The shocking scoop - sometimes black people listen to indie!

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I liked the pseudo-highlife guitar on "Promise of You." Reid is too good to be lumped as a simple shredmatic guitarist.

― Candy: tastes like chicken, if chicken was a candy. (Austin, Still), Sunday, 28 January 2007 01:15 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, that's one of my other favorites. They were a rare example of a band of musicians all of whom could play just about anything and yet managed to briefly create a cohesive and convincing sound.

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Sunday, 28 January 2007 01:17 (seventeen years ago) link

Time's Up is fucking awesome, yes. I saw that tour and it was fucking blinding.

― The Android Cat (Dan Perry), Sunday, 28 January 2007 01:32 (seventeen years ago) link

My first rock show was on that tour - U. Maryland, Lungfish opening. I was eleven or so. I chanted "Elvis is Dead" with everyone, enthusiastic and completely clueless about the implications.

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Sunday, 28 January 2007 01:38 (seventeen years ago) link

"For a long time I was laughed at by both black (and white) people"

This happened to me when I was around 11-12 and wore my Nirvana hoodie to school. But it was nothing malicious, it was from friends.

― Lovelace (Lovelace), Sunday, 28 January 2007 01:44 (seventeen years ago) link

I was eleven or so.

Christ on a stick I feel old now.

― The Android Cat (Dan Perry), Sunday, 28 January 2007 01:48 (seventeen years ago) link

How are those Yohimbe Brothers albums?

― Candy: tastes like chicken, if chicken was a candy. (Austin, Still), Sunday, 28 January 2007 01:54 (seventeen years ago) link

I would've been old enough to drink.

― Candy: tastes like chicken, if chicken was a candy. (Austin, Still), Sunday, 28 January 2007 01:54 (seventeen years ago) link

I just realized that I somehow, despite them being the formative years of my life, managed to make it through the 90s without hearing Nirvana. I probably first heard them about 5 years ago. I know for a fact that I heard every shitty band in their wake, but I was just young enough to have missed them.

― The Reverend Rodney J. Greene sings you a dirge (R. J. Greene), Sunday, 28 January 2007 02:05 (seventeen years ago) link

I got made fun of for listening to Cypress Hill AND for listening to Fugazi.

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Sunday, 28 January 2007 02:08 (seventeen years ago) link

But mostly because I was a giant dork.

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Sunday, 28 January 2007 02:14 (seventeen years ago) link

some things never change

― Wrinklecause for Applause! (Wrinklepaws), Sunday, 28 January 2007 02:17 (seventeen years ago) link

I kind of thought that went without saying on internet message boards.

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Sunday, 28 January 2007 02:18 (seventeen years ago) link

I remember a brief period in 6th grade where kids who liked Nirvana (me) were made fun of by kids who liked Bryan Adams (everyone else)

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Sunday, 28 January 2007 02:42 (seventeen years ago) link

oh god, i wish i wasn't in a library right now. i am using every shred of my being to not LOL.

― mts (theoreticalgirl), Sunday, 28 January 2007 03:17 (seventeen years ago) link

this thread can only get really bad
Don't you want to play "Who's the racist?"
-- R_S (Al__suca...) (webmail), January 27th, 2007. (RSLaRue)
Answer: Mickey.

-- A-ron Hubbard (Hurtingchie...) (webmail), January 27th, 2007. (Hurting)

never forget

― critique de la vie quotidienne (modestmickey), Sunday, 28 January 2007 04:30 (seventeen years ago) link

hurting, am i racist because of that old confession about wanting to have sex with an asian girl, or did something on this thread out me?

it never fails to amaze me how crazy sensitive the ilx political correctness patrol is. not to get all little green footballs on you, but whatever.

― critique de la vie quotidienne (modestmickey), Sunday, 28 January 2007 04:32 (seventeen years ago) link

blipsters have sideways earginas

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Sunday, 28 January 2007 05:41 (seventeen years ago) link

----"I kind of thought that went without saying on internet message boards. "

dude that was dignified as all hell!

― 808 the Bassking (Andrew Thames), Sunday, 28 January 2007 07:48 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah living colour, for all their faults, where fucking amazing live.

it's funny how everyone forgot that they were on the first lollapalooza tour! that's where i saw them. i guess maybe in retrospect they were considered like the "unhip" or "too 80s" band on lollapalooza. but they pretty much blew every band on that bill - inc. jane's - out of the water. they did sailin' on by bad brains and really rocked it.

i don't know if they "blew away" the butthole surfers though...you can't really lose a game yr not playing...gibby was just guzzling whiskey and playing with a vocal efx box and making puking noises into the mic. then he shot a shotgun over the crowd and called everyone "college faggots".

i think i saw a few black people at lollapalooza.

― M@tt He1g3s0n: oh u mad cuz im stylin on u (Matt Helgeson), Sunday, 28 January 2007 15:30 (seventeen years ago) link

"yeah living colour, for all their faults, where fucking amazing live.

but somehow, it doesnt seem 100% correct to lump them in with warrant and poison either. as i recall, they were marketed AS hard rock/heavy metal, but they were also marketed TO the alt-rock crowd. living colour, in an alt-rock situation, didnt seem like that much of a stretch back then.

― Rev. Hoodoo (Rev. Hoodoo), Sunday, 28 January 2007 16:16 (seventeen years ago) link

but somehow, it doesnt seem 100% correct to lump them in with warrant and poison either

Whoa, to me it seems' 0% correct - were they really marketed that way?

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Sunday, 28 January 2007 16:19 (seventeen years ago) link

"but somehow, it doesnt seem 100% correct to lump them in with warrant and poison either"

"Whoa, to me it seems' 0% correct - were they really marketed that way?"

