Taking another's dislike of your favorite band as a deep personal insult

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nevertheless, i passionately hate Ned for his blatant disregard of Superchunk

The feeling is mutual re: your Buckaroo Banzai loathing. Oh I seethe. *seethes*

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 15:49 (eighteen years ago) link

Come on, I know there's a lotta contrarions around ILM who take it as a COMPLIMENT when someone starts hating on your favourite band! Depending who that person is. I've done it, haven't you?

REally, though, similar questions have been posed before, and my answer is similar: If I was to be offended by everyone who didn't share my exact tastes, I'd have to say bye-bye to a lotta friends/loved ones etc.

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 16:37 (eighteen years ago) link

huzzah, are you the guy i work with?

― huell howser (chaki), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 16:41 (eighteen years ago) link

Calling Morrison a hack does seem like a bit of a CHARGED remark. Obviously, some people think his lyrics are corny. But people could just as easily view Dylan's or John Lennon's lyrics as corny, really. And yet you wouldn't expect people to call them "hacks" because they don't happen to rub people the wrong way as much as Morrison does.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 17:00 (eighteen years ago) link

Taking another's dislike of your favorite band as a deep personal insult
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taking another's love of a band you despise as reason to dismiss them as a human being

How about, Taking another's dislike of your favorite band as reason to dismiss them as a human being. That's more my style. Don't get mad, get dismissive.

― Billy Pilgrim (Billy Pilgrim), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 17:20 (eighteen years ago) link

taking another's love of a band you despise as reason to dismiss them as a human being

I don't know if I'm guilty of "dismissing" anyone as a "human being," but I've certainly lost some respect for people I've met who paid good money for albums by Creed, Alanis Morrisette and Kid Rock.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 17:23 (eighteen years ago) link

"Dismiss" and "human being" are definitely too far, but I was just quoting. My point was (a) I have a hard time seeing myself getting insulted because someone doesn't like a band I like, and (b) I just don't care enough about most other peoples' tastes in music that I feel any need to judge what they do and don't get into. I know what I like, I know who I trust to turn me on to stuff I don't know, and the rest of the world can go do its thing.

― Billy Pilgrim (Billy Pilgrim), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 17:28 (eighteen years ago) link

I fully intend for my attacks on people's favorite bands to be personal insults!

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Tuesday, 13 September 2005 21:56 (eighteen years ago) link

He's gone on to be an enduring legend.

HI DERE!

― Teh Big Bopper (rogermexico), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 22:58 (eighteen years ago) link

HI DERE!

Meaning what? You're a completely out of touche idiot?

― Curioser Still, Wednesday, 14 September 2005 02:59 (eighteen years ago) link

touche

― jimmy glass (electricsound), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 03:10 (eighteen years ago) link

At the risk of sounding hypocritical and disengenous, I do take exception to people shit-talking about a favorite band of mine and getting their facts wrong (i.e. calling them "goths" or whatnot). I don't take it as a "deep personal insult," but it does push my buttons.

-- Alex in NYC (vassife...), September 14th, 2005 1:28 AM. (later)

Someone I know said the first release sounds a bit like the Cure, with more electronics.

Cybergoths?

― Sasha (sgh), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 03:16 (eighteen years ago) link

Meaning what? You're a completely out of touche idiot?

meaning that if J-Mo hadn't made a certain critical career move he would now be haunting the Rainbow, barely tolerated by the staff and hoping for wry fux0rz and tourists to buy him drinks in exchange for the pleasure of smirking at his old-time stories

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 03:20 (eighteen years ago) link

Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones. Calling someone who has by all standards succeeded beyond most people's wildest expectations a "hack" is not just ANY criticism or don't you get that?
-- Huzzah (hu...), September 13th, 2005.

I, too, aspire to be a big fat drug-addled has-been dead dude in a bathtub sometime in the future. Of course, I have always been known to shoot for the stars.

― John Justen (johnjusten), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 04:06 (eighteen years ago) link

and to shoot heroin with the stars

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 04:10 (eighteen years ago) link

He wasn't that fat, really.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 04:10 (eighteen years ago) link

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