Musical Misconceptions

~~The Virgin~~ · 06-23-2011, 10:16 AM

my musical misconceptions:

1) i thought Michael Jackson was white
2) i thought MTV was like the God of all music.
3) i thought Kate Winslet was Celine Dion who sang My Heart Will Go On from Titanic, for a long time.

Mrd00d · 06-23-2011, 10:31 AM

My musical misconceptions growing up were basically not knowing original songs from covers. I didn't find out All Along the Watchtower was a Dylan tune, not a Hendrix tune, until I was 13 and had been digging it for a few years. A few cases like that....

SATCHMO · 06-23-2011, 10:33 AM

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Originally Posted by Zero1986

- I thought Michael Jackson was a woman

I remember when I was about 16 and the first Poison album Look What the Cat Dragged In came out. There were close up photos of each of the individual band members on the cover. I saw an ad for the album in a music mag that I'd bought and immediately ripped it out, hung it on my wall and avowed that these were the four hottest women on the face of the planet. I used to plant kisses on each of their individual faces before going to bed at night (you know, where you kiss your hand and then touch the object of your devotion, yada, yada...). This lasted about a week before I was informed by a friend that they were dudes. I don't think I've gotten over this yet.

FRED HALE SR. · 06-23-2011, 10:34 AM

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Originally Posted by SATCHMO

I remember when I was about 16 and the first Poison album Look What the Cat Dragged In came out. There were close up photos of each of the individual band members on the cover. I saw an ad for the album in a music mag that I'd bought and immediately ripped it out, hung it on my wall and avowed that these were the four hottest women on the face of the planet. I used to plant kisses on each of their individual faces before going to bed at night (you know, where you kiss your hand and then touch the object of your devotion, yada, yada...). This lasted about a week before I was informed by a friend that they were dudes. I don't think I've gotten over this yet.

I'd hit it. Scorching hotties.

starrynight · 06-23-2011, 11:54 AM

Can't think of much myself. Maybe I didn't quite understand some genres as much like punk or metal, but they aren't my favourite genres even now. And the songs I liked when I was a kid I still like now. There were some things I certainly didn't know about but that also means I couldn't misjudge them as I didn't know about them.

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Originally Posted by Mrd00d

My musical misconceptions growing up were basically not knowing original songs from covers. I didn't find out All Along the Watchtower was a Dylan tune, not a Hendrix tune, until I was 13 and had been digging it for a few years. A few cases like that....

As for this I think there are probably quite a few songs that many people still think are original but actually aren't.

Antonio · 06-23-2011, 12:13 PM

-I thought Simple Plan were actual punk rock
-I thought all electronic music was called "techno"
-I thought System of a Down was the most original music out there

starrynight · 06-23-2011, 12:28 PM

Hip Hop I will have underestimated at the start of the 90s, but then I wasn't really listening to hardly any popular music then anyway. If you don't actually hear stuff you won't hear the best of it and so be able to judge it better.

djchameleon · 06-23-2011, 12:32 PM

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Originally Posted by starrynight

Hip Hop I will have underestimated at the start of the 90s, but then I wasn't really listening to hardly any popular music then anyway. If you don't actually hear stuff you won't hear the best of it and so be able to judge it better.

were you one of those rap = crap people back then?

DoctorSoft · 06-23-2011, 12:34 PM

I thought Rap took no talent at all cause they didn't use instruments.

I thought Slayer was the heaviest Death Metal band of all time lol.

Urban Hat€monger ? · 06-23-2011, 12:39 PM

I remember a time when I thought the stuff put out by Shrapnel Records was quite good

06-23-2011, 10:31 AM	#22 (permalink)
Mrd00d Stoned and Jammin' Out Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Northern California; Eugene, OR; mobile Posts: 1,602	My musical misconceptions growing up were basically not knowing original songs from covers. I didn't find out All Along the Watchtower was a Dylan tune, not a Hendrix tune, until I was 13 and had been digging it for a few years. A few cases like that.... __________________ Mrd00d's Last.fm

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~~The Virgin~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: Cebu, Philippines Posts: 677	my musical misconceptions: 1) i thought Michael Jackson was white 2) i thought MTV was like the God of all music. 3) i thought Kate Winslet was Celine Dion who sang My Heart Will Go On from Titanic, for a long time.

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DoctorSoft Rocket Appliances Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 1,335	I thought Rap took no talent at all cause they didn't use instruments. I thought Slayer was the heaviest Death Metal band of all time lol.