Can't stand Shinoda's rhymes, Can't stand the singer/screamer guy's voice, nor his lyrics, can't stand the guitar lines and how stale and predictable they are, can't stand the drums and how stale and predictable THEY are, can't stand the entire formula for the way they put their songs together, and how they're presented... I dunno... the band as a whole does nothing for me.

^ I agree with most of what you said, except Shinoda.
I think he's pretty good. Especially as "Fort Minor".

whoa, ok yeah we like conor somewhat but he's no indie jesus

these are the indie jesuses (one is for his amazing talent and vocal abillity, the other is for his amazing beard and good songs):

http://popsecret.files.wordpress.com...in-vernon1.jpg

http://popsecret.files.wordpress.com...4/sam_beam.jpg

Tore, ftw.

^:laughing:

I definitely agree. :|

Couldn't agree more. I can't believe i just read the last 5 or 6 pages of this crap.

Now that all discussions for previous tangets seem to have concluded, can we get this back on track please?

I would even do it myself but i think my brain just died a little.

You thought in 2008 that joining an internet forum would be mentally stimulating, now your brain cells are pissed off at you for slowly killing them.


Indie Jesus?

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2373/...d1110bb488.jpg

:bowdown:

/\ he's pretty close if he's not.

MM are the new REM.

Right-track - its mostly a mystery. I think the man burned himself out on modding and now keeps a healthy distance. My only musical memory of him was downloading a northern soul song that had a bunch of preppy looking kids breakdancing (for lack of a better word). I wish he'd show face a tad more but then again I don't go many places on this forum.

Urban Hatemonger - I like Urban because he seems to be able to walk a tight-rope between being tongue-in-cheek about music while still knowing when to tell dummies off. Matter fact, I linked his 10 reasons the Stones are better than the beatles thread today to end an argument. I'm still suspect of his hatred of the Boss, however.

Violent & Funky - Admitted one of my favorite people on here. Seems to pull music out of the ******* of a blackhole sometimes. In song wars I'm perenially thinking "where the **** did he find this madness?" but whatever transgressions he might commit, all sins are atoned for with his voting in Album Wars. ("I thought I saw Gwen Stefani in my toast once, so I'll vote for No Doubt")

Flower Child - I'm not always in lockstep with her, but shes at least moving in the right direction. So I'd follow her into any dive bar.

CunningStunt - I like the kid but he comes off stiff. I also think he speaks with his brain more than his heart, but youth will do stupid things to a man. He needs to bang a couple Snoop joints for a day. Just once.

Janszoon - He's a mad scientist. Sometimes he comes up with some freaks of nature but for the most part he's got a good ear. If anything he strikes me as a little too polished. His "chances" are way way out there. I never see any risky choices.

Freebase - He's willing to try. Which in music, as with women, is all you really need.

Boo Boo - He's a little different, he just thinks too logically. I think theres a point in any dicussion, musical or otherwise, where he just can't comprehend certain statements (because they're illogical) and he looses it. They say music can soothe tha savage beast. Boo Boo is proof the Prog isn't music.


I'd do more but I'm blanking.

:laughing:

Thanks, man. I love you too! <3

Haha, IRL I'm quite laid back. MammaStunt has always said "You're so laid back, you're horizontal." I guess I just come off a bit serious on here sometimes. I always got the impression you didn't like me, that upset me dearly. Glad to know you do!

For some unknown reason I give that vibe to nearly everyone. I'd have a drink with any one of you mother****ers. I just get my rocks off in rhetorical combat. I always get along best with people willing to throw **** at me.

If I ever make it to England, I'll dial you up provided you're legal. I just need to get free of this ball and chain I have.

Are you coming on to me?

Also, your taste in music... You like Metallica rather a lot.

But you also like The White Stripes.

You also like Tom Waits, but I'm indifferent to him.

That's all I know about your taste, so it's a toughie. Do you have RateYourMusic/Last.FM so I can have a nosey?

I am coming on to you. I'l stop posting on this forum the day I bed someone here.

Metallica is a legendary band whether you like them or not. And if you don't like Waits you're listening to the wrong ****.

Other acts I really like:
Black Keys
Brad Paisley
Cake
Queens of the Stone Age
Jay-Z
I like some Mars Volta but I usually just put them on in the background
My Morning Jacket
Langhorne Slim
Drive-by Truckers
Nick Cave
I like some of the National
I'm growing to like Mumford & Sons, but Little Lion Man is a cancer on music.
Modest Mouse
Maroon 5 is a band that can jam out as far as I'm concerned.
TV on the Radio have the ability to kill me.
MC Paul Barman
Ryan Adams
Calexico
I listen to a ****load of pop which I explain in my blog.
Thursday

Bands I ****ing hate
Muse
Klaxx
!!!
Any and all forms of emo
Almost all R&B
Jurrasic 5
Howie Day
I'm sure theres more, but I can't think of any currently.

Why, Big3? Is it the name? I'm curious.

I won't be enticed by your advances, as that would result in you stop posting.

Metallica are legendary? I dunno about that. They were once a respectable band that should've given it up years ago, just like U2. Should've fucked off years ago.

Meh, mixed bag.
I don't like The Mars Volta, I slightly prefer ATDI.
Muse are good.
ALL R&B? Do you mean all contemporary R&B or just R&B full stop?
Most Emo is shit, I'd say over 90%. Bits and bobs out there that's pretty good though, but not really my thing.
!!! are a bit rubbish.
TV On The Radio are okay, not 'love worthy' though.
Maroon 5 are God awful.
Ryan Adams is a little boring.
Never been able to really get into Cake, probably listened to the wrong album or summin' but what I heard I thought was poor.
Drive-By Truckers, same as Cake really. Picked an album at random, Pizza Deliverance I think and it wasn't bad... but I didn't feel the need to listen to them again.


