Dudes I met at the Chilliac show in Philliac just played with these guys. I didn't go. Why spend large amounts of money to see a band you may like and a band you may or may not know.

Maybe I'll see them when they can legally smoke.

Fuck Pitchfork!

Darryl_P wrote:You're almost right. It wouldn't matter if they weren't overhyped and boring as hell.
I'd be okay with them being boring, if only they weren't being avertised to me as "Fresh, original and exciting."
When I hear that I want an act that really is fresh, original AND exciting. Not some watered down shit I've heard a million times before done much better.
There is just no point in listening to this band. If you are, you're wasting time.
Unless of course you can't be bothered to seek out this better music you're hearing about so much, in which case I guess it's excusable to listen to Be Your Own Pet. Just keep letting the NME or whatever tell you what you like.

If you don't read the NME, then I apologise for being presumptuous, but you might as well be.

Edit: Just out of interest, do you like fireworks? Watching dogs chase their tails?

Errr, yes, as you've probably guessed from the bumped Fireworks thread, I like fireworks a great deal (and who would't). What I can't stand is pantomine and jugglers.
Well, here in Germany we don't get the NME and over here BYOP are not hyped at all. In fact, they are completely unknown. When I heard their music for the first time I had no idea who they were and what they looked like, but truth be told, it didn't sound like watered down shit to me. What always sounded like watered down shit to me were, to pick a band at random, REM and yet, this band seems to enjoy huge popularity even among the connoisseurs of this forum. Now it would never occur to me to deny those folks the pleasure they obviously get from listening to REM though personally I think REM is one of the most overrrated and hyped bands ever. And yet I bet some british hack described them at some stage as fresh, original and exciting cause that's what they label new bands when they can't think of anything catchy. Whereas in my view there was always a certain dullness to the music of REM. A dullness, I might add, that BYOP lack.
The other day me and my pal were driving around town and we listened to old tapes of the John Peel Show (90/91). That was around the time when Peel was an avid fan of Babes in Toyland, so you usually got two tracks from BIT per hour and I have to admit, that it occured to me that BYOP sound very much like BIT at times, alas Babes in Toyland had a really crap drummer, so they were slowing down most of the time. BYOP on the other hand, are speeding up nicely.

cheers

d

dimpfelmoser wrote:

Darryl_P wrote:You're almost right. It wouldn't matter if they weren't overhyped and boring as hell.
I'd be okay with them being boring, if only they weren't being avertised to me as "Fresh, original and exciting."
When I hear that I want an act that really is fresh, original AND exciting. Not some watered down shit I've heard a million times before done much better.
There is just no point in listening to this band. If you are, you're wasting time.
Unless of course you can't be bothered to seek out this better music you're hearing about so much, in which case I guess it's excusable to listen to Be Your Own Pet. Just keep letting the NME or whatever tell you what you like.

If you don't read the NME, then I apologise for being presumptuous, but you might as well be.

Edit: Just out of interest, do you like fireworks? Watching dogs chase their tails?

Errr, yes, as you've probably guessed from the bumped Fireworks thread, I like fireworks a great deal (and who would't). What I can't stand is pantomine and jugglers.
Well, here in Germany we don't get the NME and over here BYOP are not hyped at all. In fact, they are completely unknown. When I heard their music for the first time I had no idea who they were and what they looked like, but truth be told, it didn't sound like watered down shit to me. What always sounded like watered down shit to me were, to pick a band at random, REM and yet, this band seems to enjoy huge popularity even among the connoisseurs of this forum. Now it would never occur to me to deny those folks the pleasure they obviously get from listening to REM though personally I think REM is one of the most overrrated and hyped bands ever. And yet I bet some british hack described them at some stage as fresh, original and exciting cause that's what they label new bands when they can't think of anything catchy. Whereas in my view there was always a certain dullness to the music of REM. A dullness, I might add, that BYOP lack.
The other day me and my pal were driving around town and we listened to old tapes of the John Peel Show (90/91). That was around the time when Peel was an avid fan of Babes in Toyland, so you usually got two tracks from BIT per hour and I have to admit, that it occured to me that BYOP sound very much like BIT at times, alas Babes in Toyland had a really crap drummer, so they were slowing down most of the time. BYOP on the other hand, are speeding up nicely.

cheers

d

It's sad that you should have to defend your personal opinion in this way. You really shouldn't have to, but rising to the bait wasn't a great move either.

