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My experience of this phenomenon has always been that while I understand that others don't share my superb taste, it can on occasion be mildly frustrating.
But it rarely bothers me, they are simply wrong, afterall.
BR Taste re: The The? Up until and including Infected = very cool, afterwards = Mojo.
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I have some simply cringe-inducing music in my collection, which due to the modern miracle of MP3, I have managed to inflict onto several of my friends also!
High points include:
-lots and lots of Barenaked Ladies -a significant chunk of Hue and Cry -two (two!) Steps albums -Marillion. Enough said. -oh, and Utah Saints.
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I fucking hate them. That stupid song of theirs where some wanker raps on and on about a load of bollocks and he makes me want to find him and strap him to one of those devices they fling clay pigeons from and then:
NB: I got that picture from a site called 'Roys Lodge' There is no connection.
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i think the most embarassing stuff in my collection is dodgy old goth & punk records, many of which were owned on vinyl and have since been replaced on cd.
bands include:
bauhaus
sisters of mercy
the cult
the cure
public image limited
the dead kennedys
i still love all this old stuff but i don't know anyone else who does, so it's usually solitary listening.
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See, I think some of you are missing the point. You are supposed to list things that you LIKE BUT ARE ASHAMED OF and not things that you THINK WOULD GET YOU COOL POINTS.
Happy to help.
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O! I'll tell you what, whenever my friends come around I always have to hide my copy of The Massacre At Paris! I would simply die if people caught me reading such rot!
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OK confession time! I was reading Mme Bovary in the original Fr. this morning on the train... yes I know but I fancied a bit of a brain-holiday...
*makes mental note to hide British Sea Power album when I get in... so last Spring
quote:Originally posted by H1ppychick: You are supposed to list things that you LIKE BUT ARE ASHAMED OF and not things that you THINK WOULD GET YOU COOL POINTS.
Actually it was meant to be something in between. It's meant to be things that you really like but which you constantly see other people dissing in magazines, stupid telly programmes and on the WibWob, almost certainly for sheep-like reasons rather than because there is actually any grounds for ridicule or genuine criticism.
That requirement has drifted during the course of the thread but it's stayed entertaining enough to avoid any sort of official complaint.
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Although Dire Straits probably doesn't count as although it's no doubt uncool I am in no way ashamed of owning much of their back catalogue, Knopfler is a god dammit!
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okay, ignore the things which are apparently on my list.
i have a bauhaus video too! it's mainly their singles but it includes live stuff too, like bela lugosi's dead and rosegarden funeral of sores) which i also love and would watch again tonight if my video wasn't bust.
does that get me back on track with the thread?
see how ashamed you've all made me =>
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I think there is cool-variation within the Dire Straits oeuvre. I own "Making Movies" and "Dire Straits", which I know risk mockery, but which I also know are really genuinely class. So the joke is on anyone who laughs at those albums. However, "Brothers in Arms" is, I feel, more dubious. Perhaps it needs re-evaluation beyond the instant kneejerk everyone bought that bloated boring album -- I would say the same for "Joshua Tree" so perhaps I should give other late-80s monsters a chance.
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Hippy, I have wondered if I will look at my Franz Ferdinand cd in a few years time and view it in the same way I view my Menswe@r cd now, and think it is very likely.
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Various bad albums of the 80s - T'Pau, Pat Benetaar, the Bangles, Men Without Hats, Berlin, Dire Straits and Robert Palmer for starters.
DVDs and Videos - Top Gun, Airwolf and various others from my youth.
And come to think of it most of my clothes are also deemable as 'crap' - mainly ex-military gear, including my Italian army jacket from when I was 15, and some rather naff concert tour shirts.
But what the hell - some people just are never gonna be cool - and I gave up trying to fit in years ago.
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I would argue that anyone who derides Brothers In Arms as bloated and boring has little or no appreciation of the guitarists art, since to my mind it includes some of the finest guitar playing of any album. Mind you I'm hardly an impartial judge.
And Om I am barefaced in my lack of shame I tell you!
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quote:Originally posted by Physic: since to my mind it includes some of the finest guitar playing of any album. Mind you I'm hardly an impartial judge.
quote:Originally posted by kovacs: I think there is cool-variation within the Dire Straits oeuvre. I own "Making Movies" and "Dire Straits", which I know risk mockery, but which I also know are really genuinely class. So the joke is on anyone who laughs at those albums. However, "Brothers in Arms" is, I feel, more dubious. Perhaps it needs re-evaluation beyond the instant kneejerk everyone bought that bloated boring album -- I would say the same for "Joshua Tree" so perhaps I should give other late-80s monsters a chance.
quote:Originally posted by Roy: How about Paul Simon's Graceland ?
That's a good example. I loved that album when it came out. Excellent lyrics and combination of musical sources. Then it got all political and I don't think many have a good word for it now, in the media I mean. Still play it about once a year and get a good feeling.
My copy is on cassette and still has paint on it from when I was listening to it while decorating the bedroom in our first tiny little flat. In the winter. With no heating. I liked his next album as well, The Rhythm Of The Saints I think it is. Some pretty stuff on there.
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quote:Originally posted by kovacs: I would say the same for "Joshua Tree" so perhaps I should give other late-80s monsters a chance.
I thought U@ lost the plot around the time of the Joshua Tree, and only of recent months returned to anything near the quality I recall of my youth. On the strength of the rather fab Vertigo I went out and purchased the new album last night.
I was wrong - half way through I just turned it off. Dull dull dull.....
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Personally, I don't think it's ever been lacking taste to like Graceland, or The Joshua Tree, and there are tracks on Brothers in Arms that are as good as any in the Dire Straits canon, but that could just be the teenage Q reader in me rearing it's ugly head.
I think the key factor observed here is that taste is subject to fashion. Thereby some things that are of a specific time seize to be tasteful in the time which follows, possibly becoming by turns naff or kitcsh, possibly not. Obviously some things age more respectably, more tastefully, than others.
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Fuck off Om, Q was good when I was a teenager, it covered real music, man. Anyway it was my Dad's copy, and I also read Sounds and the NME, if that makes you feel better.
It was very much John Peel and Andy Kershaw in my middle teens.
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