I Just Don't Get It

Gazelles · Post by **Gazelles** » Sat Oct 30, 2004 3:45 pm

I second Beastie Boys.

My own contributions:
Meatball subs
"What We Need More of is Science" by the JBB (sorry guys, it's a good song but not as good as everyone says it is in my opinion)
The Killers
The Faint
People who don't like Josh Woodward

Caravan Ray · Post by **Caravan Ray** » Sat Oct 30, 2004 4:02 pm

Justincombustion wrote:I don't get the Eagles

I get the Eagles. I don't really like them myself but it's easy to see why other people do.

What I don't get is why now in 2004 almost 30 years after their glory days they're touring the world, charging a gazillion dollars for concert tickets and every bastard and his dog is forking out the cash to go and see them. I think they're doing 3 or 4 sell-out shows in Brisbane with the cheapest seats over AUD$100 a ticket.

I mean, I would get it if the audiences were all over the age of 40 - re-living youthful memories, but I know teenagers and twentysomethings going to see them. These people should be out taking drugs, shagging each other, causing havoc and generally enjoying themselves. Not wasting money on the freaking Eagles. If they really wanted to be bored shitless by soulless, vapid elevator music they could at least save their money for the next Coldplay tour, or Matchbox 20 or one of the other numerous 'Eagles' of this generation.

I don't know what's wrong with the youth of today.

Kamakura · Post by **Kamakura** » Sat Oct 30, 2004 5:49 pm

Caravan Ray wrote:
Justincombustion wrote:I don't get the Eagles
What I don't get is why now in 2004 almost 30 years after their glory days they're touring the world, charging a gazillion dollars for concert tickets and every bastard and his dog is forking out the cash to go and see them. I think they're doing 3 or 4 sell-out shows in Brisbane with the cheapest seats over AUD$100 a ticket.

I mean, I would get it if the audiences were all over the age of 40 - re-living youthful memories, but I know teenagers and twentysomethings going to see them. These people should be out taking drugs, shagging each other, causing havoc and generally enjoying themselves. Not wasting money on the freaking Eagles. If they really wanted to be bored shitless by soulless, vapid elevator music they could at least save their money for the next Coldplay tour, or Matchbox 20 or one of the other numerous 'Eagles' of this generation.
I don't know what's wrong with the youth of today.

The fact that the Eagles have gone through their drugs phase and now command huge ticket prices doesn't mean that they are any less than the seminal band they are. And the same goes for the Floyd, Stones etc.
See them while you still can!

Caravan Ray · Post by **Caravan Ray** » Sat Oct 30, 2004 6:21 pm

Kamakura wrote:
The fact that the Eagles have gone through their drugs phase and now command huge ticket prices doesn't mean that they are any less than the seminal band they are. And the same goes for the Floyd, Stones etc.
See them while you still can!

The Eagles seminal?
I would have thought in that genre the seminal influences would be the likes of The Byrds, The Band or maybe CSN&Y - the Eagles being merely johnny-come-lately cash-ins.

I agree wholeheartedly re the Stones though - I saw them last year and they were sensational

Eric Y. · Post by **Eric Y.** » Sat Oct 30, 2004 6:48 pm

the human cello wrote:"What We Need More of is Science" by the JBB (sorry guys, it's a good song but not as good as everyone says it is in my opinion)

i totally agree. i have to say it is BETTER than everyone seems to think.

Hoblit · Post by **Hoblit** » Sat Oct 30, 2004 10:07 pm

two things Hoblit gets: The Misfits, and The Sex Pistols.

technically two different decades, technically two different things.... but yet...somehow... the same.

Hoblit · Post by **Hoblit** » Sat Oct 30, 2004 11:11 pm

Caravan Ray wrote:
Justincombustion wrote:I don't get the Eagles
I get the Eagles. I don't really like them myself but it's easy to see why other people do.

.

country album: common threads

Apparently country artists get them

that and

BOING!

Post by jb » Sat Oct 30, 2004 11:29 pm

Hoblit wrote:
Caravan Ray wrote:
Justincombustion wrote:I don't get the Eagles
I get the Eagles. I don't really like them myself but it's easy to see why other people do.

.
country album: common threads

Apparently country artists get them

that and

BOING!

They're undefeated. You gotta like that.

that and

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA (loser)

j$ · Post by j$ » Sun Oct 31, 2004 4:30 am

The excitement over the current UK crop of new wave of old wave punk - the Libertines, Selfish C*nt, The Others, The Ordinary Boys et al.

I mean I don't mind them, but revolutionary? Errr .....

Also, goths.

J$

JonPorobil · Post by **JonPorobil** » Sun Oct 31, 2004 10:42 am

The Streets.

*ducks*

Hoblit · Post by **Hoblit** » Sun Oct 31, 2004 10:43 am

jb wrote:
Hoblit wrote:
Caravan Ray wrote: I get the Eagles. I don't really like them myself but it's easy to see why other people do.

.
country album: common threads

Apparently country artists get them

that and

BOING!
ha ha cute.

