Some things never change. We’ve all come across someone or the other who has always cribbed about dance music and the artists being sellouts, and yearning about the “good ol’ days”. But what if we tell you the things fans were cribbing about 15-20 years back?
According to a new Reddit thread, user Glitchwerks listed down a handful of subjects that were scrutinized by fans long back, and some of them are hilarious. Check them out below!
- Front 242 isn’t industrial music.
- House music is gay.
- Techno is gay.
- Techno is just a fad, when it dies down everything will go back to industrial.
- Breakbeat hardcore is stupid music.
- Warp’s Artifiicial Intelligence series is just bland techno.
- Happy hardcore and gabber suck.
- “Intelligent Dance Music” is a stupid term.
- Moby sucks and is a sell out.
- Jungle is stupid music.
- “Superstar” DJ Keoki is a massive jerk, can’t mix, and passed out behind the decks because he did so many drugs.
- Nine Inch Nails isn’t industrial. Also, Trent Reznor sucks and is a sell out.
- Vocals and MC’s in drum n bass suck.
- Napster is killing music.
- Basic Channel is boring and IDM is better.
- Teebee hates Soulseek and is going to take a baseball bat to the knees of people who are leaking his dubplates.
- Paul Oakenfold sucks and is a sell out.
- Epic/uplifting trance sucks.
- DJs who use Pioneer CDJs suck and have no skills.
- These internet “netlabels” suck and are killing music.
- Big beat sucks and Fat Boy Slim is a sell out.
- Sasha sucks and is a sell out with a cocaine habit.
- Daft Punk suck and are sell outs.
- Tiesto sucks and is a sell out.
- LTJ Bukem sucks and is a despicable label boss.
- Vinyl is dying.
- Industrial is dead.
- Electrohouse sucks.
- Deadmau5 sucks and is a sell out.
- That’s not “real” dubstep.
- Skrillex sucks and is a sell out.
- EDM sucks.
- Big room sucks.
- Beatport top 100 sucks.
- That’s not “real” deep house.
He also lists down some of funny moments in electronic music history with his definitive list:
- “Moby-bashing” on alt.rave with Moby eventually logging in for the first time and typing an “all caps” response to the haters, which instantly got him bashed even more.
- Brian Lustmord responding to complaints that his music was too dark and disturbing by promising he would change his name to Brian “Pretty Pink Flowers” and record happy ambient.
- The arguments on the IDM mailing list about the Artificial Intelligence series which ended up on the album art for “Artificial Intelligence II.”
- Jungle rude boys on the internet slagging 4 Hero’s “Parallel Universe” as the most boring album in jungle history when it was released.
- A Guy Called Gerald’s “Black Secret Technology” was the worst mastered album in the history of electronic music.
- “Intelligent jungle,” “Ambient jungle.” The terms applied to Reinforced, Good Looking, etc. before “drum n bass” became the most commonly used term.
- Pete Namlook partnering with Ear/Rational to get all those limited Fax +49-69/450464 releases stateside. There was much rejoicing.
- Frankie Bones on Discogs forums.
- Dogs On Acid. ’nuff said.
- Go to bed, Joel.
This just goes on to prove that no matter what era you’re in, there will always be someone who’ll have a problem with something or the other, just because it’s popular at the time. However, it’s also a testament towards to the spirit of the artists, in dance music or music in general, who keep going on, irregardless of the hate they receive.
H/T: Dancing Astronaut
Leave a Reply