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offline Fah from Netherlands, The on 2007-03-05 15:36 [#02058525]
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it is true though that there are people that get way too
overexcited about releases, but they're not on here. Just
that statement coming from one man sounds more like an
arrogant flame, rather than someone's opinion. Hounestly,
does fanboism just annoy you? Have you ever tried ignoring
it instead of planning an most likely to fail attempt on
telling us how to live our lifes.


 

offline dog_belch from Netherlands, The on 2007-03-05 16:04 [#02058538]
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The flaming it bit is "a bit of fun", however pathetic that
may be, and I'd agree with you. The flaming post was
inspired by the first couple of posts in this thread
supposedly about "who is still making good music" coming up
with names that have been around for about 5 years tops and,
IN MY OPINION, represent the worst aspects of shitty music,
ie Team Bellend (fuck me, try listening to Knaptic Relapse
mjore than three times without wanting to have an aural
enema) or king of The Net Labels Proem, or fucking Chris "a
bit too late to the party but fair play for trying, some of
the younger kids won't spot your plagarism" Clark. ALL
CLASSICS.

I'm not trying to tell you how to live your lives, what's
that cliche, my example may only serve as a warning how not
to live your life, or something like that. But I'll defend
my right to say rash, hard to justify, baseless, text based
lashings out at no one in paticular if it makes me happy. I
deserve to be happy.


 

offline lupus yonderboy from 1970. (United Kingdom) on 2007-03-05 16:13 [#02058540]
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i'd defend that right too, as long as i don't have to. and
i'll finish that by saying everythings shite and you're all
a bunch of cunts.


 

offline dog_belch from Netherlands, The on 2007-03-05 16:21 [#02058541]
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I wish I could put things so succinctly instead of going
into these bloody great, unreadable treatise.


 

offline CS2x from London (United Kingdom) on 2007-03-05 16:33 [#02058542]
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"it is true though that there are people that get way too
overexcited about releases"----> I think it's good to get
excited about music. I'm trying to re-kindle my excitement
for "music" in general these days, because things are grey
enough in life as it is without a pleasure like music being
wrecked by cynicism. It's still good to be discerning about
what's good and what isn't, but for god's sake, what's wrong
with a bit of passion and wide-eyed wonder?


 

offline JivverDicker from my house on 2007-03-05 16:43 [#02058545]
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It's obvious what is good and bad about wide eyed wonder.
It's great to get excited about music and life isn't allways
grey.

The miss-placed passion I think dog_belch is talking about
is for the formulaic, non-expressive shite that people pump
out by the bucket loads.


 

offline dog_belch from Netherlands, The on 2007-03-05 17:08 [#02058549]
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Well exactly, I think some people are doing themselves doing
a disservice going "oooh, more stuff that sounds a bit like
a lot of other stuff... with no reason for existing other
than filling silence and allowing the 'artist' to say "Yes I
had a record on 43843gp-MAX -Records... YES!!!!!!! WHERE DO
I ORDER?!??!!"

If you want to hear something that makes me SHIT MY PANTS
and say "Electronic music produced today still has the power
to move, move, move any mountain" then check out "Dob
Nop
" by the mighty Jaffa Kid.


 

offline Ezkerraldean from the lowest common denominator (United Kingdom) on 2007-03-05 17:27 [#02058559]
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boobs


 

offline Ophecks from Nova Scotia (Canada) on 2007-03-05 17:43 [#02058567]
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I thinks it's unfortunate that some people are
self-conscious enough about their taste to proclaim
themselves the arbiters of quality, qualified to tell other
people they're ''misplacing'' their passion... and in a
medium as subjective as music, no less.

No big deal to me, because I have no problem just completely
tuning out music that sounds like ''formulaic,
non-expressive shite'' to me, plus I think self-conscious
music fans spice up messageboards and we couldn't do without
them.

Plus I try to tell myself that people will listen to their
Favorite Derivative Artist and then explore their roots and
hopefully gain some context and knowledge and maybe some
taste. Not everybody will, but some might and many do.
Derivative Artists clumsily do their part to keep legacies
alive.



