Bunch of old curmudgeons, I love it (and agree with about 95% of all these)!

The Velvet Underground is the most overrated pretentious bullshit music unleashed upon the world in the last 120 years. That's why nobody gave two fucks about them for two decades until equally boring bands started lauding them as a major influence in the 80s. Basically a no-musicianship Zappa for the junkie east-coast pop-art flunkie set and poseur New Yorkers.

jason from volo wrote: Tue Dec 07, 2021 4:10 pm In high school, before I knew of VU, my first band wrote a very awful two-chord song in A major called "Chains, Whips, and Naked Chicks".

Five years later, when a friend introduced me to VU (I was ignorant to them up to that point), I realized we had plagiarized VU without knowing it.

So good!

...reminds me at times of a bunch of high school band geeks fucking around with instruments that they don't know how to play; particularly their first album or two.

Listening to strung-out people play, let alone randomly fuck around, is no fun. Even Charlie Parker and Coltrane played way better when they were clean.

Curry Pervert wrote: Tue Dec 07, 2021 2:56 pm Opera is painful to listen to and people who claim to like it are attempting to gentrify their frontal lobes to impress other people of a similar disposition. They would all be better off with a lobotomy performed with a cheese grater.

I’m not a huge fan of opera, but when it’s great, it’s really something.

I mean, this:

PASTA wrote: Tue Dec 07, 2021 1:50 pm

tommy wrote: Tue Dec 07, 2021 12:16 pm There's maybe like 3-5 good bands on Dischord. The rest of the catalog is a complete throwaway.

Which 3-5?

circus lupus, dag nasty, embrace, faith, faraquet, fugazi, happy go licky, hoover, jawbox, lungfish, make-up, minor threat, nation of ulysses, rites of spring, shudder to think and void.

only those sixteen.

The Wire had some dialogue written by people who had never seen "the street" in any way.

Recorded music is a mistake.

akosinski wrote: Tue Dec 07, 2021 4:41 pm

PASTA wrote: Tue Dec 07, 2021 1:50 pm

tommy wrote: Tue Dec 07, 2021 12:16 pm There's maybe like 3-5 good bands on Dischord. The rest of the catalog is a complete throwaway.

Which 3-5?

circus lupus, dag nasty, embrace, faith, faraquet, fugazi, happy go licky, hoover, jawbox, lungfish, make-up, minor threat, nation of ulysses, rites of spring, shudder to think and void.

only those sixteen.

Agreed, but add Gray Matter, Three, Ignition, and Fire Party. I'm probably forgetting a couple.

losthighway wrote: Tue Dec 07, 2021 5:24 pm

akosinski wrote: Tue Dec 07, 2021 4:41 pm

PASTA wrote: Tue Dec 07, 2021 1:50 pm

Which 3-5?

circus lupus, dag nasty, embrace, faith, faraquet, fugazi, happy go licky, hoover, jawbox, lungfish, make-up, minor threat, nation of ulysses, rites of spring, shudder to think and void.

only those sixteen.

Agreed, but add Gray Matter, Three, Ignition, and Fire Party. I'm probably forgetting a couple.

Oh and Antelope, Autoclave, and Slant 6.

four_oclocker_2.2 wrote: Tue Dec 07, 2021 5:32 pm

losthighway wrote: Tue Dec 07, 2021 5:24 pm

akosinski wrote: Tue Dec 07, 2021 4:41 pm

circus lupus, dag nasty, embrace, faith, faraquet, fugazi, happy go licky, hoover, jawbox, lungfish, make-up, minor threat, nation of ulysses, rites of spring, shudder to think and void.

only those sixteen.

Agreed, but add Gray Matter, Three, Ignition, and Fire Party. I'm probably forgetting a couple.

Oh and Antelope, Autoclave, and Slant 6.

And Smart Went Crazy and Beauty Pill.

tallchris wrote: Tue Dec 07, 2021 5:34 pm

four_oclocker_2.2 wrote: Tue Dec 07, 2021 5:32 pm

losthighway wrote: Tue Dec 07, 2021 5:24 pm

Agreed, but add Gray Matter, Three, Ignition, and Fire Party. I'm probably forgetting a couple.

Oh and Antelope, Autoclave, and Slant 6.

And Smart Went Crazy and Beauty Pill.

Soulside, VOID, the 3 and Red Emma tracks on Stat of the Union