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Someone needs to make a "kill taylor swift" flash game pronto
What are some of your "warning sign" bands? - When you hear someone says they like X band then it's time to ask for the check.
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hot take, but I actually enjoy their album teens of denia, it's kind of a guilty pleasure. But the "Twin Fantasy" one is extremely fucking boring despite being hailed as a supposed magnum opus
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any male younger than 35 who claims to be heavily into Radiohead.
Some years back, I am at a Radiohead gig and the young males next to me start apropos of nothing trying to attract my attention and mansplain Radiohead to me. I am feeling unusually docile this evening so simply go for "um hm" and gently ignoring them.
They continue. This starts to interfere with my enjoyment of the gig. They inquire patronisingly if I have ever heard 'early' Radiohead, by which they apparently mean OK Computer. (Jesus wept.)
I explain I first saw Radiohead in 1995, which from the looks of them was actually before they were born. Their shocked faces indicate that I am correct.
They bugger off and go and annoy some other poor bitch. Radiohead in the mid nineties were a band for girls, 'the lads' were all into Oasis. Do not ever try to fucking mansplain Radiohead.
Some years back, I am at a Radiohead gig and the young males next to me start apropos of nothing trying to attract my attention and mansplain Radiohead to me. I am feeling unusually docile this evening so simply go for "um hm" and gently ignoring them.
They continue. This starts to interfere with my enjoyment of the gig. They inquire patronisingly if I have ever heard 'early' Radiohead, by which they apparently mean OK Computer. (Jesus wept.)
I explain I first saw Radiohead in 1995, which from the looks of them was actually before they were born. Their shocked faces indicate that I am correct.
They bugger off and go and annoy some other poor bitch. Radiohead in the mid nineties were a band for girls, 'the lads' were all into Oasis. Do not ever try to fucking mansplain Radiohead.
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I've never understood Radiohead, their stuff has for the most part very pretentious and self-congraluatory to me. It's not bad in the traditional sense it's just the smugness and aura that annoys me.
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I have yet to see a single legit fan of The Linda Lindas, yet they already appeared in almost every major music publication as this new force of rock music, even opening for the goddamn Rolling Stones. Talk about astroturfing up to eleven.
Their entire schtick boils down to "two Latinas and two Asian chicks play insipid pop punk about basic bitch opinions" and this is somehow groundbreaking. If this is the salvation of rock music, then it deserves to die.
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Yeah seriously, WTF? I have never been that guy at a show who heckled or threw shit at the stage but, all of sudden I'm looking around for something heavy not bolted to the ground to chuck and at least show them they're fucking terrible and don't deserve to share the stage with Rancid, Billy Corgan (cause I swear that's all that was left of Smashing Pumpkins that night) and Greenday.
The Linda Linda's opened for the Stones? Fucking really? As in Mick Jagger walked on the same staged after they played a set? That's fucking blasphemy right there. I love the Rolling Stones ever since my dad played some of their best stuff when I was a kid. I can imagine 50,000 boomers taking their seats watching the Linda Linda's and checking to see if they got the date right for the Stones concert on their cell phones. "Honey, the concert was Friday, right? They wouldn't have let us in if it was the wrong night, right?"
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All of those bands dealt with hecklers of all kinds, getting gobbed and pelted with piss-filled bottles while playing in dingy showrooms. If anybody did that to any of those girls, they would cry all kinds of isms and phobias, and would have the support of the usual suspects. Just remember, their go-to song is literally called "Racist Sexist Boy."
IIRC, they did in a few select places. I also recall reading one of their setlists where they also played an entire song alongside them. The dream of many aspiring rock musicians was to jam alongside Mick and Keith, and these cholas get to do it just like that. And it's perhaps the last time someone gets to do it. Life is unfair, and the music industry is an absolute sham.
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Nigga I'm 35
Its a red flag when they actually want to tell me about their taste in music
Its a red flag when they actually want to tell me about their taste in music
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I can recall footage of Billy Joe Armstrong getting pelted with large clumps of mud and muck and trying to power through it even after they were a huge name. He had one tantrum about 10 years back when they gave him 1 minute at some XM radio show or something. Gave him one minute to play a 3 minute song and he did not handle it well. Compared to the half the shit Axel Rose, Vince Neil, and Scott weiland did, it wasn't really anything. Those girls would have stopped dead dropped the instruments and ear-fuck the audience into a one minute speech on sexist show producers and demand they were fired. The only think I could think of was Rancid was still with Epitaph Records all these years and so are the Linda Linda's so there was some pressure from the label to give them the warm up for Rancid. Fuck me if I can figure out what they're doing up there with Mick Jagger.
