― Porkpie (porkpie), Sunday, 22 August 2004 20:48 (nineteen years ago) link
I'm not talking about the "general population", though -- I'm talking Serious Music People, whom I'd always kinda hoped I'd end up being considered one of, but also always seem to be out of step with.
― Many Coloured Halo (Dee the Lurker), Monday, 23 August 2004 03:21 (nineteen years ago) link
― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Monday, 23 August 2004 04:23 (nineteen years ago) link
Uh, sure. If you want to call that lukewarm, tepid, "Eh, they're sorta okay-ish" or "I like two or three songs of theirs" or "They're, like, really, really, really simple, but I like them anyway" sort of "liking" that.
Really, Franz Ferdinand will probably be passionately extolled in some futuristic version of ILX eleven years down the line, when I'll be onto another group people will think is horribly derivative or overly simple or something. It'll be destiny.
― Many Coloured Halo (Dee the Lurker), Monday, 23 August 2004 05:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― RJG (RJG), Monday, 23 August 2004 05:34 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 23 August 2004 14:03 (nineteen years ago) link
If they do sound like The Strokes, it's the version of The Strokes that's engaged with the song they're currently playing and displaying a pulse (which I'm sure The Strokes do from time to time, it's just that I've never seen/heard it).
― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 23 August 2004 15:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― jess (dubplatestyle), Monday, 23 August 2004 15:06 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 23 August 2004 15:09 (nineteen years ago) link
― jess (dubplatestyle), Monday, 23 August 2004 15:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 23 August 2004 15:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― amateur!!st, Monday, 23 August 2004 16:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― woe is me - NOT, Monday, 23 August 2004 16:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― amateur!!st, Monday, 23 August 2004 16:17 (nineteen years ago) link
I suppose not NOW, but historically I've been made to feel like there's something wrong with me for taking seriously certain musical artists, so please forgive me as I try to make the necessary adjustments.
i like the strokes and what i've heard of f.f. some of the negative reactions are interesting, some may even take root eventually, but it doesn't change the fact that i like them. dee, i think you need to be more secure in your tastes while happily acknowledging and even digesting some criticism of your faves. the alternative makes for depression or, even worse, glibness.
You do make really good points there. I suppose I'm just so weary of getting heavy amounts of grief for what I love most musically and feeling more than a measure of loneliness re: not being able to find people to share my biggest musical passions with on an intellectual level that I just end up in a pile of despair.
*sighs* It would be SO EASY if I were a Radiohead fan or a Beatles fan, for example. But I'm not, and I never will be. But okay, I'll try to be more secure about what I love, and I'll try to continue nurturing my FF fanhood at the same time as I try out other "new music" artists, and I'll try to absorb the criticism better.
― Many Coloured Halo (Dee the Lurker), Monday, 23 August 2004 22:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― oops (Oops), Monday, 23 August 2004 22:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 23 August 2004 22:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― Gear! (Gear!), Monday, 23 August 2004 22:49 (nineteen years ago) link
do they still make those teenbeat things?
if so, are they still restricted to gwen stefani stock photos?
― reo, Monday, 23 August 2004 23:03 (nineteen years ago) link
FAVORITE TSHIRT OF BORING WHITE KIDS AT FRAT PARTIES:
http://www.banchoryshop.net/images/franztour.jpg
― sometimes i like to pretend i am very small and warm (ex machina), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 19:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 19:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― sometimes i like to pretend i am very small and warm (ex machina), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 19:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 19:37 (nineteen years ago) link
=D
― Rachel Hella Myles, Tuesday, 12 October 2004 19:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 19:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― sometimes i like to pretend i am very small and warm (ex machina), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 20:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― alfalfa romeo (natepatrin), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 20:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― sometimes i like to pretend i am very small and warm (ex machina), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 02:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 02:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 02:30 (nineteen years ago) link
― alfalfa romeo (natepatrin), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 05:09 (nineteen years ago) link
― sometimes i like to pretend i am very small and warm (ex machina), Sunday, 24 October 2004 17:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― kaiser wilhelm, Sunday, 24 October 2004 18:36 (nineteen years ago) link
So, if you're lonelyYou know I'm hereWaiting for youI'm just a cross-hair;I'm just a shot away from you
And if you leave here,You leave me brokenShattered I lieI'm just a cross-hair;I'm just a shot, then we can die
oooh!
I know I won't be leaving hereWith you
I say, don't you know?You say you don't knowI say: take me out
I stay, you don't showDon't move; time is slowI say: take me out
I say, you don't knowYou say you don't goI say: take me out
I know I won't be leaving here (with you)I know I won't be leaving hereI know I won't be leaving here (with you)I know I won't be leaving hereWith you
If I move, this could dieEyes move; this could dieC'mon --Take me out
― sometimes i like to pretend i am very small and warm (ex machina), Sunday, 24 October 2004 18:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― iannis, Sunday, 24 October 2004 18:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― kaiser wilhelm, Sunday, 24 October 2004 18:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― sometimes i like to pretend i am very small and warm (ex machina), Sunday, 24 October 2004 18:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― sometimes i like to pretend i am very small and warm (ex machina), Sunday, 24 October 2004 18:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 24 October 2004 18:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― sometimes i like to pretend i am very small and warm (ex machina), Sunday, 24 October 2004 18:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― cinniblount (James Blount), Sunday, 24 October 2004 18:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― sometimes i like to pretend i am very small and warm (ex machina), Sunday, 24 October 2004 18:51 (nineteen years ago) link