Ladies & Gentlemen I give you Boo Boo's favourite band , just so you can get some idea of his perspective on things....




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Damn, that was a really off night for Howe. His improv really messed up the intro. A lot of dead notes and f*ck ups. He's usually not so careless with his playing at live shows. I think he was drunk. He's usually f*cking amazing live.

When was that anyway? I noticed that Wakeman is absent.

Nick Drake has always had a cult following here in the UK. Maybe because he is quintessentially English in terms of his delivery and melancholy. I personally am not a big fan. I like some tracks of his. He could play guitar, he just played it unusually according to his music producer JOE BOYD.

BBC Inside Out - Fallen Star

I'm better.

So he likes hippies noodling then.

Yes.

Get it? YES? Hohoho. The hillarity.

Well as I've already pointed out in this thread, you don't read anything, so the inconsistency stems from your lack of actually reading what im tlaking about, nevermind what I'm not.

When Led Zep came out, they were panned. And I'm saying if you were alive then, you'd have hated them. The critics today love Led Zep and thus your opinion.

Ill give you that you don't like how Brock sings, and thats fine, but you also mentioned that critics and indie hipsters love them which means its more that an added bonus. It sounds as if their praise annoys you more than their music.

but enough about Modest Mouse, Led Zep, and your lack of original opinions. The argument in this thread started when you refused to believe anyone could dislike these classic albums without the motive of pissing people off. I think those reviews were dead on.

To some people John Cale's viola sounds out of tune. To some people Brock sings out of tune, you just willfully see one as acceptable and the other as less so. And as for my own pretentious nature (which again, you've backed up with no examples, arguments, or anything more than the statement itself), my bold, misspelled assertions may in fact be reactionary, but at least there my own.

One of the problems I see with MusicBanter is that people fall in line to avoid flaming "newbhood", and it leads to stagnant discussion, as does your review of nearly every album. You just carry the opinion on. If we all agreed on the same albums as great, this place would suck. I find the OP to be a refreshing option to have discourse on the sacred cows we never speak about because its assumed their great and we all love it.

Thats the most important point Ill make all week and it will be skipped over to make some glib insult to redeem someone integrity. Its no less true.

But I like many bands the critics hate and they like many bands I hate, thats what I just said. No one is completely in sync with critics anyway. Except for indie kids like yourself, don't make me a scapegoat for your pompous rants.

A little from collumn A and collumn B. I think their music is downright horrible without any kind of redeeming value. You all think that of Yes, thats true, but thats only a big deal because I like Yes, no one else does so who cares? I think Modest Mouse sucks any way you look at it, but everyone praising them like they are the new saviors of music is a bonus.

I dunno. Thinking Bob Dylan is overrated seems like an original opinion to me. :D

Only Cale has talent, good taste and the respect of many fine musicians.

As for my opinions? You really make it out like you're a good poster don't you?

"At least I use facts to back my opinions."

Last time I checked, your opinions are of a 20 something slacker who spends all his time in his room listening to Steve Earle records and writing bad poetry, you don't back up what you say with facts becase there are no facts to back up subjective pitchforkian hogwash.

Well you are right on one thing. I'm the one dork on this forum that sticks up for all the sacred cows. Except for the sacred cows of the indie community. Those I love to rip on.

If we were to count the insults here. You have made far more directed at me than I have made directed at you.

And it's starting to get really old now.I don't know why you can't look at either in an objective manner. I would take you a hell of a lot more seriously if that wasn't all you did here. Your whole level of debate these days is just a carbon copy of the stuff Don used to come out with on a regular basis , and I mistakingly gave you credit for being smarter than that.

What is objective about taste? Nothing. Thats all we ever talk about, nothing remotely close to being objective. You mouth off a load of bands you dont like (aka the bands that are actually good) and speak it as objective fact, this is what everyone here does. So because I decide to play a little provocative game of fighting fire with fire I'm being unreasonable and unfair? I'm not contributing enough? I'm not being objective? I don't owe you people a damn thing.