everyone likes music unless you are the town from footloose
so there are bands that are more well known than others
in this thread, we shall tell people bands that we like that are fairly known so we can become the same as each other
individuality must die
i like the beatles
Neutral Milk Hotel, Cat Power, Crass, Discharge, Leftover Crack, Joy Division
plus more, naturally.
Quote from: skylark-e on June 04, 2008, 11:42:02 PM
Neutral Milk Hotel, Cat Power, Crass, Discharge, Leftover Crack, Joy Division
plus more, naturally.
"ITT well known bands that you like"
I listen to a lot of well known bands, probably 30% of bands I like are known by a lot of people. The Beatles, 'Stones, Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, AC/DC, Aerosmith, Pink Floyd, Van Halen, Bob Dylan, Nirvana, etc.
Also, how would we classify bands like, Black Flag, that aren't known by a lot of people, but not very unknown either?
Quote from: Co-Z on June 05, 2008, 05:51:43 AM
"ITT well known bands that you like"
Half of those bands (Neutral Milk Hotel, Cat Power, Joy Division) could easily be called well known, unless you're from Footloose.
Tool, A Perfect Circle, Muse, Smashing Pumpkins, Rage Against the Machine
hi i like nirvana
Uh. Let's see.
Nirvana, Tool, Smashing Pumpkins, The Offspring, Iron Maiden, Led Zeppelin, just to name a few.
i like rap
Quote from: houdini on June 05, 2008, 07:31:35 AM
Half of those bands (Neutral Milk Hotel, Cat Power, Joy Division) could easily be called well known, unless you're from Footloose.
Wasn't that the point?
Quote from: houdini on June 05, 2008, 07:31:35 AM
Half of those bands (Neutral Milk Hotel, Cat Power, Joy Division) could easily be called well known, unless you're from Footloose.
Depends on who it's well known by.
A lot of people in the IRL don't know who the fuck those bands are, but people with deeper interests in music probably know the names, and the same goes with people of the internet.
Quote from: skylark-e on June 05, 2008, 10:42:51 AM
Wasn't that the point?
Yes, but some people aren't very good at getting the point.
Quote from: Co-Z on June 05, 2008, 11:03:15 AM
Depends on who it's well known by.
A lot of people in the IRL don't know who the fuck those bands are, but people with deeper interests in music probably know the names, and the same goes with people of the internet.
Stupid people don't count.
Quote from: skylark-e on June 04, 2008, 11:42:02 PM
Neutral Milk Hotel, Cat Power, Crass, Discharge, Leftover Crack, Joy Division
plus more, naturally.
Sure those bands are well known to an indie audience, but I'm pretty sure the point of this thread is top 100 bullshit. If those bands are well known, then I listen to a lot of well known music.
Red Hot Chili Peppers, Dropkick Murphys, Cake, the Clash
Radiohead, Muse, Beatles, Bowie, Pink Floyd, Yes, Goldfrapp, No Doubt
Quote from: houdini on June 05, 2008, 11:08:55 AM
Stupid people don't count.
There goes 70% of music listeners.
Quote from: 36 on June 05, 2008, 11:12:24 AM
Sure those bands are well known to an indie audience, but I'm pretty sure the point of this thread is top 100 bullshit. If those bands are well known, then I listen to a lot of well known music.
Yup, you said it right. To an overall audience, they're not widely known.
If I wear a Neutral Milk Hotel shirt to school I always get at least 10 things said to me about it, they're a well known band and they have a huge fan base. They're well know.
Cat Power was in Juno for gods sake. Enough said.
Joy Division was a big band in the 70s and I heard them playing IN THE GAP. In the gap, COME ON.
Crass and Discharge are huge... Sorry if you're only window to punk is Hot Topic.
Leftover Crack is probably the least well know band on that list and they're pretty well known. So well known that they're not allowed into Canada..
hey guys :|
I enjoy me some Bsoton and Styx. You just cant beat their sound! doodella;
Quote from: Thunderhero4 on June 05, 2008, 02:21:56 PM
I enjoy me some Bsoton and Styx. You just can beat their sound! doodella;
I really hope the can was intentional.
