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

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"

professor, why is there no emancipation of mimi thread?!?!?!?!

"what was the best single by Steve Harley/Cockney Rebel? Also, is it more acceptable for musicians to take drugs, and how does that impact their creativity?"

"Dave Matthews Band: "

lololol @ all these

"minimal house: C or D"

this, plz

kevin you must be fun at parties

Parties are free, sweet cheeks. (Well, the ones I go to.) (Well, sometimes you gotta bring chips and whatnot.) So I'm a blast.

just stand up in the middle of class and blurt it out. make sure to say the abrv cee or dee

totes

and film it ok

Your Favorite Rap Couplets of the Moment, You Contrarian-Ass Mutha!

"OMG 50 CENT CAM'RON DIS"

Dude looks like a lady.

-- Ned Raggett, Monday, November 26, 2007 10:51 PM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

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1st ever blues song

-- jhøshea, Monday, November 26, 2007 10:51 PM

lol

'"It's The End Of The World As We Know It" vs. "We Didn't Start The Fire": which is more annoying, and why?'

"Has there been a great american metal band since the golden age of death?"

i admire HOOS for this thread. target = funnies. target: achieved.

how anal/creative are you with itunes genre labeling?!

hypothesis: people who respond to other people on the internet by addressing them as "sweet cheeks" are 100% correlated with people who are never worth talking to ever

HARDMAN

Where's that thread, El Tomboto, er, sweet cheeks? xpost

Tombot 4-4-2

proof!!!

I can't get over the thread-starting NIN comment, which leaves synthpop/dance music out of the equation entirely

you mean it's not accurate??

Throbbing Gristle combined outlaw country and the civil rights movement to invent French New Wave cinema.

didn't SPIN magazine once run a cover story on Nick Cave that read THE LAST ROCK STAR.

I remember feeling sad because I didn't want him to be the last. But they called it.

Can we take bets here on WHO INVENTED EMO?

Evanescence

Warrant

Atmosphere

Roxy Music oh wait

Emo Phillips

I was thinking more like Carly Simon. This is higher ed from what I understand.

(This class should be on DVD. It's got a built-in audience.)

Your search - "sweet cheeks" site:ilxor.com - did not match any documents.

;_;

Maybe she was mixing up "The Message" and "White Lines," because "White Lines" did rip off liquid liquid without sampling them.

now i'm one of those posters.

nevermind me HOOS, plz keep it up.

Conal Furay and Michael J. Salevouris define historiography as "the study of the way history has been and is written — the history of historical writing... When you study 'historiography' you do not study the events of the past directly, but the changing interpretations of those events in the works of individual historians."[1] One should be cautious, however, that in the sense given in the previous paragraph when a historian does historiography she is actually studying "the events of the past directly".

-Wiki

I've decided that I like your professor's interpretation of musical history better than the other one. I'm making the switch. Who is brave enough to come with me?

I've decided that I like your professor's interpretation of musical history better than the other one. I'm making the switch. Who is brave enough to come with me?

I'm in. It's either stick with the rest of you losers or go with the originator of dancehall. No-brainer.

While this thread is amusing, the root of it raises a serious issue which pretty much everyone on ILM would probably agree with, i.e. the fact that pop music is hideously inadequately approached by academia. If someone gave a film studies class full of this kind of bullshit, inaccuracy, short-sighted opinion and foundation-less conjecture they'd get fired, so why is it allowed with pop music?

To be honest I'm not sure why pop music should need to be 'approached by academia' at all.

The 'academia approach' to pop music was started by Bob Dylan.

That sounds like a Richard Meltzer question. Seriously, if this is an undergraduate class, it's likely stocked with undergrads looking for an easy A. I don't think that pop music is being interrogated here. And there are academics grappling with pop music. Look at the faculty of the Musicology department at UCLA.

Also, these quotes are ridiculous not just because they are wrong, but because they miss the point of a sociology class. The music should be the context for discussing the social environments surrounding it. Ie: Is this what was going on in hip-hop in the 1980s, and here was the interplay between hip-hop and the communities of people who listened to it. The quotes from this professor are at best the realm of music history (or a music department, not a sociology department) and at worst, have no place in Academia. (What is the most important song ever? WTF?)