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Hey Henley: I scored a 35 on RS’ Almost-Impossible Rock Quiz. This means I’m lamer and older than you are, despite being only 28.
Feel free to take the quiz yrself, kids. It’s more fun than you think.
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agc said,
November 4, 2007 at 22:49
I also scored 35. Maybe it is the automatic minimum if you get the pig nuts question right.
Cap'n Rufus said,
November 4, 2007 at 22:54
Me toos with the 35.
Mr Squeaky said,
November 4, 2007 at 23:02
50! I’m either brilliant or pathetic. Or both.
Smiling Mortician said,
November 4, 2007 at 23:03
Nope. The 35 isn’t automatic. I got a 29, in response to which the Quizlord labels me “whiz.” I’m trying not to think about what that means. In my own defense, I am old and crotchety enough that the last couple decades were pure guesswork.
Phil said,
November 4, 2007 at 23:04
44!
Johnny Coelacanth said,
November 4, 2007 at 23:09
Only 28 for me. If only there had been more questions about obscure 90s indie rock bands. I am sad.
Various oysterz and scallopz said,
November 4, 2007 at 23:11
39 and I thought that was pretty sad.
MrWonderful said,
November 4, 2007 at 23:11
27, which is my age minus 30. I think their question about “what time does Robert Smith arrive” was wrong–they don’t correct for PST adjusted against Chicago time.
What do I win?
Thlayli said,
November 4, 2007 at 23:13
48, cobagz!
MzNicky said,
November 4, 2007 at 23:17
31. I’m old.
MzNicky said,
November 4, 2007 at 23:19
Plus I guessed at almost everything post-Beatles. Amazingly, I guessed correctly on the Steven Segal/Tupac Shakur multiple-part question!
Fluffybunnyfeet said,
November 4, 2007 at 23:20
33 – No, *I’m* old.
Hell, I’m ancient. And here I was h-h-hopin’ I’d-d-die before I got old…
Wally Whateley said,
November 4, 2007 at 23:26
I didn’t see anything on the first page that I could’ve answered. I looked at the answers, and I think there were two answers that I knew.
That either means I suck, or I rock.
g said,
November 4, 2007 at 23:32
32 – Whiz, and I guessed at a lot. Although, I would say, “informed guesses.”
Unlike Bradrocket, I don’t think I’m too young, I think I’m too old. ABritney Spears question? Puhlease.
Screamin' Demon said,
November 4, 2007 at 23:32
Also 35.
I’m 44, so I didn’t know shit about 1990s or 2000s (except for Sonic Youth, and they weren’t mentioned). Nearly aced the 60s, 70s, and 80s stuff.
I started listening to jazz in ’93 and have never looked back, so I don’t give a fuck about what passes for “rock” these days.
Incontinentia Buttocks said,
November 4, 2007 at 23:33
36!
MzNicky said,
November 4, 2007 at 23:40
Fluffybunnyfeet: No, I’m ancient. I knew the Iseley Bros.’ first names. And that “Martha” was Paul’s sheepdog.
Hoosier X said,
November 4, 2007 at 23:42
I got a 35. Like g, I did very well with informed guesses.
Shouldn’t we have an open thread on the Colts-Patriots game?
Marco said,
November 4, 2007 at 23:44
35 here, too. Should I be scared or dating one or all of you heathen libruls?
Ted said,
November 4, 2007 at 23:45
I got a 40. I’m 38.
Qetesh the Abyssinian said,
November 4, 2007 at 23:47
Wally, I got 26, and all but probably 2 of them were guesses. Mind you, if there’d been more English stuff and less American stuff, I think I’d have done better.
F’rinstance, I know that Marc Bolan’s initial compatriot in Tyrannosaurus Rex was Steve Peregrine Took. Then he dumped the DFH, shortened the name to T Rex, and went off like a Roman candle.
And I’m still singing “Gums of Brixton” to myself.
acrannymint said,
November 4, 2007 at 23:49
Just turned 46 and only got 28. Guessed alot
Righteous Bubba said,
November 4, 2007 at 23:50
I got 32. I blame the shittiness of pop music.
a different brad said,
November 4, 2007 at 23:55
I got the official S,N! 35.
I also guessed about 2/3rds of the time.
PaminBB said,
November 5, 2007 at 0:04
I got a 34, with a lot of guessing. I might have gotten 2 more is I had dug out Abbey Road and Zep4, but as I was born in the 50′s, I was pretty clueless on the later stuff.
