Music Discussions Rife with Factual Inaccurarcies Overheard in Public Places

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So, I'm at the Soylent Green dispensing station known as "Pret a Manger" today, waiting to pay for my paltry lunch. The stereo system is playing "Move On Up" by the late, great Curtis Mayfield (later covered by the Jam to no great effect). A gaggle of office wags behind me chirp enthusiastically. "I'm dead sure this is by Jamiroquai, I mean just listen to it!" I turn around and politely say "it's Curtis Mayfield." I leave out the "..you DOLTS!" part, as I'm trying to be a bit more sensitive in these matters these days. BUT FOR CRYING OUT LOUD, CONFUSING CURTIS MAYFIELD WITH JAMIROQUAI SHOULD BE PUNISHABLE BY DISMEMBERMENT, GODDAMMIT!

Any of you overhear such conversations....and/or intervene when you can't help yourself?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 24 January 2005 20:04 (twenty-one years ago)

hahaha that is awesome.

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 24 January 2005 20:06 (twenty-one years ago)

and people doubt "1985"

― miccio (miccio), Monday, 24 January 2005 20:06 (twenty-one years ago)

I intervene but people act like they can't hear me. I'm kind of soft-spoken, though.

I don't imagine you are, Alex.

― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Monday, 24 January 2005 20:07 (twenty-one years ago)

I try to be polite, helpful ie. "if you like this, you'll love," etc. Can't think of any recent occurences, tho.

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 24 January 2005 20:09 (twenty-one years ago)

I find nothing more difficult than trying not to listen to people having conversations full of correctable inaccuracies, no matter what the content. Worst recently was in London in November, a guy at the next table going on about the results of the US election -- "the Northeast voted for Kerry," he says, "and California, but nothing else! Nothing else at all!" One of the women he was with: "What about Michigan?" Man: "Right, Michigan, but that's it! That was it!" Products of Illinois and Wisconsin sit fuming at the next table.

― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 24 January 2005 20:10 (twenty-one years ago)

also are record store employees allowed to post to this thread?

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 24 January 2005 20:10 (twenty-one years ago)

I live with a dude who does this constantly and will continue to argue his point even after I have provided documentation to the contrary.

OKAY K3V1N, THIS SHOULD PROVE ONCE AND FOR ALL THAT PAUL'S BOUTIQUE REALLY WAS RECORDED AND RELEASED AFTER LICENSED TO ILL, NO MATTER HOW OFTEN YOU BRING UP YOUR SO-CALLED "MONEY MARK FACTOR" WILL NOT MAKE YOU CORRECT IN THIS MATTER.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 24 January 2005 20:10 (twenty-one years ago)

I intervene but people act like they can't hear me. I'm kind of soft-spoken, though.

I don't imagine you are, Alex.

You'll be surprised to know that I was perfectly soft spoken about it,....although my expression probably told a different story.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 24 January 2005 20:13 (twenty-one years ago)

the junkies on the bus discussing Lou Reed's "Heroin" and arguing about whether he played guitar for Ozzy Osbourne was pretty funny.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 24 January 2005 20:15 (twenty-one years ago)

haha omg

― j blount (papa la bas), Monday, 24 January 2005 20:15 (twenty-one years ago)

I watched a young, 20-something man at a television industry party point to a guy who looked like the lead singer of Creed and say to his girlfriend, "I'm pretty sure that's Sonny Bono, the lead singer of U2."

― Chuckling at the Tomkat's Marquee (Ben Boyer), Monday, 24 January 2005 20:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Bahahahahahaha

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 24 January 2005 20:19 (twenty-one years ago)

i think my dad's finally figured out that blondie didn't invent rap music

― j blount (papa la bas), Monday, 24 January 2005 20:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh god, record stores can get bad. My previous posts involved watching a lot of Columbia-student pairs come in and try very hard to prove themselves more knowledgable than the other, often to the point of faking. Even without the inaccuracies, it could get unbearable: we'd sit there listening to some guy proudly point out that, I dunno, "yeah, this Desparaceidos band is actually the guy from Bright Eyes," as if he had to belong to a secret club to know that (as opposed to maybe just noticing that the disc was filed in the Bright Eyes section). I would never dream of saying anything about things like that, and I don't think any less of the people involved -- I am too stupid about too many things to be snobbish -- but on a personal, internal level, it was just really difficult to deal with, a bit like having a car accident unfold in front of you and not being able to look away.

― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 24 January 2005 20:20 (twenty-one years ago)

cee-lo fessed up to "Rapture" being one of the first "rap cadences" he ever heard in the Ego Trip Hip-Hop Lists book.

(x-post)

― miccio (miccio), Monday, 24 January 2005 20:20 (twenty-one years ago)

A friend of mine actually almost got into fisticuffs with the long haired manager of Kim's West (when it was on Bleeker) when he refused to believe my friend's claim that Stewart Copeland was once in Curved Air.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 24 January 2005 20:21 (twenty-one years ago)

About five years ago I was at a wedding reception, where they were playing a lot of cocktail lounge music. Kinda tacky but cool. "Danke Schoen" came on and a bunch of people were trying to guess the singer. Some guy said it was Patsy Cline. I told him it was actually Wayne Newton. But he was absolutely insistent it was Patsy Cline. I looked at him for a moment and then reached for another cocktail. I mean, he didn't even have the SEX right.

― Jazzbo (jmcgaw), Monday, 24 January 2005 20:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Wayne Newton is a MAN?

― miccio (miccio), Monday, 24 January 2005 20:22 (twenty-one years ago)

He also clearly wasn't listening to the lyrics.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 24 January 2005 20:23 (twenty-one years ago)

"Paul Weller was in a band before the Style Council? Umm, don't think so!" Not really significant, except that this was overheard in England

― dave q (listerine), Monday, 24 January 2005 20:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Jesus christ people.

― Eppy (Eppy), Monday, 24 January 2005 20:31 (twenty-one years ago)

"Paul Weller was in a band before the Style Council? Umm, don't think so!" Not really significant, except that this was overheard in England

I hope you slew them.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 24 January 2005 20:31 (twenty-one years ago)

i had an uncle who insisted that he really loved what the Beatles did with Macarthur Park

― kyle (akmonday), Monday, 24 January 2005 20:37 (twenty-one years ago)

I once met a guy who insisted that all of Jimi Hendrix's songs were written by Bob Dylan. And another who insisted that "Our House" (the Madness one, not the CNY one) was actually by Crowded House.

― Austin (Austin), Monday, 24 January 2005 20:42 (twenty-one years ago)

To This Day I've been unable to convince a Russian personal trainer friend of mine that Blondie were not -- in fact -- British and that they came from NYC originally. He just looks at me suspiciously and laughs as if I'm trying to pull a fast one on him.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 24 January 2005 20:48 (twenty-one years ago)

coz you see, punk is BRITISH, right?

― chris andrews (fraew), Monday, 24 January 2005 20:49 (twenty-one years ago)

One of my coworkers insisted today that Joan Jett's "I love rock n' roll" was by the rolling stones

― randy mamola, Monday, 24 January 2005 20:53 (twenty-one years ago)

"Move on Up" is so great and i love dancing to it.

― djdee2005 (djdee2005), Monday, 24 January 2005 20:54 (twenty-one years ago)

The first time I ever felt old was when i was a senior in high school and a bunch of freshmen were on the bus in front of me and they were talking about how Courtney Love had killed Kurt Cobain.

― Sam Hunt (robosam), Monday, 24 January 2005 20:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Sam did you ever work at Rasputin's in Berkeley?

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Monday, 24 January 2005 20:59 (twenty-one years ago)

"Move on Up" is so great and i love dancing to it.

As well you should.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 24 January 2005 21:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Horribly ill-informed friend of my roommate who comes over occasionally who considers himself a "hip-hop head" yesterday told me that Dr. Octagon was his favorite MF Doom album.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 24 January 2005 21:07 (twenty-one years ago)

been working in a music store for a couple months now, and the only thing that really grates is people saying they like "old punk" and listing off bands from the early nineties.

oh, and the guy who was like ten years younger than me who kept holding up stuff and saying "i bet you're too young to remember this." but that's a different kind of factual inaccuracy.

― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Monday, 24 January 2005 21:08 (twenty-one years ago)

It is my understanding that Zev Love X is actually Humpty Hump with the fake nose and glasses removed.

― Austin (Austin), Monday, 24 January 2005 21:08 (twenty-one years ago)

I like Dan the Automator, you know, the Asian guy from NERD.

