worst music you have pretended to like to impress hopeless crush?

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I have a mad mad mad crush on a 17 year old boy (I am nearly 20). It's bad enough I fancy someone who isn't even old enough to get into pubs, but there is much worse. He is a huge fan of punk music, nu-punk or whatever they call it. To date I have:

bought a whole blink 182 album and even listened to it before giving it away to oxfam.
gone to a jimmy eat world concert with him (and about 5 other girls who follow him around, he's not even that attractive, he's just one of those blokes who ONLY has female friends)
listened to about 5 million minidiscs of truly crappy punk bands and laughed at 10 million terrible 'ad-libs' on terrible live bootlegs.

Why? why? why?!? Why has god chosen to punish me like this?! The worst thing is that he told me he would never fancy anyone like me, and that he has an exceptionally low libido anyway and hardly ever thinks about sex/girls/relationships. This is going slightly off-topic but please feel free to give me relationship advice anyway, such as 'you are pathetic'. I want my old brain back again...

― kathy spider, Saturday, 1 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

I think my only question is this -- exactly why do you have this crush on him again?

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 1 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Maybe he's bendable.

― Graham, Saturday, 1 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

17 yr. old boys *are* generally more bendable. Which makes Ned's achievement that much greater.

― jess, Saturday, 1 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

You're pathetic.
But that's okay, it happens to the best of us. I pretended to like Alien Sex Fiend and The Cramps once upon a time. Sheesh!
Stop doing it to yourself, just walk away. Quickly.

― DavidM, Saturday, 1 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

1. Iz he cute?
2. Have you tried treating him with un certain cool disdain? "Deep" boyz = pathetic roll-over rubbish, generally, when this old-as-eve ploy wheeled out.
3. If he tru-punXoR like me, his libido will kick in big-time when he reaches c.35: can you stick around?

― mark s, Saturday, 1 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

I'm not gonna hold age against you, but dude... if he's 17 and likes Blink, you're looking at a fraud... dude... please. Stop.

― JM, Saturday, 1 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Nooo, it's MUCH more fun to make him squirm instead. I have a huge crush on a 17 year old boy as well (I'm a year younger) and he plays violin and only listens to classical music. I told him that he was going to have to be the John Cale to my Lou Reed (and then had to explain the reference, of course) and he looked quite worried. Delightful.

― Lyra, Saturday, 1 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

That is so close to being the best Gay Joke i've ever heard...

― JM, Sunday, 2 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

I pretended to tolerate Ricky Martin to please the last ex. Her: "You don't like 'Livin' La Vida Loca'?" Tadeusz: "Um, ... um, it's ... well, it's better than that dance music you usually listen to."

The line stopped when I had to listen to the Rosie O'Donnell Christmas album. Being forced to listen to the Rosie O'Donnell Christmas should be considered cruel and unusual punishment ... I think that James Madison and Alexander Hamilton would have agreed with me. :-)

― Tadeusz Suchodolski, Sunday, 2 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

1. He is adorably cute. and very bendable. I can't quite remember why I have the crush on him but if we could explain these things, the world would be a much saner place. He doesn't like blink THAT much...
2. 'Uncertain disdain'? it sounds good but he doesn't even think of himself of cool, or deep or whatever.
3. Can I wait until he's 35?! Um, no. I may be pathetic, but I'm not that desperate. However I think the whole 'I have no libido' thing was just to throw me off the scent. He clearly fancies one of our friends (she is gorgeous and also likes blink. I am ugly and like ella fitzgerald.)

Oh well, obviously I am doomed until I can find another, more socially acceptable crush. Well, it's either that or get back with the ex, who has excellent taste in music, yet manages to define the term 'wanker'. And he's not very bendable.

― kathy spider, Sunday, 2 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

are you saying ella fitzgerald was ugly?

― ethan, Sunday, 2 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Um, no. I was being melodramatic and saying *I* was ugly. And that I like a different kind of music to him.

Nothing about ella fitzgerald at all, except that I love her music. Sorry for any confusion caused.

― kathy spider, Sunday, 2 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

statement in question: 'i am ugly and like ella fitzgerald'

so you can see where confusion would arise.

― ethan, Sunday, 2 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Is liking the same music really so important to him? or to you?

― Lyra, Sunday, 2 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Everyones partial to a 17 year old boy every now and again.....

― Ronan, Sunday, 2 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

18 year old boys, though -- who'd touch them? ;-)

― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 2 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

congrats Ned and Ronan you are half way to a Belle and Sebastion chorus

― anthony, Sunday, 2 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

I renounce my previous post.

― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 2 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

"Everyone's partial to a 17 year old boy every now and again,
18 year old boys, though - who'd touch them?
I was cute and bendable, now I'd gladly,
Be younger again to get in with Kathy,

The girl with the John Cale taste."

― Graham, Sunday, 2 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

cue tasteful flute solo.

― ethan, Monday, 3 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

The offending instrument then being ripped from the player's hands and used to beat Mr. Murdoch about the head. In the ensuing flood of tears from the audience at how people could be so cruel, I get in a lifeboat and float away.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 3 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Couldn't the gay one in Wu Tang rap that? And then they could say written by Ned Ragget. I did nothing really, he told me to put that first line down.

― Ronan, Monday, 3 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

I reckon men wuv girls who don't like the same music as them as it is more of a challenge & they can try and make the girl wuv their stuff. But what do I know?

― Emma, Monday, 3 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Skrewdriver.

― Nick, Monday, 3 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

It's impossible to make the girl wuv the stuff. I'm too lazy for these sort of challenges anyway....

― Ronan, Monday, 3 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

That was my motivation and it failed. Several years on and the last record she bought was "Help! I'm A Fish" by the Little Trees and I think it is brilliant. THE HUNTER IS CAPTURED BY THE GAME etc.

Liking their shitey music is actually the one line I will not cross for a crush. I'll listen to it sure but like it? I say thee nay.

― Tom, Tuesday, 4 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

nick cave. (shudder)

thank god that's over.

― your null fame, Tuesday, 4 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

I tried to at least tolerate Turbonegro. It failed miserably. At least he stopped listening to Aphex Twin every time he came to my house now that he's discovered my MP3s.

― Ally, Tuesday, 4 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

seven months pass...

Is this Ned Raggett *THE* Ned Raggett? He of reviewing loads of amazing albums on ALLMUSIC? If it is, you are king!

― Sean C, Thursday, 11 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

*bemused chuckle* Well, hell, I can't say anything other to that except yeah, that's me. So thank you, STJ. ;-)

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 11 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Aw....

― Dan Perry, Thursday, 11 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

will Sean C wink back??

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 11 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

If he wishes to know the Ways. So why aren't you like him anyway, Tracer the Jew? EH? Hurrah for ridiculous essentialism!

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 11 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I want to know if Kathy's crush worked out! It probably didn't. What will this do to Blink 182's chances in Duel Round 2 eh?

― Tom, Friday, 12 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Eh.............I got asked to see So Solid Crew this week and for the past few months I haven't been able to tell if I liked them or was pretending. Am I going? You better believe it.

― Ronan, Friday, 12 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Marion

― electric sound of jim, Friday, 12 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

i had a crush once who i went to such lengths to impress her that um i am now a permanent fan of the backstreet boys. NEVER AGAIN!

― di, Friday, 12 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I was in love with a girl that liked the Barenaked Ladies. Thankfully she is now married to someone else.

― Ron, Friday, 12 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Wow... Ned is the king of all things 80s! He actually likes Atrocity Exhibition by Joy Division... (sigh) there are few people in this world who write such hyperbolic but, at the same time, accurate reviews. (swoons)

― Sean C, Sunday, 14 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I now deduce this is Mr. Carruthers. Naughty boy. ;-)

― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 14 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

how do you impress a girl who likes tool?

― di, Sunday, 14 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

You're stealing Dan Perrys job :)

― Ronan, Sunday, 14 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Dan will be very angry at you, Mr. Fitzgerald.

I have no idea what to say to this person, Di, given my own, er, Tool worship. You could compliment her on her excellent taste, but I suspect you find this problematic.

― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 14 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

one year passes...

AAARGGH this was me and HE STILL DOESN'T FANCY ME. What do I have to do???? It's not even undying love so much any more as FOR FUCK'S SAKE IT'S BEEN THREE YEARS. Just kiss me already. I am cute, honest! I have an indie haircut and everything!

(by the way he doesn't like blink 182 any more)
(he likes death cab for cutie)
(i know)

― kathryn m (kathryn m), Saturday, 31 January 2004 02:01 (twenty years ago) link

find better boys!

― Orbit (Orbit), Saturday, 31 January 2004 02:08 (twenty years ago) link

where? in asda? i hear that's a good place to pick up single men. buying ready meals and beer.

anyway, it's become an obsession now. it's not even about him so much as the WHOLE SAGA OF MY UNREQUITED LOVE WOE IS ME.

