Random Music Talk CXXI: Not this time, Crappy

[cobl04]

Originally Posted by Hewson

Yeah I'm thinking this may be a viewpoint down under that is not held by too many folks in the first world.
Fosters clouds the mind.

Originally Posted by HeartlandGirl

I still disagree. My friends are those exact middle-aged casual listeners. I work at a place full of them. And when U2 was in town, they all clamored for tickets and talked about how important it was, how meaningful, to have a chance to see legends. At a lunchroom discussion, hair bands are still seen as a joke.

And they're not middle-aged, but my teenage students can tell the difference too. One day I put on Bon Jovi for some reason, and there was a lot of laughing and OMGs. When we listen to U2, I hear a lot about how "My parents love them!" Not the case with Bon Jovi.

Both Axver and myself are in our late 20s (well, mid-20s for me ) and there is no sympathy whatsoever. There's none of what you're talking about. They are completely synonymous I find. Is that fair/right? Fuck no, but it's the truth.

[Axver]

It's like some of you have never been to a pub with a cover band cranking out Livin' on a Prayer to a crowd of 45 year old men.

[BVS]

Originally Posted by Axver

It's like some of you have never been to a pub with a cover band cranking out Livin' on a Prayer to a crowd of 45 year old men.

Who goes to pubs filled with 45 year old men?

[Hewson]

Originally Posted by BVS

Who goes to pubs filled with 45 year old men?

Axver apparently.

[david]

Originally Posted by Axver

It's like some of you have never been to a pub with a cover band cranking out Livin' on a Prayer to a crowd of 45 year old men.

Yeah, nope. And I’m 40.

[LemonMelon]

Originally Posted by david

Yeah, nope. And I’m 40.

You're a man!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXEde89WC44

[Axver]

Originally Posted by BVS

Who goes to pubs filled with 45 year old men?

I don't know about you, but I've got older relatives who like to take visitors like me to their local.

And aren't you a 40-something year old man?

[BVS]

Originally Posted by Axver

I don't know about you, but I've got older relatives who like to take visitors like me to their local.

And aren't you a 40-something year old man?

Yes, but I’m usually one of the older in a mixed crowd of men and women. It wasn’t to be taken seriously, it just wouldn’t be too commonplace here to find a bar full of mostly over 40 men.

[GirlsAloudFan]

Originally Posted by Axver

It's like some of you have never been to a pub with a cover band cranking out Livin' on a Prayer to a crowd of 45 year old men.

This is truly a special post in Interference history.

[iron yuppie]

Originally Posted by Axver

It's like some of you have never been to a pub with a cover band cranking out Livin' on a Prayer to a crowd of 45 year old men.

I have witnessed this on multiple occasions, I’m sorry to say.

[IWasBored]

I witnessed it once and never went back to that bar. Also included was Piano Man or Rocket Man (i forgot which), and like 5 different Dave Matthews Band covers.

[Axver]

Yeah it's safe to say I haven't been back to those pubs, except the one in the town where my mum and stepdad live because it's the only boozer there. You can see a real cross-section of people dancing to a cover band cranking out bad eighties and nineties hits there, let me tell you. Their chicken parma also sucks.

[DaveC]

literally every second drinking establishment in nova scotia is what axver described. the other half is 50% sports bars and 50% meat markets for the college students.

but most places you can go into a pub and hear a shitty cover band and holy hell does a bon jovi song from a semi decent cover band get the crowd going. so do bryan adams covers though. U2 gets about the same reaction.

must be a commonwealth thing.

[DaveC]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZuTCkwAmis

best song the smashing pumpkins ever made

edit: this whole show is pretty awesome actually:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHrabsv1JSg

[cobl04]

Nothing quite so sad as listening to A Rush of Blood to the Head and realising how shit Coldplay have become.

[LemonMelon]

Change that to Parachutes and that's me once about every 6 months

[cobl04]

Still their best, but the songwriting gets a bit more sophisticated on Rush of Blood. Some truly gorgeous tunes.

[Lancemc]

POP2 is the best album/mixtape I’ve heard in over two yeeeears

[iron yuppie]

This Julien Baker album is really on the nose, yeah? A little bit of abstraction thrown in there would have gone a long way.

[Joey788]

It’s the opposite for me. It feels significantly more powerful due to her direct, raw and unflinching lyrics.