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Post by Jean-Luc Lemur on Jul 29, 2024 14:09:13 GMT -5
I am not a huge metal listener but I somehow both knew Gojira and did not know (or remember) that Gojira was French (probably because they are good, and my appreciation for French stuff does not extend towards their popular music)
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Post by Desert Dweller on Aug 3, 2024 12:42:05 GMT -5
I am not a huge metal listener but I somehow both knew Gojira and did not know (or remember) that Gojira was French (probably because they are good, and my appreciation for French stuff does not extend towards their popular music) I knew Gojira was French but I doubt I've heard more than a few minutes of their music.
French pop music may be kinda terrible, but their classical music is first rate.
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Post by pantsgoblin on Aug 5, 2024 12:45:39 GMT -5
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Post by Some Kind of Munster on Aug 16, 2024 18:55:30 GMT -5
After conducting some rigorous research (i.e. walking around Canada’s Wonderland for a day and observing t-shirts) I have concluded that Nirvana are the most popular classic act among the youths, with Tupac a distant second. Like, double digit number of Nirvana tees throughout the day and maybe half a dozen Tupacs (and while this largely broke down along the expected racial lines, I did see at least one example of each defying that expectation). Was kinda surprised by the relative lack of Zeppelin shirts, saw maybe 3 – and all on 30-ish dudes, so perhaps Zep are at a low ebb these days.
Honourable mention goes to the two kids I saw wearing Lookout Records-era styled Green Day shirts (thought it was the same kid twice until I realized the second one was the Kerplunk album cover instead of the 39 Smooth one I’d seen earlier) and the fellow oldster wearing a very cool James shirt (the classic daisy album cover). Gave him a “cool shirt, man” and a thumbs up because us old guys gotta stick together
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Post by Floyd D Barber on Aug 16, 2024 20:48:09 GMT -5
After conducting some rigorous research (i.e. walking around Canada’s Wonderland for a day and observing t-shirts) I have concluded that Nirvana are the most popular classic act among the youths, with Tupac a distant second. Like, double digit number of Nirvana tees throughout the day and maybe half a dozen Tupacs (and while this largely broke down along the expected racial lines, I did see at least one example of each defying that expectation). Was kinda surprised by the relative lack of Zeppelin shirts, saw maybe 3 – and all on 30-ish dudes, so perhaps Zep are at a low ebb these days. Honourable mention goes to the two kids I saw wearing Lookout Records-era styled Green Day shirts (thought it was the same kid twice until I realized the second one was the Kerplunk album cover instead of the 39 Smooth one I’d seen earlier) and the fellow oldster wearing a very cool James shirt (the classic daisy album cover). Gave him a “cool shirt, man” and a thumbs up because us old guys gotta stick together I saw a kid, probably high school age, maybe even jr high, wearing a Nirvana t-shirt at the state fair the other day, and everybody seems to think that is cool, but can you imagine the weird looks I would have gotten wearing a Glen Miller t-shirt when I was in high school in 1974?
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Post by pantsgoblin on Aug 17, 2024 10:10:30 GMT -5
Is it just me or can others not hear the name Chappell Roan without thinking of the loose rhyme with Ween's "Joppa Road"?
I was at this show. The reason why they were playing The Missouri Theater instead of The Blue Note is because they were blacklisted from that venue for several years. In 1995, they were playing a Sunday night show there; they'd already been playing for 2 1/2 hours and the owner asked them to wrap it up so he could close. Basically saying "No one tells Ween what to do" they launched into a 26-minute version of "Poop Ship Destroyer" (later released on Paintin' the Town Brown). By the end, the owner was screaming at them "I'll see to it you'll never play Columbia again!"
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Post by Jean-Luc Lemur on Aug 18, 2024 13:52:04 GMT -5
In LA, at least, classic rock tees are (or were a year or two ago) somewhat infamously “in” among people who’d supposedlu never heard—or heard of—the acts, though this was more along the lines of 70s bands. That said if I were in my twenties and some culture reporter asked me about the Rolling Stones featured on my shirt I’d be really tempted to say something along the lines of “no clue who they are” too.
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Post by Dellarigg on Aug 19, 2024 11:29:30 GMT -5
Remasters of the first Doors album add the word 'high' back to the 'she get' section of Break On Through, and raise the level of the yelling and swearing during the loud section of The End. Now, I'm no prude, but I prefer them the way they used to be: 'high' sounds awkward and tacked on in terms of scanning, and as for The End, it made me think he was doing all his parental fucking and killing in a different room, and was much the subtler for it.
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Post by pantsgoblin on Aug 29, 2024 10:12:52 GMT -5
What did I ever do to deserve being stuck at the mechanic where they’re blasting Journey’s Greatest Hits?
