I was told I have "bad taste" in rock music!

[Archae]

My fucking older sister, a fan of the Steve Miller Band, (which is the worst band IMO,) told me that the fact I like Huey Lewis And the News, shows my "bad taste" in music.

I told her to take her Steve Miller Band CD's and shove them up her ass, and left her place. :grr:

[Treclo]

1. If the shoe fits, my friend.

Gotta agree with your sis. Just a thought; maybe this little secret would be better kept to yourself?

[Left Is Write]

46. Maybe he doesn't consider it a secret.

[Omphaloskepsis]

2. I think both the bands you listed suck.

I'm sure you would think the same of what I listen to. But, if you enjoy what you listen to that is all that really matters. Art is subjective, anyone that claims authority on the subject is a total ass.

[sandnsea]

3. tick tock tick

gotta find a new drug!!

You didn't really get in a fight over this, did you?

I like them both, but come on, they're not Earth, Wind & Fire for chrissake. :hi:

[mykpart]

4. Have Dick Cheney call her

and tell her to go fuck herself!

[VenusRising]

5. Sounds like it is a matter of era.

She's older, so it makes sense that she likes Steve Miller and that you like Huey Lewis. My dad likes Huey Lewis and I still love him. It's not the end of the world. Besides, it's about what the music says to you, not to others.

:headbang: on!

[Archae]

6. She's only 4 years older than I am.

As to Steve Miller, once he "hit it big" in the late 70's, he went into the sewer.

I mean...can ANYONE tell me there biggest hit "Rockin' Me Baby" is any good at all? :puke:

[Forkboy]

7. Ok,here's what you do

You and your sister go check out this video,which I consider the best music video of all time (one that a friend of mine calls "a cry for help"),and then you can both agree that neither one of you is all that bad after all.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8v-06_X6k3k

Forkboy:Bringing families together since 1967

[buddhamama]

9. i dig the song, the video not so much

'a cry for help' an understatement. :rofl: good morning! :hi: :loveya:

[Forkboy]

10. I watch that on a perpetual loop 24/7

so far it hasn't affected me :freak:

:loveya:

[buddhamama]

16. i am not one to talk...

this being my song and all. :D :loveya:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heFdqP7X83s

[Forkboy]

19. Hey,there's that guy again!

Fucking guy is everywhere I tellz ya!
:silly:

[Archae]

41. I have the 1996 Packers version of that song...

"I'm A Cheesehead baby, the pride of Wisconsin..." :D

[hickman]

8. Steve Miller never bothered me as much as Steely Dan.

5 minutes of listening to Steely Dan made me want to pick up a knife and stab someone, or have an epileptic seizure, The herky jerky repetition. I love Blues, can't stand jazz.

[jobycom]

11. Britney and Justin at their worst are more listenable than Steely Dan.

Glad to meet someone else enlightened on the Dan.

[PVnRT]

12. Well...

"Hip to be Square"
"I Want a New Drug"

Any group that sings conformist garbage like that can't be considered rock.

[jobycom]

15. Good point, but then again, conformity was nonconformist in that era

Huey Lewis popped up when the rebel rocker had become mainstream to the point of boring. Pop culture was Spicoli by then--ragged clothes, drugged-out expressions, stringy hair. In context, Huey Lewis was counter-culture.

[PVnRT]

22. I'm really trying to agree with that.

But "Huey Lewis" and "counter-culture" just do......not.....compute.......

[jobycom]

23. What was counter-culture, then?

The people who looked, dressed, spoke, and acted just like the marketing images of the era? Maybe he wasn't counter-culture in the way the Beatles were, but he was definitely swimming against the mainstream and the marketers at the time.

Not saying he was ever the cutting edge of culture, mind you. Just that he had a small niche that went against the grain.

Amusing story, just for the fun of it. A famous groupie wrote a book about her experience back when. Can't remember her name, but she was from Arkansas, and she was mentioned in the song "American Band" as a mini tribute to her ("sweet, sweet Connie"). I happened to catch a few minutes of her on a talk show just as the book came out. Can't remember which show. The host asked her about David Lee Roth, who was suing her for being named in the book, and she said something like "He didn't have much to brag about." The audience snickered, and the host asked in circumventual terms who was good. She named two people--a roadie for Fleetwood Mac (not named), and Huey Lewis. The audienced "ooooo"ed. So Mr. Squeaky Clean and Happily Married apparently had unrecognized attributes.