Anyway, people of this esteemed internet message board, let this man have his opinions! So he likes a [opinion]sub-standard, derivative damp fart of a band[/opinion] that we don't!? So what?! Rag on the band, not the fan! Unless said fan is also partial to fucking babies.

Do you fuck babies? Because if you do...

Rimbaud III wrote:
It's sad that you should have to defend your personal opinion in this way. You really shouldn't have to, but rising to the bait wasn't a great move either.

Anyway, people of this esteemed internet message board, let this man have his opinions! So he likes a [opinion]sub-standard, derivative damp fart of a band[/opinion] that we don't!? So what?! Rag on the band, not the fan! Unless said fan is also partial to fucking babies.

Do you fuck babies? Because if you do...

A nice variation on the firework motif. I wonder what will come next.

I got the impression, that most of this site is devoted, apart from buttering up to Steve and his associates, to illustrating your pesonal opinion. I can see nothing sad about it.

But hey, do you got nothing better to do than read threads concerning bands that you obviously don't like? That's kinda sad. Go outside and be adventerous.

cheers
d

dimpfelmoser wrote:

Rimbaud III wrote:
It's sad that you should have to defend your personal opinion in this way. You really shouldn't have to, but rising to the bait wasn't a great move either.

Anyway, people of this esteemed internet message board, let this man have his opinions! So he likes a [opinion]sub-standard, derivative damp fart of a band[/opinion] that we don't!? So what?! Rag on the band, not the fan! Unless said fan is also partial to fucking babies.

Do you fuck babies? Because if you do...

A nice variation on the firework motif. I wonder what will come next.

I got the impression, that most of this site is devoted, apart from buttering up to Steve and his associates, to illustrating your pesonal opinion. I can see nothing sad about it.

But hey, do you got nothing better to do than read threads concerning bands that you obviously don't like? That's kinda sad. Go outside and be adventerous.

cheers
d

Excuse me?

I think you've completely missed the point of my post. I was actually defending your right (not that it needs to be done) to have the opinion you do. What I am suggesting is a shame is that other people's criticisms here seem to have turned from the band TO YOU. That's what's sad.

The baby-fucking comment was a joke! Did it offend you because you DO actually fuck babies?

....apart from buttering up to Steve and his associates

you mean something like making shellac fan art and posting it on the board?

i come here for poker advice.

on the subject, would anyone play a pair of tens if i was the small blind and the player to my right has raised the stakes immediately from the off? baring in mind he's been bullying everyone out of their blinds for the last six hands or so.

tommydski wrote:i come here for poker advice.

on the subject, would anyone play a pair of tens if i was the small blind and the player to my right has raised the stakes immediately from the off? baring in mind he's been bullying everyone out of their blinds for the last six hands or so.

I think it's time to call SNAP.

NOT SNAP!

tommydski wrote:i come here for poker advice.

on the subject, would anyone play a pair of tens if i was the small blind and the player to my right has raised the stakes immediately from the off? baring in mind he's been bullying everyone out of their blinds for the last six hands or so.

Seriously though, I am a veteran poker player of quite some repute. I don't want to give away my real name for fear of you fanboys bombarding me with love-letters and advice on how to be better players. I'll make an exception for you though, Tommy, because I like your face.

Here's my tip:

Throw a back flap on the nine and square up your púpe-twix. Seriously, no one expects púpe-twixing on nines - PARTICULARLY when they're doubled back with a rack of spades. Hold your scrotes, hold 'em tight, because when your right-hand gland goes all space-echo on you you NEED to be pumping like Gerald (on a five).
Don't lose (or indeed loose) your nerve. YOU are holding all the sticks here. Remember that.

Pleasure.