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"Sputik isn't good enough to be weird



Fuckin' normies"



lmao Ars your idea of experimental music is people talking in a silly voice over rock music, sit the fuck down

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Nah that's only some of it



plus I was being facetious

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I'd say ween qualifies as pretty fkn weird anyways

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Ween is definitely weird

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except they really aren't

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Twenty One Pilots jump genres a lot in their music would you say they're wierd too?

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"except they really aren't"



I refuse to take your opinion seriously until you've heard at least 1 album from their lo-fi trilogy



But I also listen to non-rock experimental stuff like Laurie Anderson, Foetus, Coil, and The Knife for instance sooooo

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I would say twent one pilots are wierd yeah

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Every time I see this pop to the top of the discussion queue I get so excited to discuss how amazing Identikit is and then people are talking about fucking twenty one pilots



Hey guys I love that song where he sings about potholes

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Identikit IS fuckucking amazing tho. although present tense is easily my favorite right now. That guitar line tho...unff

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Tinker Tailor still honestly and probably Daydreaming and Decks Dark shortly behind

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Ars get up on Prurient, The Velvet Underground, John Zorn, and Swans to earn your true stripes in experimental

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"although present tense is easily my favorite right now"



This makes zero sense to me.

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As if the Velvet Underground are more experimental than Coil lol



Swans are meh and I could get into John Zorn since Yamantaka Eye rules idk

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"As if the Velvet Underground are more experimental than Coil lol"



Throwing shade on The Velvet Underground huh?

oh boy, crossexamining bands from entirely different eras for sufficient "experimentalism"...

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Not at all TVC, but your insinuation that The Velvet Underground are somehow the pinnacle of experimental is silly



From what I've heard they're a good band that isn't a stranger to experiments, but let's just say that Sister Ray isn't as experimental as you probably think it is... good song though

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Ars you haven't even heard the good Coil albums yet

Obviously "experimental" is a historically contingent term and there are countless music acts that once exemplified "experimental" whose "experiments" have now been subsumed into (relatively) mainstream practice, but denying The Velvet Underground their experimental bona fides seems pretty wrongheaded to me. I mean, those first two albums were like -the- definition of experimental in their day...I guess I can't argue that that layer of shock has worn off but I wouldn't go around negatively comparing them to the exemplars of avant-garde musical practice in the 90s and 00s. I guess different strokes...