One Very Important Thought: Dayvan Cowboy's Confessions As A BOC Nut

Dayvan Cowboy · 09-14-2010, 05:48 PM

^ yeah, they sadden me greatly...

and here we are folks, with my latest post, inspired (aka ripoff) by Urban Hatemonger's journal post!

Music From My Past

Okay, I wasn't always an IDM junkie or an Avant-Garde fan. In fact, I was totally different. Here, I will show you my musical past.

It all starts when I was five. I admit that I was a strange child when I was five, because instead of watching Caillou or Blues Clues, I thrived on Bill Nye and the space documentaries on The Discovery Channel. I was obsessed with science, and I wanted to be an astronaut. I remember sitting hours on end listening to old prog albums and reading a giant book on black holes and neutron stars, while eating cheerios with a giant smile on my face. sure, I was a hyper, violent child,(The ADHD pills fixed that) but I would still have the patience to get through a Yes album, and I loved it. My favourite album when I was little was Pink Floyd's Animals. Sheep was my favourite off of the album, and I would listen to it every day, sitting in my Pink Floyd T-shirt, and reading a 6th grade science textbook.

Okay, this is where it gets embarrassing. I started liking happy hardcore music after I found my cousin's happy hardcore compilation CD when I was six. I liked happy, syrupy, overtly cheery dance music. I'd rather not talk about this period of my life because I was pretty lame.

This is the period of my life where I gave up on silly, rave-a-thon music and sat down with mum and started watching MuchMusic. One song in particular caught my attention, and it was by Outkast, called Hey Ya!. I started liking all of the 90's grunge music mommy liked, (my mom is stuck in the 90's, just in case if you were wondering) I started listening to a lot of the pop music that was on MuchMusic and enjoyed a lot of whatever garage rock mom listened to. Whenever I hear that Outkast song, I remember back to my days as a cheery seven year old dancing to the latest R'n'B tune that caught my ears.

Seuss mentioned this song one day, and I nearly had a nostalgic heart attack. When I was eight, my musical tastes revolved around Tegan And Sara and Hot Hot Heat. I was in love with Indie Pop acts. I was like this from age eight to age eleven, and those were the happiest years of my life, back when I would sing "Bandages" into a hairbrush in my room, and constantly have the chorus to "Walking With A Ghost" stuck in my head. I admit, even after three years, I still listen to Tegan And Sara, because they mean quite a bit to me

Dayvan Cowboy. The song that changed my life, and mangled my little fifth-grade brain. I remember randomly surfing youtube one day, and hearing this song in the background of some video. I immediately searched up the song and I was absolutely shocked. I had never heard instrumental music before, and that's what I was searching for the entire time. I really loathed electronic music before this, and suddenly, my world was turned upside down. I started getting into Aphex and Amon Tobin and my musical world was changed, all thanks to some random youtube video.

Dayvan Cowboy · 09-17-2010, 05:41 PM

Top 20 Worst Music Fans:

okay, so I want to start a series of top 20 worst music fans. I know quite a few so this is going to be interesting....

to start the list:

#20: Sigur Ros Worshipers

I must admit, Sigur Ros is quite the band, and I listen to them on a regular basis, but if you go onto youtube, and look through all of the sigur ros video comments, you will probably be in the mood to punch several children. They all go on about how Sigur Ros changed their life, how they helped them find god, BLAH BLAH FUCKING BLAH. WE GET IT. Boards of Canada sure changed my musical perception but I didn't write three quasi-novels about how they changed me. Can't you guys say "I love Jonsi's voice in this song!" and walk away? NOBODY CARES ABOUT YOUR LIFE ON THE INTERNET. To tell you the truth, I bet half of them don't even know how to pronounce the band name. (I know I can't

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jackhammer · 09-17-2010, 06:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dayvan Cowboy

^ yeah, they sadden me greatly...

and here we are folks, with my latest post, inspired (aka ripoff) by Urban Hatemonger's journal post!

Music From My Past

Okay, I wasn't always an IDM junkie or an Avant-Garde fan. In fact, I was totally different. Here, I will show you my musical past.

It all starts when I was five. I admit that I was a strange child when I was five, because instead of watching Caillou or Blues Clues, I thrived on Bill Nye and the space documentaries on The Discovery Channel. I was obsessed with science, and I wanted to be an astronaut. I remember sitting hours on end listening to old prog albums and reading a giant book on black holes and neutron stars, while eating cheerios with a giant smile on my face. sure, I was a hyper, violent child,(The ADHD pills fixed that) but I would still have the patience to get through a Yes album, and I loved it. My favourite album when I was little was Pink Floyd's Animals. Sheep was my favourite off of the album, and I would listen to it every day, sitting in my Pink Floyd T-shirt, and reading a 6th grade science textbook.

