Spill Your Guts About MB Members' Tastes In Music

Isbjørn · 01-11-2015, 06:41 AM

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Originally Posted by Dylstew

Heh, I never expected you to be 15 xP.

Heh, thanks. I love hearing that. How old did you think I was?

Dylstew · 01-11-2015, 07:05 AM

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Originally Posted by Briks

Heh, thanks. I love hearing that. How old did you think I was?

a bit closer to my age, I'm 18.
But then again, mentally I'm about 16 years old :P.

The Batlord · 01-11-2015, 07:27 AM

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Originally Posted by CoNtrivedNiHilism

There are an undefined number of people here that are too preoccupied with going out of their way to negatively criticize people for what they listen to. There's a constructive way to do it, and then there's just that off-putting, music superiority snobbery.

It isn't something that can happen, but I believe people need to stop with all this back and forth with who has better taste in music than who. When there's a debate on musical taste, bringing that up just makes anyone look a bit petty, and it works against whoever is trying to make a point in the debate, so much so that almost anything said by who is making that claim, is just moot or can't be taken seriously.

All of that is one reason why I typically avoid debating anything, with anyone here. Because I know at some point, someone is going to start their little superiority trip because they listen to Nick Cave (I really like that guys music by the way, just starting listening last night...) or whoever else they listen to, where they feel entitled to say that my taste, or your taste, is juvenile. That sh*t just pisses me off...

We're all musical elitists here. Every one of us. The sheer fact that we are actually interested in music in the first place makes us feel musically superior to 90% of the people on Earth. The people talking to you on this thread are musical elitists. You are a musical elitist. Some less, some more. But we all have strong opinions about music and we all think we're right about them. Rather than pussy foot around it why don't we act as if we all already know that we think our music is better than everybody else's music and move on from there.

inb4 subjectivity

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As far as staying away from band threads largely unknown to most, I think that maybe those threads get no reply due to having nothing to say about the band. Or if the band is familiar, maybe they've nothing good to say about that band, so they just refrain from posting so there's not some flame war, I don't know. But yes, I think anyone here needs to start being more willing to check out any thread that they're unfamiliar with, because there's that chance that not only will they discover a new band to listen to, but also find people with things in common.

All of that though is just me being optimistic, or having that positive outlook. People will do, and say what they please and typically, peoples feelings aren't held in account.

Those threads die because they're not interesting. Some guy starts an "Aren't the Shins Just Peachy Keen" thread, five people say variations of "Yeah, I love them, 'Random Song' is a really good song", and then nobody says anything about it ever again. The people who wanted to say something did, the people who didn't care didn't, and the simple fact of a band's existence isn't actually a conversation starter.

Dylstew · 01-11-2015, 07:54 AM

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Originally Posted by The Batlord

We're all musical elitists here. Every one of us. The sheer fact that we are actually interested in music in the first place makes us feel musically superior to 90% of the people on Earth. The people talking to you on this thread are musical elitists. You are a musical elitist. Some less, some more. But we all have strong opinions about music and we all think we're right about them. Rather than pussy foot around it why don't we act as if we all already know that we think our music is better than everybody else's music and move on from there.

inb4 subjectivity

Those threads die because they're not interesting. Some guy starts an "Aren't the Shins Just Peachy Keen" thread, five people say variations of "Yeah, I love them, 'Random Song' is a really good song", and then nobody says anything about it ever again. The people who wanted to say something did, the people who didn't care didn't, and the simple fact of a band's existence isn't actually a conversation starter.

It's true, whenever there's a friend of mine that keeps mentioning loving bands I hate (see this list: https://rateyourmusic.com/list/dylst...slike_or_hate/),
I try to refrain from saying what I think. Why? Because In the past I''ve always turned into a huge dick whenever I did.

CoNtrivedNiHilism · 01-11-2015, 08:09 AM

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Originally Posted by The Batlord

We're all musical elitists here. Every one of us. The sheer fact that we are actually interested in music in the first place makes us feel musically superior to 90% of the people on Earth. The people talking to you on this thread are musical elitists. You are a musical elitist. Some less, some more. But we all have strong opinions about music and we all think we're right about them. Rather than pussy foot around it why don't we act as if we all already know that we think our music is better than everybody else's music and move on from there.

inb4 subjectivity

Those threads die because they're not interesting. Some guy starts an "Aren't the Shins Just Peachy Keen" thread, five people say variations of "Yeah, I love them, 'Random Song' is a really good song", and then nobody says anything about it ever again. The people who wanted to say something did, the people who didn't care didn't, and the simple fact of a band's existence isn't actually a conversation starter.

Maybe I am elitist, but not in the same way as you are. I guess I'm saying that I don't shove my so called superiority in your face like you do with yours, to me haha.

So going by what you said then, Batlord, you're a pretentious dickface.

@Briks

I tried that lastfm bit, and it isn't showing up in my signature...

Urban Hat€monger ? · 01-11-2015, 08:39 AM

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Originally Posted by CoNtrivedNiHilism

@Briks

I tried that lastfm bit, and it isn't showing up in my signature...

Take your username & Lastfm out of the chart style

CoNtrivedNiHilism · 01-11-2015, 08:41 AM

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Originally Posted by Urban Hat€monger ?

Take your username & Lastfm out of the chart style

Alright, thanks Urban. Will give that a try.

The Batlord · 01-11-2015, 03:30 PM

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Originally Posted by CoNtrivedNiHilism

Maybe I am elitist, but not in the same way as you are.

Soon, my son...

Chula Vista · 01-11-2015, 03:50 PM

Batlord, check these out. Not your cup of tea but hopefully you can find something to dig with each.

Spoiler for My iPod:

Josef K · 01-11-2015, 04:07 PM

I'll cop to liking Animals as Leaders. This is a guilty pleasure because the only person I know/have known in real life who likes them was my camp counselor whose (by far) favorite band was Dream Theater. I got him sort of into Mogwai though, so that happened.

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Chula Vista Toasted Poster Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: SoCal by way of Boston Posts: 11,332	Batlord, check these out. Not your cup of tea but hopefully you can find something to dig with each. Spoiler for My iPod: __________________ “The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

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Josef K A Jew on a motorbike! Join Date: Mar 2014 Location: Ann Arbor, MI Posts: 800	I'll cop to liking Animals as Leaders. This is a guilty pleasure because the only person I know/have known in real life who likes them was my camp counselor whose (by far) favorite band was Dream Theater. I got him sort of into Mogwai though, so that happened.