Author Topic: You just can't be shown good music.  (Read 8351 times)

dinodynamo

  • Level 2
  • **
  • Posts: 17
  • Fell Points: 0
  • Live forever or die trying.
    • View Profile
You just can't be shown good music.
« 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).

-Yarbles!

The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers

  • Administrator
  • Level 96
  • *****
  • Posts: 19211
  • Fell Points: 17
  • monkeys? yes.
    • View Profile
    • herb's world
Re: You just can't be shown good music.
« Reply #1 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"

JP Dogberry

  • Level 41
  • *
  • Posts: 2713
  • Fell Points: 9
  • Master of Newbie Slapdown!
    • View Profile
    • Effusive Ambivalence
Re: You just can't be shown good music.
« Reply #2 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.
Go go super JP newbie slapdown force! - Entropy

Fellfrosch

  • Administrator
  • Level 68
  • *
  • Posts: 7033
  • Fell Points: 42
  • Walkin' with a dead man over my shoulder.
    • View Profile
    • Fearful Symmetry
Re: You just can't be shown good music.
« Reply #3 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.
"Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die." --Mel Brooks

My author website: http://www.fearfulsymmetry.net

Mad Dr Jeffe

  • Level 74
  • *
  • Posts: 9162
  • Fell Points: 7
  • Devils Advocate General
    • View Profile
Re: You just can't be shown good music.
« Reply #4 on: November 17, 2004, 11:10:12 PM »
I must admit, the AD exec handling the Ipod account likes some good music.
Its an automated robot. Based on Science!

The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers

  • Administrator
  • Level 96
  • *****
  • Posts: 19211
  • Fell Points: 17
  • monkeys? yes.
    • View Profile
    • herb's world
Re: You just can't be shown good music.
« Reply #5 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.

JP Dogberry

  • Level 41
  • *
  • Posts: 2713
  • Fell Points: 9
  • Master of Newbie Slapdown!
    • View Profile
    • Effusive Ambivalence
Re: You just can't be shown good music.
« Reply #6 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.
Go go super JP newbie slapdown force! - Entropy

The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers

  • Administrator
  • Level 96
  • *****
  • Posts: 19211
  • Fell Points: 17
  • monkeys? yes.
    • View Profile
    • herb's world
Re: You just can't be shown good music.
« Reply #7 on: November 18, 2004, 10:07:07 AM »
so I introduced you. And he set you up on a date.

JP Dogberry

  • Level 41
  • *
  • Posts: 2713
  • Fell Points: 9
  • Master of Newbie Slapdown!
    • View Profile
    • Effusive Ambivalence
Re: You just can't be shown good music.
« Reply #8 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.
Go go super JP newbie slapdown force! - Entropy

The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers

  • Administrator
  • Level 96
  • *****
  • Posts: 19211
  • Fell Points: 17
  • monkeys? yes.
    • View Profile
    • herb's world
Re: You just can't be shown good music.
« Reply #9 on: November 18, 2004, 10:19:15 AM »
even when they play like King Crimson?

JP Dogberry

  • Level 41
  • *
  • Posts: 2713
  • Fell Points: 9
  • Master of Newbie Slapdown!
    • View Profile
    • Effusive Ambivalence
Re: You just can't be shown good music.
« Reply #10 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.
Go go super JP newbie slapdown force! - Entropy

Gemm: Rock & Roll Star; Born to Rock

  • Level 57
  • *
  • Posts: 4591
  • Fell Points: 0
  • I Am Your Worst Nightmare's Dream
    • View Profile
    • Perfect
Re: You just can't be shown good music.
« Reply #11 on: November 18, 2004, 10:24:25 AM »
Woot, I am changing name to King Crimson and asking JP out on a date.
“NOTHING IS TRUE. EVERYTHING IS PERMITTED.”
                William S. Burroughs

“Who needs girls when you’ve got comics?”
                Grant Morrison’s Flex Mentallo

JP Dogberry

  • Level 41
  • *
  • Posts: 2713
  • Fell Points: 9
  • Master of Newbie Slapdown!
    • View Profile
    • Effusive Ambivalence
Re: You just can't be shown good music.
« Reply #12 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.
Go go super JP newbie slapdown force! - Entropy

Gemm: Rock & Roll Star; Born to Rock

  • Level 57
  • *
  • Posts: 4591
  • Fell Points: 0
  • I Am Your Worst Nightmare's Dream
    • View Profile
    • Perfect
Re: You just can't be shown good music.
« Reply #13 on: November 18, 2004, 10:31:51 AM »
Ohhh, totally ram-fizzled!
“NOTHING IS TRUE. EVERYTHING IS PERMITTED.”
                William S. Burroughs

“Who needs girls when you’ve got comics?”
                Grant Morrison’s Flex Mentallo

House of Mustard

  • Level 44
  • *
  • Posts: 2934
  • Fell Points: 3
  • Firstborn Unicorn
    • View Profile
    • robisonwells.com
Re: You just can't be shown good music.
« Reply #14 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.
I got soul, but I'm not a soldier.

www.robisonwells.com