We work together every day in the same lab and we’re allowed to play music. But, if I have to hear another one of your oh-so-noble-and-hip-indie songs featuring singing as bad as rubbing a balloon, I’ll have to show you a piece of my mind. I understand you like indie music. Thats great. I like to hear something different every now and then. But hell, can’t you tell when something just plain sucks? You’re probably one of those people who think every artist you hear at the open mic night is the next Grammy Award winner (Arcade Fire, anyone?). There’s a reason why an indie band isn’t popular. It’s because they suck. —Rubbing Balloons Together is Better
This article appears in Mar 31 – Apr 6, 2011.
that fucking shit is almost as bad as that crap stuff. what the fuck do you people think, everyone wants to hear that shit? uh uh, no fucking way, tone it down, or fucking turn it off. o.p., just rip off their ears, problem solved.
I don’t so much care about others’ music preferences but when I can hear it all the time every day, then I care. I live above a pack of hipsters and FRIG. I think they’re in a band or something because they play instruments all the time and sing all the time. They are sooo bad at the instruments. They never even play a song! They just fiddle around with them and might play something that resembles a melody for like 2 seconds then go back to fiddling around. And the singing? HOLY FUCK. It’s SO bad. Like, it’s not even like I’m being a bitch about it, they are just SO bad. They don’t even sing, there’s no change of tone or pitches, it’s just them yell-singing the lyrics. And they’ll play maybe 5 seconds of a song, and sing-yell the lyrics. Rewind. Play 5 seconds, sing-yell the lyrics. Rewind. Play 5 seconds, sing-yell the lyrics and so on. I love retaliating with my music I know they’ll find terrible like Basshunter, Lady Gaga, the Beach Boys and any happy hardcore song :). It’s incredible how loud and how much bass can come out of little speakers :D! After an hour of blasting my “terrible” music, I turn it off and there’s silence.
Maybe there’s silence because the ambien finally kicked in.
>: )
ok. i can understand people expressing their opinions. thats cool. but do you really have to conclude with saying certain genres and/or bands “suck” just because YOU don’t like them? it’s just kinda….rude? and unnecessary.
why not ask your co-worker to play something else, or take turns choosing what you listen to..
OP, find a way to sabotage their offending music……scratch on the CD, reformat the MP3 players memory, or hide the speakers. There’s good indie, and then there’s tear-out–peoples-eardrums indie music.
OP. I believe you mean rubbing styrofoam together.
I’d like to add this to indie films too, well some of them.
Indie is hit or miss… but at least you know what the band sounds like. Pop is complete shit: Over-produced, buy-a-song and all-sound-the-same tripe… I recently realized why BEP and Kid Smock can’t sell tickets.
Pop is overproduced bad music and I ♥ it.
Agreed with smurf
Although whenever someone claims that pretty much every other genre of music out there “sucks”, I can’t help wondering what they listen to?
I love indie music but I don’t force my more “mainstream” music fan friends to listen to it.
OP, I was right there with you until you said, “There’s a reason why an indie band isn’t popular. It’s because they suck”. What “sucks” or doesn’t “suck” is purely subjective and we aren’t required to what appeals to the masses.
Indie means independent and indie music could be any style of music, just with out big record labels, which is a good thing. The artist(s) have more control over THEIR music.
OP, maybe the two of you could agree on a playlist that you can both enjoy (or at least tolerate), like adults? Talk radio or silence is always an option, too.
Musical preference is subjective. Personnally I can’t stand pop: I find it has absolutely no depth and the lyrics are insufferable, so much that it has become a parody of itself (the real thing ain’t so far from “Dick in a Box” or “I’m on a boat” in its degree of ridiculousness). It’s good for a laugh sometimes though…Nearly pissed my pants the other day hearing a song about a married guy who got his woman-on-the-side pregnant. Apparently the guy is very successful and sells truckloads of albums (?!).
Here’s an interesting video about how mechanical and unartistic pop music production has become…it’s called the “8 hour challenge” (i.e. from absolute scratch to final radio-ready result in 8 hrs, including a lunch break) :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PRKfj_5Oso
Rock is becoming increasingly uninteresting too, with so many bands sounding so much alike it’s impossible to differentiate them.
Everything mainstream was once indie… just sayin’
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i like your avatar donk. did you see the documentary about the baby elephants?
Nope … well which one?
http://www.cbc.ca/documentaries/natureofth…
ooooh baby elephants and giraffe’s are the best! Merci pg
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