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

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.

haha -- I'm Not There has a great crack about "Eve of Destruction."

Re: "Girls Just Want to Have Fun"

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

-- BIG HOOS aka the steendriver,

I was going to post that this was, at least, correct, but I see it's been done already.

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

robert hazard innit? best song ever written by a member of the hooters is "time after time."

i don't know, i paid 2 grand to hear worse shit than this -- and a lot less amusing shit -- at college. this sounds pretty fun.

i took some class like this and one time i got drunk before and went off cuz the TA was saying that british punk was so much better than american punk.

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

^^^^ YES

when the campus police arrest you you can say you were just making a Prince homage

"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.

-- Kevin John Bozelka, Monday, November 26, 2007 2:27 PM (Monday, November 26, 2007 2:27 PM) Bookmark Link

It's false because there's no sampling in "The Message"!

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. Besides the first Stooges album was released in 1969. In fact, they TELL you as much on their first record.

kjb think of the lolz... plz

It's false because there's no sampling in "The Message"!

Ah! I didn't see "re: "The Message." I thought she was talking about the band in general. Well, there's another one.

Kevin John Sabotage

kjb think of the lolz... plz

I am. Some of them ARE funny. But I doubt I'd find many of them funny sitting in a class I paid money for (and prolly a lot of $). And I'm sure that holds for most ILMers. I mean, look at how people got apoplexy when Xgau writes "back-in-the-day" as a noun (or whatever the hell the complaint was). Can you imagine the same folks sitting in an entire (presumably semester long) course where the prof talks about The Pretty Hate Machines? Cronenberg-esque head explosions all around.

i think you should get on the next bus to hoosten university and sort this out dude.

Dude looks like a lady.

1st ever blues song

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

In The Wee Small Hours?

Hoos being in Sociology of Pop Music class explains a lot

i said "sort this out dude" not "sort out this dude."

kevin you must be fun at parties

T/S: Alex in NYC vs Sociology of Pop Music Prof

Do you ever correct her?

-- filthy dylan, Monday, 26 November 2007 21:48 (1 hour ago) Link

I did initially, then I stopped cause I didn't wanna be that guy. Now if something is especially egregious I'll mention it to her after class.

jokes on HOOS for majoring in soc

-- moonship journey to baja, Monday, 26 November 2007 22:06

thanks be to lennon that i didn't.

Hoos you should just derail the class by asking ILM thread questions

"why does x people never want to y"

"minimal house: C or D"

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