Holden wrote: ↑Mon Sep 20, 2021 3:42 pm
StevieFan13 wrote: ↑Mon Sep 20, 2021 3:23 pm
Brad wrote: ↑Mon Sep 20, 2021 2:18 pm
It'll be easy to spot him again... if you're ever suspicious, just write "Patti Smith's
Easter has the greatest album cover of all time!" That'll set him off!
Or “The Velvet Underground are way better than [insert obscure ‘50s doo-wop group here]!”
The moment I realized he wasn’t really an authority on anything was when he said that the only reason The Velvet Underground were influential was their subject matter.
There was a time where I wrote an angry response to him but ultimately deleted it (I think?) where I called him the Tommy Wiseau of music analysis. I have rarely encountered someone so self-assured of their own lacking abilities, and I'm certain the only reason he could speak with any sense of authority on older music is because there was no one here who cared to challenge him there. I feel like I never saw meaningful insight into even his positive opinions, just raw data and name-dropping.
Another one of his go-to insults he threw at me was that I was too 'young' to know anything about music. Some of my favorite artists have died at younger ages than I am now and managed to change the music industry entirely in their short lives. Hell, Little Richard was only 24 when he recorded Hymie's apparent third favorite song ever made - quite an achievement for someone too young to know anything about music! Johnny Burnette was 22, Huey "Piano" Smith was 23, Little Walter 25, Elvis Presley 19, Carl Perkins 25, Bo Diddley 27. All these artists were younger than me when they made songs Hymie placed in his top 20. I guess all these youngsters achieved this through blind luck alone. Clearly, nothing they have done compares to Hymie and his decades of 'experience.'