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Great quotes about the music you listen to.

soulmarcosasoulmarcosa 4,296 Posts
edited November 2015 in Music Talk
I was listening to this Romanian prog record to decide if I wanted to keep or sell when my wife just came in and said, "Your musical selections today have been very interesting. This sounds like druid rock." Then she said, "I'm closing your door now." What amusing things have others (significant or not) said about your musical choices?
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  • kitchenknightkitchenknight 4,922 Posts
    My fiancee calls all my more atonal/lo-fi stuff, "gareth music". That says it all around my house.
  • SupergoodSupergood 1,213 Posts

    "This sounds like druid rock."


     




    SG
  • grandpa_shiggrandpa_shig 5,799 Posts
    i remember when i was working at the college radio station and it was all these emo-rocker types and they hated rap music. remember that shit? when college radio had like 1 rap show for the week? fuck man. anyways, yeah, theyd always make fun of it and they called it "homie-g music".
  • Young_PhonicsYoung_Phonics 8,039 Posts
    i remember when i was working at the college radio station and it was all these emo-rocker types and they hated rap music. remember that shit? when college radio had like 1 rap show for the week? fuck man. anyways, yeah, theyd always make fun of it and they called it "homie-g music".

    and now they're all bloggers reciting Bun-B lines and rocking fitted hats.
  • bobbydeebobbydee 849 Posts
    Overheard from my sister/one time housemate:
    "Nick's in his room, and by the sounds of it he's watching porno"
    I think it might have been Rufus/Chaka Khan.

    (for the record i have no tv/computer in there)
  • faux_rillzfaux_rillz 14,343 Posts
    i remember when i was working at the college radio station and it was all these emo-rocker types and they hated rap music. remember that shit? when college radio had like 1 rap show for the week? fuck man. anyways, yeah, theyd always make fun of it and they called it "homie-g music".

    and now they're all bloggers reciting Bun-B lines and rocking fitted hats.

    Oh schnap!

    Are these the sour grapes of a little dude clad in LRG and hemp, upset that his kufi has not conferred the "cool kid" status upon him that he envisioned when he purchased it?
  • Young_PhonicsYoung_Phonics 8,039 Posts
    i remember when i was working at the college radio station and it was all these emo-rocker types and they hated rap music. remember that shit? when college radio had like 1 rap show for the week? fuck man. anyways, yeah, theyd always make fun of it and they called it "homie-g music".

    and now they're all bloggers reciting Bun-B lines and rocking fitted hats.

    Oh schnap!

    Are these the sour grapes of a little dude clad in LRG and hemp, upset that his kufi has not conferred the "cool kid" status upon him that he envisioned when he purchased it?


    whatcha talkin' 'bout. I got the Brooklyn juice-bars and the urban interpretive dance-theater troupes goin craaaaaaayyyy-zay.

    faux vs phonics round 293
  • Sweet_PremiumSweet_Premium 368 Posts
    "gareth music"



    ????
  • kitchenknightkitchenknight 4,922 Posts
    "gareth music"



    ????

    My name, dog. Yeah, that was brutal way to introduce the name into the lexicon...thanks, Ricky G. Shit is funny, though.
  • Jonny_PaycheckJonny_Paycheck 17,825 Posts
    Brooklyn juice-bars

    Plaese to take that shit to www.justmovedtoftgreene.com, son!
  • Young_PhonicsYoung_Phonics 8,039 Posts
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  • Jonny_PaycheckJonny_Paycheck 17,825 Posts
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    I think it might just be a bit too kufi-licious for you. Get your weight up.
  • Young_PhonicsYoung_Phonics 8,039 Posts
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    I think it might just be a bit too kufi-licious for you. Get your weight up.


    A bit too kufi-licious? That's like saying "this place is too fancy, even for Johnny Paycheeks".
  • PrimeCutsLtdPrimeCutsLtd jersey fresh 2,632 Posts
    Some of the people I work with listen to new metel. I say "turn off that cookie monster crap" Then I proceed to make death cookie monster sounds....
  • holmesholmes 3,532 Posts
    About Milt Jackson - "I used to have a xylophone when I was a kid, why are you listening to kid's music".
    About Jimmy Smith - "I hate organs, they remind me of church" Then starts singing "Take Me Out To The Ball Game" over the top.
  • residentgiantresidentgiant 619 Posts
    Girl on cellphone, overheard at BumpShop: "They're not even playing REAL music!"

    My ex, upon seeing records in my room: "Eww, you're SO pretentious!"... which was always hilarious to me considering her taste in music. Which is more pretentious: Lyn Collins, or some dude in makeup and a sideways mullet screaming about eating razorblades?
  • soulmarcosasoulmarcosa 4,296 Posts
    some dude in makeup and a sideways mullet screaming about eating razorblades?

    Sure he's pretentious, but stop talking about Lou Reed that way!
  • bobbydeebobbydee 849 Posts
    Blonde 6ft bombshell model type at cocktail party stops me in my track returning from the bar. "do you have any GOOD music, or just this background stuff" (current track was Christian Shultz Set)

    She wasn't even trying to be funny/rude... she just looked at me expectantly.
  • skillaimbeerskillaimbeer 4 Posts
    At a house party in my "college town" during a play of Foster Sylvers' "Misdemeanor": "Don't you have any 50 Cent?? PLEASE??"
  • soulmarcosasoulmarcosa 4,296 Posts
    At a house party in my "college town" during a play of Foster Sylvers' "Misdemeanor": "Don't you have any 50 Cent?? PLEASE??"