― djdee2005 (djdee2005), Monday, 24 January 2005 21:10 (twenty-one years ago)

limewire users to thread - "crimson and clover" is NOT by the velvet underground, the beatles OR simon & garfunkle, ok? also stop claiming things are "rare live jam featuring bob marley, john lennon and hootie & the blowfish"

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Monday, 24 January 2005 21:10 (twenty-one years ago)

A music theater discussion that nearly made me choke on my own teeth: I was on my way to see Take Me Out last December, and was walking behind two obviously rich twentysomething girls, one of whom was planning to see Hairspray the musical. "What's it about?" the other one asked. The first replied something to the effect of, "Oh, it's, like, about this Jewish girl who wants to be a famous dancer, but she's too fat."

Words failed.

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Monday, 24 January 2005 21:17 (twenty-one years ago)

been working in a music store for a couple months now, and the only thing that really grates is people saying they like "old punk" and listing off bands from the early nineties.

I would need to be physically restrained.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 24 January 2005 21:25 (twenty-one years ago)

The most egregious example that comes to mind happened on a school bus I rode in high school. The driver would always play classic rock radio. The Who's "Baba O'Riley" came on very often - a couple times a week at the least, or that's how it seemed. You'd be amazed at how vehemently many kids on the bus HATED that classic synth loop. I'd always hear "Oh God, it's that 80s song again". I remember once I had to correct someone who thought it was by Rod Stewart.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Monday, 24 January 2005 21:40 (twenty-one years ago)

been working in a music store for a couple months now, and the only thing that really grates is people saying they like "old punk" and listing off bands from the early nineties.

this would make me ridiculously happy.

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Monday, 24 January 2005 21:43 (twenty-one years ago)

A girl that I was dating lost a great deal of respect for me one night in a bar when I would not concede that Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA" was actually written by Suicide.

― Clay (cws), Monday, 24 January 2005 22:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Two sk8r types in front of me at an off-licence queue about a month back:

"The music was weird, there was this gangsta rap tune called "Concrete Schoolyard" or something".

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 24 January 2005 23:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Overheard from some young scamps

"I only really like second wave ska like the Bosstones, none of the new stuff"
"whats the first wave stuff like?"
"it's shit it's just a bunch of niggers"

Absolute word faliure. I think I lost 2 years of my life letting it all sink in.

― why must we cut onions? (Lynskey), Monday, 24 January 2005 23:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Good lord, how am I supposed to get any work done when there's fabulous threads like these going on?

Move On Up is classic. Back when I used to DJ with some friends, I played it once and started a little trend among us. Didn't know The Jam covered it. Not a big Jam fan, but I'm curious.

"Pret a Manger"

Why does my brain process this as "Pet a Manager"?

[About Baba O'Riley] "Oh God, it's that 80s song again"

Oh that slays me. Towshend would be so proud, I mean it's almost a compliment.

― Bimble... (Bimble...), Monday, 24 January 2005 23:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Once at work I overheard a design engineer tell someone that Donovan was from Cincinnati.
I was dumbfounded and wanted to jump in and correct him, but he was one of those guys you don't want any sort of relationship with - that would be bad.

Another time I heard a couple of twenty-somethings say that the real name of Queen's John Deacon was Deacon John.

― Garibaldianne (Garibaldianne), Monday, 24 January 2005 23:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Another time I heard a couple of twenty-somethings say that the real name of Queen's John Deacon was Deacon John.

Well, to be fair, he is listed as "Deacon John" on their first album. I believe they thought it added a certain mystique.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 00:05 (twenty-one years ago)

I think I'm going to start stalking some of you, sitting nearby in public places and casually dropping a lot of these types of errors into my conversations.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 00:08 (twenty-one years ago)

also stop claiming things are "rare live jam featuring bob marley, john lennon and hootie & the blowfish"
-- Fritz Wollner

hahaha

― sleep (sleep), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 00:11 (twenty-one years ago)

It happens all the time in L.A. My all-time favorite involves cinema, not music, so indulge me. I was going to see the 70mm restored version of Tati's "Playtime" at the American Cinematique, and these two film students in front of me kept talking about how much they loved Tati's previous movie "Monocle" (sic). I let this go on for a few minutes and then finally said, “Did you know he shot that with a single lens?” The dudes looked astounded and said, “No way!” and then proceeded to marvel at how such a thing could be done. I guess I should have just been happy that they were talking abut Tati and not Jerry Bruckheimer….

