Paul Edward Wagemenn's "The 13 essential albums of Rockism"

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I was asked by Mr. Wagemenn personally to post this. Please don't flame me. His message and list:

"Hey, if you want you can copy my post (with my message board link) and post it on ILX...I've been banned from there...I know how much they love Rockism over there and I'm sure that would ruffle some feathers..."

"Heres my list of the 13 essential albums you need know, frontward adn back, if you want to consider yoruself a Rockist:

Beatles ~ Sgt Pepper
Beatles ~ Abbey Road
Bob Dylan ~ The FreeWheelin Bob Dylan
Neil Young ~ Decade
The Clash ~ Combat Rock
Pink Floyd ~ Pipers at the gates of Dawn
Liz Phair ~ Exile in Guyville
Black Sabbath ~ Paranoid
led Zeppelin ~ I
REM ~ ChronicTown
Nirvana ~ Nevermind
Velvet Underground ~ VU
The Who ~ Who's Next

These are the bare minimum. Chronologically they run from 1962 to 1993. (Yes, that means that I dont think there has been a significant Rockism album made in the last 12 plus years--but I'm open for debate). There are only three female band members here; Liz Phair, Nico and Mo Tucker, No blacks, no hispanics, no asians, no arabs. 7 of the 13 albums are from British acts, and one is from a Canadian. 7 albums are from the 60s, 2 from the 90s, 2 from the 80s and just two from the 70s (even though the 70s were in fact the greatest Rock decade of all!). There are a several other albums that came very close to making the list; Pavements Slanted and Enchanted, the Talking Head Remain in Light, and Stereolabs Space Age Batchelor Pad Music, Love's Forever Changes, the Replacements Pleased to Meet Me, etc."

Let me, Steve, say that I have no association or opinion about this list whatsoever. Please direct all comments to not-me.

― less-than three's Christiane F. (drowned in milk), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 19:34 (eighteen years ago)

IN BEFORE DELETION

― No Suntan, No Credibility (noodle vague), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 19:35 (eighteen years ago)

EVERYTHING IS ILLUMINATED

― M@tt He1geson: Real Name, No Gimmicks (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 19:37 (eighteen years ago)

LOL LIZ PHAIR

― No Suntan, No Credibility (noodle vague), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 19:38 (eighteen years ago)

http://ents.dsu.org.uk/images/karelia/Luck&Neat.jpg

WID A LITTLE BIT O'LUCK, WE GONE MAKE IT TROO DI NIGHT

― Sadly, he will be the next Alexis Petridish. (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 19:38 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.freshmusic.co.za/images/rocking%20cov2.jpg

― Sadly, he will be the next Alexis Petridish. (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 19:40 (eighteen years ago)

*ruffles feathers*

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 19:40 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.a-rocking-horse-to-love.com/store/skin1/images/is-he-for-me.jpg

― Sadly, he will be the next Alexis Petridish. (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 19:41 (eighteen years ago)

No blacks, no hispanics, no asians, no arabs.

DO YOU RUN A B&B?

― No Suntan, No Credibility (noodle vague), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 19:41 (eighteen years ago)

ARER YOU TRYIN TO TELL ME ROCK CRITICS LIKE THE BEATLES AND BOB DYLAN?

― M@tt He1geson: Real Name, No Gimmicks (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 19:42 (eighteen years ago)

List making is so rockist.

― Edward III (edward iii), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 19:42 (eighteen years ago)

who is he and why did we ban him again?

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 19:42 (eighteen years ago)

i'm assuming "numbskull" isn't a good enuf answer here.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 19:42 (eighteen years ago)

STEROIDS!

― M@tt He1geson: Real Name, No Gimmicks (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 19:43 (eighteen years ago)

He was that "Nicky Wire in a banana suit" guy.

