What Is Rockism ?

*Think you got

sorry, I'm hungover

A love hangover for Geiry-boy.

Geir of the dog

Geirsy would never let one of these "outside people" decide his musical style.

Worst and most unlistenable genres/eras ever:
1. 12 tone music (1920-1940)
2. Hip-Hop (1979-present)
3. Funk/disco (late 60s-around 1980)
4. "Contemporary R&B" (Early 90s - present)
5. Bop (1940s)

-- Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 24 April 2003 08:09 (4 years ago)

Goddamn, Martian stole my record collection in 1989.

holmes is on point re. 12-tone.

It's no 2-tone, that's fer sure.

Is it six times better?

Worst bands ever:

1 Oasis
2 Kula Shaker
3 Oasis
4 Kula Shaker
5 Oasis
6 Kula Shaker
7 Oasis
8 Kula shaker
9 Oasis
10 Skrewdriver

I am weary and my brain is malfunctioning and WHY HAS THIS THREAD NOT BEEN HURLED INTO SPACE

11 Mansun

THEY CAN GO TOO

why does this feel like a Friday

12 Oasis

13. Tupac

14. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah (ask yer dad)

15 Tupac Shaker

16 Oasis

I hate Pink for her fake "real-ness" but I love Rachel Stevens for her real fakeness. Does this make me a Rockist?

everything's a joke now guys, so just chill ;)

What is Really Real?

Vic Stenger

"Reality Check" in Skeptical Briefs September, 2003

Since I have been writing a column called "Reality Check" for several years now, perhaps it is time for me to say what I think is really real. The best definition I can think of is inspired by a comment made by Samuel Johnson in 1763. As described in Boswell's Life of Johnson,

We stood talking for some time together of Bishop Berkeley's ingenious sophistry to prove the nonexistence of matter, and that every thing in the universe is merely ideal. I observed, that though we are satisfied his doctrine is not true, it is impossible to refute it. I shall never forget the alacrity with which Johnson answered, striking his foot with mighty force against a large stone, till he rebounded from it, "I refute it thus."

So, I define something as real when it kicks back after you kick it. In simple terms, this describes the processes of everyday observations, but also the most sophisticated scientific experiments. When we look at an object with our naked eyes, light from some source bounces off the object into our eyes. Or, the object itself may emit light. In either case, the object and the light receptors in our eyes recoil from the momentum that is transferred in the process and generates an electrical signal that is analyzed by our brains.

Scientific observations are basically the same. Not only visible light, but the whole electromagnetic spectrum from radio waves to gamma rays are available to joggle reality, along with sensors far more precise than the human eye to detect the jiggles that are returned. What's more, other particles, such as electrons and neutrinos, are also available as probes and computers are utilized to supplement the analytic capability of our brains. In short, science is not some special method of learning about the world. It is an enhancement of the only method by which we humans, in fact, learn about the world--empirical observation. The stuff of reality that kicks back when you kick it is called matter. And, that's all there is.

I think it's something to do with doric columns.

Rockism is a ham hock in your corn flakes.

how great is it

fuck off

This stupid word.

Sorry, PEW, you picked the wrong thread to revive.

so if it's really Wagemann, why is he still posting....

He's not anymore. We've had our eyes on him for a few days, he was sort of amusing to observe in a "lol nobody knows I'm me, gree heee heeee" sort of way.

TERMINATED

i knew it was him from the off

his albini post was just pasted from his myspace
as someone linked to http://74.125.95.132/search?q=cache:haCwizOgTkcJ:blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm%3Ffuseaction%3Dblog.viewcustom%26friendId%3D66316956%26blogId%3D426783246%26swapped%3Dtrue+Why+is+Steve+Albini+so+full+of+shit%3F%3F%3F&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a

how great is it

― EdKranepool69, Monday, April 26, 2010 11:57 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

fuck off

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Monday, April 26, 2010 11:59 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

http://rynosseros.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/pigh-cover.JPG

Ha!

― EdKranepool69

As signoffs go, that's not bad.

How is this thread so short???

Weren't there a ton of rockism threads, though?

each one a little nativity scene all its own.

There were at least three going at one time, all headaches.

what exactly is rockism?

― sarahel, Friday, June 17, 2011 3:26 AM (4 days ago) Bookmark

rockismo

Rockism is a ham hock in your corn flakes.

― Sara Sara Sara, Monday, March 31, 2008 10:32 AM (3 years ago)

Rockism is a word invented by people who want an excuse for liking manufactured hit factory pap.

Lol

"rockist" was a term coined by Melody Maker journalists in the early 80s to denote a sort of attitude that is obsessed with authenticity, worships the canon (ie only likes things if they have/will "stand the test of time", favours albums over singles, mind over body, moralism over materialism.

This sounds like a good definition, and let me add, those attitudes are good ones, and it makes rockism look like a positive thing.

It doesn't necessarily have anything to do with "rock" though, mind you. For instance, I would say that "Rio" by Duran Duran fits with the criteria about. Even though some older "rockists" may have claimed it wouldn't last in 1982.

hi geir, you didn't let us know what you thought of this proto-rockist 19th c piano masterpiece in The Geir Hongro listening club

Rockism = everyone should like what I like because what I like is OBJECTIVELY great.

This sounds more like a definition of positivism.

You're a moron.

geir otm