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Posted by dyedon8 on 2008-04-17 04:55:55 +0000

Wow.

Posted by pamsterdam on 2008-04-17 06:43:23 +0000

"Loathe" is a pretty strong word. I mean, I loathe the music of Celine Dion, but I've also seen a pretty funny video of her mucking around and being silly, which made me think that maybe - just maybe - she could be nice person. And I grew up hating Pink Floyd (blame the preppy/hippy "popular kids" at my high school who talked like valley girls, played lacrosse, wore tie-dye t-shirts and tripped nerds in the halls) and have long seen this as part of my identity (as one of the tripped-up gothy punk-fan nerds in thrift store polyester), but I love Syd Barrett & psychedelia and may one day have to come to terms with my inner hippy, as much as that would pain me. Deeply. Loathe? I dunno... HUMANWINE? :o)

Posted by virtue on 2008-04-17 16:17:56 +0000

That chick who sings about messing up her boyfriend's car 'cause he cheated on her. Those lyrics are fucked up, and socially irresponsible. Worse than the worst of the police stalker songs. And the sung *sucks*.

Posted by mahatma chani on 2008-04-17 12:00:44 +0000

Frankly... I don't think Kanye West is that deserving of all the hype he gets.

Posted by TheFullCleveland on 2008-04-17 12:49:03 +0000

Avril Lavigne.

Posted by pamsterdam on 2008-04-17 12:55:40 +0000

Has someone been reading Perez Hilton?

Posted by tommy on 2008-04-17 13:20:26 +0000

I had a discussion a while ago with a couple of buddies on the topic "if you could go back in time to assassinate any musician/band before they had a chance to make any music, who would you pick?" I picked Eric Clapton. If I were his kid, I'd kill myself by jumping out a window, too.

Posted by TheFullCleveland on 2008-04-17 13:29:21 +0000

Occassionally...though I didn't know he hates Avril.

Posted by pamsterdam on 2008-04-17 13:34:26 +0000

Super wicked hates. Not that I'm a regular reader or anything. Ahem. Um...

Posted by deejayhubris on 2008-04-17 14:09:30 +0000

U2 & Bono, the world's biggest poseur.

Posted by G lib on 2008-04-17 16:00:35 +0000

*shudders*

Posted by virtue on 2008-04-17 16:04:12 +0000

I totally second that.

Posted by dyedon8 on 2008-04-17 16:06:45 +0000

"But think of all the good he does! Think of all the third world debt he got wiped out!"

Posted by MF DU on 2008-04-17 16:08:08 +0000

-Daughtry -Maroon 5 -Rascall Flatts -Hannah Montana -Conor Oberst -Collective Soul -Counting Crows (WMUA added this - dude, WTF?) -U2 (seconded) Im sure I'll have many more later

Posted by Miriam on 2008-04-17 16:09:55 +0000

I don't really listen to music anymore.

Posted by pamsterdam on 2008-04-17 16:12:52 +0000

-who? -who? -who? -who? -who? -the name very vaguely rings a distant bell -who? -GAH! do they still exist? -Pride. C'mon. Pride.

Posted by MF DU on 2008-04-17 16:47:47 +0000

Kayne West hating (and the use of unecessary force in apprehending the Blues Brothers) has been approved.

Posted by MF DU on 2008-04-17 16:48:54 +0000

your 6 who's? give me faith in humans, Pam. Thanks.

Posted by pamsterdam on 2008-04-17 16:52:46 +0000

:o) Glad to be of service, DU! But either there used to be something listed between Collective Soul and Counting Crows, or I can't read and there should've just been 5 who?s.

Posted by mahatma chani on 2008-04-17 17:00:33 +0000

I'm ashamed to say I went to the Tori Amos show at UNH. There weren't so many "fans" at that show as there were "sycophants."

Posted by dyedon8 on 2008-04-17 17:04:07 +0000

Didja go because of a girl?

Posted by pamsterdam on 2008-04-17 17:50:05 +0000

Chortle!

Posted by mahatma chani on 2008-04-17 17:55:54 +0000

Hells yeah... Nina wanted to go.