― kathryn m (kathryn m), Saturday, 31 January 2004 02:11 (twenty years ago) link

what's adsa?

― Orbit (Orbit), Saturday, 31 January 2004 02:13 (twenty years ago) link

there are a number of socially inept indie man-boys on this very board kathryn!

― omg, Saturday, 31 January 2004 02:14 (twenty years ago) link

Tori Amos: forgivable.
Del Amitri: kill me.

― Chuck Tatum (Chuck Tatum), Saturday, 31 January 2004 02:18 (twenty years ago) link

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go to hell, troll bitch from jersey.

― Orbit (Orbit), Saturday, 31 January 2004 04:53 (twenty years ago) link

it's sort of comforting to thing how many people worldwide are going to be laughing at that.

― g--ff (gcannon), Saturday, 31 January 2004 04:56 (twenty years ago) link

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 31 January 2004 04:57 (twenty years ago) link

i'm from brooklyn and i've been here much longer than you.

whatever, i'm done.

― jody (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 31 January 2004 04:58 (twenty years ago) link

tempest in a teapot, isn't it?

― Orbit (Orbit), Saturday, 31 January 2004 04:59 (twenty years ago) link

er anyway, kate bush, only by the end of the record i loved her.

― g--ff (gcannon), Saturday, 31 January 2004 04:59 (twenty years ago) link

my uniqueness is astonishing surely??

― g--ff (gcannon), Saturday, 31 January 2004 05:00 (twenty years ago) link

oh surely you have pretended to like worse than that

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 31 January 2004 05:01 (twenty years ago) link

no i'm usually a prick about it.

― g--ff (gcannon), Saturday, 31 January 2004 05:02 (twenty years ago) link

jess sometimes you are refreshing.

― Orbit (Orbit), Saturday, 31 January 2004 05:03 (twenty years ago) link

i find that hard to believe

haha x-post, i think

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 31 January 2004 05:03 (twenty years ago) link

wait mason jennings (local guy)

― g--ff (gcannon), Saturday, 31 January 2004 05:04 (twenty years ago) link

oh come on, surely you pretended to like death cab or something

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 31 January 2004 05:05 (twenty years ago) link

you sounded like jack mccoy right there

― g--ff (gcannon), Saturday, 31 January 2004 05:08 (twenty years ago) link

now i'll make incredulous googly eyes and wobble my chicken neck in disdain

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 31 January 2004 05:09 (twenty years ago) link

i wish i could see that. i *need* to see that.

― Orbit (Orbit), Saturday, 31 January 2004 05:11 (twenty years ago) link

haha i think a few girls may have pretended to give a shit abt l&o...

xpost ??

― g--ff (gcannon), Saturday, 31 January 2004 05:13 (twenty years ago) link

i know i'm getting old because i am mellowing in my angie harmon rage

i have no idea what that has to do with this thread, but i dont feel like looking for the l&o thread

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 31 January 2004 05:15 (twenty years ago) link

i saw a girl the other day who was a dead ringer for the new ada on svu and i had to catch my breath

― g--ff (gcannon), Saturday, 31 January 2004 05:16 (twenty years ago) link

that's funny because i saw a guy who was a dead ringer for the midget forensics guy and had the same reaction

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 31 January 2004 05:19 (twenty years ago) link

...

― this is a small city you know (gcannon), Saturday, 31 January 2004 05:23 (twenty years ago) link

huh?

― Orbit (Orbit), Saturday, 31 January 2004 05:24 (twenty years ago) link

shouting "HE WAS A GAY BALLPLAYER WITH ROID RAGE" at a tylenol commercial was when i knew i had. a. problem.

― g--ff (gcannon), Saturday, 31 January 2004 05:26 (twenty years ago) link

i am lost in a world of paranoia (upthread) and non-sequiters (downthread)!

― Orbit (Orbit), Saturday, 31 January 2004 05:28 (twenty years ago) link

knowing exactly what you mean by that is how i know i have a problem

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 31 January 2004 05:28 (twenty years ago) link

haha! i kiss you!

― Orbit (Orbit), Saturday, 31 January 2004 05:29 (twenty years ago) link

wait, was i referring to g--ff? i'm lost now.

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 31 January 2004 05:29 (twenty years ago) link

i'm pretty sure i was but who can tell in this crazy world.

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 31 January 2004 05:30 (twenty years ago) link

instability (midthread)

― g--ff (gcannon), Saturday, 31 January 2004 05:31 (twenty years ago) link

one year passes...

