A Thread for Hilarious RONG Things my Sociology of Pop Music Prof Says

"The Pretty Hate Machines really ushered in the punk, grunge, alternative angst thing."

Best thread ever already.

^^^^^^verbatim?????? xpost

Re: "The Message"

"Now they call it sampling, but this ripping off of musical ideas that Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five did..."

please post a picture of this man

all are direct quotes i hurriedly transcribed in class xxp

Re: "When Doves Cry"

"All these songs from the 1980s that we've been listening to, particularly the songs that deal with social issues, are really an outgrowth of the death of John Lennon."

Re: "9 to 5" by Dolly Parton

"The film and the song '9 to 5' really did more for the cuase of women than all the marches of the 60s and 70s combined."

(plz to note this is a 60 year old woman that is talking here)

haha this is great. if it were some 17 year-old blogger i'd say we shouldn't pick on him. but this guy's teaching a course on pop music!

Re: "Girls Just Want to Have Fun"

"Easily one of the most important songs ever written by anyone."

Is Hardcore Metal stuff like Foghat or more like Cinderella?

Re: "All My Exes Live in Texas"

"A few years ago, Texas State (hoos note: my uni) gave George Strait an honorary doctorate."

Not so much rong as *facepalm*

Re: "America" by Neil Diamond

"The Iranians released the hostages because they thought Reagan would follow through on his campaign promises."

Re: "We Are the World"

"This song really began the process of musical integration in pop music."

I'm so happy I skipped the day we covered "Fight the Power" and "Freedom of Speech."

"Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club band really introduced, invented the concept of the album."

"Bob Dylan was, by all accounts and his own admission, the leader of the protest movement."

Re: "Eve of Destruction" by Barry McGuire

"You can really hear McGuire reaching for that rough, gravelly Dylan sound."

I'm so happy I skipped the day we covered "Fight the Power" and "Freedom of Speech."

I'M NOT. You owe us.

Re: "These Boots Are Made for Walking"

"One of the first feminist songs"

xp oh we're covering some Ice Cube and RATM and that all-star cover of "What's Going On" next time, don't you worry.

Re: "Girls Just Want to Have Fun"

"Easily one of the most important songs ever written by anyone."

this is RITE however

The Trouble with the Sociology of Pop

Re: "Cloud 9" by the temptations

"This song is not about drugs."

too true xxpost

Re: "Spirit in the Sky"

"This is a very inclusive song, even the Eastern Buddhist-slash-New-Age types found something to like in here..."

Must be the fuzztone riff.

"The Stooges really revived punk rock after the Rolling Stones invented it in the 60s."

"Kool DJ Herc invented hip-hop out of thin air at a birthday party for his sister."

^ rong only to pedants, i suppose

In a kind of incredible turn today, though, she told us that one of her former students was best friends with Jeremy Wade Dell, the kid that "Jeremy" is about. He emailed her after class and told her, then brought in and let her make a copy of what was effectively his suicide letter. She read it out loud to us. It was intense.

ok guys that's my store for the day, i'm sure i'll have more come wednesday though.

1) Love this thread. A+

2)this might be kind of....true in a way?

"The Stooges really revived punk rock after the Rolling Stones invented it in the 60s."

-- BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, November 26, 2007 9:34 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

I was googling for this women and found out that I missed the 2002 Buddy Holly Symposium. Damn.

Do you ever correct her?

You know, we have to get this woman and Geir together.

jokes on HOOS for majoring in soc

http://www.ghostbusters.se/foton/danalouis.jpg

Have you told her about this thread, HOOS?

This woman is employed to come out with this stuff?

wow..... wow

Re: "Girls Just Want to Have Fun"

"Easily one of the most important songs ever written by anyone."

Are you positive you didn't mishear "a member of the Hooters" as "anyone?"

