132: Music Knowledge
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| Music Knowledge |
 Title text: When Guitar Hero 2 comes out I'll have fresh conversational material for MONTHS. |
[edit] Explanation
The punchline of this comic is that just by naming bands from the game Guitar Hero, you can sound pretty knowledgeable about music without actually knowing anything about the bands you are naming. This is further emphasized when Megan mentions Metallica, a very famous band that mostly everyone can be assumed to have heard of, and Cueball has no clue who they are.
[edit] Transcript
- [Megan and Cueball converse.]
- Megan: What kind of music do you listen to?
- Cueball: Oh, a mix of things. Some classic rock like Boston, but then of course Queen and Bowie, Joan Jett...
- Megan: Definitely, we need more of those sounds.
- Cueball: But there's some great newer stuff too, like Franz Ferdinand, The Donnas, and Audioslave.
- Megan: Sometimes they're a little much for me. I go more for things like The Arcade Fire, sometimes mixing some electronic sounds like Postal Service.
- Cueball: Oh yeah—have you ever checked out Freezepop?
- Megan: Mhm! Synth pop can be fun, but at the same time, I agree that sometimes you just need to blast some Metallica.
- Cueball: Who?
- Megan: ...Metallica.
- Cueball: Are they new?
- I sound pretty knowledgeable about music until people figure out that I'm just naming bands from Guitar Hero.
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