And, for the record, wehn REM was touring for Up, Michael Stipe came out on stage and played a solo acoustic version of Hope. He said he had decided to learn to play guitar. When you or I can’t play shit, we noodle around and play most of Indigo Girls songs. When rock stars can’t play shit, they apparently go out with their guitars and play before thousands. This is because they have balls the size of small dogs.
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Where your eyes must sting and reek of ball sweat from the inverted chin ups you were doing on cock* when you should have been reading the thread and grasping the context of what is being argued.
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See, now you’re trying way to hard. Grammatical errors, overly complex insults…I think I’m going to have to penalise this one.
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See, now you’re trying way to hard. Grammatical errors, overly complex insults…I think I’m going to have to penalise this one.
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It’s late, and my insult well is drying up.
[QUOTE=Gary Kumquat]
See, now you’re trying way to hard. Grammatical errors, overly complex insults…I think I’m going to have to penalise this one.
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You meant too.
Why all the hate for John Mayall?
[QUOTE=Scissorjack]
Why all the hate for John Mayall?
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Because he plays the blues, which as **Euthanasiast **has pointed out, is a bullshit genre without any decent songwriters. Pay attention.
There are three things I have learned never to discuss in public: religion, politics, and Justin Timberlake.
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Because he plays the blues, which as **Euthanasiast **has pointed out, is a bullshit genre without any decent songwriters. Pay attention.
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I hate you.
[QUOTE=Contrapuntal]
Because he plays the blues, which as **Euthanasiast **has pointed out, is a bullshit genre without any decent songwriters. Pay attention.
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I thought he played emo!
[QUOTE=Euthanasiast]
We’ve been talking about whether or not John Mayer is a proficient/shitty songwriter, not whether or not singers who do not write songs are talented in some way. Since John Mayer does write music, logic dictates that he has the upper hand in the ability to write songs, more so than someone who does not. If you do not write songs, then you are not a songwriter! Can’t we at least fucking agree on that? Fact: According to published work, John Mayer is a much better songwriter than Elvis Presley. This is because Elvis Presley didn’t write songs. You can argue that Elvis Presley was a better singer, but so far as I know, you cannot argue that he was a more talented songwriter. Am I making sense to you now?
I’m not dismissing the artist because he cannot combine singing and songwriting, but again, since the entire subject up for debate since the first flaming post has been about whether John Mayer is a proficient/shitty songwriter, then someone who doesn’t write their own music, but sings what others have written is certainly not a fucking talented songwriter. This is why Justin Timberlake was dismissed out of hand (and to tell the truth, I am only going by what Soapbox Monkey said when he talked about producers writing with/for him in the CS thread–I have no idea what JT sings or writes).
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Right. Well, carry on then. As you were you two. Ignore the comprehension challenged individual in the tinfoil hat. Although In my defence I would say that NOT writing songs is an improvement over John Mayer, and in that sense almost every human on the planet is a better songwriter. Unless you’re a teenage girl, which clearly ** Euthanasiast** is.
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I thought he played emo!
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Euthanasiast plays Emo? I knew there was a reason I hated him.
[QUOTE=Gary Kumquat]
Euthanasiast plays Emo? I knew there was a reason I hated him.
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Wait, who plays Elmo? So we *do * have a board celebrity after all? Sweet.
[QUOTE=Euthanasiast]
You don’t know what I like, shitbag, unless you’ve been going through all of my old posts, in which case you are saying that Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jimi Hendrix, Henry Garza, Buddy Guy, Lonnie Mack, Albert Collins, Eric Calpton, BB King, Jack White and an assload of other artists I have named as influences suck.
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Well, I’m saying they all suck (especially as songwriters).
[QUOTE=Euthanasiast]
You don’t know what I like, shitbag, unless you’ve been going through all of my old posts, in which case you are saying that Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jimi Hendrix, Henry Garza, Buddy Guy, Lonnie Mack, Albert Collins, Eric Calpton, BB King, Jack White and an assload of other artists I have named as influences suck.
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Erm. I think that was more of a gently pointed bon mot used to illustrate the foolishness of getting into an “I can insult you better!” pissing contest over the songwriting ability (or lack thereof) of John Mayer. No accounting for taste and all that.
For the record, I have no stake in this debate, although I will point out that John Mayer is a very very funny motherfucker. Also, while I don’t know whether or not Chuck D. plays any instruments, Flavor Flav plays piano.
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What about Leonard Cohen? You can’t seriously be suggesting that we only hear HIS versions of his songs?
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Well, I personally prefer all of Leonard Cohen’s versions of his songs, but I recognize that I’m probably in the minority.
Honestly, I have no idea if the music he writes is any good or not, but he is such a masterful word smith that I don’t much care.
So - as far as people I would do:
Leonard Cohen - hells yes, even though he’s really old.
John Mayer - maybe
Justin Timberlake - not a chance.
I’ll now return you to this debate, which this post has nothing to do with.
[QUOTE=Seven]
Which is better? Putting a broken light bulb up your ass or breaking a whole one once it’s in?
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I’ve probably laughed out loud less than a dozen times at something someone has written on the Straight Dope.
Congratulations, sir! Well done!
[QUOTE=Contrapuntal]
Because he plays the blues, which as **Euthanasiast **has pointed out, is a bullshit genre without any decent songwriters. Pay attention.
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Well, his baby she done him wrong.
[QUOTE=Euthanasiast]
I hate you.
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Well, as long as it’s not because I’m beautiful …
This thread is a good example of what I hate about the internet. Hell, it’s a good example of what I hate about people.
[QUOTE=Subterraneanus]
This thread is a good example of what I hate about the internet. Hell, it’s a good example of what I hate about people.
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Just for grins and giggles, what is it that you hate about the internet and people, and how is it exemplified in this thread?