Quote from: houdini on June 05, 2008, 07:31:35 AM
Half of those bands (Neutral Milk Hotel, Cat Power, Joy Division) could easily be called well known, unless you're from Footloose.
I'm from footloose. :(
But skylark, those people commenting are indie fans, right? NMH is totally known in an indie crowd, but not an overall crowd. If you asked everyone in your school if they had heard of Neutral Milk Hotel, a lot would say they haven't.
I consider a band "well known" when it's a common name that everyone's heard, ie The Beatles, U2, Pink Floyd, Nirvana.
I think well-known and common knowledge are entirely different things.
Quote from: skylark-e on June 05, 2008, 04:42:15 PM
I think well-known and common knowledge are entirely different things.
What do you consider well-known?
something that isn't a household name but isn't entirely underground.
Maroon 5, Nirvana, Linkin Park (when they don't suck)
Quote from: Andrew1911 on June 05, 2008, 02:22:44 PM
I really hope the can was intentional.
Boston is fucking incredible.
Styx...not so much.
Quote from: skylark-e on June 05, 2008, 01:41:16 PM
If I wear a Neutral Milk Hotel shirt to school I always get at least 10 things said to me about it, they're a well known band and they have a huge fan base. They're well know.
Cat Power was in Juno for gods sake. Enough said.
Joy Division was a big band in the 70s and I heard them playing IN THE GAP. In the gap, COME ON.
Crass and Discharge are huge... Sorry if you're only window to punk is Hot Topic.
Leftover Crack is probably the least well know band on that list and they're pretty well known. So well known that they're not allowed into Canada..
None are mainstream which means they arn't well known. That is all.
There is a difference between main-stream and well known. And this thread asks for well known.
Quote from: skylark-e on June 05, 2008, 01:41:16 PM
Joy Division was a big band in the 70s and I heard them playing IN THE GAP. In the gap, COME ON.
Overpriced clothing will tear us apart
Radiohead (they're well known i guess), Kanye West, Cheap Trick, The Cure
Quote from: houdini on June 05, 2008, 07:35:57 PM
Overpriced clothing will tear us apart
Hahaha
good one ^_^
"Love Will Tear Us Apart" was actually the song that was playing (well, of course it was...)
Cursive, Weezer, The Mars Volta, The Libertines, Andrew Bird, and Gorillaz are ones that come to mind... I think most people have heard of those. My 60's-70's favorites are also almost all names that any adult or fan of classics would recognize.
ohgawd, you're all basically saying "look at me, look at how much i adore my mainstream faggotry, now who wants to have a gay orgy with me?" doodthing;
this thread is stupid, you should all be content in your obscure elitist circles, screw everyone else tbh =/
Quote from: Lovefoxxx on June 07, 2008, 05:45:37 AM
ohgawd, you're all basically saying "look at me, look at how much i adore my mainstream faggotry, now who wants to have a gay orgy with me?" doodthing;
this thread is stupid, you should all be content in your obscure elitist circles, screw everyone else tbh =/
I prefer elitist squares.
Quote from: Lovefoxxx on June 07, 2008, 05:45:37 AM
ohgawd, you're all basically saying "look at me, look at how much i adore my mainstream faggotry, now who wants to have a gay orgy with me?" doodthing;
this thread is stupid, you should all be content in your obscure elitist circles, screw everyone else tbh =/
I didn't realize saying I like the Clash made me such a horrible person. I could care less what other people listen to
Quote from: houdini on June 07, 2008, 09:25:44 AM
I prefer elitist squares.
Quite funny. But elitists make me uncomfortable. Especially the super "indie" girls.
And to the quote of your quote. Why is it not alright to like something well-known (it says well-known, goddamnit, not mainstream.) Are you so hip that it becomes uncool to listen to something other people enjoy as well?
Quote from: skylark-e on June 07, 2008, 01:06:37 PM
Quite funny. But elitists make me uncomfortable. Especially the super "indie" girls.
Elitists all deserve to kicked in the face and crotch, especially the ones that say any music they don't like isn't actually music.
