Chapter Two wrote:Come out of the closet, Rodabod.

What are you suggesting?

Oh!

Next time, scream in their face that if they ever mention that name around you again you'll pull their spine out of their eye socket. We're behind you.

Yes. Just to reinforce those, someone in the pub recently explained to me how the fucking, fucking, fucking Kaiser fucking Chiefs (please excuse the language) were the most exciting band to be around in a long time and how they have revived [now cringe]..... Punk.

Yes. They said that.

And also how their music was so expressive and exciting.

Meanwhile, I'm trying to keep a straight face and avoid an argument. When I reply, "Oh, I don't really like them..." I get the response, "So what sort of music do you listen to?"

At this point I stop and allow bad thoughts to ferment.

Why do people here get so angry about the NME and the crappy bands and pseudo-indie circus it foments? Do you all read it every week to build up ire against it?

It doesn't annoy me in the slightest. That's probably because I haven't bought or read it nor any other music press, really, for at least eight years, so I know bugger all about modern pop bands before I hear them now. I can highly recommend this state of musical grace.

johnnyshape wrote:Why do people here get so angry about the NME and the crappy bands and pseudo-indie circus it foments? Do you all read it every week to build up ire against it?

It doesn't annoy me in the slightest. That's probably because I haven't bought or read it nor any other music press, really, for at least eight years, so I know bugger all about modern pop bands before I hear them now. I can highly recommend this state of musical grace.

I'm with you on this. I just thought Rodabod should be living up to the Scottish stereotype and nutting some bastard, that's all.

Chapter Two wrote:

johnnyshape wrote:Why do people here get so angry about the NME and the crappy bands and pseudo-indie circus it foments? Do you all read it every week to build up ire against it?

It doesn't annoy me in the slightest. That's probably because I haven't bought or read it nor any other music press, really, for at least eight years, so I know bugger all about modern pop bands before I hear them now. I can highly recommend this state of musical grace.

I'm with you on this.

Me too(three). This is how I've still never managed to hear a single Libertines song. There's no need for all this perpetual wailing and gnashing of teeth.

I don't read the NME any more. I did years ago. It has left a sour taste in my mouth. I do see the front cover in the shops though.

Hearing the radio and random people talking drivel to me about music though insites the rage in me.

johnnyshape wrote:Why do people here get so angry about the NME and the crappy bands and pseudo-indie circus it foments? Do you all read it every week to build up ire against it?

Because it serves to re-enforce a vacuous music 'industry' by setting a false bench-mark for the alternative to the 'mainstream'.

Basic Chomsky innit? The thing that poses most danger (or at least is most crippling) to that which is other than the mainstream is media which purports (Guardian-like) to represent the 'other' but in fact merely represents that which the mainstream doesn't find entirely abhorrent.

The NME influences the kind of bands venues will book, the kind of bands people will go to see, and when they consistently get it wrong and the youth falls out of love with R&R this is a genuinely damaging thing in terms of 'THE MUSIC SCENE' in general.

People don't know they are going to fall in love with R&R until they do, and it's a shame to see a perversion of parts of the 'delivery mechanism' such as the NME and LeMack's ilk are guilty of.

si-maro wrote:Oh Domino, what are you doing?

(lamenting smiley)

: (

Makin' some Monnayyy...

Rodabod wrote:Hearing the radio and random people talking drivel to me about music though insites the rage in me.

I find that saying, "it's obvious that they are shit, but they serve their purpose by, y'know, entertaining the unwashed masses" works really well to offend people who like this stuff, but are too pompous to admit that they are the masses (and smelly too).

Or, go the Stuart Brathewaite route, and say "I have a degree in music; this is shite and I can prove it".

Mr. Binary wrote:I find that saying, "it's obvious that they are shit, but they serve their purpose by, y'know, entertaining the unwashed masses" works really well to offend people who like this stuff, but are too pompous to admit that they are the masses (and smelly too).

This is pretty much true, but I think I would get a battering for saying that.

Or, go the Stuart Brathewaite route, and say "I have a degree in music; this is shite and I can prove it".

And I do actually have a degree in music! I have thought of pulling that one before, but I thought it might come across as too pompous.

Rodabod wrote:I have thought of pulling that one before, but I thought it might come across as too pompous.

You're right, it would.