free speech for the dumb

[Guest Sturgis]

I never understood the expensive car stereo that only plays loud bass.

 

Why is it spelled B-A-S-S if it is pronounced BASE?

If it was pronounced the way it's spelled people would think of fishing.

[Guest AndrewTS]

and although I like the song and group, while elaving a Dave Matthews Band concert: "Man, Dave is a great songwriter to come up with (All Along the) Watchtower)".  Nevermind that they dont' know that it was written by Dylan; to not know the Jimi version is inexcusable.

Kill this person, also.

 

My dad is a fountain of musical stupidity.

 

*I listen to Iron Maiden, Hendrix, Sabbath, Dio, Dickinson, Hagar Van Halen, etc.*

 

"SHUT THAT SHIT DOWN!!"

 

"Whatever... *I turn down the volume*"

 

Then he turns up Paul Anka--including "She's Having My Baby."

 

My mother can be a little more tolerant. She was digging Santana, the Scorpions (especially the Moment of Glory album...but not "Rock You Like a Hurricane" of course). She even likes Alicia Keys since she heard it at work.

 

However, she thinks all of the Beatles' later stuff is garbage. And she also thinks that most heavy metal bands are Satanists.

[Guest redbaron51]

My dad is a diehard Who fan, and if anyone try to prove him wrong, he'll say somethin about the band.

 

We got in a huge arguement about the Who vs Metallica.

[Murmuring Beast 0]

The low-blow would have to be : "Your lead singer is a pedophile!"

[Guest redbaron51]

The low-blow would have to be : "Your lead singer is a pedophile!"

you mean Lead Guitarist.

 

 

i actually said that, but he got me right back, and said

 

"At least they don't fuck around with their fans"

[Guest Hogan Made Wrestling]

The low-blow would have to be : "Your lead singer is a pedophile!"

you mean Lead Guitarist.

 

 

i actually said that, but he got me right back, and said

 

"At least they don't fuck around with their fans"

Or wear eye liner and lipstick, from what I can tell anyway.

[Guest saturnmark4life]

If Andrew WK was that carefully oiled of a gimmick machine, all the kids wouldn't hate him. The gimmickry is what stops people appreciating that there is actual talent there. I'll appreciate that the gimmick is a big part of him, but you have to look beyond that. Hey, maybe it is an accident that he brings me as near to tears as The Smiths do, but I couldn't care less.

[Guest godthedog]

My dad is a diehard Who fan, and if anyone try to prove him wrong, he'll say somethin about the band.

 

We got in a huge arguement about the Who vs Metallica.

no one in their right mind should argue for metallica over the who. there's maybe 4 or 5 bands in the world i'd ever argue that topped them.

[Guest razazteca]

I never understood the expensive car stereo that only plays loud bass.

 

Why is it spelled B-A-S-S if it is pronounced BASE?

If it was pronounced the way it's spelled people would think of fishing.

Why not just spell it b-a-s-e then?

[Guest AndrewTS]

My dad also made the mistake of thinking a band was a person, although he did it with Def Leppard and Aerosmith. I hate DL anyway...but *shrug*.

[Guest El Satanico]

I never understood the expensive car stereo that only plays loud bass.

 

Why is it spelled B-A-S-S if it is pronounced BASE?

If it was pronounced the way it's spelled people would think of fishing.

Why not just spell it b-a-s-e then?

Because some stereo manufacturer decades ago decided to spell it bass and pronounce it base. It just happened to stick and became an industry standard.

 

Maybe bass was a seldomly used spelling for a word that has the pronunciation of base.

 

 

That's all the explanation needed.

[Guest WrestlingDeacon]

My name's Leonard and people will say "oh, like Lynyrd Skynyrd? I love that guy."

[Guest Michael Joel Benoit]

Last year, I was talking to this girl in my class about music:

 

Me: So, what kind of music are you into?

Girl: Well, I'm mostly into punk music.

Me: Really? Well, what are your favorite bands?

Girl: I like Blink 182, Sum 41, Good Charlotte, Korn, Limp Bizkit, Linkin Park.

Me: ......

 

The weird part was that I don't even listen to punk music and yet I KNEW that those bands weren't actually punk. And the best part was this girl was actually one of the smart kids in my class!

 

And I actually heard one of the "Gangsta" kids in my class say that Ja Rule and 50 Cent were the greatest rappers ever and were the second coming of hip-hop.

[Guest ant_7000]

I always hear that Dr. Dre is a good rapper. When really he has his rhymes ghostwritten.

