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euphronius posted:Why is rock and roll seemingly dead? It's this Tony Jowns posted:anyone who says "x genre of art is dead" is actually saying "i'm too lazy to look for the good stuff and would rather complain about the youth" Also it's that the radio promotes lovely rock, also bands are lingering around for a long-rear end time so everything feels like dad rock. For example, off the top of my head, Foo Fighters, Weezer, and Green Day are all nearly 20 years old. Think about that
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rock's not completely dead but it's in the same revisionist phase jazz has been in since the mid-70s which people often mistake for decline. rap will get there eventually too, probably sooner
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Aug 22, 2014 03:28
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Reminder that Macklemore won a Grammy
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Aug 22, 2014 03:31
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All I ask out of music is a sweet instrumental solo.
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if you want to talk about an artistically bankrupt medium, nashville's current obsession with 80s buttrock is a prime target
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DemeaninDemon posted:All I ask out of music is a sweet instrumental solo. I know they're old and made some poo poo albums in the mid-90s to mid-2000s, but I gotta say I was pleasantly surprised by Metallica's Death Magnetic when it came out. Maybe this is that Aging Metalhead Syndrome everyone's been warning me I'd hit sometime in this point of my life  euphronius posted:The last good rock and roll album I can remember was American Idiot. Hahaha, Green Day as anything other than a pop act. You're precious.
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visceril posted:Reminder that Macklemore won a Grammy Pretty sure Simpsons made jokes about the Grammys being bad when the years when the season number was still single digit.
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euphronius posted:The last good rock and roll album I can remember was American Idiot. You have some good sports opinions but this is an offensive post and I will be reporting you to the Music Gestapo.
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Aug 22, 2014 04:03
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mdemone posted:aestheticization of politic a good book: http://www.amazon.com/Hitler-Power-Aesthetics-Frederic-Spotts/dp/1585673455
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ReindeerF posted:Courtesy of Xylo, the proto-goon: For anyone who still, mysteriously, has not clicked the link, a brief summary: in 1986, a 20 year old guy walks off into the woods of Maine and avoids all other humans for 27 years. But because he had zero survival training and had never even gone camping, he survived by stealing things from campers and winter cabins. Toilet paper, laundry detergent, hand sanitizer, shampoo, soap, junk food, an entire bed, a Gameboy (with Pokemon cartridge), Tom Clancy novels, disposable razors, watches, propane tanks. quote:Candy! Always good. Ten rolls of Smarties, stuffed in a pocket. Then, into his backpack, a bag of marshmallows, two tubs of ground coffee, some Humpty Dumpty potato chips. Burgers and bacon were in the locked freezer. On a previous raid at Pine Tree, he'd stolen a key to the walk-in, and now he used it to open the stainless-steel door.
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Aug 22, 2014 04:18
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euphronius posted:The last good rock and roll album I can remember was American Idiot. Since you're apparently me in 8th grade, hey: buy some pants that aren't cargo pants and get a real haircut
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Chantilly Say posted:Since you're apparently me in 8th grade, hey: buy some pants that aren't cargo pants and get a real haircut No matter how hard you shout into the void of time, Chantilly Say, your younger self won't hear.
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Aug 22, 2014 04:22
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that guy is a national treasure and he did nothing wrong
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Aug 22, 2014 04:23
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Chantilly Say posted:Since you're apparently me in 8th grade, hey: buy some pants that aren't cargo pants and get a real haircut someone in 8th grade would have been 4 when american idiot came out ... well gently caress now i feel old
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Speaking of goons arguing about their terrible taste in music as it converges with politics, I got lost in Wikipedia during a slow day at work and apparently the Flaming Lips' "Do You Realize??" was on the verge of becoming Oklahoma's official state rock song in 2009 until some shitheel Republicans blocked it in the state's House, the reason being that one of the band members wore a shirt with a hammer and sickle on it one time. The governor had to issue an executive order to get it through 
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Georgia has the best state song hands down. Done. Although both Maryland and Tennessee have songs with lyrics that reference shooting and/or killing representatives of the federal government. boner confessor fucked around with this message at 04:52 on Aug 22, 2014 |
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Aug 22, 2014 04:40
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Only when Ray Charles sings it, yeah.
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Aug 22, 2014 04:47
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nutranurse posted:Only when Ray Charles sings it, yeah. It's officially only the Ray Charles version. The Willie Nelson version nor any other version doesn't count. I guess since he died we're hosed.
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Aug 22, 2014 04:48
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Richard III is firmly in my top 10 favorite movies to watch on a horribly hungover afternoon.
