Colinito wrote:Thanks for talking about why you like the Scorpions, as I did when people criticized bands (SP) and artists (Tupac) that I respect. It is much better and more constructive than crying about it.
Why do you feel you have to use condescending phrases? To express that I don't appreciate the topic being run off the rails is a legitimate statement. It isn't whining or crying.
I believe you don't understand the issue; this was not a thread about what you do or do not like. It was a specific topic that dealt with specific times and specific music.
Your posts were like hijacking a thread about how Star Trek influenced people to embrace science and technology by stating, "I think Star Trek bites; I like LA Law and Cops."
For the record, and I don't blame you for assuming I'm a "grunge" kid based on my age,
I didn't say you were a grunge kid, I said you grew up in the time of grunge. In the 1990's, hair band bashing was the "in" thing. Perhaps none of that influenced you, but it sounds like it did from your arguments.
the Beatles were my favorite band from grade 3 on, by 5th I was rocking out to Jimi, Janis, The Who, Zeppelin, the Moody Blues, etc., and in 8th grade I discovered Bob Dylan, who I spent almost all of high school obsessed with and listening exclusively to, except for a band called the Grateful Dead. My mantra in high school was that "All modern music sucks."
It is a typical counterculture outlook. I didn't like a lot of 1970's music, but there was still much to like.
So really, as far as my musical history is concerned, I'm a 60s kid all the way. It wasn't until college and later that I discovered a bunch of 90s-00s rock and hip-hop.
No, you were not a 60's kid at all. You can appreciate the music, but you did not live in those times. You did not grow up in the 1980's either, so it would be difficult for you to understand a point of reference from that time.
I know that my point of view is different than yours, living in a different era, but I felt I needed to clear that up ... my sensibilities, for most of my life, were acid-tinged and revolutionary.
The difference is that I have lived through your era. I can understand it much better than you could understand the 1980's.
In short, I do not wish to interrupt (or "hi-jack") your nostalgia, but from where I'm standing, I wouldn't trade what we've got going on musically right now for anything. (And that's not even getting started on how awesome technology is now, and what it has done for music.) British culture is still alive here, as evidenced by the Coldplays and The Offices, etc.; it's just not the only thing.
As I stated, your first post was fine. When the bashing began, it was way out of line for this topic. Again, I don't mind talking about music tastes; this just wasn't really the place for that.
