I'm either really hip or delusional.

[Pacifist Patriot]

I think I like the top 40 pop music of today better than the stuff hitting the charts when I was in my teens and twenties.

Pink
Fergie
Plain White T's
Green Day
Maroon 5
Matchbox Twenty
Nickelback
Lifehouse

I realize this is probably commercial crap, but it's better commercial crap than what I got when I was clubbing age. Drives my son nuts that we like the same stuff. Imagine his distress at finding we both like Aerosmith and Pink Floyd and Green Day and Pink. I was caught between the two.

Oh, and what is with The Pussycat Dolls? Just learned about them and love their stuff. Of course my husband is thrilled given the pictures of these ladies. I guess they have something for everyone.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

1. Nickelback?!?!?!?!

:hide:

[fizzgig]

2. you and elrond were the first two i thought of when i read that

:rofl:

[Danger Mouse]

41. you know me too well, baby.

:)

[Pacifist Patriot]

6. Oh bite me.

Yes, I like Nickelback. They remind me of the idiots I hung around with when I was in high school. I will never claim they are decent musicians. But darnit they could be the dumbasses I got into trouble with over two decades ago. Ouch! It's a nostalgia thing.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

10. As long as you don't claim they're decent musicians.

;) :rofl:

Ironically, my musical tastes generally stop at about 1984 for the most part.

[Pacifist Patriot]

13. 1984? So does that mean you think Duran Duran are musicians?

:silly:

[Starbucks Anarchist]

17. They can be!

:P

Actually, most of my favorite musicians performed from the '40s to the '70s, some in the '80s, and a few (mostly hip-hop, because it's such a young genre) from the '90s and present day.

[Pacifist Patriot]

24. Some of my favorite musicians are from the 60s

Perhaps because I was raised on them? Hmmmm....

[Starbucks Anarchist]

28. That's why I envy you.

You grew up with all that great music, while my generation mostly grew up with crap. I have to go back in time to find good stuff.

[Pacifist Patriot]

30. Aw crap. I knew you were a kid.

humbling, humbling, humbling.

I had you pegged for a good decade and a half younger than me. LOL!

You are so right though. Music took a huge nose dive when I was "coming of age." In fact, the coming of age movies set in my generation's time frame are musical farces.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

33. Yep, 27.

:D

[Pacifist Patriot]

36. Eeek! More than a decade younger.

I am not handling this aging thing very well. *grin*

[Mythsaje]

84. I know someone who went to school with Chad Kroeger

Said he was an asshole and that his brother has a hundred times the musical talent.

[Danger Mouse]

40. i'm with you brother. i'm with you.

to hell with nickelsucK!!!!

[Starbucks Anarchist]

43. Proof that even Canada can fuck shit up.

;)

I can't believe NickelSack and Arcade Fire are from the same country... or planet.

[Danger Mouse]

48. NickelSack...haha, I'll have to remember that one.

Canada also produced Alanis Morisette, and the song 'Ironic'... :puke:

[Starbucks Anarchist]

50. Don't even get me started on her.

Like Mr. Ed screwed a banshee. :puke:

[Danger Mouse]

51. it's like RAAAAAAAAAAAIN On your wedding day...

NO it's NOT. that is not fucking ironic!!
what WAS ironic was her covering fergie's 'my humps' and doing a very amusing parody.
shrill, talentless harpy of the late 90's, meet shrill, talentless harpy of the 00's

[Starbucks Anarchist]

53. How do you parody a parody?

Do they cancel each other out and disappear into nothingness?

[Mythsaje]

85. See, now, that's just dementia setting in...n/t

[fizzgig]

3. green day is one of my favorite bands

and has been for more than half my life

eta: my mom might not have liked my music when i was a kid, but at least she let me listen to it on the radio when we were out...i don't know that it would have bothered me if she did like it

[Breeze54]

4. You're not delusional or nuts!!

Music doesn't have a set age limit for likability! ;) My teen son and even my older sons
and I all like a lot of the same music. From Beethoven and Mozart (one son plays Cello) to
the Beatles and The Stones to Pink and Green Day. They even send me songs and my youngest
is always bugging to me listen to his newest cd! :D Music is the universal language.

