well, as long as you also dislike fugazi
my reaction to the 'four years prostrate' line has always been 'in your case, it was probably at least six'.
it is a terrible line, but they went to Emory. where did you go?
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 17 September 2004 16:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 17 September 2004 16:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― shookout (shookout), Friday, 17 September 2004 16:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― peter smith (plsmith), Friday, 17 September 2004 16:35 (nineteen years ago) link
i don't like prejudice against music/artists that are earnest and/or explicitly political, even if the music isn't good.Okay, it's official, if gabbneb ever disses U2, Bruce Springsteen or the Clash, we have to remind him of this post.
― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Friday, 17 September 2004 16:38 (nineteen years ago) link
Like you were implying I'm a sexist pig of something.
I'm talking about everyone here, and saying that I think there's a gender dimension, because these artists are being criticized for qualities that male artists are less criticized for.
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 17 September 2004 16:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Friday, 17 September 2004 16:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― amateur!!st, Friday, 17 September 2004 16:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 17 September 2004 16:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― amateur!!st, Friday, 17 September 2004 17:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― amateur!!ST, Friday, 17 September 2004 17:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 17 September 2004 17:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Friday, 17 September 2004 17:09 (nineteen years ago) link
― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Friday, 17 September 2004 17:12 (nineteen years ago) link
ok, poorly worded - this was supposed to be an opposition
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 17 September 2004 17:17 (nineteen years ago) link
Wasn't there a rather cool early-90s hip-hop song that sampled "What I Am"?
― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Friday, 17 September 2004 17:22 (nineteen years ago) link
― amateur!!st, Friday, 17 September 2004 17:22 (nineteen years ago) link
No, that'd be that obvious answer, but it wasn't either of them.
― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Friday, 17 September 2004 17:34 (nineteen years ago) link
And as for Natalie Merchant, I fucking HATE her, not only for her insipid music but also for her idiotic remarks back in '86, when she expressed genuine dread that R.E.M., because they were working with Don Gehman, J.C. Mellencamp's producer, were making a "heavy metal album!" Like, huh?!?! What an idiot - she's exactly the kind of person who woulda burst into heartbroken tears at the sight of Bob Dylan's Stratocaster at Newport in '65! 10000 Maniacs and one lunatic.
― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Friday, 17 September 2004 17:39 (nineteen years ago) link
― JaXoN (JasonD), Friday, 17 September 2004 17:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Friday, 17 September 2004 17:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― kephm, Friday, 17 September 2004 17:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Friday, 17 September 2004 18:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Friday, 17 September 2004 18:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 17 September 2004 18:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Friday, 17 September 2004 18:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Friday, 17 September 2004 18:30 (nineteen years ago) link
It was a Dan Perry kind of post
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 17 September 2004 18:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Evil One (Dan Perry), Friday, 17 September 2004 18:32 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Friday, 17 September 2004 18:33 (nineteen years ago) link
That's the one - thank you!
― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Friday, 17 September 2004 18:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― peter smith (plsmith), Friday, 17 September 2004 18:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― frankE (frankE), Friday, 17 September 2004 18:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― shookout (shookout), Friday, 17 September 2004 18:56 (nineteen years ago) link
ok, this makes me hate them
― amateur!!st, Friday, 17 September 2004 18:57 (nineteen years ago) link
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― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 17 September 2004 19:24 (nineteen years ago) link
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― amateur!!st, Friday, 17 September 2004 19:30 (nineteen years ago) link
― amateur!!st, Friday, 17 September 2004 19:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― amateur!!st, Friday, 17 September 2004 19:32 (nineteen years ago) link
there's logic to this. I'd totally listen to an Indigo Girls CD-R comp made by somebody who I knew had taste and access to their rather huge discography).
― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 17 September 2004 19:33 (nineteen years ago) link
― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 17 September 2004 19:36 (nineteen years ago) link
I was referring to this...
now that i'm about a decade removed from those AWFUL AWFUL GIRLS at my highs chool who loved the indigo girls so much
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 17 September 2004 19:39 (nineteen years ago) link
― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 17 September 2004 19:40 (nineteen years ago) link
― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 17 September 2004 19:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Friday, 17 September 2004 19:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Friday, 17 September 2004 19:45 (nineteen years ago) link
haha true story: I only know "Closer to Fine" because K@hleen Edwards, who was then in my chemistry and world issues classes, used to play it all the time at high school coffeehouses. An early stepping-stone on her route to fame!
I still hear "What I Am" in pubs sometimes. I really don't like the lyrics, which do strike me as pretty blatantly anti-intellectual and in a gratingly smug and corny way, and I don't find the music at all interesting or appealing enough to overcome this. I can tune out lyrics but the music doesn't do much for me.
― sundar subramanian (sundar), Friday, 17 September 2004 19:49 (nineteen years ago) link