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Yeah, verbatim bitching, certainly.

I'm in, for collecting, collating and choraling.
posted to MeFi Music Talk by Kattullus at 4:40 AM on November 20, 2010

Okay, so I've started collecting some notable complaints and putting them in rhyming couplets. These are verbatim.

Sadly, the education of the youth of amerika is declining in more than one way.
My FPP was deleted today
Lofi is showing a cold fusion error if you are not logged in.
The MeFi Wiki appears to be spammed, Captain.
What you think I am saying is not actually what I have said
Stop pissing all over the… [more]
posted to MeFi Music Talk by Kattullus at 6:39 AM on November 22, 2010

unSane: I was thinking 'everybody needs a hug' could be a descant

Or a coda. And it should be the full "Note: Everyone needs a hug."
posted to MeFi Music Talk by Kattullus at 7:18 AM on November 22, 2010

Well, if we can find a verbatim complaint to that effect somewhere in the archives, yeah, that would be wonderful, especially if it got smothered by guys complaining about how men are oppressed by feminism or political correctness or the like.

Ooooh... that gives me a thought. We should come up with search terms that could lead to rich seams* of complaints. I'm dogtired so I don't have time to go searching, but "political correctness" should lead to… [more]
posted to MeFi Music Talk by Kattullus at 8:18 PM on December 2, 2010

Guilty secrets....

Hmm... I'm having a hard time thinking of music in these categories (aren't Abba cool now? & what about Loudon Wainwright? & which U2 albums is it okay to like and which isn't?) but here are some things I'm pretty sure I can categorize.

Uncool likes: Summer Girls by LFO (no, not the ultracool technoband). What glorious nonsense those lyrics are. Also, catchy tune. Various cantopop songs, as an example here's Jolin Tsai's Bu La Ge Guang Chang.… [more]
posted to MeFi Music Talk by Kattullus at 7:57 PM on September 20, 2009

They Might Be Giants are a really cool band, clearly.

Oh, and is old-school Jesus freak rocker Larry Norman cool or not? On the one hand, Christian rocker, on the other, really weird.
posted to MeFi Music Talk by Kattullus at 7:01 PM on September 21, 2009

I think the definition of being cool musically is being cool to those "in the know."
posted to MeFi Music Talk by Kattullus at 8:02 PM on September 21, 2009

Jamiroquai. Traveling Without Moving was the first album I ever bought and I still have a soft spot for their music but good golly is he ever on the outs today.
posted to MeFi Music Talk by Kattullus at 9:56 AM on September 24, 2009

Sting is an interesting case that, to me, presents evidence for "cool" being a musical quality. A lot of people are familiar with Johnny Cash's version of I Hung My Head. It's quite a few people's favorite song off Cash's American albums (mine, for example). It's a brilliantly written song, wonderful lyrics, great melody and chord progression etc. Johnny Cash, who has cool in spades, kills the song. Sting's original version of I Hung My Head, however, is just… [more]
posted to MeFi Music Talk by Kattullus at 7:34 PM on September 24, 2009