REVIVE!!!

― OLD SPICE® CHEMTRAILS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (ex machina), Thursday, 21 July 2005 16:50 (nineteen years ago) link

I went to a James fucking Taylor concert once. As a bonus, my mother told my friends that's where I was.

― geyser muffler and a quarter (Dave225), Thursday, 21 July 2005 16:55 (nineteen years ago) link

On the Everything You Hate bizzarro message board, that olde crush is probably saying much worse things about the shit I made her listen to....

(that reads ambiguously .. so it's not my mother I'm talking about so shut up.)

― geyser muffler and a quarter (Dave225), Thursday, 21 July 2005 17:03 (nineteen years ago) link

I once nodded along and remarked "Hey, yeah, this is pretty good" to Ani Defranco.

― matlewis (matlewis), Thursday, 21 July 2005 17:05 (nineteen years ago) link

wow I actually dissed music I like on this thread to piss someone else off. Have you ever done that, to piss off an ex? That is a better question, perhaps more of a rarity than putting up with something.

― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Thursday, 21 July 2005 17:13 (nineteen years ago) link

I had a crush on a guy from Avri1 Lav1gne's hometown (which he constantly announced to others), and whenever we went out for karaoke I would sing her songs because he always responded so positively. I'm not proud of this.

He also had no sense of rhythm and would clap along visibly arrhythmically to songs he liked. It looked like it was trying to catch flies between his hands at moments with no relation to the beat.

― Laura H. (laurah), Thursday, 21 July 2005 17:15 (nineteen years ago) link

(xpost) I generally do this to annoy girlfriends. I'll exaggerate my dislike for a band, to the point where I'll act as if I find Morrissey personally offensive.

― matlewis (matlewis), Thursday, 21 July 2005 17:17 (nineteen years ago) link

CHELSEA'S FUCKING CRAZY

― beware the waddling stalker, Thursday, 21 July 2005 17:51 (nineteen years ago) link

Indigo Girls.

― 57 7th (calstars), Thursday, 21 July 2005 19:19 (nineteen years ago) link

haha! good girl!
-- Orbit (cstarrcstar...) (webmail), January 30th, 2004 8:29 PM. (Orbit)
put a leash on yr gf

-- Orbit (cstarrcstar...) (webmail), January 30th, 2004 10:48 PM. (Orbit)

misogynstic much?

― sunny successor (he hates my guts, we had a fight) (katharine), Friday, 22 July 2005 05:35 (nineteen years ago) link

whatever happened to kathy spider?

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 22 July 2005 05:36 (nineteen years ago) link

In answer to the subject header: They Came From The Stars I Saw Them. Snarf!

Bloody hell, you must have been a bit desperate.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 22 July 2005 06:04 (nineteen years ago) link

i searched this thread for the word 'ska', with no matches. som everybody who has posted stuff and felt bad: don't worry. it could be worse.

― g-kit (g-kit), Friday, 22 July 2005 06:54 (nineteen years ago) link

I ACTUALLY LIKED SKA I THINK BUT I SMOKED A LOT OF WEED 1994-1997

― OLD SPICE® CHEMTRAILS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (ex machina), Friday, 22 July 2005 06:58 (nineteen years ago) link

i bought a selecter cd today. and not even to impress a hopeless crush, just because i wanted it! i gather i actually am the most pathetic one then.

― gem (trisk), Friday, 22 July 2005 06:59 (nineteen years ago) link

weed is no excuse for liking ska.

― g-kit (g-kit), Friday, 22 July 2005 07:01 (nineteen years ago) link

Does drug usage make (3rd wave) ska worse or better?

― OLD SPICE® CHEMTRAILS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (ex machina), Friday, 22 July 2005 07:04 (nineteen years ago) link

can it get worse?

― g-kit (g-kit), Friday, 22 July 2005 07:15 (nineteen years ago) link

I like Goldfinger.

― OLD SPICE® CHEMTRAILS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (ex machina), Friday, 22 July 2005 07:24 (nineteen years ago) link

I danced to "Two Princes" a few times because this girl I was going out with loved it. I was smoking a lot of weed at the time, maybe I thought it was okay.

― Anti-Pope Consortium (noodle vague), Friday, 22 July 2005 07:28 (nineteen years ago) link

x X 6 post

i love selecter, it's such good music when yr thinking of revenge and such.

― ai lien (kold_krush), Friday, 22 July 2005 13:37 (nineteen years ago) link

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