thirtiesgirl

Well, for one, I wasn't being completely serious. But for my second point, I have met people in my time who adamantly hate both bands and think anyone who listens to either one is an art poseur or has absolutely no taste in music. I assumed there might be a few of those here.

See? They're not for everyone. Remain in Light, for the record, is my personal favorite.

Oh, I also like Wire.

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sidewinder

You'll find that many here also like Wire - myself included. You've got some strange thinking going on up there, I must say.

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I'd love to see your signature/links too, but the huge and obnoxious ones have caused me to block all signatures.

OctaneHugo

Haters gonna hate. If you can't dig "88", u gay.



Wire and Talking Heads are both great, by the way.

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Insane Guest

I am very much straight. I just don't get why you dislike Led Zeppelin.

npc210

I dig the Talking Heads and Wire, though I'm not sure liking either is all that strange.

As for unpopular picks (or at least uncool), I have to admit that I love ABBA: Incredible hooks/melodies, underrated production values, just the quintessential pop band.

And if you listen to songs such as "Under Attack" or "The Day Before You Came", there's no doubt they could have been an excellent synthpop band had they stayed together/gone that route in the '80s.

MoonlitSunshine

What. I got bored after one verse, This goes on for 6 Minutes? I thought rap was meant to be about the meaning of the lyrics and how it all "relates", yo. As the chorus of this masterpiece, we have:

Do the smurf, Do the wop, Baseball bat
Rooftop, like I'm bringin '88 back

This means what, exactly? And stop the press, hold on there a second. Did he just? Why yes, he just quoted The goddamn Safety Dance. While that wins some insanity points, it... pretty much lowers everything else. The back track is basically just a beat with a bit of distortion as a platform for the lyrics, which is fine... if the lyrics are any good. Yeah he's got decent rhythm (some of the time) and the rhymes are alright, but seriously:

We know who this be, it's me, no secrets
Stuck to the beat and glued to the sequence
Igloos than we is
You can catch us walkin on the weekend
While you awkwardly breathin
From all the second hand smoke

What does this mean. I mean really, what? That's just a random excerpt from the list of equally nonsensical lyrics that I found for this monstrosity. I quite like some Rap, if it makes sense, it flows, and there's a point to it. But this? This is just rubbish, mangled together and put to a beat. Yeah, Haters gonna hate, cause it's bollocks.

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sidewinder

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I'd love to see your signature/links too, but the huge and obnoxious ones have caused me to block all signatures.

thirtiesgirl

I'm just not playing the game right, I guess. ...Or perhaps I'm just not showing off all the skeletons in my closet. With that in mind, some other favorites: Lisa Stansfield, Dee-Lite, the BeeGees, ELO, Martin Denny, Les Baxter, Esquivel and Yma Sumac. I love me some ABBA, too. ...Can you hear the drums, Fernando...?

And while we're on the disco tip... Yvonne Elliman, anyone? ("If I Can't Have You") Irene Cara? Sister Sledge? Lipps, Inc.? ...I swear, I was never a denizen of Studio 54, but I did grow up in the '70s.

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mr dave

i still own my copy of World Clique and bust out the bass line to Groove is in the Heart on occasion.

try again

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Flyingpig437

I like E.L.O!

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