[atsonicpark]

Originally Posted by ni'k

but this will never happen because as someone already said this place is used more as an "ego support" network for a small number of people who enjoy presenting a false avatar of themselves. but i think some are also probably genuinely trying to maintain friendships with each other so i can't knock it too much. most people who come here are searching for some way to be in the world, the secret they think must enable sy to do what they do, they lurk around and gradually post more and more until they are no longer in awe of the regular ones who must know something they don't because they have become them to the newer posters so they get sick of themselves. it is an unusually friendly board, we all complain but it is a lot more welcoming and civil than most.

this place is also the graveyard of a certain type of generation x attitude that is long past its sell by date and only brings misery to the sad fuckers who try to keep it up as their worldview because it is long obsolete and now just purely conservative. but you do get a certain connection here with what is new in the underground at a level of dedication and obscurity that is unusual for such a mainstream band. the likes of dj rick and nyoukis etc. who occasionaly post here, cooley's 100 strong best of the year lists. stuff like that makes it worthwhile but there is so little of it and so much of the same old bands we all know and don't get anything new out of anymore.

i want to leave but it just keeps sucking me back in with it's pointless and quick oppurtunity for attention. i wish i knew some other better board.

Great post, and I'm glad you appreciate my best-of-the-year thread.

[Genteel Death]

Did you hear Pink Reason's split with Electric Bunnies? I really fucking love ''Watching You Fall''. Great song.

edit - park

[pbradley]

That one band Divorce kicked balls.

[atsonicpark]

Originally Posted by Dr. Eugene Felikson

big asses, El Topo, black metal, noise, b-movies, gothic girls, favorite painters, weed, tarot cards, and Sonic Youth all at once?

Mmmm.

[terriblecanyons]

Originally Posted by !@#$%!

 

 

[atsonicpark]

No, haven't heard that one Pork, will check it out.

I don't really have anything to contribute to this thread, except that I really like this board a lot. And I dunno why. The only thing that annoys me about this board is the constant Dinosaur Valentine Pavement threads... I don't really understand the point of constantly discussing bands who haven't been relevant for 10-20 years, when we are probably living in the best time for music ever. Ah well.

[Rob Instigator]

best time for music ever! HA!

fleet foxes? FLEET FOXES????

[Genteel Death]

C'mon Rob, there (they) has always (might) been shit (be) music around (giants). Always.

[Rob Instigator]

I get tired of that bullshit cop out "there is always great music and always shit music."

no shit. wow. yr saying deeeep things there. how childish and simplisticminded can you get with that crap?

what I am talking about is the shifts in ALL music that happens as the public tastes ebb and flow. we are in the middle of an innocuous, safe, pussy-soft, overly sentimental and melodramatic ebb, and it may not have peaked yet.
that shit sucks.
I am waiting for that shit to die down so that in several years, there is a new influx of a lot more bands seeking to RAWK and to provide high enrgy entertainment. The same thing happened in the 5-10 years we were stuck with pearl jam clones. the kids backlashed against that selfrighteous weaknut bullshit and started to raise the skronk to 11 again.

Let's get back to THIS HIGH ENERGY FREAKOUT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBUtk...layer_embedded

[Genteel Death]

Rob, I think the only person who's being childish here is you. There has always been good music and bad music, that is a universal fact, as obvious as it is, not my own opinion. If you are stuck with Pearl Jam and Fleet Foxes, I can only assume ( nah wait, I am now certain that's the case) that it is your own fault. You don't get stuck with shit bands unless you want to. Like it or not.

[Genteel Death]

Originally Posted by Rob Instigator

the skronk to 11 again.

Another thing, for all your talk about raising the skronk to 11 this and raising the skrong to 11 that, I get the impression you have a very conservative taste in terms of what music can sound like or can do to do one's perception/ pleasure. Your populistic banter is ok in all its romanticism, but often I find it's only used by people who pussyfoot their way out from things that really sound like the real deal. It reminds me of when someone constantly makes a big thing of how things are in terms of their perception of ''the state of music'' - to use a pompous expression that I'm sure goes through too many a mind of so called non-mainstream listeners when they express what they think of such and such band - but a quick investigation on what tickles their fancy reveals that their curiousity for finding out stuff has a clear set of limitations somewhere, drawn somewhere inside their head, and often not apparent to themselves. This is fine, I don't see why someone shouldn't be like that. The only problem I see is that it becomes less stimulating conversing about music with them because you already know where it will end.

[EVOLghost]

hahahaha damn dood. yer a dick....



EDIT: that's kind of awesome.

[Rob Instigator]

Originally Posted by Genteel Death

Another thing, for all your talk about raising the skronk to 11 this and raising the skrong to 11 that, I get the impression you have a very conservative taste in terms of what music can sound like or can do to do one's perception/ pleasure. Your populistic banter is ok in all its romanticism, but often I find it's only used by people who pussyfoot their way out from things that really sound like the real deal. It reminds me of when someone constantly makes a big thing of how things are in terms of their perception of ''the state of music'' - to use a pompous expression that I'm sure goes through too many a mind of so called non-mainstream listeners when they express what they think of such and such band - but a quick investigation on what tickles their fancy reveals that their curiousity for finding out stuff has a clear set of limitations somewhere, drawn somewhere inside their head, and often not apparent to themselves. This is fine, I don't see why someone shouldn't be like that. The only problem I see is that it becomes less stimulating conversing about music with them because you already know where it will end.

Nope. I just know what I like. don;t care what others like.

[noisereductions]

Originally Posted by Rob Instigator

Nope. I just know what I like. don;t care what others like.

if you didnt care what others liked, then you wouldn't post pictures of La Lohan for me.

[Rob Instigator]

 

[noisereductions]

kicks ass.

[Genteel Death]

Admittedly that post needs a lot of editing, but phone is ringing. I hope you got my point, Rob. The point being that if you listen to They Might Be Giants you don't have much to complain about ''the state of music''.

[atsonicpark]

More Lohan!

[Rob Instigator]

TMBG have been around since 1982. they are no more representative of the state of music today as Bruce springsteen, or the Youth. You seem to be confused. I am talking in generatlities about the overarching flux and ebb of popular music, not specific bands, nor specifcic tastes.

I cannot wait until tomorrow, for I will be hearing Itzhak Perlman perform, and he always turns it up to 11 and brings the skronk, right?????.

[Genteel Death]

Name today's bands you think are making shit music, and then name today's bands you think are making good music, or offer the hope of making things right for you in the future. You are too vague, please namedrop.