[Madtown]

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u gotta watch Gilliam's Brazil

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That's the Gilliam movie that I've really really been intending to see for awhile, but just haven't gotten around to it.

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I've seen High Fidelity, but it was a while ago, and the only thing I really remember is Jack Black rocking out at the end, and that girl from the Cosby show being in it. That was the right movie, right?

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Yup. Good flick though.

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Music-wise I like a lot of things, but I also dislike a lot of things. I don't want to be one of those people that says "I like all kinds of music" because they annoy me, and I really don't. The range is wide though.

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It's hard to explain, because I agree. For the most part, when someone says "I like all kinds of music" I just assume that they aren't into music much and haven't really listened to a variety of music. It's this vague, agreeable answer.

On the other hand, if we're talking strictly commerically released music, I can't think of a genre besides modern country that I uniformly hate. Sure, I hate a lot of music, but the hate usually isn't genre-related. I might hate 90% of top 40 rock, or 90% of ska, or whatever, but I can almost always find some exceptions that I like. Which just tells me I don't hate the genre inherently, it's just that most of the music being made in that genre sucks. [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

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I love pop-py guitar music (Jack Johnson, John Mayer, etc), first and foremost. There was a thread back in the Mod's playground when it was music-themed that had a bunch of artists in it that I already loved and have fallen in love with. Joshua Radin, Jose Gonzalez, and a bunch of others. I think I still have the thread book marked somewhere if anyone wants to check it out. The first band I'm going to make you all listen to is Kings of Convenience, who I found in that thread. They have a really mellow sound, really nice voices, and its fun to just lay around and listen to. I definitely recommend "Quiet is the New Loud", because I'm lining up another of their CDs in the queue for the club.

Secondly, I love rap music. I'm not that into most Lil' Jon or anything where the lyrics are "Suck my dick bitch, yeah you suckin on my dick" or anything along those lines, but I love calm and introspective hip hop. Lupe Fiasco is really good, Jay Z is awesome. On the other side of things, Lil Wayne is y favorite rapper of all time. His lyrics are just mind-blowing sometimes. I also like LLoyd Banks and Fabolous because they use a lot of 4 and 5 syllable rhymes, which takes more skill than "blah blah gun, blah blah fun, blah blah gat, blah blah cat". I hate 50 cent. I like old Eminem.

I like classic rock (AC/DC etc), alternative rock (STP, Nirvana, etc), pop-punk (Blink 182, old Green Day), some emo (My Chemical Romance), some classical, some bluegrass, not current country. I love Sublime and Jeff Buckley.

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I love Joshua Radin, loathe John Mayer, and find Jack Johnson pleasant but I wouldn't get excited over a new album or anything. That's weird.

Rap, generally sort of agree with you. Not a fan of Lil' John or most modern ommercial hip-hop in that vein. I'm a fan of Eminem up through Eminem Show (Encore has maybe 2 good tracks). Jay-Z is great, obviously. I'm also a big fan of older stuff and underground/independent rap (Doom, Atmosphere, etc etc etc etc).

Blink 182 can die in a fire. Green Day was and remains awesome.