Music Nazis!
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19 Jul 2007, 09:34
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I thought I'd post this too, let's see if you see anything of yourself!
If there's one thing I hate, it's a music Nazi.
Someone who, above all things, loves music: they live, breath and eat it. It's the first, last, and generally only conversation point they ever become engaged in, if it's not about the newest Raging potato fuckers album then they stare out blankly, humming the tune in their minds eye. They refuse to accept that musical taste is a subjective quantity, no, to them music exists in a plane beyond our understand, with their particular genre rising above the rest, throwing its jaundice melody out into the neverending abyss of nothingness which is the musical realm. These people generally form second rate bands, in the hope of participating in the thing which they love most: sadly, they spend little time actually practising, preffering instead to mentally juggle their artistic influences, writing out an autobiography and quoting artists who have inspired them - Their eye for research is untouchable, but they lack any discernable talent.
These people, in general, spend every waking moment refreshing ticket office pages and begging on streets to get money for concert tickets - Of course, not being without their addiction, they listen intently to their 2nd generation oldsk00l ipods, bopping to it's sombre serotonin releasing tunes.They frequent sites such as last.fm, where their main intention is to brag, to whomever will listen, about how they "discovered" a band: discover is what they mean, as if the mighty seas of the internet rocked their boat and ravished their crew, until finally they landed upon the shores of the band, took out their flag, and proclaimed triumphantly of their discovery. Once a band becomes too popular, they claim that they have lost their way, that they music has become stale, or any other myriad complaints: they need, so desperately, to feel unique, that they will discard anything that other people enjoy.
Anyway, i'll probably write more about these people eventually. If you're one of them, I apologise profusely for your shortcomings, and hope that they develop with great haste a cure for retardedness.
If there's one thing I hate, it's a music Nazi.
Someone who, above all things, loves music: they live, breath and eat it. It's the first, last, and generally only conversation point they ever become engaged in, if it's not about the newest Raging potato fuckers album then they stare out blankly, humming the tune in their minds eye. They refuse to accept that musical taste is a subjective quantity, no, to them music exists in a plane beyond our understand, with their particular genre rising above the rest, throwing its jaundice melody out into the neverending abyss of nothingness which is the musical realm. These people generally form second rate bands, in the hope of participating in the thing which they love most: sadly, they spend little time actually practising, preffering instead to mentally juggle their artistic influences, writing out an autobiography and quoting artists who have inspired them - Their eye for research is untouchable, but they lack any discernable talent.
These people, in general, spend every waking moment refreshing ticket office pages and begging on streets to get money for concert tickets - Of course, not being without their addiction, they listen intently to their 2nd generation oldsk00l ipods, bopping to it's sombre serotonin releasing tunes.They frequent sites such as last.fm, where their main intention is to brag, to whomever will listen, about how they "discovered" a band: discover is what they mean, as if the mighty seas of the internet rocked their boat and ravished their crew, until finally they landed upon the shores of the band, took out their flag, and proclaimed triumphantly of their discovery. Once a band becomes too popular, they claim that they have lost their way, that they music has become stale, or any other myriad complaints: they need, so desperately, to feel unique, that they will discard anything that other people enjoy.
Anyway, i'll probably write more about these people eventually. If you're one of them, I apologise profusely for your shortcomings, and hope that they develop with great haste a cure for retardedness.
EDIT: Actually, it was near 10a.m, you need to set your clock.
You should just stop caring at the hour you get up or go to sleep, just do it when you want :)
My vision of hell is more like having to get up every day at the same hour, after less than 7 hours of sleep.
So tell your friend she's a Sleeping-lenght nazi.
pls...
btw you write too much!
third journal about umm, a topic that hasnt been touched yet here at crossfire.. umm... cheaters?
natzi :~<
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The true choice.
now that makes sense big time
maybe the 'black metal' genre's name is just tribute to these african tribes which gave white men these beautiful instruments
Perhaps you could point out where that was actually said, or even alluded to?
