Little things you've learned from music.
 

ROME PLOWS! ROME PLOWS! ROME PLOWS! ROME PLOWS!

New Math?

I was kind of hoping this would be about factoids that music has turned you on to.

For instance, I did not know of Rome Plows before Drive Like Jehu.

Alpha Centauri and Proxima Centauri
Proxima being the closest to earth.

So you want factoids only?

The trouble with factoids is, how do you know they're factoids? By their nature, factoids have a ring of truth.

Also, nothing is ever a fact. Except the statement "nothing is ever a fact"

You're right, factoid isn't the right word since factoid can also mean the appearance of fact. I mean really just mean trivial facts.

Or maybe a song turn you onto more (like Sonic Youth's Pattern Recognition and the book)? Let's include those.

I learned about Kasper Hausen.

I dnt get it.

french.

i love the valley ---> je t'aime the valley OOOOOH

I learned that playing in a band really doesn't get you laid.

I've learnt being properly into music is often the worst thing for making friends...

true that.. sometimes

Completely true, nearly everyone I know has horrible taste haha!

Well apart from a few friends here and there, maybe that's why I like posting on messageboards.

I've met all my really good friends through our bonding over music.

I knew a dude who was completely into classical music (Beethoven and such) and then I showed him Harry Partch, The Residents, Captain Beefheart, etc and it blew his mind. We became best friends!

I knew a hardcore Christian dude who I was friends with and I turned him onto Lake of Dracula and a bunch of other Skin Graft bands and we became good friends.

One of my good friends, I met him through our shared love of Babyland...

I started burning my girlfriend cd's before we dated, about 5 1/2 years ago... Le Shok, Servotron, Polysics, Causey Way, all kinds of good shit... and I think that's what finally made her realize how cool I am (to her. Disclaimer: I'm not actually cool).

So, yeah, music has really helped me in a lot of situations to make good relationships with friends and more.

I've learned a few big words and even bigger chords.

BTW, how do you pronounce "Jehu".

Jay-who.

Well yeah, some people I do connect with musically. I think I'm starting to influence the group of people I started being friends with this year. Got some of them into Big Black, The Jesus Lizard etc.

One of my friends who I was in a band with is someone I dislike, but we still connect musically!

My friend and I totally bonded over bride of no no earlier this year. We sat and smoked weed and listened for an hour. Then, he taught me some diminished chords on the guitar. Best.

always difficult to hit the right note..

first its technically shitty
than the audience should dig it
in acting as a loyal bandmember i'm still searching

One thing about my guitar playing style, it's a blessing and a curse. No one sounds like me, but I usually don't like the way I sound. I'm technically decent, but I want to do things completely different. And then I just get frustrated at the guitar and want to give up.

I learnt to masturbate at different speeds in a confident manner.

same. i just stayed away from it for a while now. i picked it up today and it was okay.

I like my style.

self awareness sucks.

Yep.

its a plus to have friends into good music, not totally neccesary. i generally have three groups of friends. my old highschool firneds, only one of them and my brother lsitens to wierd stuff, the rest are into mainly punk, metal, and hip hop. then there's my friends/neighbors who live around my apartment complex, literally NONE of them listen to good stuff, but were around eachother so often that were all the best of friends anyways, these are the people i spend the most time with. then there's the people i play in bands with and such. but in tucson, the people who listen to good music think theyre so much better than everybody it makes my fucking stomach turn.

almost everything i know about music i found out by myself and not by friends.

crass taught me that one doesn't need to know how to play but they still can make amazing music.

listening to shit loads of hip hop for a couple months straight kinda put rhymes into my head so now i can freestyle pretty good.

kind of pointless but its fun

I learned that life can be fun.
I learned that I'm not the only one that thinks that most people in the world are stupid and annoying.
I learned that politicians are full of lies.
I learned that your parents are just as flawed as you are.
I learned that acid is interesting.

i have become more socially aware because of the music i listen to. well maybe i would've turned out the same way without punk rock, but it sure has helped.

I learnt the word 'pinions' from the Birthday Party's Mutiny in Heaven.

And, upon double-checking the spelling, I learnt it's also a small cog, which makes no sense in the context of the song.

I learned to NOT GIVE A FUCK about anything.

Listening to NWA, I learned how to pop a cap in yo ass.

I agree, I used to (I'm past this now) automatically "judge" people based on their tastes. This wasn't a good thing, because I'm pretty much the only person at my school who is into music in a big way.
Anyway, I've never been able to turn anyone onto the music I listen to. Everyone seems to think "I've never heard of them, they can't be any good." or "Television/Einstuerzende Neubauten/Sonic Youth have a stupid name. I'm not going to listen to them."
It's so frustrating to be told that what I listen to is crap, when these people have never heard what I listen to. They just say it so authoritively, and won't accept that their opinion may not be correct.

A good lesson learned well.

I don't judge people by their music tastes.

Apart from Pixies fans, who are all twats.