[gbate]

13. I guess I have bad taste then, too. I love SMB.

[jobycom]

14. Maybe generational, but I can honestly say that I liked Huey Lewis for a while

back when he was popular and I was young, but I never once liked Steve Miller. I'm over Huey, too. My thirteen year old daughter is a rock and roll addict. She started with Aerosmith, and now is into classic and all other forms of rock. Here friends call her Rock Girl, and her computer desktop is a collage of rock band emblems, from the Aerosmith wings to the Rolling Stone lips, and including Devo, the Fray... You get the picture. It's an odd case where I'm sick of old music and listen to rap and R&B, and can't get my daughter to appreciate the new stuff. Though, of course, the old stuff is new to her, just not to me.

ANyway, in the car the other day we're scanning the stations and stop on a Huey Lewis song. I say "This guy was pretty good." We're silent for a few moments, listening to "If this is it..." Just as I am bracing myself for a full three minutes of Huey, daughter says, "Nah, that's pretty boring." Makes a dad proud, I tell you.

Not sure the point, except that my kid is the greatest ever (actually, both my kids are tied). And that I once liked Huey Lewis, so maybe he was better than Steve Miller, or maybe I was just a slave to the era, and I grew up a couple of years after Miller was popular.

There, that should settle it. :rofl:

[meegbear]

17. I wouldn't consider Huey Lewis and the News "rock music" ...

score one for sis.

[liberal hypnotist]

18. Huey Newton?

Steve Miller is a musician and probably less of an entertainer. I have trouble watching Huey Newton. But, that's what is great about life; there is something for everyone. Exercise your rights!

[youthere]

20. delete-dupe

[youthere]

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I might have had a touch too much caffeine this morning.

[Archae]

33. Doesn't matter.

Back in the late 1980's, I saw an interview with Steve Miller himself, on "Night Flight."

Granted, I wasn't expecting him to be a Mensa candidate.

But he was so fucking stupid, as to be beyond belief. :argh:

Don't forget during the time he really "hit it big," far more disco records were sold.
Speaks volumes.

[MissMillie]

24. matter of opinion

so really, who is to say :shrug:

[amitten]

25. Huey Lewis ain't great, but the Steve Miller band makes me want

to do someone bodily harm. :puke:

[LynneSin]

26. I would have to agree with your sister on that one

Steve Miller Band rules - their music has stood the test of time longer than Huey Lewis

[Goblinmonger]

27. You both

have crap taste in rock. There. Take that the both of you.

[Zavulon]

28. Neither of you has much of a case, both suck, but if forced to

listen to one of those bands I'd go with your sister's pick. At least some of the stuff Miller put out before the band hit it big was tolerable, such as a few songs on his "Number 5" album.

[buddhamama]

30. agreed.

the older Steve Miller stuff had a bluesy kind of feel to it.

[Fire Walk With Me]

29. You'd best solve this matter with a bout of visceral thumb wrestling.

With Skinny Puppy as the very loud soundtrack.

[njdemocrat106]

37. No offense, but Skinny Puppy creeps me out

I'll stick with ol' Huey, thank you very much. :)

[Fire Walk With Me]

42. Music encompasses all emotions and states- widen your repertoire

and let the sun shine in ;-)

[regularguy]

31. IT'S ON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! n/t

[graywarrior]

32. Both bands are kinda lame, but I'd choose Miller over Lewis.

But then again, I dig Lukas...so what does that tell you?

[TheBaldyMan]

34. I agree with yr sis.

[njdemocrat106]

35. I like Huey, too.

I'm ambivalent on Steve Miller, with the exception that "The Joker" is an automatic station change for me. That's gotta be one of the most overplayed songs on classic rock radio.

[Robeson]

36. Archae, if I can't say anything good about your music taste, it's best...

...I say nothing at all...

[Archae]

38. So you have nothing to say about the CD's I bought second-hand today?

Leonard Bernstein conducting the 9 Beethoven symphonies?
On Deutsche Gramophone CD's?

[Robeson]

39. Hey, I feel better. Thank Athena your music universe isn't...

...dominated by Huey Lewis....:toast:

I'm feeling better now...

[Archae]

40. The only music I don't like...

Is most church music, most opera, and "gangsta rap."

I have a music collection that would make your your head spin, everything from Mozart to disco! :-)

[wildhorses]

43. everyone is allowed one guilty pleasure

your sister has steve miller and you, my friend, have huey lewis

[grace0418]

44. Why can't people just like what they like?

Back when I was 13 or so I enjoyed Huey Lewis. Now? Not so much. I even liked one, maybe two, Steve Miller songs. But who the fuck cares? Do you like the music? Then fuck everyone else.

[Left Is Write]

45. Good question.