Do you talk to people about music IRL?

FETCHER. · 01-28-2014, 06:23 PM

I talk about music with my boyfriend quite a lot although he likes metal and I don't really haha. We still have a lot of bands/musicians and dj's that overlap though. But most of the metal stuff is far too heavy for me.

Trillian · 01-28-2014, 08:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Trollheart

Oh yeah, I'm a big HHG2TG fan. Books and radio show and series. The film, not so much, though they tried.

Oh man, the movie was all kinds of awful

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For the record, I got the reference too.

Welcome to MB by the way.

Thanks for the welcome!

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Of course you did. You're the epitome of cool.

I'm not sure that "cool" is the first adjective that springs to mind when I think of HHGTTG

djchameleon · 01-28-2014, 08:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Trillian

I'm not sure that "cool" is the first adjective that springs to mind when I think of HHGTTG

Nerd comes to mind!

NERD

Trollheart · 01-28-2014, 08:48 PM

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Originally Posted by djchameleon

Nerd comes to mind!

NERD

Yeah well nerd stands for Not Even Remotely Dorky. So there!
Also, if you can't laugh at at least one thing in HHG2TG you're dead inside.

Landlord of pub: "Going to the match this afternoon sir?"
Ford Prefect: "No. No point."
Landlord: "Ah yes. Arsenal without a chance, eh?"
Ford: "No. It's just that the world is going to end."
Landlord: "Yes, so you keep saying sir. (Pause) Lucky escape for Arsenal if it did, eh?"
Ford: "Not really, no."

Trollheart · 01-28-2014, 08:50 PM

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Originally Posted by FETCHER.

I talk about music with my boyfriend quite a lot although he likes metal and I don't really haha. We still have a lot of bands/musicians and dj's that overlap though. But most of the metal stuff is far too heavy for me.

Hey Kay! How they treatin' ya? Miss ya round here!

Mojo · 01-29-2014, 05:36 AM

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Originally Posted by djchameleon

It is pretty easy for me to talk about music with people irl because I am not pretentious. I listen to chart music as well as non-chart music and end up recommended artists to people based off of the chart music they like.

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Basically. They don't have to be pretentious but they are super picky about what they listen to and heavily frown upon mainstream artists. I am not saying whether that is a good or bad thing but it is a fact.

This is definitely true of some people. Some music lovers will actually start a conversation with someone about music just to look down on their music taste in some kind of exercise in being a pretentious douche, or "different", or to make themselves feel superior in some way. However, plenty people who have a more mainstream music taste will be just as pretentious by criticising styles of music they know little to absolutely nothing about.

Anyway, I have a few people to talk music with. One in my closest group of friends. He's my gig buddy, my fellow sludge lover, but with a relatively open mind to bands and artists from Burzum through to The Smiths and Jethro Tull and Nina Simone. Music is a big, big foundation for our friendship. The only other people I feel comfortable with talking to about music and being myself in doing so, I dont see anywhere near as often. But will still go to local shows with them or go and see their bands etc.

I joined up here to be able to talk about music more freely and discover more of it from like minded or knowledgeable people. I still like and need that, but I could be doing much worse when it comes to having people I can do that with in IRL also.

FETCHER. · 01-29-2014, 06:58 AM

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Hey Kay! How they treatin' ya? Miss ya round here!

Aww how sweet! I miss you too. I feel like I don't have much time around here to interact properly, which is a shame. I just have a busy life. And yeah he treats me better than I could possibly have expected (never had a boyfriend before him) so I'm enjoying being in a relationship although it's new and strange.

djchameleon · 01-29-2014, 07:18 AM

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Originally Posted by Trollheart

Yeah well nerd stands for Not Even Remotely Dorky. So there!
Also, if you can't laugh at at least one thing in HHG2TG you're dead inside.

