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John Lydon was into Van Der Graaf Generator I hear!

― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 18:34 (twenty-three years ago)

tom, i kiss you

― jess (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 18:38 (twenty-three years ago)

You know, Elvis really loved his ma.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 18:42 (twenty-three years ago)

You know what else I hear about Elvis? He was just ripping off the music of lesser known black folks.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 18:44 (twenty-three years ago)

Eminem is kind of the new Elvis in that regard.

― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 18:45 (twenty-three years ago)

Elvis ate too many deep fried burgers

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 18:46 (twenty-three years ago)

That's just sick.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 18:47 (twenty-three years ago)

Nu-metal has very little to do with metal or "heavy metal" as previous practiced.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 18:47 (twenty-three years ago)

Ska isn't real ska. Punk isn't real punk. R'n'B isn't real R & B and what's with those two "Garage" things?

― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 18:48 (twenty-three years ago)

(actually we're getting into opinions not fakts here)

― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 18:49 (twenty-three years ago)

Elvis' favorite food was fried peanut butter and 'nanner sammiches.


'nanner = banana, btw

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 18:49 (twenty-three years ago)

The "disco beat" in songs like Kraftwerk's "Metal on Metal" is superfluous when contrasted with superior versions of similar "abstract sonority explorations" by the likes of Einsturzende Neubauten or Merzbow.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 18:51 (twenty-three years ago)

Nu-metal has very little to do with metal or "heavy metal" as previous practiced.

But it has everything to do with nu. Woo.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 18:51 (twenty-three years ago)

real music is dead!

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 18:51 (twenty-three years ago)

Those Detroit techno folks liked Kraftwerk AND Parliament

― Nathan Webb (Nathan Webb), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 18:52 (twenty-three years ago)

(ah! I knew it was fried something!)

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 18:52 (twenty-three years ago)

Detroit techno pioneers were into Depeche Mode and synth-pop too!

― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 18:53 (twenty-three years ago)

I can count the amount of good bands since 1972 on one hand.

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 18:53 (twenty-three years ago)

"Rock'n'roll" was originally a euphemism for SEX!

― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 18:54 (twenty-three years ago)

(Dream Theater, Gov't Issue, Ratdog, the Only Ones and Pearl Jam)

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 18:55 (twenty-three years ago)

Rock and roll died around 1958, when everyone important joined the army/got arrested/quit music/married a teenager/jumped in a lake, and it wasn't heard from again until 1964.

― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 18:55 (twenty-three years ago)

(i accidentally mentioned a good band: only ones = the other ones)

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 18:56 (twenty-three years ago)

A Beach Boys concert can be a very sad thing.

― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 18:56 (twenty-three years ago)

"You're So Vain" was about Warren Beatty, allegedly

― Nathan Webb (Nathan Webb), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 18:56 (twenty-three years ago)

1960s music was revolutionary.

― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 18:56 (twenty-three years ago)

Hip-hop and country are the most popular music in the world. (But that doesn't mean they're any good!)

― jess (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 18:57 (twenty-three years ago)

Michael Nesmith's mother invented white-out!

― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 18:57 (twenty-three years ago)

The Beatles elevated every music they attempted to incorporate into rock'n'roll, while Zeppelin debased them.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 18:58 (twenty-three years ago)

old skool hip hop was less commercial.
old skool hip hop was less about drugs.

― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 18:59 (twenty-three years ago)

Hip-hop is, like, the new rock and roll!

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 18:59 (twenty-three years ago)

Those Detroit techno folks liked Kraftwerk AND Parliament
Detroit techno pioneers were into Depeche Mode and synth-pop too!

Yes, but were they influenced by them? :)

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 19:00 (twenty-three years ago)

You might like the Rolling Stones, they didn't come up with that style on their own. Bo Diddley is rock n roll.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 19:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Only pretentious people like Jandek! (Note: not pop.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 19:02 (twenty-three years ago)

The Beatles were a boy band.

― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 19:02 (twenty-three years ago)

it's great to hear a hip hop album which isn't all about bitches and gangstas.

― pete b. (pete b.), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 19:02 (twenty-three years ago)

Those Detroit techno folks liked Kraftwerk AND Parliament
Detroit techno pioneers were into Depeche Mode and synth-pop too!

Yes, but were they influenced by them? :)

What does it matter? Techno all sounds the same! ;-)

― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 19:02 (twenty-three years ago)

Miles Davis changed his style not once, but several times.
(BTW, On The Corner was inspired by Sly Stone)

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 19:04 (twenty-three years ago)

and stockhausen! in fact, its just like listening to sly and stockhausen at the same time!

― jess (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 19:05 (twenty-three years ago)

haha Jess!

― Nathan Webb (Nathan Webb), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 19:05 (twenty-three years ago)

Miles Davis was a pimp and heroin addict apparently

― Nathan Webb (Nathan Webb), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 19:07 (twenty-three years ago)

DISCO SUCKS!

― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 19:08 (twenty-three years ago)

Oppressed black peoples of the world tend to invent whole new languages made of slang, that are indecipherable to the Man/Babylon, and incorporate it into their music.