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Post by William T. Goat, Esq. on Aug 29, 2024 18:54:08 GMT -5
What did I ever do to deserve being stuck at the mechanic where they’re blasting Journey’s Greatest Hits? you stopped believing
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Post by Some Kind of Munster on Sept 8, 2024 20:40:59 GMT -5
The best Oasis song is “Hold on Hope” by Guided by Voices
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Post by ganews on Sept 8, 2024 23:20:34 GMT -5
We spent the day in Albuquerque, and the rental car came set to the "alternative" rock station. Their playlist was almost entirely unchanged from what it would have been when Breaking Bad was set here 20 years ago. Any why would it? Anybody currently younger than 35 isn't listening to terrestrial radio anyway.
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Post by pantsgoblin on Sept 9, 2024 8:24:23 GMT -5
We spent the day in Albuquerque, and the rental car came set to the "alternative" rock station. Their playlist was almost entirely unchanged from what it would have been when Breaking Bad was set here 20 years ago. Any why would it? Anybody currently younger than 35 isn't listening to terrestrial radio anyway. Easily 40% of that station's programming is Smashing Pumpkins and I'm fairly certain Corgan owns a stake in it.
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Post by Jean-Luc Lemur on Sept 10, 2024 13:12:38 GMT -5
There’s a certain smugness when an album you’ve had for years gets a rerelease: on the one hand there’s “cool they’re releasing this” on the other “well they didn’t need to rerelease *my* album.” I felt this a while back with Ryuichi Sakamoto’s Esperanto, where I’m pretty sure the rerelease has meant really jacked up prices on the original (can’t imagine getting my pristine-copy-w/obi strip copy for like $20 today).
I’m currently feeling this a bit with the rerelease of Susumu Yokota’s Acid Mount Fuji. When I got this ~9 years ago it was my first encounter with people asking ridiculous amounts of money on discogs (like 200€) only for me to find it for an order of magnitude less a couple weeks later.
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Post by ganews on Sept 13, 2024 9:53:09 GMT -5
We spent the day in Albuquerque, and the rental car came set to the "alternative" rock station. Their playlist was almost entirely unchanged from what it would have been when Breaking Bad was set here 20 years ago. Any why would it? Anybody currently younger than 35 isn't listening to terrestrial radio anyway. Easily 40% of that station's programming is Smashing Pumpkins and I'm fairly certain Corgan owns a stake in it. He must be a big Red Hot Chili Peppers fan then, because they seemed to be on constantly. I felt like Nick Cave.
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Post by LazBro on Sept 16, 2024 7:58:00 GMT -5
Easily 40% of that station's programming is Smashing Pumpkins and I'm fairly certain Corgan owns a stake in it. He must be a big Red Hot Chili Peppers fan then, because they seemed to be on constantly. I felt like Nick Cave. Here in DFW you can't make it through 10 minutes of channel surfing without hearing some Chili Peppers. But credit to them, they have a LOT of radio staples.
Just compared to what you hear of their contemporaries (using that loosely):
Pearl Jam: Alive, Evenflow, maaaaaaybe Jeremy
Sublime: Santeria, Doin' Time, maaaaaaybe Wrong Way
Stone Temple Pilots: Creep, Plush, maaaaaybe Interstate Love Song
Smashing Pumpkins: 1979, Today, maaaaaaybe Tonight, Tonight
Weezer: Buddy Holly, Undone (Sweater Song), maaaaaybe Hash Pipe or Beverly Hills
Green Day: Basket Case, Jaded/Brain Stew, and then it's all American Idiot or later
Soundgarden: Black Hole Sun
Oasis: Wonderwall, Champagne Supernova, maaaaaaaaybe Don't Look Back in Anger
And then you've got the Peppers, from whom on any given day you might hear:
Red Hot Chili Peppers: Give It Away, Higher Ground, Under the Bridge, Breaking the Girl, Aeroplane, Scar Tissue, Soul to Squeeze, Otherside, Californication, By the Way, Can't Stop, Dani California, Snow (Hey Oh)
Our local rock and mix stations regularly play ALL of these. In terms of sheer number of different tracks, I think only Nirvana comes close.
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Post by Some Kind of Munster on Sept 16, 2024 9:50:02 GMT -5
He must be a big Red Hot Chili Peppers fan then, because they seemed to be on constantly. I felt like Nick Cave.
Sublime: Santeria, Doin' Time, maaaaaaybe Wrong Way
Hang on here, how is "What I Got" not one of the Sublime songs that gets played every day? I feel like that's the one I hear the most on "modern rock" radio
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Post by LazBro on Sept 16, 2024 9:56:37 GMT -5
Sublime: Santeria, Doin' Time, maaaaaaybe Wrong Way
Hang on here, how is "What I Got" not one of the Sublime songs that gets played every day? I feel like that's the one I hear the most on "modern rock" radio "What I Got" is really rare here, which is disappointing, because I'd take that over "Santeria" 10 out of 10 times.
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