In a medium sized town - in fact one of the Danish cities that most closely resembles my mental image of American suburbia, boring, void of history - my mid-thirties wife and myself drove our spanking new middle class car (Seat Altea XL) in our nice, not-too-young, not-too-flashy clothes. We could be described as a well groomed, urban couple, not conspicuous, but perhaps with a hint of creative class edge. So. The car windows are open and we're listening to music. In particular Rammstein's "Mann gegen Mann". With the volume at max. And doing a sort of civilized head banging. The pedestrians were visibly shocked. In particular a 20-ish, dorky looking guy, who could be hard rock fan himself, looked as if he'd seen the Lock Ness Monster devour his dog on his front lane. Amusing.
So tell about your experiences with inappropriate displays of musical taste.
(And please excuse my English).
Shocking displays of inappropriate musical tastes
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- KVRAF
- 1955 posts since 5 Sep, 2003 from Denmark
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- Beware the Quoth
- 35481 posts since 4 Sep, 2001 from R'lyeh Oceanic Amusement Park and Funfair
Baffled the shit out of some students a coupla years ago when I was testing the speakers in one of our computer labs by playing Tweez by Slint thru the system... that sorta thing?
And summer's going to be amusing now that Ive got a garden. Wonderings how my neighbours will take to Sickle, Nebris and vurt of a sunny afternoon...
And summer's going to be amusing now that Ive got a garden. Wonderings how my neighbours will take to Sickle, Nebris and vurt of a sunny afternoon...
An idiot on Set Theory:
"In some cases there is an object called red that contains everything that is red. In much the same way a pot is a plate."
"In some cases there is an object called red that contains everything that is red. In much the same way a pot is a plate."
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- KVRAF
- 13133 posts since 7 May, 2006 from Southern California
When I was in highschool I drove a dark blue chevy astro (minivan). Every one called it the "heavy metal mommy-mobile" because it had Slayer and Tool stickers all over it. I had a pretty intense system at the time (two ten inch subs and a thousand watts in total), I would blast Autechre's EP-7 and SP's Big Loada as well as Meshuggah, Skinny Puppy, and the like. You would think that I had huge breasts groing out of my forehead from the looks that I got. More so from The Autechre than anything else.
I have a similar set up in a Scion xB now and it seems that people expect experimental electronic music to come out of that.
3am
I have a similar set up in a Scion xB now and it seems that people expect experimental electronic music to come out of that.
3am
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- KVRian
- 830 posts since 9 Aug, 2004 from Berlin
I'm in China, in a high school and teaches french and english. There's an inner school broadcast, and students can use it for 40 minutes each day.
They once asked me to come and play some CDs.
I prepared a selection that was intended to make them know something else than the beatles and the backstreet boys (the only two foreign bands chinese know, including the english teachers themselves...)
A student told me to prepare "exciting music"
I started with chemical brothers' "block tockin beats".
the students asked me "but it's only music, there is no singer?"
hum hm...
A drop of sweat starts to run down my forehead.
Later I put Amon Tobin's "Verbal"; after one minute, a female teacher ran into the room, panicked: "there's a problem with the sound; it sounds like a frog!"
I finaly ended up putting a hip hop song from a ninja tune compilation, and they liked it, not because it was quality hip hop, but obly because it was rapped...
Actually, ANY taste is innapropriate in China
NO taste is the rule here.
I saw a real 50yo graded general making a rap that was aproximatively saying "china is a great country, ourr government is da shiznit" on TV once;
THAT was a shocking display of innapropriate taste to me
They once asked me to come and play some CDs.
I prepared a selection that was intended to make them know something else than the beatles and the backstreet boys (the only two foreign bands chinese know, including the english teachers themselves...)
A student told me to prepare "exciting music"
I started with chemical brothers' "block tockin beats".
the students asked me "but it's only music, there is no singer?"
hum hm...
A drop of sweat starts to run down my forehead.
Later I put Amon Tobin's "Verbal"; after one minute, a female teacher ran into the room, panicked: "there's a problem with the sound; it sounds like a frog!"
I finaly ended up putting a hip hop song from a ninja tune compilation, and they liked it, not because it was quality hip hop, but obly because it was rapped...
Actually, ANY taste is innapropriate in China
NO taste is the rule here.
