I hear you — I always try to add similar-thread links in the context of the fact that successfully searching for earlier threads can be difficult, and as a crusty Gabby Hayes old-timer I’ve learned a bunch of site search tricks that turn up such threads. The snide “we’ve already done this” is indeed obnoxious.
Hm. OK so by induction we have determined that there are fans for boring music. Who says we never get anything done here? If that's true then negativity is built into any forum where music is the subject. It's in the DNA of any forum to let boring music be commented on, by a heterodox crowd. THere will be a ying and a yang in it. Of course I haven't explained how to separate boring from intersting in a universal definition. I'll work on that one. Imagine boring music spoken of with only positivity though? It's like a sci fi movie.
I could have put it better, but this is what I meant. Of course, linking to another thread can lead to a load of other relevant posts and opinion. This is obviously a good thing.
I don't like Foghat, but you're right Some people think they are superior and more sophisticated for dismissing classic rock (not my favourite genre btw) and listening modern hip hop
The goal of the gorts isn't to create a community of Stepford men, it's to keep hostility at bay. Those negative threads attract the trolls and bring out the worst in people. And vice-versa.
Good points drad dog. But how do we define boring? When Brian Eno's Music for Airports was installed in a few airports the reaction was very mixed. Some people HATED it and thought it was boring. I thought it was marvelous!
It's as thoughtful as you allow it to be. If they don't do the thinking, sometimes I get inspired to do it for them. The point is that even the most intellectually-impeded negative opinions can give you pause to think about the artist from an angle other than the one that is warmed by the direct rays of your pure, true fanlove for chosen idol and messiah. The negative opinions are part of the conversation. We need 'em. The negative opinions actually create a lot of the conversation here. Plus some of them are funny 'cuz they're so dumb . D.D.
My words were put to the test earlier this evening. My wife and I went to San Francisco to visit my step-daughter. We had dinner at a new good, basic Thai restaurant in the Castro District. The food was decent and reasonable but the music was a challenge for me- too loud (most is these days), digital (ditto), and kind of a combination of modern r&b/ rap/ hip hop. I told my step daughter about this thread and how this music was challenging my thinking. But I also pointed out that this music had a lot of energy and this IS, after all, The City, and look, those people are digging it and are happy! I had a hard time with the music but, what the hay, who am I to say it is bad music? These people were HAPPY (and some were even gay, ya know!? ). So I passed my own test. And my step daughter, who is at an age where this kind of music is much more appreciated said, "It's not something I care for but I don't hate it. Why hate it?" Right on, baby.
See ? Perfect example of how negativity, when successful, can potentially open up yet another line of conversation. Perhaps not in this particular instance mind you, but not every acorn grows a tree and not every baby is an Einstein and we have to keep the bigger picture in mind. D.D.
I find that urbanites don't get as hung up on newer music as suburbanites or more rural folk. Even older urbanites dig the newer music. Where one lives and surrounds themselves with has an impact of what we like and regard as good or exciting.
It seems natural to diss mainstream music if ones tastes are not mainstream. It also seems very easy diss non-mainstream music if you like The Beatles.