[Pacifist Patriot]

I have my seven year old son into Bach and Handel. Yeah!

[Breeze54]

12. Is he learning to play piano or cello?

You should start him on it now! ;) I started my oldest on cello at 8 yrs. old
and he has stuck with it and even won scholarships for college in state music
competitions. He now is writing music and is trying to cut a cd and plays in
a band! He plays five instruments, last I heard. ;)

[Pacifist Patriot]

19. Bah! He played piano for 18 months and then balked.

I don't believe in forcing a child to do something he detests so I let him give it up. You either relish the challenge or you don't. I cannot embrace the idea that technical ability equates with passion. If one of my children is going to excel musically it is because they feel called to it.

He has begun to beg for guitar lessons. If I detect sincerity I have a Spanish classical guitarist in mind for his teacher.

You must be so proud of your son. That is absolutely amazing and I am in awe of him. Composition is not an easy thing. I wish him much success!! Music is truly a gift to humankind.

[Breeze54]

26. Yeah, you can't force it but it just 'clicked' with my kid.

He loved it! ;) He's pissed that he had to go to work at a 'real job' because he wants music
to be his real job but he has to have money to buy the strings and cd's and whatever else he
needs to produce it, besides the instruments. :P

[Pacifist Patriot]

7. Dup, ack!

[AlCzervik]

5. i love Pink, i like Maroon 5 and Greenday.

[ghostsofgiants]

8. That list makes me want to punch mainstream music in the brainstem

x(

[Pacifist Patriot]

9. LOL! Hey, I am always up for non mainstream music sources.

I honestly believe the best musicians are those who never manage to get a contract. A true loss to the rest of us. We have a local band who is just amazing. They will never ever attract the attention of a record promoter. Much the pity to humanity.

[ghostsofgiants]

14. Give me a few minutes, I'll give you a lost of some really good stuff.

Or at least stuff that I consider really good.

[Breeze54]

20. Alternative = non-mainstream

;)

WBER is one of America's first full time Alternative Music radio stations,
believing in and supporting this genre of music long before it became cool!
http://wber.monroe.edu/site/html/index.php

[Starbucks Anarchist]

11. Or a kitten.

[ghostsofgiants]

15. Nah, it requires direct violence against mainstream music as a whole, otherwise it'll never learn

[Starbucks Anarchist]

18. Hahahaha.

:rofl:

[Danger Mouse]

52. you have the best taste in music out of most DUer's i've encountered

:hi:

[ghostsofgiants]

54. Why thank you, haha.

[Pacifist Patriot]

59. There is that.

Notice I was directly referencing pop music. When I put in a CD for my listening pleasure it's more likely to be something along the likes of Yo-Yo Ma, Juan Diego or Katie Webster. I certainly hope no one thinks my comparison between hit songs of today and the hit songs when I was coming of age constitutes the sum of my musical tastes.

[renie408]

16. Big Girls Don't Cry.

I LOVE that song.

You can keep Nickelback.

[AlCzervik]

21. my sister loves nickel back and some guy who might as well be nickel back

he was on American Idol but he didn't win, she has his cd and nickel back on all the time, it's like a loop of misery. After being in a rented house with her for 10 days i was ready to throttle her.

[Pacifist Patriot]

23. LOL! I cannot imagine Nickelback being a primary musical affiliation.

They are fun, but hardly worthy of exclusionary praise.

[AlCzervik]

25. we tried, my daughter and i had both had ipods and i had my laptop with about

10,000 songs "Make a cd of anything and everything, please" "Oh i don't like what you do" Argh!

[Pacifist Patriot]

22. My sister hates it because she hears it 80 umpteen times a day.

I adore that song.

[ruiner4u]

27. aww c'mon... Aqua is 'da bomb...

[WritingIsMyReligion]

29. I'd go with delusional.

:hide:

Seriously, though, Fergie and Nickleback have no redeeming features to their music, and the Pussycat Dolls are not so much in the music industry as in the sex industry. Unless you were growing up in the '80s, music can hardly get worse than today's nonsense.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

32. I'm on a Miles marathon at the moment.

Played Birth of the Cool, Cookin', Relaxin', Miles Ahead and Kind of Blue since yesterday.

