A little survey

[ubit]

http://www.mandatory.com/2014/02/26/if-you-like-any-of-these-songs-you-are-a-total-asshole/

[DavidMcKay]

Wow - it looks like I am a multi-asshole/omni-arsehole [size=3][i](delete as appropriate)[/i][/size]!

Although the author's comments and arguments are so funny that I don't think I mind.

[Mykesbass]

That's me then!

[HowieBass]

Damn, almost made it but failed at 'Seven Nation Army' (though the main riff does sound good when played on a P bass strung with flatwounds)

[Twincam]

I fully understand this apart from billy Joel and ub40
Which I like lol.

[Subbeh]

Only one I like is Sweet Caroline but I already knew I was an asshole

Edited January 5, 2016 by Subbeh

[lojo]

It might be overplayed , the lyrics might be twaddle, but I'm not going to lie and say I dislike the Eagles , so I was out at the first hurdle

[Roger2611]

I failed dismally, i found myself as a level 8 a'hole as there were at least two tracks I had never heard of

[Woodinblack]

[quote name='HowieBass' timestamp='1452011729' post='2945513']
Damn, almost made it but failed at 'Seven Nation Army' (though the main riff does sound good when played on a P bass strung with flatwounds)
[/quote]

Same here, but prefer it on an ibanez with roundwounds!

[BrunoBass]

Who's Drake?

[Cato]

[quote name='PaulGibsonBass' timestamp='1452027415' post='2945737']
Who's Drake?
[/quote]

Larry Graham's nephew.

[alittlebitrobot]

I don't like any of these songs, but I'm not happy about my musical taste lining up (if only briefly) with someone being such an arsehole about it.
This really is lose-lose.

[Hobbayne]

yes, I suppose Jack White does look like Edward Scissorhands now you come to mention it!

[Bassassin]

I don't like any of those songs (don't hate them either, haven't heard several of them anyway) - but good grief, what a useless, gargantuan buttock the person who wrote that is.

Jon.

[OddBass65]

I have to admit to a fondness for Jimmy Buffet's happy holiday nonsense - comes from some good memories of the Florida Keys.
If that makes me an asshole, so be it.
In my defence, I agree with the rest of the list - although I'm not familiar with a couple, and don't care enough to check them out.

[Rubbersoul]

I'm afraid I am a fan of Jack White. If that makes me an asshole so be it. I presume the article was written with a fair amount of tongue in cheek, otherwise the writer is the greatest asshole of them all and a judgemental prick.

[Behlmene]

As if I didn't already know I was an asshole. Thanks for rubbing it in, Paul !!

[colgraff]

Dislike all of them except 7 Nation Army. Dislike We Didn't Start the Fire more than any other song. You did start the fire, Billy. Every single time.

[leftybassman392]

There seem to be three basic options here:

1. Author is expecting to be taken seriously, in which case the level of his delusion is a pretty good source of humour in it's own right; or,

2. Author is not expecting to be taken seriously, in which case then fair enough - cutting edge humour and all that. Personally I don't really find it funny, but - as with musical taste - each to his or her own; or,

3. Author is looking to make a serious point but doing it in such a way as to stimulate discussion by being deliberately provocative, in which case he appears to have succeeded (to some degree at least). Long and winding tale cut to shribbons, he's letting us know that there's some songs he [s]doesn't like[/s] [i]really[/i] doesn't like...

[bassace]

They have a point, especially RRW by UB40, the B&W Minstrels of today.

[jonunders]

Without an arsehole we would have to carry around bags of sh*t. Does that make us a sh*t bag....baby
I quite like some of those songs as I grew up with them.

Jon

Edited January 6, 2016 by jonunders

[SICbass]

[quote name='Bassassin' timestamp='1452038104' post='2945886']
I don't like any of those songs (don't hate them either, haven't heard several of them anyway) - but good grief, what a useless, gargantuan buttock the person who wrote that is.

Jon.
[/quote]

Nicely put. Thanks for that. 👍

[lojo]

[quote name='bassace' timestamp='1452069752' post='2945996']
They have a point, especially RRW by UB40, the B&W Minstrels of today.
[/quote]

I don't think so , they where a very creative band in the beginning , and whilst they lost me later on , they genuinely seemed to enjoy commercialising some of those songs

[discreet]

Apparently as I dislike all the songs, the internet thinks I'm [i]not [/i]an asshole, but that's just nonsense because I [i]know for sure[/i] that I am.
Surveys!! They are meaningless...

[BrunoBass]

[quote name='Cato' timestamp='1452032472' post='2945821']


Larry Graham's nephew.
[/quote]

Who's Larry Graham?






only joking... 😉