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All this music we hear now a days will be considered oldies in about 30-40 years.... That's whats scary....

Turtleman

"This is Big Oldies 105.7 here on the Xm. Up next is Down with the Sickness by Disturbed, who went platinum in their album "The Sickness" just 40 years ago.
Wow, that would be so wierd.

pop is such a broad grouping, when I think of pop I think of singers who are being paid to come sing, all of the girls are superhot and so are the guys, and the only reason they are sucessful is because of mass advertising, endorsing, and music videos where they shake their asses to synthesizer beats and sing a generic love song with there voice being edited over to sound like they can actually sing, but thats a generalization

punk brings to mind bubbly teenagers who think they are being rebellious by listening to punk music, dressing in black and chains with pink hair and acting generally like metal people do, with pink hair, griping about how society sucks and how they have been screwed by the system, and then getting into the red miata their parents bought them listening to the Blink 182 CD they bought at Best Buy with the money their parents gave them. trying as hard as they can to be an individual, by dressing like every other trendy ass teenager in the world. but thats just a generalization

rap brings to mind white suburban rich ass kids who wear FUBU shirts and And 1 shoes and talk about how they are "ballers" when they are 5' 3" and have never been on a team in their life. Cruising in a broken ass, rusted out buick with a stereo worth more than the car and rims worth more than the stereo blasting bass out the windows so the socecr mom in the minivan next to them will think they are bad-ass, buts that mostly a generalization

metal brings to mind schizophrenic, murderous idiots who wear all black and chains and buy a cheap electric guitar and round up their friends to make as much noise as they possibly can and then smash their instruments, screaming into the microphone about they are gonna kill their landlord. but that is just a generalization

Techno brings to mind rice burner idiots in 92 honda civics with exhaust pipes big enough to could fit a watermelon into and "NOS" "Sparco" and "Greddy" stickers on the side when their car has no NOS, Sparco or Greddy parts in the car, or anywhere near their garage, who drive around really fast on country roads talking on cellphones with their "connections" about how many honeys they have, and then pull up at some rave/drug party and pretend like their on X so they look cool, but wont actually take it for fear of pissing off their parents, who wil take their car away, but that is...... a generalization.

Classical brings to mind arrogant, cultured rich jerks who lord their knowledge of sharps and measures over everyone and laugh and point their nose up at anyone who can't name all the baroque composers.

Country brings up ignorant redneck conservative republics who wanna put a boot up saddams ass and their dick up Bush's. All the singers sing through their noses and whine about the diner'waitress who left them because they smelled like gasoline.

Oldies, meh oldies are oldies, their old, been heard over and over.




Most of these are genralizations, don't get pissed at me, I felt like ranting.

I tend to like things like Barenaked Ladies, Dave Matthews, Hootie and the Blowfish, Red Hot Chili Peppers, stuff that could technically be defined as pop, but is of much much higher quality than most of whats out there.

You put Punk/Emo together. Thats blasphemy.

Punk/Ska should be together because they are respectable, but Emo isnt , not at all. I like Punk, Ska, Reggae and Country.. and alot of rap too...

Me gusta me reggae, me gusta punk rock,
pero la cosa que me gusta mas es panochita.

You put Punk/Emo together. Thats blasphemy.

No, it isn't. Emo is an artier, more emotional, out growth of Punk. As such, it most certainly belongs there.

Also, what Emo have you heard?

I mean, there is tons of stuff people label Emo, and I guess it fits well enough, but it is just terrible bullshit. Most of the Emo I listen to isn't.

Whatever...

I voted Rap/Hip-Hop/R&B/Funk/etc, because I love Underground Hip-Hop, Neo-Soul, Classic R&B, Classic Funk, as well as the new Funk Underground, and I also love Jazz, which I suppose would be lumped there too.

Why, in my two or three posts here, I haven't mentioned that, is beyond me.

Like my friend said the other night, Emo is a branch-off of Punk, but that doesn't mean it's Punk's fault. Emo defys the very basis of Punk music, and it was never supposed to be.

Like my friend said the other night, Emo is a branch-off of Punk, but that doesn't mean it's Punk's fault. Emo defys the very basis of Punk music, and it was never supposed to be.

Emo doesn't defy a single basis of Punk, if anything your precious Ska rapes Punk far worse than any true Emo ever could.

But this is complete beside the point - your idea of Punk is Rancid, and your idea of Emo is probably Dashboard Confessionals or those idiots responsible for "Cute Without The 'E' (Cut From The Team)" - whose name I shalt not utter.

As such, your idea of what both Punk and Emo is, quite frankly, is complete and total bullshit - and has nothing to do with any point I could ever hope to try and make.

Anywho...

Just listen to Weezer's Pinkerton. That's really emo and it's just about as pure as music can be.