Vinyl Me Please Essentials

TenderLovingKiller® said:
Attempting to talk music with non-music obsessives is exasperating. The moment when the others persons eyes begin to glaze over and they looking to escape the conversation always breaks my heart a little bit.
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Haha. I‘ve been there so many times. I’ve learned to just not do it.

A while back, I became known as indie music guy at my job, and I had all of these backhanded comments about my taste in music. One night, I changed at work and was headed straight to a show, and this guy’s like “So who’re you seeing tonight?” And I thought, ‘finally a softball.’ “Arcade Fire” was met with a completely blank stare followed by “Matt, you listen to the most obscure shit.” And I lost it on the guy “Dude, they played f’ing SNL last week, and the show is at Radio City Music Hall?!?! You ever heard of that?!?”

On the flipside was a quiet hipstery kid who was a bit younger than me and didn’t associate with any of the other guys in the office. One morning he caught me in the elevator and said “I could’ve sworn I saw you at a show last night, but it must have been a look alike.” (In retrospect, that’s kind of insulting). “You were at the Sunset Rubdown show too?” We became pretty good pals after that.
 
The Commish said:
My wife refers to it as the moment when I start talking a "foreign language" and she's just.."I'm out."
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I was trying to explain to my fiancé why I was so excited about the Analogue Productions jazz reissue series and I lost her when I said “They’ll be competing with Tone Poets in price point and sound quality” she said “wtf is a Tone Poet?” which led me on another tangent, I’m still not sure she understands why I’m so excited.
 
Joe Mac said:
Either that or when the other person wants to talk at length about a chart star, let’s say Robbie Williams or The Killers or here in Ireland I get Kodaline a lot, that you don’t like so much and you try to be polite whilst frantically looking for the conversation exit point.
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BUT YOU LIKE BONO RIGHT!? RIGHT!?
 
gafacaode said:
People used to think I made up band names...
Not here.
This is what's great about this forum.
I'm home.
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That said, an "Occasional Takeaway Grease" show in the UK was being discussed the other day. I had to look that up because I was confused as hell since the conversation was about burgers.

It was made-up. I think.
 
Joe Mac said:
I think I’m going to need to get a few of you on here a copy of their second album A Norhern Soul, I think it’s better than their third, Urban Hymns, and damn History is a monolith of a tune.
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Their best album is the one with She's A Superstar in. What are the next WAotM?
 
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