Musicbanter Taught Me Something

[bigbadbear]

I think I've done this to all of the roommates I've ever had... :laughing:

(not that Primus *actually* ever had a chance with any of them but one did play bass and still hated it)

[frenchhcosurfer]

No matter how informed we think we are musically or misinformed about a certain band or genre, rab is usually there to set the record straight or convert you to a band or genre.

So what has rab done for you?



Even though I am in my late 30's I am always open to new music but I just couldn't get into The Fall. All I could hear was a drunken old git murabling into a microphone about nothing in particular seemingly getting by with this average crap.

Due to Urban crapping their albums out all over the damn forum I began to delve into them a little more and began to get into them a little more whilst still not being fully convinced about a band that changes it's personnel every other week. I mean how could this band achieve this sort of longevity by changing it's band merabers so often? The answer is that irascible Mark E Smith and once I figured out that he wasn't a guy paying lots of money to have a backing band so he could rant against everything and instead is a man that doesn't know what else to do in life, my views began to change.

After all if you look closely at other artists you can see similar patterns. Lemmy and Motorhead, Ozzy and his backing band, Tony Iommi and Sabbath- they all continue with their band names despite numerous line up changes and I like them so why not The Fall?

Over the past year I have even begun to buy physical copies of their albums and of course; now and again there are tracks that I don't like but the more I listen to The Fall the more I realise that the ideal of the band and what it means is what draws me to them.

So even though I try not to behave like a blind sheep when it comes to music, I do confess that because of rab I have high regard for this band.

So it's your turn people!

[lilbear72]

Mark E Smith IS the Fall. The band may change, but The Fall never will.
I don't know The Fall, but I know The Fall all too well!
I know that there are only a handful of banRAB in the music world that have the sinister ability to be all consuming.

I fear The Fall. I avoid The Fall.
That man is God AND the Devil!

Say goodbye to the rest of your music collection Lee.

[Evan L]

Hyperbole and a Half: The Alot is Better Than You at Everything

DON'T DO THAT. DO YOU ONLY HAVE TWO FINGERS?

[ramonesfan05]

Maybe.



I have no idea. One of them things I guess.

[Steven Murphy]

Here's a band Janzoon likes, Killing Joke.

Pete - 1
Everybody else - 0

[ratgirl]

^^ Then why do you stay if that's all you've learnt? Or are we all just trying to be witty?

That is one thing I've learned from rabroad that isn't music related, everyone is attention seeking, and almost always does no one like to give praise where it is due simply because everyone here wants that praise. Which is sad really..

[Say I Am You]

Limewire is awful. keyword: torrents

Music Banter has changed my musical life in big ways. Perhaps the biggest change is the fact that I no longer listen to a couple songs from an album (usually the singles) and then judge entire albums/banRAB from only a couple minutes while disregarding the rest of their work. Everything is an album experience now, aside from the occasional shuffle of familiar songs.

[BeYouTea ♥]

rab has taught me that no matter how long I live there is certain horrible music from the 90s that I will never escape.

[Red Ant]

Haha, I love being examples of these.
I gotta say, straddling the whole "mainstream" and "underground" music fan fence sure has its perks. It pretty much guarantees you can talk about music with another person without alienating them. :yeah: