Franz Ferdinand totally sucks...

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i don't really think criticism is made for telling people not to like what they like.

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

other people's opinions are no more valid than your own, dee, even if said people are Serious Music People.

oops (Oops), Monday, 23 August 2004 22:38 (nineteen years ago) link

At this point in time Duran Duran is historically a more important and more credible band than Radiohead and I say this as someone who likes Radiohead more than Duran Duran.

VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 23 August 2004 22:44 (nineteen years ago) link

I agree with VDP on all fronts but then again I'm also doped up on cold meds.

Gear! (Gear!), Monday, 23 August 2004 22:49 (nineteen years ago) link


so, are girls going to be hanging pictures of them in their lockers this year? or what? alongside pictures of death cab for cutie and modest mouse and yeah yeah yeahs? right?

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

one month passes...
STILL SUCKING

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

and that's coming from an expert on boring white kids!

M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 19:13 (nineteen years ago) link

I live in their natural habitat!

sometimes i like to pretend i am very small and warm (ex machina), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 19:16 (nineteen years ago) link

fashioncore's Jean Goodall.

M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 19:37 (nineteen years ago) link

More like Franz Turd-in-hand!

=D

Rachel Hella Myles, Tuesday, 12 October 2004 19:37 (nineteen years ago) link

I still like 'em!

Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 19:43 (nineteen years ago) link

FRANZ FERDI-BLAND

sometimes i like to pretend i am very small and warm (ex machina), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 20:11 (nineteen years ago) link

yeah, at least the Boredoms are honest about their name

alfalfa romeo (natepatrin), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 20:36 (nineteen years ago) link

are you fat and do you aspire to get indie girls to like you?

sometimes i like to pretend i am very small and warm (ex machina), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 02:15 (nineteen years ago) link

I dunno. Do you look like an emaciated Quentin Tarantino?

alfalfa romeo (natepatrin), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 05:09 (nineteen years ago) link

ugh this is utter utter crap. rhythm section sounds like something i;d play along with my guitar teacher... fuck this shit.

sometimes i like to pretend i am very small and warm (ex machina), Sunday, 24 October 2004 17:23 (nineteen years ago) link

Write lyrics that interesting and then talk cool kid.

kaiser wilhelm, Sunday, 24 October 2004 18:36 (nineteen years ago) link

So, if you're lonely
You know I'm here
Waiting for you
I'm just a cross-hair;
I'm just a shot away from you

And if you leave here,
You leave me broken
Shattered I lie
I'm just a cross-hair;
I'm just a shot, then we can die

oooh!

I know I won't be leaving here
With you

I say, don't you know?
You say you don't know
I say: take me out

I stay, you don't show
Don't move; time is slow
I say: take me out

I say, you don't know
You say you don't go
I say: take me out


I know I won't be leaving here (with you)
I know I won't be leaving here
I know I won't be leaving here (with you)
I know I won't be leaving here
With you

I say, don't you know?
You say you don't know
I say: take me out

If I move, this could die
Eyes move; this could die
C'mon --
Take me out

I know I won't be leaving here (with you)
I know I won't be leaving here
I know I won't be leaving here (with you)
I know I won't be leaving here
With you

sometimes i like to pretend i am very small and warm (ex machina), Sunday, 24 October 2004 18:41 (nineteen years ago) link

TS: Greek people who write good lyrics and fun dance music vs. spoiled middle class American college kids whose parents fund their lives and who listen to """NOIZE""" whilst consuming drugs and SPARQZ and feeling superior and the world starves

iannis, Sunday, 24 October 2004 18:42 (nineteen years ago) link

iannis OTT but sometimes i like those are lyrics for a GOOD POP SONG. It's only rock & roll son and they do it well. Who's doing it better right now?

kaiser wilhelm, Sunday, 24 October 2004 18:45 (nineteen years ago) link

The Strokes

sometimes i like to pretend i am very small and warm (ex machina), Sunday, 24 October 2004 18:45 (nineteen years ago) link

The Faint

sometimes i like to pretend i am very small and warm (ex machina), Sunday, 24 October 2004 18:46 (nineteen years ago) link

The Rapture

sometimes i like to pretend i am very small and warm (ex machina), Sunday, 24 October 2004 18:46 (nineteen years ago) link

greek?

