Things you just don't get

Connemara · Nov 21, 2013

You guys should just listen to Fleetwood Mac or Bonnie Raitt and end this stupid discussion.

ethanm · Nov 21, 2013

Connemara said:
You guys should just listen to Fleetwood Mac or Bonnie Raitt and end this stupid discussion.

L'Incandescent · Nov 21, 2013

When I was an undergraduate student, there was a protest at the other university in town, which was a Catholic university. I don't remember the details, but I think some nuns were either fired or disciplined for something. Anyway, there was a protest where a bunch of earnest young Catholic men and women (mostly women) gathered round in a circle and sang "What's Up?" (a.k.a. "What's Goin' On?"). It was because they wanted to know what was goin' on with those nuns what got disciplined.

Piobaire · Nov 21, 2013

SkinnyGoomba said:
Early 2000's was a rough time for metal/rock music. Everyone was busy listening to the flavor of the week rap star and there was little in the way of new/interesting happening in rock music.

This is why we got Nickelback.

I also am not a hater on them. Their early stuff, in their Canadian days, is not bad straight rock and even people like Jerry Cantrell think they are good in concert and get a bad wrap.

patrickBOOTH · Nov 21, 2013

L'Incandescent said:
The early 2000s are saved by Interpol, to my way of thinking at least.

Totally agree. And the Secret Machines

Find Finn · Nov 21, 2013

The only 90's music worth remembering is hip hop, so much greatness and the new stuff is ****.

I don't get newbs, who say thanks at the end of all teir posts, thanks.

MrG · Nov 21, 2013

otc said:
99 luft ballons is one of my favorite karaoke songs. Both because I love the song, and because the version that all of the asian karaoke places have is always the Goldfinger version which means you get to flub your way through a grunty german verse.
See, this is why I don't like talking about music with a bunch of my friends. They will dismiss things like this for all the wrong reasons. They will hate Kanye's music because he's a douchenozzle, they will reject Tool because that's what the weird kids in high school listened to, and I feel like they aren't very good at separating talent and originality from overproduction and copycats (especially for genres that aren't their personal favorites). It's like saying Alien is a bad movie because it is kind of slow, the special effects aren't super fancy, and the premise has been done to death.

One of them tried to make the "Rap isn't music" argument the other day...I'll agree that there is a lot of bad rap, and that rapping is not singing, but if you took the vocals completely out of a rap song, would it not still be music? If the Roots choose to take a song and use their voices as a different kind of instrument, does that somehow make it not music?
I don't like country, but I'd never try to claim that it wasn't music...

Are you, or any of your friends, musicians? These types of debates were very common among my friends from HS-early 20s, but almost all of my friends were musicians, so our perspectives were probably different from people who only listen. They were always fun conversations to have, and it's enjoyable when a similar one pops up every now and again.

Piobaire said:
This is why we got Nickelback.

I also am not a hater on them. Their early stuff, in their Canadian days, is not bad straight rock and even people like Jerry Cantrell think they are good in concert and get a bad wrap.

Well this is the most heartbreaking thing I'll read today.

:uhoh:

otc · Nov 21, 2013

Find Finn said:
The only 90's music worth remembering is hip hop, so much greatness and the new stuff is ****.

I don't get newbs, who say thanks at the end of all teir posts, thanks.

And Night at the Roxburry-esque dance music!

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patrickBOOTH · Nov 21, 2013

Hip-hop, rap, r&b, and most ethnic music began sucking tremendously in the 90's. None of it is worth your time past 89.

indesertum · Nov 21, 2013

And the 2000s are the best era for nu-metal. Nothing worth listening before 2001

Find Finn · Nov 21, 2013

patrickBOOTH said:
Hip-hop, rap, r&b, and most ethnic music began sucking tremendously in the 90's. None of it is worth your time past 89.

Late 90's biggie and pac died, it went down hill, there's pretty much only and handful hip hop and rnb artists left worth listening to.

Piobaire · Nov 21, 2013

I do not get the constant imperative that comes on my screen which says, "Find Finn." Who the hell if Finn and why must any of us find him?

Find Finn · Nov 21, 2013

Piobaire said:
I do not get the constant imperative that comes on my screen which says, "Find Finn." Who the hell if Finn and why must any of us find him?

No clue who he is, but a former friend has it tattooed on his knuckles and always found it funny.

It's a bit like where's Waldo (who's called Holger in Denmark).

Connemara · Nov 21, 2013

Find Finn said:
No clue who he is, but a former friend has it tattooed on his knuckles and always found it funny.

It's a bit like where's Waldo (who's called Holger in Denmark).

Is Holger the best part of waking up?

indesertum · Nov 21, 2013

Find Finn said:
Late 90's biggie and pac died, it went down hill, there's pretty much only and handful hip hop and rnb artists left worth listening to.

No. Last time backpacking was in vogue the world had not yet discovered bieber.

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