― mottdeterre (mottdeterre), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 00:16 (twenty-one years ago)

aren't we all a bunch of smug bastards

― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 25 January 2005 00:19 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah seriously, _some_ of this is such absurd elitist bullshit..

― chris andrews (fraew), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 00:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Ha Ha. Okay to be fair: when I was working on being a pre-teen know it all I told my step-dad that Alex Lifeson played guitar and bass at the same time...you know, since he had a double-neck guitar and all.

Luckily he didn't call me a dumbshit, he just said, "that must be challenging..."

― Garibaldianne (Garibaldianne), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 00:25 (twenty-one years ago)

I mean my junkie anecdote's only funny because, y'know, they were junkies.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 25 January 2005 00:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, yeah, you could certainly look at it that way. I remember STRENUOUSLY correcting a high school pal of mine who insisted on mispronouncing the name Siouxsie (as in & the Banseehs) as "Sushi". In typical fashion, I got all red in the face about it, but the mere fact is: MUSIC JUST DOESN'T MATTER AS MUCH TO CERTAIN PEOPLE! In the same way that I couldn't give a rolling rat fuck who the starting pitcher for the Oakland A's is, some people just do not give a fuck that they don't know the name of every lead singer Rainbow has ever had (or whatever).

But, the reason I started this thread is that nine out of ten ILM'ers are the sort of folk who get all uppity about trivial music minutia. For better or worse.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 00:31 (twenty-one years ago)

this thread has made me feel so happy

i correct people all the time and feel like such a dick usually. But its not me, its THEM

― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 00:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Elitism is fun, let's not kid ourselves.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 00:51 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah. those silly proles!

― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 25 January 2005 00:53 (twenty-one years ago)

s it "elitism" to correct someone who is wrong about something? If someone was at a street corner and telling their child "red means walk, green means stop," would it be elitist of me to point out that they were feeding that child woeful misinformation?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 00:56 (twenty-one years ago)

It would probably be elitist if it was a stoplight for a street that no one but like 10 people ever crossed.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 00:58 (twenty-one years ago)

oh I'm just havin a little bitchy fun. I like learning stuff from people! I just find that its most effective to convey information in a friendly, encouraging way than in a mocking, disdainful one.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 25 January 2005 00:58 (twenty-one years ago)

most = more

― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 25 January 2005 01:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Note to users of Napster, circa 2000: "Stuck in the Middle with You" is not by Bob Dylan. thxbye.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 01:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Overheard from some young scamps

This one's not as bad, thankfully, but still -- circa 1996 or so at a Santa Barbara record store:

"...and then there was the band Madness, yeah man, they invented ska."

I took this under advisement.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 01:17 (twenty-one years ago)

The first time I ever felt old was when i was a senior in high school and a bunch of freshmen were on the bus in front of me and they were talking about how Courtney Love had killed Kurt Cobain.
-- Sam Hunt (sa...), January 24th, 2005.

Ditto!

― stew, Tuesday, 25 January 2005 01:37 (twenty-one years ago)

I posted this last year on another thread:

So I was at Jesse Malin's show at Mercury Lounge tonight, because he's a nice guy and his new album's nice and haters should find someone less...nice...to pick on... but so anyway, I was there waiting for him to come on, and the music on the P.A. shifted to "It's Alive" and stayed there (Jesse Malin being a big Ramones fanboy and Queens homeboy and all that). About 10 minutes later, the two youngish girls behind me:

Girl #1: I love the Replacements!
Girl #2: Me too! But 10 minutes is enough.
Girl #1: Yeah. It's just kind of that guitar noise over and over.
Girl #2: Yeah!

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 02:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Not really 'innacurate', just insane - somebody in a London pub told me that they'd jammed with Clapton, Beck, Hendrix etc. Really old rocker-looking dude, I believed him until he said the Hendrix jam was 'last year'

― dave q (listerine), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 02:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, along those lines, I met a woman who was married to John Lennon. They got married up in the Crystal Palace ("What you people call 'Heaven,'" she told me condescendingly), had 9 kids (her father -- "Who you people call 'God'" -- wanted "his own baseball team"), and then she persuaded John to come back down to Earth with her because she'd never been here before. She told me he was staying at an apartment around the corner and promised to bring him into the coffeeshop the next day so I could meet him...

