POO: idiotic things you've overheard said about music

"yeah, i'm looking for something like James Brown, but more soulful"

which reminded me of, DJ'ing a house party for investment bankers, 1997:

banker: "play some rap, man!"
me: "well, i just played some rap, i'm playing some funk now. curtis mayfield, james brown -- these guys are the foundation of rap"
banker: "yeah, yeah, yeah...i know. but, i mean, i really respect james brown as a musician, but i just can't dance to him."

customer: "i'm looking for an album called x"
employee: "do you know the artist?"
customer: "i think it's a copulation"

I think the more important question is: why would you say Dizzee is better than Dr. Dre?

Said by a friend that listens to hip-hop exclusively:

"Enough of this dancey shit, put on some nigger noise."

.......picks heart up off the floor and brushes the dirt off

so? whassup wit the hangups? most people in music ARE universally apalling. it's not gonna stop me from going to art exhibits. i do advocate the teaching of art history, and the reasoning behind art museums. not much of a living can me made from it, that's true, but the same goes for several other "careers". and no, i'm not what you would call an 'art person', seeing as i'm not a wanker. :) i mean, i guess can kinda see your point, since appreciation of art is something so subjective anyways that there's really no point in appraising its value, other than aesthetic, except for maybe its influence. but that's perhaps the point i'm trying to make. but the way i see it, art is beauty, as ugly as it can be. (haha! i sound like a corny liberal arts fuxx0r!) and it complements science rather well. both are essential to a healthy discernment of life! k.

"Yeah, I heard that that rapper Jay-Z is going to stop making records just because he's made enough money."

"God, that's just awful, I mean the Rolling Stones never stopped making records..."

is the artist going to prove some hypothesis with their experimental music?

"tonight i will be proving that only rarefied music nerdz enjoy my tunes"

(love will tear us apart from permanent comes on cd player at friend's house)

"hey is this interpol?"

"How on earth can "Hey Ya" be single of the year? It's only been out for, what, nine weeks?"

Luckily, she's only 13 so I forgive!

Sometimes, I think my sister is adopted. Mostly, though, I just hope she is.

Another classic: "Interpol don't sound anything like Joy Division" - an Interpol fan who probably thinks The Velvet Underground is a tube station and Siouxsie Sioux is a pokemon.

Taking sides = lame.

Also, why does the fact that Interpol sound more like Echo & The Bunnymen than Joy Division mean they don't sound anything like Joy Division?

bands that sound like interpol

interpol sound like kitchens of distinction as proven by nitsuh.

Also, Interpol are the Chameleons with the Kitchens of Distinction man on vocals, you are all idiots

Hey, I'm twelve.

"What are you listening to?"
"U2"
"Oh, I love them"
"Yeah. They're anti-war, you know. So are the Clash."
"Oh"

.. Totally fascinating. Riveting. That will teach me to listen to other people's conversations, I guess.

If it was on Pitchfork there'd be a thread devoted to it by now.

Fucking ILM eh.

BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!

"If stamps be the food of love, collect on..." - NOBODY

'Carmina Burana is performing tomorrow. I love her voice'.

"If stamps be the food of love, collect on..." - NOBODY

― Stupid (Stupid), Sunday, January 18, 2004 12:09 AM (6 years ago) Bookmark

Friend coming off the dance floor at a company Christmas party years ago:
"How come I'm the only one who gets James Brown?"
My wife and I repeat the phrase every time we hear his music.

"Groove means nothing...James Brown competes with Arnold Schönberg as for being the worst disaster ever to happen to music."

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Wednesday, March 5, 2003 5:20 PM

Someone should publish a tome of Geir's musings on popular music.

Wasn't that a chapter in Excelsior: The Book?

Dunno what's weirder, Geir reading all his posts out loud to himself or nicky lo-fi standing nearby listening in

There's an element of truth to that James Brown line, though. I've DJ'd a couple wedding receptions where JB cleared the dance floor.

Once I was planning on the full 7 minute version of "Cold Sweat" rocking the house and had to fade it way early. Learned to stick to "I Got You" after that.

And, as I'm sure has been recounted in some DJ thread, once someone came up while JB was on and asked "can't you play some dance music?"

(x-post to jazzbo's JB story, not Geir's anti-JB rants.)

nothing against Geir, I just happened to read the quote, and thought it fit the topic.

lame wedding dancers do not prove anything about James Brown (too obvious to be x-post)

"can't you play some Snap or Technotronic, we want to dance ironically!"

^arrrrggggghhhhh

all the beatles music sounds the same

lol at the 'dance ironically' quote.