Do you still like Animals? I hope so as it's my favourite album of all time.

Dayvan Cowboy · 09-17-2010, 06:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jackhammer

Do you still like Animals? I hope so as it's my favourite album of all time.

yes indeed! I revisited it a couple of weeks ago and I love it. I shouldn't have abandoned it for so many years

Dayvan Cowboy · 09-18-2010, 06:59 AM

A Quick Rant On MP3 Players

I normally don't watch TV, but the other day I decided to. I surfed through the channels, looking for something to watch and on one channel there was an overview of the new iPods. It caught my interest so I decided to see where Apple was taking us now. Well, the iPod touch now has "Facetime", the iPod shuffle is going back to second-gen design and there's going to be a touch-screen clip on nano. As I watched this, I thought to myself, what happened to MP3 players? Why do I need internet, gaming, useless apps, and a touchscreen? I remember back in the early 2000s my dad had an MP3 player. It was your average MP3 player. It was chunky, it was red, and it didn't do much. The only thing it did was play your MP3s and show what song it was playing on a pathetic little screen. It didn't even have that much memory! But now, your MP3 player has to have a touch screen, a camera, and that thing that says the song title before the song begins (it can't pronounce Sigur Ros songs so it's pretty much useless). Why can't apple just put out an MP3 player that only does one thing, like the MP3 players of 2001?

Something that comes to mind right now is a part of the Unix Philosophy: "write programs that do one thing and do it well.". Why can't that be carried over to mainstream MP3 players? I would love to see an MP3 player that just plays MP3s. I don't want any feature creeping in my music playing device, I just want something bare bones that plays music, not a portable electronic swiss army knife.

debaserr · 09-18-2010, 10:03 PM

^ they want features so the devices are more attractive. i mean, they play the music well enough. how about you just don't bother with the extras?

Dayvan Cowboy · 09-19-2010, 07:38 AM

Age and Musical stereotypes

The caption above is an actual quote from my friend. This meme is called "Musically Oblivious Eighth Grader", a meme poking fun at teenagers for not having a lot of knowledge on music. Sure, I chuckled at a few of them but I personally think this is a bit offensive. Sure, what I'm going on about is almost as ridiculous as extreme feminism, but whatever, it hurts my feelings so I'll say it anyways.

One day, I was in a CD store looking around, and I happened to see Sigur Ros's Agaetis Byrjun, a personal favourite album. I got my 20$ (canadian, that is,) and went up to the cash register. Some hipster-type dude asked me "Have you heard this before?" I stood there in shock. Why would I be buying it if I hadn't heard it before? Everybody knows who Sigur Ros is! Well, to be polite, I said "Yes" and smiled, but in reality I wanted to punch his face in because of the blatant ageism. It happens to me all the time. My tech teacher asked me about what kind of music I like, and his exact words were: "Ellen, you seem to listen to a lot of music during class; what kind of music do you like? are you into whatever is on the radio?". I had to explain to him that I mainly listened to IDM and Avant-Rock, and his jaw dropped. OH DEAR, AN EIGHTH GRADER THAT LISTENS TO AVANT-ROCK, THAT'S IMPOSSIBLE.

The message is, that not all people my age are mindless mainstream sheep. Though my tastes are as mainstream as fuck, at least I'm not listening to the radio. The post-rockers I hang out with are about a year older than me, and guess what they listen to? Post Rock, Avant-Rock, Jazz, IDM, Indie Rock, Progressive Rock, Breakcore.... the list goes on. I even have a couple of uber-indie friends who went to my old school, who are the most eclectic people I've ever met. Shut up, and stop stereotyping 14 year olds as mainstream robots.

SORRY ABOUT THE STUPIDITY OF THIS POST

Dayvan Cowboy · 09-19-2010, 09:45 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by eric generic

^ they want features so the devices are more attractive. i mean, they play the music well enough. how about you just don't bother with the extras?

Memory = Money.

For a person with a large music library, they want to put as much of their library as possible onto an MP3 player. Not all of us are rich, or can afford an 80GB music player, (I'm currently stuck with 10GB, which isn't nearly enough but my family can't afford a big, nice 20-40 GB MP3 player.) so I want to use all of my memory to it's fullest, and make the most out of it. Unfortunately, with the rise of portable gaming, having pictures+videos on the go ect., I'm stuck with only 9.5 GB left for music, and that could be maximized to 9.7GB if it's only purpose was to play music.

rammetal7 · 09-19-2010, 01:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dayvan Cowboy

Age and Musical stereotypes

The caption above is an actual quote from my friend. This meme is called "Musically Oblivious Eighth Grader", a meme poking fun at teenagers for not having a lot of knowledge on music. Sure, I chuckled at a few of them but I personally think this is a bit offensive. Sure, what I'm going on about is almost as ridiculous as extreme feminism, but whatever, it hurts my feelings so I'll say it anyways.

