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Title: You just can't be shown good music.
Post by: dinodynamo on November 17, 2004, 05:26:44 PM: Have you ever noticed that when someone says, "Hey dude, you've got to check out this band, they roxx0r my s0xx0rz!!!1" and they put whomever their current favorite is in, and you think to yourself..."Meh, they're alright."

I can only think of one time that someone said, "Listen to these guys. You WILL like them." and I did. Okay, two times, but it was the same person. Modest Mouse and Cake.

It seems like it's more difficult to appreciate a band when someone has told me about them, as compared to if I have done some searching and perhaps stumbled across a band name in an article and decided to give them a listen for myself.

Granted, I once spent over $4000 in a summer on a cd collection that got ripped off a month later...I still have some urge to just pick up a cd of some band I've heard of once or twice somewhere, perhaps, and just buy it. I'd say about 2 out of every 5 cds I buy is a good cd (and yes I say buy cds...I do not support the downloading of songs).
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Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on November 17, 2004, 06:51:41 PM: nah, i can accept suggestions, as long as the come from someone who has a reason other than "they're cool"
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Post by: JP Dogberry on November 17, 2004, 10:27:21 PM: You're taking suggestions off the wrong people.

I know a guy who can pick peoples musical tastes. He has so far systematically introduced me to Krafwterk ( My favourite group), Hawkwind, King Crimson, and a bunch of other stuff.
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Post by: Fellfrosch on November 17, 2004, 10:28:32 PM: You know who I'd take musical suggestions from any day of the week? The guy who makes the iPod commercials. You know who I'd never take a musical suggestion from, ever? House of Mustard.
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Post by: Mad Dr Jeffe on November 17, 2004, 11:10:12 PM: I must admit, the AD exec handling the Ipod account likes some good music.
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Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on November 18, 2004, 09:56:07 AM: Quote
You're taking suggestions off the wrong people.

I know a guy who can pick peoples musical tastes. He has so far systematically introduced me to Krafwterk ( My favourite group), Hawkwind, King Crimson, and a bunch of other stuff.

I thought *I* sent you your first King Crimson mp3. And I certainly didn't introduce you to Kraftwerk or Hawkwind.
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Post by: JP Dogberry on November 18, 2004, 10:02:20 AM: Ok, you sent me one track. This guy gave me their album, and that's when I really got interested.
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Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on November 18, 2004, 10:07:07 AM: so I introduced you. And he set you up on a date.
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Post by: JP Dogberry on November 18, 2004, 10:13:57 AM: Umm...I'd prefer not to be set up on a date with a man, especially when the man is four guys doing progressive rock.
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Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on November 18, 2004, 10:19:15 AM: even when they play like King Crimson?
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Post by: JP Dogberry on November 18, 2004, 10:22:59 AM: Well, ok, if I have to go out with four men, then King Crimson would be better than, say, four fat guys from down the street.
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Post by: Gemm: Rock & Roll Star; Born to Rock on November 18, 2004, 10:24:25 AM: Woot, I am changing name to King Crimson and asking JP out on a date.
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Post by: JP Dogberry on November 18, 2004, 10:25:16 AM: Sure, so long as you don't mind me asking your Goth girlfriend out on a date.
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Post by: Gemm: Rock & Roll Star; Born to Rock on November 18, 2004, 10:31:51 AM: Ohhh, totally ram-fizzled!
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Post by: House of Mustard on November 18, 2004, 01:25:09 PM: Quote
You know who I'd never take a musical suggestion from, ever? House of Mustard.

I would be offended, except that I've heard the kind of crap that Fell likes.
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Post by: Fellfrosch on November 18, 2004, 04:03:44 PM: Yeah, non-gay music.
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Post by: House of Mustard on November 18, 2004, 04:11:32 PM: Excellent point, seeing how my CD collection is primarily made up of Village People, Queen, and Elton John.

It's not nearly as masculine as the "John Lithgow Sings About Bathtime" CD you own.
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Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on November 18, 2004, 04:13:25 PM: I'm going have to vote for John Lithgow being less gay than The Village people or Elton John.
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Post by: Fellfrosch on November 18, 2004, 06:57:10 PM: Besides, Mustard, if you're resorting to mocking my children's CDs then you've already lost. Pathetic.
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Post by: House of Mustard on November 18, 2004, 07:04:44 PM: Alright, Mr. Smartypants, what about my musical choices makes them "gay"?
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Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on November 18, 2004, 07:41:15 PM: I think they're self evident. Sort of like the truth that all men are created equal.
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Post by: House of Mustard on November 18, 2004, 07:53:56 PM: You're assuming I was serious about the Village People, Queen, and Elton John.
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Post by: JP Dogberry on November 18, 2004, 08:58:48 PM: I prefer the term "Jovial"
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Post by: EUOL on November 25, 2004, 05:56:03 AM: Not that there's anything wrong with that....
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Post by: Morik on January 12, 2005, 08:50:26 PM: Gay bands rock straight bands behinds. And thats a fact.
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Post by: PW on June 05, 2009, 01:28:19 AM: It's a strange phenomenon that does not seem limited to music. I have a friend who is the same way about books. If he discovers a new writer himself, he tells everybody he can find about said writer. But if I suggest something he SHOULD like based on his taste, he never does. EVER.