When someone realizes you HATE a performer they LOVE...

[Miller]

@NAF1138

Is Phantom exibit II or Starlight Express? Think carefully about your answer, if you chose wrong Webber will unleash his minions and take the government back.

No, exhibit two is Evita.

[Morbo]

I’ve learned to lie and say I like Band <X>. If I say I don’t, I’m going to hear an anthology of Band <X>, on the spot, while my friend stares at me, waiting for me to “see the light” like John Belushi in Blues Brothers.

[Scissorjack]

@GargoyleWB

I had a roommate who was obsessed with this stuff, it was hell. I covered by torturing him with endless Sisters of Mercy playing.

TWENTY FIVE WHORES IN THE ROOM NEXT DOOR! TWENTY FIVE FLOORS AND I NEED SOME MORE!

Don’t be knocking the Sisters Of Mercy.

[Ferret_Herder]

@Tengu

I have a particularly strong hatred of Comfortably Numb.

Have you heard the Scissors Sisters’ version of this? It’s like the Bee Gees did an uptempo Euro-Pop remake. (Typically people who love Pink Floyd hate this remake; I like them and the song.)

[foolsguinea]

@WordMan

ETA: Oh, and if someone pops off with “what’s so special about the Beatles? It’s just hype!” I want to climb over the table…

Pfft, George was carrying John & Paul…

[Lilacs]

Generally speaking, I’m a live and let live kind of person musically. You like what you like and I won’t be upset. I love the Beatles, you don’t? No biggie.

That said, I cannot stand the sound of Rod Stewart’s voice. It makes me want to stab myself in the ears so I don’t have to hear it. I cringe if I’m somewhere and something by him comes on. Loathe his voice.

So I’m relating a story to my officemate about being trapped at grocery store during some schlocky love song grated out by Stewart and said, “Someone needs to put that man out of his misery.”

She gave me the Death look and said, “I love Rod Stewart. I’ve seen him three times in concert.” And got a half hour lecture on his Greatness as the Best Singer Ever.

[Kamino_Neko]

@Ferret_Herder

Have you heard the Scissors Sisters’ version of this? It’s like the Bee Gees did an uptempo Euro-Pop remake. (Typically people who love Pink Floyd hate this remake; I like them and the song.)

Yes I have…and that parenthetical is why…I loathe the original…people who love it loathe the remake…that makes chances good I’d like the remake.

And I do. Don’t love it, but it’s enjoyable.

[Knowed_Out]

@FallenAngel

I said something to the effect of, “Dude, when we’re at your place you can play that whiny, pretentious, over-rated, self-important shit all you want, but do not presume to inflict it on me in my own place on my own stereo. I’ve set the thing to send out 10,000 volts any time Neal fucking Peart hits a downbeat.”

I’ll always be a Rush fan, but I laughed my ass off when my friend Jim told a carload of diehard Rush fans that Geddy Lee looked like Witchie Poo.

[Bamboo_Boy]

@panache45

Classical music = “that shit.”

“Who put that shit on?”
“How can you listen to that shit?”
“Man, that shit it boring.”
“That shit is so gay.”
“That shit all sounds the same to me.”
“That shit has no beat.”
“Dead people wrote that shit.”
“You can’t dance to that shit.”
“Young people like me don’t listen to that shit.”
“My grandmother’s into that shit.”
“Why do we have to listen to that shit?”
“I’m gonna turn off that shit and put something really good on.”

MAN do I hear you on this one. It makes me laugh (sardonically) when people say it has no ‘beat’. What they REALLY mean is it doesn’t have a predictable repetitive, relentlessly obvious beat pattern. The internal rhythms of just about any piece of ‘Classical’ music exceed almost any piece of popular music in complexity. No BEAT? None of this would be possible without ROCK solid rhythmic foundation- IOW, beat.

I like a lot of pop music too, BTW…

Oh- and to reply to the post-

U2!!! It seems like it’s socially illegal to not ostensibly LOVE U2 in my neck of the woods!