Times you were handed the aux cord/given control of the music at a social setting, and the results.
>>66007286
Took control of the music at a party because the girl who had control was putting on youtube remixes. She ended up complementing me on my taste, means nothing coming from her but it felt nice
>oh, i use spotify and ive nearly hit my data limit, soz.
Wrote/edited for a literary magazine last year and had control of the speakers for a bit while we were all editing and organizing shit before the release. Played some Death Grips and people HATED it. Then someone played generic indie pop and the editors were cool with it.
>>66007577
kek
>>66007286
>get aux cord
>decide to play something easy going but not too mainstream
>Replacements - Let It Be
>lol wat is this anon? sounds silly
>is this goo goo dolls anon? I thought u had good taste
>get 20 seconds into "favorite thing" and they steal back aux cord
>start playing alt j instead
Fuck everyone
>anon, play music people actually like
>>66008276
Alt J is gud tbqh famalam
>>66008309
never listened to them except that one song. breezeblocks or something? Yeah that was the gayest song I had heard in a long tie
>>66008309
>neo-/mu/
>>66008276
Replacements were the goo goo dolls of the 80s so you shouldn't be surprised. Sounds like they know their shit m8
>put mercury rev
>anon, this is scary
>Get Aux Cord
>Plays 21st Century Schizoid Man from Vroom Vroom Collection
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jx0RvQul1Bs
>Wasn't that song in Guitar Hero?
>put talking heads
>"is this red hot chili peppers?"
>>66007577
I can see why. It's Death Grips.
>>66008404
>>66008308
mfw
>listening to boards of canada
>"what the fuck are you listening to?"
>"are you listening to a fucking lawnmower, what's wrong with you, anon?"
>put on a Melt-Banana song that starts with a bunch of shrieking and feedback
>girls weirdly don't seem to mind that much
>the only other Melt-Banana fan at the party ends up turning it off because he thinks it's hurting his chances at hitting on this other chick
i don't get why you'd play abstract/weird stuff at a party. are you expecting them to be impressed by your taste? just play some popular shit man don't be autistic.
>heading to party/general social gathering with weeb friends
>hastily put together playlist of party-acceptable stuff from what was on my phone cause I felt like it
>they let me put it on
>play Frontier Psychiatrist
>one guy high-fives me, the rest just stare awkwardly
>"I think we'll go back to the other playlist anon"
>guy with playlist full of youtube to mp3 downloads of random shit puts his stuff on
>plays the fucking Indiana Jones theme song
>>66008592
Most bands mentioned in this thread are completely reasonable.
>>66008592
Because life is too short to not play Melt-Banana at a normie party at least once.
>>66008592
but i don't listen to popular shit
>>66008367
yeah is happened to me too
they were good friends of mine tho so I had no issues making fun of them for being children
What's some good music that normies can enjoy?
Although nobody ever handed me the aux cord (Due to the fact i don't need preach about music like a damn autist, and the fact I have no friends).
But if I was ever handed one. I might but some Weezer or Radiohead.
>>66008592
>play classical music at a gathering
haha i love classical music anon u have good taste
Normal people confuse me
>>66007577
>>66008276
I'd rather normies who listen to obnoxious rap than bland, inoffensive middle-of-the-road background music like this.
>>66008822
Don't put on Radiohead. I did that and people said to turn on something more positive and less depressing. Weezer is a good idea. I've put on the poppy DG songs, Kanye, Hamilton, just.....catchy, somewhat upbeat tunes.
>>66008866
>implying death grips isn't obnoxious rap music
>>66008912
This. I always forget normie plebs can't listen to sad music and still have fun.
I usually just play the Strokes
>>66008822
upbeat like >>66008912 said
Phoenix works. Cocteau Twins probably works if you stick to Iceblink Luck, Carolyn's Fingers, etc.
>>66008917
reading comprehension isn't one of your strengths is it anon
>listening to renaissance gregorian chants
>high notes come up
>"anon, this sounds like the priest grabbed the choirboy's balls and squished them"
I have a friend who used to listen to YouTube dubstep with his friends alot a few years back. I'd always play Kyuss or other stoner rock and get a good reaction from them.
People who smoke weed will never get irritated by Kyuss
>>66009036
Actually that was my major in community college so stfu
>>66008822
Just put Gorillaz.
>>66009065
>reading comprehension
>major
>community college
I played Principal Real by Panda Bear and they told me to take it off and started playing tlop or some shit
>high school senior
>my small friend group (~8) was planning a fairly large party (~50-60 attendees)
>volunteered to make a party playlist
>spent a week poring over which of my favorite artists would sound good/acceptable in a party setting
>painstakingly comprise 8 hour playlist of entry-level indie rock/pop that I enjoy (White Stripes, LCDS, Black Keys, The Shins, Gorillaz, etc)
>someone finds the aux cord an hour into the party and changes music to whatever mainstream rap artists were popular in 2012
>found phone on floor, screen cracked
>everyone else was in a good mood though
>should've fuckin known
>>66009036
To be fair the post he responded to was written poorly and doesn't make any fucking sense.
>>66008592
But anon, it's a rite of passage here to put on Merzbow at a party and then hastily leave the room
i played lil ugly mane in front of my friends i'm friends with because they smoke weed with me, that listen exclusively to future, migos, etc and it got positive reviews. small victories.
girl asked me to put on music
I put on Wipers
we made out
>>66008385
Wow, that's not as bad as what usually happens.
>Is this Kanye West?
I listen to a lot of electronic music so I isually just pick the dancier, accessible tracks I'm digging, with one or two well-known artists thrown in for normie credibility. I'm never really looking for anyone to compliment my taste, I just want everyone to have fun while we listen to shit that doesn't make me wanna blow my brains out (AKA anything that isn't Rihanna's song Work).