In all seriousness, Hoos, it is incumbent upon you to AT THE VERY LEAST bring up these specifics in the course evaluation. Not in the spirit of getting her fired (if she's in her sixties, she most likely has tenure anyway) but simply because she's transmitting false information in MOST instances (I have no qualms with someone calling practically ANY song one of the most important ever written; whether or not such a statement is useful for the course is another matter).

And do so as professionally as possible. It won't do any good to say something like "you're a fucking moron." Seriously. It's one of the few methods you have at your disposal to help prevent this from happening again.

And tell her KJB sent you.

Well, you don't think this is serious, James Redd?

I had to sit through one of these courses too and it was hell.

I mean, the first two comments are flat-out incorrect. This one is more opinion:

"Now they call it sampling, but this ripping off of musical ideas that Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five did..."

Is it grotesquely misinformed opinion? Of course. But that's not quite transmitting false information.

Bring to class a guitar that spurts white liquid whenever you disagree with her.

Re: "Eve of Destruction" by Barry McGuire

"You can really hear McGuire reaching for that rough, gravelly Dylan sound."

This one seems correct to me too. Keyword: reaching.

guys should i start an ILE thread for 'hilarious RONG things my Sociology of Sports Classmates say'?

a sample from days 1, 2 & 3:

Prof: "Can you imagine why it might be that, in America, you generally don't find men participating in aerobic gymnastics?"
[long silence]
DBag: "Cause it's...gay."

Prof: "Can you name a sport in which we see very few African-Americans participating as atheletes?"
DBag: "Swimming."
Prof: "And why might that be?"
DBag: "Well...everybody knows black people don't swim very well."

Prof: "Why is it that there are no women coaches in the NBA?"
Dbag: "Cause women can't really think strategically. No offense, m'am."

aka rolling frat boy sexism thread

All this shit sounds supsect.

^ ip check

Okay, what?

AN IP check because I think most of this shit sounds made up?

Steendriver: Why all these Sociology of Something That Is a Section of the Newspaper courses?

u need to chill Lolpez

wtf kind of class is sociology of sports? get a real subject

Steendriver: Why all these Sociology of Something That Is a Section of the Newspaper courses?

-- kingkongvsgodzilla, Wednesday, January 30, 2008 1:52 AM

The minor is "Sociology of Popular Culture," and these two courses fit under the rubric. I'd really rather not take Soc of Sports as I'm not even kinda interested in sports, but it was the only thing that fit into my schedule.

yeah college= bullshit classes like soc of sports, i dont see what the big deal is

Yeeesh..that sucks. Couldn't you talk to someone in the dept. about signing off on another class to satisfy the requirement?

xpost

M/W

8:00-9:15 -- on bus
9:30-10:45 -- Soc/Sports
11:00-12:15 -- Chaucer
12:30-1:45 -- Post-Civil War US Lit
2:00-3:15 -- Senior Seminar Creative Writing
3:30-4:45 -- Spanish IV
5:00-6:15 -- Issues in Contemporary Art
7:00-8:15 -- on bus

8 hour workday every other day of the week.

fwiw.

what a slacker! /jk

hoos can you find and revive a Spanish thread to explain teh word "lo" to me?

Oh dang son. Dang.

lo = sorta a nebulously defined referent.

"no lo quiero" for example literally translates as "<do not> <that> <thing want (i)>."

wow that prob didn't help at all huh

ya lo se

ya me di cuenta

yo gana dinero
yo-yo gana dinero

lo lo lo gano

Prof: "Why is it that there are no women coaches in the NBA?"
Dbag: "Cause women can't really think strategically. No offense, m'am."

please tell me this was pronounced OFFense as in "they can't think strategically because they have no offense"

oh god that's how i read it

okay hoos, wow. you are a more driven person than me.

i got a d in chaucer.

please tell me this was pronounced OFFense

LOL! I so didn't see that other "offense" in there. That's hilarious!

Hoos, you're scaring me. You're taking six (6!!) courses in one semester? And they're all one after another (which almost NEVER happens)? And you're surrounded by cavemen? And school is 75 minutes away by bus?