[Guest treble charged]

When I was leaving a SmackDown taping last year in Ottawa (the first SD after WrestleMania X8), the show had ended with Rock/Hogan posing with Hogan's music playing. Anyway, out in the parking lot, my friend said to me, "Man, I never thought I'd hear Lenny Kravitz in the WWF." I didn't understand what he meant, so I asked him and he said, "Yeah, you know, the guy who plays Hogan's music".

 

...

[Guest Hogan Made Wrestling]

When I was leaving a SmackDown taping last year in Ottawa (the first SD after WrestleMania X8), the show had ended with Rock/Hogan posing with Hogan's music playing. Anyway, out in the parking lot, my friend said to me, "Man, I never thought I'd hear Lenny Kravitz in the WWF." I didn't understand what he meant, so I asked him and he said, "Yeah, you know, the guy who plays Hogan's music".

 

...

I would have beat that person down right then and there.

[Guest godthedog]

I always hear that Dr. Dre is a good rapper. When really he has his rhymes ghostwritten.

how's that take away from his ability as a pure rapper? that's like saying sinatra was a bad singer because he never wrote his own material, they have nothing to do with each other.

[Guest Mindless_Aggression]

Andrew W.K.'s gimmick didn't take off because like wrestling, some gimmicks suck and connect with no one. The guy wasn't talented enough to be just a musician, so they amped up his image, promoted how out of control he was and it fell on it's face. Easily some of the most horrible lyrics ever put to cock rock guitar licks. It's still funny in that cheesy way though.

[Guest ant_7000]

I always hear that Dr. Dre is a good rapper. When really he has his rhymes ghostwritten.

how's that take away from his ability as a pure rapper? that's like saying sinatra was a bad singer because he never wrote his own material, they have nothing to do with each other.

Rap is different, in order to get respect lyrically from rap heads, rappers have to write their own rhymes. Dr. Dre is a good producer or maybe one of the all time producers. To say Dre is a "pure rapper" is funny to me because he doesn't write his own rhymes. Like Dre, Puffy is not a rapper I look at them as entertainers.

[Guest El Satanico]

Last year, I was talking to this girl in my class about music:

 

Me: So, what kind of music are you into?

Girl: Well, I'm mostly into punk music.

Me: Really? Well, what are your favorite bands?

Girl: I like Blink 182, Sum 41, Good Charlotte, Korn, Limp Bizkit, Linkin Park.

Me: ......

 

The weird part was that I don't even listen to punk music and yet I KNEW that those bands weren't actually punk. And the best part was this girl was actually one of the smart kids in my class!

 

And I actually heard one of the "Gangsta" kids in my class say that Ja Rule and 50 Cent were the greatest rappers ever and were the second coming of hip-hop.

Intelligence and taste in music or musical knowledge has nothing to do with each other.

 

 

Saying it about Ja Rule is idiotic, but personal opinion aside saying it about 50 Cent isn't completely idiotic and is debatable. I find him terribly overrated and think he'll disappear from the radar sometime after the release of his second mainstream album, but he's light years better than Ja Rule.

[Guest saturnmark4life]

Andrew W.K.'s gimmick didn't take off because like wrestling, some gimmicks suck and connect with no one. The guy wasn't talented enough to be just a musician, so they amped up his image, promoted how out of control he was and it fell on it's face. Easily some of the most horrible lyrics ever put to cock rock guitar licks. It's still funny in that cheesy way though.

The idea is that the music and lyrics are silly, he jumps around and screams onstage and then he puts the reserved act on in his interviews discussing the music in depth like it's the most important thing in the world.

 

Like many, the PR machine tha got behind him didn't 'get' the gimmick, and so just promoted him as a guy who jumps around and stuff, and that's it. He was lumped in with pop punk bands and directed towards kids, the mainstream exposure killed his character.

 

Again, I'll accept that *maybe* it was completely unintentional that i nearly jizzed all over my stereo when I heard that album, but I can appreciate that it caused me to do so. He wrote said album, so I love him.

 

I'll also concede that the album didn't have that effect on many others, but at least they should appreciate that he's not just some guy they picked off the street and decided to give the gimmick to. He created it and they did a fairly decent job of ruining it. Still, the second album IS COMING~!

 

As soon as he changes the title and the cover to something less offensive. Another example of the restrictions he now faces.

 

But hey, diff'rent strokes.

[Guest croweater]

if you are saying that Daniel Johns writing ability is worse than Avril's

 

They're tied for the worst ever.

Firstly Avril co-writes her songs.

As for Daniel Johns.