I figure I'd get through the rest of the Gil Evans albums plus his second quintet tomorrow, then finish the electric period on Monday.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

34. Hells yeah.

Hells yeah!

:D

[Starbucks Anarchist]

35. And that's not counting the box sets.

:D

BTW, I heard the last Columbia box set of his will be the On the Corner Sessions. I think it came out recently.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

62. I just like saying "On the Corner."

It makes me happy. :D Plus the album cover is bitchin', if I remember it correctly.

[Pacifist Patriot]

37. Came of age in the 80s. Need I say more.

[Danger Mouse]

47. hey, i LIKE a lot of 80's music.

:P

[WritingIsMyReligion]

61. No.

Jeebus.

:scared:

[Danger Mouse]

42. post of the year!

although, i do humbly submit that aerosmith has been sucking since the 70's

[Mr. Blonde]

70. The problem with today's music is not lack of quality

there is tons of great music out there today. The problem is that it doesn't make it on the radio. Bad music has always existed, but we only remember the good stuff. My fear is that because it didn't get enough exposure the good music from now won't be remembered by enough people.

[Danger Mouse]

72. What modern music you into?

I recently got into all kinds of great recent stuff. :hi:

[Mr. Blonde]

88. Lots of stuff too

The Black Keys, Kings of Leon, Robert Randolph & The Family Band, Arcade Fire, Arctic Monkeys, LCD Soundsystem, Beck, Citizen Cope, Drive-by Truckers, and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs.

You?

[Redneck Socialist]

31. I'd go w/ semi-delusional as Matchbox 20 sucks worse than masturbating with a cheese grater.

Some of that other stuff I can tolerate.

[Pacifist Patriot]

38. Um...ouch!

[Danger Mouse]

49. Matchbox 20 could never hope to suck as hard as Nickelback.

Though Rob Thomas would give Chad analingus to find out the secret of the ultimate shitty music.

[ellisonz]

39. Green Day does not belong on that list.

:puke:

[ghostsofgiants]

55. They're not a bad band, but definitely one of the most overrated in recent memory.

[ellisonz]

56. They're still better than everything else on that list.

[ghostsofgiants]

60. This is true.

[Danger Mouse]

75. a mediocre band getting radio time in a field of pure shit...

will make it sound like aural gold.
they stand out because of this.

[ghostsofgiants]

80. That about sums it up.

[LostinVA]

44. *GASP* -- the woman who married me likes NICKELBACK?

:cry:

[Pacifist Patriot]

58. ROTFL

You do realize I included them on the list precisely because I knew it would get a huge reaction? :evilgrin:

Actually, their songs don't bother me, some are even quite catchy. But I'm hardly going to run out and buy their next album. Now if I admit I own everything Enrique Iglesias ever recorded will you still love me?

[LostinVA]

63. I admit I like "Hero"

[ThoughtCriminal]

45. When I was in my 20's

I thought that the "Hip" were "Delusional". If it was "Pop", I usually didn't care for it.

[Danger Mouse]

46. oh boy. music threads always draw me like a moth to fire.

Pink: more like 'Stink' har har.
Fergie: 'My Humps' was written by Satan himself as a means of torturing us poor mortals on earth.
Plain White T's: not familiar with them.
Green Day: They're alright. Saying anything critical about them will lead to my premature death by kagehime. :P I like a lot of their stuff.
Maroon 5: And she willlllll be loved :cry: reminds me of an ex-girlfriend. and that is why i will forever hate their music with a flaming passion :grr:
Matchbox Twenty: When Rob Thomas recorded the shit-tacular 'Smooth' with Santana, the corpse of Rock was dug up, violated, and unceremoniously dumped back in the ground without the benefit of a decent burial. Santana's collaboration with Everlast, 'Put Your Lights On,' was easily 1,000,000 times better. Matchbox Twenty would probably be acceptable if they weren't fronted by Rob Thomas, who is a grade a superdouche.
Nickelback: Take everything I said about Matchbox Twenty and multiply it by a million. This is one of the worst bands I've ever heard. Wesley Willis would look at them incredulously and say, 'Are you serious?' Lame, recycled songs. Agonizingly constipated vocals from the king of big-nosed lameness, Chad Kroger. Lyrics that might as well have been scribbled in crayon. They have all of this and more.
Lifehouse: I really like 'Somewhere in Between'...it's the only song of theirs I know.

