Music Pet Peeves

Greatest ever lists that are in number order. They are beyond stupid since there is no such thing as THE best ever.

ComfortablyNumb said:

Greatest ever lists that are in number order. They are beyond stupid since there is not such thing as THE best ever.

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To add to this, people who say they have found "the best band on earth". Now, I can understand someone really liking a band, but I don't think there really is one specific best band that is better than all of them.

More gripes about concert tickets...



Ok, next gripe, isn't directly related to TM (I don't think) but they are involved due to them being involved in all ticket sales. But this really comes down to the bands.

WTF is up with the "Golden Circle" or VIP seating? Anyone my age that went to concerts many years ago surely must remember doing this (or had friends that did it)... sitting in line outside a ticket sales booth for hours (or days in some cases) waiting to get hopefully the best possible seats. First come, first served. If you were first in line, you have VERY VERY good chances of getting seats in the first couple of rows. Front row sometimes was a lot tougher depending on what local radio stations were given to hand out, but rows 2 through maybe 10? Easy if you just spent the time waiting.

Now? whoever has the biggest checkbook gets the best seats. (obviously we aren't talking about general admission). Back in the old days, if a concert was $15 dollars, it didn't matter if you were in the 2nd row, center stage, or 3 rows from the top in the nose-bleed section. Sometimes, there may have been a couple dollars difference between floor and level1 or level2 seating, but it wasn't a hundred dollars difference. Want to be up close and center to Paul McCartney, either be lucky enough to know someone, be lucky enough to call in or use the TM website to get those VIP/Golden Circle seats right when tickets go on sale, or spend a lot more from a scalper.

The other option, which leads to my next gripe, is this VIP ticket sales, which go on sale a day (or even a week) before ticket sales open up to the public. WHAT THE ****!? Perfect example. Last year I wanted to go to a concert, was sitting at my computer with my favorite TM website ready to rock (please read the sarcasm there) and when tickets went on sale at exactly 10:00 am that fine Saturday morning, I was rolling. Click this, select BEST AVAILABLE SEATS, REGARDLESS OF PRICE, type in captcha gibberish, and wait 10 seconds while the TM website pulls up the "best available seats". When the available tickets come up, it's row W, section 140 (read that as row 23)... see map below for the full effect of what I'm talking about.



Wait, wuh? 23 rows up in the far back of the first level at 10:03 am? The tickets just went on sale 3 minutes ago!?!?!?!?!?


Try again and end up in a completely different section, perhaps row F, section 209. Or, there's the other side of it that if you just try doing it 3 or 4 times, you could actually end up with better tickets later on (but it's a gamble). But the point, is, there is NO ****ing way that everything sold that fast. TM hangs on to shit and there's the other equation, that band VIP pre-sales have already taken all of the decent or closer seating.


ok, I'm getting crabby just typing this. Hope I'm not the only one that is disgusted with the way all of this goes down.

Another major pet peeve of mine is when bands put out a "greatest hits" or "best of" compliation and add in 2-4 new songs that have never been on ANY album.

^I have the same "gripe" toward ticket sales. I don't have any memory of ever going to a concert for 15 bucks because i've only been a concert goer for a few years. But, I can say that the amount of money I have spent on tickets is absolutely ridiculous. The sad thing is, that hasn't stopped me from buying them, because I want to see my favorite bands play. It's starting to become more about the money than the act itself. If anything, they should be lowering ticket prices, and should work on organizing how their merchandise is sold at the venues. The reason I don't buy merchandise when I go to a concert is because its completely disorganized and is bloody impossible to get what you want. If they lowered the prices, and worked on the merchandise organization, I think they'd make more money from that, than the tickets themselves.

Lynch said:

Another major pet peeve of mine is when bands put out a "greatest hits" or "best of" compliation and add in 2-4 new songs that have never been on ANY album.

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I thought that was done to entice people to buy the album. I know it is like that with ELO reissues.

Some good "peeves' listed so far.

Here's another one of mine.

I realize that I am a dinosaur...musically speaking that is.

But I am tired of the two CD, EP, Live Album pattern that seems to be the norm these days. There are a ton of new bands I have found over the last few years and it seems to me that because a CD holds 80 minutes of music that the bands now feel compelled to fill it which takes up to 3 years in some cases between studio releases, in the meantime they'll shoot out an EP of the completed songs, and maybe a Live album so their fans don't forget they exist.

My advice, don't try to fill 80 minutes, 50 minutes of good quality material every year or 18 months would be great, instead of the rhythm I see now. I know there are exceptions of course, but growing up with LP's and getting one a year was the perfect way to keep your fans always interested and anticipating the next release.

This is kind of trivial but I hate it when people use the term "CD" for "album".

Example:

Me: What's your favourite album?
Tard: Hurrr. Pyromania.
Me: Oh, that's an 80s classic.
Tard: Yeah, it was Def Leppard's best CD.
Me: *facepalm*

^^That's funny Lady, but I can't fault the kids today for not referring to old music as "CD's" instead of albums. In another 5-10 years CD's will be gone and it's all about DL's...can't say I am looking forward to that myself.

My biggest pet peeve is when people like "music" that is plain and simply just noise just to be non comformists, so they can go and find other non conformists and conform with them(death metal) and then go hate on other groups of people who like "music" that is just noise(screamo/emo/grindcore stuff).

It doesn't make any sense. YOU ARE LISTENING TO NOISE TOO. WHY JUDGE OTHER PEOPLE FOR DOING IT?
Oh right, because you've got a gigantic support group behind you, thats why. Death metal fans (in general)piss me off.

Oh and how most Death Metal fans I know think that they know everything about music and how what they like should be considered "good" by everyone and what they hate should be considered "bad" by everyone. And when other people don't like it they get pissed off and get other death metal fans to come and tear them apart.

I'm not usually one to judge an entire genre. I can enjoy some rap, I can enjoy some country, I can enjoy some hip hop, I can even enjoy SOME black metal(when its themes aren't satan and burning down churches and it isn't just screaming) HELL I can sometimes even enjoy some pop on the radio(VERY rarely though).
But Death Metal, I have tried very, very, very hard to appreciate, but I have come to a conclusion that its just noise. And its fans are some of the biggest douchebags ever. I don't like generalizing, but I have encountered more dickhead Death Metal fans than I have encountered ones who can actually go 5 seconds without hating on something.

Death Metal is the only genre I absolutely despise. I think the only reason anyone likes it is either they are doing it to be non conformist but at the same time to conform into the group of hate mongering teenagers who think they know everything about music when they listen to only cannibal corpse
Or they're ears have become so damaged by listening to music on full volume straight into their ears, that anything becomes music to them, even pure and simple noise.


I hope its just a fad and they grow up and start listening to what they ACTUALLY like, not liking something just because its "br00tal"

I'm not telling them to like what I like. I'm just saying they should listen to music for the real reasons.