Ron Mexico's Dog said,
November 5, 2007 at 0:09
46, I guess 20 years of subscribing had to count for something.
Caveat said,
November 5, 2007 at 0:13
Ahem. I am old: 23
Didn’t know much about the new people, which was 2/3 of them :)
Ron Mexico's Dog said,
November 5, 2007 at 0:16
Just to demonstrate what a nerd I am: I got both the Sloop John B and the Tupac/Seagal questions correct.
J-Love said,
November 5, 2007 at 0:18
36… I’m just sad I wasn’t able to get the all 5 of the questions in the “Tupac or Seagal” question right…
Spartakus said,
November 5, 2007 at 0:19
My score plus my age equals 79. I’d like to claim that I’m a knowledgable 20-something, but I’m actually a somewhat clueless 50-something, especially about music after the Carter Administration.
ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© said,
November 5, 2007 at 0:20
YOU SCORED 31: WHIZ
Suprised me. I thought I’d get a negative 10, unless all the questions were about the Grateful Dead, punk rock, and Led Zeppelin.
P.S. I probably got the Led Zeppelin question wrong anyways.
Smiling Mortician said,
November 5, 2007 at 0:24
I knew the Iseley Bros.’ first names. And that “Martha” was Paul’s sheepdog.
Me too, MzNicky. Reminds me of that scene in Parenthood:
“I’m too young to be a grandmother! I was at Woodstock, for chrissake! I peed in a field!”
“Hey, I was at Woodstock.”
“Oh, yeah? I thought you looked familiar!”
jim said,
November 5, 2007 at 0:41
I hit 34. Dylan threw me off. Which some would say he’s very skilled at.
Chet Scoville said,
November 5, 2007 at 0:47
32. Phooey.
Russell said,
November 5, 2007 at 0:54
Well, I’m 21 and I only knew the answer of one question for sure. Score: 16.
…must be a freedom-hater.
paul said,
November 5, 2007 at 1:01
I got a 37 and am certifiably decrepit.
Any rock quiz that includes a question about DeBarge should be ignored. I didn’t check the answers.
J— said,
November 5, 2007 at 1:02
35, guessing my way through.
Cap'n Rufus said,
November 5, 2007 at 1:05
It worse than Gramps Henley thinks. The total possible correct answers is 71, not 58. So when RS dubs you ‘Whiz’ I’m thinkin’ they mean as in urine.
BTW, if you fix yourself a 10 score (or something near) you’ll get dubbed, ‘Apprentice: But still smarter than Bush.
g said,
November 5, 2007 at 1:05
The change back from Daylight savings time sucks. It feels like time for a drink, but it’s too early.
Twisted_Colour said,
November 5, 2007 at 1:10
37 and I guessed about 80% of them.
KnaveRupe said,
November 5, 2007 at 1:20
Well, I knew that Björn Ulvaeus and Agnetha Fältskog were the proud bearers of the only two Umlauts in all of ABBA.
Surely that must count for SOMETHING…
Score: 39 (Whiz!)
Age: 40 (Old Fart!)
Dayv said,
November 5, 2007 at 1:55
37. I expected much lower.
stringonastick said,
November 5, 2007 at 1:58
I’m not even gonna try; all I’ve ever listened to is jazz after I escaped the benighted MBFE I grew up in. At home there were exactly 3 radio stations: old fart quezy music, country & western, and the worst possible bubblegum pop. My first car didn’t have a radio, and considering where I lived, I really didn’t mind.
Smiling Mortician said,
November 5, 2007 at 2:17
So when RS dubs you ‘Whiz’ I’m thinkin’ they mean as in urine.
Thanks a lot, Cap’n. I really was trying not to think of it that way.
It feels like time for a drink, but it’s too early.
Nonsense, g! I’m on my second Hendricks martini. If you hurry, you can catch up.
a different brad said,
November 5, 2007 at 2:27
That was a hell of a game.
If the Celts fulfill their promise this year bradrocket might end up needing an intervention.
whetstone said,
November 5, 2007 at 2:31
36 right, 27 y.o. about in the SN ballpark, it seems.
Candy said,
November 5, 2007 at 2:38
32, lots of guesses. I’m old but the 90s are my fav music period so I did best on those questions. I don’t think any of that qualifies me as a Whiz, realistically. Some of the questions from the 70s I used to know the answers to, but I’ve forgotten them. That’s sad!
