Originally Posted by ni'k

but this will never happen because as someone already said this place is used more as an "ego support" network for a small number of people who enjoy presenting a false avatar of themselves. but i think some are also probably genuinely trying to maintain friendships with each other so i can't knock it too much. most people who come here are searching for some way to be in the world, the secret they think must enable sy to do what they do, they lurk around and gradually post more and more until they are no longer in awe of the regular ones who must know something they don't because they have become them to the newer posters so they get sick of themselves. it is an unusually friendly board, we all complain but it is a lot more welcoming and civil than most.

this place is also the graveyard of a certain type of generation x attitude that is long past its sell by date and only brings misery to the sad fuckers who try to keep it up as their worldview because it is long obsolete and now just purely conservative. but you do get a certain connection here with what is new in the underground at a level of dedication and obscurity that is unusual for such a mainstream band. the likes of dj rick and nyoukis etc. who occasionaly post here, cooley's 100 strong best of the year lists. stuff like that makes it worthwhile but there is so little of it and so much of the same old bands we all know and don't get anything new out of anymore.

i want to leave but it just keeps sucking me back in with it's pointless and quick oppurtunity for attention. i wish i knew some other better board.

Originally Posted by Dr. Eugene Felikson

big asses, El Topo, black metal, noise, b-movies, gothic girls, favorite painters, weed, tarot cards, and Sonic Youth all at once?

Originally Posted by !@#$%!

Originally Posted by Rob Instigator

the skronk to 11 again.

Originally Posted by Genteel Death

Another thing, for all your talk about raising the skronk to 11 this and raising the skrong to 11 that, I get the impression you have a very conservative taste in terms of what music can sound like or can do to do one's perception/ pleasure. Your populistic banter is ok in all its romanticism, but often I find it's only used by people who pussyfoot their way out from things that really sound like the real deal. It reminds me of when someone constantly makes a big thing of how things are in terms of their perception of ''the state of music'' - to use a pompous expression that I'm sure goes through too many a mind of so called non-mainstream listeners when they express what they think of such and such band - but a quick investigation on what tickles their fancy reveals that their curiousity for finding out stuff has a clear set of limitations somewhere, drawn somewhere inside their head, and often not apparent to themselves. This is fine, I don't see why someone shouldn't be like that. The only problem I see is that it becomes less stimulating conversing about music with them because you already know where it will end.

Originally Posted by Rob Instigator

Nope. I just know what I like. don;t care what others like.

Originally Posted by atsonicpark

More Lohan!

Originally Posted by Genteel Death

Name today's bands you think are making shit music, and then name today's bands you think are making good music, or offer the hope of making things right for you in the future. You are too vague, please namedrop.

Originally Posted by Rob Instigator

again, I am speaking of the general flux and ebb of pop music. not about specific bands.
I am waiting for it to ebb back towards aggressive angry cathartic rawk.

Originally Posted by Rob Instigator

best time for music ever! HA!

fleet foxes? FLEET FOXES????

Originally Posted by Toilet & Bowels

why are you so fixated on music you dislike, why don't you just ignore it? do you even check out the bands people (i.e. us) recommend you? we're trying to do you a favour!
who gives a fuck about fleet foxes?! i think i heard one of there songs once, and it sucked (sounds like the beach boys with their balls cut off right?), but who fucking cares? aside from the musical aberation that was nirvana there haven't been any good popular rock bands since the 70s.

Originally Posted by Glice

Alternately, pop music is in the best health it's been in in my memory.

Originally Posted by Glice

Also, techno music was, in part, a reaction to the rock dinosaurs. You don't see that because you really are too old for popular culture. As am I. As are most people here.