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People who let music influence their life too much.

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  • #32
    MrStuffins
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,646 ✭✭✭✭MrStuffins


    Mr. Denton wrote: »
    He should get "Au" tattooed on his forehead. He'd look precious.

    Subtle. Here, have a "Thumbs Up"


  • #33
    Eve_Dublin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,884 ✭✭✭Eve_Dublin


    I used to dress like Damon Alburn when I was 16 with Justine Frischman hair (at the height of the Blur V Oasis buzz). It was great fun and I look at photos now 15 years later and I looked great. I look at how many youngsters dress nowadays and it sends me to sleep. Your teens are the times to dye your hair pink, wear some crazy beads, get your nose pierced, get a stupid tattoo you'll regret (like I do now) and cut your hair like a boy. Music was everything to me back then.


  • #34
    Samich
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,949 ✭✭✭Samich


    Hapes of people haven't read my title enough!!!!

    Nothing wrong with it influencing your life, just not too much!!!!!


  • #35
    mackg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,938 ✭✭✭mackg


    Mr. Denton wrote: »
    He should get "Au" tattooed on his forehead. He'd look precious.

    Pb if he's into heavy metal


  • #36
    MrStuffins
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,646 ✭✭✭✭MrStuffins


    Also, if you're 14, sweet!

    But if you're 40, stop dressing like a child.

    Look at this gimp! He's a man in his 40s. He could have kids our age. But he still dresses like a 14 year old and, if you watch the video (i;d recommend the mute button) about a minute in you see him SKATEBOARDING!



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  • #37
    Mike 1972
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,017 ✭✭✭Mike 1972


    Long hair or even tattoos (within reason) are hardly a big deal. Lots of people sport such things well into middle age (and beyond) and manage to hold down successful jobs and everything.

    Extremely OTT hairstyles, piercings, tattoos, dress style and wotnot may be a different matter but these are largely the preserve of teenagers/students and tend to get toned down as a prerequisite for joining the real world so no real harm done in most cases.

    Anyone remember the couple where the bloke used to keep his Girlfriend on a dog lead :eek:


  • #38
    J K
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 468 ✭✭J K


    ScienceNerd wrote: »
    I ****ing love music and I'll let it influence my life as much as I want.

    Get your hair cut Punk.


  • #39
    Toby Take a Bow
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,732 ✭✭✭Toby Take a Bow


    paddyandy wrote: »
    I wonder will the entertainment business ever be asked to account for it's effect on our young....like the churches it does'nt look like it..not soon anyway.

    The entertainment industry and the religion industry are two very separate things, surely. If something goes wrong within (say) the Catholic Church, it is mainly due to the hierarchical structure (that is, one person at the top dictating what should and shouldn't happen) while the music industry is made up of many, many different people and bands saying whatever they want. Having said that, in certain instances the band and/or record company are held to account for perceived lapses in judgement.

    Music means a lot to me, and I think it always will. It has definitely helped me through my teen years, and still does today. If I didn't have music and books, I'm not really sure what I'd do with myself.


  • #40
    starbelgrade
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,739 ✭✭✭✭starbelgrade


    I'd rather listen to music than stick a cucumber up my arse.


  • #41
    stateofflux
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,563 ✭✭✭stateofflux


    the only thing i find funny about a lot of alternative dress is its uniformity...goths / metallers looking identical which is ironic given they are supposed to be anti suits / normal


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  • #42
    GLaDOS
    Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 23,257 Mod ✭✭✭✭GLaDOS


    J K wrote: »
    Get your hair cut Punk.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8de2W3rtZsA

    Cake, and grief counseling, will be available at the conclusion of the test



  • #43
    Mr. Denton
    Closed Accounts Posts: 867 ✭✭✭Mr. Denton


    starbelgrade wrote: »
    I'd rather listen to music than stick a cucumber up my arse.

    You sure about that?


  • #44
    seanbmc
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,842 ✭✭✭seanbmc


    stateofflux wrote: »
    the only thing i find funny about a lot of alternative dress is its uniformity...goths / metallers looking identical which is ironic given they are supposed to be anti suits / normal

    This argument is done to death already. You can say the same for any group of people. Even the people who perceive themselves as normal.


