who here knows the most about music?

[Eddie]

i vote for jafar

[kevin]

uh. fritz. duh

[brentholomew]

jafar, buh, bluemoose, torgo, fritz

my little needle, lance and nate are cool too but i tend to disagree with them more than the former list

edit: also i give props to caribou christ too, dude listens to a lot of stuff

also LOL at aso eddie

[raheem]

fritz if you're talking about white people music made after ~1980, jafar or buh otherwise

[anthony]

i am constantly astounded at how maybe album caribou has heard. him or jafar i guess

[Eddie]

also LOL at aso eddie
why

also i don't know if simply disagreeing with someone else's opinions makes them less knowledgeable about music.

fritz and buh obviously have the most music and could probably name more artists than anyone else, but i basically chose people for the poll who i think could speak about music the most eloquently and intelligently in every day discussions and could probably write a bunch of 33 1/3 books or teach college courses about pop music or could be a professional music critic and things like that. plus they're the oldest and that puts them at an advantage no matter what.

[anthony]

that's true

although i'm fairly confident jafar could pen a 33 1/3 about his asshole if he wanted to

[caribou]

i think chest rockwell is a really underrated music bro

how many of us can say we're familiar with the works of hall & oates

[raheem]

in terms of analytical knowledge then it's definitely jafar, that dude knows what the fuck's up in almost any musical discussion

[fritz]

i've been sitting here for a couple minutes and i've discovered that my music taste is very racist

[Ryan]

buh

lock thread, archive.

[Dead Nigga Storage]

gil. and i don't think it's really that close amongst the options.

jafar in second.

fuck the rest of 'em.

[kuumuus]

jafar and it's not close. half the time i don't really know what he's talking about but it always makes sense on some weird, hilarious level.

i'd put most everybody else on the same plane of knowledge. some know lots about particular genres but have relatively narrow tastes, while others have limited knowledge of a wider variety of music.

[brentholomew]

knowing a lot about obscure music and knowing a lot about playing music are two completely different things, which is why i was kind of befuddled by the thread..no offense, eddiehoss

[rackpit23]

vote for jafar!!!!

[buh]

i vote jafar. others also go to torgo and TIBOR. special mention goes to adam r who wins for knowing the most about cargo shorts music (metal, nu metal, grindcore, progressive atmospheric black metal, speed metal, etc)

ive never seen allsussedout talk about anything other than arcade fire, wilco, radiohead and coldplay

[nathaniel]

haha yeah ASO on the poll made me giggle

[Eddie]

knowing a lot about obscure music and knowing a lot about playing music are two completely different things, which is why i was kind of befuddled by the thread..no offense, eddiehoss
just consider the whole package in making your vote, brenthoss

[America: Fuck Yea!]

jafar

[Slack Motherfucker]

i think chest rockwell is a really underrated music bro

how many of us can say we're familiar with the works of hall & oates

haha thanks.

not really sure how to quantify this question but I'll mention Sampson cause that guy drops some awesome knowledge in his rare appearances.

I wonder if any of the music nerds here (pretty much anyone who has posted in this thread or been mentioned in this thread) isn't the most musically knowledgable of all their real life friends.

[Cerpin Taxt]

jafar, then nate, then buh.

fritz knows a lot about a narrower variety of music.

i'd also agree with caribou and chest rockwell.

[nathaniel]

yeah i have a lot of friends more music-obsessed than me. one writes for av/club, most are in bands, some dj, etc

if you mean i dominate in the individual catagories of "posts the most about music on message boards," "tries to get every leaked album before anyone else," and "mountain goats," then yes, i definitely dominate my friends there

[Sloppy Jimbo IV]

i know some shit too

like for instance did you know that beethoven was not only a movie star dog but also a composer?

that's one talented canine! :LOL:

[Adamm R)))]

special mention goes to adam r who wins for knowing the most about cargo shorts music (metal, nu metal, grindcore, progressive atmospheric black metal, speed metal, etc)

fuck yeah.

and yeah, I'm pretty sure jafar has consumed every piece of music ever produced.

