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Maroon92 wrote:

Curmudgeon wrote: I have no idea who Adam Levine is either. If he does that rap junk then I don't want to know. So get off MY lawn too.

He doesn't "do that rap junk", he sings for Maroon 5 and bangs a lot of hot chicks.

aussiesmg said: In my day lyrics had meaning...

Don't worry, you had to endure E36 M3ty music on the radio, too. There has always been crappy music, just look at the Rolling Stones or Dave Matthews Band. There is plenty of "message" in today's music, it just isn't about Vietnam or racial incensitivity.

Maroon 5? Who dat?

Never mind, just YouTubed a little and it's safe to say they aren't gonna be in my music collection anytime soon. Reminds me WAY too much of George Michael and look what he turned out to be.

Not that there's anything wrong with that.

Now GTFO my lawn.

Willful ignorance on any subject isn't really something to brag about...

You guys remind me of old people sitting around going "what's a twitters?"

In reply to dculberson:

I have an internal debate about the joy I've deprived myself of because of the guilty-pleasure pop music I can't/won't listen to because the feeling of being sold a bill of goods by the labels makes me sick...

I also don't know a lot about nuclear physics or farriering - not so much out of willful ignorance - mostly out of irrelevance in my life.

netflicks has the entire 1970s episodes of SNL...

boy were some of them really crude (production values), but live TV...

I will watch SNL again when Robert Earl Keen either hosts or is the musical guest. He'd be brilliant at both.

dculberson wrote: Willful ignorance on any subject isn't really something to brag about...

Oh, I feign it on purpose. I'm not a big fan of pop culture, but it's pretty difficult to ignore. OTOH, the look on my (then, teenaged) daughter's face when I said, "Who is Paris Hylton?" was priceless! I'm not ignorant of a bunch of that stuff, I'm just a dirty wanna-be intellectual at war against it.

dculberson wrote: You guys remind me of old people sitting around going "what's a twitters?"

I receive, but don't transmit.

Curmudgeon wrote:

Maroon92 wrote:

Curmudgeon wrote: I have no idea who Adam Levine is either. If he does that rap junk then I don't want to know. So get off MY lawn too.

He doesn't "do that rap junk", he sings for Maroon 5 and bangs a lot of hot chicks.

aussiesmg said: In my day lyrics had meaning...

Don't worry, you had to endure E36 M3ty music on the radio, too. There has always been crappy music, just look at the Rolling Stones or Dave Matthews Band. There is plenty of "message" in today's music, it just isn't about Vietnam or racial incensitivity.

Maroon 5? Who dat? Never mind, just YouTubed a little and it's safe to say they aren't gonna be in my music collection anytime soon. Reminds me WAY too much of George Michael and look what he turned out to be. Not that there's anything wrong with that. Now GTFO my lawn.

unless the public has been really duped by the Adam Levine PR machine, i feel pretty secure in the knowledge that he won't get caught in a restroom with another man.. he knows what he has to say and do to cater to his audience, and he does it well.. i don't like his music, but he seems like a pretty cool guy, and he does get some pretty good tail because he sings all that sissy music and looks all pretty and girly while doing it...

50 Million Elvis fans can't be wrong!

This thread just made me sad.

Music exists outside of Metallica and AC/DC. Music didn't cease after 1992.

Maroon92 wrote:

Curmudgeon wrote: I have no idea who Adam Levine is either. If he does that rap junk then I don't want to know. So get off MY lawn too.

He doesn't "do that rap junk", he sings for Maroon 5 and bangs a lot of hot chicks.

aussiesmg said: In my day lyrics had meaning...

Don't worry, you had to endure E36 M3ty music on the radio, too. There has always been crappy music, just look at the Rolling Stones or Dave Matthews Band. There is plenty of "message" in today's music, it just isn't about Vietnam or racial incensitivity.

Wait The Rolling Stones are your example of E36 M3ty music?

93EXCivic wrote:

Maroon92 wrote:

Curmudgeon wrote: I have no idea who Adam Levine is either. If he does that rap junk then I don't want to know. So get off MY lawn too.

He doesn't "do that rap junk", he sings for Maroon 5 and bangs a lot of hot chicks.

aussiesmg said: In my day lyrics had meaning...