Now one of the songs I hate the most in all the world is going through my head. Sloop John B. How I LOATHE that song, largely because it goes through my head endlessly. Kokomo is almost as bad.
salty said,
November 5, 2007 at 2:42
Somehow I got a 27 by guessing my ass off. Huh.
M. Bouffant said,
November 5, 2007 at 2:47
37, lotsa guesswork, born b/4 Elvis was popular, didn’t check answers, when will RS realize the difference between Rock ‘n’ Roll & pop music?
As I like to say in any music related event, virtually no good music (or much of anything else “good” in the cultural production vein) has occurred since around 1984.
Sympathies extended to Hoosier X, as a Raiders fan (Hey, no good football from them since about 1984 either, but black & silver are a good color combo) I should despise the Pats, but Peyton Manning is an ugly cracker-sounding doofus & I want his corporate shill ass & face off my tee vee screen, so I’m glad they lost.
Cap'n Phealy said,
November 5, 2007 at 2:47
45 with about 50% guesses. Not only am I old, but I’m bald and fat, too.
When I looked at the answers, the “Hotel with a troublemaker next door” multi-part question was marked in red, presumably meaning I was marked wrong, but all of the answers were the ones I had picked. (Since I’ve long owned copies of “Hotel California”, “Morrison Hotel”, and “Grateful Dead From the Mars Hotel”, it wasn’t a guess.) Looks like the scoring mechanism is off.
It’s Florida 2000 all over again!!!!1!
Djur said,
November 5, 2007 at 2:49
OK, I noticed two things:
1. Apparently punk rock didn’t exist, ever.
2. I really liked the Cure question in the 1990s, but technically the answer isn’t ’90s at all.
M. Bouffant said,
November 5, 2007 at 3:02
Djur, R. Stone’s idea of punk is Green Day. Wasn’t there a combined Ramones/Sex Potatoes question too? (That was it though.)
MzNicky said,
November 5, 2007 at 3:05
Smiling Mortician: O yes, great scene from “Parenthood.” One of my favorite movies, which I hate to admit cuz it’s pretty lame, but also pretty funny.
Crystal Beth said,
November 5, 2007 at 3:09
This quiz could have easily been titled: Rolling Stone’s Look at us, we’re so clever! quiz and apparently the definition of rock n’ roll has gotten a lot more fluid since I last checked (TuPac? Spears? Wha?) but …
34, though I had to pull my Led Zep albums to answer one. Also, for some reason my answer to 7 didn’t take. I wuz robbed!
And now I have “Pictures of Lillie” stuck in my head.
MJP said,
November 5, 2007 at 3:17
Score: 40
Age: 41
Corporate magazines still suck.
Xenos said,
November 5, 2007 at 3:23
Score: 29
Which is bad enough, but I got the question about ‘Yes’ right, which is pretty disturbing. It has been nearly thirty years since I bought and listened to the execrable album in question, and I still remember…
Larkspur said,
November 5, 2007 at 3:31
29. I scored 29. I got the rune question right. And the 10:15 arrival question. And the sheepdog question. It was almost 99% guesswork. I’d have done better with a Talking Heads question or three.
I am a whiz, if ever a whiz there was, but I am gonna hold out for being a Cheez Whiz. I can has Cheez, yes?
Dan Someone said,
November 5, 2007 at 4:06
30, but those questions are idiotic.
Tim said,
November 5, 2007 at 4:33
I scored a 31, and I’ll be 55 Nov. 19th…bitches….
MzNicky said,
November 5, 2007 at 4:53
I had to pull my Led Zep albums to answer one.
Hey! That’s cheating. [grumble mumble] No one told me it was an open-book test.
FlipYrWhig said,
November 5, 2007 at 4:54
Cripes, only 30 points, and I read that stupid magazine for close to 20 years too, starting in college and ending about 5 years ago. I think my highlight was remembering that Dan Aykroyd was in the USA for Africa thing.
Some of that stuff I’ve never, ever even heard of, like “Sloop John B,” or that question about troublemaking neighbors in a list of hotels and motels.
Nylund said,
November 5, 2007 at 5:23
31 points, 28 years old. Too much hippie shit.
norbizness said,
November 5, 2007 at 5:39
42 at 34. I need to get out more, or go deaf.
Vic said,
November 5, 2007 at 5:50
Score: 29, Age: 25.
