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I just got a kit Kat that didn't have the crisp wafer in it. I'm not sure how I feel about this. Did I get cheated, or is it better than a regular kit Kat?
It's better. It means you are special and gifted among all men (or women).
See, look at our two approaches. smellycat thinks you are cheated. It think you got more chocolate. How can that be a bad thing?
But variety is the spice of life! You need that wafer! Who would want a Reese's Cup without the peanut butter?
I just got a kit Kat that didn't have the crisp wafer in it. I'm not sure how I feel about this. Did I get cheated, or is it better than a regular kit Kat?
It's better. It means you are special and gifted among all men (or women).
See, look at our two approaches. smellycat thinks you are cheated. It think you got more chocolate. How can that be a bad thing?
because the wafer is the whole point of a kit kat! if I wanted just chocolate, I would get a hershey's bar or something.
i went to a wedding in nashville this weekend and boy am I glad I took an early flight on sunday. the hangover was awful and I was exhausted. but my buddies who waited are now sitting around the airport waiting for flights to be uncancelled.
Does anyone ever negatively judge a band before you have heard anything they do based purely on their name and the fact that other people like them? Its a pattern in myself I've noticed.
Right now I'm developing a dislike of Future Islands, having heard absolutely nothing they have done. I am assuming they are some kind of electro pop thing with no real depth. Some lame dude singer. I have not read anything about them other than what people on inforoo say.
I disliked Sylvan Esso before I heard them, assuming it would be tissue soft indie stuff (I was correct, I do not like them).
I disliked Parquet Courts before I heard them, assuming it would be fuzzy reverby indie stuff. I was wrong I do like them.
So its a phenomenon that doesn't really hurt me, since I do ultimately give the bands a listen and make a decision. But I do wonder where this comes from. I'm thinking it might go back to my teenage years in the mid-90s, where it became wildly uncool to like a band that achieved some arbitrary level of popularity.
I used to. This place pretty much changed that for me though. It sounds like you need to be more consciously open minded.
I think music is similar to drugs or alcohol. The mind state you go into music with has a direct impact on the music's effect on you. That's why you can hear a song 999 times and hate it and then on the 1000th spin it just clicks.
I'm actually way more open minded musically then I used to be. I stopped listening to Radiohead for years after Kid A because it made me so angry. I thought it was just noise and all the fans were brainwashed. But I one day I gave it another shot and was like well shit, I was wrong. Then I got to listen to Hail To The Thief and enjoy that because I never even listened to it.
Similarly I hated Kanye for years after Late Registration because of his antics. I realize now focusing on whatever stupid link bait headline I read about an artist and forming an opinion based on that is silly. Furthermore, discarding an entire artist's body of work just because they are rude and/or arrogant is also silly, IMO.
Not to turn this into a Kanye discussion (but hey what the hell I'm going to), but recently Kanye had his little thing at the Grammy's where he acted like he was going to take the mic from Beck. I read Facebook probably about once a day, quick scroll through the feed, but don't post very often. The day after my whole feed was filled with people posting shitty stories about Kanye, fuck kanye, he's a piece of shit, etc. Most people know I'm a big music guy so I decided to come out of the Kanye closet and post on facebook that I love Kanye's work and think he's brilliant. Man that caused a real shit storm. Something about Kanye West makes people so angry.
And so I had to think, what has Kanye done to earn not just disregard, but such enmity? I know he compares himself to all these great artists. I know he really wants his friend Beyonce to get more recognition, to the extent that he'll insult (maybe kind of?) other artists. I know he wants everybody at his show to stand up, to the point where he verified the fans who weren't standing were actually handicapped. I would describe all of those things as rude or arrogant, but not necessarily worthy of this foaming at the mouth rabid vitriol? Am I missing something?
Back on topic, but like I said in my first post, I will give anything a listen, regardless of my insane predisposition towards it with no basis in reality whatsoever. And I'll be opened minded when I listen, because I think I truly want to enjoy the music I'm listening to. Hell I'm even listening to the new Drake album and enjoying a track or two.
I used to. This place pretty much changed that for me though. It sounds like you need to be more consciously open minded.
