I’m so far above this. I am such an advanced life form that I turned my nose up at Metallica for getting on MTV, I was diggin’ on Mojo Nixon then. I didn’t listen to no over hyped Rush either, I was listening to Pere Ubu in 1981. Ozzie? Bahh… my Dad had Black Sabbath and Paranoid and that’s about all Ozzie ever did, Jello Biafra would smack him for being an ass-kiss. I’m so cool that I have a book of poetry by Henry Rollins from 1984, he was skinny and had a sense of humor back then. Iggy Pop laughs his ass off when one of you drives by lip-syncing to a recording of someone lip-syncing. Southern Culture on the Skids put out ass shakin’ rock with cheap Japanese guitars and an amp from Sears. King Missile plays better music on toy instruments than these paid masterbaters.
Elvis may have pity on you all when you’re in pop music hell, but I won’t. You will be judged by the company you keep. There is time for redemption, go buy Mojo Nixon’s Sock Ray Blue and memorize THAT if you want a little sing along.
Go see a local band that does their own stuff. Dig deeper into the music bin. Buy something you’ve never heard of. There is always more music being made. Don’t listen to crap, it’s a plot by the man to keep the brother down.
Being able to write, compose, and sing is just simply a different set of talents then being able to dance, sing, and perform. They are all at least mildly talented or else they wouldn’t be where they are…buying houses and corvets at 19 years old.
Hey, even I have my limits when it comes to bad taste, and THAT is BAD! :::shiver::: I didn’t even know the name of the singer who sang that Alone Again, Naturally crap. So, what does that say about yooooooooooooou? Hummmmmmmmmmmm?
Seriously though, think about that Tom Jones song and his voice when he sings, er I mean growls - "It’s not unusual to be loved by anyone. . . ". It’s just the right mixture of sexy, groovy, and coolness (not that I actually think he is sexy).
Really! Just think about it! VERRRRRRRRRY cool song! Trust me.
I already admitted that this was a weakness in my personality. I guess when I started this thread I thought it would all be in joking fun, and I ended up (quite surprisingly I may add) having my feelings hurt and frankly I can’t believe that they were. I know it’s stupid.
I don’t even know what this means! I don’t live on the east coast. If I run anything it’s Wrigleyville, Chicago. But I’ll comment anyway, as is my right as a U.S. Citizen I suppose the reason I took your post to heart was that I’m so damn used to seeing smilies that I can’t ever tell if someone’s being serious or not. It’s hard to type sarcasm. You don’t have to apologize or explain yourself. I assume there’s a lot of people on this board who think I suck…it’s just never been stated so clearly.
You think I don’t know that? I know I’m a fool. Trust me, I’ve heard it enough My life motto is from the Kids In The Hall:
Sometimes we bring heartache upon ourselves.
Ahh…but in my fantasies, Lance is a very bad boy…
Anyway, let’s be done with it. I consider all of my posts to SDMB on 3/7/01 to be a complete failure anyway. I managed to make a fool out of myself in three separate threads.
Ok, Diane we can get the car thing down I’m sure, as long as you don’t break the window. Cartooniverse we can be friends, hon, but the plaid pants have to go.
All THREE Backstreet Boys albums (I like the first two)
Aqua (Great fun to dance to!)
N’SYNC (I too had a thing for Lance… sigh He’s so hot!)
Britney Spears
Christina Augilera
Enrique Iglesias
Ricky Martin
Marc Anthony
98 degrees (Nick Lachey is MINE!!! )
BLink 182
and a whole lot more…
Lately I’ve been on a classical music kick. I like Yanni (Standing in Motion is a great song!) and I also like this tape of classical piano pieces.
OK I got your back Diane. Growing up with a Grandmother who actually threw her hotel key at Tom Jones meant I learned to appreciate Tom from birth. She would play his songs and show me pictures of him and point out all the great points about him. That song is sexy even if he isn’t. He somehow gets that bedroom growl in it that can turn a woman on. Your not alone:)
Wow. I’m speechless. Completely without speech. Luckily I’m typing this, so that’s not a problem.