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Aug 22, 2014 04:49
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cheerfullydrab posted:Richard III is firmly in my top 10 favorite movies to watch on a horribly hungover afternoon. My go-to Shakespeare hangover movie is Titus. I dunno why people pass over that play so much, it's just so great and awesome and even though it's one of Shakespeare's more weedley 'haha look at me fuckers im educated and stuff' plays I love it to pieces.
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australia's unofficial national anthem is about a homeless suicidal thief and that's why australia is a great country
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nutranurse posted:My go-to Shakespeare hangover movie is Titus. I dunno why people pass over that play so much, it's just so great and awesome and even though it's one of Shakespeare's more weedley 'haha look at me fuckers im educated and stuff' plays I love it to pieces. Paths of Glory, that's a loving awesome hangover movie.
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Wolfsheim posted:Speaking of goons arguing about their terrible taste in music as it converges with politics, I got lost in Wikipedia during a slow day at work and apparently the Flaming Lips' "Do You Realize??" was on the verge of becoming Oklahoma's official state rock song in 2009 until some shitheel Republicans blocked it in the state's House, the reason being that one of the band members wore a shirt with a hammer and sickle on it one time. The governor had to issue an executive order to get it through This got me curious, and holy poo poo the California official song is absolutely horrid. Adopted in 1913, written by a businessman, just the worst thing ever. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giLxEvWfB-E
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If you haven't heard Rocky Top, which is an official state song of Tennessee, and pretty much a ballad about a bunch of sister-loving, other-hatin', corn-squeezin' drinkin', no-'lectricity havin' people, then you owe it to yourself to listen carefully to the lyrics. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_n9prNixjbg Don't need no infernal TELLYPHONES. ReindeerF fucked around with this message at 05:25 on Aug 22, 2014 |
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Aug 22, 2014 05:23
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i thought the girl in question was half bear, half cat or some poo poo, which is far more interesting than plain ol' sister fuckin' chimeras and poo poo in the hills
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Frankly I'm too drunk to follow those lyrics, which might be in the spirit of the whole thing.
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comes along bort posted:i thought the girl in question was half bear, half cat or some poo poo, which is far more interesting than plain ol' sister fuckin'
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GhostofJohnMuir posted:Frankly I'm too drunk to follow those lyrics, which might be in the spirit of the whole thing. Once two strangers climbed ole Rocky Top, Lookin' for a moonshine still. Strangers ain't come down from Rocky Top, Reckon they never will. Corn won't grow at all on Rocky Top, Dirt's too rocky by far. That's why all the folks on Rocky Top, get their corn from a jar. It's easy to be jealous of a song that has its poo poo together to this level.
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Popular Thug Drink posted:Once two strangers climbed ole Rocky Top, that's actually wholly legit. do all states have an 'official song' along these lines?
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Tony Jowns posted:that's actually wholly legit. do all states have an 'official song' along these lines? The tremendous majority of them suck. Tennessee has like a dozen because they love music there, and Rocky Top is the only really good one. I think New Jersey is the only one without a state song. One of Colorado's two state songs is Rocky Mountain High. Massachussets has a state polka, which is impressively caucasian. New Mexico has an official Spanish language song, an official bilingual song, and an official 'cowboy song'. West Virginia has Take Me Home Country Roads, so maybe John Denver missed his calling as a legislature-friendly songwriter? Three states have official rock songs, the only cool one is Oklahoma if only because the Flaming Lips were still cool in 2001. boner confessor fucked around with this message at 06:13 on Aug 22, 2014 |
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Tony Jowns posted:that's actually wholly legit. do all states have an 'official song' along these lines? yeah, here's my state's song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6MSF88UVBc
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Popular Thug Drink posted:One of Colorado's two state songs is Rocky Mountain High.
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XyloJW posted:yeah, here's my state's song that's loving brutal and rad as hell all my state has is an amanda palmer song which: welp https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3B8omCWBl8s
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Popular Thug Drink posted:...if only because the Flaming Lips were still cool in 2001. The Flaming Lips have never stopped being cool and I'm not gonna tolerate other views on this.
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Vermont's official song mentions sycamore trees and meadowlarks because the man who wrote it was from Ohio and never visited Vermont.
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Why does the media keep calling that group ISIS? Is it because it makes them sound like a villain from an 80's cartoon?
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cheerfullydrab posted:Why does the media keep calling that group ISIS? Is it because it makes them sound like a villain from an 80's cartoon? And Obama prefers calling them "ISIL". 
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Joementum posted:Vermont's official song mentions sycamore trees and meadowlarks because the man who wrote it was from Ohio and never visited Vermont. South Carolina's state song was adapted from a poem written by a Confederate during the Civil War as part of a recruitment effort! 
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