Comments | blackstone: Yeah, thanks for that.

blackstone

Yeah, thanks for that.

Apr 13, 2008 13:39

So I just got an email from a friend doing research for a story requesting the names of whiny-boy bands. I was happy to help. However. Now my gmail "we read your email and then send you ads" thing is showing me the most asinine adverts ever ( Read more... )

snobbery, bad music

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tomecatti April 13 2008, 17:53:22 UTC

The Latest Family Topics? For serious?

blackstone April 13 2008, 17:55:07 UTC

G'head, click on it. I dare you. Do it. Go on, do it.

tomecatti April 13 2008, 17:57:02 UTC

Well, now I have Volatile Shoes and Sugarbeet Farming Tips. I've never expressed any interest in sugarbeets....

blackstone April 13 2008, 17:59:18 UTC

HA HA HA! That must be from my lj name. Which came from an NPR story about that sugar plant in Georgia that blew up a few months ago. The cause of the explosion? Volatile sugar dust in the air.

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timwb April 13 2008, 18:12:37 UTC

The Latest Family Topics?

My mom's afraid of her computer, they have a story on that?

Also:
"Cra-w-wling in my ski-i-i-in
The-e-se wounds they willnot h-e-e-e-al!
Fe-e-ear inside my bo-o-ones
Confyusi-i-ing what is re-yul-l-l!"

blackstone April 13 2008, 18:16:42 UTC

*hands on ears*
LALALALALALALALALALALALA I CAN'T HEAR YOU!!!

Wait, are those actual lyrics or did you just make those up?
I'm pretty sure they're real.

mindrtist April 13 2008, 21:56:45 UTC

they are :(

blackstone April 13 2008, 22:05:22 UTC

That makes me shed a dark tear, a tear which is beautiful and pained, like my heart, like my dark, sad, pained heart.

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I never knew!!!!! timwb April 13 2008, 18:17:20 UTC

http://www.lifescript.com/channels/Beauty/Beauty_Details/what_is_emo_style.asp

Re: I never knew!!!!! blackstone April 13 2008, 18:44:39 UTC

That's actually a pretty good description. Although the bands they list are the earlier ones, I think from the 'scene' in DC.

mindrtist April 13 2008, 21:54:14 UTC

meet emo goths...

blackstone April 13 2008, 22:01:46 UTC

Indeed. There isn't even comment necessary on that one, just, you know-look at it and shake your head.

irish_caffeine April 13 2008, 22:53:48 UTC

So who made the list?

irish_caffeine April 13 2008, 22:59:59 UTC

The question was:
"Could you please name me some of the whiniest "why-are-they-popular" musicians of this moment?"

So this is what I gave him:

Bright Eyes
Panic! At the Disco
Fall Out Boy
My Chemical Romance
Yellow Card
Linkin Park
Staind

Leave it to you, Jon, to ask about the bands. That's why I love ya.
I would have been surprised if you didn't.

irish_caffeine April 13 2008, 23:09:56 UTC

Speaking of My Chemical Romance, I almost asked if My Bloody Valentine made the list. Then I remembered that they were fronted by a chick, and all of their fans grew up and got jobs.

blackstone April 14 2008, 11:13:25 UTC

Hey, wait just a minute! I'm one of those fans!

I actually asked that rhetorical question a few months back: where shoegazers the real parents of emo? I made a post about it and didn't get any responses. If I'm not too busy I'll try and find it and link it.

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