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re: Best Current Rock Band?

Posted on 10/12/12 at 12:18 pm to
Posted by bobbyray21
Member since Sep 2009
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Posted on 10/12/12 at 12:18 pm to
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I disagree with this statement in its entirety. Great music is more than just something you enjoy, it becomes a part of you. It says something about the human condition or expresses emotions or thoughts that words cannot express.


Not if you don't like it.
Posted by shuke33
Under The Bridge
Member since Nov 2010
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Posted on 10/12/12 at 12:19 pm to
I do think Justin Biebers fanbase deserves to be laughed at because they think they're all high and mighty.

but if you suggested Freddy Mercury is a better singer they go apeshit.
Posted by Baloo
Formerly MDGeaux
Member since Sep 2003
49645 posts
Posted on 10/12/12 at 12:25 pm to
Sure. But there are other people in the world other than you. There's a reason films tend to use the same songs to signify a certain epoch (well, laziness). Some songs are almost a shared experience and their use can bring about reaction in a large audience -- even if those reactions are viscerally different.

If "Yesterday" were to start playing right now with all of in the audience, we'd all recognize the tune and have an instant emotional response. Yours, apparently, would be violently negative. But its a song so ubiquitous that us this point it has become part of the communal experience of being alive right now. How cool is that?

But even more obscure songs can have deeply held personal reactions by people. I used the Beatles because you've made it clear you hate them and therefore they are not a part of your experience. I'd argue the opposite. Your hatred of the music has now become a personal identifier (which, guh, means KISS is a similar identifier for me). The music you don't like says as much about you as the music you do like. It's not just negative space.
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