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Post by Last Rock Hope on Aug 12, 2020 23:43:25 GMT
If you'd like to hate this guy as much as I do take a gander at his posts in the "is good music universal or subjective" thread. I was going to quote some but there are 558 of them to choose from and I was losing the will to live.
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Post by daved on Aug 13, 2020 0:04:05 GMT
I think COLA once said, everyone with a Grateful Dead username or avatar is an asshole.
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Post by krabapple on Aug 13, 2020 4:39:52 GMT
When I was a kid one of my friends and I were just getting into prog so ELP was high on the list after we got well acquainted with their first few albums. We were going through his dad’s LP’s and I spotted Love Beach. As soon as we looked at the album cover, we busted out laughing because of how painfully hard they were trying to look like the Bee Gees. Then I read the song titles and that confirmed that the album was going to be terrible. I concluded that was the point in their career where they were forced to reinvent themselves, and did so totally inauthentically. Before I put it on the turntable, I inspected the record out of curiosity. Most of the great albums his dad had were trashed, but I was completely unsurprised to see that this one was practically in Mint condition. He probably listened to it once and then never again. Of course when I put it on, it was just as terrible as we thought it would be. Sometimes you really can judge a book by its cover. I don’t even remember what any of the songs were called or what they sound like. I think we got through maybe side one at most before we couldn’t take it anymore. The half that's better than the album's rep is side 2. The half that more than justifies its rep is the side you listened to. Releasing the album at all was a mistake, but was compounded by putting Lake's atrocious tracks first, instead of the more recognizably ELPish 'epic' that occupies side 2.
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Post by mintyjackhole on Aug 13, 2020 23:32:47 GMT
Terrapin Station is not having RZA creating a new royalty free ice cream truck song to replace "Turkey In The Straw".
"I thought, "Hmm, this is interesting" until I heard the motivation for it, at which my eyes rolled so far back in my head I needed an ice cream scoop to set them right again.
Enough with fishing for this sort of controversy crap, enough with the completely ignorant understanding of how meaning works, enough with the moralizing, etc."
Remarkable that he knows how meaning works.
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Post by Norman ‘Whiplash’ Mailer on Aug 14, 2020 1:35:30 GMT
Terrapin Station is not having RZA creating a new royalty free ice cream truck song to replace "Turkey In The Straw". "I thought, "Hmm, this is interesting" until I heard the motivation for it, at which my eyes rolled so far back in my head I needed an ice cream scoop to set them right again. Enough with fishing for this sort of controversy crap, enough with the completely ignorant understanding of how meaning works, enough with the moralizing, etc." Remarkable that he knows how meaning works. His poat is liked by GiantLeech and Dubious Title so he’s got the actual Nazis on his side.
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Post by Last Rock Hope on Aug 14, 2020 2:24:01 GMT
This is a great example of what makes him so extra-hateable. Not only does he have the awful opinion but he has to add the fake-smart bullshit about "understanding how meaning works". It's like when says a guitar can't be out of tune because there are different ways of interpreting "pitch content". Total asshole.
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Post by mintyjackhole on Aug 15, 2020 2:54:50 GMT
Terrapin Station: Pretentious or just blind as well. TS takes offense at someone saying they aren't into Chopin, but it doesn't mean he sucked. This is from the latest hot takes thread. Terrapin: "I don't like James Joyce and I call his writing rubbish. Same with, say, Ingmar Bergman's films. (And there are tons of other writers and filmmakers in the canon I'd say the same thing about.) You shouldn't hesitate if you don't like Chopin that much. "
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Post by Last Rock Hope on Aug 27, 2020 0:00:49 GMT
from the "Is anyone an expert of master of something?" thread. Terrapin Station:
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Post by Last Rock Hope on Aug 28, 2020 8:39:05 GMT
Hotel California vs. Crazy Crazy Nights
TS:
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Post by Last Rock Hope on Aug 28, 2020 21:54:02 GMT
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Post by Last Rock Hope on Aug 30, 2020 16:40:30 GMT
From the Cathy Smith thread..
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Post by respiratoryproblems on Aug 30, 2020 21:55:46 GMT
Translation: no one will have sex with me, so I’m morally justified in forcing myself on kids and the mentally subnormal.
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Post by Terrapin Station on Nov 27, 2021 10:16:57 GMT
Does he think he's being smart and clever, or is he just deaf? I guess you don't really understand the idea of different people having different tastes, and this having nothing to do with intelligence?
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Post by Terrapin Station on Nov 27, 2021 10:28:30 GMT
And I have yet to be proven wrong. Still waiting to be proven wrong. You might pretend you ain't got one on the bottom of you, but don't fool yerself girl
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Post by graucho on Nov 29, 2021 20:41:25 GMT
Someone with a music degree + Grateful dead avatar + Zappa collection is likely to fill the upper echelons.
Pretty sure most people who are qualified to teach music are the people who just shouldn't be. This is due to the fact that music academies and private schools (where the money is) are 100 years behind. They think that being trained in the Western classical canon is the only barometer of musicality. In my experience, people with music degrees, while being good at their orchestral instruments - have as much innate sense of groove as Mr Freeman.
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