But I guess that should be on a "Conversations With Schizophrenics" thread.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 02:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Is it "elitism" to correct someone who is wrong about something? If someone was at a street corner and telling their child "red means walk, green means stop," would it be elitist of me to point out that they were feeding that child woeful misinformation?
-- Alex in NYC (vassife...), January 25th, 2005 7:56 PM.
It would probably be elitist if it was a stoplight for a street that no one but like 10 people ever crossed.

-- polyphonic (polyphoni...), January 25th, 2005 7:58 PM.

This is the funniest thing I've heard all day.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 03:33 (twenty-one years ago)

poly is good people, its true

― chris andrews (fraew), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 03:36 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't think there was anything egregiously *factually* wrong with it, but I remember the pompous-ass coffeeshop employee, who had obviously taken something along the lines of Intro to Music, giving me this painfully drawn out explanation of bebop that sorta kinda got the basics right "They added more chord changes" etc., and he talked so much that he wouldn't let me get a word in to say "I STUDY JAZZ GUITAR AT A FUCKING CONSERVATORY!"

― Hurting (Hurting), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 03:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Me: "Yeah, he died about 10 years ago"
Other: "No, it can't be, they're still recording stuff aren't they?"
Me: "No, Kurt is definitely dead"

― Robert Moore (treble), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 14:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, the other day while DJing...

Pretty girl: Do you take requests?
Me: Yeah sure.
Her: Can you play some T. Rex?
Me: [befuddled] This... this is a T. Rex song on right now.
Her: Are you sure?
Me: Yeah... it's, this is "Telegram Sam".
Her: That's not a T. Rex song!
[I grab the record and hand it to her.]
Her: I've never heard of this album and they're my favorite band, wow! So can you play some more T. Rex, you think?

― Clay (cws), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 15:15 (twenty-one years ago)

heh, i overheard this guy sitting behind me in a restaurant talking about how alicia keys was no good anymore because she'd become too "overcommercialized".

― Hello [on a cellphone], greetings, it's me, an outlaw, latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 15:22 (twenty-one years ago)

-- gypsy mothra (meetm...), January 25th, 2005.

what if they're NOT deluded?

― Hello [on a cellphone], greetings, it's me, an outlaw, latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 15:24 (twenty-one years ago)

I was once in a record store where a frosh-looking college girl pointed out a Barry White disc to her friend, and said "OMG, this is totally the guy who does the voice of Chef on South Park."

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 15:27 (twenty-one years ago)

oh that t-rex thing is tragic.

― peter smith (plsmith), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 15:31 (twenty-one years ago)

I was once in a record store where a frosh-looking college girl pointed out a Barry White disc to her friend, and said "OMG, this is totally the guy who does the voice of Chef on South Park."

-- Tantrum The Cat (tantrumtheca...), January 25th, 2005.

Even for people who get it right, I'm always a little sad to find that for many people Chef is what Isaac Hayes is known for. The "Shaft" theme song aside, the man co-wrote dozens and dozens of hit songs for the Stax label, not to mention Hot Buttered Soul.

― Hurting (Hurting), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 15:35 (twenty-one years ago)

people saying they like "old punk" and listing off bands from the early nineties

We've all seen the column from The Onion on this, I assume

― DJ Mencap0))), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 15:55 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm sure there are enough examples of people proudly claiming that they've ".... been into [band / musician X] right from the very start - [record Y]" (where every self-respecting music-obsessive knows perfectly well that [record Y] was in actual fact the nth title released by [band / musician X]) to fill another entire thread.

Some personal favourites 'though:
[band / musician X] : [record Y]
Fleetwood Mac : Fleetwood Mac
Human League: : Dare
New Order : Blue Monday
REM : Green
Blur : Parklife
Green Day : Dookie

Special mention also to my partner's daughter who (despite having spent 2 years living under my roof at the time) came home after her Music GCSE exam and proudly announced that one of the questions that had been asked was to give an example of a reggae musician - and that she had responded "Bob Dylan".

She actually passed the exam; although I don't think she's suffering from any delusions that she would have done so if I had been marking it.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 16:00 (twenty-one years ago)

People who think 'the original Pink Floyd' is the Roger Waters one

― dave q (listerine), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 16:39 (twenty-one years ago)

people saying they like "old punk" and listing off bands from the early nineties
We've all seen the column from The Onion on this, I assume

Yeah, that Onion thing was perfect. I like how the guy's awareness of the Sex Pistols derives entirely from their '96 reunion tour.

