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bearman🐻 wrote:
For anyone with an acerbic tongue towards Sleater Kinney, I just caution you that SK means a LOT to women, queer folk, etc. It might not be your cup of tea, but there's no need to trash them just because it's not your brew, and some might take offense to your opinion as veering towards something downright disrespectful.

You all are literally turning "SK is fine, here's an album you should definitely check out by them but they're not the be-all-and-all-end-of-music like some people think" into a hate crime.

No one has "trashed" SK yet in this convo and yet multiple people are pushing back against this strawman. Do you all actually read the posts you're responding to or do you just make up things to be aggrieved about? (And yes, the prior sentence can go directly into the taglines for the forum thread.) I have come to expect this from the hoi polloi of this forum but I expect better out of you, Bearman, a usually reasonable person who, for a time, read things outloud for a living so I know you are capable of studious decipherment.

Julian, wrote:

bearman🐻 wrote:
For anyone with an acerbic tongue towards Sleater Kinney, I just caution you that SK means a LOT to women, queer folk, etc. It might not be your cup of tea, but there's no need to trash them just because it's not your brew, and some might take offense to your opinion as veering towards something downright disrespectful.

You all are literally turning "SK is fine, here's an album you should definitely check out by them but they're not the be-all-and-all-end-of-music like some people think" into a hate crime.

No one has said SK is bad yet in this convo and yet multiple people are pushing back against this strawman. Do you all actually read the posts you're responding to or do you just make up things to be aggrieved about? (And yes, the prior sentence can go directly into the taglines for the forum thread.) I have come to expect this from the hoi polloi of this forum but I expect better out of you, Bearman, a usually reasonable person who, for a time, read things outloud for a living so I know you are capable of decipherment.

I think he may be responding to what I said:

Of course you're supposed to like them. You lose your indie card if you don't. Girl band, check. Lesbians in band, check. From Portland area, check.

Never mind that their squalling voices and untuned instruments are ear poison. Pitchfork says you have to like them. I envy you that you've never heard them.


I hate that people like them *because* they're women and *because* one of them is queer. I get it that a certain subset of women and queers might latch onto them because of a tribal mentality (though I'm not a fan of tribal mentality…like Depeche Mode said "People are People"). What I really think is stupid is straight men giving them "cool" points because of their gender and sexual preferences. Maybe that doesn't happen, but there's a perception that it's the case.

I would hate their music regardless of their gender or sexual preference. I would hate some of their fans for my previously stated, possibly imagined, reasons. A lot of hate to go around, but not a crime. I wouldn't hate them personally. I've never met them, so don't have an opinion.

"Offending others via the 930 forum since 2001" - Space Freely

Space, you are an utter buffoon.

Hutch wrote:
Space, you are an utter buffoon.

Utter Buffoon.

The I use my brain energy to think of stupid band names thread is over there. Ha.

So you're saying I should go?

Heilung4eva wrote:
So you're saying I should go?

Do it!!!

Just make sure you wear your homemade "Pet Sounds SUCKS!!!!" t-shirt

kosmo wrote:
Just make sure you wear your homemade "Pet Sounds SUCKS!!!!" t-shirt

Have you ever considered how much Pet Sounds means to the depressed and bedridden community and that these sort of statements basically constitute assault?

Julian, wrote:

kosmo wrote:
Just make sure you wear your homemade "Pet Sounds SUCKS!!!!" t-shirt

Have you ever considered how much Pet Sounds means to the depressed and bedridden community and that these sort of statements basically constitute assault?

yes but is that community likely to be at a Sleater-Kinney concert? 

Yawn.

Boring.


Is this what gets you off? Taking peoples comments out of context?

Come on now….

Be right back a bunch of zombies are approaching the house

and it's my opinion Pet Sounds sucks…

I think anyone should think anything sucks for any reason whatsoever.

nkotb wrote:
I think anyone should think anything sucks for any reason whatsoever.

begs the question, why do they call it a blow job when it's really all sucking?

Lack of ticket sales?

Thousand wrote:
Porno for Pyros delay 2023 tour, was supposed to stop at Fillmore Silver Spring
https://pitchfork.com/news/porno-for-pyros-postpone-2023-reunion-tour/

hanky/lanky-Hatchıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl wrote:

nkotb wrote:
I think anyone should think anything sucks for any reason whatsoever.

begs the question, why do they call it a blow job when it's really all sucking?

I regret to inform you that all of your partners, past and present, have been doing it wrong and you're missing out.

The hippie beach boys played the last big anti war demonstration/rally in dc in 1971 where 10000+ people were arrested and held in a fenced in area at rfk stadium and the Washington coliseum (now a rei).

I like Pet Sounds.  Smile is okay.  It's the stories behind the albums that are really fascinating. 

Zakk Sabbath, with The Native Howl
Rams Head Live!, Baltimore, MD
1/03

Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons: The Last Encores Tour
Baltimore, MD @ The Lyric
03/24/24

farewell tour.  "more dates to be announced soon" - so DC maybe?  frankie is 90… :o

This feels like one of those Weekend at Bernies tours