{"id":106,"date":"2005-02-17T05:37:00","date_gmt":"2005-02-17T05:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/wordpress\/?p=106"},"modified":"2009-12-31T16:50:12","modified_gmt":"2009-12-31T16:50:12","slug":"filler-by-proxy-xi-your-band-sucks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2005\/02\/filler-by-proxy-xi-your-band-sucks.html","title":{"rendered":"Filler by Proxy XI: Your Band Sucks"},"content":{"rendered":"
Dr David Thorpe at Something Awful does a beautiful job describing the joy I find in listening to crap music<\/a>.<\/div>\n
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As far as I\u2019m concerned, claiming to like a song ironically is a cop-out. Whether you\u2019re spinning \u201cRump Shaker\u201d by Wreckx-N-Effect with the intent to smile wryly or with the intent to actually zoom-a-zoom-zoom and a boom boom, it matters not; you\u2019re still spinning \u201cRump Shaker.\u201d <\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Amen to that, and exactly why I’m listening to “The Al Wood Orchestra plays the Hits of Rod Stewart” while typing this and grinning like an idiot. You can’t like something ironically any more than like it sarcastically.<\/p><\/div>\n

Also, this succicntly explains my irony-free, ever-expanding collection of crappy old LPs<\/a>:<\/div>\n
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Why is it that a snob like me will joyfully listen to crap from the past while violently eschewing crap from the present? Let\u2019s put it this way: the war against shit like Maroon 5 is still claiming lives. However, the war against Bobby Brown was won over a decade ago… in ten or fifteen years, the songs you hate today will probably be hilarious instead of annoying. <\/div>\n
You\u2019ll be driving your kid to school in your hoverbubble with the radio tuned to \u201c00\u2019s Retro Breakfast,\u201d and a smile will creep across your face as Hoobastank\u2019s \u201cThe Reason\u201d comes up. \u201cI remember this song,\u201d you\u2019ll tell your pasty and unpopular son. \u201cThis song used to be crap!\u201d And you\u2019ll love every minute of it. <\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dr David Thorpe at Something Awful does a beautiful job describing the joy I find in listening to crap music. As far as I\u2019m concerned, claiming to like a song ironically is a cop-out. Whether you\u2019re spinning \u201cRump Shaker\u201d by Wreckx-N-Effect with the intent to smile wryly or with the intent to actually zoom-a-zoom-zoom and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2275,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions\/2275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}