Great quotes about the music you listen to.
soulmarcosa
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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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and now they're all bloggers reciting Bun-B lines and rocking fitted hats.
"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)
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
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My name, dog. Yeah, that was brutal way to introduce the name into the lexicon...thanks, Ricky G. Shit is funny, though.
Plaese to take that shit to www.justmovedtoftgreene.com, son!
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".
About Jimmy Smith - "I hate organs, they remind me of church" Then starts singing "Take Me Out To The Ball Game" over the top.
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?
Sure he's pretentious, but stop talking about Lou Reed that way!
She wasn't even trying to be funny/rude... she just looked at me expectantly.
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.
Oh, sorry, no quote. Can't remember the exact words, but some of her descriptions of Yes were priceless.
re: Stark Reality
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!!
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.
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'.
Mike & The Mechanics, yatches!
My lady has been big on requesting ANYTHING made after 1990 of late...
haha, snap!
"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!"
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.