It is fun when they get into it and seem amazed that good music exists outside the Top 40/p4k/Noisey zone
If they're into dubstep or whatever I'll usually play some Aphex Twin acid. Indie probably just the Strokes or AnCo if I think I can get away with it.
but in reality I'll be drunk/high and play whatever obnoxious hip-hop I've listened to recently or Danny Brown - 30 and butcher rapping along.
>play Venetian Snares after smoking
>"anon this is going to give me mental problems"
>>66008404
They are so fucking different and Anthony Kiedis voice is so distinct. How the fuck are people that autistic?
>>66009283
this was in her bed btw
>>66009433
>They are so fucking different
They're both funk buttrock.
>in Sri Lanka, there to teach acute medicine
>presently sat about doing fuck all, listening to music
>intensive care senior takes an earphone off me, asking what I'm listening to
>Girl Band
>mfw
>>66008592
>just play some popular shit
>having popular shit in your possession
SHIGGY
>>66009079
This and franz ferdinand will get people going
>private after party at tiny club sister owns several years ago
>sister plugs my ipod into their system and hits random
>Birdy Nam Nam, Fukkk Off, Justice, Produkkt, etc
>end up fucking a married 30-something competition level judo instructor that night
I felt so guilty but it really was the best sex I've ever fucking had.
>>66009421
>tfw you'd listen to Ketsarku Mozgalom and cry
>I used to understand happy
>I know that I used to be happy, I was really happy
>I'm unhappy now and I can't remember what it's like to be happy
>I only remember...
>I don't remember
Rossz csillag alatt született, one of my favourite ever albums desu
>>66009361
>I just want everyone to have fun while we listen to shit that doesn't make me wanna blow my brains out (AKA anything that isn't Rihanna's song Work).
GOd, you're such a faggot
>>66007343
This is a really good answer if your a fucking swansfag and have no hope of enjoying music with normies.
>at cutie pie indie chicks 18th birthday party in high school
>everyone drunk
>she comes over and sits by me
>"this music sucks anon"
>I've got it
>plug in phone
>it's on shuffle
>lordguideme.jpg
>"I LOOOOOVE YOUUUUU JESUUUUUS CHRIIIIIIIIIIIIST"
>she lights up
>we sing the thing loudly together while people stare
>make out on her couch in front of everyone
Nice night
>mfw she wanted to date
>mfw I don't date sluts
>>66009608
>mess around with friend at party throwing allstar and donkey kong country theme on speaker
>put on stay here, it runs for a few seconds, plebs stop what they're doing and look like startled bunnies
>friend accidentally start space jam theme instead of queuing it
Too bad, but it was still fun.
I fucking hate myself. I've posted one of these stories here before but who cares
>Many years ago
>Bonfire with my crush present
>Better play something accessible
>Sound and Vision
>After 20 seconds in everyone slowly stops talking and stares at the boom box
>"Who's this anon?"
>"It's David Bowie"
>"Oh... yeah."
>They turn it down until it's barely audible
>Crush would later go to prom with me, only to ditch me once we were there
>More recently
>Made the fatal mistake of playing Death Grips for my friends
>Spikes
>"Anon, what the fuck is this?"
>"I-i'm just joking. Can you believe x actually listens to this shit?"
>Friend plays his Hans Zimmer/ 80s rock ballad playlist for the rest of the night
>>66009600
lol what about that post was faggy to you, the part where I said I want friends to have fun or when I said I didn't like Rihanna?
> Accidentally plug IEMs in aux port on my X3ii
> Go deaf
I haven't listened to music since, I only come here to shitpost
I'm blending a couple events together but this basically happened
>hey anon you're a real music guy and we never listen to your stuff, let's listen
>o-okay
>put on Aesop Rock because it seems safe
>Is this Tyler the Creator, anon? It's really good
>fucking what
>Panic and put on Forever Close my Eyes by Dalek because it's not very noise-y
>anon this is fucking amazing
>thank the pleb gods
>I want to listen to this band more anon, put on more stuff
>ruh-roh
>only have Filthy Tongues on my phone
>play the first song from that album
>hipster chick I have a crush on, who was most enthusiastic about my music before speaks up
>"I don't think I'd ever listen to this even ironically"
>feelsbadman
All in all people enjoyed my music, but you gotta know when to say no sometimes.
>>66009703
Nice dude you don't seem like a sperg at all.
>>66009433
I don't think they are the autistic ones.
>put eccojams at party
>literal fucking yuppie(or whatever the modern day equivalent is called) goes stridently and turns it off
You couldn't make this shit up, it was like poetry.
>>66008822
I usually put on things like Parquet Courts, Television, Talking Heads, Ought, that kind of post punk stuff.
Seems to be pretty inoffensive to the general normie while still being enjoyable.
You still gotta be careful though, I've been given shit for Joy Division for being to depressing, and Bauhaus as well.
>>66009787
>she listens to music ironically
you're too good for hr anon
>>66009502
So you actually think if stuff is popular it is bad?
>>66009791
It was at a fucking nerd party, who gives a shit?
>be 13
>at party
>"anon come dj for us!"
>I plug my phone in
>everyone staring in anticipation to find out what the cool, quiet, and with a wicked sense of humor kid who never talks listens to
>shuffle
>mfw the 29 minute remix of Crawling by Linkin Park I downloaded and left on repeat to make a joke for Twitter where it had 50 thousand plays comes on
>mfw they all cheer
>mfw they sing the entire song
>mfw they shout to play it again
>>66009888
hahaha plebs.
>not having primarily druggie friends who are into Ween and therefore are open to pretty much anything
they all blast Can now
>>66008276
This happens to me to often. Except instead of notthatbad alt-j they play some shitty trap or generic electropop.
>>66009079
Accurate
One time just to be obnoxious I put this on
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTedufeTAeA
And some dude said, "ew turn this shit off I hate metal."
