these are the songs that you listen to and don't like yet somehow you always come back to them. i guess this probably happens mostly with mp3s. anyways, i am listening to "the crunge" by zeppelin now and find both robert plant's ridiculous vocalizations and the absurd keyboard line distateful yet addictive. so, why does this happen and on what songs? or am i just nuts?
― brains, Sunday, 23 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
I used to have this with alot of stuff until I realised that I was
just embarassed to tell people I liked it, so now if I like something
I like something and that's it. OTOH if I HATE something, there is
zero tolerance, I cannot physically stand to listen to it. One or
t'other, I'm afraid. This might explain why I am intolerable.
― dave q, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
While I generally tend to avoid Nu-Metal, I'm sort've drawn to "Chop
Suey" and "Toxicity" by System of a Down. The chunky guitars, harmonies
and time-signature fluxuations are endearing, but by the same token,
the crap lyrics and yawpy vocals repel me (not to mention their silly
facial hair and stupid name). Still, "Chop Suey" does rock.
― Alex in NYC, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
I love "The Crunge". I think when one listens to it, one feels like
they are
supposed to think of it right off the bat as lower in
quality, because it's the 'throwaway' track (i.e., briefer than the
other songs, obviously intended to lighten the mood, seems like a
James Brown pastiche), where the meter is set low from the get-go so
there's not chance for it to soar to the realms of glory (or
whatever) potentially reserved for the other tracks.
Yet the song nonetheless has lot of appeal to it (to my ears): the
infectious beat in 9, Page's Carlos Alomar-like rhythm riff, and that
greasy, 70s keyboard line (reminds me of Boz Scaggs' "Lowdown"
actually). Kind of like Can right before a lunch break...
Ultimately, I gotta agree with Dave Q. If you find even an iota of
something that you like about the song and keeps bringing you back to
it, then you really (at least, I think) like the song and why not
just set one's cognitions accordingly.
― Joe, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
I think it's called "irritainment" these days. it's how I felt about
"u can't touch this" when it came out. many people feel that way about
"the crunge". I myself am unabashed in my love for anything on "houses
of the holy". won't you "take me to the bridge"?
― danielgamesh, Tuesday, 25 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
saturday night around 1am after one too many beers I tuned into the
Dashboard Confessional Unplugged on MTV2. I was thinking to myself
this is pretty good stuff. THe next morning I downloaded some of his
music completely sober and realized it sucked ass.
― Chris, Tuesday, 25 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)