― Sadly, he will be the next Alexis Petridish. (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 19:43 (eighteen years ago)

HANDS UP IF YOU HATE WANGEMANN

http://www.musicate.org/Assets/Images/Project/Children%20holding%20hands%20up.JPG

― No Suntan, No Credibility (noodle vague), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 19:43 (eighteen years ago)

REACTIONARY NEO-ROCKISTS DON'T CARE ABOUT BLACK PEOPLE!

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 19:44 (eighteen years ago)

I got a myspace message type thing from him despite never mentioning having a myspace. Which would suggest that he just searched for like every fucking email address on here that might actually not be fake and tried to message them. Which is beyond crazy.

― struttin' with some barbecue (jimnaseum), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 19:44 (eighteen years ago)

HANDS UP IF YOU HATE WANGEMANN

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― Sadly, he will be the next Alexis Petridish. (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 19:45 (eighteen years ago)

LOL COMBAT ROCK

― No Suntan, No Credibility (noodle vague), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 19:46 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.last.fm/group/ROCKISM+101

1 group member

― Sadly, he will be the next Alexis Petridish. (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 19:46 (eighteen years ago)

Hey, if you want you can copy my post (with my message board link) and post it on ILX...I've been banned from there...I'll probablly figure out a way to sneak back on, but I know how much they love Rockism over there and I'm sure that would ruffle some feathers...

See:
Post-Rock or Jazz Rock
Can someone explain 'Emo' to me?
Does Postpunk even actually exist?

Suddenly, a wave of regret rushed over Christiane F.'s naive little body...

― less-than three's Christiane F. (drowned in milk), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 19:47 (eighteen years ago)

Are the Ramones Quality?

We all have different measures of quality. Admittedly, the Ramones have put out some poor product in their day, but they have also produced a lot of quality.

Why are they of quality?

They were very unique and original and they also had a lot of energy ofcourse, but being unique and original doesnt neccesarily equate to quality, nor does having lots of energy automatically equate to quality. No, what classified the Ramones as quality was that their music went straight to the very core of what Rock music is all about. From the time we are rocked to sleep as little babies, motion and movement have been sources of soothing and comfort. The Ramones music is like that. It is an assault on the mind that ignites the need for motion. At least it does for me. Listening to '53rd and 3rd' or 'I wanna be sedated' swells up the urge in me to stick my steel toed boot into some overfed fratboys smiley face and then go fuck a lonely fat chick like my dick was a broken perculator stuck on the 'High' setting. Then the song ends and I remember that I'm not in college anymore. But at least for a few fleeting moments, the Ramones are able to move me and that, in my opinion, is why they are quality...

― Sadly, he will be the next Alexis Petridish. (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 19:47 (eighteen years ago)

erm, NV, permission to lol ChronicTown?

― Space Gourmand (Haberdager), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 19:48 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.villagevoice.com/blogs/bushbeat/archive/images/galloway-hands-up.jpg

― No Suntan, No Credibility (noodle vague), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 19:48 (eighteen years ago)

Feel free Louis.

― No Suntan, No Credibility (noodle vague), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 19:49 (eighteen years ago)

Liz Phair ~ Exile in Guyville

I certainly have no plan to own this rubbish ever.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 19:50 (eighteen years ago)

Also, surely The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan is anything but Rock, and you would get shanked by some bearded Arran-knit wearers for suggesting otherwise?

― No Suntan, No Credibility (noodle vague), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 19:52 (eighteen years ago)

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y148/Juror8/lolloway.jpg

― Sadly, he will be the next Alexis Petridish. (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 19:55 (eighteen years ago)

internet troll in internet-trolling shocker

― bernard snow (sixteen sergeants), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 19:57 (eighteen years ago)

Why would an arch-rockist's Stereolab pick be The Groop Played Space Age Batchelor Pad Music, as opposed to (duh) a proper artistic rockist-delighting LONG-PLAYING ALBUM?

― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 20:02 (eighteen years ago)

Also does it make me a spelling rockist that I feel the need, now, to correct dude's "batchelor" spelling?

― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 20:03 (eighteen years ago)

No, that just makes you anal.

― Edward III (edward iii), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 20:08 (eighteen years ago)

PEW just started a thread yesterday:
Greatest Vocal Foil of all-time?
Was he banned AGAIN?

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 20:12 (eighteen years ago)

the two have entirely different markets, Geir. Rap is a very definite artistic mode entirely removed from the rest of rock. Prog is essentially the use of rock tropes and rock instrumentation to form a more complex, more structurally free-form version of rock. Rap, the delivery of words by a vocalist in a continual rhythmic flow, is its own form, and therefore cannot evolve like prog did (into AOR and then back into prog when all was quiet on the Western Front). It will never be extinguished as long as there are people (and there are many people) who appreciate that particular art form.

-- Space Gourmand (papiermachealamphibia...), September 19th, 2006. (Haberdager) (later)

― Sadly, he will be the next Alexis Petridish. (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 20:19 (eighteen years ago)

oh c'mon, someone had to call him on that.

― Space Gourmand (Haberdager), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 20:30 (eighteen years ago)

we were just glad someone finally did

― gear (gear), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 20:37 (eighteen years ago)

so authoritative

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 20:42 (eighteen years ago)

Wow, missed that dialogue.

― Erroneous Botch (joseph cotten), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 20:53 (eighteen years ago)

I meant to italicize the word "that" but this works, too.

― Erroneous Botch (joseph cotten), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 20:54 (eighteen years ago)

Rockism is actually sort of a controversial term. I wrote a bit about it in my blog, but to summarize, its a term that began being thrown around in New Music Express in the 80s and is most often used as sort of a derogatory statement toward folks who have a bit of a Rock music ethos (who are referred to as Rockists).
I'd like to see the term evolve however. Just like black people took the term 'niger' and made it their own, I think Rockists should do the same. I'll gladly stand up, anywhere on the face of the earth and say, "That's right--I'm a fucking a Rockist...so what the fuck is to you?"
But that's me--I'm a bit of a confrontationalist. The point is, that I think if enough people embrace their Rockist tendencies, we can make the term Rockism our own...

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 21:38 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah those black people from Niger ain't afraid to say "I'm from Niger". It's something.

― struttin' with some barbecue (jimnaseum), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 21:40 (eighteen years ago)

who's up for lynching some rockists tonight?

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 21:44 (eighteen years ago)

boring ass tunnel vision motherfucker

― gear (gear), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 21:45 (eighteen years ago)

What lattitude do rockists have to be north of to be free?

― struttin' with some barbecue (jimnaseum), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 21:45 (eighteen years ago)

then we can sing along to jamie principle tracks and burn guitars

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 21:46 (eighteen years ago)

Also does it make me a spelling rockist that I feel the need, now, to correct dude's "batchelor" spelling?

Only if by "dude" you mean "Tim Gane":

http://eil.com/newGallery/Stereolab-Space-Age-Batchel-318482.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 21:48 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.tshirthell.com/images/contestpics/a341_013.jpg

― Sadly, he will be the next Alexis Petridish. (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 21:49 (eighteen years ago)

(xpost I agree that that's a weird-ass Stereolab album to consider "rockist," though.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 21:50 (eighteen years ago)

no strict rockism, no strict popism. the dude, as gear so correctly intimates, sees musical taste only in black and white, rather than as a perpetually variable, subjectively flexible and entirely individual assortment of aural stimuli.

― Space Gourmand (Haberdager), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 21:51 (eighteen years ago)

Skipping 94 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

if that isn't fun then my name isnt paul edward wagemann...

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Saturday, 23 September 2006 23:32 (eighteen years ago)

"PEW, how can you have used the term for so long and not have realized that Rockism is *not* just pro-rock bias? It's an attitude towards music, rather than a bias toward a certain genre. Hell, there are arguably more rockists in hip-hop today than in rock music."

