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Wheat Loaf posted:As far as guitar-playing goes, I like to think of Sister Rosetta Tharpe as the true first rock and roll guitarist. She was so ahead of her time that just the idea of a woman (let alone a black woman) "playing like a man" was shocking enough to scare people away. She literally played guitar so well that it made white dudes uncomfortable.
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chitoryu12 posted:She was so ahead of her time that just the idea of a woman (let alone a black woman) "playing like a man" was shocking enough to scare people away. She literally played guitar so well that it made white dudes uncomfortable. I have a few Clara Ward live albums (the best is Gospel Concert from 1960) and like a lot of Rosetta Tharpe's playing and singing they rock harder than most rock and roll singers who were recording at the same time, except Little Richard (whose favourite singer was Rosetta Tharpe), Larry Williams and Jerry Lee Lewis.
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Rock n' roll and the controversies thereof is really just the story of how white teens started listening to race music until their parents got uncomfortable. The advent of heavy metal and weird electronic music in the 70s and 80s is the story of how American teens started listening to European music until their parents got uncomfortable.
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What about boring music like Drake? The world is so scary now people find comfort in the most uninteresting sounding music possible.
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I’m Boney, I’m Boney, leave me aloney
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Mu Zeta posted:What about boring music like Drake? The world is so scary now people find comfort in the most uninteresting sounding music possible. Pop music has always been the most boring, milquetoast music imaginable. The only thing that's changed is the popular genre for it.
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chitoryu12 posted:Pop music has always been the most boring, milquetoast music imaginable. The only thing that's changed is the popular genre for it. It's true, but I'm a big fan of Mel Tormé myself. 
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Aug 4, 2018 21:33
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I remember watching Weinerville before school every day. IIRC, there was like this crushing machine that they used for the audience participation. Wasn't there like a christmas special with a ton of weird poo poo, too?
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Iron Crowned posted:The africanized honey bees were routed by colder northern temperatures and certain mountain ranges, so everyone outside of the southwestern deserts stopped giving a poo poo. And everyone here realized the bees never do gently caress all, because all the bees are Africanized now and don't attack you for poo poo.
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Aug 7, 2018 03:48
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Nickelodeon often showed Weinerville in the same time block as What Would You Do? which was a similar audience participation show but without cartoons or anything resembling a narrative. And the answer to "What Would You Do?" was almost always "get hit with pies". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_zHXxGwzfY Marc Summers hated working on the show, and it wasn't because of his OCD. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfI5a_T0VAY
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Happy birthday David Duchovny https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wijp4-3giNw
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Howard Beale posted:Nickelodeon often showed Weinerville in the same time block as What Would You Do? which was a similar audience participation show but without cartoons or anything resembling a narrative. And the answer to "What Would You Do?" was almost always "get hit with pies". And then he got on Double Dare. For a guy with OCD he sure ended up with a messy career.
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I was thinking about Iconic 90s cars, and I remembered the Suzuki Samurai I'd see these constantly in the summer, seemed really popular among people in their 20s. They seemed to be like a Miata in marketing, but a 4x4 (I think).
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That samurai is right up there with the Geo Tracker in the race for "Cars that your high school science teacher drove".
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twistedmentat posted:I was thinking about Iconic 90s cars, and I remembered the Suzuki Samurai I can't get over how much the car looks like a fake painting but the people look real. Like those bags that are designed to look 2D.
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twistedmentat posted:I was thinking about Iconic 90s cars, and I remembered the Suzuki Samurai I imagine that driving that thing up a mountain to go skiing would be a joy.
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They're actually quite popular and capable as offroad vehicles.
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This is probably going to sound completely ignorant, but the 90s feel like the last time we had a lot of small economy cars that had a lot of personality to them, if nothing else. Once the 00s wore around, that class of car just seemed to just not be as interesting, even if we got a bunch of designs that go from the extreme of super curvy to super boxy.
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Tbh, cars lately seem kind of boring, design-wise.
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twistedmentat posted:I was thinking about Iconic 90s cars, and I remembered the Suzuki Samurai I know the hang-glider is in the distance but man the perspective looks so much like its a tiny person standing on the car
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Zaphod42 posted:I know the hang-glider is in the distance but man the perspective looks so much like its a tiny person standing on the car No, that IS a tiny person with a stunt kite in the background. It was the 90s afterall.
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wesleywillis posted:They're actually quite popular and capable as offroad vehicles. I'm sure, but the requirement to wear a winter coat in a two person vehicle doesn't seem like a lot of fun. JediTalentAgent posted:This is probably going to sound completely ignorant, but the 90s feel like the last time we had a lot of small economy cars that had a lot of personality to them, if nothing else. I'd say that "used bar of soap" shape for all cars ran from about 1993 until 2007.
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Xenoletum posted:That samurai is right up there with the Geo Tracker in the race for "Cars that your high school science teacher drove". I saw them everywhere when my family went to Myrtle Beach for vacation and my parents had not looked into it but it overlapped with the start of spring break. I saw tons of these driven around by the college girls. I've always associated them with that. 90s cars I always associate with a what I think of as a lot of futuristic designs. Like the Tarus, while being from the late 80s heralded the design. the ultimate in that was clearly the Previa, but there was also the Ford Probe and some others than had the roundish design we associate with sci fi stuff around the time. That reminds me of when two new luxery brands were released. Lexus caught on pretty well, but I cannot remember the last time i saw an Infinity. I see Lambos and McLarens more often than them. Also the 90s was the birth of the SUV and all that poo poo. But yea modern cars all have this weird, agressive look to them. Like they all want to be the Batmobile or something; heavy, brutal design that also look speedy.