Me with a co-worker, late '89:

He: Yeah, I wouldn't mind seeing the Stones, except that fuckin' Living Colour's opening for them.
Me: What don't you like about them?
He: I hate rap.
Me: What?! They don't rap!
He: Funk then, whatever. I hate that shit.

End of discussion. (End of ALL music discussions.)

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 16:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Talking to really old people about music is great, esp. when they think Michael and Janet Jackson are the same person

― dave q (listerine), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 16:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Talking to really old people about music is great, esp. when they think Michael and Janet Jackson are the same person

Wait....they're not?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 16:48 (twenty-one years ago)

ALEX WINS OBVIOUS JOKE OF THE DAY AWARD!

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 16:48 (twenty-one years ago)

(haha xxxpost - saw the 'Steel Wheels' tour, the Stones were like James Brown compared to Living Colour)

― dave q (listerine), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 16:49 (twenty-one years ago)

I was DJing at a local gig night in Stirling :( and was kicking Waiting For the Man when a couple of busty lasses come up and ask me to play something "Half-decent".
I managed not to get too indignant, simply stating, this is the Velvet Underground, it's more than decent.
They looked through my cd collection looking completely non-plussed (okay, no Razorshite or Keane, but hardly obscure)until they come across Franz Ferdinand. I was happy to play it, but sheesh, they said they were studying music technology at college! Why do music students have such dreadful taste? They all listen to Sting and Lenny Kravitz and stuff. Gaaaah!
Then the guitarist in one of the crap local bands hands me the new Music album and asks me to play track one. Hmmm. I might have considered it until he started soundchecking over my records. Grrr!

― stew, Tuesday, 25 January 2005 16:49 (twenty-one years ago)

I should add, that's what you get for trying to introduce da kidz to good music. :( I hate this town.

― stew, Tuesday, 25 January 2005 16:51 (twenty-one years ago)

linkie to onion artcle plz

― David Allen (David Allen), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 16:53 (twenty-one years ago)

HEARD TODAY

Random poser: Whatever, dude. The best Bowie album is Changes. It's got all his best songs.

Yea, you might say it has his GREATEST HITS, even.

― poortheatre (poortheatre), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 00:01 (twenty-one years ago)

OK THIS WAS BY AN MTV VJ ON THEIR LAST NEW YEAR'S SPECIAL:

"I'm a big fan (of Green Day), I bought their first album in '95!"

― bprofane (AaronHz), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 00:29 (twenty-one years ago)

(ok, she could have meant she bought "39/Smooth" in '95, but you know she meant "Dookie" and even got the year wrong)

― bprofane (AaronHz), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 00:33 (twenty-one years ago)

(ok, she could have meant she bought "39/Smooth" in '95, but you know she meant "Dookie" and even got the year wrong)

They did release an album in 1995, though, so maybe she didn't even mean Dookie.

― Vic Funk, Wednesday, 26 January 2005 00:58 (twenty-one years ago)

It was said in a "I was down from day one" tone of voice.

― bprofane (AaronHz), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 01:08 (twenty-one years ago)

this thread is great. but poortheatre, saying someone's greatest hits collection is his best album is defensible.

― Shmool McShmool (shmuel), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 01:10 (twenty-one years ago)

"Clapton was never in the Yardbirds, that's not his style."

― bprofane (AaronHz), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 01:15 (twenty-one years ago)

ok, she could have meant she bought "39/Smooth" in '95

If she were really down from day one, 39 and Smooth wouldn't have been in the same package.

― martin m. (mushrush), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 01:21 (twenty-one years ago)

I gotta say I feel for the DJ stories recounted here. When I DJ'd I dealt with people/situations like these all the time. Talk about clueless and annoying! Unfortunately I don't think it matters what town you are in. Still can't forget the time the bartender asked me if the record I was playing - A Certain Ratio's "Do The Du" was David Bowie. But you know, I'm polite about these things.

― Bimble... (Bimble...), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 01:29 (twenty-one years ago)

saying someone's greatest hits collection is his best album is defensible

well, i guess you're right about that-- but this guy was so obviously an asshole haha

― poortheatre (poortheatre), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 01:57 (twenty-one years ago)

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