Well I consider good music a transcendent art form. However a lot of music and especially most pop music especially is akin to nursery rhymes with the simple rhythms of the Nuremberg rallies.FBM wrote:OK, so you have mixed feelings about it, I guess.Audley Strange wrote:Almost the entirety of music, like any art form is fucking awful. A cacophony of dirges and poorly expressed caterwauled femotional howlings. It's not getting any better or worse. That which panders to mass market by necessity is thin gruel.
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Pop music especially, yes. 
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You don't like this? You're dead to me. Dead to me, I tells ya!Gawdzilla Sama wrote:"She's got electric boots,
A mohair suit,
You know I read it
in a magazine,
Ohhh, B-b-b-benny and the Jets."
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American Pie. Insufferable.
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Most of the ones mentioned so far I quite like... 
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Where did I say I didn't like it?klr wrote:You don't like this? You're dead to me. Dead to me, I tells ya!Gawdzilla Sama wrote:"She's got electric boots,
A mohair suit,
You know I read it
in a magazine,
Ohhh, B-b-b-benny and the Jets."
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Is it a boy? I thought it was a midgetKristie wrote:I love the little dancing boy! Adorable!
And is the person dressed all in yellow toward the end male or female? I can't tell
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Precisely! It was a dude, but he's typical of the Gangnam high-fashion types. Effeminate.tattuchu wrote:Is it a boy? I thought it was a midgetKristie wrote:I love the little dancing boy! Adorable!
And is the person dressed all in yellow toward the end male or female? I can't tell
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I ...Audley Strange wrote:Almost the entirety of music, like any art form is fucking awful. A cacophony of dirges and poorly expressed caterwauled femotional howlings. It's not getting any better or worse. That which panders to mass market by necessity is thin gruel.
nevermind...
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don't mind me TA, I'm a fucking snooty bastard when it comes to the arts, especially music. However I'm not a snob, there's as much shit in the "classics" as there is in the modern.
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He gave me a boner. But I didn't know it was a he. And I thought I was done with my therapy sessionsFBM wrote:Precisely! It was a dude, but he's typical of the Gangnam high-fashion types. Effeminate.tattuchu wrote:Is it a boy? I thought it was a midgetKristie wrote:I love the little dancing boy! Adorable!
And is the person dressed all in yellow toward the end male or female? I can't tell
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hadespussercats wrote:she's got electric boobs... her mom has too... :twisted:Bella Fortuna wrote:Electric boots! Just silly!hadespussercats wrote:I hate hate hate hate " Benny and the Jets."
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Everything by Racey. 
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Back to square one, I guess..tattuchu wrote:He gave me a boner. But I didn't know it was a he. And I thought I was done with my therapy sessionsFBM wrote:Precisely! It was a dude, but he's typical of the Gangnam high-fashion types. Effeminate.tattuchu wrote:Is it a boy? I thought it was a midgetKristie wrote:I love the little dancing boy! Adorable!
And is the person dressed all in yellow toward the end male or female? I can't tell
"A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds it." ~ H. L. Mencken
"We ain't a sharp species. We kill each other over arguments about what happens when you die, then fail to see the fucking irony in that."
"It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion."
"We ain't a sharp species. We kill each other over arguments about what happens when you die, then fail to see the fucking irony in that."
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Sorry, I missed the context.Gawdzilla Sama wrote:Where did I say I didn't like it?klr wrote:You don't like this? You're dead to me. Dead to me, I tells ya!Gawdzilla Sama wrote:"She's got electric boots,
A mohair suit,
You know I read it
in a magazine,
Ohhh, B-b-b-benny and the Jets."
Hades, how could you?
Anyway ...
"Bridge Over Troubled Waters": Why is this song so popular? Why, when S & G had so many other great songs?
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It's not up to us to choose which laws we want to obey. If it were, I'd kill everyone who looked at me cock-eyed! - Rex Banner
The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression. - Gary Larson
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