But you like Modest Mouse, QOTSA and Nick Cave so you're not all bad.

There's no mystery. Only a short memory on the part of most members here.
You included, it seems.

I think I've covered most of my interest in the bands that date back over the previous decades and I'm unlikely to go over them again, unless I see the need to defend them due to some members blase indifference to what I'd consider to be a classic band, or some numpty's moronic claims with regards to an entire genre who's history appears to have been rewritten to include the latest theory according to the latest generation of 'music lovers'.

You're right about the modding burning me out. Add to that a lengthy and ridiculously unhealthy stay, plus the fact that I usually tend to use these boards as a means of discovering new music. ( I don't think I've ever averaged more than 5 posts per day, much less these days)

On new music. I'll either quickly discard as being tediously generic, or simply not of any real interest to me. And all that after only a brief listen.
I like to sort the wheat from the chaff, so to speak, And the quicker the better.
Even then, there's probably more than a few bands that have fallen victim to this tactic that probably deserved a fairer go, but unless something grabs me pretty instantly with either it's uniqueness, or musical superiority...it'll get binned pretty quick.

I've got a very fussy ear.

Which brings me to my love/obsession with the music of Northern Soul.
A particular type of uptempo 60's rare Soul/R&B of which I refuse to get confused with any other genre.
So much so, that I have two music collections segregated in different locations in the house.
Northern Soul resides in my bedroom, away from the kids, under pain of death.
The rest lives in my living room available for everyday use and the occasional guest.
With the odd exception...I don't love them equally!

I feel happy inside.

You all have bad taste in music. Except Kayleigh, she knows her ****.

Uh, well a couple reasons.

First the music does almost nothing for me.

Then the auxilliery is terrible. I hate the voice, I have the hype they got. Admittedly, I've heard only 1 song "must be the moonlight" but I was so offended I won't go back unless given the most successful, absolute mater piece they have.

Yeah, Pizza Deliverance was ****, listen to nothing before Southern Rock Opera.

I'm actually not bad at all. I just think tea part civility is for the birds.

Hey, hey, hey. Don't get snarky with me. I'm not your mother.

If you average less than 5 a day, how are we supposed to remember?

Also, Northern Soul appears to be beyond music in some capacities. No?

I actually listened to a bit of Southern Rock Opera, I found it a bit boring. But I don't think I was really concentrating, it was just on.

I don't get why some people like Cake so much either, they aren't bad by any stretch but I just thought they were a bit meh.

Real cake > the band Cake.

Carrot cake > the world.

Not too many people do like cake. They're something of a cult band. The problem with Cake, I'd guess, for the common person is that the disparity between one song and the next, the beatuy of what they do isn't persented in a nice package thats terribly obvious.

A lot comes from the instrumentation, but you have to value the sparse. This isn't a James Brown or Gun's & Roses. The song writing, coupled with McCrea's voice speaks to certain people. We get where he is and where he's coming from. I wouldnt try and suggest they're a megastar band, but they are very good at what they do, not, in small part, to their song writing either.

You mean except for all the people who made them a multi-platinum selling band with several top 40 releases, right?

Spice girls.
Boy bands.
Huey Louis and the News.

What about them?

ITT: Big3 makes absolutely no sense.

Hhaha...I think Big3 is the most misunderstood member here. Someone always ends up asking him what the hell he is talking about.


Don't worry, Big3, I think I understand what you are saying maybe 85% of the time.

SPICE GIRLS ****in RULE

I saw them in concert here before they called it quits like 2 years ago. Toronto was their last show I think. I was re-living my pre-teen, manufactured pop music-loving days :laughing:

I'm so goddamn jealous, one of my exes promised to take me to see them in Detroit :(

I shoulda dumped him just for not doing it

They fit the same desciption and invalidate your point.

I was taken as rather coherent before that last post, and I suspect Janszoon was asking me to make a move before he was found presumptive and flat-footed in his argument. I don't think he didn't understand.

Don't you have some terrible music to enjoy?

Half the time I resign myself to the understanding that my awesome cerebral prowess can only be with stood by pretending you [people] don't understand me. Which only really hammers home the point.

I operate at a higher plane, and I've come to terms with my own genuis. Its lonely at the top, but frankly I wouldn't want to be surrounded by half-wits anyhow.

Just the same, I appreciate your 85% support.

Why?

just not a fan of the aesthetics they choose to express in that genre.

I went with a friend who chose me as a replacement for a person who couldn't go! She called me like 2 hours before the show and said "Get your ass down here, we're seeing the Spice Girls!" :)

Pretty sure I can rec you something you'd like.

Just sayin'

Why not? I know what you like and you've got 2,000 posts less than me and average 3.05 per day.
And you've been here longer. :p:

In fact we share some common ground. A quick look at your list a few pages back include some bands I'd list among my favourites.
With the glaring exception of Mumford and Sons.
A crime for which you should be shot.


Not sure what you mean here Brennan.
Assuming you mean it's not mainstream and readily available, then yes.
In some respects it's rarity makes it reasonably inaccessible to most.
It's no more beyond music than any other genre. Unless you're referring to it's superior content. It which case...it is! ;)

Its not the size, David my friend, its the quality. My post count happens to be studded.

Well, I've heard 2 songs. I like dust bowl dance. I think Little Lion Man should be burned. What do you want from me?


I'm sure this was meant as a jab, and I'm taking it that way. But what I meant was, NS is not just music to you, it seems, given your previous description thats its slightly more personal and slightly more intemate. No?

I'll try anything once (Stunt, did you hear that?)

Go for broke, but I'm going to give you my honest opinoin.

Or you should thank him for not bringing you to Detroit.