Franz Ferdinand and Talking Heads both share Art School, IIRC. That says a lot!

And, hey, wasn’t Andy’s birthday Sunday or Monday?

Wombats, eh, not so much, and I really wanted to like a band with that name playing a song with that title.

…

What?

OT – I just finished posting here about how much I hate it when people I like argue, and then I go over to Orcinus and see that Dave and Glenn Greenwald are fighting about, of all things, Ron Paul. Good lord. Is it a full moon?

In my opinion, Dave is right on this one. (ducks and runs for cover).

/OT

Okay, must write my paper now. Due tonight!

Whoa, wait, who’s been harassing someone’s children? Did I miss something? Robert, why are the Malkinites bothering you?

It’s an old issue, he’s carrying a grudge.

Candy, slacker has a preset called “90′s alternative” that is a perfect sampling of the good shit from that period. Give ‘er a shot…

mikey

When I was playing my band would encounter folks within the industry or without and the hilarious thing was to hear people say “you’re so articulate”.

I have a whole ton of YouTube selections lined up to listen to thanks to you all. I’m always on the lookout for new (to me) music. I’m … older than Candy and dog-tired of listening to the same stuff I listened to in high school and college.

So this thread is like a cornucopia of swellness in my book. Some of the music I’ll like and some…not so much and it’s all OK.

Finally, I’ll leave my own contribution. This is a band I heard about on (gasp!) NPR. Me likey. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEd35Gx8lC0

Since y’all are far more connected than I, and generous and not at all snarky and all, who’s the new Stevie Ray Vaughan?

Kenny Wayne Sheppard.

Who?

Exactly.

Though I like arguing about music because I like to know I’m not the only geek who is passionate about it to argue, I have a suggestion for less inter-thread snark and more librul hippiness. Let’s lay the blame for the allegedly crap state of music where it belongs –

1. The assholes handing out recording contracts based on the opinions of focus groups that have listened to 100 30 second clips from various bands.
2. The pigs who just bought that really cool independently owned radio station and made it into an endless loop of whatever music you like least (Vive WHFS!)
3. The greedy bastards trying to squeeze the life out of on-line services like Pandora.com, who lie and say it’s to help the artists.

Attack!

I don’t like arguing with people I like. And I really get upset on sort of a gut level when people I like or love argue. I don’t really understand friendly argument, I guess. That’s probably an issue I should work on. Honestly, I don’t know how I got that way. Maybe it was my loud Irish American family that spent 99% of it’s home time screaming at each other about issues they actually agreed on, for the most part, that made me the way I am. LOL. See? I don’t even like discussions about arguing.

Pay no attention to me. I’ll just sit these out and save my quarreling for wingnuts.

It’s a long and detailed conversation you can have with someone in which nothing hangs in the balance. It’s like sports.

I’m 46, but the last thing I want to do is listen to the music I liked in the 70s and 80s. It’s just depressing as hell to do that. But obviously I’m in the minority on that. Most people seem to be into nostalgia. My favorite musical period, the 90s of Seattle, is now fading into the past. I still listen to the albums those bands did in the early 90s, but I also listen to new stuff that they do. I also listen to the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and the Shins.

Tastes change over time as well. I, like all my midwestern contemporaries in the 70s, loathed punk. Now I like it. I was 40 when I discovered that I liked the Bad Brains. But mostly these days I listen to classical. I listen to it not because it makes me feel intellectually superior, but simply because I like it. I don’t even know that much about it. I just enjoy it, because it makes me feel happy.

I guess this rambling comment is just meant to say that I don’t understand why people want to argue about this. It’s like the cats are better than dogs or vice versa argument. It’s just taste. What’s the vested interest in trying to get someone to do something they’re never going to do, like say, “Jeez, you’re right. Poison sucks and I’m never going to listen to them again. I’ve seem the light, and progressive jazz is the only good music! And I’m getting rid of my cats and getting a dog. Yowzer!” You just wind up with hurt feelings. There’s too much hard feeling in the world to add to it by arguing over something that doesn’t matter in the grand scheme of things one iota.

Thank you; that’s the most touching thing I’ve seen in…some indeterminate amount of time. Since y’all are far more connected than I, and generous and not at all snarky and all, who’s the new Stevie Ray Vaughan?

Mikey, how about some Humble Pie with that Airplane? Say what you will about old farts, there was some damn fine sound back then…

And thanks to all who responded so nicely to my whining. I will take your suggestions to heart. That book someone suggested sounded like a good idea.