Music

[Katrin]

u said you like country. Now ur going back, retard. I bet ur rock is either the boring 70's rock or pretty boy rock though, nothing cool. How can you possibly not like rap?

are you kidding? how can I possibly not like rap? Because it's sort of weak. It's like those old barber shop quartets that sang without music. Lyrics without music is not music. I mean, it does have rythm, etc but it just doesn't measure up to real music --with sounds.

it's OK sometimes on a movie soundtrack but in general, it's boring. The same thing over and over.

I slapped my bitch and shot my neighbor!
I doesn't pay taxes and I hate my teacher!
When I flys down the skreet I gits no disrespeck!
cause everybody no I am the smoothin prezident!
break down! hoo hoo! hoo hoo! hoo hoo!

I aint my baby daddy. i tol dat bitch to swallow!
when the man says get a job u knows I don't gotta follow!

Oh my god that was funny! "Smoothin prezident!" Why the hell do they all talk like that... it doesn't sound cool, it just makes them sound stupid and delusional! To be honest, that pretty much sums up rap. Try and find a rap song that doesn't involve violence, drugs or any sort of crime to some extent... the whole genre is for thugs. Perhaps Changes by Tupac may have some real meaning to it but few other rap songs do.

Remember... you can't spell crap without rap!

[SportsGuy92]

This is the music I like:

-Classic rock (like Led Zeppelin, AC/DC, Bruce Springsteen, Rolling Stones, ZZ Top, Queen, The Who, Van Halen, Guns N' Roses)

-90's alternative rock (like Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Smashing Pumpkins, Third Eye Blind, 311, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Incubus)

-Some punk and pop punk (Blink-182, Sum 41, Green Day, Ramones, The Clash, Rancid)

-Some metal (like Metallica, Pantera, System of a Down), but not death metal or anything like that where the point is just to be as loud as possible

-Some "emo" bands are pretty good (Taking Back Sunday, Fall Out Boy, Brand New, Thursday, The Academy Is...) but most of them suck

-I like most rap except for stupid pop rap, especially when there is a dance that goes with the song (like Soulja Boy and Stanky Leg, etc.)

In general I don't like country, boy bands or any other type of crap pop music, and most emo and screamo bands especially the new ones that try to mix emo and rap.

[SportsGuy92]

-Some "emo" bands are pretty good (Taking Back Sunday, Fall Out Boy, Brand New, Thursday, The Academy Is...) but most of them suck

I forgot Say Anything. Say Anything is fucking awesome.

[SportsGuy92]

Another kind of music I forgot is acoustic based jam kind of binds, like Dave Matthews Band, O.A.R, and Guster.

[Sergey]

I do not know.

[Katrin]

Good to see you favour some of the good old classic rock, SportsGuy92. Some of the bands you listed are favourites of mine, like Queen. You don't appear to be a typical jock showoff idiot who only likes what's "cool" or "in" and it is good to see you and Polite24 appreciate the classics and listen to decent music. Good to know that some jocks have decent taste in music. Samdaman has openly called 70's rock crap so I'd never trust him to recommend a fucking decent song! What an A-hole.

[SportsGuy92]

How did I forget about Sublime, they are probably my favorite 90's band. And as far as metal goes, I also like Disturbed. Keep in mind I was just thinking of the first bands that came to mind.

[The Imperialist]

I copied this from the forum topic about pop music sucks: (Just to let people know that classical music is God or whatever your supreme being-type is):

Pop music is rubbish because:

a) Same bloody bass line.

b) Even if it is not good, it is too repetitive. (Marshal music, on the other hand, is repetitive, but the chord progression is different so makes it interesting, and you can march to it)

c) Even if people may consider good, the repetitiveness is essentially brainwashing- no difference in recordings (as there is only one) unlike classical music, and the repetitiveness is essentially the same thing said over, over, OVER again until you get it. (Knowing this fact, makes me think that either avid pop music listeners are stupid, or they have been brainwashed by the music and their peers to be pop music listeners)

d) Over reliance on electronics. (Singers who cannot even sing, can always rely on autotune. Oh woes)

e) It sounds cheap.

f) It is cheap.

g) Lyrics are a bit... stupid. (British understatement to the maximum)

h) Too interested in physical appearance than the actual metaphysical nature of music. (I still hate their stupid 'fashion')

i) Before you say 'Oh Jazz fits your above description of postive aspects of other music, but Jazz is pop', no it isn't. I respect Jazz for the fact that it is a self changing music, but the basic elements of Jazz does not interest me.

j) Pop enthusiasts look down on classical music, and I hate them for it. I have every reason to look down upon pop music, while pop music have every reason to look up to classical music. This is because without basic musical theory, pop music just wont exist, and there are more skill involved in the creation of classical music than pop coming up with some 'good melody' (AAAAAHHH HAHAHAHAHAHAHA) and adding some really childish chord (or progression if it even exists)

k) Pop music is for the so called 'cool' crowd, and it is one of their banner in which they assemble to.

l) Pop music is 'pop' and 'of the time'. Therefore, there are no real artistic connection from one generation to the other. It is slave to the time, and the slaves themselves make the next trend, and it is an endless cycle.