I think music is similar to drugs or alcohol. The mind state you go into music with has a direct impact on the music's effect on you. That's why you can hear a song 999 times and hate it and then on the 1000th spin it just clicks.
I'm actually way more open minded musically then I used to be. I stopped listening to Radiohead for years after Kid A because it made me so angry. I thought it was just noise and all the fans were brainwashed. But I one day I gave it another shot and was like well shit, I was wrong. Then I got to listen to Hail To The Thief and enjoy that because I never even listened to it.
Similarly I hated Kanye for years after Late Registration because of his antics. I realize now focusing on whatever stupid link bait headline I read about an artist and forming an opinion based on that is silly. Furthermore, discarding an entire artist's body of work just because they are rude and/or arrogant is also silly, IMO.
Not to turn this into a Kanye discussion (but hey what the hell I'm going to), but recently Kanye had his little thing at the Grammy's where he acted like he was going to take the mic from Beck. I read Facebook probably about once a day, quick scroll through the feed, but don't post very often. The day after my whole feed was filled with people posting shitty stories about Kanye, fuck kanye, he's a piece of shit, etc. Most people know I'm a big music guy so I decided to come out of the Kanye closet and post on facebook that I love Kanye's work and think he's brilliant. Man that caused a real shit storm. Something about Kanye West makes people so angry.
And so I had to think, what has Kanye done to earn not just disregard, but such enmity? I know he compares himself to all these great artists. I know he really wants his friend Beyonce to get more recognition, to the extent that he'll insult (maybe kind of?) other artists. I know he wants everybody at his show to stand up, to the point where he verified the fans who weren't standing were actually handicapped. I would describe all of those things as rude or arrogant, but not necessarily worthy of this foaming at the mouth rabid vitriol? Am I missing something?
Back on topic, but like I said in my first post, I will give anything a listen, regardless of my insane predisposition towards it with no basis in reality whatsoever. And I'll be opened minded when I listen, because I think I truly want to enjoy the music I'm listening to. Hell I'm even listening to the new Drake album and enjoying a track or two.
I didn't even like Radiohead until 3 years ago (I admittedly had awful taste in music, but it's all I knew). I had the same thing happen with Kanye, and I'm also now the one who seems to be "defending" him, when I'm really just standing up for people as a whole. Nobody deserves to be hated by millions of people that don't know shit about you. When I say more consciously open minded, what I mean is that you have to acknowledge those premature, negative sub conscious thoughts and understand that they're silly. Once you do, it makes it very easy to see if you actually like a band or not upon a first listen. It isn't to suggest you aren't open minded, because you really seem to be. It's just something we all need to be more conscious of in this day and age where most of the music we hear get's analyzed and picked apart before we even hear it. Taking this approach to music over the past few years has really had an enormous impact on my entire life though. I call it stubborn objectivity.
Post by SupeЯfuЯЯyanimal on Feb 17, 2015 15:31:47 GMT -5
“Hmm… he’s soft and hard at once, like steel encased in velvet, and surprisingly tasty…”
“My inner goddess is doing the merengue with some salsa moves.”
“Sitting beside me, he gently pulls my sweatpants down again. Up and down like whores’ drawers, my subconscious remarks bitterly. In my head, I tell her where to go.”
“My inner goddess jumps up and down with cheer-leading pom-poms shouting yes at me.”
"I feel the color in my cheeks rising again. I must be the color of The Communist Manifesto."
“Miss Steele, you are not just a pretty face. You’ve had six orgasms so far and all of them belong to me.”
“My inner goddess looks like someone snatched her ice cream.”
"Once they’re inside me, I can’t really feel them—but then again I know they’re there … Oh my … I may have to keep these. They make me needy, needy for sex.”
“Hmm… he’s soft and hard at once, like steel encased in velvet, and surprisingly tasty…”
“My inner goddess is doing the merengue with some salsa moves.”
“Sitting beside me, he gently pulls my sweatpants down again. Up and down like whores’ drawers, my subconscious remarks bitterly. In my head, I tell her where to go.”
“My inner goddess jumps up and down with cheer-leading pom-poms shouting yes at me.”
"I feel the color in my cheeks rising again. I must be the color of The Communist Manifesto."
“Miss Steele, you are not just a pretty face. You’ve had six orgasms so far and all of them belong to me.”
