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You know, I was even gonna write that you probably only do instrumentals.
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And what would that have proved?
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What's This Called? for 9/22/2007!
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Dude plays this cack on the radio and has the nerve to thoroughly insult Bruce Springsteen?
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I've heard quite a lot of Springsteen in my life (who I wasn't even dissing particulary, so much as saying I don't take overly serious). How many of those artists have you heard that you just completely dissed? None of them sound anything alike, so you aren't exactly demonstrating your superbly open mind here.
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Whatever, flame-boy. Nice try at trying to turn it around on me.
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Flame is a term that comes from inflamatory. Anyone who goes back and reads these posts will find you launching several personal attacks, seemingly out of the blue, while I just stated my opinion of a musician in a thread that seemed to be asking peoples' opinions of said musician. If I had been trying to elicit a flame such as yours by that post, it would have been a "troll", not a flame. I wasn't, and honestly didn't even see it coming.
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And you do look like Doctor Octopus from the various Spider-Man comics in that cropped image. Any fool can see that. It's not a good look, by the way, and I kind of knew it was you.
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I'd never actually noticed that the avatar might be taken for Steve Ditko's old creation. I see it now that you mention it, but I still don't see why you would waste your energy attacking an avatar. Except that you "kind of knew it was" me, and you are just grasping for ways to attack me, because I have a different opinion of a musician you apparently take a bit over seriously.
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Bruce Springsteen helped to save Rock from Disco; don't you forget it.
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It'd be relatively easy to argue that about every rock artist with a decent following who didn't cut a disco track. As it is, I don't know that disco was such a horrible threat. It was just a fad that died out on it's own for the most part.
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Any time Bruce ever gets mentioned, some variation on this same type of shit happens. Some of you are so damn pathetically narrow-minded. Everything is a fucking fashion statement with you fucks.
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I can't vouch for what other people think of him. For me, not putting him up there with Dylan (or anywhere close) as a lyricist isn't anything to do with fashion. I'm pretty clueless about fashion.
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But I still respect much of his music and won't stand for a flamer in this thread referring to his work as "cheese" on par with Barry-fucking-Manilow without remarking on the utter gall of it all. Your attempt at being a colorful character with the Barry comparison only makes you seem feeble-minded. Perhaps you were even torn between Barry and Billy Joel while concocting your "cheese" witticism, but then opted for the worse of the two.
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Again, I wasn't flaming (and it would be "trolling" if I had been trying to start something. I didn't really even expect anyone to respond. Thing is, I kind of like Barry Manilow (so I think that proves I'm not making a fashion statement). Cheese to me is not always a bad thing, it's just something I wouldn't take particularly serious. Of course one's taste in cheese makes even less sense than taste in music in general. Why do I consider Barry Manilow entertaining camp and yet cringe at the very thought of, say, Air Supply, I couldn't exactly tell you. Aesthetics are strange. Billy Joel is just overall boring (though I still have a soft spot for "My Life") so he never crossed my mind. I do think Bruce is a better overall artist than Barry, because Barry could never do something like Nebraska, but I also think that many of Bruce's classics aren't light years away from "Mandy" in bombast. And again, I don't think bombast is necessarily bad, if one is in the mood for it.
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Some of you make me fucking sick.
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You'll probably reach a point in your life where people posting on a message board about music can't elicit such strong feelings, and be happier for it. I'm already there.
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St. John's Wort, salvia, whatever...these herbs have no effect on anyone whatsoever except very young or very repressed people who never have really done any amount of drugs or alcohol over any extended period of time. You might as well be typing, "I'm a guarded nerd letting my hair down, lookee! Look at me, I'm trying desperately to be cool, I'm doing salvia! I'm taking St. John's Wort because I read some new age book or article about it and it's supposed to get you a little loopy and fucked-up."
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I'm not exactly proud of the amount of drugs and alcohol I have done, but it definitely doesn't fit the profile you present there. I'm with you on salvia, I couldn't feel a thing the one time I tried it. However, I did take St. John's Wort at one time to deal with depression, at the suggestion of the therapist I was seeing at the time, and it really seemed to help. I've never ruled out it might have been a placebo, but really if it helped, what does that matter? I'll freely admit that I threw that one out as my one half-assed barb though. It was after you'd already attacked me personally, but I probably should have resisted.
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Interesting. I hadn't heard there was such a study, and actually appreciate the link as I am (mildly) curious about such things. I imagine I could probably google up a study that says the contrary, but arguing over whether St. John's Wort is effective or not seems even lamer than getting hot and bothered over whether Springsteen should be taken seriously or not, so I'll pass.