Landlord of pub: "Going to the match this afternoon sir?"
Ford Prefect: "No. No point."
Landlord: "Ah yes. Arsenal without a chance, eh?"
Ford: "No. It's just that the world is going to end."
Landlord: "Yes, so you keep saying sir. (Pause) Lucky escape for Arsenal if it did, eh?"
Ford: "Not really, no."

I still have no idea what HHG2TG is. Been trying to break down the acronym and I've got nothing.

**Goofle** · 01-29-2014, 08:11 AM

I had an excellent convo with Steph, Manky and Hermione on FB last night about music and other things. Not sure it counts as IRL though, considering it was with between internet friends on the internet.

May as well share it here:

Stephenie Darnielle
Rude.

Tom Clancy
The truth isn't rude. She won't let me help

Stephenie Darnielle
I just empathize with bad cooks because I'm dreadful myself. Haha.

Hermione Matilda Stark
‪#‎firstworldproblems‬

Tom Clancy
She doesn't use onions. Not even not serious.

Hermione Matilda Stark
Onions are fucking disgusting

Tom Clancy
Onions have feelings too.

Chris Steven
Onions have layers.

Hermione Matilda Stark
you have chlamydia.

Tom Clancy
Chris sprouts little white hairs when he is exposed to sunlight. Dumb Scotch.

Hermione Matilda Stark
Chris lives in a cave by a the sea and eats his own children then makes more children from his children

Hermione Matilda Stark
fucking Scots

Chris Steven
Cake. Everybody loves cake.

Tom Clancy
Parfaits are delicious.

Stephenie Darnielle
Someday you will fiiiiiind meeee caught beneath the laaaaaandsliiiiiiide

Hermione Matilda Stark
innnn a champagneee supernovaaa in the skyyyy

Tom Clancy
Is that Radiohead?

Stephenie Darnielle
Blur.

Tom Clancy
Ahh yes, Blur. That band with Ian Brown.

Hermione Matilda Stark
I thought it was The Stone Roses?

Hermione Matilda Stark
Dude Ian Brown is in the Happy Mondays

Stephenie Darnielle
Ohhhh Ian Brown, I was thinking Mark E Smith.

Tom Clancy
Didn't they form Gorillaz?

Stephenie Darnielle
No that was RZA.

Hermione Matilda Stark
Mark E Smith? Isn't he that guy who did some crazy rap album and killed a Korean guy???

Stephenie Darnielle
Kathleen Hanna killed Kurt Cobain.

Tom Clancy
No, that was Noel Gallagher, frontman of The Fall.

Hermione Matilda Stark
Noel Gallagher? No Noel Gallagher's in Coldplay. They just won like 5 grammys

Tom Clancy
He just got lucky.

Hermione Matilda Stark
Aint that that Robin Thicke song everyone hates?

Stephenie Darnielle
Called Mumford and Sons or something? That he made with Kanye West?

Hermione Matilda Stark
No that was Macklemore's first single, he stole it from them I think??? Then he tried to make a song for Rick Santorum's campaign & divorced all the gays he just married. It was terrible

Hermione Matilda Stark
‪#‎kanyewouldhavenever‬ ‪#‎yeezuslovesthegays‬

Tom Clancy
Wipe that tear away now from your eye - Kanye West

Sean Betteridge
This was beautiful.

Hermione Matilda Stark
turn around, Kanye West.

Hermione Matilda Stark
every now and then Ye falls

Stephenie Darnielle
I'm tired, you tired, Jesus wept.

Tom Clancy
Beyonce was hot in that video **hides behind Internet**

Hermione Matilda Stark
Kardashian all on his mouth like liqqa

Hermione Matilda Stark
this is the best status + comments ever

Amandria Vanesa
I want to tape this conversation to my wall.

Luke David Tyler
Haha yes classic shoutbox banter here

misspoptart · 01-29-2014, 08:26 AM

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That would explain it... I have never been to Turkey.. Interesting, very interesting...

The thing is...Turks just listen to Turkish music. All the time. It's mad lame.