>The dude was so musically oblivious he thought that this was what metal typically sounds like.
>at some posh britfag uni party
>rich tryhard white kids taking mandy and using cooking pots for ash trays
>2015 mainstream grime and house reverberating my skull
>'anon, you're into music put something on'
>autismsuppressionmode.jpg
>plays Undercover Anarchist by Sliver Bullet
>kinda garage-y, kinda grimey but better
>rich kids start hyping off it
>feel pretty pleased with myself
>'anon who is this?'
>proceed to deliver minute long description of said artist, song, record and era in which it was released
>rich kid backs away slowly
Couldn't hold it down
>>66010003
I wish my friends liked Can
>>66010090
>The dude was so musically oblivious
nobody irl actually cares or knows what music genres are, to most people there is only 'rock, hip hop, country, and techno'
the fact that he thought that metal was the appropriate name for that song is not very surprising.
>>66008309
hello reddít
>>66010100
>proceed to deliver minute long description of said artist, song, record and era in which it was released
>rich kid backs away slowly
Fuck I hate when this happens
>>66010003
oh yeah
>first week of 9th grade
>Intro to 2D art class
>teacher lets us take turns pulling up songs on YouTube while we work
>play "I'm So Green"
>plays all the way but someone refers to it as "weird techno"
but later
>11th grade drawing class
>same deal, except cool teacher who let us take out our phones and plug them into speakers
>Salad Days just came out
>play the album
>multiple girls make me write Mac DeMarco's name on their arms so they don't forget to look him up
>get the aux cord
>heard him play hendrix in the past
>queue up the album
>3 songs in
"why are we listening to the album?"
I don't even try to accommodate anymore
this happened last year as i was coming back from college
>get the aux as passenger in black taxi
>"hey anon put on some cool music man"
>right let me put on some hip-hop
>uh, shit i only have DOOM i think
>puts on America's Most Blunted
>no reaction at first
>drums come in
>"agh anon wtf is wrong with you agh you playing your white people music again damn"
>chick slaps me hard as fuck in my ear from behind me
>will probably get thrown out the taxi by the driver if i hit her since that's how south africa is
>turn it off
>oh i have some kendrick, let's try that, people always love kendrick
>put on king kunta
>people seem to like it but then swearing comes in
>remember there's kids in the car
>"CHRIST anon you KNOW there's fucking KIDS in the car, shut the swearing off"
>hits me AGAIN in the ear
>take aux out and driver gives it to other guy, who puts on Fetty Wap, everyone enjoys it
and i'm black this is just getting too much for me
>>66010003
I have /mu/tant friends who I can share the real shit with, but it doesn't make for very interesting stories to just have;
>put on some post-avant jazzfunk
>other neets like it
>>66010278
Can you not judge when people want to listen to albums and when people want to listen to songs?
>Get handed aux cord at frat party of 200 people in college
>hit the play button from the home screen
>instead of playing random music it starts playing the video I left open in safari
>"OH YEAH FUCK ME YEAH YEAH OHHHH FUCK MY TIGHT LITTLE CUNT YEAHH FUCK"
>everyone staring
>quickly change it to childish gambino's Sober
>mfw they thought the obvious porn audio was a remix intro to the song
>mfw everyone cheered
That's how I stopped watched porn lads
>>66010303
lmfao
>>66010303
> shut the swearing off
kek
>>66010311
I didn't want to listen to his shitty Pandora singles for the next 4 hours on a indoor project. How can anyone stand to pay for so many poorly recorded live performance recordings as a service.
My friends and I have no problems playing music. Whoever is driving gets the aux, whoever's house is hosting gets music controls. We often discover new music through each other.
I never go to parties, so thankfully I have no horror stories.
>>66010303
>DOOM
>drums come in
>white people music
Are people actually that retarded?
>>66010219
second one was adorable
I played Ariel Pink while I was driving my mom around one time and she said she actually liked a lot of it. Said it reminded her of songs from when she was in high school.
>>66010461
as an american you wouldn't understand but any music for most ghetto black south africans that isn't radio-play or trap/house/etc etc is white people music
>>66010517
>as an american you wouldn't understand
Canadian, but I get your point.
>>66010517
it's pretty much the same in america too though
all the music posted in this thread is white people music played around white people, and desu, it's really weird, I've never been to a hype party that didn't play trap music
>>66010303
>playing music for south african normies
>not putting on Rodriguez
>At one of them bars where they got chicken wire up between the fans and the stage in mobile Alabama
>peopl throwing glass beer bottles and mugs full strength at the chicken wire causing glass to go flying
>poor nervous young man trying to make it as a country music star panicking
>says something about "fuck y'all I'm goin to Nashville" and runs out
>no one else will perform and it's getting feisty in here
>couple fish fights
>fellow plugs his phone in the aux cord and starts playing some nigger music
>everyone booing
>I toss beer at him
>explodes on his jaw knocking him unconscious
>everyone cheers
>I plug up phone
>guitar starts playing
>lynard skynard says "turn it up"
>sweet home Alabama driving everyone wild
>mfw fuck and prolly inpregnated a cute country southern belle in the back of what I assume to be her daddy's pick up truck while her daddy is passed it drunk in the drivers seat
>mfw she wakes him up after and he drives them home
I love visiting my uncle
>>66010325
underrated
>>66010575
this is 4chan and more interesting stories are going to be posted. No one gives a shit about when you played a trap banger that went down well
>>66009469
one of them is funk buttrock. the other is an afrobeat/post-punk masterpiece
>>66009027
>>66008822
usually just put like beach house or cocteau twins or something on, good for summer too
>>66010782
>implying the parties I go to don't have designated djs
what's it like being poor and only associating with no life losers?
