Posts you had second thought about and decided not to post - put them here

I used to hang out with some American punks who genuinely thought like this and it still drives me up the wall

like make any kind of music with guitars and you'll get at least basic respect

You forgot to add "But Kraftwerk are cool, they're alright..."

acceptable not-guitar music for the mid-90s "punk" world I experienced: Wu-Tang, Aphex Twin/random IDM that was assumed to be Aphex Twin, Atari Teenage Riot, Prodigy (but not the hits)

homophobia, misogyny, and racism is where a lot of the anti-dance and anti-electronic music BS comes from— not much has changed since “Disco Demolition Night”

dance music is all just garbage isn't it, guys? just some fake noises for druggies and weirdos. not real music, no real musicians involved, am I right? guys? you need to do shitty drugs to enjoy this shitty music!!! I know we're all on the same page here, guys!! and all those bullshit different genre names, it's all just shitty fake techno music!! how dare they pretend it's different, it's all the same worthless shit!! everyone who listens to it must be a fucking idiot!!! I'm right aren't I?!?!?

― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length),

when were these savages born?

i thought they went extinct. critically endangered, at the very least.

i do have a friend who has punk roots and plays hardcore, he's allergic to electronic textures but not at all vocal about it. he's the only one though.

I am not saying anyone I know is this far gone now, nor that anyone on here is like this, but there are some underlying hints of it on a certain other thread

I'll confess to tuning some EDM out, if there's not some clear 'pop' hook or something.. but I'm mostly indifferent, not an active hater

Sometimes on the right patio, with the right Aperol spritz, it's the perfect thing

lol

Chunks of it have always been corny and/or repulsive but that's the same of every genre.

xxp i saw that on the other thread but like, electronics were the whole of the landscape for a time, right? making music with "real" instruments felt like a total rejection of popular culture. the pendulum is swinging the other way now but i feel like we've seen both extremes

I kinda felt that way about Suicide... like they were essentially saying "you boring fucks, you're just playing chuck berry riffs!" to their punk cohort.. they were trying to remake their world as something else entirely, and it didn't involve 'rock' and 'riffs'

but suicide are "rock" now

that's the imbalance i see atm which is why C@AL's post was a head scratcher.

bad example but ykwim

Suicide were fairly obviously heavily influenced by 50s rock and roll though.

... the music of Alan Vega's youth in fact.

yeah suicide should be "rock", probably. idk about some other things that are "rock" now, though

yeah Suicide is a bad example but I was just talking about the things they rejected, not what they embraced

(There may actually be another message board out there where this can be re-litigated lol)

acceptable not-guitar music

Fun fact: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart could barely even play guitar

But he was good at tapping...dat ass

lol

Er war Superstar

i understand how it feels to be bored but unless you have something to contribute please don't shit up the menswear thread thx

:( we're supposed to like the way we look

https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/4334a0bd1d2c9b310fb979a6b50fd72f8cc3754f/0_0_6463_3880/master/6463.jpg

https://www.theaudiodb.com/images/media/artist/thumb/qsuxwp1364762483.jpg

lol yeah the "I don't know about all those dance genres it were all fields in my day" comments on that thread are pretty eyerollworthy.

that is the sort of thread that only gets traction on a laughably moribund music forum. ooh yes let us discuss electro-swing and landfill indie rather than listen to the literal zillion great things coming out every month

oh hang on, I see there's a new Spoon song, activate activate

xp - can't you find a better msg board to fuck off to?

Keep going and this really will be the full boring-bastard greyscape you desire tbh

jazz it up if you care so much

xp - please spare us the chord counting and go bore someone else with that on Reddit or whatever.

what thread? lol

It's actually ok

Maligned Genres aka "I like everything except..."

chord counting isn't illegal but it's frowned upon

in reno they have guys who break your jazz hands for doing it

The Jazz Hands Mafia is in Branson, MO

throwing extremely blurry gang signs

Lol @ jazz hands discourse

We must protect thread integrity or else the terrorists win, or something

At times like this I try to take a breath and remember that this is a voluntary leisure activity.

Stupid goofing and inane riffing and sometimes just being wrong and silly and silly and wrong have been part of the package here since forever. (Complaining about it is also part of the mix, too.) Anyways we can all just scroll past stuff if it isn't precisely what we want to see.

Stupid goofing and inane riffing and sometimes just being wrong and silly and silly and wrong have been part of the package here since forever

nods approvingly in ~jazz~

99% of the output in any genre is shitty, including the ilxposting genre

This has been pointed out in the past and I am certainly culpable: sometimes posts are like a kid coming downstairs and awkwardly trying to join the adult conversation at the party.

It's just posting, some conversation and thinking out stuff together. It's pretty good at times given its free and nobody owes anyone anything.

What I don't need is someone getting exasperated at the group. It might be ok if I respect their posts, but when your posts are terrible it's worse.

99% of the output in any genre is shitty, including the ilxposting genre

― the late great

a surprising percentage of shitposts fail to be sufficiently shit

it may be hard to accept but the early 2010s was 10+ years ago

having second thoughts about them?

really glad that my fave hip genres didn't get listed as poll options so that i don't have to be annoyed by people who don't know much about them talking shit ... or just ... being made aware that people don't share my superior aesthetic lol