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Ninjavenom · #26

I agree with Helm. Numbers are arbitrary when reviewing music. The best i can do for someone is describe the album in the most imaginitive, yet accurate way possible to convey to them how the record may make them feel. Dropping names like a scenester also helps. I'm not going to look up a band unless someone tells me what they play, what it sounds like, and why i should care.

Daysthatareover · #27

I should pick that up.

There was another nominee for the shortlist called Air I think?

I've never heard that cd. anyone know if they are any good?

Helm · #28

Air is interesting low-key pop with a psychedelic twist. Mainly keyboard based. Not my kind of thing, really.

Daysthatareover · #29

Not sure if it would be my kinda thing either.

R u into John Frusciante?

Helm · #30

Your attempts to strike up conversation are ruined by your lack of understanding that around here, people that use internet abbreviations like 'r u' instead of 'are you' and keep a straight face are severily mocked. Especially people that have written four novels, was it?

Rez · #31

the "talkie walkie" air album is sweet. it's always been chilled back and atmospheric, except when they went crazy and made "10,000 hz legend" which is wierd as fuck and probably their best stuff.

there were a handful of others that maybe deserved the shortlist prize, but mainly bands like fucking keane flooded the nominations.

Daysthatareover · #32

I really don't care about whether or not my abbreviations bother you.

Honestly, i'm secure enough with myself that trivial bullshit like that just makes me realize how elite you feel by posting shit on the message board.

my attempts to strike conversation, might bother you since the bands I am talking about you know nothing about.

keane is another band I really hate. all in all though its hard to fault the shortlist in general. it is a cool idea and it gets a surprising amount of media coverage considering the type of bands that generally get voted for it.

unfortunately it likely won't be too many more years before that award is going to bands that never would have been considered for it previously.

glowbelly · #33

i like rez.

just sayin.

Rez · #34

dude, the man was joking around :/
take some advanced literature classes so you can study subject matter and tone of writing to help you spot such flippantness in the future.

regardless though, dont be a jerk, especially when discussing who knows what in music. it's twice you've been wrong about that in this thread.

Rez · #35

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Originally Posted by glowbelly

i like rez.

just sayin.

and i like you too

just that i seem to be someone who dont "know you" on your LJ friends list, huh? huh? yeah, i dont need no intro

, though the pics were rad.

Helm · #36

It's great that you accuse me of being an elitist and then basically say that 'you don't know these bands I'm talking about so shut up' in the same breath.

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I really don't care about whether or not my abbreviations bother you.

Yeah, that's the spirit of i-mockery right there. You don't have to care what other people think. You're special. You're a star. You so don't care what other people think that you've got a blog in which you review bland albums in bland ways, and you spam internet message boards about it.

I didn't intend to come here to mock you, but you're just setting yourself up so much I can't help it. I mean, look at this here:

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my attempts to strike conversation, might bother you since the bands I am talking about you know nothing about.

If you were talking about somebody really really obscure like Medieval Death or Moahni Moahna I'd understand that you wouldn't expect people to know who they are, but it's pushing it to assume that people don't know who the fucking guitar player of Red Hot Chilli Peppers is, (not to mention a complete brain-fried junkie zombie that referred to the World Trade Centre terrorist attack as the 'Empire State tragedy') or a band that made a high-profile soundtrack to the Virgin Suicides. That's like feeling you're really hardcore because you found this great punk band you really like, called Dead Kennedys. Maybe in your social circle, listening to anything other than mtv top 10 music makes you really hardcore awesome, but that doesn't mean everybody else on the internet that calls you on it has to be as musically retarded as them, or a late-as-hell bloomer as you.

Rez didn't want to play this game with you, but I couldn't care less either way. I listen to tons of music, different genres spanning from Bela Bartok to Zeni Geva to King Crimson, and looking at your reviews and lists, I don't think you're at any place to tell people that they don't know what they're talking about. You have horrible taste. You have delusions of being important. You're a jerk. Goodbye.