A selections of revelations revealed vis-à-vis CompletelyIgnored.com in 2013. Enjoy!
1. A person’s understanding (and by understanding, I don’t mean appreciation) of music is going to be predicated on whether they “lived through it”. (#ignored1).
2. The segment of the world population that TRULY “experienced” Kraftwerk is very small. (#ignored1)
3. If they were positioned differently, the Replacements could have had Bon Jovi’s career. (#ignored2)
4. The five-minute feud between Wale and the Toronto Raptors’ play-by-play team wasn’t anything. (#ignored3)
5. The iPod has morphed all “guilty pleasures” into simply “pleasures”. (#ignored4)
6. The MuchDance CD series is the Nuggets of (underrated) Top 40 Europop. (#ignored4)
7. Coachella Festival speculation is the fantasy baseball of music fandom. (#ignored7)
8. The Columbia Record and Tape Club preyed upon the lazy and dim-witted. (#ignored8)
9. I listened to the Jesus and Mary Chain’s Psychocandy in a speeding motorboat. (#ignored8)
10. Being vague and/or absent is a good technique for bands to use to become more beloved. (#ignored9)
11. Adult moshing levels are a strong means of measuring the room energy of a live music performance. (#ignored10)
12. The Wikipedia definition of “headbanging” is amazing. (#ignored10)
13. SIANspheric were superior to 90 per cent of the original shoegaze bands. (#ignored12)
14. The Breeders would be remembered completely differently if they used different album art and weren’t signed to 4AD. (#ignored12)
15. The Cure’s “Friday I’m in Love” and R.E.M.’s “Shiny Happy People” were both good-to-great songs. (#ignored13)
16. Big Sean’s “Control” is not a diss track, (#ignored14)
17. People create fake LinkedIn profiles for their (assumedly) favourite musicians. (#ignored15)
18. Mating 1980s modern rock with 1990s Canadian beer advertising was a thing. (#ignored17)
19. Lou Reed spent his life conflicted between being Lou Reed and “Lou Reed”. (#ignored18)
20. “They’re awesome live!!” can be either a help or a hindrance in music marketing circles. (#ignored19)
21. Hipsters wrongly assume that R. Kelly is self-aware. (#ignored20)
22. Limblifter deserve a career achievement in the “random lip ring” category. (#ignored21)
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