Bagpipes are a really great instrument with a bad rap.
From an hours-long YouTube hole, I found this July 4th parade from Scotland (?!) that would have been much more appealing than our American town’s usual fare of country music and politicians:
(I especially liked the befuddled comments from folks on the street)
Not all Christian rock sucks; but only because of Black Sabbath.
I agree. I’ve tried a few times to appreciate their earlier stuff, like Selling England by the Pound, but can’t get into it. Maybe I’ll give it another go when this Avenged Sevenfold playlist runs out.
I want to go see the Hello Kitty special exhibit they have currently.
*ahem
Music is the sports-ball of cultural life.
Everyone who’s obsessed with it it thinks it’s the most important, uplifting experience that could possibly exist and can barely contain the contempt and patronising sorrow they uninhibitedly heap upon you if they learn that you don’t treat it with the same explosive, puking wonderment that erupts from them whenever they think about it.
In reality, it’s just like every other pastime. Piques interest if done with extreme skill, filler for your life at all other times.
Bjork isn’t as cute as she thinks she is. I much prefer the Sugarcubes, where Einar’s acerbic asides undercut her pretentious preciosity.
I… I like ‘The King of Wishful Thinking’ by Go West.
I didn’t think it was possible for me to hate them more, but I do. 
I’m bored to death just hearing his name.
This is simply prudent.
<3 x infinity.
I remember when that was in the charts and Steve Wright had to play it on Radio 1 every day. Aaaah, man, sooooo many reasons 1992 was the best year ever…
I like Downtown Train so much that I can even take Stewart’s version of it (for those who don’t know, it’s originally by the incredible but apparently - by this thread - much maligned Tom Waits).
I love Tom but I get why others don’t… I also love when he just rambles about things or his almost spoken word pieces.
Man, I hold all kinds of unpopular musical opinions. Just thought of another one: I also don’t find Leonard Cohen particularly enjoyable to listen to (though I enjoy his writing, and find covers of his songs quite enjoyable, I don’t enjoy his performances of his own songs)
My opinion is the opposite if yours. Einar’s bits are like nails on a chalkboard for me, and I loves me some Bjork.
Thank you!
If one thinks of him as a performance artist, I think that helps explain his style.
And who doesn’t love the sound of raw whiskey and nicotine in a baritone voice?
(raises hand)
I mean, people have their own preferences for what voices sound like, and that’s fine, as long as we are actually talking about preferences for what voices sound like. If someone wants to point out that Leonard Cohen and Bob Dylan weren’t great singers, that’s fine - especially Cohen who didn’t even particularly want to be a musician but did it just because it was the only way to get people to listen to his poetry. But Tom Waits is a very good singer (accomplished vocalist?). It’s fine to not like things, but another thing entirely to say someone is incompetent because you don’t like them - I probably wouldn’t go see the world’s greatest violinist play classical music if they were in the next room, but I wouldn’t deny that they were great. I’m not sure if anyone has done that in this thread, but I am compelled to rant about it anyway.
I think it was on a live album he released, but it might have been a bootleg, I can’t remember, when he stops between songs to say, “You know, the question I get asked most - well, maybe not the question I get asked most - but a question I get asked often enough that I remember anyway, is people say, ‘Tom… can a woman become pregnant without intercourse?’” Which leads into a (presumably bullshit) story about the American civil war.
Rod Stewart aside, I like singers like Dylan, Waits and Cohen with, shall we say, distinctive voices.
I recently discovered that Nickelback is not a good band.
Sometimes, when you consume more singles than albums, you don’t see the difference between a good band, and a band band with 2 good songs.