  • #45
    Snowie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,048 ✭✭✭✭Snowie


    The music I listen to inspires things I do creatively, my tattoo my out look in life. When I'm out shooting photography... When I'm in the gym when I'm hungover after a night out..

    I listen to everything, from Miles davies, left feild, neil young, super grass, Mozart when im studying.

    Music has as much depth as its composer, yeah dj timberland or what ever they call him, hes got depth how ever take a band like hybrid and listen to their music, Youle see the difference. I hold music very dear to me.

    I don't think there is any harm in enjoying music... or taking an active interest in it.

    Now adays who do we have the kings of leon Im sorry but has no one fvcking noticed every album sounds the same :confused:?

    Wailing teenage anxt


  • #46
    seanbmc
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,842 ✭✭✭seanbmc


    Snow-Monkey wrote: »
    The music I listen to inspires things I do creatively, my tattoo my out look in life. When I'm out shooting photography... When I'm in the gym when I'm hungover after a night out..

    I listen to everything, from Miles davies, left feild, neil young, super grass, Mozart when im studying.

    Music has as much depth as its composer, yeah dj timberland or what ever they call him, hes got depth how ever take a band like hybrid and listen to their music, Youle see the difference. I hold music very dear to me.

    I don't think there is any harm in enjoying music... or taking an active interest in it.

    Now adays who do we have the kings of leon Im sorry but has no one fvcking noticed every album sounds the same :confused:?

    Wailing teenage anxt


    And the fact that they're shíte.


  • #47
    jaffacakesyum
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,207 ✭✭✭jaffacakesyum


    mikemac wrote: »
    The people who name drop and can be quite snobbish about their knowledge of obscure bands

    Oh I knew them before they were famous
    I preferred their early stuff before they sold out to commercialism and went mainstream

    Cocks

    I agree to an extent. I know a lot about music but I know when to talk about it and when not to! For example, many of my friends would only be into chart music (and that's fine) so I wouldn't have discussions with them about up and coming alternative bands, nor discussions about The Beatles or BB King.

    Anyway, I do hate the way people start disliking bands as soon as they turn mainstream. Just because they're more popular/in the charts, doesn't mean you should stop listening to their music and hate them, when you loved them ''back in the day'' :rolleyes: Fair enough if you don't like their new album and think it's too 'mainstream' but does that mean you'll stop listening to the band altogether, even the older stuff that you used to love? Ridiculous


  • #48
    Mindkiller
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,200 ✭✭✭Mindkiller


    I haven't listened to KoL in years but I heard the new Katy Perry single today. It's shocking just how insipid and hollow most pop music is sounding these days.

    Off topic I know


  • #49
    Wolflikeme
    Closed Accounts Posts: 827 ✭✭✭Wolflikeme


    I don't dress like I like certain kinds of music, because I usually find something I like in any musical genre - there's good and bad musicians/bands/music in all of them. You just have to weed out the bad ones.

    Ironically, goths, for example, who only listen to The Cure etc and dress like it are the narrow minded sheep imo. Same goes for metalheads. OK you're into it, I get it, but surely of all the music around you can't possibly only like metal if you actually love music.


  • #50
    Snowie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,048 ✭✭✭✭Snowie


    seanbmc wrote: »
    And the fact that they're shíte.

    :cool:

    i concor


  • #51
    Mindkiller
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,200 ✭✭✭Mindkiller


    jaffacakesyum wrote: »

    Anyway, I do hate the way people start disliking bands as soon as they turn mainstream. Just because they're more popular/in the charts, doesn't mean you should stop listening to their music and hate them, when you loved them ''back in the day'' :rolleyes: Fair enough if you don't like their new album and think it's too 'mainstream' but does that mean you'll stop listening to the band altogether, even the older stuff that you used to love? Ridiculous
    Loads of people did this with MGMT when they got big. Then once they successfully alienated their mainstream fanbase with their second LP back came all the hipsters :rolleyes:


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  • #52
    weemcd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 6,588 ✭✭✭weemcd