“My inner goddess looks like someone snatched her ice cream.”
"Once they’re inside me, I can’t really feel them—but then again I know they’re there … Oh my … I may have to keep these. They make me needy, needy for sex.”
“Hmm… he’s soft and hard at once, like steel encased in velvet, and surprisingly tasty…”
“My inner goddess is doing the merengue with some salsa moves.”
“Sitting beside me, he gently pulls my sweatpants down again. Up and down like whores’ drawers, my subconscious remarks bitterly. In my head, I tell her where to go.”
“My inner goddess jumps up and down with cheer-leading pom-poms shouting yes at me.”
"I feel the color in my cheeks rising again. I must be the color of The Communist Manifesto."
“Miss Steele, you are not just a pretty face. You’ve had six orgasms so far and all of them belong to me.”
“My inner goddess looks like someone snatched her ice cream.”
"Once they’re inside me, I can’t really feel them—but then again I know they’re there … Oh my … I may have to keep these. They make me needy, needy for sex.”
What the actual fuck is this?
Quotes from one of the top 10 bestselling books of all time. Not sure which one though. Probably The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe.
"His breathing is ragged, matching mine. 'When did you start your period, Anastasia?' . . . He reaches between my legs and pulls on the blue string — what?! — and gently takes my tampon out and tosses it into the nearby toilet. Holy fuck. Sweet mother of all . . . Jeez. And then he's inside me. . . ah!"
“Miss Steele, you are not just a pretty face. You’ve had six orgasms so far and all of them belong to me.”
It takes a lot of confidence to claim the possession of a woman's orgasms. Now I know why they wrote books about him.
"Suddenly, he sits up and tugs my panties off and throws them on the floor. Pulling off his boxer briefs, his erection springs free. Holy cow! . . . He kneels up and pulls a condom onto his considerable length. Oh no . . . Will it? How?"
The bold might be the most important writing of our time.
Not to be down on this board, but does anyone know of a good board for general music discussion - new releases, links, news, music suggestions, etc.? I used to frequent /mu/ on 4chan, but...well, it's 4chan. I don't like admitting that I go there even if it is just for music. Reddit's music related pages are kind of meh.
Not to turn this into a Kanye discussion (but hey what the hell I'm going to), but recently Kanye had his little thing at the Grammy's where he acted like he was going to take the mic from Beck. I read Facebook probably about once a day, quick scroll through the feed, but don't post very often. The day after my whole feed was filled with people posting shitty stories about Kanye, fuck kanye, he's a piece of shit, etc. Most people know I'm a big music guy so I decided to come out of the Kanye closet and post on facebook that I love Kanye's work and think he's brilliant. Man that caused a real shit storm. Something about Kanye West makes people so angry.
And so I had to think, what has Kanye done to earn not just disregard, but such enmity? I know he compares himself to all these great artists. I know he really wants his friend Beyonce to get more recognition, to the extent that he'll insult (maybe kind of?) other artists. I know he wants everybody at his show to stand up, to the point where he verified the fans who weren't standing were actually handicapped. I would describe all of those things as rude or arrogant, but not necessarily worthy of this foaming at the mouth rabid vitriol? Am I missing something?
As far as I know, you haven't missed anything, and I find myself wondering the same thing fairly regularly. Since I've been out of the Kanye closet for years, I find myself in conversations with otherwise friendly and lovely people who are proudly spouting their hate for him. Heck, even one of my spanish professors from college messaged me about Kanye after the grammys and said he would've failed me if he was my music professor instead
I have no earthly idea what it is that makes people hate him SO much.
We have a plethora of anti-Kanye folks here though, so I'm sure we'll get some sort of explanation soon.
Not to be down on this board, but does anyone know of a good board for general music discussion - new releases, links, news, music suggestions, etc.? I used to frequent /mu/ on 4chan, but...well, it's 4chan. I don't like admitting that I go there even if it is just for music. Reddit's music related pages are kind of meh.
I've been trying to get the thread I made into something like that - general music news discussion
it's basically been myself posting shit that I'm interested in, but I'll talk music news with you!!
Not to be down on this board, but does anyone know of a good board for general music discussion - new releases, links, news, music suggestions, etc.? I used to frequent /mu/ on 4chan, but...well, it's 4chan. I don't like admitting that I go there even if it is just for music. Reddit's music related pages are kind of meh.
Probably a dumb question but you have checked out the Music Lounge, right?
Not to be down on this board, but does anyone know of a good board for general music discussion - new releases, links, news, music suggestions, etc.? I used to frequent /mu/ on 4chan, but...well, it's 4chan. I don't like admitting that I go there even if it is just for music. Reddit's music related pages are kind of meh.
4chan deserves all the criticism it gets but there are a lot of knowledgeable people around those parts. The obvious thing is just to stay out of /b/. The rest of the boards are really no worse then the rest of the net. Just some people are more strait up dickheads because its an anon board. Still, you can find some great discussions.
Do you post much in the music lounge? Discussion fluctuates but we have some really good threads in there. Start something up and I'm sure you'll get a response.
Not to turn this into a Kanye discussion (but hey what the hell I'm going to), but recently Kanye had his little thing at the Grammy's where he acted like he was going to take the mic from Beck. I read Facebook probably about once a day, quick scroll through the feed, but don't post very often. The day after my whole feed was filled with people posting shitty stories about Kanye, fuck kanye, he's a piece of shit, etc. Most people know I'm a big music guy so I decided to come out of the Kanye closet and post on facebook that I love Kanye's work and think he's brilliant. Man that caused a real shit storm. Something about Kanye West makes people so angry.
And so I had to think, what has Kanye done to earn not just disregard, but such enmity? I know he compares himself to all these great artists. I know he really wants his friend Beyonce to get more recognition, to the extent that he'll insult (maybe kind of?) other artists. I know he wants everybody at his show to stand up, to the point where he verified the fans who weren't standing were actually handicapped. I would describe all of those things as rude or arrogant, but not necessarily worthy of this foaming at the mouth rabid vitriol? Am I missing something?
As far as I know, you haven't missed anything, and I find myself wondering the same thing fairly regularly. Since I've been out of the Kanye closet for years, I find myself in conversations with otherwise friendly and lovely people who are proudly spouting their hate for him. Heck, even one of my spanish professor's from college messaged me about Kanye after the grammys and said he would've failed me if he was my music professor instead
I have no earthly idea what it is that makes people hate him SO much.
We have a plethora of anti-Kanye folks here though, so I'm sure we'll get some sort of explanation soon.
Kanye is an easy target. He does say and do things that deserve a bit of eye-rolling or annoyance but overall it's not terribly worse than other huge artists from the past.
The thing with Kanye is....people already hate him so whenever some new story comes up it's met with "What did that idiot do this time?". They go into anything about him with the mindset of hating him for what he did.
My mom tried to have a conversation about it and asked me what I thought about my guy Kanye at the Grammy's. I said the same as I posted here: That I thought what he did on the show was funny, was annoyed by some of his sentiments in the press conference after the shows, but then not annoyed the next day or two when he clarified his comments and complimented Beck a few times.
She started to talk about how he's an ass and how it was wrong to do that to Beck and that she feels bad for Beck. When I asked her if she had even heard any of Beck's new album or if she thought it should have won she said "No" that she hadn't listened to it. Then when I said that Beck didn't seem to mind and even said he thought Beyonce should be up there and that kind of left her without much ammunition. Then I pointed out that she wasn't mad at Kanye because of what he did to Beck. She's just mad at Kanye because she dislikes him and this was another thing.
Honestly, I think if he didn't put his foot in his mouth after the show the whole thing would have been a bit more accepted. At the show it felt like an SNL-type of moment where he was being self-deprecating. Yea...he took a little bit of the spotlight away from Beck for a split second but in the end it was one of the more entertaining moments of the show.
Not to be down on this board, but does anyone know of a good board for general music discussion - new releases, links, news, music suggestions, etc.? I used to frequent /mu/ on 4chan, but...well, it's 4chan. I don't like admitting that I go there even if it is just for music. Reddit's music related pages are kind of meh.
Probably a dumb question but you have checked out the Music Lounge, right?