Posted by respectless on 2008-04-17 18:32:00 +0000

billy joel

Posted by G lib on 2008-04-17 18:51:47 +0000

Posted by dyedon8 on 2008-04-18 03:57:28 +0000

Same reason I saw U2.

Posted by pamsterdam on 2008-04-18 05:54:44 +0000

Huh. I guess that Nina chick got around!

Posted by dyedon8 on 2008-04-18 06:45:52 +0000

Posted by Miriam on 2008-04-18 14:58:10 +0000

I went to her show in Knoxville the summer of 1995 with a friend who was a fan. Amos is a whiz on the piano, but I'm not sure I can handle her music anymore. I hadn't really listened to any of it before I went to the concert.

Posted by Miriam on 2008-04-18 14:58:27 +0000

Ashlee Simpson

Posted by ConorClockwise on 2008-04-18 17:38:59 +0000

This Great! Keep 'em coming, please.

Posted by MF DU on 2008-04-18 18:07:38 +0000

Dave Matthews Band Bon Jovi Nickelback 3 Doors down Firehouse (not hose, mind you) Creed / Scott Stapp Candlebox

Posted by pamsterdam on 2008-04-18 18:10:03 +0000

Oh yeah - PHISH! Similar reasons to Pink Floyd, really. Except that I have no qualms about hating Phish. Stupid hippies.

Posted by pamsterdam on 2008-04-18 18:13:01 +0000

DU's gotten me into this... Edie Brickell and the New Bohemians Spin Doctors Paul Simon Indigo Girls

Posted by dyedon8 on 2008-04-18 18:15:20 +0000

Dave Matthews: seconded. Nelly

Posted by Miriam on 2008-04-18 19:13:52 +0000

Went to see Spin Doctors in 1993 with all my high school friends.

Posted by Miriam on 2008-04-18 19:17:54 +0000

Hootie & the Blowfish

Posted by TheFullCleveland on 2008-04-18 19:21:47 +0000

Edie Brickell had a show at Copley last summer that I went to see, since I can't pass up a free outdoor show. I wasn't sure what to expect, turned out to be just what I needed for a lazy day.

Posted by MF DU on 2008-04-19 15:00:51 +0000

Cretin! Hippie! (jk) I saw Whitesnake and Great White as a part of a show near the Manchester NH riverfront. Metallica tried to play there in the following summer of 89 If I'm not mistaken. The mayor was none too pleased.

Posted by tommy on 2008-04-20 01:50:53 +0000

That Metallica show happened. I was there. The Cult opened. Both bands were terrible. Depressing because I also had tickets to the same lineup later (next day?) in Worcester. That show sucked, too.

Posted by mahatma chani on 2008-04-20 13:23:47 +0000

Although Phish and Dave Matthews musically do utterly nothing for me, I have to chime in and give them both huge massive props. Both worked their asses off in the college circuits and built massive fanbases the old fashioned way: touring and making their audiences feel like they were part of something. As for Phish: The Great Went? The encouraging of show taping and bootleg trading? The Halloween shows? Those are some completely brilliant marketing strategies considering the band basically conceded their studio work was shit and the live show was where it was at. And I'm gonna say this how many other acoustic guitar-drum-bass-violin-sax bands can you think of? Not too many; and the fact DMB were massively popular shows decidedly big balls for what was essentially a bar band.

Posted by mahatma chani on 2008-04-20 13:29:34 +0000

Black Eyed Peas feel more like a bunch of beer commercial jingles than actual music. And while I'm thinking about it, Fergie needs to fire her songwriting/promotions committee. It drove me nuts that when she was promoting her song "London Bridge" they had her posing next to Beefeaters on Tower Bridge. Um... hello? Everybody knows London Bridge is in Texas! Pavement had a fact-checker. Can't the Black Eyed Peas hire one as well?

Posted by MF DU on 2008-04-20 22:56:00 +0000

hippie.

Posted by tendiamonds on 2008-04-21 01:47:57 +0000

If you're going to be a snot about where London Bridge is:

1. It's in London, it was just rebuilt. It's still not the Tower Bridge, though.
2. The old London Bridge is not in Texas, either. It's in Arizona, in Lake Havasu City.

Posted by tendiamonds on 2008-04-21 01:48:50 +0000

True about the touring and the fans. False about the quality of Phish's work. They're excellent. Even in studio. DMB still eats shit.

