...and then some punk comes along and copies and pastes your question into a 'Google' search box and responds with his findings, what do you think of that? I suppose they think it's a normal everyday function. I think it's rather funny, but at the same time very sad. Especially from their perspective, because they think they have actually answered a question!
That's funny!
What's your thought?
2007-09-01 20:13:32 · 16 answers · asked by ramboweasle 2 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music ➔ Rock and Pop
Bailey - The bottom line is, If you actually have to ask whether it matters, then you''re only showing your age, and there's nothing wrong with that.
Though I have to wonder, what would these people have done 25 years ago when proposed these same questions. The answer is, nothing!
I was born in a time when you either knew something, and if you didn't, you had to go to the library to look it up. And many times the resources at the library were totally useless.
You were left to find the answers through something called an actual life experience.
How times have changed!
2007-09-01 20:32:22 · update #1
It seems that many young people have forgotten how to do what humans have done for thousands of years! I'll let you 'Google' that for the answer!
2007-09-01 20:41:02 · update #2
ZoneRider - I'm not really trying to make a point. Though I did ask a question, and apparently you missed it. And I'm pushing 60 years old. The Micky D's vs McDonald Douglas sh*t doesn't hold any water with me my friend. I think you have that concept backwards! In 1962 you could get a job with grade 11, with what now requires a few years post secondary education!
I just think it's comical how many young people will google something, copy and paste it, and feel as if they have really accomplished something! To me that is very funny.
I don't think I was being hard on anyone.
2007-09-01 20:55:31 · update #3
A perfect example of an actual 'life experience' is with my recent question regarding the 'Columbia' records CD reissue of the Santana album. The answer might be on the net somewhere, but it's obviously not as readily available as "what former Rolling Stone formed The Rhythm Kings". If it was, I'd have a dozen 16 year olds responding.
2007-09-01 21:03:52 · update #4
krypto'nstreaky - That's right! Helping someone is one thing. I totally agree, as I have researched many things to do just that.
Though I ask many quiz type questions regarding rock music. I would much rather prefer a response from someone who actually knows the answer, as opposed to someone that googles it. And believe me, I know the difference! I like testing peoples knowledge, not their typing ability.
2007-09-01 21:12:42 · update #5
Greg R - How the f*ck did you get to be a top contributer? I could have said in 4 sentances what you said in 40!
2007-09-01 21:36:47 · update #6
K.W. - It's apparent that you read most of it!
2007-09-01 22:43:29 · update #7
Does it matter if someone knows the question beforehand or not? They took the time (even if it was only a second) to look for the answer and they found it.
Perhaps they like helping people out. :)
2007-09-01 20:19:50 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 1⤋
I'm not really sure what point you are trying to make. I understand that you are upset about the cut and paste thing, but I think it all comes down to intent.
If you ask a question in this forum, most people I've seen try and answer it with some degree of assurance. There are far too many smart @$$#$ that waste time and space.
If you are as old as I am, then you should understand that the kids on here don't have our life experience, we grew up with TV, three channals national, maybe a few local. These kids were born after CD's were invented. None of them have ever seen Led Zepplin with Bonham on the thrown. They do what they know, cut and paste from the internet. You and I had to figure out the dewey decimal system and find a book for ourselves. I've yet to find a kid in highschool that has read Moby Dick (we read it three times).
We went to school in the days when the idea was to teach you how to think for yourself. The kids today are only taught to the standards set to pass government imposed tests, NO CHILD LET BEHIND. The only way to make that happen was to dumb down the entire system. They can research for themselves like we did, they are taught to cut and paste, not to know what the answers they found mean. The kids today are taught how to get a job at McD's, not McDonnell Douglas.
Don't go to hard on them they don't know any better.
I'm not covering the obvious smart @$$#$, for them, may the bird of happiness fly right up their . . .
2007-09-01 20:38:52 · answer #2 · answered by ZoneRider 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
It depends. If said old rocker just says "It's Chuck Berry "No Particular Place to Go" I'll give it a thumbs up because they're correct but I'm not likely to vote it a "Best Answer" because it will still require extra work on the part of the asker to verify that it IS correct. (meaning they have to go to Amazon or Project Playlist or YouTube or something, do a search on that title and artist, and see if it matches what they had in mind. However, if an answerer posts the correct song/title and a partial lyric with a link to the lyric site (provided they're correct of course) I will vote the first person to do that "Best Answer" because they've minimized the work for the asker. When I answer lyric questions I try to always link to a song sample so the asker can make sure we're talking about the same tune.
Another instance where someone thinks they "know the answer" but don't is when the question specifically states "The song I'm looking for is from the 80s and it says 'She's got it, yeah, baby she's got it..I'm your Venus" in the lyrics" and an "old rocker" says The Shocking Blue. Yeah, they're TECHNICALLY correct in that they had the first hit with it but since the person said they're looking for an *80's tune they really wanted Bananarama.
2007-09-01 20:24:37 · answer #3 · answered by Greg R (2015 still jammin') 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Personally, and a little unfortunately,I feel that's the quick fix these days. Ideally,I think you know what you are talking about and offer embellishments that you have experienced and know from first hand. I realise many people may be just tuning in for the first time and considering the state of music these days..instant downloads..no real interest of the past which makes the present..I am a reader and as such have quite a little library of Musical books..When I see a question posted that I think I know or don't,I refer to these to get the correct answer..and perhaps learn something else along the way.That's what I reckon,anyway. PS. GREG R..that's also true..but misconceptions can arise.."*** Feel The Noize" seems to be by Quiet Riot,not Slade.