One day, I was in a CD store looking around, and I happened to see Sigur Ros's Agaetis Byrjun, a personal favourite album. I got my 20$ (canadian, that is,) and went up to the cash register. Some hipster-type dude asked me "Have you heard this before?" I stood there in shock. Why would I be buying it if I hadn't heard it before? Everybody knows who Sigur Ros is! Well, to be polite, I said "Yes" and smiled, but in reality I wanted to punch his face in because of the blatant ageism. It happens to me all the time. My tech teacher asked me about what kind of music I like, and his exact words were: "Ellen, you seem to listen to a lot of music during class; what kind of music do you like? are you into whatever is on the radio?". I had to explain to him that I mainly listened to IDM and Avant-Rock, and his jaw dropped. OH DEAR, AN EIGHTH GRADER THAT LISTENS TO AVANT-ROCK, THAT'S IMPOSSIBLE.

The message is, that not all people my age are mindless mainstream sheep. Though my tastes are as mainstream as fuck, at least I'm not listening to the radio. The post-rockers I hang out with are about a year older than me, and guess what they listen to? Post Rock, Avant-Rock, Jazz, IDM, Indie Rock, Progressive Rock, Breakcore.... the list goes on. I even have a couple of uber-indie friends who went to my old school, who are the most eclectic people I've ever met. Shut up, and stop stereotyping 14 year olds as mainstream robots.

SORRY ABOUT THE STUPIDITY OF THIS POST

That quote from your friend is funny,in a offensive way, she must think Black Metal is a genre of metal that is only played by African Americans.

Unknown Soldier · 09-21-2010, 06:37 AM

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Originally Posted by rammetal7

Atheist-Unquestionable Presence

By mentioning Atheist, I`m surprised you didn`t mention Voivod and Tiamat. Two bands that do the progressive metal thing better than most. Tiamat do it from a death metal aspect whereas Voivod from a thrash aspect.

09-17-2010, 05:41 PM	#32 (permalink)
Dayvan Cowboy Basscadet Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Antarctica Posts: 1,258	Top 20 Worst Music Fans: okay, so I want to start a series of top 20 worst music fans. I know quite a few so this is going to be interesting.... to start the list: #20: Sigur Ros Worshipers I must admit, Sigur Ros is quite the band, and I listen to them on a regular basis, but if you go onto youtube, and look through all of the sigur ros video comments, you will probably be in the mood to punch several children. They all go on about how Sigur Ros changed their life, how they helped them find god, BLAH BLAH FUCKING BLAH. WE GET IT. Boards of Canada sure changed my musical perception but I didn't write three quasi-novels about how they changed me. Can't you guys say "I love Jonsi's voice in this song!" and walk away? NOBODY CARES ABOUT YOUR LIFE ON THE INTERNET. To tell you the truth, I bet half of them don't even know how to pronounce the band name. (I know I can't ) Last edited by Dayvan Cowboy; 09-17-2010 at 06:33 PM.

09-18-2010, 10:03 PM	#36 (permalink)
debaserr eat the masters Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 5,470	^ they want features so the devices are more attractive. i mean, they play the music well enough. how about you just don't bother with the extras? __________________ Last.FM

09-19-2010, 07:38 AM	#37 (permalink)
Dayvan Cowboy Basscadet Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Antarctica Posts: 1,258	Age and Musical stereotypes The caption above is an actual quote from my friend. This meme is called "Musically Oblivious Eighth Grader", a meme poking fun at teenagers for not having a lot of knowledge on music. Sure, I chuckled at a few of them but I personally think this is a bit offensive. Sure, what I'm going on about is almost as ridiculous as extreme feminism, but whatever, it hurts my feelings so I'll say it anyways. One day, I was in a CD store looking around, and I happened to see Sigur Ros's Agaetis Byrjun, a personal favourite album. I got my 20$ (canadian, that is,) and went up to the cash register. Some hipster-type dude asked me "Have you heard this before?" I stood there in shock. Why would I be buying it if I hadn't heard it before? Everybody knows who Sigur Ros is! Well, to be polite, I said "Yes" and smiled, but in reality I wanted to punch his face in because of the blatant ageism. It happens to me all the time. My tech teacher asked me about what kind of music I like, and his exact words were: "Ellen, you seem to listen to a lot of music during class; what kind of music do you like? are you into whatever is on the radio?". I had to explain to him that I mainly listened to IDM and Avant-Rock, and his jaw dropped. OH DEAR, AN EIGHTH GRADER THAT LISTENS TO AVANT-ROCK, THAT'S IMPOSSIBLE. The message is, that not all people my age are mindless mainstream sheep. Though my tastes are as mainstream as fuck, at least I'm not listening to the radio. The post-rockers I hang out with are about a year older than me, and guess what they listen to? Post Rock, Avant-Rock, Jazz, IDM, Indie Rock, Progressive Rock, Breakcore.... the list goes on. I even have a couple of uber-indie friends who went to my old school, who are the most eclectic people I've ever met. Shut up, and stop stereotyping 14 year olds as mainstream robots. SORRY ABOUT THE STUPIDITY OF THIS POST Last edited by Dayvan Cowboy; 09-19-2010 at 09:49 AM.

