*Merzbow copypasta* (also known as "copypasta-core", "merzbow, boredoms" or "THAT copypasta") is a list of obscure,
underground, outsider, avant-garde, cult and experimental music artists that began circulating in online circles dedicated to music discourse in the
mid-to-late 2010s, the earliest variant of the copypasta can be found on the infamous online imageboard 4chan particularly on /mu/ - it does not include the "Nice I like" part at the beginning, which was added later on as a second layer to the
joke, as the copypasta would usually be shared when someone (typically a
normie) shared the music taste, only to be bombarded with a wall of "literally who" artists, that most normal people have never heard of.
Person 1: Hey I've been listening to some Drake recently-
Person 2: Nice I like Merzbow, Boredoms, Gerogerigegege, Coil, Throbbing Gristle, Whitehouse, Nurse with Wound, Einstürzende Neubauten, Brainbombs, Egor Letov, Death in June, Current 93, La Monte Young, Moondog, Lou Harrison,
Henry Cowell,
Luigi Russolo, Popol Vuh, Fishmans, Jean Jacques Perrey, Les Rallizes Dénudés, Rainbow Caroliner, Taj Mahal Travellers, Fushitsusha,
Peter Brötzmann, John Cage, Scott Walker, Unwound, Dead, Frank Zappa, Morton Feldman, Captain Beefheart, Pharoah Sanders,
Albert Ayler, Ornette Coleman,
Alice Coltrane, Arnold Schoenberg, Pierre Boulez, György Ligeti, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Nang Nang, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, Nara Leão, Basic Channel,
Raymond Scott, Delia Derbyshire, Daphne Oram, Noah Howard, Terry
Riley,
Peter Sotos, Lula Côrtes e Zé Ramalho, Boyd Rice, Mahmoud Ahmed, Henry Flynt, Kazumoto Endo, David Tudor, Aporea, Half Japanese, Mega Banton, Secret Chiefs 3, Keiji Haino, Ramleh, Otomo Yoshihide, John Zorn, Joe Meek, Robbie Basho, Phil Spector, Faxed
Head, Harry Partch, Wesley Willis, Fred Frith, The Residents, Sun
Ra, Sun City Girls, Hans Krüsi, Royal Trux, Jandek, Yat-Kha, Loren Mazzacane Connors, Pärson Sound, The Dead C, Comus, Cromagnon, Eliane Radigue, Arthur Doyle, Shizuka, The
Red Krayola, Henry Cow, Magma, Opus Avantra, Pan.Thy.Monium., Murmuüre, Ksiezyc, Gong, Cukor Bila Smert', cLOUDDEAD, Muslimgauze and Kaoru Abe.
Person 1: this is the merzbow copypasta!