>have friend who exclusively listen to metal
>he blast out "obnoxious" rap music from his car to piss off nearby drivers, despite him hating this kind of music
>was like "hey, i got something more obnoxious for you"
>puts on clippings and death grips
>friend actually loves it and decided to blast that instead
>at friends house
>him and two others are playing SOAD but only their soft radio shit
>put on sugar
"..... ok lets change this"
>>66008276
I don't understand how this shit happens between people after middle school.
>>66010984
What? Having people not liking the music you're playing?
>>66010910
how many house parties are you going to that have designated DJs? Literally been to 2 in 3 years of uni
>>66010090
i kind of like this yo
This sounds dumb but if you don't wanna fuck up this situation you gotta be ready, which means having a playlist.
My party/accessible list on spotify contains songs that I know people will be able to get into that I also feel good about playing. Artists include The Pixies, Arcade Fire, Toe, Yo La Tengo, Flylo, Duster, Alex G, Jon Hopkins, etc.
It's all about picking the right songs from people you like.
I actually have a playlist just for hanging out with normies, specifically girl normies. It's nostalgic, decent pop music that everybody knows, enjoys, and might even sing along to
pros:
- it's not bad music IMO
- girls are guaranteed to like it. Every girl in the car will enjoy the music on the playlist
cons:
- everybody will think you are gay man in his mid-thirties
some examples
Len - Steal My Sunshine
Estelle - American Boy
Natalie Imbruglia - Torn
Seal - Kiss From a Rose
TLC - No Scrubs
Kelis, Andre 3000 - Millionaire
Timbaland, Keri Hilson - The Way I Are
Vanessa Carlton - A Thousand Miles
Ciara - One, Two Step
Spice Girls - Wannabe
To offset the gay connotations, I suggest switching back and forth between this playlist and a more aggressive hip hop playlist with tracks like
The Diplomats - Beautiful Noise
The Pharcyde - I'm That Type of Nigga
Fat Joe, R. Kelly - We Thuggin'
50 Cent, Justin Timberlake - Ayo Technology
Wake Flocka Flame - Rooster in My Rari (TNGHT Remix)
whatever the most recent Drake song is
Clipse, Birdman - What Happened To That Boy
Cam'Ron - Dip-Set Forever
Cam'Ron, Kanye West - Down And Out
>On road trip
>plug my ipod in
>play a Father john misty song as it's pretty easy listening
>20 seconds in
>"AHHH what the fuck is this?"
>both friends start laughing
>literally rip the aux cord from my ipod
>friend puts on a new Coldplay album that we've heard back to front about 2 times already now
>"This new Coldplay is really good"
>"Yeah it is isn't it?"
And this is why the last time I socialized was 6 months ago
>>66008687
this
>>66009888
Nice trips boss. Good story too.
The times when I'd play music in the car never really go far. Except one time which is:
>in car with brother
>play AnCo's MPP
>In The Flowers does that sick drop
>Bro says "Woah anon, good choice, reminds me of Sheep, Dog, Wolf"
He seemed to like it but wasn't interested in My Girls I think? We got to the middle of Also Frightened.
Honestly, I hate when you play music for people in the car and they turn it down to talk over it. This happens with everyone.
> play new Venetian Snares for guy
> "hmm anon this is interesting music"
> he changes it to generic tropical house
> we fucked
>>66011337
> played In The Flowers for ppl yesterday
> readyforit.jpg
> "ew no it sounds like a million instruments playing at once wtf"
I don't have any friends but I would play stuff like Denzel Curry, Desiigner, Kanye, Kendrick, ミドリ, Migos, YG, etc.
>>66011087
I mean the way everyone acts. No one ever asks what are the other ppl in the mood for before playing anything and the way people think the music they like is the only objectively good music out there.
I just play Stereolab, Mac Demarco, Beatles, Janelle Monae, Tame Impala
shit that I kind of enjoy that it's unoffending enough
Nickelback - Photograph
You think I'm kidding but I'm not, this is the secret weapon of any competent smartphone DJ. Everybody will immediately groan and laugh because you're not supposed to like Nickelback, but secretly most people enjoy this song because it reminds them of when they were younger. They will recognize it right from the opening line. If you play it off right, people will think it's funny and consider you to be a guy with an open-minded attitude toward music. If you play it off wrong though...
>>66010003
Speaking of Ween, I just listened to their songs Exactly Where I'm At and Flutes of Chi. What are some of their other songs like these, or even just songs from other bands that are similar?
>>66011402
>ミドリ
not a good idea senpai
>>66011377
It's interesting how some people just can't handle shit. It's not even really that fucking... wall-of-sound-y?
It's just like... wow, maybe 5 or 6 instruments? Which isn't a lot at all. Depends on how you define instruments. I'd say more like 7. But it's fucking beautiful regardless.
P.s. I love that like, spring reverb'd clicking at 1:49.
>Be me
>Go to wild college party
>Take a couple shots
>Somek some weed
>Be chillin
>Friend tells me to play some music
>Tells me he not good with music
>Reluctantly Accept
>Put down the aux chord and pic up the mike
>Spit the meanis freestyle ever
>Bars so hot they melt all of the guys dicks
>But girls are drunk and horny
>Get 1,000 sex
>Pretty Average weekend
>>66007286
>aux cord/
the fuck is this nigger meme?
Played straight outta Compton, we all sang it perfectly without missing a beat
I solved this problem with this:
I made a pandora station with artists I like and daft punk songs and some mainstream 80s bands.
I also made huge buttons to put on the wall, if they don't like some song, they can click on skip and if I see they like something I click on thumb up.
If I know someone taste I add the artist they like as a seed.
This means the station will be varied at some time it will play some guys song and at some point play other guys song (it takes 4 songs to rotate to a new seed, less if you have 2 thumb downs without a thumb up during this 4 songs in a row thing).