09-14-2010, 05:48 PM	#31 (permalink)
Dayvan Cowboy Basscadet Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Antarctica Posts: 1,258	^ yeah, they sadden me greatly... and here we are folks, with my latest post, inspired (aka ripoff) by Urban Hatemonger's journal post! Music From My Past Okay, I wasn't always an IDM junkie or an Avant-Garde fan. In fact, I was totally different. Here, I will show you my musical past. It all starts when I was five. I admit that I was a strange child when I was five, because instead of watching Caillou or Blues Clues, I thrived on Bill Nye and the space documentaries on The Discovery Channel. I was obsessed with science, and I wanted to be an astronaut. I remember sitting hours on end listening to old prog albums and reading a giant book on black holes and neutron stars, while eating cheerios with a giant smile on my face. sure, I was a hyper, violent child,(The ADHD pills fixed that) but I would still have the patience to get through a Yes album, and I loved it. My favourite album when I was little was Pink Floyd's Animals. Sheep was my favourite off of the album, and I would listen to it every day, sitting in my Pink Floyd T-shirt, and reading a 6th grade science textbook. Okay, this is where it gets embarrassing. I started liking happy hardcore music after I found my cousin's happy hardcore compilation CD when I was six. I liked happy, syrupy, overtly cheery dance music. I'd rather not talk about this period of my life because I was pretty lame. This is the period of my life where I gave up on silly, rave-a-thon music and sat down with mum and started watching MuchMusic. One song in particular caught my attention, and it was by Outkast, called Hey Ya!. I started liking all of the 90's grunge music mommy liked, (my mom is stuck in the 90's, just in case if you were wondering) I started listening to a lot of the pop music that was on MuchMusic and enjoyed a lot of whatever garage rock mom listened to. Whenever I hear that Outkast song, I remember back to my days as a cheery seven year old dancing to the latest R'n'B tune that caught my ears. Seuss mentioned this song one day, and I nearly had a nostalgic heart attack. When I was eight, my musical tastes revolved around Tegan And Sara and Hot Hot Heat. I was in love with Indie Pop acts. I was like this from age eight to age eleven, and those were the happiest years of my life, back when I would sing "Bandages" into a hairbrush in my room, and constantly have the chorus to "Walking With A Ghost" stuck in my head. I admit, even after three years, I still listen to Tegan And Sara, because they mean quite a bit to me Dayvan Cowboy. The song that changed my life, and mangled my little fifth-grade brain. I remember randomly surfing youtube one day, and hearing this song in the background of some video. I immediately searched up the song and I was absolutely shocked. I had never heard instrumental music before, and that's what I was searching for the entire time. I really loathed electronic music before this, and suddenly, my world was turned upside down. I started getting into Aphex and Amon Tobin and my musical world was changed, all thanks to some random youtube video.

09-18-2010, 06:59 AM	#35 (permalink)
Dayvan Cowboy Basscadet Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Antarctica Posts: 1,258	A Quick Rant On MP3 Players I normally don't watch TV, but the other day I decided to. I surfed through the channels, looking for something to watch and on one channel there was an overview of the new iPods. It caught my interest so I decided to see where Apple was taking us now. Well, the iPod touch now has "Facetime", the iPod shuffle is going back to second-gen design and there's going to be a touch-screen clip on nano. As I watched this, I thought to myself, what happened to MP3 players? Why do I need internet, gaming, useless apps, and a touchscreen? I remember back in the early 2000s my dad had an MP3 player. It was your average MP3 player. It was chunky, it was red, and it didn't do much. The only thing it did was play your MP3s and show what song it was playing on a pathetic little screen. It didn't even have that much memory! But now, your MP3 player has to have a touch screen, a camera, and that thing that says the song title before the song begins (it can't pronounce Sigur Ros songs so it's pretty much useless). Why can't apple just put out an MP3 player that only does one thing, like the MP3 players of 2001? Something that comes to mind right now is a part of the Unix Philosophy: "write programs that do one thing and do it well.". Why can't that be carried over to mainstream MP3 players? I would love to see an MP3 player that just plays MP3s. I don't want any feature creeping in my music playing device, I just want something bare bones that plays music, not a portable electronic swiss army knife.