You are not alone.
My true confession… I am reluctant to admit this…well…I read Barbara Cartland novels. Oh, the shame. I’ve often thought I could write one that nobody could tell was not one of hers, since I read a LOT of them. I guess with this admission I can NEVER look down on the literary tastes of someone else.
Miles Davis’s Bitch’s Brew makes me twitch. Not in a good way. Discordant jazz of all kinds causes me to hastily edge toward the nearest exit.
I accept I am not musically sophisticated.
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The Atari 5200 is the best gaming console ever.
Methyl replies…
I was playing Pengo and Berzerk on my two port last night. Great console tarnished by bad controllers, but if you bought third party controllers, the system and games really shine.
Oh, that’s right, this is a confessions thread.
Boyhood, it took twelve years to make. So what. It was boring. BORING. After two hours, I picked up the cover sleeve and realized I had 45 more minutes to go. Screw that. I couldn’t take it any longer.
This may be a geographic thing; I’m an Indiana boy, myself.
I quit watching sitcoms back in the 80s. They were so predictible I couldn’t stand it. I have friends who try to get me interested, but I watch five minutes, give them the plot and then they get mad at me.
I still gorge on Fritos sometimes. And jello salads.
I sang “Summer Loving” with my first girlfriend at my wedding in front of my wife’s family.
…I’m…not married right now.
Please Mr. Custer, I dont wanna go…what’s the Indian word for friend? Kemosabe! That’s it! KEMOSABE!
I *love *The Doobie Brothers and I’d listen to them above any of those other bands any day of the week. I must sing along whenever I hear “Black Water.”
I loathe ‘Friends’ and I tried to watch it. I TRIED. I gave it a week, and my attention wandered off as I wondered why it was so unfunny and what the BFD was. Couldn’t do it. I loathe each and every one of them, and every time I see Jennifer Anniston’s stupid smug face even unto this day I want to punch it.
I admit it. I was actually curious to know if that was REALLY Uma Thurman in the MOTO-Z commercial.
I was even going to run a poll:
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[li]Yes, that’s Uma Thurman in the new Moto-Z commercial.[/li][li]No, that cannot possibly be Uma Thurman in the new Moto-Z commercial.[/li][li]Master Pai, I Cannot Tell if that is Uma Thurman in the new Moto-Z commercial! They use the Hitori-Hanzo Film Editor and my Crane-Style Remote Pause Is Just No-Match…!"[/li][/ul]
The answer, however, has been provided for free… by Yakuza-Tube.
I agree that Friends wasn’t a very good show. The biggest problem, as you noted was Jennifer Anniston (as Rachel) and David Schwimmer (as Ross). I have no idea how either of them became big-name celebrities. Both of them are actively annoying and terrible people both on-screen and off. The rest of the cast is fine but you can’t drop two turds in punch-bowl and still claim that everything is going Schwimmingly (obligatory dad joke).
My favorite thing about the band Nirvana is that they turned the clothes I’d worn all my life into a nationwide fashion trend.
(I grew up in Western Washington; Cobain grew up in Aberdeen, WA, a logging town, and my grandfather was a logger.)
I had a time about 1980 when I was twelve and wore thick flannel shirts and worn out jeans. I still don’t know what was my role model back then, I didn’t know about Neil Young at the time, but I looked the part. When grunge broke ten years later, about the same time I got into Neil Young, everything suddenly made sense :).
Don’t feel bad. I enjoy all sorts of “complex” music, in all sorts of genres, and I love good jazz, but …
Miles’ stuff always just sounded like a bunch of random noodling.
I’ll argue that the Replacements were doing grunge before Nirvana, but yeah, comfy flannel is a good thing.
Nope, that isn’t it.
Of course they did, like hundreds of other bands in the eighties. Heck, you couldn’t get more “grunge” than Neil Young and Crazy Horse did with Rust Never Sleeps, and that was 1978. The big achievement of Nirvana was to bring all that to the forefront, to the mainstream indeed, and with that a load of other “indy” or “alternative” music which was partly very different from that which Nirvana and cohorts did. Many of Nirvana’s forebearers only got their deserved recognition after they had broken the market. I remember a headline of Germany’s then leading music magazine “Musikexpress” which read “1992: The year that Punk broke”. I didn’t understand it then, I thought “well, 1977 was the fucking year that Punk broke!”, but later I saw that they had been right.
Also, I’ve never seen an episode of Firefly.
A lot of The Beatles catalog is utter tripe. Particular some of their ‘psychadelic’ stuff from Sgt Pepper onwards. If any up-and-coming band had produced ‘For The Benefit Of Mr Kite’, ‘Bungalow Bill’ and basically any part of Yellow Submarine’ and ‘Magical Mystery Tour’ they would have been laughed out of the record label office.
Good Beatle songs - very good.
Bad Beatle songs - very bad, man, bad. I mean, real rubbish.
Here are mine:
I don’t like Grease. I don’t know if it’s because of the songs, the casting (I don’t care if most of the actors were the original Broadway cast, they were too freaking old to play high school students), or the way they had Sandy turn all slutty to get Danny’s attention. Probably all of the above.
I used to love those stand-up comedy shows they used to have on network TV in the 80s. Actually, I liked a lot of 80s TV shows that were (and still are) considered dreadful: pro wrestling, I Married Dora, Sledge Hammer!, and, yes, What a Country! I’m not sure what I was thinking as a teenager.
I was also a major fan of Northern Exposure in the 90s. Even though it may have gone downhill for many viewers earlier on, for me it was when Joel left and that pretentious couple moved in.
I’ve never watched Breaking Bad or Game of Thrones. I don’t like getting fond of characters only to watch them get killed off.
-I like certain songs and dislike others regardless of genre. For example, I’m not a fan of most country songs, but I adore “Jolene” (especially Dolly Parton’s original) and “Highwayman” by the Highwaymen. I also like some rap and even one or two dubstep songs, even though most dubstep sounds to me like a garbage truck and a washing machine having violent sex.