Also I mostly use the same playlist, that means its a evolving thing. "Bad artists" will be removed (two thumb down songs, without him or one of his songs being a seed)
>>66008485
>lawnmower
we're you listening to Ready Let's Go off Geogaddi? my dad said exactly that when I played that song once, then turned it off about 20 seconds in.
>>66011484
ゆきこさん is a banger
I usually take control of the music in the car with my friends at uni and they like 99% of what I play
It's really not that hard to play accessible but good stuff if you aren't autistic and your friends aren't chads
>>66011528
It sure is, but it just isn't very normie friendly. I love ミドリ but I'd never play it to my friends, even the weeb ones.
>>66008825
*Normal people scare me
>>66011527
It was some track halfway through Geogaddi, don't remember which one.
>>66007286
>friends like modern day "hip hop"
>play them death grips
>"what is this shit?" "it's so angry and there's no beat"
>>66008592
I always play weird shit like Ween/My Bloody Valentine/Boards of Canada at parties. Never had a complaint. Just gotta be chill/high to pull it off
>play Aesop Rock
>Dokken Rules ft. Rob Sonic
>"Anon you need to send me this"
I nail it everytime
> be me
> 11th grade
> get handed aux cord during a free period
> play Violent Soho because they are getting massive at the time (in Aus at least)
> get showered in praise
>>66008912
>Ok Computer playing in car
>pick up friend
>"what is this depressing music?"
>he plays emo-metal cover of taylor swift
easy solution:
play world music
they can't say they dislike it cause who wants to be racist?
>>66011638
How the fuck is My Bloody Valentine weird? This really fucking riles my shit up.
>>66011745
It is to normies, anon. My friend legit said "Yo niggaroni, wow dis is weird but I like it"
>at party
>nobody can agree on music
>take initiative and put on MPP
>only part of the night where no one is bitching about the music, mostly cause no one knows what it is
>>66011740
Wrong.
>"lmao, anon, what's this tacky hippie shit?"
>does mocking ugga-bugga dance
>>66011801
>hanging out with edgy people in 2016
>>66011801
i guess you don't hang out with liberal arts kids like me
>>66011767
I've played it at my parents house and my friend put on the entire album at a chill house party with several normies without getting any reaction at all, and these are the kinds of people who will let you know immediately when they think it's remotely non-conforming.
>>66009813
thats pretty rude you fucking faggot
>>66011870
>normies not being weirded out by touched
Get the fuck out.
>>66011819
>>66011834
Mostly my siblings doing it, to be fair.
>>66009737
Lol I made the same mistake with death grips, fortunately for me my friends already think I'm insane so it didn't really impact anything
>>66011903
It's short enough to be over and done with before they say anything.
>>66011942
death grips is bizarre shit only for when really drunk/angry or if youre just a angsty weirdo
>sister has house party
>stay upstairs the whole time
>1am they're still loud and drunk while I'm trying to sleep
>get idea
>sister's speaker system is connected by wifi
>get on
>play a mix of merzbow, weeb music, early swans, etc
>whenever the track changes force it back
>ten minutes later the house is silent
>>66011991
that did not happen
you are such a bad liar
>>66011991
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>>66010303
Why are so many of you socially retarded? Why in the utter fuck would you play obscure experimental music for normies besides to feel cool...even though nobody gives a shit or knows what you're listening to besides you and a few pretentious losers on /mu/?
>>66011991
9/10
>>66012063
(you)
>>66011991
you sound insufferable as fuck
>>66012063
Did you even fucking read my post?
>>66011991
>wanted sister to go home because i was busy with other shit
>too polite to tell her to leave
>put on soundtracks for the blind
>ten minutes later she says she has to leave
>2014
>be the driver to shuttle down 3 other people to visit our friends that moved 4 hours away
>handed full control of aux since I can usually find the middle ground of good music that everyone can enjoy even if they've never heard of it
>20 min away from the house I tell em about Death Grips and then they agree to listen
>the dude in the back thinks its weird but sees the merit since he's in some metal band and the instrumentation intrigues him
>dude next to me laughs (it was Get Got, he instantly just started laughing at the repetition), doesn't really say anything bad
>Girl in the back asks me to; "shut the fucking bullshit off, it's fucking awful."
>mfw it's now and she listen's to DG regularly to appease my other group of friends that she now considers cool and happen to like /mu/core for the most part.
>>66012176
I don't know where you find these weirdos who are into /mu/core, it seems like there's not many of us. I've never even met someone or heard of anyone in real life who's even been on here.
>listening to cap'n jazz earlier in the day
>meet up with friends and we're all chilling, smoking in another car
>get passed aux
>the sands are turning purple comes on as i plug it in
>BOYSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS KISSSSSSSSSSSSSSING BOYSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
>efw
>>66012246
there's plenty of pitchforkdrones in any college so that's close enough
>>66009169
This made me angry
>>66012246
hey man I was just as baffled as you are when I stumbled upon them through my girlfriend, not all of them are /mu/core but there's like 3 core people that help influence the music choices within the group and spills through to other friend groups that will have a listen and be intrigued by the sound. Maybe it's my town and since it's so boring we just search for weird shit, when I was 12 my new neighbore who was like 15 showed me Ichi the Killer, so I've met quite a few people out of nowhere with different tastes
>>66011616
>no beat
>no
>beat
???
what do they consider a beat? 4/4 with a kick on the 1st and 3rd beat and a snare on the second and fourth? shit
>>66011528
>>66011583
actually played ミドリ for two friends while the three of us were backpacking in Japan and they were into it af yo. i was really surprised though desu...
>>66008592
REEEEEEEEEEE
>>66012375
Neat. I've been trying to be more social lately and have been meeting different people lately, who knows maybe I'll meet one.
