You have not been done because you have very good taste but like bands that not many of heard of, so unsure how to make a critique.

Sidewinder: He should be as happy discussing his influences as the music he so commendably seeks these days. I feel that he is reticent to talk about the music he grew up with as snippets of his posts pertain to his like of those bands still and MB is not all about finding new music. It's still OK to talk about older music and I would welcome chats of this nature.

Only Janszoon and Urban seem to not be bothered that they grew up with/still like music that is not de riguer with a modern music forum and it's a shame that there isn't more of us.

Yeah, that or you guys are the only ones old enough to have music you grew up with already so out of style... :laughing:

Oh, totally...

Style and trends are transient. Class is permanent. We probably hear more new music than many of you but it's not the hipster type so we carry on regardless ;)

Truer words were never spoken.

I feel as if I should start an over 30's thread that dis spells the myth that we live in the past!

Haha, I wasn't trying to offend you guys or anything, you're awesome and I look up to you guys. It's just that it's a lot harder for us young people to feel nostalgic for music we listened to a few years ago.

No doubt you have waaay more musical knowledge than I, and also hear way more on a daily basis...

I can't but feel nostalgic to the 60s, it makes me sad that those days have passed. So does listening to The Kinks, though I don't know anything about England.

Anyway, you don't have to be old, to know old music. I wish I had any idea about 00s and 90s music, I just don't feel like listening to music I can find so easily.

Yeah, and quite the contrary. While all the others are worshiping at the altar of 80's pop and 90's rock we're rolling our eyes going "Fine, but you didn't have to live through it."

you really enjoy the challenge of finding obscure music? its the fucking internet...

Yup. The older the harder to find.

why is it fun to find music on the internet? i always preferred the listening part.

It's not just about finding obscure music. That's elitist and not what I am about. I just happen to find music that slips under the radar regardless of the era and I am not as thick skinned as others and get annoyed when I feel as if I am accused of living in the past etc.

Rant over :(

Donno really.I think because I'm not actually doing the music (or even buying it), searching for it and finding it is the only thing that somehow makes it mine.

Or everybody could shut the hell up and agree that music is cool.

If how obscure something is affects your enjoyment of it, you're stupid. Listen to it. Do you like how it sounds? If yes, you like it. If no, you don't. Just because you had to fly to Italy and row a boat to an uncharted island with a cassette to hear it doesn't mean it's good.

do you value the experience of finding it more than hearing it? if you dont, im not sure why you are depriving yourself of all the great stuff from the 90s / 00s.

Who said I like the music just because it's obscure. I said enjoy finding music. If I heard it and hated it there's no reason to keep it anyway. What's the hostility for anyway?

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I'm not depriving myself. I download some once in a while. However as my connection is pretty shitty it takes me 2 hours do download an album; in the mean time, I enjoy digging in for music.

I love music. And I love re-searches. From music to films and books. I'm not getting why people are so hating the searching process.

Edit: Sorry for the off topic talk.

There's nothing wrong with searching for unknown music as everyone, as much as they may deny it, likes to have that special band that no-one's heard to say is their own. Music is a deeply personal thing, being obscure isn't necessary for it to be good but it can certainly help in that regard.

boardsofcanada: REEEEEAAAALLLY likes Boards of Canada

well put. :D

not accusing anyone of it myself, though.

I stopped worrying about that a long time ago. I never really cared, but now since I devour so much new music it just happens that way. I'm fairly certain 75% of what I mention to the friends I hang out with regularly they will not have heard of. Now that I think about it, that has actually gotten pretty old for me. I kind of wish everyone has heard the music I listen to now...I like to talk about it.

agreed.

Especially since I'm 14 and my friends don't even know who kraftwerk is. I'm kinda sick of being the Obscure Band Person in the class.

I'm 18 and I'm still the music weirdo.

Hehe i'm used to not talking about music with my friends. I have my forums and that's enough for me, i assume any semi-deep discussion about music i had with mates wouldn't be the best of debates anyway.

Is music cool? I don't know. I really dislike some music. It can be interesting, though.

If I got to fly to Italy and row a boat to an uncharted island to hear a cassette of some untrendy, obscure music there, I bet the whole experience of listening to that music would be much more meaningful to me than if I had simply found the song on the Internet or just heard it over the radio. The song would forever be linked in my mind with an adventure!

CanwllCorfe - Just impeccable. I'd snatch his collection up in a second. Minus the metal stuff, it's absolutely flawless.



I'm only doing his, as I don't know jack**** about anyone else.

Kraftwerk is obscure?

To fourteen year olds....yeah.

They weren't to me when I was, and James is 14, he knows Kraftwerk, hell, so does his mum

And so do I, but we're on MUSICBANTER... not exactly the mecca of your average mainstream 14 year old.

What is your point, Chris? Kraftwerk is a band a lot of 14 yr olds know, as it's a band that was popular with most of that gen's parents, you know?? Goddamn. Just like I had the Clash passed on to me because MY parents listened to them. Understand now?

I just asked a bunch of my friends and they knew. People with the worst taste you can imagine.

Kraftwerk is definitely not obscure. I just found it funny that they didn't know who they were. I really hope their musical tastes improve next year.

hahaha what losers! kraftwerk aren't very good. and they aren't popular stateside at all.

Devo is better

Devo is better

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Devo is better

Both are great. I can't say I could choose one over the other.

I own far more stuff by Devo than I do by Kraftwork. The brilliance of early Devo was their gimmicky image and singing about great stuff like vegetables etc. As opposed to the more serious and minimalist outlook of Kraftwork.

Most people I know hold Kraftwork in higher esteem, but then again most of these people don`t know music that well.