 

offline CS2x from London (United Kingdom) on 2007-03-05 17:44 [#02058569]
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Yeah, you're right. It's just sometimes difficult for good
tracks to move me in the way they once did; I'm trying to
re-ignite the responses I used to experience with great
music. I'm not defending boring, derivative IDM at all; I've
just found that a critical, angry fixation on rubbish music
can negatively affect the experience of listening to
worthwhile stuff. That's probably not how it works with most
people by any means, but perhaps one or two people will
relate...


 

offline dog_belch from Netherlands, The on 2007-03-05 18:50 [#02058636]
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It's a fine line between voicing your opinion, making it a
bit provocative to spice up a largely very fucking torpid
messageboard (ooops, there I go again) and proclaiming
yourself the arbiter of all musical taste. I wish Ophecks
good luck on his Quest to be the World's Youngest Music
Bore. You've already reached Level 12,434,943,903,439 (reach
hidden level by unearthing old Foghat bootleg)


 

offline Cnut from the future on 2007-03-05 19:20 [#02058652]
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richard james


 

offline Ophecks from Nova Scotia (Canada) on 2007-03-05 19:27 [#02058656]
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Cute, but quips like the ''my dad can beat up your dad''
gobbledygook up there are neither good natured ribbing nor
shrewd conversation sparking. But I can say I generally
enjoy your ''provocations'' though. Genuinely!

And also, flattery will get you nowhere you devil :-) :-)
:-*


 

offline The_Funkmaster from St. John's (Canada) on 2007-03-06 09:05 [#02058835]
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That's usually always the case. Certain people will post in
threads with their standard "in your face, if you don't like
it suck my dick" attitudes, and then once other people call
them trolls or flamers they back off and say "Hey, it's good
natured ribbing!" Personally I don't see why a music
discussion has to be so in your face, almost to the point of
insulting all the time.


 

offline dog_belch from Netherlands, The on 2007-03-06 10:57 [#02058896]
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That's usually always the case. Certain people will post in
threads with their standard "why can't everyone just be
really nice to each other and say nothing in particular,
ideally just link to YouTube vids or Boomkat pages, if you
have to type sentences just use words of one or two
syllables as I have trouble understanding... anything"
boring attitude, and then once other people call them bores,
or nobbers, or annoying turds they get angry and moan about
it for weeks on end, across 1,000 different posts saying
"Why do I get called a twat everytime I remember to log in
once a week just to fucking moan about people calling me a
twat ad absurdum" Personally I don't see why a music
discussion has to be so tiresome, almost to the point of
death all the time.


 

offline 7Pd from britney's upskirt vagina on 2007-03-06 11:00 [#02058897]
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clatterbox
richard james
gerald donald



 

offline The_Funkmaster from St. John's (Canada) on 2007-03-06 11:21 [#02058914]
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It's called general respect for other people of the human
race. Different people have different levels of experience
with things. Someone might post something on here about a
band they've just heard and they're really excited about it
because they think it's quality music, but to you it might
be a band you knew about 10 years ago. Why would you act
like some asshole to that person then, just because to you
it's not interesting? If you're not interested in the
thread, you don't really have to be an asshole to the
person, you can simply just ignore the thread. I just find
it pretty stupid when someone posts something like was
posted in the Joy Division thread, and some asshole like you
who disagrees with the opinion comes along with your
arrogant piece of shit attitude and tears into the person.
The guy was just asking what was so special about Joy
Division because he couldn't really get into it. I guess I
don't really see why that calls for some aggressive dumbass
remark. But maybe we're coming from different worlds. Maybe
you were beat up all the time in school and uses the
internet to express your frustration, who knows.


 

offline dog_belch from Netherlands, The on 2007-03-06 11:33 [#02058919]
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It was really quite draining for me to actually read that, I
imagine you must have had to have a good lie down after
coming out with that sustained textual yawn.


 

offline The_Funkmaster from St. John's (Canada) on 2007-03-06 11:37 [#02058921]
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Well I'm glad you did read it, and I see you're coming back
with one of your patented replies. This could go on for a
while though, so this will be my last reply in this little
arguement.