If that’s a misdemeanour, I’d love to hear your definition of a felony. Hell, I think my 97-year-old great-gramdma could qualify as hip under those lax laws!
Geez, this thread is just jam-packed with bubble gum chewers. I’d guess most people just skipped right over the thread because they don’t know who the hell Lance is. I almost did, but I was bored enough to click.
There really is some good music out there. You just have to look very hard to find it. And you’re never going to hear it on the radio. Random searches on Napster have turned up some wonderful stuff that sounds millions of times better than anything that’s hit the top 40 in years. Lately I’ve been listening to a great band called Flogging Molly. Take a brilliant punk band, add a fiddle, an accordian, and a bit of Irish flavor, and there you have it. Great tunes. Puts any of that prefab garbage to shame.
My main problem with this putrid music is its ubiquity. What the hell is going on here? The New Kids on the Block never played the Super Bowl. You didn’t run into them on every other TV channel on the dial.
I think that ever since the record companies realized that these young teens had more expendable income than their parents(!), they just began to saturate the radio, TV, and everything else with their images.
I don’t even see what people find so attractive about these guys. My wife thinks the guys in N’Stink are just plain creepy. I have to agree.
Don’t worry, Coldfire. Some of us are still fighting the good fight and we won’t rest until Britney Spears is a washed-up waitress at Denny’s and Rush has a #1 single on the U.S. charts (they’re supposed to be recording a new album this year, aren’t they?)
neutron my love, I realize this is all in good fun and stuff, and I fully appreciate your dislike of Boy Bands…(but come on. Look at Lance again, those green eyes, those lips…COME ON!)
But your post kind of summed up my point.(and thanks for that! I owe ya a smoothie!)
Precisely: Why do you have to ‘fight the good fight’? You said yourself that you’ve found some great new music out there. Fantastic! Enjoy it, promote it…Learn it…Know it…Live it.
And then let the rest of us have our ocassional bubblegum that we enjoy! My taste in music is at the very least ODD. On any day it’s hard to tell if I’m going to be listening to Gorecki’s Symphony number 3, Tearin’ Up My Heart or We Came To Kill by Funker Vogt. I’m never allowed to choose the CD in the car, never allowed to pick the CD for our Lazer Tag tournaments, never allowed to pick the radio station…because I HAVE ODD tastes.
It doesn’t mean we have to fight about it! I like Rush, myself, doesn’t mean I can’t like top forty hits!
Oh please tell me NO! :::shiver::: Ya know, if they could just get rid of that Geddy with that icky voice of his, they might be tollerable. I said “might”.
Thank you Mamahen! It is nice to see someone else who understands the Tom Jones thing.
Oh please tell me NO! :::shiver::: Ya know, if they could just get rid of that Geddy with that icky voice of his, they might be tollerable. I said “might”.
Before you hurt me badly, Coldie, I will admit that I own two Rush albums, 2112 and another one that I can’t think of the name right now. They were ummmm… ummmm… ummmm… gifts. Yeah, that’s it, gifts.
Thank you Mamahen! It is nice to see someone else who understands the Tom Jones thing.
Whoops, sorry about that first post. I must have hit something before I finished my post. I’m going to blame it on my quivering fingers from thinking about that Tom Jones song.
You have Lazer Tag tournaments! How can there be any question of your coolness? All these other fools are just playa hatin’. I still stand by my own post about Metallica, though.
It just kind of bums me out that other people aren’t exposed to all the great music that’s out there. Radio stations could be playing 300 different bands a day. Instead they take 30 bands and play their songs ten times apiece per day. Infuriating!
And now they’ll probably be taking away my Napster (or at least mutilating it beyond recognition sigh).
I too believe that variety is the spice of life, especially when it comes to music. But it seems that the more popular these shit bands get, the less variety we see and the harder we have to search for good music!