I saw a real 50yo graded general making a rap that was aproximatively saying "china is a great country, ourr government is da shiznit" on TV once;
THAT was a shocking display of innapropriate taste to me
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- KVRAF
- 8125 posts since 13 Jan, 2003 from Darkest Kent, UK
heh, i was sitting at roadworks once, i guess getting impatient so pushed the volume more than i would normally... just as it got to the 'come to f**king daddy' bit in 'Come on my Selecter'. This elderly woman gave me the most disgusted look i've ever had in my life.justin3am wrote:SP's Big Loada
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- KVRAF
- 6596 posts since 21 Jun, 2004 from Secret Underground Hideout
apocalypse now - ride of the valkyrie
really, i'd appreciate it if everyone kept their music to themselves
really, i'd appreciate it if everyone kept their music to themselves
"Most people who experiment with drugs are not lying in the streets, suffocating on their own vomit. If you want to see some of that, go to the Pub on Saturday night at closing time." ozwest
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- Skunk Mod
- 21249 posts since 10 Jun, 2004 from Pony Pasture
Here's one from the other side of the coin.
Drove into the parking lot of an office supply store, playing Jean Michel Jarre fairly loudly on the CD player and grooving to the sound. Little old lady in the car I parked next to said something. I smiled and turned it down: "Sorry!" She said, "No, it's okay -- I just wanted to know who plays that music you have on. It's very pretty." :-D
I explained that it was JMJ, son of film music compsoer Maurice Jarre, and we discussed Maurice's soundtrack to Doctor Zhivago (my all-time favorite movie) for a little while.
Drove into the parking lot of an office supply store, playing Jean Michel Jarre fairly loudly on the CD player and grooving to the sound. Little old lady in the car I parked next to said something. I smiled and turned it down: "Sorry!" She said, "No, it's okay -- I just wanted to know who plays that music you have on. It's very pretty." :-D
I explained that it was JMJ, son of film music compsoer Maurice Jarre, and we discussed Maurice's soundtrack to Doctor Zhivago (my all-time favorite movie) for a little while.
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- KVRAF
- 37448 posts since 14 Sep, 2002 from In teh net
Shocking displays of inappropriate musical tastes
Sort of sums up all the morons on the bus who play music on their mobiles sans headphones because even though the music would sound much better through even cheap headphones than being played through a terrible tinny speaker designed for ringtones they would much rather try and appear cool by demonstrating their appalling taste to all and sundry.
Sort of sums up all the morons on the bus who play music on their mobiles sans headphones because even though the music would sound much better through even cheap headphones than being played through a terrible tinny speaker designed for ringtones they would much rather try and appear cool by demonstrating their appalling taste to all and sundry.
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- KVRAF
- 6496 posts since 26 Nov, 2004 from Frederick, MD
1982. I was walking through a mall when I suddenly realized I was familiar with the Muzak tune being played on syrupy strings over the mall's music system. It took me a full minute to realize, to my horror, that it was a song by The Stranglers 
Don't remember which one, but it certainly was in poor taste to hear it butchered and begraggled into bland, boring, banal bilgewater. (Nice alliteration, eh?)
But American suburbia does have history!
It was wilderness.
It became farmland.
It got sold by the farmer's family when they realized they could make several million by selling it for development and they wouldn't have to wake up early every morning and actually do stuff.
Don't remember which one, but it certainly was in poor taste to hear it butchered and begraggled into bland, boring, banal bilgewater. (Nice alliteration, eh?)respirator wrote:...American suburbia, boring, void of history...
But American suburbia does have history! It was wilderness.
It became farmland.
It got sold by the farmer's family when they realized they could make several million by selling it for development and they wouldn't have to wake up early every morning and actually do stuff.
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- Skunk Mod
- 21249 posts since 10 Jun, 2004 from Pony Pasture
Don't forget that the farmer exhausted the farmland through intensive cultivation and dependency on artificial fertilizers, then when he sold it the developer had bulldozers scrape the nutrient-depleted remnant up, package it in 40-pound sacks, then sell it in home centers as "Topsoil" to be poured onto the scraped-off hardpan yards of the tract houses that got built where the farm used to be... and the homeowner wonders why the lawn doesn't look like a golf green, despite buying all that great "topsoil"... =@.o=
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- KVRAF
- 9064 posts since 1 Aug, 2003
When i was 17, me and my gf made out to the music of Europe ("Final Countdown") and Bon Jovi ("Living on a Prayer")... we gave love a bad name
A year before that, i seduced a Spanish chick by dancing as spastically as possible to Falco's "Amadeus"
No wonder i haven't had sex in 12 years...
A year before that, i seduced a Spanish chick by dancing as spastically as possible to Falco's "Amadeus"
No wonder i haven't had sex in 12 years...
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- Banned
- 36 posts since 2 Jan, 2007
My freinds punch me when I play too much Spagna 
Ich bin kein Sock Poppet!!!