Oh, I've never heard that. I hate the ones that quiz you on music. Like wtf? Especially when it's at a show...
There is this terrible group of elitists that troll all of the Plan-It-X (and Trunkspace, which is practically the same thing) shows. Always wearing the thriftiest of clothes. Even though they probably got it all at Buffalo Exchange.
Quote from: skylark-e on June 07, 2008, 01:50:22 PM
Oh, I've never heard that. I hate the ones that quiz you on music. Like wtf? Especially when it's at a show...
I hate when that happens. One time I went to a Sonic Youth show and got quizzed on music by at least fifty different smug, American Apparel-clad douchebags. The best part was that I was the only one who knew anything about the opening band.
ooh Sonic Youth? I bet that was a nice show.
And oh god, American Apparel. That's just a red light right there.
Quote from: skylark-e on June 07, 2008, 02:00:59 PM
ooh Sonic Youth? I bet that was a nice show.
It was indeed.
Quote from: skylark-e on June 07, 2008, 02:00:59 PM
And oh god, American Apparel. That's just a red light right there.
To be fair, their clothes are really comfortable. Still, they basically serve as a warning to avoid anyone wearing them at all costs.
Quote from: houdini on June 07, 2008, 02:08:23 PM
It was indeed.
To be fair, their clothes are really comfortable. Still, they basically serve as a warning to avoid anyone wearing them at all costs.
Oh, I know that they are. Especially their shirts. A lot of band t-shirts are American Apparel (or at least it seems so here) I have this Neutral Milk Hotel t-shirt and it's got an American Apparel tag.
I went to this Kimya Dawson - Angelo Spencer - Jeffrey Lewis and the Jitters (AMAZING) show and I swear like 95% of the kids there were wearing American Apparel.
Some of them were pretty cool though. When people get too fashionable though I just can't compete.
Quote from: skylark-e on June 07, 2008, 02:13:39 PM
Oh, I know that they are. Especially their shirts. A lot of band t-shirts are American Apparel (or at least it seems so here) I have this Neutral Milk Hotel t-shirt and it's got an American Apparel tag.
I went to this Kimya Dawson - Angelo Spencer - Jeffrey Lewis and the Jitters (AMAZING) show and I swear like 95% of the kids there were wearing American Apparel.
Some of them were pretty cool though. When people get too fashionable though I just can't compete.
That reminds me - a lot of elitists think they're so cool because they listen to Kimya Dawson, but in reality they had never heard of her until they saw Juno. I've never seen Kimya myself, but I once passed by a club she was playing at and saw a gigantic line of about giggling quasi-anorexic indie girls all wearing American Apparel leg warmers.
Quote from: houdini on June 07, 2008, 02:28:48 PM
That reminds me - a lot of elitists think they're so cool because they listen to Kimya Dawson, but in reality they had never heard of her until they saw Juno. I've never seen Kimya myself, but I once passed by a club she was playing at and saw a gigantic line of about giggling quasi-anorexic indie girls all wearing American Apparel leg warmers.
I've seen her play twice, this past year and the year before that.
And oh my gosh... It was so funny to see her pre-Juno show and her post-Juno show. Just the difference in the crowd was hilarious. She puts on a great show and is a nice woman. She's actually pretty hilarious.
I FUCKING HATE INDIE SNOBS.
They're just horrible. They reject anything that could be played on a radio, flex their e-peens when they find a new band, and think they're the kings of the music world. Morons.
It's a very lonely world for a straightfoward rock n' roll guy like me. Everyone's either mainstreamed, an indie snob, or a metalhead.
Indie Snobs are terrible.
But I actually think it's more frequent to see die-hard classic rock fans be music snobs than indie kids.
No you'd be surprised how easy it is to find an indie snob, half of my friends are like that ffs
Indie is for stupid teenage kids who think they're the centre of the fucking universe, and are constantly bitching about how awful their life is, and how that makes them 'in touch with their emotions', like the whole word should stop and pay attention to their faggy emotional issues for a second...i.e. the sorta kids in shows like One Tree Hill, and The OC....(though i admit i liked the OC)
general rule of thumb: Indie+Goth = Emo
Now progressive rock, that's filled with incredibly intelligent people (like me), who are allowed to be complete assholes because their taste in music really is better than yours :)
You're as ridiculous as any indie snob.
