"Cover" music?

Miley Cyrus?

You have to be kidding.

 

I'm a big fan of covers/interpretations of old blues songs by Zeppelin, The Stones, Hendrix, SRV, etc.

 

I'm almost completely disconnected from music. I don't own an Ipod or even one disc. Never tune music on the radio, ever. It has no effect on me. Yet, I like visual art (painting, sculpture) good literature and dramatic movies like "The Great Escape" and "Legends Of The Fall."

Music is just noise to me. And Miley Cyrus is the bottom of a very bad barrel.

 

That was a horrible song Ryan.Interesting drumming though.

I love the Cash cover of hurt but it conveyed a different meaning form the original. Having led a hard life and being at the end versus heroin sucks and ruins your life.

Ian how do you not like music?
What are your feelings on breathing?

 

I'm all for breathing. What I should say about music is I hate anything written in the last 100 years or so. I do like a Strauss waltz or much of what is considered long-haired music. But not the modern crap. The Beatles suck and so do the Stones. Have never liked any modern music sound at all. I understand this makes me different.

The music I do like is the stuff you run into by accident and then only for a fleeting moment like in that scene from The Shawshank Redemption when Andy locks himself in the warden's office and puts on an Italian opera piece with ladies sounding like angels in a language nobody understood. For a moment time stood still. That was moving. That tiny piece of obscure Italian opera. That I liked. But even so, would not seek it out and purchase it. Good bits of music like that I like to stumble upon like a new romance. Then it's fresh and fun and nice. To go buy an CD of modern machinations is to go buy a hooker on Elliot Street and call it romance. It's all too much clanging and without softness of soul. It's offensive to me.

That make any sense?

 

You have an issue creating the emotion to attach it to the music so you find it easier to live vicariously through fictional characters. It's cool, I had a ruff childhood too.

The rest of it is just hater speech. Coming from one hater to another, we are missing out on a lot. I recently discovered a whole world of music that wasn't grunge (it's what I grew up listening too, I'm in my late twenties) and it blew my mind.

 

fun, I don't miss what I don't ever listen too. That's like saying I miss square-dancing for never having square danced. As to navel-gazing and trying to figure out reasons for ones inner motivations? Too much crap for me. I don't waste time ruminating on pseudo-sciences like psychology.

 

Indy, THEY ARE THE RESULT of the trap.

 

You could have that place that can only be filled by square dancing. You never know. I thought I would hate... well everything, but I'm starting to realize I don't. I too believe Psychology is false prophet. I was sitting in an ER one day after cutting off a good chunk of finger and the Headline for Psychology Today was "What you can learn by kissing". That's not science that's Tiger Beat.

Hack, how old were your kiddos when they started getting into that crap. I dread the day my daughter comes home listening to boy bands.

 

All I meant is the music is in the kids' heads. They will carry that with them into the age of spending when they have a few dollars and no parent holding their hand. They are programed as we speak. This does not make them stupid or victims, really. It's the modern way of marketing, the way of the world.

We in the bike world like to thing we're above advertising. Too strong willed. We make up our own minds. Not true. Once a product's image is in the distant corners of the brain it makes it easier for the purchaser (you) to buy that product down the line for it does not seems odd or unusual then. It feels comfortable and familiar. This is assuming the product is not pure junk to begin with.

Given a choice between a Shimano chain and a ZXTY chain from Pluto, we mostly go with the Shimano out of comfort and familiarity. That's what advertising does. It's not to make you run out and buy something in the instant, it's to make you familiar and comfortable on a subliminal level in the future. This works on everyone. If it didn't you would not see ads on this forum. Those ad boys know their stuff or they would not exist.

 

The next time I get an urge to square dance I'm borrowing one of Hack's shotguns and removing my own head.

 

Arghhh. This is the one part of being the father of a daughter that gets me.