They're undefeated. You gotta like that.

that and

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA (loser)

Post by jb » Sun Oct 31, 2004 10:58 am

I don't get: Talking about directions

I understand the need to communicate how to get from here to there, so in that context talking about directions is fine. But people talk about what roads they took to get to wherever like it's the passion of their life. Gah. I hate it. Not only do I not get it, but it drives me up the wall. "So I guess you took 38 to I-71 south? You know, you coulda took Albertsonville Pike to 11-15N instead, probably saved you ten minutes."

"NO I TOOK THIS FORK TO YOUR EYE MOTHER F-ER!" *stab* "GOT ME THERE IN NO TIME FLAT!" *stab*

erik · Post by **erik** » Sun Oct 31, 2004 11:11 am

gawd, I hate that too

I will admit that while living in New York, it was cool, because people know some secret-ass ways to get places that are simply not on maps or easily deciphered using street signs, and you save, like, hours of sitting in traffic.

But whenever I hear that now, it just seems to translate to "I take the same avenues that everyone else does, and when the traffic gets too heavy, I get off of that particular road and onto another one, which takes me out of my way, but the traffic moves faster, so in the end, I may have saved 10 minutes, plus or minus ten minutes."

I mean, if there's some secret underground shit, then tell me that. ("Drive into the parking garage, go down to level AAA, give the attendant the towel and the aspirin and the Golden Key of Cragnor and then a direct road to your final destination will appear.") Otherwise, no.

c hack · Post by **c hack** » Sun Oct 31, 2004 3:12 pm

jb wrote:I don't get: Talking about directions

I hear you, but one of my favorite short stories, "Mrs. Todd's Shortcut," by Stephen King, is about just this.

Post by jb » Sun Oct 31, 2004 5:48 pm

c hack wrote:
jb wrote:I don't get: Talking about directions
I hear you, but one of my favorite short stories, "Mrs. Todd's Shortcut," by Stephen King, is about just this.

sort of

mkilly · Post by **mkilly** » Sun Nov 07, 2004 9:08 pm

the film "The Shawshank Redemption"

most anime (e.g., I neither understand Inu-Yasha, nor understand its popularity)

Franz Ferdinand

fodroy · Post by **fodroy** » Sun Nov 07, 2004 9:18 pm

mkilly wrote:the film "The Shawshank Redemption"

you truly have no soul.

bjork

HeuristicsInc · Post by **HeuristicsInc** » Sun Nov 07, 2004 9:37 pm

most quotes posted to the "Lyrics You Wish You Wrote" thread.
Seriously.
Maybe it would help if I heard the songs or something.
-bill

mkilly · Post by **mkilly** » Mon Nov 08, 2004 1:08 am

fodroy wrote:
mkilly wrote:the film "The Shawshank Redemption"
you truly have no soul.

see, it's this kind of hyperbole that i don't get about "shawshank." it's a fine movie, sure, but i find it too formulaic and uplifting in the script to be worthy of accolade for that, too straightforward in the acting to be worthy of laurels for that, and nothing in the direction/photography/cinematography to be worthy of the immense fanbase. go figger. i know basically everybody ever disagrees with me; i think jb and i have discussed it before.

j$ · Post by j$ » Mon Nov 08, 2004 2:47 am

You know I think TSR is one of those watershed things - a point for men when getting a bit blubby about something slightly cheesey suddenly makes perfect sense. It's a good and a bad thing at that the same time.

TSR=the shawshank redemption btw, not the maker of roleplaying games ...

j$

mkilly · Post by **mkilly** » Mon Nov 08, 2004 11:30 am

j$ wrote:You know I think TSR is one of those watershed things - a point for men when getting a bit blubby about something slightly cheesey suddenly makes perfect sense. It's a good and a bad thing at that the same time.

TSR=the shawshank redemption btw, not the maker of roleplaying games ...

j$

personally i thought of this

anybody else? fluffy? jb? bueller?

Mostess · Post by **Mostess** » Mon Nov 08, 2004 1:12 pm

(I assume "commercial success == everybody likes it")

1) Harry Potter.

Why has it become such a franchise? The first book was fine, but no better than the slew of "I was a misunderstood orphan until magical powers whisked me off to faraway, mystical adventures wherein I became heroic" books marketed to middle-class 12 year olds. Certainly nowhere as interesting as the L'Engle or the LeGuinn stuff. (And don't say the complexity of the later sequels is the reason; if the first one wasn't so well-received, the sequels wouldn't have been written, published, or read).

2) McDonalds.

Cheap? Kind of. Fast? Not at meal time, unless it's somewhere remote. Easy? More like omnipresent. Most often they're dirty and depressing. The advertising got me as a kid, but these days I'd rather eat a stack of saltines than a Big Mac.

3) Fear Factor

Why is this still on television? Who is watching it? Why does everyone know what it is? I thought McEnroe's "The Chair" was more fun, and that was practically tedious.

4) I agree with all the stuff about cars and talking about directions.

People seem to think that driving and navigating skills are indicative of intelligence and insight. But plenty of idiots seem to know plenty of shortcuts.