you won't; the Arctic Monkeys suck.
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Re: Great bands you don't care for?
« Reply #330 on: 20 Apr 2007, 13:42 »

in which parallel universe do the arctic monkeys qualify as 'a great band'

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Re: Great bands you don't care for?
« Reply #331 on: 20 Apr 2007, 14:05 »

I don't like Oasis at all.  I also don't really like Sigur Ros.  I'm not into Liars either.  Didn't they get 2nd best album of the year on pitchfork or something? 
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« Reply #332 on: 20 Apr 2007, 14:20 »

I don't really dig either Deerhoof or Xui Xui. Maybe they're too weird for me or something.

You might like Xiu Xiu, though.
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Re: Great bands you don't care for?
« Reply #333 on: 20 Apr 2007, 17:19 »

U2 and Coldplay.
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« Reply #334 on: 21 Apr 2007, 10:21 »

in which parallel universe do the arctic monkeys qualify as 'a great band'

The way I figure it, "great band" in this thread has been interpreted as "band that a lot of people listen to" more than "band that has achieved legendary status."

The Arctic Monkeys are just pricks in general. If they were nice people, I might have given them a second listen.

Recent Vintage, are you fucking serious? That's really rock bottom for people who consider themselves artists, no?
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Re: Great bands you don't care for?
« Reply #335 on: 21 Apr 2007, 15:04 »

Well which band has achieved legendary status?
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Re: Great bands you don't care for?
« Reply #336 on: 21 Apr 2007, 16:29 »

The Beatles, Stones, U2?

Household names, in other words.
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Re: Great bands you don't care for?
« Reply #337 on: 22 Apr 2007, 19:05 »

I seem to be one of the few people on the face of the Earth who doesn't like Radiohead. I mean, Airbag is a pretty cool song. And the album Kid A is kind of cool, but boring. But I'm basically just that one weird guy around here who doesn't like Radiohead. And people say "I didn't like them either at first, cause they were too weird," and I just reply that I listen to music that's far weirder.

Oh ya, and I don't really like Pink Floyd either.

1. Dude, there is a nation of Radiohead haters out there. I'm not among them, but you could probably join an official chatroom somewhere about how Radiohead are shit.

2. Disliking Radiohead and disliking the Floyd - two of my favourite bands, it must be said - are not really mutually exclusive.

I don't like Radiohead, but I don't think they are shit either. I respect them musically and all, but I just can't get into it very well, but who knows I may eventually.
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Re: Great bands you don't care for?
« Reply #338 on: 22 Apr 2007, 23:58 »

I hate Radiohead and Pink Floyd...I also think that the Beatles are vastly overrated.
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