Alright, I've gotten to the point where I have stopped apologizing for anything yopu may find in my record collection. I won't even use the excuse that a good 30% of what I have was recieved for free.
Yes it would have been easy to refuse to take an album from Raheem the Dream, but it would have been rude to do that to his face. Plus having a song called "I Wanna Fuck You" in your record arsenal can prove to be very handy at times.
I mean come on, I was a DJ and as such I had to keep up on what the kids wetre into. Even if I don't like it I have to see what all the buzz is about. Plus I didn't have my own CPU until last year so downloading was out. And I'm a pack rat so I never get rid of anything.
Plus I like the fact that everyone who sees my record collection 1) goes "damn dude that's a lot of CD's" 2) at some point finds something they are surprised I have and digs that I know about it, 3) usually finds something they're unfamiliar with and I get to school them and 4) leaves with the impression that I'm pretty knowledgeable about all kinds of music.
While I do pride myself on being somewhat of a "music elitist" I haven't quite made the transition to total "music snob". Unlike my cousin I do not automatically hate something because it gets even the minutist amount of airplay (although I do tire quickly of mainstream playlist, once in a while I have been force fed something until I actually start to dig it.) I do not think that an artists earliest work is always their best (although it is more than it should), and I do not think that just because it's harder to listen to , the better it really is. (but I think being able to acquire a taste for more abstract music is something more people do).
So while many people respect the fact that my Radiohead section is bigger many peoples whole CD collection, and my eclectic range runs the gammit from Pearl Jam, to Portishead, to Blackalicious, to Frank Sinatra. Most people will wonder how the fuck I got into The Ta-ta's, Stick-up-Kids, Dance Disaster Movement, and Preacher's Kid.
But I warn you there are massive amounts wack-ass titles mixed in there too. Yes I own not one, but two Limp Bizkit albums. Do I listen to them on a regular basis? FUCK NO!!!! Are there a couple of tracks that I dig? I'm not ashamed to say yes. But the more I listen the less I like them. I'm sorry I have a tendency to play Sugar Ray songs on clear summer days when I'm driving in my car through Florida States campus and looking for eye candy, but the music has to match the mood. At any rate I'm through making these kinds of excuses. Anyone who really knows me respects my real tastes in music. This is why even snobs like my cousin and Bob Zahn still ask me what I've been listening to and what I think about particular artists and albums, while frat boys and sorostitutes think I'm the coolest person in the world because I told them that John Mayer and Good Charlotte would be big names back in like 1999. (Hint: when most of the fans are 14 year old girls, they will eventually be big. Not that I hang out with a bunch of 14 year old girls... I just have cybersex with them
)
I know it might help if I took the time to actually list what I'm into most in my favorite bands section, but I think the two names I do mention tell you all you need to know. Radiohead and Nirvana both gladly went into the mainstream market only to tell the masses to Fuck Off by releasing albums they wanted to make as opposed to following the formulas that made them popular with Kid A and In Utero respectively.
For those of you who must know. I do have a certain affinity for 90's "alternative rock", ambient "trip- hop", old school punk rock, current brit-pop, and more the more artsy experimental stuff of any era.
I once heard some artist say that everyone would like to sell multi-platinum albums, it's just a matter of what your willing to do in order to make that happen. If you think about it, it's a pretty true statement. That's why the temptation to sell out is so strong. That's why I have the utmost respect for artist who can do it on there own terms.
Anyway, enough babble about that. Enough babble period. Who knows when you'll hear from me again. I'm supposed to check out a house this week, so if I like it, I may have a HQ to operate from and I'll be online more often. At any rate I ttyal.
P.S. The song in my favorite sexual position may end up being "I'm the type of guy " by LL Cool J, back when he was still respectable. (Got anything better?)
Yes it would have been easy to refuse to take an album from Raheem the Dream, but it would have been rude to do that to his face. Plus having a song called "I Wanna Fuck You" in your record arsenal can prove to be very handy at times.
