Nick66
Rock n' Roll Doggie ALL ACCESS
This gets so tiring.
Perhaps you need to exercise more!
This gets so tiring.
Perhaps you need to exercise more!
I still fail to see why people liking a song is inexplicalbe if you don't agree. It isn't a hive mentality. I know plenty of casual fans who like this song. This gets so tiring.
Nick, being continuously told that my tastes on some songs are invalid because they are just part of a "hive mind" gets old, and it's mildly insulting.
But there seems to be a hive mind mentality about certain songs here...this being one of them.
I find this insulting. The fact that I must have a hive mind mentality if I like this song. I liked it way before I joined here in 2009.
You were giving out 10s to obscure TUF b-sides. I would think giving Electrical Storm an 8 is quite okay.
Yes, exactly. Attributing my tastes to a "hive mind mentality" is akin to saying that they're not actually mine... that I only like them because Interference likes them. It invalidates my opinions as actual products of what I enjoy and don't enjoy, and sets Nick up as the only person on this forum immune to it (coincidentally, when all of Interference goes and ranks TUF highly, that is not a hive mind mentality at all).
Um, I didn't even know how you voted on this particular song.
I'm one of the bastards who gave it a nine.
That's OK Dig, these are your threads, I'll respect your rules. I'll just be the only one who doesn't comment on how other people are voting!
No, that's not at all what I want, Nick. I just want you to understand why many people get upset when you attribute their opinions to a "hive mentality" while putting yourself on a plane above it. I've stayed out of this for a long time, but it has always bugged me, and I suppose it boiled over a bit this time. I like Electrical Storm a lot, and I feel like I should be allowed to have that opinion without other people telling me that my reasons for liking it are not what I think they are - in other words, that this song is actually not an important one to me that I have really enjoyed through the years, having emotionally really captivated me at some points in my life. That's all.
Nick66 said:If you want to see examples of posters calling other people's taste in songs here "stupid", etc., there's plenty of that to be found in these threads. Just not from me.
Nick66 said:Fast Cars #6.
But there seems to be a hive mind mentality about certain songs here...this being one of them.
You have written 128,890 posts.
No matter how amazing One Tree Hill is, it's not on The Unforgettable Fire. So yes, can claim a chunk of the hive mind.At least 1,000 of them about One Tree Hill alone. Can I claim credit for some of the hive mind?
o·pin·ion (-pnyn)n.1. A belief or conclusion held with confidence but not substantiated by positive knowledge or proof
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/opinion
I'll join that hive mind. Best U2 song ever.At least 1,000 of them about One Tree Hill alone. Can I claim credit for some of the hive mind?
djerdap said:Axver made me like One Tree Hill. At gunpoint.
trojanchick99 said:If I only voted this an 8, am I still part of the hive? Am I on the fringe?