[Safety]

You don't appear to be a typical jock showoff idiot who only likes what's "cool" or "in" and it is good to see you and Polite24 appreciate the classics and listen to decent music.

I doubt more than 10% of sports fans are like that. I listen to all kinds of music. I don't have a favorite band, I always move from one band to the other. Right now I'm listening to a lot of August Burns Red, Avenged Sevenfold (Nightmare), and Lady Gaga. I've also been listening to quite a bit of funk music lately, ha ha.

[i_like_1981]

Pop music is rubbish because:

g) Lyrics are a bit... stupid. (British understatement to the maximum)

h) Too interested in physical appearance than the actual metaphysical nature of music. (I still hate their stupid 'fashion')

j) Pop enthusiasts look down on classical music, and I hate them for it. I have every reason to look down upon pop music, while pop music have every reason to look up to classical music. This is because without basic musical theory, pop music just wont exist, and there are more skill involved in the creation of classical music than pop coming up with some 'good melody' (AAAAAHHH HAHAHAHAHAHAHA) and adding some really childish chord (or progression if it even exists)

k) Pop music is for the so called 'cool' crowd, and it is one of their banner in which they assemble to.

Excellent list there, Imperialist. Why could I not have made a list to describe the reasons why I have little respect for modern popular music? Nonetheless, you've beaten me to it, and I feel inclined to respond to your list and pick out the points I generally most agree with. Especially h) and j). There have always been songs that people have assembled to and selected as somewhat of their anthem, and that holds true for just about all music released over the past 50-60 years. There have always been popular songs, and with songs like Bohemian Rhapsody, it's easy to see why people assemble to them and sing praise for them. There are classics out there, and even though I won't listen to them as they're from after 1989, the most recent year my music tastes will accommodate, there are some modern songs that I would not badmouth and hold some regard for. Some songs just stand out above the rest. But j) is a good point. Many modern people have little regard for the classics which they disregard as being dull, naff or square. We still need to acknowledge the past of music as the modern music charts today took off more than 50 years ago now, well before my time, and the kids today owe all their fancy synthesisers and electropop to technology that was developed and put into commercial practice during the 1970's and 1980's. And yes, I do agree that music is too commercialised today and more effort and money goes into creating fancy videos and hosting overglorified concerts than actually creating good music that will be remembered and still sung along to in 30 or even 40 years from now. I begin to go off 80's popular music after about 1988 as that was when boy bands and rap did start to take off and the bridge to today's garbage started. Oh well, I guess music is all about personal tastes, really. What's garbage and what's excellent is all a matter of personal opinion really, and what the majority wants to hear. People like Avril Lavigne certainly don't float my boat but if they're making millions doing what they do, why should they stop?

Best regards,
i_like_1981

800 POSTS! THIS GUY DON'T MESS AROUND!

[The Imperialist]

Thank you.

But then, it is 'pop'. It is populist, and for good reason. (This then follows the maxim, being popular doesn't make it right)

Pop music can never, ever reach classical, because classical music is an eternal art form, where its art (and SKILLS, not only enthuthiasts) is passed down the generation (therefore, will have the last laugh) while pop music never will go away from the 'present', and carry itself to the future.

[HugeFanOfBadReligion]

One big thing that I've noticed about all pop artists is that they are all just a brief trend, and for a few years, they'll have some of the largest fanbases in the world (even if they consist mainly of immature pre-teen females), but after a couple years, nobody cares about them at all. With real music, they'll have a devoted fan base for decades, sometimes even centuries. A pop artist's fan base both grows and decreases exponentially, and I believe this is because their fan base depends on popular teens, and when those popular teens get a bit tired of that so-called artist, it's no longer "cool" to listen to the artist and no one listens to the artist any more, so they have no fan base.

[Safety]

Meh. I like pop.

[The Imperialist]

I think there is a big difference between a 'cool' person and a 'popular person', but I am going off topic (and this is the off topic forum! Haaahaaa hee hee choke choke. Ahem).

I agree with you HFBR (HugeFanofBadReligion) that pop music is dependent on the 'trend'. Pop music is actually similar to totalitarian music (and that is an insult on totalitarian music, as some of them are just... glorious- see Alexandrov Ensemble a.k.a Red Army Choir and you will know what I mean) in the fact that it is constantly repeating a theme until even the most retarded will understand. The big difference is that totalitarian music is also an art form in itself serving a direct purpose.

Pop music's readon d'etre is money, and undeserved fame. The fact that pop musicians aren't exactly musicians make me angry. They have a separate lyricist and composer doing all their work, while they get all the compliments. Where have we heard that before involving jocks and nerds?