# What kind of music do I listen to? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 10, 2001, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-music-do-i-listen-to/86594 "2001-10-10T16:22:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![hegel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/cab0a1/32.png) [@hegel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hegel)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2001, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-music-do-i-listen-to/86594/21 "2001-10-11T02:04:03Z")
with a name like grendel, i would’ve expected something a little more, um, vociferous. ---
**Author:** ![grendel72](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/91b2a8/32.png) [@grendel72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grendel72)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2001, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-music-do-i-listen-to/86594/22 "2001-10-11T02:21:39Z")
Sorry, **hegel** , I didn’t mean to be argumentative. If indie music isn’t your thing, fine, go in peace. If you would like to cuss and discuss further, kindly start a seperate thread and leave the OP alone. A debate as to whether indie rock fans are elitist or simply trying to turn each other on to new things would be cool. Or a pit thread, either way’s cool with me. ---
**Author:** ![hegel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/cab0a1/32.png) [@hegel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hegel)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2001, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-music-do-i-listen-to/86594/23 "2001-10-11T02:29:10Z")
no cursing, just lively exchanges. yeah, i think i’ll start a new thread. peace to you too, man. ---
**Author:** ![Ich\_Bin\_s](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Ich\_Bin\_s](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ich_Bin_s)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2001, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-music-do-i-listen-to/86594/24 "2001-10-11T03:43:27Z")
To Pezpunk (sorry, I don’t know how to do the quote thing yet) regarding shudder to think. Interesting. I love get yer goat and funeral too. I susupect we could start a thread about this. I do agree that pony was a more polished, mainstream album, and the songs didn’t hit, lyrically, quite a close to the bone as their earlier stuff. Heck, the song “Chocolate” is almost too personal for me to listen to now. I used to joke that the only positive thing that ever happened to any band in moving to a major was that Shudder stopped the, as one friend called it, “stream-of-bullsh\*t prose”. Not that I hated this element of earlier albumns, it just didn’t do much for me. I guess it wasn’t until Pony that I got more into the angular style of music. I owned June of 44 engine takes to water for years without getting through it (big rodan fan), only to “rediscover” them later. I probably owe it to myself to dig out my Discord era shudder and listen again. Pony kind of reminds me of how I felt about Built to Spill when “Keep it like a Secret” came out. They had built everything up with “Perfect…” then stripped it back down again. It’s a great pop album. Well, no worries. We’re on the same side of the fence. ---
**Author:** ![pezpunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@pezpunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pezpunk)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2001, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-music-do-i-listen-to/86594/25 "2001-10-11T12:35:07Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by hegel \* > \*\*I like the university kid who tells you the name of his/her “favorite” band, and then rejoices when you haven’t heard of them. \*\* Hmmm… who’s this university kid you speak of? You seem to have some pent up agressions toward university kids. Ich Bin - New thread about shudder to think coming up! Look for it ---
**Author:** ![pezpunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@pezpunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pezpunk)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2001, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-music-do-i-listen-to/86594/26 "2001-10-11T12:36:14Z")
WOOO HOOOO!!! I JUST HIT 1000!!! Im not a newbie anymore!!! It only took over 2 years! 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-music-do-i-listen-to/86594.md?page=1)