Do I think you can be a Rockist and mostly like hip hop?
Sure. But you still need to understand the history of Rock. You still need to know the social impact Rock has had on Western culture. You still have to be able to define 'qaulity' in terms that were originally laid out by Rock's founding fathers and greatest innovators. HipHop/Rap CAN Rock. It is just my opinion that it doesnt--or at least 99.999999% of the time it doesnt...

― Paul Edward Wagemann (PaulEdwardWagemann), Sunday, 24 September 2006 00:11 (eighteen years ago)

shut up.

― H2-H4 (H2-H4), Sunday, 24 September 2006 00:12 (eighteen years ago)

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― Marmot (marmotwolof), Sunday, 24 September 2006 00:25 (eighteen years ago)

To get off the subject matter for just a minute, I have an announcement.
I've noticed alot of folks here are entertained by my posts. You must think that it is just too bad you can't have an entire book written by me to keep you entertained.
Well guess what.
Ole wagemann here has written a book that is soon to be published. If any of you would like a good laugh, then go to my MySPace and shoot me a message and I'll get back to you and provide the details on how you can purchase it. It should be available in time for x-mas...

― Paul Edward Wagemann (PaulEdwardWagemann), Sunday, 24 September 2006 01:02 (eighteen years ago)

I'd rather have a lump of coal.

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Sunday, 24 September 2006 01:17 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.sek-c.com/upload/files/idiot.jpg

― PappaWheelie says, ''only pick any'' (PappaWheelie 2), Sunday, 24 September 2006 02:18 (eighteen years ago)

wow.

― Hoosteen (Hoosteen), Sunday, 24 September 2006 02:33 (eighteen years ago)

we should spend the save ilx fund on wagemann's book

$1500 / copy m4riss4 style

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Sunday, 24 September 2006 02:53 (eighteen years ago)

so is this guy the Fred Phelps of Rockism or something? I tried to read this thread, and it hurt.

― 0xDOX0RNUTX0RX0RSDABITFIELDXOR^0xDEADBEEFDEADBEEF00001 (donut), Sunday, 24 September 2006 02:55 (eighteen years ago)

Wagemann publishes book, Pynchon sets head on fire.

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Sunday, 24 September 2006 03:03 (eighteen years ago)

Ole wagemann here has written a book that is soon to be published. If any of you would like a good laugh, then go to my MySPace and shoot me a message and I'll get back to you and provide the details on how you can purchase it. It should be available in time for x-mas...

Yeah, I guess if there was any doubt at all left that the guy's a fake...

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Sunday, 24 September 2006 09:42 (eighteen years ago)

"You still have to be able to define 'qaulity' in terms that were originally laid out by Rock's founding fathers and greatest innovators."

Fulfilling the twin goals of making kids dance and getting musicians laid? I'd say that 99.9999999999999999999999999999999999999% of rap does that.

― js (honestengine), Sunday, 24 September 2006 13:23 (eighteen years ago)

so does X and jagermiester shots--doesnt make those things quality though, now does it?
If that is your definition of quality (making kids dance and getting musicians laid) then you might want to think about a career in advertising...

― Paul Edward Wagemann (PaulEdwardWagemann), Sunday, 24 September 2006 13:57 (eighteen years ago)

HI GEIR!

― PappaWheelie says, ''only pick any'' (PappaWheelie 2), Sunday, 24 September 2006 15:09 (eighteen years ago)

papists and popists, rapists and rockists ...

― Peter The Pill (Grodd), Sunday, 24 September 2006 15:14 (eighteen years ago)

"so does X and jagermiester shots--doesnt make those things quality though, now does it?
If that is your definition of quality (making kids dance and getting musicians laid) then you might want to think about a career in advertising..."

In the terms of rock's founding fathers, yes.

Your attempts to redefine the goals of "the founding fathers of rock" has more to do with not getting the answers you want than anythin they did.

ps: Your list sucks.