>>66011441
>look at this graph
i was at this rich kid mental hospital for 4 months. there was a group called "music therapy" in which you would choose a song to play and then talk about what it means to you
it was horrific. i remember bits and pieces of it but most of my memories of that time were erased by ECT
i was masochistic and stupid enough to play "...A Psychopath" by Lisa Germano. this chick (who is the daughter of a famous country singer) had a massive panic attack about halfway through so i ran to the stereo and turned it off
a few days after the ECT i chose to play It's Alright Ma. i was being peppered with questions from rich/famous people's children about what it meant. who the fuck knows what i said but i think i remember it going on for a long time
So I'm an oldfag. 29 years old. Don't know why I'm still here.
Anyway when I was 17, in 2003 or 2004, I was a student senator. And as such I was allowed to hang out in the "student activities room" during my study period. Basically it was a closet sized room that we could hang out in unsupervised. There was a CD player in there.
Most study periods it was me, the class president, and two senior girls. All normie af.
After a couple times where I played music that didn't go over well (Against Me!, The Pogues, I was a "punk" you see,) I figured I would try to play something more normie-friendly. I brought Odelay by Beck, thinking it was mainstream enough.
It went over fine the first time I played it so I got cocky and put it on again the next day. Suddenly around the time it got to "Lord Only Knows" one of the senior girls snapped.
"NO MORE BECK. I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE."
The other girl agreed vehemently, "omg I'm glad you finally said something. I have a Trapt CD we can play."
The other girl was like, "Yes! Oh my god I'm so glad, I LOVE TRAPT."
They ducking loved Trapt so much. They'd sing along, sometimes just putting "Headstrong" on repeat.
From that moment forward I had to listen to Trapt at least three times a week. They never let me put a CD on again. Eventually I stopped going there for my study periods.
>anon what the fuck
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYEyHb8x6AY
>work at customer support (livechat)
>i'm usually the one who chooses music
>everyday get complains about "weird" songs
>no one else wants to take the aux cord
>keep playing, trying different genres i like
>everyone get weirded out whatever i play
>mfw the only music they know is what's being played on the radio 2016
>be crammed in a car with four others
>2 qt's are present
>they let me pick the music since I had just ODed
>I'm completely out of it so I decide it's a good idea to put on PE
>go with Whitehouse - Why You Never Became a Dancer
>the qt's get really silent and ask what this noise is
>my guy friends almost die from embarrassment
>find out the next day one of the girls was into me until the OD + Whitehouse stuff went down
>never smoke weed or listen to PE anymore
>>66012063
Why do normies have such fucking bullshit taste in music?
>Was with a friend of mine who's a fan of Pierce The Veil and Sleeping With Sirens
>I thought maybe Circa Survive would fit well enough; emo, sorta post-hardcore sound with a high pitched vocalist. Sort of like a non-shitty version of PTV and SWS.
>They hated it.
And Circa Survive isn't even obscure, really experimental, or inaccessible. It's like, how could they even dislike Circa, seeing as how they like that genre and vocal style. do they get weirded out the moment they hear good music? Are they just completely incapable of listening to something decent?
>>66012453
you'd be surprised how many people will think you're cool with the arsenal of music you like, you just need to have an intuition of how "strange" you can introduce vs what they usually bang at parties and stuff. It's just a matter of being open and listening. I ended up hooking a huge chunk of sophomore students in high school because I introduced one of my new friends to Lonesome Crowded West. Then almost a couple years ago I go to a MM show and I ended up knowing and saying hi to so many people that I knew because of knowing the kid and his friends and then us listening to the music I had.
>>66012620
lol
>>66012620
>weed
>OD
>>66012620
Can't say I blame her, get better taste anon. Why would you think anyone besides some autists would enjoy noise music?
I have a playlist of the 3 most popular tracks from each album on my phone for such events.
>>66012631
That's hard to believe honestly. Circa sounds pretty normie...dafuq?
>>66012666
Oh for sure. I'm known as the cool mysterious funny guy with great diverse taste in many genres. Showed lots of weird stuff for people, most everyone enjoyed it all. We were high too.
>>66012790
I actually ODed on heroin. I said weed because people IRL know I post here and I don't want them finding out
>>66012585
Anon I know you've probably been here for awhile but you can say "fucking" you know, just an FYI
But seriously, fuck women for not just being up front about anything. Instead they have to hold in whatever they're feeling until it's an absolute catastrophe in their minds. She could've just said "I don't really like this, can we put on something else?" the first day, but no, she had to let her anger build up and then act like a victim. So fucking annoying.
I think I'm more mad about this situation vicariously than you are.
>>66012838
I usually just put some "party-metal" stuff, like Steel Panther or other glam bands. If I know I'm in good company, Gojira and Strapping Young Lad (I met my current girlfriend at a party and we hit it off on SYL).
Oh, and "Happy Camper" is the go to SYL song to clear a room of any normies.
>>66012906
Not him, but there's no real reason to swear imo. It can be used to emphasize certain parts in dialogue and conversation, but all you are really doing is wasting time saying a few extra syllables.
>>66013021
but he went to the length of typing "ducking" instead of "fucking"
>>66012063
>MF DOOM
>Kendrick Lamar
>obscure experimental music for normies
christ as if i needed to feel more socially isolated now even mainstream rap is considered experimental and obscure
>>66013118
Or it might've been autocorrect.
