I hate Bob Marley.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

And I hate him because the rich cool kids at my school liked him. Doesn't that really piss you off that I hate such a great musical icon for a complete non-reason? What sort of petty bastard am I?
Bwaahaahaahaa!


What really petty, weak reasons do you have for hating sacred cows?

[WindRavenX]

1. don't blame Bob

Blame those damn kids.
I've never been into Bob M. myself, but I never understood why people will abandon a certain artist or group after they discover that another bunch of different kids like that group too.
Just enjoy it :)

[RandomKoolzip]

2. I hate the Stone Roses.

But I think you knew that already.

And I fucking hate Primal Scream, Echo and the Bunnymen, and the Pogues.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

5. Shall I send you a list of every band I like?

So you can get a really comprehensive hate-on going?

[RandomKoolzip]

15. No, there's stuff we both like. I'm just mentioning one's you've mentioned

n/t

[Screaming Lord Byron]

But you don't really hate them, you just aren't educated enough

to appreciate such great music. :evilgrin:

[Screaming Lord Byron]

35. I never dupe.

This is a figment of your imagination, which had been ruined by lousy music.

[RandomKoolzip]

41. No. I really really hate them.

But how can you possibly LIKE Bobby Gillespe's voice? It seems like you'd have to do a hefty amount of special pleading to convince me any of those aren't shite.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

52. He can't sing. Neither can Ian Brown.

I deliberately like mediocre bands so that when they inevitably become popular, I can ditch them more easily.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

33. But you don't really hate them, you just aren't educated enough

to appreciate such great music. :evilgrin:

[dolo amber]

39. The Pogues...

Depending on mood are either such GLORIOUS fun, or make me want to rip out my spine and hang myself with it. :shrug:

[Screaming Lord Byron]

43. Get off the fuckin' fence.

You hate them. Admit it. :evilgrin:

[tigereye]

45. oh why oh why do you hate the Pogues, RKZ? and Amber?!

because Shane's dentist didn't work hard enough? Or his rehab counselor? ;)

I love pretty much every slurred word. But then, I'm Irish.

[dolo amber]

56. I think it's the monotony

the motonony
the motonony
the motonony
the mo :boring:

Unless, as previously stated, I'm in the mood for fiddles and drunkeness, then all bets are off. ;)

[tigereye]

62. well that can cover a lot of Irish music

but actually the fusion stuff - complete with digeridoos, you heard me, is much scarier than Shane et al, ever were. As my husb. would say, "repetitive music, at an Irish festival?" ;)

[RandomKoolzip]

61. Just never been much into Irish drinking music.

Just me, I guess. I always thought the Pogue's popularity was based on Shane McGowan's odd charisma/persona, because their music was tired folk cliches amplified.

Anyhow, that's just me. I know I'm the one with the problem.

[tigereye]

65. there is some truth to that, I suppose

I think Shane is/was pretty entertaining, generally, well, maybe with the exception of him and the Popes.

But folk cliches fuel a lot of Irish festivals. I know cuz I just went to one recently. I really like the more traditional stuff, there was a neat band who dressed in Civil War gear and did a lot of historical songs from that period.

[knowbody0]

3. bobmarley

hatred is passion. most all hatred is founded in fear. keep listening just don't let anybody know

[Screaming Lord Byron]

6. Oh, I don't care much for his music, either.

But I hate him for his fans.

[mac56]

4. I must confess, I disliked Talking Heads for much the same reason.

I've come to appreciate them more in later life.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

9. See. At least we're honest.

How many other people do the same?

[JohnKleeb]

7. Dude like you're so pathetic

Really I am surprised when kids I know that spout off right wing shit wear Marley T's, I am like dude did you even listen to his songs :D.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

13. I excel at something!

Unfortunately it's petty patheticness.

[JohnKleeb]

19. I am just in such a great mood today

[Magrittes Pipe]

8. I hate sex, for the same reason.

Stupid preppie fucks! :grr:

[JohnKleeb]

20. hey!

at least I walk the talk.

[tigereye]

53. yu-huh

sure you do

[curse10]

10. Not a fan either

there's better reggae out there, imho

[RandomKoolzip]

11. BTW, I love Bob Marley.

My father listened to a lot of reggae when I was a little kid, and lots of Bob Marley. And we were working class. My dad worked for the post office.


So there.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

17. Well, just as well you didn't go to school with me.

That would've complicated my pettiness, wouldn't it?

[tigereye]

60. don't let the rich spoil your day! or music that you like -

You should hear my husb. on the subject. As a pretty much middle classer, I rarely saw the rich and had no opportunity to eat them or to know that they were in fact, different than me. And if I didn't read the NYTs, I still wouldn't know. :)

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

18. And then there's me - right Stinz?

[RandomKoolzip]

51. Right, we bonded over parents who were reggae freaks.

And neither of us were Trustafarians. You were the only kid in Hotchkiss Grove who didn't ACT like a kid from Hotchkiss Grove.

[tigereye]

66. trust fund reggae boys, eh?

well, we used to know a lot of rad. lefties in college who were funded by their parents' corporate CEO earnings as they went out to organize "the masses." Another favorite rant of my husband.

[RandomKoolzip]

68. Yeah...I loved the Dead, but "touring" with them was out of the question.

I mean, who besides the sons of a brain surgeon could afford that?

I hate Trustafarians. Most of them become republicans when they cut their dreads off anyways.

[tigereye]

69. that is the sad part

you would think some of them would leave the dark side permanently after some of those types of experiences. Some of my late 70s punk/ cronies became lawyers/busines types and moved to the upscale part of town. Most of them are still liberal dems, though.