And I'm not saying Indie kids are any good at all, generally they aren't. But I think you have indie and emo mixed up, they aren't the same thing at all.
Quote from: skylark-e on June 07, 2008, 03:12:45 PM
You're as ridiculous as any indie snob.
And I'm not saying Indie kids are any good at all, generally they aren't. But I think you have indie and emo mixed up, they aren't the same thing at all.
the only thing that makes indie kids different to emos is the clothes, and the scene and all that shit, and indie kids are just a litle easier to cope with, oh, and indie kids are all pseudo-intellectual and think Radiohead are an awesome band, when they totally aren't doodthing; The main point is, don't take the scene and the whole hipster attitude seriously. No one does. And if you do, well, then I'm cooler than you.
I agree with you about radiohead.
And I think indie kids are WAY more tolerable than emos. Not just a bit. And of course they're all pseudo-intellectual. That's probably one of the worst bits about them. They are a lot better to hang out than emos are, not nearly as immature and are generally more attractive.
It's kind of like saying Punk and Goth are practically the same thing just becasue they came about around the same time. It's not truth.
I think there's a trifecta of music snobs: indie kids, metalheads, and classic rockers. All three hate each other and shove their elitism down society's collective musical throat. There are other additional offenders, but these three are the words at the moment.
Quote from: skylark-e on June 07, 2008, 03:21:56 PM
They are a lot better to hang out than emos are, not nearly as immature and are generally more attractive.
One big difference between indie kids and emos is that indie kids have some redeeming value, whereas emos have none.
Quote from: houdini on June 07, 2008, 03:29:24 PM
I think there's a trifecta of music snobs: indie kids, metalheads, and classic rockers. All three hate each other and shove their elitism down society's collective musical throat. There are other additional offenders, but these three are the words at the moment.
and to think i used to be all three, but thank fuck i came to and discovered the light at the end of the tunnel - prog rock [/watch me attempt to belittle everyone elses opinion (bar prog rock fans) for the remainder of the thread]
actually the worst kind of fans are mainstream elitists, i.e. mainstrem raps fans who subconciously beleive all other music is crap, except that none of them possess the sufficient brain cells to engage in intelligent conversation anyway (y'know who i mean, the types that say 2Pac is the greatest artist of all time), and people who think MTV showcases the best music to ever grace the earth, and trust me as horrible as it may seem those sorts of people do exist. what i dont understand is why Raptor Jesus hasnt killed them all like the horrible god-forsaken abominations they are
I don't understand how you can bash other elitists but be one yourself.
Quote from: skylark-e on June 07, 2008, 03:42:30 PM
I don't understand how you can bash other elitists but be one yourself.
because there's a wrong type of elitism, and a right type, and I of course am 'holier than thou could ever hope to be'
Quote from: Lovefoxxx on June 07, 2008, 03:50:40 PM
because there's a wrong type of elitism, and a right type, and I of course am 'holier than thou could ever hope to be'
There's only one kind of elitism: the stupid type.
Agreed.
I love A7x the used, the offsprng, she wants revenge, etcetc.
Basically all of my music comesfrom well-known bands.
Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Cure, Cocteau Twins, Radiohead, Garbage, Portishead
Quote from: houdini on June 07, 2008, 03:29:24 PM
I think there's a trifecta of music snobs: indie kids, metalheads, and classic rockers. All three hate each other and shove their elitism down society's collective musical throat. There are other additional offenders, but these three are the words at the moment.
I don't see too much classic rock snobs, but they get irritating. Especially when they reject new bands that sound 25 years old. Then they're just stupid.
I could easily befriend, and have a pleasant conversation with, an indie fan or a metalhead, as long as they wouldn't be some kind of elitist jerk. But anyone except an isolated monk enjoys feeling better than other people about meaningless thing (even me, and you). The result: an indie snob or metalhead finds all his indie or metal friends, and they become circle jerks.