>>66013021
>>66013118
F is pretty close to D on a keyboard so he could have ducked it up on accident
>>66012063
I'm not socially retarded, you're just a pleb
Not exactly an aux cord story but close enough
>art class - senior year
>teacher says students can bring music
>one day i bring Helplessness Blues
>it loads
>"SO NOOOOW I AM OOOOOLDER" blares at near full volume teacher left the speakers at before she left the room
>get weird stares
>not even halfway through track 2 when some freshman literally switches it to The Wheels On The Bus and other YouTube nursery rhymes
>even when teacher comes back this is not changed
>never bring another cd again, spend rest of the year forced to listen to shitty top 40 rap and tumblr-core bs
mfw all this
>be today at the pool
>I'm a lifeguard there, I'm in the guard room
>get aux cord
>put on endless summer by the beach boys (a collection of their surfer phase hits)
>kinda funny since the album is all summer fun and the job is as boring as fuck, picture going up on lifeguard duty for an hour watching the water and then going up to the lifeguard room for 45 minutes and doing nothing
>everyone likes it, people ask for more beach boys
Feels good that even normies like the boys senpai
>not putting on What is Love or Cher or some pop bullshit just to make people laugh
>not going all the way and trying to weird-out people as much as possible
>my moms 50th birthday
>all her friends and a bunch of relatives
>party is winding down, dessert and coffee being served
>put on some kind of blue
>everyone is enjoying it
>switch to guillotine for the lulz
>my dad comes and tears out my ipod
>get sent to my room
oh well
>>66012906
I'm on mobile, that was autocorrect.
It was too long ago for me to stay mad, but I was pissed at the time.
>>66012876
being funny really helps especially if you can hit the middle ground of being an asshole and being nice and genuine, if people bring up artists on your itunes or physical collection that you doubt they'd be into, make it known instead of shying away, just explain in a sentence or two what's cool about them and then follow up with; "but it's not really for everyone so I can see if you'll find it weird." that opens them up to listen to it to prove they're not close minded and if they don't like it they'll still give merit of some kind to it for trying and a person they like (you) liking and telling the truth of what they might not like
>>66013021
swearing can be done tastefully or totally untastefully. Plus its kind of funny when aussies call people sick cunts or sad cunts
>>66012380
>what do they consider a beat?
I don't know. I was completely baffled they didn't like it
They proceeded to play some song about a dance
The guy just kept repeating the name of the dance over and over
>>66014305
swearing is never tasteful you teenager
>>66014275
Damn, that's exactly what I do. We sure are similar, man. Radical.
>>66014275
there's no reason to try to justify yourself so much. It makes you appear weak. Just know to play music that are obviously suited for social situations like Chief Keef or Bonobo and you're golden
>and then follow up with; "but it's not really for everyone so I can see if you'll find it weird."
don't say this
>>66014324
say that to my face fucker
>I want to be lauren mayberry's little baby tampon boy. i want to turn into a little crying baby and then suck on her breasts. her magic breast milk would turn me into a little baby tampon boy. she would stick me into her hoo-hoo and i would wait with anticipation spouting little baby goo-goo ga-gas waiting for her to bleed all over me. i want to feel her lauren mayberry blood inside my little goo-goo ga-ga baby tampon body. i want to absorb her hoo-hoo juices inside my little baby tampon boy body and goo-goo ga-ga like a little rolly-polly baby boy. it would be orgasmic to know i am one with her hoo-hoo lauren mayberry blood and i would giggle and goo-goo ga-ga and yelp with little baby boy excitement as i roll around in her lauren mayberry hoo-hoo and revel in her red juices, slurping them into my soft little baby tampon boy goo-goo ga-ga body. then i want her to pull me out and squeeze and wring my little baby tampon boy body so that her lauren mayberry hoo-hoo blood and juices spill all over her lauren mayberry face. it would hurt and i would scream in pained goo-goo ga-gas as pain envelops my little baby tampon boy body until i reach full climax and turn back into grown human man.
I just have a playlist full of normal approved songs that I play if this situation happens, it's fucking easy as hell to prevent
>>66014356
How weird, yeah I've been perfecting the art of straddling the line of my weird and they're norms to bleed into each other for years. It's that holding back of too much "weird" just enough but completely to make you interesting enough to engage. Once you're comfortable enough with your social circle you can freely show what you like and they won't really reel and in fact enjoy what you show
>>66009737
i had some friends shit on me for Come Up And Get Me a couple weeks back, they're all black, i don't listen to any new hip hop except lil uzi and rtj i cant play the same songs i did last time.
>>66014403
I don't normally say it with any weird or off the wall music usually I can gauge the relationship I have with the person and show them music forthright and I can know if they vibe to it or not and pivot justly from their body language but I'm just saying in a way brand new social setting where you're trying to feel the setting
>>66009737
>Crush would later go to prom with me, only to ditch me once we were there
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>>66013188
I figured it was auto correct I was just making the joke that he felt the need to censor himself
>>66013619
literally guaranteed that you're under 18
i'd guess around 15/16 tbqh
>>66007286
>Times you were handed the aux cord/given control of the music at a social setting
>anon, play something
>oh sorry, I don't have a phone
>???
I don't have a lot of friends
I have a friend who listens to nothing but "college radio indie-core" for lack of a better term and refuses to branch out unless at least one other person in the room voices approval of any music I put on.
If it's not in that weird specific strike zone he'll have some weird or otherwise stupid remark ready. My favorite was a couple of seconds into Pinkshinyultrablast's Deerland he said the power chords at the beginning were too heavy metal for him
>>66009169
I'd have cracked the other phone and played The Seer to be desu.
>>66011460
listen to psychedelic pop
>>66015114
Why are you friends with someone you dislike?
>>66015197
Because despite my complaints about his taste in music and inability to branch out he's a great friend? Do you have autism?
>>66015332
I think you do. Who judges their friend based off such a superficial reason? Fuck off.
>>66010308
Those stories are nice.
Reminds me of this girl that was the only person back in school that would tolerate and even like songs over 10 minutes. We used to show each other songs, sharing a pair of headphones, she introduced me to Radiohead and Bjork and I got her into Kraut and Post Punk.
I miss her, since all the people I know now are scared shitless of any amount of reverb or distortion. Cocteau Twins are considered noisy and Television is “insane music".