However, I myself have remained pretty liberal and pretty underfunded. We are not well-off, but comfortable and we drive Saturns. I will never make a bundle in community mental health, and that's okay. And generally I sleep well and can look at myself in the morning.

[redqueen]

72. My friends toured with the dead by begging and selling stuff they made

I think many (most?) deadheads did that.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

70. why thank you - tis a wonderful compliment

not like that Cubbaface asswipé!

[BayouBengal07]

12. Reggae is great

But it was co-opted by rich white kids years ago (myself included. I don't dress all Jamaican or listen to it all the time, I just like the sound and the political messages).

Too bad all those white kids don't know about Rastafarianism; the history of the music and the struggle to throw off white colonial powers in Africa.

[bif]

14. Who gives a shit what other people think?

If you like it, listen to it. That's like drinking shitty beer because micro-beers are all the rage.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

22. Which I do.

If something is hip or stylish, I try to destroy it. It's a petty thing.

[bif]

30. Pass the good stuff down here

You can drink the Bud.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

37. Naw. That's getting a bit too hip for me.

I'll stick to homebrew.

[bif]

49. Home brewing is sooo trendy these days!

A bunch of people I work with do it.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

54. Damnit!

Back to drinking my own piss then. That'll never become hip.

[tigereye]

67. that could cause cognitive dissonance at some point eh

K-mart, cuz K-mart isn't The Gap, but then it is owned by Kelloggs, which is owned by Exxon, so I think I will just weave my clothes out of bark, from this tree, which is owned by Honeywell, but the tree is being sat in by the dread - locked girl, whose parents are board members of Sony, etc. And then....


sorry, I just got off on a weird little mindf---,there. ;)

[dolo amber]

16. I hate Bob Dylan

His voice has the *brown sound* effect on me. Which isn't really a petty reason, come to think of it.

:D

[curse10]

21. Bob Dylan is awful

Blech! :puke:

[JohnKleeb]

24. good song writer you gotta admit that

[curse10]

29. Nope.

Won't admit nothin! I don't despise him as much as I despise Pink Floyd, but he's a close 3rd or 4th

[JohnKleeb]

42. heh ok

[Screaming Lord Byron]

23. You can't lower yourself to my level of petty vindictiveness.

[Magrittes Pipe]

27. I hate dolo amber

because the seeping stones of time that shifted the carpark 20m easterly have left a Mr. Pibb stain on my hat.

[dolo amber]

32. I like pie.

:7

[Magrittes Pipe]

44. Mr. Pibb pie?

:9

[babylonsister]

25. Not crazy about Marley either

All his songs sound the same to me. Know that's probably the curse of reggae but I eventually get bored.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

28. Yes, but you have a real reason.

I'm just being a real ass.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

26. I also hate the Grateful Dead for their fans.

:nuke:

[Screaming Lord Byron]

31. Oh. And Phish.

[dolo amber]

34. You mean *Pish*

Easy mistake. ;)

[BurtWorm]

36. Locking

This is flamebait.








;)

[Screaming Lord Byron]

38. Of course it is.

That's the point.
It's blatant flamebait.

[BurtWorm]

46. I can't take so much brutal honesty in one thread!

:scared:

[eyesroll]

40. Elvis Presley annoys me.

It doesn't rise to any sort of level of hatred. There are even a few songs I like. And I understand and respect his contributions to the musical world, and realize without him we wouldn't have many of the artists and genres we do to day.

But that doesn't mean I have to go ga-ga over his music. Or his schtick, or the legions of impersonators he spawned.

In fact, I'm pretty sure it was the "what do you mean you don't like this? It's Elvis! Are you crazy?" I got growing up (and would get now if I said so) when I complained about one song or another that prejudiced me against the rest of his stuff. Tell me I'm supposed to like something because, well, I'm supposed to, and I probably won't.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

48. That's good, but it's not quite arbitary or petty enough to reach my level

[Magrittes Pipe]

50. If you don't soil yourself over his recording of "Mystery Train"...

...you are, clearly, a moron.

[RandomKoolzip]

55. I hate Elvis, too.

Yeah, I know, he's influential, etc. blah blah. I just never liked his music. He was a hero to most but he don't mean shit to me.

[Magrittes Pipe]

58. Shut up, Chuck.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

59. I hate Public Enemy.

No I don't. I may be obtuse and petty, but I'm not crazy.

[RandomKoolzip]

63. Phew!

I was ready to pounce. No friend of mine don't like PE.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

64. It would be an impossibility, sir.

[asthmaticeog]

47. I hate reggae, period.

Save for dub-influenced rock like Can, early PIL, "Guns of Brixton" and suchlike. Oh, and some actual dub is A-OK with me, too. But fuck Marley.

As for petty reasons to hate icons, I always hated Led Zeppelin in high school because that was the band of choice of the older brothers of the guys who kicked my ass all over the school. Now that I've actually given them a chance, I only hate about 3/4 of their stuff.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

57. You sir are my hero.

[Spider Jerusalem]

71. I fucking loathe the Grateful Dead...

Partly because of the nauseating paeans of rapture their fans go into about what are, quite frankly, extended excursions into musical wanking.

[chenGOD]

73. That's ok. I hate the Pixies for the same reason.

They have some OK songs. But fuck i hate their fans.

OTOH, I love Marley and I love a lot of reggae.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

74. Therefore I'm obliged to hate you, and you're obliged to hate me.

It's the law after all. Pistols at dawn? :evilgrin:

[chenGOD]

75. Fuck the Sex Pistols too.

Malcolm McLaren might be a marketing genius, but that doesn't mean I have to respect him.

PiL on the other hand.

And, my good man, a gentleman only duels with the epee.

Have your second talk to my second.