Well, I seem to vaguely remember them turning up in hard-rock magazines...plus, that one person said that Living Colour may have been too hip for the Lollapalooza set, so that was just my way of saying that: "okay, they weren't Soundgarden, but they weren't Warrant either"...

― Rev. Hoodoo (Rev. Hoodoo), Sunday, 28 January 2007 16:51 (seventeen years ago) link

my dad comparing the Veldt to Fishbone and Living Colour, referring to them collectively as "all those guys": classic or dud?

― Bernard Snowy (sixteen sergeants), Sunday, 28 January 2007 18:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Your dad knowing who Veldt, Fishbone and Loving Color are = classic

― Mark (MarkR), Sunday, 28 January 2007 18:46 (seventeen years ago) link

they did sailin' on by bad brains and really rocked it.

They were great with covers! The Biscuits EP was a favorite of mine.

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Sunday, 28 January 2007 18:54 (seventeen years ago) link

"that one person said that Living Colour may have been too hip for the Lollapalooza set"

whoops...that one person implied that Living Colour were UNhip for the alt-rockers, my fault

― Rev. Hoodoo (Rev. Hoodoo), Sunday, 28 January 2007 19:30 (seventeen years ago) link

Robert Fripp loves Living Colour

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Sunday, 28 January 2007 20:18 (seventeen years ago) link

dude when fishbone were on lollapaloozaaaa they were in their super heavy period which i still maintain kicks the shit out of any black metal, girndcore or death metal band. search = servitude!!!!!!!

― chaki (chaki), Sunday, 28 January 2007 21:50 (seventeen years ago) link

i havent read this whole thread but fwiw angelo from fishbone still maintains that mtv and radio didnt play them alot and their album sales sunk cuz they were black and playing rock.

― chaki (chaki), Sunday, 28 January 2007 21:52 (seventeen years ago) link

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― StanM (StanM), Sunday, 28 January 2007 22:45 (seventeen years ago) link

I thought Living Colour were awful live. I liked their first two albums and Biscuits a lot, though. And Vernon Reid's solo album from last year was great.

― pdf (Phil Freeman), Sunday, 28 January 2007 23:20 (seventeen years ago) link

StanM thanks for giving me a new lj icon

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Sunday, 28 January 2007 23:22 (seventeen years ago) link

yah i saw them live a couple times. bad brains and fishbone are SO MUCH better live. i mean the band was great but corey glover is a bad frontman. like !!!.

― chaki (chaki), Monday, 29 January 2007 00:53 (seventeen years ago) link

they should try crispin glover for a few gigs

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Monday, 29 January 2007 01:01 (seventeen years ago) link

i saw living color back in 87 when they played my college. i knew of them thru greg tate in the voice and that whole black rock coalition or whatever they used to call it. they rocked pretty hard, but their records were such disappointments. i mean they obv. had talent but the results were strangely generic. fishbone was soooo much better.

― timmy tannin (pompous), Monday, 29 January 2007 01:08 (seventeen years ago) link

stain or whatever the red album is called is pretty awesome though

― chaki (chaki), Monday, 29 January 2007 01:11 (seventeen years ago) link

Fishbone were mind-roastingly great live. One of the best shows I've ever been to in my life, probably destined to remain Top Ten forever, was Fishbone with an unbilled 2 Live Crew opening up, right after the end of their trial.

― pdf (Phil Freeman), Monday, 29 January 2007 01:19 (seventeen years ago) link

There are a couple black guys in the Ann Arbor indie rock audiences that I went to high school with, and they both get laid like crazy.
I think that on some level, they've made their peace with the concept of "fetishizing the other."

(ps.— Living Colour were my first concert. Candlebox opened and got booed.)

― js (honestengine), Monday, 29 January 2007 01:21 (seventeen years ago) link

The most scary thing is that this is indeed considered a sensation. Why shouldn't black and white people be able to appreciate the same genres of music, regardless of race?

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 29 January 2007 03:49 (seventeen years ago) link

Tee-hee-hee.

― The Reverend Rodney J. Greene in a DIE BLIPSTER SCUM! tee (R. J. Greene), Monday, 29 January 2007 03:52 (seventeen years ago) link

On the other hand, LET THIS THREAD DIE, DAMMIT!

― The Reverend Rodney J. Greene in a DIE BLIPSTER SCUM! tee (R. J. Greene), Monday, 29 January 2007 03:54 (seventeen years ago) link

Kumbaya, Rodney

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Monday, 29 January 2007 06:55 (seventeen years ago) link

a blipster came to my house tonight, no joke! he told me he is a skateboarder!

― critique de la vie quotidienne (modestmickey), Monday, 29 January 2007 07:33 (seventeen years ago) link

Shocked that the thread has gotten this far with no mention of Sound Barrier!

― monny (mltronik), Monday, 29 January 2007 08:17 (seventeen years ago) link

This reminds me of that "Why do rappers talk about Kurt Cobain" so much thread.

Nirvana sold 24 million records in America. Of course black people listen to them! Everyone listens to them!

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Monday, 29 January 2007 08:47 (seventeen years ago) link

if nothing else, this thread is going to make me go see if i can find "stain" at a used CD shop. so success!

― M@tt He1g3s0n: oh u mad cuz im stylin on u (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 29 January 2007 16:49 (seventeen years ago) link

hey have you guys heard of these "wiggers"?

― max (maxreax), Monday, 29 January 2007 17:19 (seventeen years ago) link

So, who else got a personal email [albeit a curt, nasty one] from the author? Raise your hand.

― mts (theoreticalgirl), Monday, 29 January 2007 21:48 (seventeen years ago) link

! Good lord, some writers are touchy.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 29 January 2007 21:50 (seventeen years ago) link

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