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[veganinja]

If there is a song that makes me feel like I'm flying in an awesome spaceship over a beautiful lit-up alien city at night on my way to get drunk on alien-wine and make out with hot aliens, more than "Flugufrelsarinn" by Sigur Ros does, I'd like to hear it

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[veganinja]

I am breaking the 'comment barrier' so that other people will comment. Also, people get that I am not really being serious about everyone hating me and wanted to talk about SNL products, right? I'm thinking yes.

[veganinja]

I'm trying to get help. Did you watch the video?

[nolegs]

Journey's alright. Though I like the album covers more than the music. When it comes to bands that people pretend to pretend to like I enjoy Fleetwood Mac much much more. Rhiaaaaaaaaaaanon. Good song.

[raks_rambleings]

*cries* I like a Creed song *hangs head in shame*

[kirk_tinman]

Actually, I'm not afraid to say that there was a time when I liked Limp Bizkit alright - and there are still a few songs that I like... I never liked it enough to buy, but I did burn some of their stuff. And it was good for certain moods

[hippiepixie]

You have inspired to admit that I really liked Korn once upon a time, and somewhere inside probably still do.

That confession was quite liberating.

Unrelatedly-ish, Billy, I never used to notice The Hork as a particular social type, but ever since you first mentioned it I've been seeing them EVERYWHERE.

[veganinja]

Well, Kirk, I don't have much to say right now, except that I'm very pleased with myself (as always), yet surprised, that probably my least original post about music ever has spawned actual thoughtful talking about music. Rock on... and don't stop rocking, brother.

[badusername]

mmm korn. whatever I miss nu metal. LET THE BODIES HIT THE FLOOR

[brymulder]

My favorite band of that type is System of a Down. They take that style of music and blow it open to such a ridiculous level that it becomes a form of self-satire. They have a level of creativity not common to the genre. All my friends who were listening to Weezer and Dashboard Confessional at the time were merciless when told them I liked SoaD though.

[veganinja]

I agree with that, actually. Why? Because System of a Down have one song that I actually like un-ironically, called "Spiders." Also, I don't know, something about them does just seem a cut above the rest of that crap. Plus in highschool when I had a really long beard, people told me I looked like the singer.

Weezer's album "Pinkerton" still gets listened to by me. I actually got on the Weezer bandwagon when emo kids started thinking they were hip, which was actually long after their original run with "Buddy Holly" and "Sweater" and other such hits. Dashboard Confessional, though, I'm not so sure about. Though I went to a Saves the Day show in 11th grade and DashCon opened, and instead of a bunch of preteen girls who shop at Urban Outfitters, like their fans are now, it was a bunch of drunken, bearded streetpunks singing their hearts out along with it.

[hippiepixie]

I saw Dashboard once, maybe a year or so ago. (They were opening for Beck, shut up). It was painful and I try not to think about it. It's interesting how much the other people at a show affect the experience - would it have been slightly less awful if they hadn't been Urban-Outfitters-wearing preteen girls? I don't know.
Only sort of relatedly, it's interesting, I think, how even one particular person at a show will stick in my memory, and years later I can say, "Wow, what a great show, but that one person who did ______ was so ridiculous!"
For example, Liz, if you're reading, remember that girl at The Stills? I know you do...

[mathpunk]

OMG, the drunken, badly dressed one who thought she was a scenester but very clearly was not and who wanted to bone the band and was standing on that concrete thing near the front? How could I forget? She was second worst part about that show (the worst part was that opening band who wanted to be FUGAZI but sucked my big black dick).

[metron_ariston]

"Flugufrelsarinn" by Sigur Ros

I downloaded it. And my reaction = MEH.

Maybe another listen will enlighten me some. Or, you know, since everyone but me seems to hate The Gathering perhaps I'm just doomed to have crappy taste in music except for The Gossip (who, I finally realized, remind me of someone..... PJ Harvey! only on speed or something.)

[veganinja]

Well, PJ Harvey is good too. It sucks, though, that people now think she's a "new" artist or something just because they haven't heard of her other CDs because they didn't just come out.

You like some pretty good stuff. Costello, Cave, Oberst, Songs in the Key of X, those sweaty bare-chested arena-goth Cult songs you sent me, etcetera. But yeah, the Gossip do sound like some of PJ's more bluesy stuff, but with more boogie.

[metron_ariston]

Who the fuck is Oberst?

Also: those sweaty bare-chested arena-goth Cult songs

>:O

[mathpunk]

Duh, PJ is not a new artist, she is the reigning queen of rock and roll. I think the real reason is that she's British and not American, so American music mags don't hype her every move, so people forget about her between albums and she's always making a "comeback" that's not really a comeback since she never left.

Hey, Billy, have you heard the Desert Sessions she was on? I was wondering if it was any good. I'm not sure I want to shell out $16 or whatever to listen to Josh Homme dicking around, but PJ is one of his collaboraters on teh newest one.