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| #21 | Posted: 03/30/2012 21:56 | Post subject: |
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Music which I've seen being labeled as pretentious:
- Music with long songs/compostions.
- Complex and/or experimental music.
- Emotional music.
- Anything that Pitchfork Media likes.
- Music that you need to "get" (growers), because the qualities aren't obvious on first listen. |
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| #22 | Posted: 03/30/2012 21:59 | Post subject: |
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It is used for lack of a better word to use. Like "overrated" or calling a song "filler". Words that don't describe the music and rarely used in the right way at all.
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| #23 | Posted: 03/30/2012 22:00 | Post subject: |
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And gernes that's often labeled as pretentious:
- Indie anything
- Progressive anything
- Art everything
- Classical music
- Jazz
- Experimental anything
- Post-Rock
- Most electronic music genres. |
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| #24 | Posted: 03/30/2012 22:13 | Post subject: |
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| Charicature wrote: | | I don't think music can be pretentious. I think musicians can be pretentious, and certainly some fans can be...but not music itself. |
True 
It doesn't mean the music is bad if the artist is pretentious though.
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| #25 | Posted: 03/30/2012 22:31 | Post subject: |
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I just think artists sometimes get a little self indulgent and take themselves a little too seriously, Radiohead was a band I almost mentioned in my first post.
Long tracks are only pretentious if they're unneccesary. I mean if you've got good material for a ten minute long track then by all means do it but don't give me ten minutes of crap just so you sound like a serious band.
| mancsoulsister wrote: | If you take out the words 'long tracks' and 'often' that works for me too  |
Don't you dare!
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| #26 | Posted: 03/30/2012 22:50 | Post subject: |
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mancsoulsister doesn't like radiohead and pinkfloyd for probably teh same reason. She most likely doesnt like sigur ros either. These bands make some people uncomfortable.
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| #27 | Posted: 03/31/2012 01:01 | Post subject: |
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| kidamnesiac wrote: | | mancsoulsister doesn't like radiohead and pinkfloyd for probably teh same reason. She most likely doesnt like sigur ros either. These bands make some people uncomfortable. |
Hey thanks Kid for telling me what I do and don't like... that's really good of you!
Wrong on all counts btw
but still 10 out of 10 for effort!
I am sure if you keep it up you might actually get it right sometime soon... 
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| #28 | Posted: 03/31/2012 01:04 | Post subject: |
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| kidamnesiac wrote: | | These bands make some people uncomfortable. |
No they don't  Pink Floyd is known for being one of the most accessible bands ever. It's also music that a lot of people get high to...so I doubt I'd consider it uncomfortable.
And Sigur Ros is also soothing. Somewhat confusing at times, but nevertheless.
And Radiohead only makes people feel uncomfortable due to the arguments that they tend to spark in the music industry 
All 3 are great though I'm just stating that your point is incorrect.
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| #29 | Posted: 03/31/2012 01:49 | Post subject: |
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Fans are always more pretentious than artists...
My favourite are the profound musical bohemians who have an opinion on every band and won't dare admit that they haven't heard an artist. Or better yet - the fans who swear by anything that's 'underground' while they rail against the sellouts in the mainstream: "Dude, I liked them so much better before they went mainstream."  |
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| #30 | Posted: 03/31/2012 01:52 | Post subject: |
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manc, i thought you said you didnt like radiohead and you keep saying you dont like floyd, i was just guessing about sigur ros.
these 3 bands have a lot in common.
i know that most people like floyd, but a lot of people would rather go to the dentist than listen to radiohead or sigur ros and it seemed like manc was someone that doesnt like the whole laid back sound of all of them.
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