Frownland

How about we reserve this threads for songs that don't make me want to stab my ears out.



Can you hear this? Congratulations you've passed the hearing test.

Did you like it? If you answered no, then I'm sorry but you've failed the listening test.

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Plankton

Purple Rain is a good choice for this thread. Too bad Prince's legal hounds won't allow it on yootoob. I kinda feel like listening to it now.

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Trollheart

I loved it, but I can guarantee nobody else I know would, and I would not have done had you not pushed it on me. Like Batty says, it's really more about popular than necessarily good. But you (see below)


Bolded: I think the intent is clear from the first songs posted
Italicised and bolded: Yeah but I could hear "Kalyeigh" on the radio, does that mean everyone loves it? You win a cigar if you get the right answer.

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Frownland

Like Neapy said, if people gave that track a shot instead of writing it off I bet they would love it. You were the one that brought up the radio, kiddo. It's not my ****ty logic but yours.

If you guys keep scratching the rash it's just going to get worse.

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Trollheart

I'll keep scratching it till it bleeds.
It's not a case of if people listened to it they'd like it, it's what songs they DO like. All, or nearly all of them. None of yours qualify, no matter how much you want them to or wish they did. The radio is, sadly, a very good barometer of how general people, not necessarily those into music, react to songs. If it;s a hit, and played on the wireless a lot, then chances are a large percentage of people like it. Your music, you may love it and all, but go out on the street and ask people if they even know those bands and I know what answer you'll get. And that proves the point right there.

Like Batty said, it's not so much about being good but being popular, well-known and liked. You can't do a tore here, my friend: it just will not work. The evidence is stacked against you.

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Frownland

You seriously think that the Talking Heads, Devo, Tom Waits, and Ornette Coleman are underground? Come on people.

Despite this, I do not care how much you will ad hominem my posts and will continue pursuing this thread with my interpretation.



^Jazz legend=well known

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Trollheart

You go ahead, you're still wrong though. And I never said any of the acts were underground, just not well known outside of music fans. Did you not wonder why I, as a Waits junkie, did not post any of his songs? I love them, but I know that few people would even know of him let alone know his songs, let alone love them.

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Frownland

See that's why I like my approach better, because if we're going off of songs everybody actually knows then we're pretty much restricted to a handful of artists. Forgive me for making this thread better with more interesting music than what your general heathen might be aware of. Also quite sure that most people know of Pink Floyd, come to think of it.



^too bad nobody's ever heard of the guy, his music's phenomenal.

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grindy

What about this?

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Ninetales

in fairness to frown, the way the OP is written implies nothing about popularity, but more songs that people wouldn't dislike (whether they've heard it before or not).