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Originally Posted by Mortte Jousimo
I think you donīt understand what my point has been in my writings. My point isnīt that somebody who donīt love SY as much as I canīt be here. The point is overall negativism that I think is allover internet. If I put here (last time it was in sonics "What do you think eternal as a final album"-thread) that I think the Eternal is great album, there is always somebody who have to put forward me "noo, itīs horrible". I would understand it, if this was "the Best Avantgarde music of this moment"-site, but this really is a Sonic Youth Gossib. I have felt, I just canīt be innocent, still SY-loving fan here. And I think Iīm not alone. And I think itīs sick!
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I don't understand why you worry so much if someone doesn't appreciate SY’s latest output, or any of their other records for that matter, as much as you do.
On the internet music forums I visit it’s not often that I’ve witnessed genuine cases of one individual persuading another with what it is that they’re missing about a particular record or a band without retorting to off-handed comments or passive-aggressive rhetoric directly connected to an often questionable sense of superiority which maintains its pace purely because it’s hidden by the smoke and mirrors provided by not having an exchange face to face. Positive outcomes in that sort of scenario do occur, of course, and it’s great when you establish that sort of communication with someone you have never met in the flesh, but this sort of forum tends for the most part to attract too many dickheads who imagine they are winning a sort of self-esteem war by putting down someone’s music taste over theirs. And said dickheads often win that sort of futile war when they are constantly fed new victims who foolishly and naively believe that one’s own taste in music is something you constantly have to defend at all cost.
I used to think this was only true of some bored teen with no money to go out and no girlfriend, but after witnessing for the umpteenth time grown men falling out of friendship on more exposing websites like Facebook because of a divergence of opinion on the value of fucking Suede or Black Sabbath, this sort of behaviour is symptomatic of a breed of music fan differing vastly in age and with substantial similarities in their own cretinism.