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Originally Posted by Urban Hatemonger
Boo Boo - I find Boo Boo to be the most frustrating person on here as he clearly does have a lot of interesting things to say about music but he wastes it all on the same handful of bands he was taking about 4 years ago.
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Bleh. It's wrong to think my tastes haven't changed. I get into different stuff all the time. I just never talk about it.
I usually only talk about my most favorite artists instead of every artist I like. And I also focus my attention on promoting artists that I feel need promotion instead of praising the same artists everyone else is already going on about which is why I don't rave about David Bowie much even though he's one of my favorite artists and I listen to him all the time.
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Also it's almost like he's afraid to have any of his own opinions on something. Just take a look at any band he likes. All the albums that are considered good HE finds good, all the albums that are considered average HE finds average, all the albums that are considered bad HE finds bad. His taste in music almost comes across like a generic all music guide write up.
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I admit that my tastes are more "safe" than others but to suggest that I only pretend to like what I like is pretty insulting. I DO rate everything based upon how much I like it. If my tastes aren't distinctive or specific enough for you than that's too damn bad. I'm not competing in a "who has the most hip taste" contest.
And to say I only like acclaimed albums and only dislike albums that are not is also very inaccurate. I slam popular and critically acclaimed artists ALL THE TIME. Most of the newer icons that get a lot of critical acclaim like Joanna Newsom and The National I hate with a goddamn passion.
And I've crapped on my share of "classic" albums too, calling Pink Moon a piece of crap and deflating the sacred cow status of albums like Fun House, Tago Mago, Spiderland, Zen Arcade and Blonde on Blonde.
I think Dylan is hellishly overrated. I pretty much think Jesus and Mary Chain were crap and when I said Phil Collins was a better singer than Nick Cave I was serious. Like any normal person I have my controversial opinions I just don't have a LOT of them. I don't TRY to be controversial. In the way that I feel you do sometimes.
If I do like a lot of acclaimed albums it's because I feel that these albums deserve it, I don't like them simply because they are acclaimed because if an album I dislike has a lot of acclaim I will still tear it apart anyway. I just don't dislike a
whole lot of music I guess.
Oh yeah, and my favorite genre is the one that critics hate more than Mel Gibson hates Jews. I don't give a f*ck about critics. I think Peter Gabriel has more talent than Dylan could ever hope to have.
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There's so sentimentality, there are no stories , there are no little personal quirks in his tastes.
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What does that mean? Explain that to me.
I didn't know I was supposed to be a storyteller. I come here to discuss my tastes in music not to give some pretentious stories about how stuff "changed my life". That's your job.
Sentimentality annoys me, I hate people who project how "passionate" they are about their music and I find these people pretentious most of the time. Of course I am passionate to the extent that I'm quite defensive about what I like. Yeah I can let it slide if people want to call stuff I like crap as long as it's not just for the sake of bandwagoning.
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And it also seems to me that unless it's technical or commercial he has absolutely no idea what makes a song good, which is why he always does things like run down folk music because they're not great guitarists or great singers, totally missing the point of what folk music actually is.
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I know what the point of folk music is and I know what the point of punk is, that doesn't mean I have to like them, but oh wait, I do.
I like folk music, and no not just medieval/prog type stuff, I've been getting into stuff like Bill Fay and Simon Kinn lately. I just dislike certain types of folk, not into stuff like Dylan or the protest song sh*t where the themes are way more important than the music itself and indie folk which is the most boring music ever invented and even you are probably aware of that.
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And let's ignore his idea that emotion in music can't be a factor as to why something is good, possibly the saddest thing I have ever seen any fan of music say.
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Actually I've never said that. I said that emotion is not something you can measure at all, I hate when people say "this has no emotion" when they have no f*cking way of telling. You cannot "pour" emotion into what are basically just collages of sound. Emotion in music can't be judged or measured because you have no way of telling if the artist is putting "genuine" emotion into it or not.
The only emotion you can measure is the emotional effect the music has on you and I never ever said music can't do that.