I have browsed the Music Lounge a little bit. I need to make an effort to do it more when I'm at home and have access to my music library and where streaming services aren't blocked - work pretty much blocks everything. I mostly browse here when I'm in between assignments and meetings at work.
Not to be down on this board, but does anyone know of a good board for general music discussion - new releases, links, news, music suggestions, etc.? I used to frequent /mu/ on 4chan, but...well, it's 4chan. I don't like admitting that I go there even if it is just for music. Reddit's music related pages are kind of meh.
4chan deserves all the criticism it gets but there are a lot of knowledgeable people around those parts. The obvious thing is just to stay out of /b/. The rest of the boards are really no worse then the rest of the net. Just some people are more strait up dickheads because its an anon board. Still, you can find some great discussions.
Do you post much in the music lounge? Discussion fluctuates but we have some really good threads in there. Start something up and I'm sure you'll get a response.
Yeah, I've found quite a good many bands on 4chan. I may check out the Music Lounge here more when I'm at home and have my music library at hand and can download/stream. I mostly browse in between meetings at work.
Not to be down on this board, but does anyone know of a good board for general music discussion - new releases, links, news, music suggestions, etc.? I used to frequent /mu/ on 4chan, but...well, it's 4chan. I don't like admitting that I go there even if it is just for music. Reddit's music related pages are kind of meh.
I've been trying to get the thread I made into something like that - general music news discussion
it's basically been myself posting shit that I'm interested in, but I'll talk music news with you!!
I'll be sure to check out the Music Lounge more often when I'm at home, then. I enjoy discussing music news and albums. One thing I like about 4chan's music board is that there seems to be a constant share thread going based on genres and artists. I've found a massive amount of my favorite artists that way. I was just looking to branch out to a less anonymous music related board.
Probably a dumb question but you have checked out the Music Lounge, right?
I have browsed the Music Lounge a little bit. I need to make an effort to do it more when I'm at home and have access to my music library and where streaming services aren't blocked - work pretty much blocks everything. I mostly browse here when I'm in between assignments and meetings at work.
Yea, the Music Lounge has a lot of good threads but some get buried. If you have a specific topic or discussion you're thinking of you can always ask here and people can point you in the right direction (if a thread similar to that topic exists).
I have browsed the Music Lounge a little bit. I need to make an effort to do it more when I'm at home and have access to my music library and where streaming services aren't blocked - work pretty much blocks everything. I mostly browse here when I'm in between assignments and meetings at work.
Yea, the Music Lounge has a lot of good threads but some get buried. If you have a specific topic or discussion you're thinking of you can always ask here and people can point you in the right direction (if a thread similar to that topic exists).
Right. For example, I'm really into 80's goth/post-punk stuff right now and would like to have a discussion about the genre and essential artists/albums to listen to. I just wasn't sure if enough traffic passed this board that would foster such a discussion.
Yea, the Music Lounge has a lot of good threads but some get buried. If you have a specific topic or discussion you're thinking of you can always ask here and people can point you in the right direction (if a thread similar to that topic exists).
Right. For example, I'm really into 80's goth/post-punk stuff right now and would like to have a discussion about the genre and essential artists/albums to listen to. I just wasn't sure if enough traffic passed this board that would foster such a discussion.
I'll see if I can dig up any thread along those lines but it's possible one doesn't exist yet. In that case you can just make a new thread and sometimes threads like that take off. Sometimes there are slow points but other times people latch on to a certain thread and discussion goes on for a while. Some threads end up sticking around for years and get bumped every now and then.
Right. For example, I'm really into 80's goth/post-punk stuff right now and would like to have a discussion about the genre and essential artists/albums to listen to. I just wasn't sure if enough traffic passed this board that would foster such a discussion.
I'll see if I can dig up any thread along those lines but it's possible one doesn't exist yet. In that case you can just make a new thread and sometimes threads like that take off. Sometimes there are slow points but other times people latch on to a certain thread and discussion goes on for a while. Some threads end up sticking around for years and get bumped every now and then.
Sweet. I'll keep an eye out and sift through some old threads and see what I can dig up. I generally use last.fm for music suggestions, but I'm looking for a new way to find new music that is a little more social - I don't really have any friends on there. I also heard rumblings that it was going to be shut down anyways. Thanks again!