Post a controversial music opinion

I started reading ilxor in 2005 and "Is Geir a rockist or a challops addict or a troll or what" was a hot topic then. Geir's been gone a while (how long?) and people are still parsing his opinions. In an odd way, that's an achievement.

Two cheers, then, for Hongrockism?

He was the Yin to Lex’s Yang.

everybody’s got a hongrø heart

his Spotify account
Geir’s a man of catholic tastes - he even has a Blues playlist for you all to follow!

it's a Hongrock life for us
instead of Sweet Leaf, we get Styx

instead of shabooh, we get kick

lmao!!!!!!!!

everybody’s got a hongrø heart

his Spotify account🕸
Geir’s a man of catholic tastes - he even has a Blues playlist for you all to follow!

Lindsey Buckingham isn't fit to shine Christine Perfect's shoes (though the fucker should).

Do you think his guitar playing made her songs worse?

No, but she's played with at least two better guitarists. And I find offensive the idea that she needed Buckingham to polish her songs.

I hereby regret all my posts about Springsteen and Bono on this thread, and some of y'all's about other subjects, but mostly my posts about Springsteen and Bono (which is almost all of my posts). Non-controversial, but there it is.

i can't look them up, but i can guess. what were your controps, and what are your regrets now? in alphabetical order! (jk)

Edge of Seventeen is on an advert in the UK and I'm sorry to say that I now hate it. Never been a big fan, but reducing it to the chorus only has shown me that it is unredeemable. I also have it as an earworm, which is not helping.

I's okay. I flagged you.

cheers

http://i.imgur.com/m97m3pB.jpg

(credit to some dude)

blinding lights > take on me

what's the deal with having to rank things just enjoy music. It's like when password reminders are like "what is tour favorite food?????" jeez i dunno I'm a grownup maybe "pasghetti and meatballs or maybe those dinosaur shaped chikkin nuggs"?????

rankings CAN be fun when you're maybe about to see a band live and your excitement leads you to categorize everything, but I often get stressed out making them otherwise.

post your five favorite songs with slide guitar bite me just wrap my donald duck comics to go frodo

Not you Neander\thal you're cool

PS I am HAMMERED

Good morning!

post your five favorite songs with slide guitar bite me just wrap my donald duck comics to go frodo

― A Pile of Ants (Boring, Maryland),

OTM

i don't know if i find it immature so much as i don't understand the impulse at all, why would anyone want to do that

i also think those kinds of lists are really harmful and destructive.

and very old fashioned.

i could definitely rank my 5 favorite donald duck comics

I like making lists in my mind, and I don't even know why. It's not that I think the lists have much value, it's just the kind of exercise that my brain likes as a thinking prompt.

xp please rank your 5 favorite Donald Duck comics!

Jessie J was better than Adele, even if she too supported Spurs.

Return to Forever is massively underrated, in all their prog rock pomp jazz fusion grandiosity.

prog house is precisely not pompous and grandiose enough, every prog house tune should have a plague of light house keepers as its minimum length with various movements and tempo changes. Instead it's just heterosexual house for indie prog haters extended and made more boring.

stfu

Return to Forever is massively underrated, in all their prog rock pomp jazz fusion grandiosity.

Agree with this. The majority of Chick Corea's catalog after the mid '70s is terrible, he was born without taste, but the classic RTF lineup was amazing.

It's like when password reminders are like "what is tour favorite food?????

subjective security questions! it is a special pet peeve of mine

https://i.imgur.com/r5tAjr9.jpg

these are fucking epic and I would sign up for whatever service required them
maybe a poll?

they're giving me flashbacks to the essay section of the GRE

i have kind of a crazy story about that, the essay portion of the GRE

short version is that i only did one practice essay, from a practice book, within a few days of the test. the question? something about whether indoor smoking should be outlawed in public places. this was the early 2000s, of course. anyway, i did a half-assed practice test essay version of it, and then spent some time time reading the 5.0 answer that was provided.

on my actual GRE, a few days later, what was the essay? of course, the same exact question about smoking and how it should be regulated in public spaces, almost word for word. instead of treating this like the easy alley oop that it was, i freaked out. i spent 20 minutes just staring at it, wondering what to do, worried that somehow if i replicated the 5.0 answer that i had just read a few days later, it would be plagiarism of some sort. i finally started scribbling something when it was way too late and rushed through everything, yeah badumdum after that

I got something like, "Are the events of your life within your control or not? Answer in a five-paragraph essay and cite sources." (I'm not making this up, that was the question, I just don't remember exactly how it was worded.)

Actually they didn't tell me the five-paragraph-essay and sources part, so naturally I wrote a personal essay, which is why I failed the writing section of the GRE, didn't get into grad school, and ended up living in a shack in Alaska.

holy shit, what did you answer? to the "are the events of your life within your control or not?" question!?

jfc just thinking about this is stressing me out

it's like well half of life is just showing up, but, fuck

I don't really remember! I think I did a sort of light, "on the one hand/on the other hand" personal/anecdotal thing, because I really couldn't wrap my head around the idea that the GRE wanted me to take a firm stance on the issue and make my case in five paragraphs.

Isn't Anything is better than Loveless.

I don't think that's an uncommon opinion - controversial or not tbf

Isn’t Anything ISN’T ANYTHING to write home about! Hyuk hyuk, oh that was a good one!

Isn't Anything is better than Loveless.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Wednesday, 10 November 2021

has there been a poll on Isn't Anything vs Loveless? I would also vote for the former.

xpost “prog house is boring music for boring people” is hardly a controversial opinion?

At this point I’m more interested in hearing someone passionately defending it. But to be clear, I am not that person.

i also think those kinds of lists are really harmful and destructive.

explain please

Isn't Anything is better than Loveless.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Wednesday, 10 November 2021

Sunny Sundae Smile is better than both

At this point I’m more interested in hearing someone passionately defending it. But to be clear, I am not that person.
― Siegbran, Wednesday, 10 November 2021

Yes, it's boring because it doesn't live up to its progressive rhetoric. It should be the prog rock of dance music with tempo/key/time signature changes all eventually resolving to an ultimate, grandiose 4/4 at various tempos, but instead its more like the English version of jam bands. just noodling.

Symphonic house, now there's a thought. Does it exist?