    My "Misdemeanor" story: I crashed DJ Greasy's funk gig at the Alibi Room in Seattle a couple of years ago (thanks dude!) and when I played that song, this previously-mellow college hippie came up to the booth, jabbing his finger at me over the turntable and yelling "STOP PLAYING THIS DISCO SHIT, MAN!!" He continued to ice-grill me until the end of the song.
  • generiquegenerique 625 Posts
    Probably like most of you I have a significant other who's really cool with my records. It's only when I play Yes that she'll be making a real show about telling me how AWFUL and HORRIBLE that music is, as if she senses the "special" relation I have with this music. I don't know, I only recognize that tone of voice from when she's jealous.

    Oh, sorry, no quote. Can't remember the exact words, but some of her descriptions of Yes were priceless.
  • HollafameHollafame 844 Posts
    "It hurts my ears"

    re: Stark Reality

  • jaymackjaymack 5,199 Posts
    i was listening to some african funk, or some shit w/ chanting, at work and this ignant hick goes "Isn't this America? What IS that?" see the world you retard.

    another time i'm listening to some hiphop, and this younger construction worker type asks me "Arent you white? How can you relate to this shit? Dont you like country music?"

    i work @ a liquor store. i deal with people like this all day e'ry day. no wonder im so sick of people.


    a funny thing was back when i was delivering sandwiches i had a deliv to a dantist.
    i was listening to liquid swords. as i was heading back to my car this 80 year old woman asks me "What are you listening to? Sounds good!" I WAS DYING!!
  • HarveyCanalHarveyCanal "a distraction from my main thesis." 13,234 Posts
    My wife calls anything by Pink Floyd and Radiohead "mind-control music".

    I remember this neighbor of my brother-in-law's in New Orleans (Boogie is his name) who when I was playing some beats that I had made at home with a cheap keyboard told me to take that "space-aged pinball shit" out and put in his Mystikal tape.
  • nzshadownzshadow 5,526 Posts
    i was living/working on a kibbutz in 95, im in the kitchen washing fucking dishes, we had a sick conveyer belt into the machine setup, im blasting pauls boutique and this OLD jewish dude comes in with his tray and very matter-of-factly tells me to "turn this nigger music off"

    i took great pleasure in informing him that it wasnt 'nigger' music, it was 'kike' music.

    can you say

    my wife constantly refers to anything i play from vinyl as 'dirty old music'.

    and i djed a friends wedding a while back, the teenage contingent called Jimmy Smith 'gay shit'.
  • DJ_EnkiDJ_Enki 6,475 Posts
    "gareth music"



    ????

    Mike & The Mechanics, yatches!
  • kitchenknightkitchenknight 4,922 Posts

    my wife constantly refers to anything i play from vinyl as 'dirty old music'.


    My lady has been big on requesting ANYTHING made after 1990 of late...
  • nzshadownzshadow 5,526 Posts

    my wife constantly refers to anything i play from vinyl as 'dirty old music'.


    My lady has been big on requesting ANYTHING made after 1990 of late...

    haha, snap!
  • pickwick33pickwick33 8,946 Posts
    I used to work in a new-and-used record store where my co-workers - black, white and Asian - had their lives changed by hip-hop. Everybody 'cept me. My tastes are all over the place, but the rap/hip-hop scene was never my shot. At the time, the store had a fairly good selection of old R&B (pre-disco), which I played every chance I got. The reactions (all from black folks) ranged from:

    "this sounds like that shit Archie and Jughead used to dance to on the cartoons"

    to:

    "he don't like nothing made after 1969" (not strictly true, but I do close the book on black music made after 1975).

    And if it was a straight blues record:

    "man, why you playing that COUNTRY music!"
  • high_chigh_c 1,384 Posts
    Mom once refered to it as "that old black man music"

    Dad, who's slightly more hip, called it "soul brother tighten up music"

    Girlfriend coined "Uhhh," a synonym for the funk genre. In a sentence: "Okay, I think I've heard enough "Uhhh" for today. Let's see what's on the radio."

    A Brasilian friend, who solely listens to Christain rock, metal and Elis Regina and who kindly tranlates all Jorge Ben lyrics for me calls funk "Brother on the Run." I let him borrow a CD 2+ years ago with the Adam Wade on it. Now all of it is "Brother on the Run."

    A younger bootcamp clique completist friend once compared sergio mendes "favela" to "cosby show music."

    I burned a bunch of Fania, Tico, etc stuff for an uninformed friend and he got back to me, thanking me for the "CD of all that Mexican Shit."

    Went on a road trip to the rockies with the same friend and another acquaintance and they wanted to hear something other than "old music with no words." At one point I got around to playing stark reality. They thought I was crazy. I still get clowned to this day for listening to "that song that goes A C D E F G." And if even selecting music in the car with a certain cowerker he'll say "You gonna play some of that Grandfather Clock?" Stark always throws people.
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