Rock is dead
Vinyl is dead
The CD is dead

(OK, that's three, but they are related)

I don't know what my one pick would be, but there's a 90-95% chance it's something regarding The Beatles or Nirvana... 2 of the very strongest magnets of idiotic commentary.

At a party, I once heard someone proclaim that jazz isn't real music because it doesn't have any words.

Really quite impressive in its multiple levels of idiocy.

most people who say they like john coltrane and ornette coleman don't really, they just think it's cool to say so...i find that just remarkably annoying

that opinion is annoying, i mean

Schoenberg's music is a disaster if you expect all music to be a pillow for your unthinking mind.

you had to go and mention Schoenberg in a thread Geir is in. how long before the thread starts collapsing....

nm, i see it was a reply to his quote, lol

some Black Sabbath fan once said Reign in Blood was one of the worst albums ever because metal "wasn't meant to be a bunch of songs that are only fast", then proceeded to say Paranoid was the best metal album ever. (Uh, it's good, but it isn't even the best SABBATH album).

I read a professional review once that indicated it as a shame that Helloween never released a follow-up to their classic Keeper of the Seven Keys Pt. I

(they indeed did).

review of Radiohead said Kid A sucked as there 'weren't enough chords'

Anyone praising a rock band with "classical" or a singer as being "operatic" as if those are guarantors of quality.

the phrase "does what music is SUPPOSED to do". I had no idea there was a 95 Theses of music composition.

xxpost: Ugh. 'Kid A' reviews were excruciatingly annoying at first when it dissapointed every critic hoping for OKC2 and then they got even worse when they decided they were actually cool with it.

I like your Radiohead, I don't like your fans. Your fans are so unlike your Radiohead.

review of Radiohead said Kid A sucked as there 'weren't enough chords'

Perfect description of what is wrong about "Kid A".

I overheard someone saying 'Woah! What is this tune, it's fucking amazing!' about Who Let The Dogs Out by the Baha Men.

It was me.

I was having an almost out of body experience because of the really strong E I was just coming up on at the Notting Hill Carnival the year before it was a hit. In my head it sounded like Angry by The Bug or something (even thought that didn't exist then).

I feel like Suggest Banning myself from life when I recall this unexpectedly.

I was at a friend's party two years ago and I was dazzled by the amount of MDMA I'd necked, I loudly LOL'd the host: "Why the fuck are you playing 'I Want To Be A Hippie' by Rednexx?"

He said, "Dude, this is Rumours by Fleetwood Mac."

I was like, "I don't feel so good. Will you call me a cab?"

This one guy I used to really look up to in high school because he wrote awesome songs in his band used to come down on me all the time for listening to stuff that wasn't musically complex enough - like if it didn't have an Gadd9 in it somewhere, someone wasn't trying. He'd make fun of all sorts of music that I liked, from the Cure to Dinosaur Jr. to Lynyrd Skynyrd. I wish I'd never listened to an ounce of anything he said to me, because I harbored and parroted some stupid, stuck-up, secondhand opinions for a long time after I even knew him.

It made me laugh a few weeks ago, when he commented on a mutual friend's FB status (which was a Beatles quote): "best band of all time... no question."

^not that that's an idiotic thing to say, I just can't remember one piece of sagely advice he actually gave me.

"Muse are nothing like Radiohead, they just share the same influences"

Throw in the transformers soundtrack and Babylon Zoo to that melting pot, then they may actually have a point

think Jay-Z's "Death to Autotune" qualifies. writing music whining about the existence of a vocal effect is as dumb as writing a song called "Death to the Wah Wah Pedal" or "Death to Pitchshifting (Sorry Kanye)

"The reason Jamaican music recycles so many rhythms and backing tracks is because the people who make it have a limited imagination"

- i think the owner of this quote was on a deliberate wind up though.

Doran, for the record I was repping for "Who Let The Dogs Out" before it became ubiquitous with our university dancefloor. More or less for similar reasons to you.

Yeah I remember it being all over Carnival one year, just before it was all over everywhere, and everyone was lapping it up.

A friend told me that the only reason I don’t like Johnny Winter’s music is because he’s white.

review of Radiohead said Kid A sucked as there 'weren't enough chords'

Perfect description of what is wrong about "Kid A".

― Tied Up In Geir (Geir Hongro), Friday, October 1, 2010 4:55 AM Bookmark
Um, do you even understand what a chord is? because this post suggests you don't.

He knows, he just likes fucking with us. If anything this is the perfect thread for Geir to direct comment on.