2007-09-01 20:36:18 · answer #4 · answered by kit walker 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I just shrug and allow that they know how to use a search engine: but they'll never know what it's like to see Johnny Rotten do a meltdown on stage in San Francisco in 1978 or Tom Petty melt the stage while singng "Breakdown" at a little college club (every woman in the audience was screaming by the end of the performance). This latest generation of teens and 20-somethings experience music primarily through MP3s and their iPods, or videos on MTV. They don't seem to understand that rock n' roll is an experience, and there is no replacement for the live performance where the artist suddenly decides to switch chords or improvise lyrics. For that matter, they don't even understand that it's important to just listen to the actual album as it was compiled and produced by the band and their technical crew. They just want to pay 99 cents to iTunes and buy the hit they heard on the radio....okay, I'll stop.
However, it's a lot more troubling to me as an English teacher to see so many kids copy and paste an article from Wikipedia and turn it in as their papers, thinking I won't notice. (Kids: for the record, teachers are NOT stupid. We have a variety of tools which help us discover whether a student has been copying articles off the internet. We also can tell when your style of writing has suddenly changed from sixth-grade book report to New Yorker review. (-_-). They also don't seem to realize they're actually cheating themselves by not trying to think and write on their own. Scholarship and research both require a lot of time and effort, but they're rewarding in the end. You discover that you have learned a lot from all that digging around and looking at "real" texts, real people, real music; that you now know more about the subject than you ever would have expected before your assignment. Recently, a couple of my ESL students went to a poetry reading as an extra credit assignment, and they came back raving about how exciting it was to listen to a "real" poet read "real" poetry. They had never done anything like it before, and it was for them the experience of a lifetime.
I think seeing and hearing music live or at least as the artist intended it to be listened to is similar: not only is it unforgettable, but you learn that music like all art is a living thing that morphs and grows with every performance. That's something you will never get from listening to an MP3 or watching MTV all day, or for that matter, googling a band's name and pulling up their official website.
But what's up with the "old," weasel honey? I not only listen to the music of my youth (70s, 80s, and 90s) but the newer bands as well. And I never feel old when I'm listening to rock n' roll.
2007-09-01 22:05:13 · answer #5 · answered by hi_sakura 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I understand what you mean by the googling & cutting & pasting part of your question. For kids today it's the fastest way to find an answer to something. Just type in a few keywords & viola! There's a million pages of answers. I feel Google would have been just as popular in 1975 as it is now if it had existed back then for checking out music info.
For us (I was a teenager in the 70's) we had things like Creem magazine to learn music from & we had a really good friend that kids today don't have. That friend was the DJ. If you wanted to know some lyrics or who's sings what just call up your fave DJ & ask him. If he didn't know someone out there in radioland would know. Radio as we knew it back then is pretty much dead these days.
As for myself when I am answering a question if I'm stuck for the correct answer I just pull out an album or 45 to make sure of what's what.
2007-09-01 22:04:05 · answer #6 · answered by zeppdoc 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I'd be considered a young person, but I try to help as much as I can. If I don't know anything about the band, I'll leave it alone. I may occasionally comment based on things I've heard about the band if I know a little about them.
If I listen to a particular band a lot, I try to answer the question as best as possible, but if there is some sort of trouble, I'll research a bit. After all, that's the reason why there's the "Research you answer" section while you're answering questions. Otherwise, I wouldn't comment. I could be getting myself associated with bands I may hate.
2007-09-01 20:58:02 · answer #7 · answered by Montag 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I can't see anything wrong in helping provide a correct answer,no matter how it's provided. I've answered quite a lot of music questions,but quite often I have to refer the sleeve or notes to verify if ,say,that was the original singer,or where it reached in the charts.
Same with lyrics,even if I have the particular song,it's still easier to go to a site and copy the words than to try and listen and write them down from memory
2007-09-01 21:50:01 · answer #8 · answered by keeprockin 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah , i think adding a quicky "Google" search by Yahoo answers is like Yahoo saying "no, we don't generally support the act of Gaming for points....but if you must do so, here ya go!". I mean, i feel THAT's essentially what's going on. In a way, to me it reminds me of the today's "instant gratification cheesy music" mindset. Gawd!! if i was a young music fan today i'd prolly off myself! Most kids have no idea what they want or what they want to listen to let alone sort it all out through 869 subgenres, and in the end they just do what their friends do anyway. All sheep , ...sheep i say!
2007-09-02 05:42:21 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I'll come clean on one thing. I look to Wiki to make sure I have things spelled correctly and double check items that I already know. Hate to get the facts wrong. Truth be told, most of the questions on here are fairly inane and the rest could be found by the questioner with minimal effort if they were so inclined. I try not to ponder the human condition too much while here. This is mostly frivolity.
2007-09-02 04:04:42 · answer #10 · answered by Rckets 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I guess thats just the way of the world now. When I answer these (older) song questions, I don't look them up. I know, cuz I am from the eras of the songs or I have alot of them on records and I just know the songs and most the time the years they were out too. I know what you mean tho! What bugs me, is people answering the song questions "completely wrong". Makes you wonder, did they really look it up? Got some bad info for answers so much of the time, yes that bugs the crud out of me. I'm 55 myself.
2007-09-02 08:50:21 · answer #11 · answered by BoosGrammy 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