I agree. People who just talk shit about other bands are more irritating than people who simply think their music is superior.

Slayer sucks, though.

Very well put, and I completely agree.

Thank you. I honestly would be stunned if Miley Cyrus is still a superstar when she turns 21 (I think she's gonna go the way of Hilary Duff), but stranger things have happened, just look at how much longer Britney has lasted than any of us predicted when her first hit came out.

Reign in Blood, South of Heaven and the rifftastic Seasons in the Abyss are all essential metal albums.

Meh'. I took flak from my artsy-fartsy friends for liking The White Stripes five-or-seven years ago. But it doesn't mean much to me. I liked it. Though I don't turn 'em on much, I still like their few albums. But, regardless of my enjoyment, it was labeled 'poser music'. But I just stopped caring. That pretty-much sums up how I feel about musically judgemental folks. Ya' know, I can only be critical for so long before turning cold and not caring.

My snobby music habit - I don't settle for music. There are only five-or-so artists that I [habitiually] listen to. There's Buck 65, Modest Mouse and Sage Francis. Though I revisit them sometimes, Radiohead, Weezer and The White Stripes seem to have fallen off my regular listening list. Ooo ooo ooo I drowned myself with the O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack for a couple years, too. It's been like that for the past ten years. I remember listening to ONLY Beck's Odelay and TONS of movie scores from when I was twelve till I was eighteen (when I became addicted to Modest Mouse ... still an addict seven years later). You won't find any eclectic John-Cusak-High-Fidelity 'best of' lists here. If it's not a worthwhile album, from beginning to end, I don't listen to it - and it quite simply doesn't matter to me.

Some of them deserve to be glorified. Some composers deserve to be forgotten. And vice versa. :)

:up: most people are pretty shocked when they hear how clean and tight Slayer is (despite being a thrash metal band)


saying Slayer sucks should be a ban-able offense....in my opinion

But WHO is to say what is "good" and what's not? It's all a matter of a person's taste.

Somebody wrote "Slayer sucks" and the next poster mentioned 3 Slayer albums that he thought were essential metal albums. Is one of them right and the other wrong?

I HATED Jack Black's character in "High Fidelity". So what if some dude likes Stevie Wonder's "I Just Called To Say I Love You". It's not for Jack Black's character to decide if somebody listens to that or not. I know it was just a character in a movie, but I have come across SO MANY people like that in real life. Just so arrogant about it.

Somebody said something in a previous post about some artists not wanting to express anything artistic. Is that wrong? Does there always have to be some deep meaning behind every lyric and note? Sometimes you just gotta rock out. And I don't think that makes it any better or worse than somebody that is singing about saving the environment or whatever.

Exactly.

And your YouTube isn't working, Bus. :(

True story. Back in 1999, I drove up to Chicago with a buddy of mine for the weekend to hit the annual comic convention. On the way back, he played a mix tape he'd put together of nothing but "Stairway" covers. I was actually grateful to hear the Australian band's version because it had some spark to it.

All true; I hope I didn't come off as trying to insinuate that Waylon wrote the lion's share of his recordings. He did, though, write when he wasn't so coked out of his head he couldn't hold a pen. My thesis is that, because of that songwriting aspect of his artistry, he was therefore able to more convincingly interpret the writings of others when he sang a song he didn't write. Waylon is also interesting because he wasn't afraid to cover songs by artists as diverse as The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and Neil Diamond. Pretty diverse for a country artist, especially at the time.

There's a very, very easy litmus test for that kind of thing.

Take the song and see how someone else sings it:



I'm sure Michael Bublé is a talented singer, and from the ads I saw for his CD during Good Morning America, he must sell well among females 30-and-over. But his rendition of Frank's song is just incomparable.

Agreed, and I think being entertaining can be seen as artistic.

Is there anyone alive comparable to Frank?

To those who abhor current Top 40 pop, are there any exceptions or is there any pop (current) that you like?

My exceptions:

Annie — "Chewing Gum"

(Pop, but not Top 40)

Top 40:

Rihanna — "Disturbia" (except the fucking chorus)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6zdhHLvT7k

Pink — "Feel Good Time" (which is cheating, it's a Beck song)

There are a lot of great singers. But none is as great in the ways Frank was.

You answered correctly. ;)

My problem with Rihanna is that she sounds bored. What's up with that? I do like "Don't Stop The Music."

My liking of Rihanna's song has, in fact, nothing to do with Rihanna. :lol:

Every person's taste is different plain and simple, but can we all agree on one thing? No one, in their right mind, should ever, ever, listen to Paris Hilton.

:)

Yeah, that was pretty good Bus. I like the softer rock, whenever I or somebody else around me listens to the radio it's usually rap, metal, or pop and I really can't stand any of it. Whenever I do turn on the radio I find it easier just to turn the dial to a classic rock station than search for the few modern rock bands that accommodate my tastes. Thanks for the link, I'll listen to more of their stuff. :)

omg!!! Snob!!!! Bbq!!!

I think I'm hypNOtized

For a second assume I'm such an annoying snob that,

1. I've never seen High Fidelity but I've read the book a number of times, and

2. I have a copy of the British first edition (because the text is changed in the American version - to much British slang), signed by the author.

Which character did Jack Black play?