What pleb music did a pleb rec you once he found out you were a music nerd?
 

Alt-J.

Happens all the time.

Alt-J is a common one for me as well, but the truly offensive one was Gotye.

there was also a weird trend among the hipster boys i dated in the early 2010s - every single one of them made me a mix that included this boring ass song

Is this why you and Exo don't flirt anymore?

Radiohead.

Ftr I like Radiohead. But god forbid you dont listen to them if you enjoy listening to music.

****ing Bauhaus. Some poser douche bag recommended this basic bitch plebeian pop band and I had to resist the urge to back hand them.

I put back on my real ****, that Lil Pump x Kanye West jam cause I love it.

Tool. Often. **** Tool.

Church

"Oh you like jazz? Have you heard Kamasi Washington? He's really carrying the torch for this generation!"

Suck my dick.

The most common is pop country acts I've never heard of even though apparently, I have to have heard some of their songs.

More like

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With the people I hang out with it's either something to do with Maynard, some bull**** pop punk or something that has to do with either Run The Jewels or Aesop Rock.

I'm usually the one giving the recs as most of my friends have stagnated their tastes to the same ****, or some **** that reminds them of what they've been listening to since high school.

Thank god I don't have friends or people to talk about music with cause this right here would be a test of my desire to keep that friend. I wouldn't ditch them as a friend but I would be very tempted to drop all pretense of being respectful and openminded. I would happily ruin a Tool fan's day.

You hate Tool?

Edit: Do you have any kind of brutally honest rant about why you'd dislike Tool that you want to share with us?

Um... they're ****ing boring. TBH I haven't been able to listen to more than half a Tool song for years aside from the odd time I try to play a whole album and fail. I just don't care enough to even try anymore.

Edit: maybe I'll try one of their earlier albums. I can't take subjecting myself to Lateralus again but maybe Opiate.

Loving Tool and hating Tool are basically on the same levels of plebfulness these days.

My friends suck Maynard off too much but they tend to like Puscifer.

Yeah, having opinions are fairly basic.

I should’ve gotten a copyright when I was the original Tool hater.

Being a Tool lover or Tool hater are two different brands of opinion that don't cover the whole spectrum. The former is based on an ignorance of virtually any other music, which makes Tool's music stand out as the most inventive and brilliant thing ever. The latter is based on a rejection of that basic bitch fanbase as opposed to the mediocre music.

I wasn't the original but at no point in my life have I ever gotten why people even tolerate them. They don't have immediacy but they're also not interesting, they're just... there.

Currently listening to Undertow and I guess I can see where plebes who literally can not and will never be able to listen to anything truly off the wall would find this mindblowing but just imagining that is like trying to put myself in the mind of a typical Trump voter.

Bro I never even knew they had a dedicated fanbase until a year or two ago. I've never met a single Tool fan who wasn't just a basic FM radio rock fan. My distaste for Tool is entirely down to Tool.

You recognize their overwhelming mediocrity but don't think they're among the worst artists ever, I'd say that puts you outside of the hater group.

But, like, this explanation is ironic because it fails to acknowledge that opinions exist for a variety of reasons that aren't the ones you boxed them in with. Boxing people in with stereotypes over their opinions is fairly plebeian, yo.

I've honestly never really listened to Tool. I don't really have an opinion because nothing has really grabbed my attention outside of the fact that they are one of the most well loved bands out there. But I'd guess the reason that people see them that way is because they found a well balance between being poppy and inventive.

I like their guitar

^ Yes, this has happened to me too, so much so that my friends don't really care for my recs anymore. That's why I really value the discussions on MB. Thanks to everyone for keeping music alive. :)
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If I mention to students that I'm interested in music, they will often mention Queen as one of their favourite bands. TBH, there are times when I tire of feigning enthusiasm for their choice of band or for their deep knowledge of the international rock music scene.

In 27 years, I met just one student who had heard of Beefheart. In fact, he had a third-world low-fi pirate cassette of Bluejeans and Moonbeams, which was actually kind of depressing. He'd heard something of Beefheart's reputation, and but only had this meagre sample to go on. Such is the sadness that can occur if you come from before or beyond the internet. :(

Nah, I'm pretty on point with the Tool fetishism/hate boner cycle. The haters wouldn't give a **** if they came across Tool on bandcamp, they'd just go "meh" and move on. It's the annoying fanbase that drives the haters, and it's ignorance that drives the annoying fanbase.

I consider myself a hater, but being a hater for me is more just a fun thing to do cause being an out and proud Tool or a Pink Floyd hater will result in more fun conversations than bothering to be a hater of some band nobody talks about. I'm not a salaried hater though yeah. It's just a hobby.

Maybe for the most part. But I'm sure there are other people who have different reasons to hate the band.

I just wish they didn't put so much actual filler in their albums

^ Classic example of meta-level Frownland oneupmanship :clap:

^ :laughing: Another absolute gem!

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That doesn't negate anything cause we're still talking about the extremes.

I really appreciate their meatiness. They've come through with some of the phattest riffs I know.

About halfway through Undertow and there are times when the band click over into kinda nice with those grooves but are still never memorable due to that 90s alt metal lack of human quality (I mean could that guitar actually have any less personality?) but this is still just halfway decent background music that doesn't distract me from tooling around on the internet. I think I'm gonna switch over to Aenima to stave off quickly engulfing boredom.

If I were to try to sit and listen to this actively without doing other things I'd probably agree with you, and Lateralus and 10,000 Days are definitely aggressively bad.

might as well drink a glass of boiling salt water to quench your thirst

Like this, Lucem.

Yeah, I get what you're saying, both Bat and elph proved your point. I'm just nitpicking about the stereotype.

After six minutes I'm in agreement. Tool sound shoddy on Undertow but at least there's a bit of fun there. I'm pretty checked out on Aenima already though.