How do you feel about people wearing T shirts of bands decades before their time and know nothing about them? Can't name a single song? You see a 15 year old kid wearing a Nirvana T shirt or maybe something less well know like STP? Or just Zepplin's famous Icarus logo?
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Zeppelin broke up over 40 years ago, how old do you have to be to get on that ride?
Nirvana would qualify as a "warning sign band" even in 1993
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Doesn't bother me, though a grown as person doing it is mildly infuriating
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IDK how old you think I am but Zepplin ceased to exist before I did and I listen to the immigrant song, Kashmir, and Stairway about once a month. You're overthinking it, its just good timeless music, don't question it.
As John Wayne would say, "Them's fight'n world, Pilgrim". You got an explanation why Nirvana was actually bad NOT overrated/ overly commercialized but just bad, I'd love to hear it.
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Maybe they mean in the sense of the type of fans they had, even at the peak of their fame, I dunno. Nirvana themselves were never bad, so much as the consequences they had on the music industry were bad. They had their cow, and they would continue to beat it, with or without Nirvana/Cobain. I could go on a really long post about this but I'll restrain myself
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Well that's really what I mean. If somebody expresses concern that some kid isn't old enough to like Band X or Album Y (because you just had to be there to really get it) isn't that kind of an admission that X and Y weren't that great in the first place?
I think I do not. Although it seems like everybody who REALLY REALLY loves Nirvana seems to think that grunge was some kind of unprecedented cultural revolution, and I could take or leave it. Better than people who think punk is the best thing to happen to music in the 20th century, tho.
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Well, it technically was, only its effects extended much further than just the Grunge genre itself. Grunge was the most commercially viable form of alternative rock at the time, and thus launched both into the mainstream along with a shit ton of other subgenres trailing behind it. But arguably this led to some of the shittiest and most boring bands and led to the death of rock as a viable genre by the early 2010s.
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You've got it all backwards. I will never in my life see anything remotely close to Zepplin in concert short of a cover band and here I am listening to them and yes, I have an Icarus T-shirt. I listened to them and many others before I even knew what their faces looked like. I will never "be there", I just enjoy the music. You're still overthinking this.
That happens every couple of decades or so. A music sub genre is created and the previous generation hates it, the current youth generation propels it to popularity and two decades later we all claim it was an overrated fad. Remember Rap-rock? How big limp Biscuit was? The Sex Pistols just sucked, we all know it. It's like the grammys/Oscars there's always a "hook" outside the quality of the media itself pushing it like politics or tragedy. Sid died and they made a movie about it and sympathy and quality have blurred. Just try and sit through 3 sex pistols songs in a row without wanting to shoot someone.
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I had a roommate who was big into these twats. He spent no less than two hours telling me about the lore behind this band (in my defense I was thoroughly baked). So he finally starts playing the music and it’s really unimpressive. He seemed assblasted that I wasn’t as big of a fan of the band as he was. I think it’s because nobody he knew liked them and was desperate to find a buddy who found the storyline to be as fascinating as he did.
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XiuXiu. Sounds like shit, lyrics are awful, shitty politics inside and the only person I knew who was listening to this unironically was a diagnosed schizo/psychopath. Hate it even in collabs with bands I enjoy.
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Oh, that one is a classic from Woodstock 94. Everyone who performed there had mud flung at them, and everyone reacted in different ways. Most just played on, some complained, Les Claypool told them they were all small-dicked faggots, and Nine Inch Nails covered themselves in mud before stepping on the stage.
I will go beyond and say that anybody invested in bands with entire storylines and lores behind them (Coheed and Cambria, Ghost, Gorillaz, Bal-Sagoth, etc.) is a freak of varying orders.
I gave Xiu Xiu a try the other day, and I deeply regret it. It's trolling in audio form, and not even the kind of trolling one can chuckle at and understand, like Death Grips or something. It's just a way for the frontman to be an utterly irredeemable faggot in every possible way.
If "noise" is an unironic main description of your musical output, you aren't worth listening to.