Music Help Needed

[fogukaup]

I just bought a snake today!!!! 

What kind of snake?

An all American corn snake. I can't wait until feeding time!

[AFK]

Considering Marcy Playground only had one "hit", I could see why not a lot of people have heard of them.  One hit wonder band.  

Actually I think they had four songs in the top 40... Sex and Candy spent three months as #1 but I don't think any of the others made the top ten. That first album went platinum and they just released a fourth.

The fact that you haven't heard them on the radio lately hardly makes them one-hit wonders. When was the last time you heard Bettie Serveert on the radio? Or Cat Power?

Also, that was kind of my point. Having been played on top 40 radio doesn't mean everyone's heard it.

Considering that terrestrial radio's heyday is far behind it, I would say that a lot of shit played on top 40 radio is going to go unheard. 

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I just bought a snake today!!!! 

What kind of snake?

An all American corn snake. I can't wait until feeding time!

Cute! I like corn snakes.

[Iron Sulfide]

I read this whole thread. Giggling and holding on for dear life.

Fuck, Hubris made me poomp my pance so hard with the whole "mainstream" thing that I believe I may have prolapsed a little. That's not an entirely bad thing though, as my prolapsed rectum is prehensile and I'm currently typing with it to convey a form of pure hatred. Elitism does that to me.

The "Mainstream", whatever fucked up definition you've cooked up for it, is indeed a sewer. A place where all the "best" and "brightest" of contempory culture drop their toalies, and where finding the actual Good Shit requires swimming through a river of just plain shit. However, restricting yourself to only that which is not mainstream means that you are still defining yourself by it. You're just as fucking pathetic as those you despise.

WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

I love the sheer magnitude of your spaggotry and douchbaggery, Hubris.

I have to defend Hubris here.  He didn't say only stuff which was not mainstream was good, he said he wanted things he had not heard, and that he had heard all the mainstream stuff.

Bullshit. Listening to top 40 radio will not expose you to more than a small portion of current "mainstream" music. NO ONE has heard all the mainstream stuff. Proof? EOT is a 40-year-old part-time DJ who worked in a large independent record store for YEARS, and until very recently he had never heard Marcy Playground. Heard OF them, sure, and sold hundreds of their albums, but never actually listened to them.

I bet I could riffle through just my own music collection and come up with at least a hundred "mainstream" titles this chode has never heard of.

I call musical idiocy on this one.

Fair. Perhaps my choice in that colloquialism was poor. I'm sure what constitutes mainstream or not is wider than either of us could actually say. The closest anyone came to understanding me was, I think, BabylonHoruv- except I never claimed to know all mainstream stuff. My hope was that by being brief in my OP, more people would actually reply and I could just scan past the ones I have heard. The goal for my library is to acquire only stuff I haven't listened to. There's a lot of stuff I haven't head. people here listen to a lot of stuff; if each poster gave me just a few bands, the ones they thought were least likely to have been heard by me, my goal would have been easily accomplished.

Witness, the OP:

i recently suffered a virus that made me reformat my hard drive. now i have the tedious
task of rebuilding my music library.

I want to build it in a new direction from what i had, and i'd like recommendations.

My only criterion is that it be something i haven't heard before.

(my tastes are diverse, but my exposure is fairly limited, so it shouldn't be too hard for some
of you)

I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say that this guy was a total dick to Kel for absolutely no reason.

If it was up to me I'd consign him to 1000 years of nothing but Cypress Hill and Bearforce One.

thank you.

You want an apology? Is that it?

It wasn't for "absolutely no reason." It wasn't even because Kel posted over 20 bands. It wasn't even that only a hand full of them were bands I hadn't heard of. It was because the ones I had heard seemed only obviously meant to FUCK UP MY THREAD. So yeah. I'll apologize when you admit that. Either of you.

Also:

[-Kel-]

OH MY FUCKING GOD!!!! AS I SAID, DIP SHIT MORNON OF THE UNIVERSE, I WAS HELPING YOU AND NAMING THE FIRST BANDS THAT CAME OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD, I WAS NOT FUCKING YOUR THREAD UP. NO ONE WAS TILL YOU ACTED LIKE A FUCK WAD MUSIC SNOB WITH NO TASTE!!!!!!!!!!

[Dr. Paes]

 

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Fair. Perhaps my choice in that colloquialism was poor. I'm sure what constitutes mainstream or not is wider than either of us could actually say. The closest anyone came to understanding me was, I think, BabylonHoruv- except I never claimed to know all mainstream stuff. My hope was that by being brief in my OP, more people would actually reply and I could just scan past the ones I have heard. The goal for my library is to acquire only stuff I haven't listened to. There's a lot of stuff I haven't head. people here listen to a lot of stuff; if each poster gave me just a few bands, the ones they thought were least likely to have been heard by me, my goal would have been easily accomplished.

Sure, but you couldn't actually just do that, could you, you weird little poseur? Instead you dumped on someone who was innocently and authentically trying to be helpful. Are you really so immature that you thought it was OK to shit on someone because the bands they're familiar with are too mainstream? I thought most people get over that bit of retardation by the time they're 20.

You want an apology? Is that it?

I don't want anything but to make fun of you.

It wasn't for "absolutely no reason." It wasn't even because Kel posted over 20 bands. It wasn't even that only a hand full of them were bands I hadn't heard of. It was because the ones I had heard seemed only obviously meant to FUCK UP MY THREAD. So yeah. I'll apologize when you admit that. Either of you.

Seriously?

Are you on medication for that?

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

yikes, your birthday is Saint Patricks day?

It really is.

This man is the reason I know when St. Patrick's Day, a holiday I ignored completely prior to meeting him, is.

[Triple Zero]

I just bought a snake today!!!! 

What kind of snake?

An all American corn snake. I can't wait until feeding time!

You should name it Kellogs.

Kellogs the cornsnake.

[fogukaup]

I just bought a snake today!!!! 

What kind of snake?

An all American corn snake. I can't wait until feeding time!

You should name it Kellogs.

Kellogs the cornsnake.

I named him Boris, kinda a generic rip off of Ouroborus but he looks russian so it seemed appropriate.

[Iron Sulfide]

in spite of the shittiness of this thread, i'd like to thank everyone that posted.

even kel, and nigel.

i now have a list for gathering that will take me a dog's age to acquire and assess for myself.

for posterity, my favorite that i've downloaded so far is Yesterday's New Quintet (but admittedly, i've
got a lot of music to get still.)

recap: Got lots of music,  Everyone got to be an asshole.

I think this thread was an success.