I don't care if it is an orgy of death, there's still such a thing as a napkin.

Willow ,'Lies My Parents Told Me'


Buffista Music II: Wrath of Chaka Khan  

There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.


tommyrot - Jul 02, 2004 9:19:31 am PDT #3606 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

There isn't a single person in this thread who, when all is said and done, will have taught more than s/he's learned here. IM(not so)HO.

IM(not so)HO? You arrogant bastard!

Kidding. ITA with your post.


tina f. - Jul 02, 2004 9:21:51 am PDT #3607 of 10003

Yet a lot of the very, very musically literate people here aren't familiar with this stuff. Why? Because the world of music IS VAST. Even if you have "big ears" (musicianspeak for wide-ranging, open-minded taste) you can only get to know little bits of it.

There isn't a single person in this thread who, when all is said and done, will have taught more than s/he's learned here. IM(not so)HO.

Nothing to add other than - yes, this.

Thinking about this discussion, I keep thinking of when we tried to pick the One True Music Thread Artist. The one pick no one could disagree on was Al Green. Not so much the obscure elitist choice. But my favorite part of that discussion was the dissing of all the cannonical artists (which included some my favoritest bands ever). Because funny.

eta:

Damnit! I just realized I missed Jon's show this morning for the 20th Anniv. Pt. II. Are you going to archive it like you did the last one, Jon?


Kate P. - Jul 02, 2004 9:27:47 am PDT #3608 of 10003
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love

Hey, did we actually agree on Al Green? I missed that.

I just wanted to say that I really love all the wide-ranging discussions of various kinds of music that we have in here. I learn a lot from you folks.


Fred Pete - Jul 02, 2004 9:29:29 am PDT #3609 of 10003
Ann, that's a ferret.

Hey, did we actually agree on Al Green? I missed that.

I think we did it by lowering the bar from "everybody likes" to "nobody really dislikes."


Lyra Jane - Jul 02, 2004 9:32:31 am PDT #3610 of 10003
Up with the sun

There's nothing on my list that's particularly obscure. Other than the jazz albums, basically everything in the first twenty albums was not only a hit but a big hit.

Which, perversely, is probably why I don't own much of it. Tell me Big Star is great, and I'll go find a CD, because I haven't heard them and they sound interesting. Tell me an individual Rolling Stones album is great, I'm inclined to say "Yeah, I heard some songs from it on the radio" or "Yeah, I have their greatest hits." I know in theory I should buy the albums anyhow, but there's so much NEW music all the time that using my limited CD budget to buy 30-year-old albums where I already own some songs seems somewhere between pointless and eat-your-vegetables-ish.

I have no idea if this makes sense outside my head, but there it is.

Because the world of music IS VAST. Even if you have "big ears" (musicianspeak for wide-ranging, open-minded taste) you can only get to know little bits of it

It's amazing. I participated in a CD exchange on LiveJpournal a while back. Of the five CDs I got, there were two where I had never heard a single song. And they all sounded like relatively accessible bands.

I learn a tremendous amount from this thread.


tina f. - Jul 02, 2004 9:32:32 am PDT #3611 of 10003

I think we did it by lowering the bar from "everybody likes" to "nobody really dislikes."

Yup. He was the de facto choice because he did not garner a diss.


msbelle - Jul 02, 2004 9:37:23 am PDT #3612 of 10003
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

You don't own Zep IV?! COMMUNIST!

yeah, I'm not large with the Zep love. As I've discussed with DX a bit, 70's rock stuff generally missed me. I do have Aerosmith love, but that's a different thing, isn't it?


Jon B. - Jul 02, 2004 9:38:22 am PDT #3613 of 10003
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

Damnit! I just realized I missed Jon's show this morning for the 20th Anniv. Pt. II. Are you going to archive it like you did the last one, Jon?

The server was down so you couldn't have listened even if you'd remembered (unless you beamed to Boston). No worries though! I do plan to archive it over the weekend. I'll post here when it's up.

I don't recognize 90% of the bands Jon talks about

Joe, you ignorant slut!


DXMachina - Jul 02, 2004 9:40:34 am PDT #3614 of 10003
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

Not a big Zep fan, either. Dislike most of the songs (except "Livin' Lovin' Maid"), and Plant's voice is like fingernails on a blackboard for me.


Sue - Jul 02, 2004 9:47:44 am PDT #3615 of 10003
hip deep in pie

I always think I don't know Led Zepplin, but I have never failed to recognize their songs when played for me. I think having the room next to my brother is why. (And why I know far too much about the work of Rush, Syx, Cheap Trick, Kiss and Supertramp.)