RJG (RJG), Sunday, 24 October 2004 18:46 (nineteen years ago) link

The Yeah Yeah Mehs

sometimes i like to pretend i am very small and warm (ex machina), Sunday, 24 October 2004 18:46 (nineteen years ago) link

Les Savy Fav

sometimes i like to pretend i am very small and warm (ex machina), 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 18:46 (nineteen years ago) link

Wolf Eyes

sometimes i like to pretend i am very small and warm (ex machina), Sunday, 24 October 2004 18:46 (nineteen years ago) link

Sonic Youth

sometimes i like to pretend i am very small and warm (ex machina), Sunday, 24 October 2004 18:46 (nineteen years ago) link

Oneida

sometimes i like to pretend i am very small and warm (ex machina), Sunday, 24 October 2004 18:46 (nineteen years ago) link

J Mascis

sometimes i like to pretend i am very small and warm (ex machina), Sunday, 24 October 2004 18:46 (nineteen years ago) link

etc

sometimes i like to pretend i am very small and warm (ex machina), Sunday, 24 October 2004 18:47 (nineteen years ago) link

j mascis?

cinniblount (James Blount), Sunday, 24 October 2004 18:47 (nineteen years ago) link

j mascis is so much better than "franz"

sometimes i like to pretend i am very small and warm (ex machina), Sunday, 24 October 2004 18:51 (nineteen years ago) link

BUT THE LYRICS!

cinniblount (James Blount), Sunday, 24 October 2004 18:52 (nineteen years ago) link

Eyes, boring a way through me
Paralyse, controlling completely
Now there is a fire in me
A fire that burns

This fire is out of control
I'm going to burn this city
Burn this city
This fire is out of control
I'm going to burn this city
Burn this city
This fire is out of control
I'm going to burn this city
Burn this city
This fire is out of control
I'm going to burn it, I'll burn it
I, I, I'll burn it down

Eyes, burning a way through me
Overwhelm, destroying so sweetly
Now, there is a fire within me
A fire that burns

This fire is out of control
I'm going to burn this city
Burn this city
This fire is out of control
I'm going to burn this city
Burn this city
This fire is out of control
Then I, I'm out of control
And I burn, I burn
Oh, how I burn

This fire is out of control
I'm going to burn this city
Burn this city...

sometimes i like to pretend i am very small and warm (ex machina), Sunday, 24 October 2004 18:58 (nineteen years ago) link

i can site indie bands and paste lyrics
i can hate on obvious targets
i have so much time on my hands because i don't have to work
i am full of disdain for whatever other people like because i need to feel superior

xpost
Kapranos=Greek
BUT THE LYRICS
"She's a brick house" etc.

sometimes i like to pretend i am insightful, Sunday, 24 October 2004 19:03 (nineteen years ago) link

dude you're kind of obsessed with not liking this band aren't you?

s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 24 October 2004 19:04 (nineteen years ago) link

he's not greek, I think.

isn't his name alex huntley and isn't he, like, 40?

RJG (RJG), Sunday, 24 October 2004 19:06 (nineteen years ago) link

someone has it out for me!

sometimes i like to pretend i am very small and warm (ex machina), Sunday, 24 October 2004 19:06 (nineteen years ago) link

Stonehenge, where the demons dwell
Where the banshees live and they do live well
Stonehenge
Where a man is a man and the children dance to
the pipes of pan
Stonehenge
Tis a magic place where the moon doth rise
With a dragon's face
Stonehenge
Where the virgins lie
And the prayer of devils fill the midnight sky
And you my love, won't you take my hand
We'll go back in time to that mystic land
Where the dew drops cry and the cats meow
I will take you there
I will show you how

sometimes i like to pretend i am very small and warm (ex machina), Sunday, 24 October 2004 19:18 (nineteen years ago) link

don't you have homwork to do?

ilm, Sunday, 24 October 2004 19:23 (nineteen years ago) link

no

sometimes i like to pretend i am very small and warm (ex machina), Sunday, 24 October 2004 19:24 (nineteen years ago) link

more like homowork gahAH!!!@

\(^o^)/ (Adrian Langston), Sunday, 24 October 2004 19:40 (nineteen years ago) link

http://files.loudmusic.dk/covers/daftpunkhomework.jpg

I like Homework better than Franz Ferdinadz

sometimes i like to pretend i am very small and warm (ex machina), Sunday, 24 October 2004 19:42 (nineteen years ago) link

...

u gonna start collecting deep house comps now?

\(^o^)/ (Adrian Langston), Sunday, 24 October 2004 19:45 (nineteen years ago) link

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0000038TG.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

Riot Gear! (Gear!), Sunday, 24 October 2004 20:11 (nineteen years ago) link

i like nelly

sometimes i like to pretend i am very small and warm (ex machina), Sunday, 24 October 2004 20:15 (nineteen years ago) link


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