I got question #12 right, but I think the quiz-maker got it wrong. I read that the person in question was not an actress, but a vaudevillian and had the same first name as the “correct answer”, but was not listed among the choices.
Ah. Here we are.
Johnny Coelacanth said,
November 5, 2007 at 6:19
‘virtually no good music (or much of anything else “good” in the cultural production vein) has occurred since around 1984.”
Oh, come on. You can’t really believe that. I know that de gustibus is supposed to be non disputandum and all that but really. What about U2′s The Joshua Tree? Nothing’s Shocking by Jane’s Addiction? Appetite for Destruction; one of the best debut albums in the history of Rock and Roll? Sonic Youth’s Daydream Nation? And those are just the obvious ones. I could list two or three dozen more exemplary albums, songs and artists, but I don’t want to be a pedantic arse. I guess I’m just shocked that anyone could think that. =>)
zzx said,
November 5, 2007 at 6:22
41. And yes, the Robert Smith answer is off–they do adjust for the time zones, but they went in the wrong direction. 10:15 would be the right answer if he were taking a train to Halifax or San Juan, but I don’t think Amtrak goes to either of those.
M. Bouffant said,
November 5, 2007 at 7:52
Well, Fish Who Hid for Millions of Yrs., I’m partly just enjoying making sweepingly absurd statements, partly bemoaning the depression & anhedonia I’ve been subject to for some time (I barely even like telebision any more) & partly correct. U2? Please. Jangly college rock. Jane’s Addiction? If you didn’t much like Led Zep, you won’t give a shit about Jane’s Add. (Did used to see a girl @ B-B-Qs named Jane who was identified to me as the one w/ the addiction.) Appetite for Destruction? Izzat Guns & Hoses? Sunset Strip Hair Farmers. Sonic Youth are pretty good, but how many of their albuns do you need to have or hear?
I’ve been an R’n'R fan since just before the Beatles. I was advised by a parental unit, @ the age of eight, that no rock ‘n’ roll was desired on the new GE STEREO RADIO (W/ detachable speakers, huge deal for the era!) so you can bet that I immediately sought it out & enjoyed it. So maybe 30 plus yrs.of listening to it, and believing that late ’70s punk put R&R out of its misery, has just dulled me out. Plus contrarianism, purism, snobism, & a pseudo-intellectual bent that makes me a fan of good, especially funny/sarcastic/satirical lyrics limits my appreciation of the pre-digested horse-crap shoved up the ass of the American public. And don’t even get me started on the English!!
JTabarlet said,
November 5, 2007 at 7:59
I got 37. Right in the sweet spot between “hopelessly out of touch with my culture” and “no life.” I rule!
M. Bouffant said,
November 5, 2007 at 8:01
Actually make that approx. 45 yrs. of R&R being the soundtrack of my life. But there’re only so many possible two & three chord combos, & I’ve heard every one I ever want to already. Twice.
Johnny Coelacanth said,
November 5, 2007 at 8:46
“good, especially funny/sarcastic/satirical lyrics”
I hereby offer that “Take the Skinheads Bowling” by Camper Van Beethoven is one of the funniest rock songs ever written. “This is Just a Modern Rock Song” by Belle And Sebastian is also smart and funny. See also “Watusi Rodeo” by Guadalcanal Diary. And if you can dismiss The Joshua Tree as jangly college rock, I submit you’ve never listened to it.
Teaflax said,
November 5, 2007 at 8:52
I got 32 and I’m 44, but I was known in my Rock radio DJ days as being the station trivia wiz. The problem, of course, is that I lean toward the more experimental, progressive and avant garde and/or British. I couldn’t conceivably care less about Bob Dylan, Tom Petty or The Strokes if they were sports teams.
So, yes, I got both the Yes question and the Public Enemy one. The fact that there were even questions on Britney and the Backstreet Boys does say alot about what a sad, out of touch rag Rolling Stone is, though.
Righteous Bubba said,
November 5, 2007 at 8:59
Bouffant’s line in the sand being 1984, “Watusi Rodeo” proves nothing. “Take the Skinheads Bowling” counts, in 1985. All hail nostalgia.
M. Bouffant said,
November 5, 2007 at 9:03
I’m sure I knew some idiot back in the day who had The Joshua Tree, but if I did hear it it left no impression. Maybe my point is that I heard all the bands & acts that influenced the bands that influenced U2, etc It just gets too watered down, there’s too much genetic drift, the mind & body turn to all the jazz, reggae, country, blues, soul, R&B, old skool, symphony & chamber music one has missed or ignored over the years. Most of which sucked post 1984 as well.