You like Pink Floyd? They're just about the best band ever, but the thought of listening to Pink Floyd AND Nickelback makes me :cry:
Aerosmith is one of the most horrific bands to stumble drunkenly out of the classic rock era.
The Pussycat Dolls? They make music? I thought they just made soundtracks for their line of porno movies.

:hide:
I love hating on music people love. It's what makes me such a terrible person.
Pink Floyd's great, though. At least we have that in common. :hide:

[Mythsaje]

83. Pink Floyd sucks...

Pretentious, semi-coherent bullshit.

Except for Time and Wish You Were Here.

The rest of it bites the big one.

Oh, and Comfortably Numb.

The rest of it? Bah. About as enjoyable as a dentist's drill.

[ellisonz]

86. Money?

[lildreamer316]

57. Oh no. Not the Nickelback wars again ( I love them)

But I'm the only one, other than you..
We will just have to slink away in a corner to listen.
BTW; they put on a GREAT live show!!

[flvegan]

64. *snicker*

Nickelback...

http://www.thewebshite.net/nickelback.htm

[Danger Mouse]

65. i hated nickelback even BEFORE that link was sent to me long ago...

and hearing that only reenforced it.
how lame does a band have to be to rip THEMSELVES off?
at least copy someone worth copying.

[Danger Mouse]

66. i had once upon a time thought there is no good modern music...

but then i discovered, through the help of a coworker, sage francis, buck 65, buddy wakefield, neko case, the new pornographers, emily haines, madvillain, dj shadow, cut chemist, el producto, aesop rock, belle and sebastian, the eels, modest mouse...and many more.
this is in addition to radiohead, which i already love.

[fujiyama]

67. Hey where's Creed on that list?

They just may give Nickelback a run for their money!

[Starbucks Anarchist]

68. Creed at least had the courtesy to self-destruct.

But Nickelback keeps going with the endurance of Keith Richards. :puke:

[Pacifist Patriot]

69. There's only one Creed song I like. Don't worry...

I suspect Nickelback will not be around nearly as long as Keith Richards.

[Danger Mouse]

71. Speaking of shitty overrated 'classic' rock bands...

the rolling stones! :puke:

[Pacifist Patriot]

73. If it helps at all....

"Paint It Black" is the only Rolling Stones song I can tolerate. That is a band I truly cannot listen to. I would generally prefer a well aimed ice pick to the ear drums than listening to Mick Jagger's whiny voice.

[Danger Mouse]

74. The following Rolling Stones songs are not crimes against humanity...

'Paint it Black' 'You Can't Always Get What You Want' 'Angie' 'Ruby Tuesday' 'She Smiled Sweetly' 'Gimme Shelter' 'Sympathy for the Devil'
That is all.

[Pacifist Patriot]

76. I have to argue with you about Angie.

I feel sorry for every girl named Angie. That was an unmitigated piece of musical shit. And if you have given me an earworm because of your mention of it I will curse you into the next few millenia.

[ghostsofgiants]

79. You forgot "I Am Waiting"

That song is great.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

77. Okay, them's fightin' words.

:mad:

[Roon]

78. My Father is very conservative

and he LOVES pink floyd. One day, as he headed to a friend's house to watch the superbowl..he asked me for a joint..it was my last joint but I was very pleased to give to him.

[otherlander]

81. I kind of like Maroon 5.

Actually, if asked to, I couldn't name a single member of the band... But the song "she will be loved" makes me smile.
:hide:

[Mythsaje]

82. Love Pink...

Like Green Day and Matchbox 20 too...though Matchbox 20 is more nineties rock/pop than 21st century stuff.

[mvd]

87. I like a mix of the well-known and indie

I think there is merit in each. I am quite open-minded when it comes to music.