Most Rockist Moment of Your Life

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Not "most rockin'est". Though it's not out of the question that they could be one and the same.

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 18 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Hijack: how do I get my "comments" link to be below my posts and not above them?

― david h(0wie), Thursday, 18 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

hijack #2: Is being rockist nature or nurture?

Re: #1, Like this? You just add a couple of HTML line breaks after your response, and italicize the quote.

― dleone, Thursday, 18 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Got it.

― david h(0wie), Thursday, 18 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I was at a big dinner with friends from work. A guy who I'm not on good terms with since he dated my ex-g/f was sitting next to me, and we were having some sort of disagreement about some record. The ex-g/f turned to us at one point during a lull in conversation and said "do you guys agree about ANYTHING?!?" We turned to each other, smirked, and proceeded to have a 45-minute conversation about the glory that is Steve Albini's guitar tone and equipment, thus leaving many jaws agape. Beat that.

― Dave M., Thursday, 18 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I used to collect audiophile recordings of Beatle records. Seriously, that's the closest thing I can think of.

― Michael Daddino, Thursday, 18 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

a friend puts on Screamadelica and I say "might as well"

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 18 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

gawd... when i was 16 or so like thats any excuse i was listening to 'the song remains the same' and my sister (younger) sez Listen to all those girls screaming! in between tracks, and i sez (knowingly) That's not girls screaming, thats men shouting.

― graham c, Thursday, 18 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Like everyone else, my 13 year old Guns N Roses' period.

― Dom Passantino, Thursday, 18 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Dinner with Ted Nugent. He just happened to wander into a restaurant while my friends and I were there. He sat down at the table next to us. A young woman with very big hair lifted up her top and asked Ted to autograph her breasts. Rock on....

― brg30, Thursday, 18 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i mean YOUR life, not Ted Nugent's! (tho if you "said rock on man" right THEN maybe it would count)

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 18 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I can clearly remember my first Rockist Moment. I was 12 and I was walking home from school with a friend. We were both arguing over the merits of Eric Clapton over Michael Jackson. "Michael Jackson is always in the charts and he's getting all the attention but you never hear anyone mention Eric Clapton!! It's a disgrace!!"

― Michael Bourke, Thursday, 18 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

From about 14-16 I just remember being smugly superior in my belief that bands like R.E.M and INXS were "real musicians" which automatically made them infinitely cooler than stuff like NKOTB. How wrong I was!

― Nicole, Thursday, 18 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

In a similar vein, I remember being 13 and sitting in the bedroom of my cousin's gothy girl friends. There were big posters of New Order and Joy Division on the walls. Both girls were talking about how New Order was their favourite band. I was doubtful, and just arrogantly replied: "They use too many keyboards, I believe. I wouldnt like it."

― Simon, Thursday, 18 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Well, Nicole, NKOTB might not be the best counterexample. It's like, "Which pleases you more at seeing -- phelgm or mucus?" ;-)

The point however is clear. At some point in 1986 or so, I remember thinking that all that synth stuff might actually be better on real instruments. Thankfully I escaped this vision.

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 18 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

probably when I was 13 and wrote an incredibly self-righteous song about how Milli Vanilli et al were fake; needless to say, about a year later I realized a lot of my favorite music was too by that standard and felt like an idiot

― M Matos, Thursday, 18 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I was watching Roxy Music circa Country Life on Don Kirshner's Rock Concert with my older brother Mike the Deadhead. He wasn't impressed. So I said, "Well, just listen to the drummer, man, he's really good."

Sorry, that's all I could come up with. I might not have said "man", though.

― Arthur, Thursday, 18 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i was 15, i think...in the back of the bus, raving about led zepplin and banging a recently long head of hair.

the tune was "how many more times" i think...silly :)

― mike (ro)bott, Friday, 19 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I read in a book when I was 14 that Morrissey hated videos so I decided to hate videos too. I thought they were fake and distracted from the music. This lasted until I saw a Morrissey video. I also remember the first time I heard M/A/R/R/S thinking it was the worst record ever of all time because there wasn't a tune.

But even in my short classic rock phase though I pretty much only listened to compilations of classic rock singles. I suck as a rockist. :(

― Tom, Friday, 19 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

rockism ATE my life

― dave q, Friday, 19 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Also, when I was about 15 a bunch of us had a drunken 'guitar duel' and I won by playing Metallica's 'Master of Puppets'

― dave q, Friday, 19 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

By far the most punk rock moment of my life was playing a packed all ages show opening for Avail.

I was playing bass getting into it and rammed into one of the guitarists and my bass flew up and cut a big gash into my head about an inch from my left eye. I took and wiped a big stream of blood across my white Fender bass and kept on playing the rest of the show. After this went down the pit went absolutely bonkers for the rest of the set.

― earlnash, Friday, 19 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I think it was that time I stole a camaro and drove it to Jim Morrison's grave, where I drank a bottle of J.D. and shot up. I think that would be it... unless that was on T.V...?

― Dave225, Friday, 19 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Well, Nicole, NKOTB might not be the best counterexample. It's like, "Which pleases you more at seeing -- phelgm or mucus?" ;-)

Noooo, "the Right Stuff" retains far more charm than Document! And Jordan Knight wore bauhaus t-shirts.

― Nicole, Friday, 19 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i was rockist when i took the side of digital excitation (R&S) instead of toxic two (PWL). ironically, toxic two was actually damon wild and tim taylor, so the true rockist would have chosen toxic two anyway. does anyone remember them on TOTP?

― gareth, Friday, 19 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah, I forgot about the T-shirts, that was a bit of a mindfuck. I can't grant you "The Right Stuff," though, that was clodhopping. "Hangin' Tough" as mock arena stomp turned into *real* arena stomp by virtue of the band's success, though, now we're talking.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 19 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I once rubbed a sardine all over a girls nipples after my high school bands concert.

― Chris, Friday, 19 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

by my own standards, i have never made a rockist move nor spake a rockist word in my entire fuckin span. BY MY OWN STANDARDS y'understand.

― UOIU, Friday, 19 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Watching Led Zeppelin's "The Song Remains The Same" movie at age 14 and thinking: Coooool.
Second place: Asking my dad for Pink Floyd's The Wall on double CD for Christmas some eight years ago.