Did you even read the article?
Why do you have an 'Aryan Black Metal' logo in your profile? What is 'National Socialist Black Metal'? Both terms are huge contradictions, I'm guessing you've overlooked that though, in your attempt at being rebelious.
Band named SUMMONING trying to clear their name after people calling them evil nazis in youtube ?
oh please
So 'summoning' decides to write page full of crap and make a term/genre NSBM disappear from the world instead of just stating "our political views aren't national socialist"
but cant consider it being a negative thing, your description is shallow
music 8 days a week \m/
Shallow, in what way?
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beaten by kids
"I liked them before they were mainstream!"
Take Green Day for example. I never liked them, but at least i liked them better before they went übercommercial, or "mainstream" if you please. Why?
Because their music changed, in a bad way. I have no problems with bands changing their style, actually i really like it, but when they change it to "please the market", or to sell as many records as possible it defeats the purpose of making music. "American Idiot" is a perfect example of an album that was obviously only made to sell, not to actually be good.
You see what i mean? It's not because "omg now everybody likes them, then i have to hate them", it's because the music actually goes really crappy when there's too much money involved in it.
Edit: Ofcourse there are retards that are image-only. But they're retards.
The point when liberal minded singers start singing songs like "Let's roll"(Neil young, anyone?) about war being something else than the most mindless thing in the world, they've lost it. Not when their sounds get polished up...
It's just so normal that when a punk-band gets fame and enough money to eat and get proper gear, they're sound changes. I think the mainstream-hate has gone too fucking far, that's all. Not on green day, I can understand the hate in this case, even I think it shows lack of loyalty. But people pull things out of their asses and use them as arguments. I have read stupid shit like "The Casualties fucking sucks, I've heard that they have hairdressers!" and "Man, The Unseen have sold out, how can they afford to make a video like this", the video was filmed by their friend and all the people in it were friends too. Shit like this makes my puke boil, why must there always be hate, and if you don't think one band is cool anymore, just live with it, don't listen to it, but hating is useless. And people hate Anti-Flag because they can hear their songs on the radio, and in the USA I guess on MTV sometimes... It's rather funny, they think they're image of this underground band only they know is more important than the fact, that A-F's message is being heard by others than the already-punks. Kinda self-centered.
Sex Pistols and The Clash were both on major labels ;)
I'm not much of a green day fan either, so i shouldn't really say too much. I just used them as an example, they were the first thing that popped up on my mind.
About sound, that's not what it's about. I am a self-proclaimed experienced guitarist myself so i know that more expensive equipment = different sound. But that's not what i was pointing at.
About the rest, i'm not a punkhead so i don't feel able to comment on that.
I myself am a bass player and I listen to many different genres of electronic music, punk, indierock("It's not a genre!"), etc.etc. and it would take so much energy for me to keep posing and trying to keep a list of "true" bands and artists which I'm allowed to listen to, so I've decided to fuck all that posing shit and listen to what I like :P When I play bass, my style is very funky, so I'm definitely not a "true punkhead", even I like to think that it's about what you think, not what you look like or listen to.
Capitalism is the ultimate democracy, you vote with your money: if something appeals to people they will buy it. Now, it depends whether or you subscribe, in subjective matters, to the doctrine that mass acceptance makes something good, my guess is like most humans, you do, although you might be more selective about who constitutes your mass; anyway, if it is so, then making an album to sell and making a good album are one in the same.
My two underlying criterias for selecting music are these:
* Do i understand it?
* Is there enough depth in it to be worth listening to?
It's not genre-bound, artist-bound, or "made-for-money"-bound. It's just that the music that's made for making money usually don't have the depth i'm seeking. Or it could just be that i don't understand it. And i'm aware that this is a generalization. I can find myself listening to bands like Coldplay, and i have no problem with them being mainstream. But they have music i like.
So it's not because i indoctrinated myself to hate anything that remotely approaches the mainstream.
My point was that drum and base is not the only genre that is named after objects.
good band.
:-P
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