defend the indefensible: Hall and Oates

You may have been more convincing had you compard H&O unfavorably to some other 80s pop artist, but since you just talked about product and inept consumers it leads me to believe that you probably hate pop music in general. An attitude more fitting for RYM boards than ILM.

Compared

i for one welcome our new leader suspecterrain

haha buzza

i think it's great when a time-served member takes a big step out into the limelight

valuable old poster!

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more like

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if you don't like commerce probly best not listen to music...or engage with cultural products at all really

this kind of asinine statement? -- Noodle

the futility of positing binaries like "art" vs "product" -- Lord Sotosyn

You may have been more convincing had you compared H&O unfavorably to some other 80s pop artist, but since you just talked about product and inept consumers it leads me to believe that you probably hate pop music in general. An attitude more fitting for RYM boards than ILM.

for me this kind of thread has always been about rehabilitating artists that are widely considered "indefensible." Obviously many such threads are just heaping abuse on easy targets, but others are a resource for discovering a way into bands you otherwise might not have rated. ― Doctor Casino

jeez u really are a pompous ass

*genuflects*

Pop music in itself is not dis-satisfying, but i tend to feel that it best serves children, the infirm, and neophytes.
Pop music in itself is not dis-satisfying, but i tend to feel that it best serves children, the infirm, and neophytes.
Pop music in itself is not dis-satisfying, but i tend to feel that it best serves children, the infirm, and neophytes.
Pop music in itself is not dis-satisfying, but i tend to feel that it best serves children, the infirm, and neophytes.

suspecterrain can you recommend a city in the us w/ an outlaw country format radio station and the opportunity to 'participate' in a mississippi field holler? also could you tell me how hall and oates and abba work similar terrain? still waiting on that non-formulaic music recommendation also. also, since you've been here ten years apparently, how giddy did you get when you realized today was the day someone finally noticed you? also this: most are only willing to discuss the merits of which topics need to be discussed and not so much on the topic itself - am i looking at actual irony here or is this straight trolling here?

i number myself among the infirm, for the record

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"Pop music in itself is not dis-satisfying, but i tend to feel that it best serves children, the infirm, and neophytes."

also those of ill-breeding and poorly-formed brainpan.

see i was thinking more tom townshend but i think you're right, the tone is taylor nichols

Of course you'd say that Hall and Oates are good. You have the brainpan of a stagecoach tilter.

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"Also, i'm not a pop hater; radio can make any type of music unlistenable if they play it too often; i mean, flip through the dial of your areas classic rock stations and you can pretty much guarantee that you'll find one of a very short list of Zeppelin/Floyd/AD-DC tracks (seriously, does it ALWAYS have to be "Wish You Were Here" and "Money")?"

hahaha thank you so much

i thought neophyte was a scene from The Matrix tbh

Tom Townsend seemed kinda otm. i was thinking about this:

Audrey Rouget: What Jane Austen novels have you read?
Tom Townsend: None. I don't read novels. I prefer good literary criticism. That way you get both the novelists' ideas as well as the critics' thinking. With fiction I can never forget that none of it really happened, that it's all just made up by the author.

well novels at one time were dismissed as the pastime of women and children. dunno about neophytes or the infirm.

Okay what the shit happened here.

And who is suspecterrain really, then? Because even Startrekman is in on the joke.

i am on iphone in taco shop. "i can't go for that" just came on the radio!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

people are dancing on tables

tell us about Lionel Richie, Ned

xpost haha

Love will conquer all.

Lionel Richie is A Man. He sings about things.

and you looooooooooooooove him and you want to maaaarrrrry him

Don't we all. For we are truly in love. With you, Grrl.

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What, you guys getting bored not having Geir to kick around anymore?

we are getting bored not having geir to kick around anymore

i mean he still posts here frequently

is geir back? i thought he'd disappeared...

(loving yr work on this thread btw balls)

Dhrupad chant, Tuvan throat music, Mississippi field hollers, hippie drum circles, essays, poetry, sculpture, painting...... Please clarify; what is the basis for not participating in these mediums as it relates to commercialism?

not how you spell pottery

Lionel Richie's last name has been mangled itt too

I remember the day when I was 15 and Cleveland's Tuvan throat singing FM station announced it was changing formats to all Hall & Oates/Captain & Tenille. Saddest day of my high school life.

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just an hour ago a link to an article regarding Duran and Japan was posted on this thread. The original article is posted here. Original Duran vocalist Stephen Duffy says in regards to "the scene" in 1979 as...

“It was exciting because we started the band at a point before music started repeating itself… since then music has become more or less derivative..."

lol case closed

IN OUR FACE

suspectterrain your whole stance on this issue has been reminding me of a story one of my best friends once told me. he was young & dumb and was working construction for an older guy. at some point, he decided to go on an extended rant about "country music" and how bad it all was and how stupid the people who listened to it were. after he was done, his boss looked at him and said with a mix of pity and scorn "why don't you say the only thing you CAN say about it, which is that YOU don't like it?" your assumptions of objectivitiy itt are particularly jarring coming from somebody who has been around the board for a while. there's a big difference between "I don't like this band and here's why" vs. "all the people who listen to this are stupid."

also, objectivity doesn't exist and I thought that had been common knowledge since the early 90's, get with it.

So the dumped.lead singer of a treading-water Duran sez music is derivative.

you don't appear to have read the entirety of the post; and as for those inbred country posers..... we need to save that for another time:)