Forum: Rock & Metal
04-07-2008, 05:50 AM
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Forum: Rock & Metal
04-04-2008, 01:20 AM
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Forum: Rock & Metal
04-03-2008, 02:16 PM
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Forum: Rock & Metal
04-03-2008, 01:46 PM
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Forum: Rock & Metal
04-03-2008, 01:06 PM
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Forum: Rock & Metal
04-03-2008, 11:22 AM
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Actually, I tend to agree.
It reaches the...
Actually, I tend to agree.
It reaches the level of pretentious if you start mentioning snooty reasons as to why you are the best band in the world. Merely stating that you are is not quite...
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Forum: Rock & Metal
04-03-2008, 07:10 AM
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Forum: Rock & Metal
04-02-2008, 04:02 PM
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Forum: Rock & Metal
04-02-2008, 07:29 AM
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Forum: Rock & Metal
04-02-2008, 04:08 AM
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Sorry, my bad.
I agree with what you were...
Sorry, my bad.
I agree with what you were saying, too - you can't know for sure of any musician's pretentiousness from the music alone, but only from what they might say in interviews etc.
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Forum: Rock & Metal
04-01-2008, 07:19 AM
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Fair enough, it is true that pretentious...
Fair enough, it is true that pretentious intentions do not necessarily make music (or anything else) artistically bad. It does have quite a strong influence though on the opinion of listeners.
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Forum: Rock & Metal
04-01-2008, 06:54 AM
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Forum: Rock & Metal
04-01-2008, 06:48 AM
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Somebody above used a dictionary entry for the...
Somebody above used a dictionary entry for the word "pretense" - that's very misleading. Just because "pretentious" is a derivative of "pretense" doesn't mean you can gauge its most regular meaning...
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Forum: Rock & Metal
03-31-2008, 03:31 PM
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It may be the case that they reveal their...
It may be the case that they reveal their pretentiousness by explicitly making self-important statements and whatnot. Which is often the case.
On the topic, Maynard James Keenan was always pretty...
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