Greg180

This

hammy56

Id like to slap Lady gagas face. Right after Beiber's. Is this bad? Am I alone?

kensuf

You're either a sailor or musician in real life.

kensuf

Yeah. And it has no ****'s. But apparently it's a place where mods can bash people who have been banned from the forum and are otherwise unable to defend theirselves.

rog

On the subject of laptops, I'm seriously considering this one, with 4 gig of RAM, and the 500 GB 7200 rpm hard drive. Do any of you laptop gurus have an opinion on it?

Also, what is so desirable about SSD? It seems like a lot of money for very little storage...

rog

Lady Gaga doesn't need a slap, she needs to be ignored. Beiber needs to be buried alive.

hammy56

fair.

Isnt Beiber the little **** who compared himself to Kurt Cobain? Id like to choke him for a bit before we bury him.

kensuf

Speed.

El Diablo Rojo

Yes he is..one of the greatest victories over pop culture that my wife and I can claim with our kids is their utter disdain for the likes of Miley Sirus, Justin Beiber and pop music in general. When they ask to listen to the Beatles or Zep rather than Miley I feel like I've scored a little victory over mediocrity. As for their current musical interests the Muse is at the top of both of their iPods.

rog

echappist

her producers are awfully good at constructing catchy tunes, though her songs are really bad
her po-po-po-poker face?

shovelhd

+1
Boot time.

wanders

Some things need to be taken in their entireity.

rog

I don't think it's worth it to me. What about the laptop, any thoughts on the price vs specs?

El Diablo Rojo

LOL! There are some bands out there writing some great stuff..again I point to the Muse but yeah overall you look at what came out of the late 60's and early 70's rock and then compare it to the next 3 decades...well there really isn't any comparisons.

shovelhd

Nothing special. You can get a name brand with the same specs in the same ballpark.

Homebrew01

Ouch ... that hurt my eyes.

rog

For linux, system76 is a name brand. Thanks for looking, though.

substructure

Both my daughters are stuck in the top 40s rut no matter what I do to try and open their ears to better music.

jwible

My son wanted to buy a Justin Beiber book from his schools book sale. I had to explain to him the fact that it was targeted to tweener girls and he had never even heard the kids music. He recognized the name from all the girls in his school who are infatuated with him.

Grumpy McTrumpy

music is not what it once was.

by this I mean it has taken on a new role in society, and part of that is to define arbitrary "generation gaps".

Each generation has a specific spectrum of music that it is associated with, and at any one particular time there are different subsets of popular music that are "targeted" at specific age groups.

This is not how it always was. In fact, it's a very new development in the history of music. If you look for examples of music from the past you can find:

1. concert or "serious" music
2. folk music, mainly for dance or balladeering
3. nursery music / young children's songs

conspicuously absent would be "music for teenagers, or music for "young adults" or music for any age-group other than little kids. (and not much of it)

In fact, I cannot find evidence that teenagers had a social structure of their own until well after public schooling was introduced.

Racer Ex 

This kicks in my Ga Ga antibodies:


Beiber's just another tiny dicked media created nothing that'll go be gone soon.

On the other hand after this I have to say I'll give Katy the benefit of the doubt. Pet the kitty Katy.

roadiejorge 

My daughter was singing a Bob Pollard tune the other day and my soul lit up....hope has been rekindled.

substructure

Phrase: "To be perfectly honest ..."

Can one be not-so perfectly honest?

roadiejorge 

you have my deepest sympathy.