How Incriminating Is Your Music Collection?
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Topic: How Incriminating Is Your Music Collection?
Posted By: thellama73
Subject: How Incriminating Is Your Music Collection?
Date Posted: July 25 2012 at 12:19
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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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Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: July 25 2012 at 12:21
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My porn collection is probably more incriminating. ------------- 
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Posted By: The Truth
Date Posted: July 25 2012 at 12:26
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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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Posted By: Mirror Image
Date Posted: July 25 2012 at 12:29
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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."
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Posted By: rushfan4
Date 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.  -------------
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Posted By: thellama73
Date Posted: July 25 2012 at 12:36
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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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Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: July 25 2012 at 12:41
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I'd probably be more upset if he has an extensive Donnie and Marie collection. -------------
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Posted By: Luna
Date Posted: July 25 2012 at 12:42
I'd like him more ------------- https://aprilmaymarch.bandcamp.com/track/the-badger" rel="nofollow"> 
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thellama73 wrote:Posted By: thellama73
Date Posted: July 25 2012 at 12:43
Donny Osmond is awesome. Admit it. -------------
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Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: July 25 2012 at 12:45
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Posted By: smartpatrol
Date Posted: July 25 2012 at 12:46
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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. ------------- http://bit.ly/1kqTR8y" rel="nofollow">  The greatest record label of all time! |
Posted By: smartpatrol
Date Posted: July 25 2012 at 12:47
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Posted By: CPicard
Date Posted: July 25 2012 at 13:07
Well, Mitt Romney IS satanic (not satanist, satanic - note the difference)... |
Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: July 25 2012 at 13:13
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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Posted By: Triceratopsoil
Date Posted: July 25 2012 at 13:20
| He listens to Magma, don't vote for that weirdo |
Posted By: thellama73
Date Posted: July 25 2012 at 13:20
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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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Posted By: akamaisondufromage
Date Posted: July 25 2012 at 13:22
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I have some Crass in my collection. ------------- Help me I'm falling! |
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: July 25 2012 at 14:04
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Some of my Robert Wyatt albums might pose a problem.
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Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: July 25 2012 at 14:23
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They would say I'm on drugs. ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: July 25 2012 at 14:28
probably the most incriminating thing in my collection is ELP
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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: July 25 2012 at 14:53
Being in the UK I'm not sure how incriminating music can be on the face of it - I think the reaction in the US media and the political mileage that "the opposition" would make out of music by extreme left or right-wing, anti-christian or anti-american, ultra-violent or extremely pacifistic musicians in my collection could be less incriminating than the political stance I would be taking or the photographs of me "gothed-up" in eyeliner, blue lippy, silver nail-polish and a PVC trench coat.
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Posted By: CPicard
Date Posted: July 25 2012 at 16:06
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If I ever tried to launch my own political career, I wonder if my short time in a thrash metal band would be incriminating? I still have the tape we recorded... I also guess that having some records from Red Noise, Area, Napalm Death or the Dead Kennedys would prevent me from being taken serious if I joined a conservative party. |
Posted By: akamaisondufromage
Date Posted: July 25 2012 at 16:20
I suspect the bloke in makeup bit would probably rule you out in just about every state. ------------- Help me I'm falling! |
Posted By: akamaisondufromage
Date Posted: July 25 2012 at 16:24
See, I can't even own up to likeing Crass in the country that owes me a living!
Crass were great by the way. ------------- Help me I'm falling! |
Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: July 25 2012 at 17:51
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Let's see I got lots of communist avant prog, fight songs, working songs and some leftist rock romanticising terrorists, a few albums by nationalist/racist and satanist black metal artists, racist and homophobic hip-hop, some nazi flirting neo-folk, plenty of soft porn/horror OST's (including Nekromantik I&II), radical feminst music, Swing Tanzen Verboten a Nazi Germany music boxset, several comps with vintage songs about dope, sex & murder, Charles Manson, Bobby Beausoleil and much more ... but worst of all: christian rock!
+ I got Rush, Wagner, Dead Kennedys and a Gary Glitter #7 too. All this would probably or hopefully even each other out. |
Posted By: zappaholic
Date Posted: July 25 2012 at 18:38
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Anyone familiar with Pungent Stench? Yep. Got some of that. Including Been Caught Buttering. The album with THAT cover. ------------- "Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard." -- H.L. Mencken |
Posted By: thellama73
Date Posted: July 25 2012 at 19:47
Sounds like a great collection! -------------
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Posted By: zoviet
Date Posted: July 25 2012 at 21:40
| got lotsa AOR albums hehehe......Foreigner is best!!! |