Posted by mahatma chani on 2008-04-24 16:36:03 +0000

Seriously... somebody needs to fly a fucking plane into whatever building Fergie is in right now (and let's hope Candace Bushnell and Sarah Jessica Parker are in it as well). Courtesy of my sister: Fergie did the theme song for the new "Sex and the City" movie. Bad beyond all infinite levels of badness.

Posted by mahatma chani on 2008-04-24 16:38:50 +0000

I stand corrected.

Posted by G lib on 2008-04-24 16:55:35 +0000

I grew up watching Sex and the City and I know a lot of my girlfriends did as well," says Fergie. "We felt like these characters were our friends, so to be a part of this project has been amazing." WTF? She's 33. According to Wikipedia, the show started when she was 23. She grew up watching the Cosby Show.

Posted by dyedon8 on 2008-04-24 16:57:23 +0000

No, no, no -- 'grew up' in the sense that the show EMPOWERED her and her friends! Sisterhood is POWERFUL!

Posted by virtue on 2008-04-24 17:41:05 +0000

yeah, but that's when she got off the meth...

Posted by dyedon8 on 2008-04-24 18:04:48 +0000

Give me libruim or give me meth!

Posted by pamsterdam on 2008-04-24 18:13:16 +0000

That's kind of like the time I claimed the Donnas as my peers. Um, two days ago. (note: the Donnas were all born in 1979)

Posted by G lib on 2008-04-24 18:40:27 +0000

That's in the range! We had roommates at Malbert who were from that year, and even younger. Although they wereyoung, they were pretty much peers. tgl, wasn't your wife born in 1978?

Posted by tommy on 2008-04-24 18:42:16 +0000

"fly a plane into..." = awesome. Now added to my lexicon.

Posted by tommy on 2008-04-24 18:44:13 +0000

Mine born 1980. Which I totally consider "the same" as me (1972). Except when, e.g., she doesn't know what "Sanford and Son" was.

Posted by G lib on 2008-04-24 18:45:06 +0000

L: And what about the handsome man on the right here:

Posted by G lib on 2008-04-24 18:51:56 +0000

Chippy sometimes has to remind me that he went to college in the 1980s. And although this is mostly due to him being a child genius and not because he's that elderly, who cares? Linear age aside, he's an old fart no matter how you slice it. And I don't know what "Sanford and Son" was, because we were only allowed to watch PBS for an hour a day.

Posted by dyedon8 on 2008-04-24 19:06:50 +0000

Q: What's the only thing worse than a new Red Hot chili Peppers album?

Posted by virtue on 2008-04-24 19:12:49 +0000

the last one?

Posted by tendiamonds on 2008-04-24 19:12:51 +0000

I'm the crappiest cradle robber on the board, dipping only down to 1977 (November, though)

Posted by tendiamonds on 2008-04-24 19:14:13 +0000

L: ...and I consider there to be a _HUGE_ generation gap between The Pants and I, but that's mostly because she grew up in the ghetto and knew non-white people, so she's way more new-school.

Posted by pamsterdam on 2008-04-24 20:25:42 +0000

Huzb was born in 1967. Cue comment about fine wine...

Posted by tommy on 2008-04-24 21:30:52 +0000

I don't know, but you better keep it away from your ass! But, thaaaaaat's my etc.

Posted by tgl on 2008-04-25 16:49:17 +0000

'Location of "Sanford and Son"' was clue in yesterday's (or Wednesday's?) NYTimes crossword. Watts. Which I had to guess, but it fit.

Posted by tgl on 2008-04-25 16:50:51 +0000

Yeah, that's right. She's not thirty yet.

Posted by Mouse on 2008-04-25 19:47:57 +0000

The Mars Volta are wicked overrated so I hate them.

Posted by tgl on 2008-04-25 21:28:37 +0000

You're quite hostile.

Posted by MF DU on 2008-04-26 04:19:29 +0000

Mouse has got a right to be hostile - his people have been persecuted.

Posted by G lib on 2008-04-28 12:30:02 +0000

Overrated, but really really good.

Posted by TheFullCleveland on 2008-04-30 13:33:39 +0000

Or really bad, depending.