― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 21:39 (seventeen years ago) link
...wow.
― JordanC (JordanC), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 21:41 (seventeen years ago) link
xpost: totally, Laurel. so I can feel superior about it. but at the time, I got all flustered.
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 29 November 2006 21:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 21:43 (seventeen years ago) link
haha, I knew you'd have this reaction!
― JordanC (JordanC), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 21:43 (seventeen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 21:44 (seventeen years ago) link
― danno martinez (danno martinez), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 21:44 (seventeen years ago) link
― danno martinez (danno martinez), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 21:45 (seventeen years ago) link
1. I was 18 - 21.2. My open mocking was reserved for people with no musical imagination, ie "I need a song for my daughter's wedding. Do you have the one about kissing butterflies?"3. During my second record store clerk stint at 27 I openly mocked no one.
― Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 21:45 (seventeen years ago) link
John, you're making me hungry.
xpost: oh, I get why people do it. I'm sure I'd do it in my head if I worked retail at a bookstore. I was easily intimidated by indie rock boys at that point in my life anyway. I'd be able to handle it if it happened now.
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 29 November 2006 21:47 (seventeen years ago) link
― Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 21:48 (seventeen years ago) link
― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 21:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 21:50 (seventeen years ago) link
― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 21:51 (seventeen years ago) link
I saved my energy for following people I thought would buy things I liked and trying to see what they were looking at. It was more positive stalking than negatively-charged derision.
― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 21:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― jonviachicago, Wednesday, 29 November 2006 21:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 21:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 29 November 2006 21:52 (seventeen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 21:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― danno martinez (danno martinez), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 21:56 (seventeen years ago) link
You'd think but NO! We created special Ska and "Electronica" sections and became well known for having the best selection of both genres in lower Delaware (damning with faint praise for real). Chemical Bros was exactly the right era. It was the summer of Block Rockin' Beats, which I actually still think is a pretty catchy song.
― Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 21:57 (seventeen years ago) link
― horsehoe, Wednesday, 29 November 2006 21:57 (seventeen years ago) link
I have never been able to figure out what he says in "Loser." Whores over Canada? Scores of what else is new?
"Soy un perdidor." = "I'm a loser" en espanol.
― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 21:58 (seventeen years ago) link
― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 21:58 (seventeen years ago) link
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 29 November 2006 21:59 (seventeen years ago) link
i have a hard spot in my heart for the smashing pumpkins.
― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 22:00 (seventeen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 22:00 (seventeen years ago) link
MOCK ME THAT IS FINE I CAN TAKE IT.
― Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 22:01 (seventeen years ago) link
xp: I have nothing against the Pumpkins except Billy Corgan seems like a douche. "1979" is super-pretty, but all my friends were obsessed with that album and I blame it for making them boring.
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 29 November 2006 22:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― grbchv! (gbx), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 22:03 (seventeen years ago) link
― danno martinez (danno martinez), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 22:03 (seventeen years ago) link
fuck you, billy. and fuck me for spending $15 dollars on tickets to that 12 years ago.
― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 22:04 (seventeen years ago) link
Point taken.
except Billy Corgan seems like a douche.
I've prob mentioned this before (although not to you, Horseshoe) -- but my friend Katie worked as BC's personal assistant for a year. She says (of course) that he's "misunderstood."
― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 22:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― danno martinez (danno martinez), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 22:06 (seventeen years ago) link
I was never a big fan, but I still like most of their singles. I owned Siamese Dream for a minute when it was de rigueur. Great drumming.
― JordanC (JordanC), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 22:07 (seventeen years ago) link
― danno martinez (danno martinez), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 22:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 22:10 (seventeen years ago) link
yeah, in a studio where they can wait and wait and wait until his brain is clear of junk to get a decent take. lousy fucking singing, a drummer who was too fucked up to count to four, open hostility between bandmates on stage.... great show.
― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 22:10 (seventeen years ago) link
HS OTM w/r/t the many ways that other people ruin probably perfectly reasonable music. And Billy Corrigan's douchery. Probably Michael Stipe, too, but I was such a massive fangirl back in the day that I'll forgive MS for nearly anything except maybe buying sex slaves and torturing cats.
― Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 22:13 (seventeen years ago) link
BC: Sure. But my whole thing is that people don't fall in love to Pavement, people don't get up in the morning before they go to school and put on Big Black. They put on Smashing Pumpkins or Hole or Nirvana, because these bands actually mean something to them. It's the difference between music you put on to take drugs to, and music you put on to live your life.
― jw (ex machina), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 22:14 (seventeen years ago) link
Billy Corgan, leader of The Smashing Pumpkins, threatened to drop The Smashing Pumpkins from the 1994 Lollapalooza Festival if Pavement was allowed to play. The Smashing Pumpkins were headlining Lollapalooza that year.
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 29 November 2006 22:15 (seventeen years ago) link
― JordanC (JordanC), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 22:15 (seventeen years ago) link
― JordanC (JordanC), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 22:16 (seventeen years ago) link
― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 22:17 (seventeen years ago) link
It kind of reminds me of like Zsa Zsa Gabor or something: "I used to be the most beautiful woman in the world. I used to be in pictures."
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― danno martinez (danno martinez), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 22:20 (seventeen years ago) link
― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 22:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― Calico (calico), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 22:23 (seventeen years ago) link