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    Posted: July 25 2012 at 12:19
Imagine if you were running for political office and the opposition got ahold of your music collection. How bad would it make you look to the average American?

Alternatively, you know how when someone commits suicide or some other violent crime they always go through his stuff and are like "Oh look, he had a copy of the Communist Manifesto. No wonder." What would they say about you based on your music?

I would be in real trouble, given that I listen to a lot of industrial and experimental music that often contains violent or otherwise explicit imagery. I love Foetus, who is fond of using fascist symbolism on his album covers and ocassionally samples Nazi speeches. I also have a couple of Black Metal albums, and you know how those guys love to burn down churches and kill people.

Finally (and worst of all) I like Wagner!
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My porn collection is probably more incriminating.
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Points: 21795 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 25 2012 at 12:26
I'm sure there's some pretty nasty stuff in my collection but if an opposing political party ever used that on a politician, I wouldn't think much of it. Others would blow it way out of proportion.
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Points: 2111 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 25 2012 at 12:29
A good question, but I'm not sure what people would say. I did have a jazz musician friend tell me that I had "impeccable taste" in music. I can't say that I have good taste. I just know what I like and I like a wide variety of things. On the progressive side of things, I tend to favor the symphonic progressive style the most while Neo-Progressive comes in a distant second place. In terms of jazz, I tend to enjoy more bebop than anything, but I also like a lot of the cutting edge stuff that was happening on ECM and just the European jazz scene in general. For classical music, which I have stated many times on the forum already, I like 20th Century composers more than any other period. I do like those 19th Century composers that were making the transition to the 20th Century as well. These are predominantly the genres I spend the most time in.

If somebody stumbled upon my collection, they would probably say "I've never seen so many CDs" whereas I'm thinking "There's something wrong with me." Wink LOL 


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Points: 66372 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 25 2012 at 12:34
It is actually kind of a funny question though.  I am quite certain that sometime in the future a candidate for political office will probably run into an illegal downloading scandal.  Yes, when I was a teenage I experimented with illegal downloading but I never inhaled. Confused
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Don't you think that the press would make a big deal about it if they found out that Mitt Romney listened to music with Satanic or Anti-American lyrics?
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Points: 66372 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 25 2012 at 12:41
I'd probably be more upset if he has an extensive Donnie and Marie collection.
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Points: 12794 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 25 2012 at 12:42
Originally posted by thellama73 thellama73 wrote:

Don't you think that the press would make a big deal about it if they found out that Mitt Romney listened to music with Satanic or Anti-American lyrics?
I'd like him more
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Points: 8368 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 25 2012 at 12:43
Originally posted by rushfan4 rushfan4 wrote:

I'd probably be more upset if he has an extensive Donnie and Marie collection.


Donny Osmond is awesome. Admit it.
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Originally posted by thellama73 thellama73 wrote:

Originally posted by rushfan4 rushfan4 wrote:

I'd probably be more upset if he has an extensive Donnie and Marie collection.


Donny Osmond is awesome. Admit it.
NEVER! LOL
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Nothing, really. Really the few stuff i have that could maybe get me in trouble in that situation can definatly be contradicted by something else in my collection.
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Originally posted by SolarLuna96 SolarLuna96 wrote:

Originally posted by thellama73 thellama73 wrote:

Don't you think that the press would make a big deal about it if they found out that Mitt Romney listened to music with Satanic or Anti-American lyrics?
I'd like him more
 
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Originally posted by thellama73 thellama73 wrote:

Don't you think that the press would make a big deal about it if they found out that Mitt Romney listened to music with Satanic or Anti-American lyrics?


Well, Mitt Romney IS satanic (not satanist, satanic - note the difference)...
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Originally posted by thellama73 thellama73 wrote:

Don't you think that the press would make a big deal about it if they found out that Mitt Romney listened to music with Satanic or Anti-American lyrics?
Probably.  It probably wouldn't bode well for him to be a fan of bands like Henry Cow or Area, which I believe both hold communist views, or even probably the Krautrock bands that lived in communes and whatnot.  And of course, if President Obama listened to these artists than I am quite certain that the conservative press would have a field day, with the see we told you so, he is a Socialist. 
 
Is it possible for Mitt Romney to be a fan of the song Fortunate Son?
 
 
My collection doesn't really consist of black metal nor death metal aside from songs from samplers and Opeth.  I do have one Wagner CD, but I can't really say that I am a fan.  I suspect that all of my 80's hair metal and thrash metal albums could probably be an issue.  I suppose having the song Rock and Roll part 2 from convicted child molester Gary Glitter is probably a bad thing.
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Points: 18016 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 25 2012 at 13:20
He listens to Magma, don't vote for that weirdo
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Points: 8368 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 25 2012 at 13:20
Even Alice Cooper has songs about necrophilia, Satan and murder (not to mention Dead Babies). Of course they are tongue in cheek, but the press is notoriously humorless about such things.
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Points: 6797 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 25 2012 at 13:22
I have some Crass in my collection. 
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Points: 29630 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 25 2012 at 14:04
Some of my Robert Wyatt albums might pose a problem.
Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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Points: 166183 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 25 2012 at 14:23
They would say I'm on drugs.
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Points: 28439 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 25 2012 at 14:28
Originally posted by akamaisondufromage akamaisondufromage wrote:

I have some Crass in my collection. 
I wouldn't own up to that personallyLOL
 
probably the most incriminating thing in my collection is ELPEmbarrassedWink
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