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Post by trashcanman on Mar 14, 2009 7:17:23 GMT 2
Behold, the study that seeks to prove what the smart people are listening to. Sadly, as with most studies it's pretty flimsy as it uses SAT scores and therefore leaves out people who don't take SAT's and doesn't factor in SAT training courses and all that jazz. They should have just gone with IQ. Anyways, the results are mostly middling, though modern hip-hop and R&B artists aren't flattered here while Beethoven is king of the geniuses. Emo didn;t do too good either. But apparently smart folk likey the Counting Crows. Who knew? Let me point out that people who used an entire genre to communicate their taste scored unusually low. Amazingly, country seemed to come out on top of the other "blanket" answers. Well, here's the graph. Enjoy.  |
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Post by The Curmudgeon on Mar 15, 2009 14:36:02 GMT 2
OK, before I comment on how stupid this graph is, I have to admit I don't understand it at all. So the higher the number the more intelligent, right? OK, I get that, but why are some bands higher up the chart than others? Does say, listening to Green Day, who are at the bottom, mean you're dumber than someone who listens to Linkin Park who are above them?
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Post by trashcanman on Mar 16, 2009 1:07:53 GMT 2
No, the descending order was just to make room for more bands. The further to the left, the dumber the fans and the further to the right, the smarter. Green Day is in the middle with the bulk. And yes, it is a stupid graph, but I still found myself studying it intently. The list of bands is weird, too. Jars of Clay and Third Eye Blind? Really? A lot of them I haven't even heard of, though that could be because I'm out of touch with popular radio.
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Post by Ben on Mar 17, 2009 4:29:16 GMT 2
I can't take this remotely seriously after noticing Coldplay and The Killers edged out Pink Floyd, but I did nearly fall out of my chair laughing when I saw that Lil Wayne came in dead last.
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Post by trashcanman on Mar 18, 2009 1:23:47 GMT 2
Pink Floyd has too any old stoner fans. 40 years of potsmoking's gotta do something to your brain. But Goo Goo Dolls and The Fray edging out RATM?
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Post by Ben on Mar 19, 2009 21:57:25 GMT 2
See, I thought about that too... but The Killers? It looks to me like you have it backwards, Trashcanman. I think Rage edged out the Goo Goo Dolls. And rightly so.
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Post by trashcanman on Mar 20, 2009 1:47:56 GMT 2
Actually, it looks like there's some overlap there. Whatever. I actually like The Killers. And now that I think about it, I have met some damn stupid Rage fans. This guy in a college class of mine gave an oral presentation about violence in music and used "Killing in the Name" as an example of a song that he likes that glorifies killing. No joke. I guess he never considered listening to the words or anything gay like that.
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Post by The Curmudgeon on Mar 21, 2009 1:50:33 GMT 2
Gnnnnnnnnnnnnnnng. "Killing in the Name" glorifies killing? Argggh.. the rage. I don't know the guy and I want to tear his fucking ears off.
I think music is pretty much impossible to pigeon-hole people under. Now with the top 75 (in the UK at least) being available to buy in every supermarket, people don't even need to go into record shops to buy music anymore. So mainstream acts like Coldplay don't necessarily have to have "intelligent" fans - they can just have people who don't listen to anything outside the top 10, and only know or hear music that's either a) from a TV show or b) played non-stop on MTV or the radio. That doesn't equal a lack of intelligence, it just equals a lack of individual thought.
And I used to hate the Killers. The first two albums could go eat shit for all I care (er, if you know what I mean) but I loved the song they did with Lou Reed ("Tranquilize") and the last few singles they've had out have been pretty damn good. They've went from "shit" to "meh" on my scale.
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