"How the West Was Won" and "DVD" - Page 3

The Germanator · 05-31-2003, 02:40 PM

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Originally posted by DJ Mike Hunt
How fastidious you are. I'm sure your music is much more mature than ours. So what do you like then? Neutral Milk Hotel? Elf Power? Apples in Stereo? Olivia Tremor Control? People who like Indie Rock are so damn annoying. I don't think they actually listen to that crap, they just want people to think they're smart for liking bands that no one else has even heard of.

Yeah, I just talk about bands and their music because I don't listen to them, good one...I'm not trying to say that I'm smart or anything like that, but when people dismiss ALL new music, you sometimes have to wonder if they know that there are other options besides what you hear on the radio. If they've listened to a lot of indie rock and such and still don't like it, at least they've given a chance and said, "okay I still don't like it"...That's fine, and then they can still listen to their Led Zeppelin and whatnot. And when did I ever say that my music was more mature than anyone else's? My first statement was that I didn't like Led Zeppelin, then I defended my statements by showing what new music I did like.

DJ Mike Hunt · 05-31-2003, 05:49 PM

You seemed rather bigheaded in your third post, and what you said at the beggining was quite foolish. I think Led Zeppelin were one of the better hard rock quartets to come out of the 70s, and I'm sure that most full-blooded rock and rollers would agree. It's fine to dislike the band, but the "Led Zeppelin sucks" post was really unnecessary, since this thread was probably made to start up a civil, informed discussion about how k3WL teh band iz. Maybe you should take your Led Zeppelin sucks assertion elsewhere and make an "official" Zeppelin sucks thread or something. I really don't like arguing with strangers via the internet, (i'm lying) but I still think that what you typed earlier was really pathetically stupid. The "Most of the bands I listen to are on indie labels, 90% of which you've probably never heard of" part. Obviously you are bragging, and obviously you put yourself above others, because you listen to unpopular music. Or maybe you just didn't realize how jackassy that sounded. And what do you like, andyway? Stuff off the Orange Twin label, probably? I can put up with that sort of music, but I'd rather listen to led Zeppelin. And as I'm sure someone will point out later, Led Zeppelin were formed in the sixties and still performed together in the eighties.

Joeiss · 05-31-2003, 08:04 PM

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Originally posted by DJ Mike Hunt
Yes. Yes they do. I didn't know they did Dazed and Confused. I always thought that was a Yardbirds' song.

Zeppelin 1

The Germanator · 05-31-2003, 08:22 PM

First of all, I backtracked on my statement that Led Zeppelin "sucks" in another post, read more carefully please.

Second of all, ok I admit that I was a bit pretentious when I made that statement about "90% of the bands" and so on, and I apologize for that, because that's the last thing I want to be, but it sometime irks me when I see statements like this...

"I cannot say the same for a lot of new music. I just hear the crap that gets played on the radio, which leads me to believe new rock sucks."

It's a terrible generalization, it's like if I listened to one song on the classic rock station and decided that classic rock sucks as a whole. I just want to try to get people to avoid saying that "all new music" sucks if they haven't listened to all that this generation has to offer. I've listened to plenty of what Led Zeppelin has to offer, and I don't like them, but it is my belief that not many people have not listened to some good indie rock (it's true that this is a minority). I'm not trying to say that I'm the only cool person who can listen to this music either as obviously you have too, so that's really not my point (and I didn't mean it to sound that way)... I dunno, I guess that's all I have to say, word...

Edit: Just a quick question out of curiousity, do you agree that independent music today is better than the "popular" music today?

Jason1 · 05-31-2003, 11:13 PM

Nice name, Mike Hunt

bobcat · 05-31-2003, 11:26 PM

Mike Hunt

Where'd he come from ?

Well I never grew up listening to Led Zepplin, I don't even know any of their songs, but a lot of people are saying that they are one of the best bands going around.

DJ Mike Hunt · 06-01-2003, 04:45 PM

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Originally posted by The Germanator
.....Just a quick question out of curiousity, do you agree that independent music today is better than the "popular" music today?

On the whole, I'd say they're both about the same. Popular music isn't junk because a lot of people like it. But the only really newish popular group that I like right now are the White Stripes. As for indie rock, if Lou Reed doesn't count, then I guess Neutral Milk Hotel's the only "indie" act that I'm at all interested in. In the Aeroplane Over the Sea was a really good album. But no, I think it would be imbecilic to say that independant artists are generally more talented than musicians on major labels. Most well-known recording artists were "underground" at one time. Their style just eventually caught on with the public. Not that it's like that for everbody. Brittney Spears' first album sold 200,000,000 copies, and her second one sold a few million more. But, anyway, I would say that indie groups and artists usually have a purer, less manufactered sound. That doesn't mean they're any good at all, but they at least make music because they like making music. Not because they like making money. But if the money does come, they shouldn't be expected to burn it or anything.