― js (honestengine), Sunday, 24 September 2006 17:09 (eighteen years ago)

Rock's founding fathers will always be Cow Cow Davenport and Pinetop Smith MOCK THREAD

― PappaWheelie says, ''only pick any'' (PappaWheelie 2), Sunday, 24 September 2006 17:26 (eighteen years ago)

Jaeger is total quality, WTF.

― Young Fresh Danny D (Dan Perry), Sunday, 24 September 2006 17:44 (eighteen years ago)


Your post advocates a( ) technical ( ) legislative ( ) market-based (x) vigilante
approach to fighting spam. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea, and it may have other flaws which used to vary from state to state before a bad federal law was passed.)
( ) Spammers can easily use it to harvest email addresses
( ) Mailing lists and other legitimate email uses would be affected
(x) No one will be able to find the guy or collect the money
(x) It is defenseless against brute force attacks
( ) It will stop spam for two weeks and then we'll be stuck with it
( ) Users of email will not put up with it
( ) Microsoft will not put up with it
( ) The police will not put up with it
( ) Requires too much cooperation from spammers
(x) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once
( ) Many email users cannot afford to lose business or alienate potential employers
( ) Spammers don't care about invalid addresses in their lists
(x) Anyone could anonymously destroy anyone else's career or business
Specifically, your plan fails to account for
( ) Laws expressly prohibiting it
( ) Lack of centrally controlling authority for email
(x) Open relays in foreign countries
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(x) Asshats
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( ) Huge existing software investment in SMTP
( ) Susceptibility of protocols other than SMTP to attack
( ) Willingness of users to install OS patches received by email
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( ) Eternal arms race involved in all filtering approaches
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( ) Joe jobs and/or identity theft
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( ) Dishonesty on the part of spammers themselves
( ) Bandwidth costs that are unaffected by client filtering
( ) Outlook
and the following philosophical objections may also apply:
(x) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever
been shown practical
( ) Any scheme based on opt-out is unacceptable
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( ) Blacklists suck
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(x) We should be able to talk about Viagra without being censored
( ) Countermeasures should not involve wire fraud or credit card fraud
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( ) Countermeasures must work if phased in gradually
( ) Sending email should be free
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( ) Incompatiblity with open source or open source licenses
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Furthermore, this is what I think about you:
( ) Sorry dude, but I don't think it would work.
(x) This is a stupid idea, and you're a stupid person for suggesting it.
( ) Nice try, assh0le! I'm going to find out where you live and burn your
house down!

― rock u like a § (ex machina), Sunday, 24 September 2006 18:16 (eighteen years ago)

so does X and jagermiester shots--doesnt make those things quality though, now does it?

http://www.prowrestlingguerrilla.com/roster/pics/punk.gif

"Rockism means I'm better than you"

― Sadly, he will be the next Alexis Petridish. (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 24 September 2006 18:46 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.wrestleline.com/images/cards/wcwblack_paule.jpg

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Sunday, 24 September 2006 18:49 (eighteen years ago)

Rockists are like theists.

― boney (b0n3y), Sunday, 24 September 2006 23:15 (eighteen years ago)

Who exactly is going to publish this book, the mark grout vanity press?

― Run Ruud Run (Ken L), Sunday, 24 September 2006 23:38 (eighteen years ago)

one month passes...

PEW messaged me on myspace asking me to post this and I refuse to make another thread just for it... so... yeah I don't even know why i'm doing it in the first place. I guess to be nice. To him.

Steve, could you do me a favor and let some of my "fans" at ILX.com know I've finished my much anticipated blog about Tribute band frontmen?

http://blog.myspace.com/paulewagemann

The rock gods will look down upon you kindly if you do...

― less-than three's Christiane F. (drowned in milk), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 19:17 (eighteen years ago)

YOU UNSCREWED THE LID

― You've Got Scourage On Your Breath (Haberdager), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 19:19 (eighteen years ago)

hahaha

― PRKLTR (flezaffe), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 20:47 (eighteen years ago)

one year passes...

