Is it a bad sign?

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Is it a bad sign when they only thing that you can bring yourself to post about on ILM is bands/things that you utterly hate?

Or is it a positive sign that at least some spark of your passion for music is returning, cause "anger is an energy" and all that?

― kate (kate), Friday, 31 October 2003 10:38 (twenty-two years ago)

where is the love?

― blackeyedstevem (blueski), Friday, 31 October 2003 11:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Hmm, I think that I only hate bands/musics when there's not enough to love...

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 31 October 2003 11:09 (twenty-two years ago)

As my friend's badge says "I'm not old, your music just sucks!"

Is hatred better than nothing? Cause I was getting scared that I just didn't *care* about music any more.

― kate (kate), Friday, 31 October 2003 11:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Hating stuff is one of life's most pleasurable activities as far as I'm concerned. I'm cartain that your capacity for hate is inextricably related to your capacity for love. Intensifying your feelings about something in one way raises your capacity for feeling about things in the other. It's all about raising the stakes at every available opportunity, but the higher you go (the deeper into love you get) the further you subsequently fall.

Damien Hirst is good on this, particularly when he talks about his drug use; Both the artificial high and the artificial low are just as important as each other, and just as valid.

― neil, Friday, 31 October 2003 11:12 (twenty-two years ago)

I heart Damien Hirst. He also talks about this in his catchphrase "Nothing is a problem for me". Because it's not just an expression of arrogance, but also the realisation that nothingness - boredom - is a huge problem.

Watching TOTP and shouting at it is a step up from not caring at all. So maybe getting on Strokes threads and ranting will inspire me to find a topic about something which I *do* love.

― kate (kate), Friday, 31 October 2003 11:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Just means you've been in England too long. Everybody hates everything and comes up with elaborate justifications for doing so as a way of life. Actually, they're not even all that elaborate.

― dave q, Friday, 31 October 2003 11:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Actually, kate, S Tremaine was saying the same thing just the other day...

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 31 October 2003 11:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Well, that makes sense because he's so super-enthusiastic about the things that he loves, all the time.

― kate (kate), Friday, 31 October 2003 11:32 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't think it's a bad sign. What you hate is just as essential as what you love, when it comes to something that's important to you - it means you care about it enough.

And the problem with talking about the bands/records/&c you love is you can exhaust all you really wanted to say in the first flush of excitement.

― cis (cis), Friday, 31 October 2003 12:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Personally, I think hate is mostly a waste of energy, especially with regards to music. There's so much to love, even though, for those of us who are truly "into music", most of the music that is made is unlikeable. People have written quite a bit about what sucks, which doesn't add anything to my life. I wanna know the good stuff!!!
Now, if forced to listen to the crap, that's another story. Do you work in a place which plays music you hate? I was in a store last weekend and they were blaring one of the worst things I've heard in years (I later found out it was by a band monikered "Nickleback". I looked around to see if everyone else was annoyed as I was, and not only did they look like they didn't mind it, some were mouthing the words!!! Then I remind mice elf that often people use music for different purposes than I do. Whether we're weak enough to suggest that its a matter of intelligence ("hey, wait-a-minute! Therefore I'm smart!) or something else, I guess we all get to choose. I work in a high school, so there's a danger of me using someone's musical taste against them if I'm not careful.

― peepee (peepee), Friday, 31 October 2003 12:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Hate allows much more room for humour.

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 31 October 2003 14:10 (twenty-two years ago)

The Strokes are SO okay

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Friday, 31 October 2003 14:16 (twenty-two years ago)

peepee - 'mice elf'?? You've totally screwed my brain, I can no longer recall the point of this thread!

― Joi Raida (Joi Raida), Sunday, 2 November 2003 18:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Excuse me for one moment please:

KATE HATES THE STROKES HOW BLOODY SPECIAL WE GET THE FUCKING POINT ALREADY YAWN YAWN

Pardon my outburst. Continue amongst yourselves

― nate detritus (natedetritus), Sunday, 2 November 2003 22:08 (twenty-two years ago)

posting endlessly about a particular band you like (i.e. Alex in NYC on The Killin' Jokers): "enthusiasm"; starts off irritating but eventually becomes oddly endearing

posting endlessly about a particular band you hate (i.e. Kate on the Strokes): "obsession", starts irritating and gets worse from there

― nate detritus (natedetritus), Sunday, 2 November 2003 22:10 (twenty-two years ago)

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