I mean come on, I was a DJ and as such I had to keep up on what the kids wetre into. Even if I don't like it I have to see what all the buzz is about. Plus I didn't have my own CPU until last year so downloading was out. And I'm a pack rat so I never get rid of anything.
Plus I like the fact that everyone who sees my record collection 1) goes "damn dude that's a lot of CD's" 2) at some point finds something they are surprised I have and digs that I know about it, 3) usually finds something they're unfamiliar with and I get to school them and 4) leaves with the impression that I'm pretty knowledgeable about all kinds of music.
While I do pride myself on being somewhat of a "music elitist" I haven't quite made the transition to total "music snob". Unlike my cousin I do not automatically hate something because it gets even the minutist amount of airplay (although I do tire quickly of mainstream playlist, once in a while I have been force fed something until I actually start to dig it.) I do not think that an artists earliest work is always their best (although it is more than it should), and I do not think that just because it's harder to listen to , the better it really is. (but I think being able to acquire a taste for more abstract music is something more people do).
So while many people respect the fact that my Radiohead section is bigger many peoples whole CD collection, and my eclectic range runs the gammit from Pearl Jam, to Portishead, to Blackalicious, to Frank Sinatra. Most people will wonder how the fuck I got into The Ta-ta's, Stick-up-Kids, Dance Disaster Movement, and Preacher's Kid.
But I warn you there are massive amounts wack-ass titles mixed in there too. Yes I own not one, but two Limp Bizkit albums. Do I listen to them on a regular basis? FUCK NO!!!! Are there a couple of tracks that I dig? I'm not ashamed to say yes. But the more I listen the less I like them. I'm sorry I have a tendency to play Sugar Ray songs on clear summer days when I'm driving in my car through Florida States campus and looking for eye candy, but the music has to match the mood. At any rate I'm through making these kinds of excuses. Anyone who really knows me respects my real tastes in music. This is why even snobs like my cousin and Bob Zahn still ask me what I've been listening to and what I think about particular artists and albums, while frat boys and sorostitutes think I'm the coolest person in the world because I told them that John Mayer and Good Charlotte would be big names back in like 1999. (Hint: when most of the fans are 14 year old girls, they will eventually be big. Not that I hang out with a bunch of 14 year old girls... I just have cybersex with them
)
I know it might help if I took the time to actually list what I'm into most in my favorite bands section, but I think the two names I do mention tell you all you need to know. Radiohead and Nirvana both gladly went into the mainstream market only to tell the masses to Fuck Off by releasing albums they wanted to make as opposed to following the formulas that made them popular with Kid A and In Utero respectively.
For those of you who must know. I do have a certain affinity for 90's "alternative rock", ambient "trip- hop", old school punk rock, current brit-pop, and more the more artsy experimental stuff of any era.
I once heard some artist say that everyone would like to sell multi-platinum albums, it's just a matter of what your willing to do in order to make that happen. If you think about it, it's a pretty true statement. That's why the temptation to sell out is so strong. That's why I have the utmost respect for artist who can do it on there own terms.
Anyway, enough babble about that. Enough babble period. Who knows when you'll hear from me again. I'm supposed to check out a house this week, so if I like it, I may have a HQ to operate from and I'll be online more often. At any rate I ttyal.
P.S. The song in my favorite sexual position may end up being "I'm the type of guy " by LL Cool J, back when he was still respectable. (Got anything better?)
exit_stencil:
midterm was murder. thanks for asking though. out of the frying pan and into the fryer, caculus midterm on friday, fuck yeah. but then i'm going to enjoy the weekend, and by "enjoy the weekend" i mean get black out drunk, because that seems to be the only legitimate hobby i have these days. crazy kids trying to cut a man down by his record collection, i too have amassed an eclectic record collection and refuse to show any shame about it. but i still talk plenty of shit. i just don't really mean it, cos chances are, the kids probably don't like the shit i listen to either. you know what's funny, is every time i have sex with music on i keep on having to flip the fucking record, and so sometimes the record will end and then there will just be that bump...... babump...... babump... that's sexy.
meaney:
nice try. get rid of that milli vanilli, man. there's no fucking excuse!