“What a drag it is getting old…”
Righteous Bubba said,
November 5, 2007 at 9:18
It may be that more people can make music now than ever before, and it should simply be restricted to the motivated. As Beat Happening noted, anyone can make music, but not everyone should.
It’s hard to believe that this decade is any better or worse than others I’ve lived through music-wise. I recall cut-out bins with vast amounts of singer-songwriter whining, or disco, or new wave, or hair-metal, what have you. I do miss top 40 radio however: There will be no more novelty hits in North America because of the segregated nature of radio here.
Billy Joe said,
November 5, 2007 at 10:08
32. Probably not very valid results. I guessed a lot of the answers.
Qetesh the Abyssinian said,
November 5, 2007 at 10:32
M. Bouffant, vis a vis the depression, try taking fish oil. I’ve started taking it and it’s relieved some of the worst of the depression.
As for music post-80s, you might consider checking out Massive Attack, an English group who’ve made a massive impact on music, at least in the UK and Oz. Their music has been used all about the place, and I think they did a soundtrack for the Luc Besson – Jet Li film Danny The Dog, which was released in the US/Oz as Unleashed (perhaps because the distributors thought Americans and Aussies are too damn stupid and might think it was a kid’s film).
I think my favourite of theirs is Karmacoma, probably because it samples an otherwise unobtainable track from one of my favourite movies, and has a great video.
I also like Angel and Inertia Creeps, for different reasons. Massive have a good hypnotic feel in most of their music, although not all of it.
Brylock said,
November 5, 2007 at 11:51
I got 35 at 28. Could RS be any less deserving of their status as media gatekeeper to the land of cool? “Uh, yeah, throw a Britney question in there, since we’ve spent the last decade telling people she’s important for some reason or another. What? Black Flag? CBGB? Talking Heads? Never heard of ‘em.”
a different mikey said,
November 5, 2007 at 16:21
I got a 32 only because I got most of the ones before Bouffant’s line in the sand.
Still as so many have pointed out RS totally eats, who cares what they think. I knew I was an old hippy already.
Righteous Bubba said,
November 5, 2007 at 16:54
The scandal is the Billy Joel question. He and Wenner are pals so Joel’s shithead music makes it into any top whatever list RS comes up with.
arky said,
November 5, 2007 at 19:24
I’ll see your offer and raise you every song on The Dead Milkmen’s Beelzebubba.
Since we’re on the subject of music I will take five seconds to prostelytize for Pandora:
pandora.com
Check it out.
Prostelytizing, done.
Johnny Coelacanth said,
November 5, 2007 at 19:43
“my point is that I heard all the bands & acts that influenced the bands that influenced U2, etc It just gets too watered down, there’s too much genetic drift”
That I completely understand and sympathize with. It’s why I can’t listen to mainstream rock radio anymore, because everything sounds like it’s been done before, and better, by somebody else. “You damn kids think Greenday is classic rock. Get offa my lawn!”
But thanks to Morning Becomes Eclectic and Pandora (right on, arky), I’m still finding lots of new music to love.
And sure, The Dead Milkmen are funny, but for me, nothing beats the sheer goofy exuberance of Take The Skinheads Bowling.
Michael Bérubé said,
November 5, 2007 at 20:11
36, and I missed the pig nuts question. Maybe it’s because I got the Isley Brothers right.
Teaflax said,
November 5, 2007 at 20:19
Anyone who thinks that no good music has been made in the last 20 years is a lazy sod who doesn’t even really care about music to begin with. And why, oh why, would someone pull out tripe like U2′s pathwetiv attempt at Americana or the execrably dumb an inept Guns and Roses as points against?
Pure Reason Revolution, Radiohead, Mr Bungle, Squarepusher, Discipline, Pulp, Eleven, The Pharcyde, Talk Talk, Prefab Sprout, Jellyfish, Prince, DJ Shadow, Orbital, The Mars Volta, Sparks, Mew, Baby Bird, The Divine Comedy, Momus, Sondre Lerche, M83, Archive, Kula Shaker, The Pharcyde, The Herbalizer, Amon Tobin, FSOL, Echolyn, Supergrass, The Lilac Time, Aesop Rock, Tool, Metallica, David Holmes, Goldfrapp, Handsome Boy Modeling School, Mike Patton, Rufus Wainwright, Adam F, Suede, Portishead, Björk, Jeff Buckley, Kevin Gilbert, David Sylvian, Porcupine Tree, Funkdoobiest, Stan Ridgway, XTC, A Tribe Called Quest, It’s Immaterial, The Blue Nile, Yello, The The, Barry Adamson, Nick Cave, The Smiths, Muse, Scritti Politti, Jaga Jazzist, Doves, Biffy Clyro, Devin Townsend, Lovage, Propellerheads, Big Elf, Crime in Choir, The Cooper Temple Clause, Oceansize…
And that’s just the tip of the damned iceberg. If you can’t find anything in the above to delight and inspire you, you may be clinically dead.