[:bang:]

haha, gil and aso hardly even post here. the other options basically ran out of interesting things to talk about music wise years ago. i mean, look at the first page of topics here

[Cerpin Taxt]

"tries to get every leaked album before anyone else,"

really? you actually seem to be one of the most discriminating (i.e. doesn't just download to download/listen), which i would consider to be a better quality than just being "current leak know-it-all."

especially since most of the leaks here are, as has been said, kind of narrow in scope.

[nathaniel]

yeah but i meant amongst my actual friends

most of them are still sort of iffy on leaked albums, and usually dont hear about them leaking. though they definitely have no problem asking me to send them a mediafire link when they hear i have it

[gheorghe]

i get most of my music advice from simpsonsfan20

he knows the score

[Slack Motherfucker]

I have friends that are djs (I do a little myself) and in bands but I still feel like I have more knowledge of pop music than them even though I don't have the musical ability they have.

I can't believe this thread has yet to have a reference to "losing my edge"

[AllSussedOut]

I can't believe this thread has yet to have a reference to "losing my edge"

i hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that i know

there

[box elder]

me

[bmac]

i'd put most everybody else on the same plane of knowledge. some know lots about particular genres but have relatively narrow tastes, while others have limited knowledge of a wider variety of music.

yea, pretty much. i'm probably in the latter category. i do know more about music than anyone i know though. and i'm not "bragging", it actually kind of sucks. i very rarely find myself talking about music outside of the internet because of this.

[Adamm R)))]

yeah, I'm pretty sure I know more about music than most other people I come into contact with too.

compared to you guys though, I clearly have more metal brainz than anyone here but I think I generally have a pretty good knowledge of music on a whole. I wouldn't call myself especially behind in what I've heard either, since my collection is 20GB+.

[Chuckles Manson]

yeah, I'm pretty sure I know more about music than most other people I come into contact with too.

compared to you guys though, I clearly have more metal brainz than anyone here but I think I generally have a pretty good knowledge of music on a whole.

Same here, but replace "metal" with "industrial/industrial sub-genres/goth/synth" (unless you're talking about 70's/80's metal...up the irons!). I never talk about it, though, 'cuz no one else here seems to be a rivet-head.

My music history degree (minor) helps me with "classical" conversations; but since I got the degree 13 years ago, most of the specific knowledge has faded. Also, my music literature degree (minor) helps me explain why Explosions in the Sky is only so-so, while Pelican and Red Sparrowes are phenomenal by comparison (which i did in some other thread a long time ago).

[billi vanilli]

i agree with box elder. me.

[My Little Needle]

this thread makes me uncomfortable

nate is one of the last people that would write a 33 1/3 book. unless it was about all hail west texas or something.

I said someone else because I thought of buh immediately but gil fits the standards most of what eddie said... considering he, you know, writes for a music blog.

I was thinking of applying to coke machine glow myself in fact.

[lolpenis_taco]

i agree with billy. billy.

[fritz]

I was thinking of applying to coke machine glow myself in fact.
hey i did this

[My Little Needle]

:high5:

[fritz]

it's pretty cool too. they aren't stringent or anything... i haven't submitted something for awhile. actually they probably forgot about me

but if you tried real hard you could probably become a pretty prominent reviewer. i'm lazy. just make sure you make it known that you specialize in music that's kinda underrepresented by the site. i did chick singer-songwriters

[buh]

i forgot about sampson. i dont see him board much but he pretty much knows loads

[fritz]

he's geologist on hpn and yes he's a master

[mohammed jafar]

although i'm fairly confident jafar could pen a 33 1/3 about his asshole if he wanted to

i DO want to

...now



also sam i hope you dont mind if i use the phrase "cargo shorts music" repeatedly and emphatically in future real-life conversations

[buh]

haha ive been saying it for a while now especially when me and my friends bully lame nu-metal headz

it gets them every time

edit: adam r is cool though

[Adamm R)))]

hey now, I enjoy bullying lame nu-metal headz too.