>>66015393
I'm not sure you read that correctly. He said that he doesn't judge someone based off of that superficial reason
>>66012063
Most of those posts are actually people that got it right. Did you answer wrongly just to rile everyone up?
Two of my friends are sort of into music and wanted to know what I had been listening to lately. I made the unfortunate mistake of not lying to them. I had been getting into Yellow Magic Orchestra and I played "Firecracker". Never have I gotten a stare so blank.
>>66009836
>I GET BORRRRED I DO GET BORRRREDD
>IN THE FLAT FIEEEEEEELLLLLDDDD
Perfectly acceptable for a party.
And Joy Division IS the most depressing shit around. Their only musically upbeat songs are "Isolation" and "Love Will Tear Us Apart" which are both lyrically pretty massive bummers.
Post-punk is definitely the way to go though for rock people.
>>66012477
How did ECT feel?
>>66009737
these have both happened to me too
>the party's dying down
>I turn the music down a little
>put on some inoffensive bleeps
>"TURN THE MUSIC DOWN ANON"
>they all leave
>tfw
>Freshman year of college
>roomie has speaker that's loud as fuck
>max volume sounds like a jet engine, unbelievably loud
>download Ape Escape main theme music
>synch it to phone
>remove ceiling tile
>throw speaker far as we can towards the center of our building
>max volume
>max volume Ape Escape at 3 am during finals week
>no one knows how to stop it or who's responsible
>no one can sleep or study
>mfw I made all 100s on my finals anyway
>>66008619
>Indiana Jones theme song
Holy shit. Truly patrician
>high school
>in the computer room during drama class for movie script writting
>our group (the sport jocks + the computer wiz, guess who I am) is sitting next to the 3 goth girls of the class
>ask teach if we can put some music on
>sure
>they put on some emo goth stuff, I don't remember, but it was some jerkoff stuff
>decide to put music designed to piss them off
>Hanson, early Britney Spears, Backstreet Boys, Spice Girls
>everyone gets a nostalgia trip, but the goths were foaming from their mouths
>got a A for the movie
That was pretty fun.
Then I decided to put some King Diamond in science class to piss off the stuck up chicks (and because the teacher likes King Diamond and Mercyful Fate)
>in the car and get handed the aux
>usually plan my most normie stuff
>this time decide to play frankie knuckles
>put on the whistle song
>"what the fuck is this shit anon"
that same reaction happens when I play anything that isn't soundcloud trap rap :/
I literally put on captain murphy and got a
>what the fuck are u playing anon
I just play future/migos/young thug mixtapes when with friends/party but listen to emuu contrarian shit when by myself.
>>66008276
The Replacements are the Bon Jovi of '80s alternative, so you had that shit coming desu
>Wanted to introduce my sister to My Bloody Valentine
>"I know who they are anon, sorry but I'm not into metal"
>She thought I was talking about Bullet for my Valentine
>>66016323
>no one knows...who's responsible
yeah cause people can't hear where a sound is coming from
ok
In 11th grade art class I put on Wax Simulacra by The Mars Volta because the teacher and I were big fans. It was hilarious how quickly the nearest student turned down the volume on the speakers. Normies literally cannot comprehend muic outside of there comfort zone.
>>66016624
I can't imagine how much money MBV have lost because of people hating BFMV and confusing them
I once played Merzbow in history class back in high school. The reactions I got were from indifference to 'so what'.
>>66013417
>tumblr-core bs
Is Helplessness Blues not tumblr-core now?
>>66016624
>>66016673
Stone me for being a pleb, but what is the difference?
>>66016649
of all the Mars Volta and ATDI songs
>>66016778
They're two different bands
the first formed was MBV, an irish shoegaze band, who /mu/ like and released quite good records
the second was BFMV, a welsh metal band, who /mu/ don't like and are the sort of pop metal that 12 year olds were into, a short while ago
in a nutshell
>>66016825
U dont like wax simulacra?
>>66011519
Smart idea
>>66007286
Played merzdub at a melee tournament where people were all drunk./high on pot.It went over well.
>At a new years kickback
>Be the only black guy there but not a token
>I like indie music but it's not right for a party setting
>Dude is playing Death Cab for Cutie
>Ask if I can change the song he says yeah
>Put on Young Thug
>Dance with some friends for a little bit
>Party isn't full of melancholy white people
>People are up dancing having a good time
>Leave the room to grab a drink
>Come back in the room
>Two Door Cinema Club is on
>Ihatewhitepeople.mp3
>>66017266
they were probably just too scare to tell you they hated it
>>66016930
great drumming but the effects on Cedric sound terrible desu
should've played Cassandra Gemini at 4 mins in or something off Deloused or RoC
> Get a chance to DJ a party
> 100 or so people
> Whatever lol
> Spend the night playing drum and bass and EDM, I don't mind
> Occasionally beat jungle with some stuff by Can and LCD Soundsystem
> End of the night
> High and drunk off my ass
>itbegins
> Put on my single of Wriggle Like An Eel
> On the other table, put my copy of Merzxiu
> Drunkenly fall to the ground laughing as 100 people are woken the fuck up by YOOOUUUUU BOOOYYYYY
> Dude who started the party talks to promoter, says I'll never DJ again
> Like I give a fuck
> Get $500 and leave
Good times
>>66011519
or you could just have a playlist ready of 10+ bangers and you're good for the foreseeable future
hip hop is pretty much always a hit at parties 2bh
if you're not on the spectrum you shouldn't have a problem with the aux cord
>>66017266
>>Be the only black guy there but not a token
>>I like indie music
PROTIP: You are a token.
>>66017266
Who the fuck plays Death Cab in a party environment? I'd be pissed to anon.
>>66017306
Actually yeah you're right, effects aren't that good. But it's the shortest song by them that I know of that isnt ambient and there were only a couple of minutes left in class.
>>66016674
Which album friend
If it was this I would expect people to actually get mad