Well. I'm as much a mark for Silverchair as I am for Bret Hart, so I'm bias. Lyrics written by Daniel Johns are THE SHIT! He is an unbelieviable lyracist and his lyrics fit his music perfectly. Yes...... when he writes crap the crap is really really smelly, but to say he is as bad as Avril is blasphemy.

When Daniel Johns writes a good song it is fucking brilliant. He shits all over most music and lyrics now days.

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

When Daniel Johns writes a good song it is fucking brilliant

 

Well, when that happens, be sure to notify me.

[Guest WhenDanSaysJump]

In another not-knowing-who-wrote-the-original vein...

 

Girl I overheard whilst David Bowie's "Man Who Sold The World" plays in the background.

 

"Aaaah! Why is this sad old man ripping off Kurt Cobain's genius like this?"

 

[Guest razazteca]

On one of those tv talent shows be it American Idol or one of the many rip offs a contestent said she will perform a song by DJ Sammy Heaven when it was orginally done by Bryan Adams!

[Guest Michael Joel Benoit]

And I actually heard one of the "Gangsta" kids in my class say that Ja Rule and 50 Cent were the greatest rappers ever and were the second coming of hip-hop.

 

Saying it about Ja Rule is idiotic, but personal opinion aside saying it about 50 Cent isn't completely idiotic and is debatable. I find him terribly overrated and think he'll disappear from the radar sometime after the release of his second mainstream album, but he's light years better than Ja Rule.

I don't know about that. I find both 50 Cent and Ja Rule to be both talentless and irritating, but 50 Cent gets the edge since, despite the fact he sucks, his songs get non-stop airplay on radio and MTV. I can't change the stations without hearing one of his songs! And I just don't get why people love him so damn much.

 

And the funny thing about the Ja Rule and 50 Cent comment was that it was said by one of the wannabe-gangsta thugs in my class. The kid who said acts like a thug, so I was suprised that it was HIM, and not one of the girls in my class who love 50 Cent because of his "thug" image, (which in itself is not true but that's another story), or someone who is not into rap, who said this.

 

Here's some more 50 Cent-related idioicy from an IM conversation I had with one of my friends back in May:

 

Me: Do you still listen to Ja Rule?

Friend: No. Ja Rule is ghey and stupid.

Me: Whew. Good.

Friend: I listen to 50 Cent.

Me: Ugh. You actually listen to that mush-mouth?! 50 Cent sucks!

Friend: What?!!! 50 Cent is da MAN~! How can you say he sucks?

Me: His flow is sub-par. He has good beats and that is what carries his songs. And the only reason he is so damn popular is because he is backed by Eminem.

Friend: You don't know what you're talking about!

Me: Why don't you listen to some good hip-hop?

Friend: What do you mean?

Me: Listen to some old-school hip-hop. Listen to Run-DMC, Public Enemy, LL Cool J. Listen to some Mos Def.

Friend: They all suck! Public Enemy sucks dick~!!! 50 Cent is the best rapper ever!

Me: You don't know what is actual talent then.

Friend: You don't know actual hip-hop! Don't be hatin' on 50. Go back to listening to your ghey Rock n' Roll music and leave hip-hop to the real gangstas!

Me: You? Gangsta?

[Guest AndrewTS]

About no respect for musicians who don't write their own lyrics...

 

It depends. For me, if you're a shitty singer, your music often is crap. Doesn't matter how good or bad the lyrics are or if you wrote them.

 

If the lyrics are good, and you wrote them but don't have the best voice, maybe I'll like you.

 

If you're a manufactored group or "artist" that got picked to sing cheesy pop lyrics, fuck you.

 

And what pisses me off most of all is that term. "Artist."

 

If you take a paint-by-numbers kid and haphazardly slap watercolor on it, don't call yourself an "artist" you pretentious cocksucker. If you're well respected by fans and critics alike, and there is true artistry to your craft, and you wrote it yourself, you can be considered an "artist."

 

If not, stick to "singer," "performer," or "musician."

[Guest CoreyLazarus416]

I had some kid in 8th grade try to convince me that Aerosmith was thrash metal...

[Guest saturnmark4life]

I can appreciate good writing, and if there's good writing behind a slightly talented pop group it can produce a classic pop song. But it's quite rare.

[Guest Spicy McHaggis]

and although I like the song and group, while elaving a Dave Matthews Band concert: "Man, Dave is a great songwriter to come up with (All Along the) Watchtower)". Nevermind that they dont' know that it was written by Dylan; to not know the Jimi version is inexcusable.

Sometimes I can't tell which is worse: Ignorant DMB Haters or Ignorant DMB Fans.