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 19:10 (twenty-three years ago)

Alice Coltrane butchered her late husband's work by adding overdubbed strings

― Nathan Webb (Nathan Webb), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 19:14 (twenty-three years ago)

Hip hop renders all rock and roll completely obsolete!

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 19:19 (twenty-three years ago)

Realness is back, as evidenced by Norah Jones's Grammy wins.

― hstencil, Tuesday, 4 March 2003 19:25 (twenty-three years ago)

The White Stripes aren't brother and sister right, they're actually ex-husband and wife. No, wait a minute...

― Nathan Webb (Nathan Webb), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 19:28 (twenty-three years ago)

Michael Jackson was great in the 80's but got weird in the 90's.

― My name is Kenny (My name is Kenny), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 19:38 (twenty-three years ago)

Lennon was the smart one, McCartney was the cute one.

Bob Marley WAS reggae.

The Beastie Boys were responsible for bringing rap music to the suburbs.

― Neudonym, Tuesday, 4 March 2003 19:46 (twenty-three years ago)

Realness is back, as evidenced by Norah Jones's Grammy wins

I read this as 'realness is black'. Hilarity ensued

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 19:48 (twenty-three years ago)

That one works too so here it is, again:

Realness is black.

― hstencil, Tuesday, 4 March 2003 19:49 (twenty-three years ago)

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The Beastie Boys have a lyric that goes "Everybody's rapping like its a commercial/Acting like life is a big commercial", which isn't a very good lyric.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 5 March 2003 12:10 (twenty-three years ago)

Dance music is in the doldrums.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 5 March 2003 12:11 (twenty-three years ago)

Larry LaLonde of Possessed is now in Primus!

― Siegbran (eofor), Wednesday, 5 March 2003 12:13 (twenty-three years ago)

The NME regularly invents music scenes in order to boost its flagging sales.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 5 March 2003 12:15 (twenty-three years ago)

Readers of Q magazine are in their 30s.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 5 March 2003 12:15 (twenty-three years ago)

bumper 70s punk edition: the stranglers were misogynists

― pete b. (pete b.), Wednesday, 5 March 2003 12:21 (twenty-three years ago)

the jam were tories

― pete b. (pete b.), Wednesday, 5 March 2003 12:22 (twenty-three years ago)

joe strummer went to public school

― pete b. (pete b.), Wednesday, 5 March 2003 12:22 (twenty-three years ago)

subway sect are one of the most under-appreciated groups of the era

― pete b. (pete b.), Wednesday, 5 March 2003 12:22 (twenty-three years ago)

the buzzcocks were better than the sex pistols

― pete b. (pete b.), Wednesday, 5 March 2003 12:22 (twenty-three years ago)

stiff little fingers took a more politicised approach to 'the troubles' than did the undertones

― pete b. (pete b.), Wednesday, 5 March 2003 12:22 (twenty-three years ago)

Jimi Hendrix was a former parachutist, and a highly regarded member of the US military.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 5 March 2003 12:33 (twenty-three years ago)

Jennifer Lopez is very wealthy.
Michael Jackson sure is nutty.
Michael Jackson is very wealthy.
If A=B and B=C then A=J.lo is secretly very nutty. (Every morning She chases Ben Affleck around the room dressed like a member of Daredevil's Rogues Gallery.)

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Wednesday, 5 March 2003 13:24 (twenty-three years ago)

Usually Stilt Man.

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Wednesday, 5 March 2003 13:24 (twenty-three years ago)

Techno began in Detroit, whereas house began in Chigago.

Techno is made using machines. Cars are also made using machines. Cars and techno have both been made in Detroit.

Henry Ford's Model T factory was in Detroit. Motown's hit factory was also in Detroit. A team of people worked to build the Model T. A team of people also worked to build "My Girl."

― EC, Wednesday, 5 March 2003 13:39 (twenty-three years ago)

Asher D from So Solid Crew was in Grange Hill.

Every 12 years there is a music revolution and we are long overdue. Band x is that revolution.

The Strokes are rich pretty boys.

Fatboy Slim used to be in the Housemartins.

House music was originally for black gay men, but now it is the establishment.

― Jacob (Jacob), Wednesday, 5 March 2003 13:41 (twenty-three years ago)

The word "techno" was just made up to bamboozle foreign journalists.

― EC, Wednesday, 5 March 2003 13:41 (twenty-three years ago)

Chicago House uses a high hat.
Chicago is in Illinois.
Illinois is the "Land of Lincoln."
Lincoln wore a high hat.

― felicity (felicity), Wednesday, 5 March 2003 13:43 (twenty-three years ago)

Jerry Garcia only had nine fingers.

One of Tony Iommi's fingers is made of plastic.

― EC, Wednesday, 5 March 2003 13:48 (twenty-three years ago)

Apparently Justine Frischmann's Dad was an architect!!!!!!!1 Suzy can you confirm???!!

― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 5 March 2003 14:22 (twenty-three years ago)

Adam F's dad was Alvin Stardust, who was quite uncool, but also appeared in early episodes of Hollyoaks.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 5 March 2003 14:30 (twenty-three years ago)

Julian Casablancas's dad runs a modeling agency too *rolls eyes*

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 5 March 2003 14:54 (twenty-three years ago)

and did you know that Gavin from Bush is ENGLISH?? *rolls eyes*

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 5 March 2003 14:55 (twenty-three years ago)

...and Andrew WK, despite his greasy hair and dumb demeanour, is actually the son of a university professor! Will wonders never cease?

― EC, Wednesday, 5 March 2003 15:36 (twenty-three years ago)

The drummer from Travis's dad owns the 'famous' Horseshoe bar in Glasgow.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Wednesday, 5 March 2003 15:41 (twenty-three years ago)

Bruce Dickinson of Iron Maiden was (is) a championship fencer.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Wednesday, 5 March 2003 15:42 (twenty-three years ago)

and now he's pilot ofr Easyjet (or is it Ryanair).

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Wednesday, 5 March 2003 15:43 (twenty-three years ago)

When the MC5 said "brothers and sisters," they really meant "motherfuckers."

― EC, Wednesday, 5 March 2003 15:48 (twenty-three years ago)

The Sex Pistols were a boyband too!! I mean like when you think about it.

Dammit, credit my cliches before ripping them off! Though admittedly I didn't mention the Pistols, should have done. ;-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 5 March 2003 16:10 (twenty-three years ago)

Geir Hongro has repeatedly stated his preference for melody over rhythm.

He is a bald man from Norway.

― EC, Wednesday, 5 March 2003 17:26 (twenty-three years ago)

Jimi Hendrix was a former parachutist, and a highly regarded member of the US military.
wha!? I seriously never knew that.

― Dan I., Thursday, 6 March 2003 06:51 (twenty-three years ago)

The popularity of artists like Avril Lavigne, Michele Branch, and Vanessa Carlton over Britney Spears and Christina Aguillera shows the public is tiring of manufactured divas.

― nickn (nickn), Thursday, 6 March 2003 07:21 (twenty-three years ago)

Bernard Sumner is a spectacularly untalented guitarist

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Thursday, 6 March 2003 08:03 (twenty-three years ago)

His voice, lyrics, and stage presence aren't so hot either.

― EC, Thursday, 6 March 2003 08:06 (twenty-three years ago)

true. and yet somehow it works. possibly more by luck than design

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Thursday, 6 March 2003 08:08 (twenty-three years ago)

His voice, lyrics, and stage presence aren't so hot either.
But he's got a nice smile...and nice shoes.

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Thursday, 6 March 2003 14:39 (twenty-three years ago)

leonard cohen really likes green tea ice cream from ripples on st. laurent street in mtl.

― cybele, Thursday, 6 March 2003 14:47 (twenty-three years ago)

four months pass...
The only Beach Boy who could actually surf was Dennis Wilson - and he drowned!

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 10 July 2003 14:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Madonna is in her 40s (for chrissakes)

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 10 July 2003 15:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Much like Brian Wilson, who never surfed, [insert writer of songs with consistent subject matter] has never actually participated in [said subject matter].

― Curt (cgould), Thursday, 10 July 2003 15:12 (twenty-two years ago)

freddie mercury was gay

― sean g, Thursday, 10 July 2003 15:21 (twenty-two years ago)

eminem was right, nobody listens to techno
so moby better step

― Felcher (Felcher), Thursday, 10 July 2003 15:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Gene Simmons doesn't drink or smoke.....yet still wants to "party every day."

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 10 July 2003 15:51 (twenty-two years ago)

"Rock'n'roll" was originally a euphemism for SEX!

omg I feel a bit silly for having never realised that :$

But! Did you know Dan Abnormal, as credited on the first Elastica album, is in fact none other than Damon Albarn of the group Blur? There's a big clue on Blur's The Great Escape album...

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Thursday, 10 July 2003 15:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Nick Mason of Pink Floyd produced the second album by the Damned.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 10 July 2003 15:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Bright Eyes released some records before Conor Oberst was 20, and he's still not very many years older than 20.

― Curt (cgould), Thursday, 10 July 2003 16:50 (twenty-two years ago)

That Sparklehorse guy almost died a few years ago.

― Curt (cgould), Thursday, 10 July 2003 17:05 (twenty-two years ago)

nineteen years pass...

sade is actually the name of the band

― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 10 May 2023 20:36 (two years ago)

PJ Harvey is actually the name of the band. while technically incorrect, record stores should file PJ Harvey albums under 'H' for 'Harvey' (rather than 'P' for 'PJ') to avoid confusing casual/ignorant music fans

― astor pizzarolla (unregistered), Wednesday, 10 May 2023 22:29 (two years ago)

That Sparklehorse guy almost died a few years ago.

― Curt (cgould), Thursday, July 10, 2003 1:05 PM (nineteen years ago)

:-(

― astor pizzarolla (unregistered), Wednesday, 10 May 2023 22:31 (two years ago)


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