I Only Listen to Classic Rock

sorta like the logical opposite of lookatthatfuckinghipster, don't you think?

http://ionlylistentoclassicrock.tumblr.com/

I laughed at some of these.

famous archetype of classic rock Dick Dale there

I'm so glad this is another tame lolwhitepeople tumblr blog and not a rehash of some miserable rockism argument from 4 years ago.

laughing at photos of people -- all the cool people on the itnernet are doing it.

If all you listen to is Tusk....well, I could do worse than having no other album than Tusk.

most of those are not really people I would consider archetypal classic rock fans. Jimmy Buffett? Iron Maiden? wtf

Kind of shooting fish in a barrel, isn't it? Easy targets. Why don't they make fun of Animal Collective fans?

yeesh, this is horrible. like, really bad. unless the person doing it is 12, then i guess it's okay.

i'm not sure what they're getting at.

tbf i don't think they're sure what they're getting at.

Is it Fat Chicks in Party Hats we have to thank for all these blogs (look at this fucking hipster, awkward family photos, this) making fun of unfortunate pictures?

vice magazine dos and donts

that kid in the maiden t-shirt seems like a posi dude IMO

i confess i have gotten a kick out of vice magazine dos and donts in the past. i guess i'm the problem.

They dont like people who only like music made before '77, and the first target I see is a kid in an Iron Maiden t-shirt. Makes absolutely no sense. Way to stick to your stated mission, guys.

From a legal standpoint, would anyone ever be able to go after one of these sites if they could prove the picture and insulting comments were damaging their reputation under defamation laws? I've always wondered that, because some of these can be pretty damn mean-spirited.

no, not in the us at least. from what I understand, the uk has some pretty fucked up libel laws, maybe they could do it there.

vice magazine dos and donts had funny captions, which is a key part of this whole godforsaken enterprise.

They dont like people who only like music made before '77, and the first target I see is a kid in an Iron Maiden t-shirt. Makes absolutely no sense. Way to stick to your stated mission, guys.

yeah really isn't Maiden's first album 1980 or something?

I think it's '79, could be '80.

My LP says 1980

I'm so glad this is another tame lolwhitepeople tumblr blog and not a rehash of some miserable rockism argument from 4 years ago.

― sciolism, Thursday, July 9, 2009 5:38 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

thing is the word "rockist" appears 3 times on the front page

It appears twice. And even if it appeared ten times, it's obviously not some "miserable rockism argument."

not that it matters, but three times: once in the header, once in the body of a post, once as a category tag on the same post

yeesh, this is horrible. like, really bad. unless the person doing it is 12, then i guess it's okay.

― scott seward, Thursday, July 9, 2009 12:40 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

anyway skot otm

"
Stranger: hi
You: yo
Stranger: whats up?
You: talking to strangers, blogging
You: do you have an opinion as to whether mariah carey or whitney houston is a better singer?
Stranger: whitney houston sucks less
Stranger: but they both suck
Stranger: mariah carey is a talentless douchebag
You: hahahahahaahaha
You: so what do you like
Stranger: i mostly listen to classic rock
You: hahahahahahahahaha
You: how old are you, like 14?
Stranger: 24
You: i used to listen to nothing but classic rock
You: until i was like 14
Stranger: you can't beat the classics
Stranger: auto tune can kiss my ass"

stranger wins

all of these tumblr blogs would be 100000x better without the commentary. the author always talks as if they're auditioning for a spot on vh1 'I love the 80s'

someone trying really hard to be snarky when they don't actually have anything to say *at all* = painful to read.

(insert joke about ilx here.)

Hey, what we need here is a string of amusing and awesomely uncomfortable YouTube music videos! Too bad we can't recycle British glam chancers, since they don't make much sense in the context of a US crowd.

the author always talks as if they're auditioning for a spot on vh1 'I love the 80s'

lol yes

[i]the author always talks as if they're auditioning for a spot on vh1 'I love the 80s'[i]

I've watched this show and I find it very hard to believe they hold auditions.

there are some good jokes, but they need an editor! like the guys with the neil young shirts -- if the caption was just something like, "so who's going to be trans?" it'd be much funnier (to me, anyway). it's the "throw twelve darts at the board and one's bound to stick" school of comedy.

mean spirited, not funny. some of the ppl pictured look ok to me.

I'd much rather hang out with most of those people than the d-bags who say "rock is dead, I only listen to "_______." It's kind of refreshing sometimes to go to some outdoor fest where the audience goes nuts for whoever, rather than stonefaced hipsters with arms folded and sticks up ass.

wtf at either not recognizing peter stormare or recognizing him but writing the snark about him anyway as if he's not going to eat your soul.

i mean he looks relatively benign in that photo and he's sporting some of the relevant dadrock signifiers, maybe, like a beatles tee and a comic book guy ponytail but stormare never looks like he's not contemplating eating your soul or else he just ate your soul and he's temporarily satiated.

i don't have a problem w/ ppl doing another variation of an established concept but leave stormare out of it unless the concept is ppl who look like they just devoured somebody's soul cf what i said previously.