[SilverEagle]

My Little Needle, Brent, and Fritz are all up there.



ASO if all music is derived from and indebted to Radiohead. :)

[lolpenis_taco]

the fuck is cargo shorts music

[lolpenis_taco]

no seriously because i wear cargo shorts

[Son of Bomber]

hey jafar, i've been flirtin with this oscar peterson lp 'girl talk' at a charity store for a while, the cover is amazing for some reason. don't really know shiat about jazz, worth purchasing?

[AllSussedOut]

girl talk is aweso-

[Chuckles Manson]

Unless you can tell me something I don't know about Guru Guru, Les Rallizes Dénudés, Throbbing Gristle, Jim "Foetus" Thirlwell, Throbbing Gristle, Skinny Puppy, Psychic TV, and Rimsky-Korsakov; you don't know dick about music...granted, i'm writing this after three 750 ml bottles of sake...but still, i'm not impressed unless someone tells me something i don't know...

Tell me something i don't know
Show me something i can't use
Push the button
Connect the goddamned dots

fuck...sorry for the drunken post i'm sure i'll mildly regret on monday...

[billi vanilli]

did you just make up a bunch of bands? i dunno about throbbing gristle but i could link you to the new national ep. what's that worth?

[caribou]

psychic tv o/

not that i can tell you anything about them i'm sure you don't know

[fritz]

i like les rallizes denudes

[caribou]

they're my current myspace pick, actually

[fritz]

i don't use myspace

[caribou]

i also enjoy throbbing gristle, not so much skinny puppy. not familiar with the rest

i don't use myspaceyeah i hate it overall but i like getting comments

[Cerpin Taxt]

i fucking love guru guru. best second tier krautrock band, even if their first album is a bit...drony?

[brentholomew]

*droney

[mohammed jafar]

Unless you can tell me something I don't know about Guru Guru, Les Rallizes Dénudés, Throbbing Gristle, Jim "Foetus" Thirlwell, Throbbing Gristle, Skinny Puppy, Psychic TV, and Rimsky-Korsakov; you don't know dick about music...

cool points deducted for using the ever-so-standard relatively-obscure avantgarde-but-not-too-avantgarde "look at me i'm cool" composer choice rimsky-korsakov. have a go with isaac albeniz or something next time

cool points added for mildly intriguing choice of guru guru for token not-faust-neu-or-can krautrock band instead of traditional "look at me im cool" not-faust-neu-or-can krautrock choice of amon duul (II)

cool points deducted for ludicrously obvious "look at me im cool" choice of thirlwell (he's collaborated with THURSTON MOORE for god's sake....he couldnt be any less cool)

les rallizes denudes....jesus, talk about TRYING TOO HARD. at least you didnt say melt banana, i suppose. cool points deducted

if i were kind i might give cool points for mentioning skinny puppy instead of, i dunno, ministry, but since im not i wont. mentioning any kind of remotely industrial band in a "look at me im cool" contest smacks of a serious case of TRYING TOO HARD

which brings us to.....throbbing gristle, who you mention not once but twice. now, there is no other way to say "look at me im not cool" in a "look at me in cool" contest than to mention throbbing gristle, the no. 1 band that people mention to look hip but who really rarely ever listen to. seriously, they're sort of pish. and you mentioned them twice

and psychic tv had that guy from throbbing gristle in it, smacking not only of trying too hard but of desperation in throwing in what is in some sense a side project

you were saying?

[H Thompson]

i like les rallizes denudes

If only there were a still a music sharing thread, I'd request you upload something other than Heavier than a Death in the Family.

[matt]

what a silly thread this is

[gheorghe]

i could link you to the new national ep.
pm me?

[nathaniel]

jafar that post tried really really hard

BUT NOT TOO HARD. PERFECT AMOUNT OF HARD. GOOD SHOW

[mohammed jafar]

thats what she said