    It would be boring if everyone was the same, but I understand what ye mean:

    "angst rarr" nobody gives a fúck, I was never a fan of them bi's who would only listen to 1 or 2 albums of any given band, as soon as anybody else was into them they had immediately "sold out" and were now shít, and then the cycle perpetuates itself. I actually hate saying I enjoy bands early albums more, should you come across as a complete wanker. Sometimes they're just the besht


  • #53
    Snowie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,048 ✭✭✭✭Snowie


    Mindkiller wrote: »
    Loads of people did this with MGMT when they got big. Then once they successfully alieanated their mainstream fanbase with their second LP back came all the hipsters :rolleyes:


    Hipsters :rolleyes: should all be shot mass killings of them


    well ya know have to give them some reason to moan bitch and enjoy the sound of there own voice.


  • #54
    GLaDOS
    Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 23,257 Mod ✭✭✭✭GLaDOS


    Wolflikeme wrote: »
    Same goes for metalheads. OK you're into it, I get it, but surely of all the music around you can't possibly only like metal if you actually love music.
    Who says that's all they like? It's a fashion choice, not a lifelong commitment to one style of music. I know plenty of stereotypical looking metalheads who listen to other genres.

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  • #55
    Snowie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,048 ✭✭✭✭Snowie


    ScienceNerd wrote: »
    Who says that's all they like? It's a fashion choice, not a lifelong commitment to one style of music. I know plenty of stereotypical looking metalheads who listen to other genres.



    except when they start doing air guitar in the middle of a night club i bet you don't know them then :pac:


  • #56
    GLaDOS
    Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 23,257 Mod ✭✭✭✭GLaDOS


    Snow-Monkey wrote: »
    except when they start doing air guitar in the middle of a night club i bet you don't know them then :pac:
    I air guitar with the best of them :)

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  • #57
    holystungun9
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,933 ✭✭✭holystungun9


    SouthTippBass wrote: »
    Thats just teenagers being teenagers, its not gonna change anytime soon. Sure we all went through that stage and came out the other side! :D

    I'm paranoid that people laugh behind my back because I still wear Joe Bloggs and Xworx jeans. I'm a raver for life. Now where did I leave my sock hat??


  • #58
    coconut5
    Closed Accounts Posts: 696 ✭✭✭coconut5


    Kora Grumpy Gym wrote: »
    Trying to work out their own identities, fair enough when you're a teenager and probably natural enough too, but when you're still at it in your twenties....grow the f*ck up

    So what, to you, is the correct identity to have when you're in your twenties?


  • #59
    mackg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,938 ✭✭✭mackg


    ScienceNerd wrote: »
    Who says that's all they like? It's a fashion choice, not a lifelong commitment to one style of music. I know plenty of stereotypical looking metalheads who listen to other genres.

    I got introduced to Steve Earle by a guy regularly seen sporting a Slayer T shirt.


  • #60
    malkmoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 98 ✭✭malkmoose


    Eve_Dublin wrote: »
    People who appreciate music and have an opinion on it are cocks?? Does this apply to all people who have an appreciation for anything and have an opinion on anything? If that's the case, you come across incredibly ignorant it has to be said.

    Music has pulled me out of some dark times and I'm very grateful for it. I listen to it every waking moment of my day and always have. I honestly don't know what I'd do without it.

    In defense of mikemack he was referring to the pseudo intellectual muso's who try to be as obscure with their taste as possible where the obscurity of the music is of more importance than the quality. There is a falseness and vanity to this.

    I spend a lot of my days listening to music and and am constantly looking for new artists but I try to be true to my own taste and have plenty of guilty pleasures, I don't think its fair to extrapolate his argument to the point where you can't have an opinion on anything that's a bit of a leap.

    In my opinion there are worse things than music that can influence your life too much, its all about getting the balance right I suppose


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  • #61
    l.m
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 50 ✭✭l.m


    There is nothing wrong with music influencing your style. People into GAA or rugby etc sometimes wear their teams jersey's all the time. Music is a huge part of some people's lives (including mine) and if they want to dress in black or have long hair etc whats the problem. Many people are very proud of their music taste and like to express that in their style.


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