Don't worry, you had to endure E36 M3ty music on the radio, too. There has always been crappy music, just look at the Rolling Stones or Dave Matthews Band. There is plenty of "message" in today's music, it just isn't about Vietnam or racial incensitivity.

Wait The Rolling Stones are your example of E36 M3ty music?

Yep. The Stones are berkeleying terrible. They have 10 lyrics and they just rearrange them around 20 different ways to make a new album with slightly different backing music.

I enjoy music too much to listen to the Rolling Stones.

FWIW, the Rolling Stones haven't made a relevant piece of music since the mid-90's. No one sees them live to see their new stuff at this point.

They were as significant as could be from 1964-maybe the early 80's, but the early 80's was a LONG time ago.

Other music has happened since then.

I've listened to 40 licks. More like 27.

z31maniac wrote: Just because a lot of people like it, doesn't mean they all don't have crappy taste.

I never said I listened to Maroon 5, or even ever purchased any of their albums. I am aware of them, because I live in the real world.

I lived in Spain when their first major album was released, and people were all abuzz about it over there. These are people that don't even speak English, and they know the music well.

poopshovel wrote: 50 Million Elvis fans can't be wrong!

...but 20 million Creed and Nickelback fans can be

There's always been great and crappy music, and it will probably always be this way.

We're in a funny place with regard to finding new music, because the new issue of the Internet, as with so many things (news, research, etc) the problem isn't finding, it's filtering.

I've had a bit of luck with things like Pandora and Spotify introducing me to new stuff, but to some extent, it seems like the current situation rewards search engine savvy over awesomeness.

Of course, promotion has always been paramount. There were a bazillion better bands languishing in obscurity while the Beatles and the Stones were getting giant (and I have a place in my musical world for both of them).

Maroon92 wrote: I lived in Spain when their first major album was released, and people were all abuzz about it over there. These are people that don't even speak English, and they know the music well.

Is this an endorsement of the music or an observation on the importance pop music places on insightful lyrics?

Gabe used to wear a shirt that said:

"Your Favorite Band Sucks"

Gabe is a funny guy......and correct!

ransom wrote: We're in a funny place with regard to *finding* new music, because the new issue of the Internet, as with so many things (news, research, etc) the problem isn't finding, it's filtering.

Yep. Great stuff is already there on youtube for the taking.

The paradigm of the music snob went from possessing the rarest music (Indonesian Superchunk 7") to simply knowing about the band. Anyone can be a music snob now--you just have to know where to dig.

I was VERY bummed that the print version of Spin went away. I read that magazine for the better part of 23 years (stopped a bit in the early 2000's while music was particularly dead pre-Strokes). I've yet to even venture to their website.

Levine is a fairly talented dude (and he is, no doubt about it) that figured out how to make a metric buttload of money once he found a target demographic.

I can hardly fault him.

The early Maroon5 stuff was actually entirely decent. The new stuff makes me vomit.

I'd sell out for a gazillion dollars, too.

ransom wrote:

Maroon92 wrote: I lived in Spain when their first major album was released, and people were all abuzz about it over there. These are people that don't even speak English, and they know the music well.

Is this an endorsement of the music or an observation on the importance pop music places on insightful lyrics?

Mostly a commentary on how oblivious most of the people who commented in this thread are to current events and trends.

I am neither here nor there on Maroon 5. As pop music goes, they are better than Ke$ha or whatever.

Maroon92 wrote: Mostly a commentary on how oblivious most of the people who commented in this thread are to current events and trends. I am neither here nor there on Maroon 5. As pop music goes, they are better than Ke$ha or whatever.

No, I think it's a commentary on the fact that most of the people who commented in this thread could give a crap about famous people, and even less of a crap about pop music.

Oh, and that you are possibly a pop culture snob.

Whenever I see the name Maroon 5, for some reason I keep picturing John 5. Not the same... not at all...

Then again, I don't really listen to him either...

Ian F wrote: Whenever I see the name Maroon 5, for some reason I keep picturing John 5. Not the same... not at all... Then again, I don't really listen to him either...

How old is that picture? Looks like an aerodyne Tele that he is playing, but I thought they all had roseood fretboards.