Seriously…
Teaflax said,
November 5, 2007 at 20:20
Oh, me and my typos. Pathwetiv = pathetic, of course.
arky said,
November 5, 2007 at 20:55
Scritti Politti??
OK, [snerk] sorry. [Ahem]
I wouldn’t say there’s been a dearth of good pop/rock music in the past 20 but I do say there has been very less and less original pop/rock music released in the past 20. (See: The Evil Corporate Music Production Industry Machine.)
I think the genre has reached its limits but that doesn’t make it bad, it just means you can’t get me to believe Grunge is significantly different from Punk.
Johnny Coelacanth said,
November 5, 2007 at 21:01
“And why, oh why, would someone pull out tripe like U2’s pathwetiv attempt at Americana or the execrably dumb an inept Guns and Roses as points against?”
Because my taste in music is admittedly lowbrow and fuck you, that’s why.
Righteous Bubba said,
November 5, 2007 at 21:11
Scritti Politti??
I will defend Scritti Politti. There’s a lot more to them than initially meets the ear (assuming you’ve only heard the Arif Mardin-type stuff).
Read:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scritti_Politti
N.C. said,
November 5, 2007 at 23:24
I got a 25, mostly accidentally.
Now if this were Pitchfork instead of Rolling Stone, I’d have aced this baby so hard.
montysano said,
November 6, 2007 at 0:05
31
But any “Rock Quiz” that contains questions about Britney and Backstreet Boys is immediately suspect.
Seagal??!!?
Guns N Roses?@?!?@
pinson said,
November 6, 2007 at 0:07
Booya:
YOU SCORED 40: WHIZ
Bonus excellence: I got the Yes question wrong.
Qetesh the Abyssinian said,
November 6, 2007 at 1:41
Why has no-one mentioned They Might Be Giants yet? Who can forget the glory of Birdhouse In Your Soul or Istanbul (not Constantinople)?
They’re kind of Devo-like, except without the snarky politics (I luuurrrve Devo and all they do).
w said,
November 6, 2007 at 2:33
46!!?
Phenobarbarella said,
November 6, 2007 at 5:20
Got a 44. I’m both old and lame, baby!
maurinsky said,
November 6, 2007 at 5:41
I got a 34. I guessed on a bunch of them.
RE: music sucking – I think every generation of musicians borrows from and builds on what previous generations have done. So if you’ve been around a while, new bands start to sound familiar and unoriginal.
NobodySpecial said,
November 6, 2007 at 5:43
37 at age 36.
Teaflax said,
November 6, 2007 at 5:57
If you don’t hear that Green Gartside is a tremendously skilled songwriter, you don’t really listen to what actually goes on in music (but don’t worry – most people don’t). There’s a reason Miles Davis covered Perfect Way, and it’s not that it was a slick dance tune.
And, yeah, Talk Talk, Jaga Jazzist, Mew and Squarepusher – to name but four on that list – all sound familiar and unoriginal. Please. Not that the statement isn’t true when it comes to pure ol’ Rock n Roll, because those tropes and clichés have been driven into the ground from constant overexposure and their inherently very limited scope. Not really surprising considering the fact that ambition, innovation and pretention have been actively derided in popular music since the mid to late 70s.
Move out of the fetid swamp of Rock n Roll and you will find great music all over the place.
Jamey said,
November 6, 2007 at 20:00
44. But I am So. Very. Old.
Woulda been higher, but I shit the bed on Britney’s #1 hit, and the fates of the four antagonists from Sloop John B.
Lawnguylander said,
November 7, 2007 at 1:49
Teaflax, that is the funniest and most spot on parody of a music snob I’ve ever seen. Bravo!
Marek said,
November 7, 2007 at 16:23
34. Just under my age (38), which seems about right. I aced the 80′s & 90′s.