I'll know open the floor up for questions...

-- Paul Edward Wagemann (PaulEdwardWagemann), Thursday, 21 September 2006 04:04 (1 year ago) Bookmark Link

^^^beginning to think PEW was a better troll than CMan

― The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics, Monday, 23 June 2008 16:30 (seventeen years ago)

He's more a comparison point to Geir.

― Mark G, Monday, 23 June 2008 16:32 (seventeen years ago)

except geir is at least aware

― PappaWheelie V, Monday, 23 June 2008 16:37 (seventeen years ago)

http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o170/ROCKISM_101/rockism101copy.jpg

if you would like to become a Rockism101 girl simply send us a photo of you with the words 'Rockism101' spelled across your butt with lipstick--or if you dont have enough room on your butt for 'Rockism101' then 'R101' will suffice).

― DavidM, Monday, 23 June 2008 16:54 (seventeen years ago)

what

― elan, Monday, 23 June 2008 16:56 (seventeen years ago)

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/clivebillson/gallery/img9.jpg

― Just got offed, Monday, 23 June 2008 16:58 (seventeen years ago)

shoulda been a poll

― s1ocki, Monday, 23 June 2008 16:59 (seventeen years ago)

http://s120.photobucket.com/albums/o170/ROCKISM_101/

― elan, Monday, 23 June 2008 17:01 (seventeen years ago)

I was asked by Mr. Wagemenn personally to post this.

^^missed meme opportunity

― M@tt He1ges0n, Monday, 23 June 2008 17:06 (seventeen years ago)

omg rockism101.jpg

― The Reverend, Monday, 23 June 2008 19:20 (seventeen years ago)

oh man the PEW days

― cutty, Monday, 23 June 2008 19:54 (seventeen years ago)

You know all the "Ban" debates?

PEW was the only one I agreed with!

(some of the rest were after the fact)

― Mark G, Monday, 23 June 2008 20:48 (seventeen years ago)

I am not particularly familiar with "Freewheelin'" or "Chronic Town", I don't like "Exile In Guyville" at all and VU is extremely patchy. So I guess I am no rockist then.

Then again, I have always considered myself a pop fan, but when I say pop fan I mean pop as a musical genre, with strict musical rules, and not as a cultural or sociological phenomenon.

― Geir Hongro, Monday, 23 June 2008 21:44 (seventeen years ago)

I stand corrected...

― PappaWheelie V, Monday, 23 June 2008 21:48 (seventeen years ago)

Oh Geirpaws...

― leavethecapital, Monday, 23 June 2008 23:14 (seventeen years ago)

qaulity

― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Tuesday, 24 June 2008 07:53 (sixteen years ago)

Anyhow, share your thoughts. What silly things do you get really excited over?
-- Mandee, Friday, November 22, 2002 12:04 PM (5 years ago) Bookmark Link]

― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Tuesday, 24 June 2008 08:00 (sixteen years ago)

See, there is one diff..

Geir's statements invite debate/discussion/fighting/etc.

PEW's ones, at best, elicit a shrug and a 'who cares?'

― Mark G, Tuesday, 24 June 2008 08:19 (sixteen years ago)

PEW looks more like a "punkist" than "rockist" to me. A "rockist" acknowledges Pink Floyd and prog rock, which after all was a result of the English 60s (Beatles et all)

― Geir Hongro, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 00:18 (sixteen years ago)

PEW once accused me of "just overflowing with white guilt" for writing a James Brown RIP blog post.

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 00:23 (sixteen years ago)

PEW was pretty good at bog-standard trolling, but really awful at race-baiting.

― The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 00:37 (sixteen years ago)

four years pass...

Is this list a joke???

― paigeterner, Wednesday, 8 May 2013 18:44 (twelve years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TN-kDEKxF0

― Retreat from the Sunship (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 8 May 2013 18:46 (twelve years ago)

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