Are you SURE you're not using this thread to feel out if you have a skill for comedy writing?

okay hoos, wow. you are a more driven person than me.

-- elan, Wednesday, January 30, 2008 3:44 AM

Appreciate the sentiment, but this is more out of necessity than *unstoppable resolve* or anything. This is my last semester, and if I graduate by May then about half my loans get forgiven. If working my ass off for 6 months means I'm $6,000 less in debt, I'm all for it.

actually prob more like $12,000

Oye Hoos, mira buey, lo siento si te ofendi o si estas aguitado, pero esas mierdas que, segun tu, dijo tu profesor(a), no te las crei, buey. Me parecian mentiritas, buey. Pero si insistes que son de verdad, pues, quien soy yo para contraditar. Bueno, lo siento, eh? No estaba tratando de ser culero.

It hears Hoos, sight ox, I feel him if you ofendi or if these aguitado, but those crap that, segun your, your professor said (to), you not the crei, ox. Me parecian mentiritas, ox. But if you insist that they are truly, therefore, who I am I for contraditar. Good, I feel it, eh? Was not trying to be lazy.

Lolpez, tambien lo siento si te ofendi, es que tenemos un troll que se llama "Nude Spock" que dice cosas como eso. Nomas era un chisme, homes, crei que sabia (como una persona con nombre nuevo o como quieres). Somos buenos?

Claro, carnal. Pero te lo juro que no soy troll. Que te la pasas buena.

lol

this might be kind of....true in a way?

"The Stooges really revived punk rock after the Rolling Stones invented it in the 60s."

Eh. Assuming the Stones did invent punk rock (!), the statement implies that there was a moment in the 1960s when punk rock (!!) died and was thus ripe for revival. Nuggets and Pebbles dispel that theory.

Garage comps like Nuggets and Pebbles leave off where the Stooges picked up. The garage movement was fading in '68 and just about gone by the time the Stooges showed up.

Did I call your mom a slag or something? If I did, I'm sorry.

votes have been cast, no new thread.

"Industrial music was invented by Ska fans who were fed up with the strictures of Detroit Techno. The Aphex Twins were first in this revolution."

Hoos that isn't real.

No one's ever said that.

shhhh

Oh right yeah soz.

Brokencyde fused Death Metal and the sort of dance-techno thing pioneered by Madonna to invent Chrunk (or Christian Funk) Rap.

This was a really wonderful thread.

Billy Joel was a major influence but it was Dizzie Gillespie who really got the Christian Metalcore ball rolling.

There, I said it.

lmao @ the spanish interlude upthread

Lolpez, tambien lo siento si te ofendi, es que tenemos un troll que se llama "Nude Spock" que dice cosas como eso. Nomas era un chisme, homes, crei que sabia (como una persona con nombre nuevo o como quieres). Somos buenos?

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, January 30, 2008 5:07 AM (2 years ago) Bookmark

lmao

back when Paul Bostaph had quit Slayer and before Lombardo rejoined, there were many rumors of who was going to take Paul's place behind the kit. There was this message board where there was speculation of several drummers, including the guy from Absu.

So someone posted there Slayer was looking at a Black Metal drummer to take over. The next reader replied by saying "Hell no, I don't want no n***** in the band!". Apparently he thought the guy meant a Black metal drummer....so in one sentence managed to destroy his metal credibility, and prove himself to be an ignorant racist...then wondered why he got picked on later in the thread.

"Tupac really was a big softie, his record company made him do all that thug stuff. Read interviews with the rappers, they'll tell you that the execs will turn them away if their lyrics aren't violent or misogynistic enough!"

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, November 29, 2007 1:28 AM (8 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Lolpez, tambien lo siento si te ofendi, es que tenemos un troll que se llama "Nude Spock" que dice cosas como eso. Nomas era un chisme, homes, crei que sabia (como una persona con nombre nuevo o como quieres). Somos buenos?

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, January 30, 2008 5:07 AM (2 years ago) Bookmark