 

offline dog_belch from Netherlands, The on 2007-03-06 11:51 [#02058924]
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Oh that it were.


 

offline Ezkerraldean from the lowest common denominator (United Kingdom) on 2007-03-06 11:54 [#02058925]
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Prick.

[directed at no one]


 

offline CS2x from London (United Kingdom) on 2007-03-06 12:05 [#02058932]
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If you don't like music today, make your own music.


 

offline 7Pd from britney's upskirt vagina on 2007-03-06 12:05 [#02058933]
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to the funkmaster:
not wishing to get involved in this web based drama
but if somebody skimmed over all of your depressingly naive
and long winded posts and only actually read the words "i"
and "like" and "shit" and "and" and "asshole" (all culled
from your last post)
then that would not give a very clear picture of what you
were trying to say.

now - if said somebody were to do this with such a powerful,
original and beautiful work of art as say, er joy division's
Closer Lp....


 

offline The_Funkmaster from St. John's (Canada) on 2007-03-06 12:11 [#02058940]
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it's actually pretty clear what I was saying, so if you
can't understand it, it's not my fault...


 

offline 7Pd from britney's upskirt vagina on 2007-03-06 12:19 [#02058945]
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"it's actually pretty clear what I was saying, so if you
can't understand it, it's not my fault... "

i suppose, unlike yourself, i find it pretty clear what
Dogbelch is saying, so if you can't understand it etc.



 

offline CS2x from London (United Kingdom) on 2007-03-06 14:03 [#02058981]
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The_Funkmaster was being reasonable and logical. Reason and
logic may not be the most exciting of things, but they do
help once in a while.


 

offline pachi from yo momma (United States) on 2007-03-06 14:26 [#02058995]
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(directed at start of thread)

Machine Drum has produced some decent stuff in the past year
or so, as has Venetian Snares. I can't think of a whole lot
else from 2006-2007 though.



 

offline 7Pd from britney's upskirt vagina on 2007-03-06 15:02 [#02059011]
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clatterbox
richard james
gerald donald


 

offline CS2x from London (United Kingdom) on 2007-03-06 18:43 [#02059094]
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There's this artist called "Robert Logan", and he makes good
music. Unfortunately only nineteen people have ever heard
it, and most of those people are friends or bought the
record out of sympathy, but don't let that deter you!


 

offline dog_belch from Netherlands, The on 2007-03-06 18:52 [#02059100]
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I thought you, I mean Robot Login, was played on Radio 1 on
Mary Anne "Whatever the fuck this is" Hobbes's show.
Counting the Internet listner base as well, potentially,
everybody on the planet could have heard your.... his...
haunting take on what it would sound like if you played all
the demos for "100 Windows" at the same time.


 

offline CS2x from London (United Kingdom) on 2007-03-06 19:01 [#02059103]
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Just buy a fucking copy so I can reach 20, who cares about
the music?


 

offline roygbivcore from Joyrex.com, of course! on 2007-03-06 19:17 [#02059107]
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AMEN WAYANS


 

offline dog_belch from Netherlands, The on 2007-03-06 19:27 [#02059111]
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God that Slowfoot website is fucking atrocious, I bought it
though, so if they pretend I didn't and they withhold your
percentage I've got the PayPal receipt. So you've broken 20,
that puts you in the Top 10 these days, doesn't it?


 

offline CS2x from London (United Kingdom) on 2007-03-06 19:44 [#02059114]
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That bloody website hadn't been updated since 2005 until ONE
day before the "launch" of the CD. Maybe two or three more
copies have escaped from the vaults of other online shopping
websites, who knows; I mean, no matter how dire you think
the music may be, if they've managed to shift over 1000
copies of that Oren Marshall's 1 hour tuba-and-effects-pedal
improvisation CD, surely anything is possible?


 

offline dog_belch from Netherlands, The on 2007-03-06 19:50 [#02059118]
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*note to self: make tuba-and-effects-pedal improvisation
album*

No, I liked what I heard of yours so it's a "legitimate"
buy, you just reminded me but I would've bought it before
but I forgot because I am so frightfully busy and... lazy,
and I didn't remember.


 


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