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wesleywillis posted:They're actually quite popular and capable as offroad vehicles. My first car was a Samurai with 30 inch mud tires that my friend affectionately called "Tin Can Destroyer." That car loving owned for throwing three people into, getting high, and cruising around town with the top off. Just don't take a corner too fast.
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Beastie posted:My first car was a Samurai with 30 inch mud tires that my friend affectionately called "Tin Can Destroyer." I guess they were a bit different than the sidekick, but I know people who refer to the side kicks as "side flips".
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wesleywillis posted:I guess they were a bit different than the sidekick, but I know people who refer to the side kicks as "side flips". They're very popular among the 4x4 crowd as they are super cheap, you can drop certain Jetta engines into them, and they only need about 3 different tools to take apart. Mine looked a lot like this minus the camo: 
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DicktheCat posted:Tbh, cars lately seem kind of boring, design-wise. I mean all cars seem boring when theyre contemporary? The 90s were some ugly rear end fuckin cars tho.
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Saint Freak posted:Happy birthday David Duchovny Holy poo poo, this music video turns into a who's who of '90s film and TV by the end. It's the entire thread in 5 minutes.
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Parkingtigers posted:Holy poo poo, this music video turns into a who's who of '90s film and TV by the end. It's the entire thread in 5 minutes. Hah they even have his wife in there. Also crazy that Brad Pitt at this time was willing to do something like this.
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twistedmentat posted:Hah they even have his wife in there. Also crazy that Brad Pitt at this time was willing to do something like this. Brad Pitt guest-starred on Friends after this was filmed, granted his wife was on the show, but still
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Grassy Knowles posted:Brad Pitt guest-starred on Friends after this was filmed, granted his wife was on the show, but still Still, he feels like such a huge star that being on TV or a jokey video would seem strange for him now. Friends was by far the biggest show of the 90s, I'd even say more so than Seinfeld. I was talking with a slightly older coworker and we were talking about how many Talk Shows were around in the 90s. We could name a bunch; Oprah, Donahue, Sally Jesse Raphael, Geraldo ( laugh because now he defends Nazis when one punched him in the face), Maury, Montell Williams, Marsha Warfield, Maury, Ricki Lake, Morton Downy Jr, Jenny Jones and of course Springer. There were probably more, and many of these started in the 80s, the 90s really had a huge hayday of these things. Sorta related was the late night talk shows. You still had Letterman and the Tonight Show, and if you were lucky Carson would actually host once and a while, but eventually it was just Leno. Conan starts, but then we had Chevy Chase, Arsenio, Joan Rivers, If you were in Canada you had Mike Bullard and local to Ontario Ed's Night Party later Ed and Red's Night Party. I remember watching Tom Snyder as he would have really indepth interviews with people I was interested in at the time. Later was something I only saw once and a white because in Atlantic Time it was only at like 3am, and like hell could i stay up that late.
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Thanks for the list
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Cool but the phrase is "every once in a while.
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That's an excerpt from the upcoming Ready Player Two: The Late Night Wars
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twistedmentat posted:Still, he feels like such a huge star that being on TV or a jokey video would seem strange for him now. Friends was by far the biggest show of the 90s, I'd even say more so than Seinfeld. Daytime talk shows still exist, but I think the difference is the ones in the 90's involved randos airing their poo poo on TV for their 15 minutes of fame, so they were dirt cheap to produce. Daytime talk shows today lack that particular trashiness, and are mostly about celebrities plugging their latest venture in a themed environment.
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twistedmentat posted:Still, he feels like such a huge star that being on TV or a jokey video would seem strange for him now. Friends was by far the biggest show of the 90s, I'd even say more so than Seinfeld. The Bree Sharp video was put together by the producers of X-Files, and it was only meant to be shown at the X-Files christmas party. Friends was big, but it was still the star of Seven/Years in Tibet getting paid to be on a sitcom with a laugh track as opposed to a few seconds of footage for a joke. And Brad Pitt is currently the weatherman for Jim Jeffries show on Comedy Central, dude smokes a lot of weed and appreciates jokes. twistedmentat posted:I remember watching Tom Snyder as he would have really indepth interviews with people I was interested in at the time. Later was something I only saw once and a white because in Atlantic Time it was only at like 3am, and like hell could i stay up that late. Tom Snyder owned, now lets sit back with some simul/colortinis.
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Iron Crowned posted:Daytime talk shows still exist, but I think the difference is the ones in the 90's involved randos airing their poo poo on TV for their 15 minutes of fame, so they were dirt cheap to produce. Daytime talk shows today lack that particular trashiness, and are mostly about celebrities plugging their latest venture in a themed environment. Yea, I mean there's the View and Ellen, but there seemed to nothing but them in the 90s during the day. Thank god for Nintendo for when you're sick, because otherwise you'd be stuck watching people who had never heard of plug movies you'd never seen or really depressing and horrible stories about people being rescued from cults and such. Grassy Knowles posted:The Bree Sharp video was put together by the producers of X-Files, and it was only meant to be shown at the X-Files christmas party. Friends was big, but it was still the star of Seven/Years in Tibet getting paid to be on a sitcom with a laugh track as opposed to a few seconds of footage for a joke. And Brad Pitt is currently the weatherman for Jim Jeffries show on Comedy Central, dude smokes a lot of weed and appreciates jokes. Those are both cool. quote:Tom Snyder owned, now lets sit back with some simul/colortinis. It was weird, because It was very clearly not made for some teen who was more interested in jokey jokes, but there was something fascinating with his interviews. Its kind of like how much I loved Homicide Life On The Street. Probably the most cerebral cop show of the time, but I could recognize a good show.
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twistedmentat posted:Yea, I mean there's the View and Ellen, but there seemed to nothing but them in the 90s during the day. Thank god for Nintendo for when you're sick, because otherwise you'd be stuck watching people who had never heard of plug movies you'd never seen or really depressing and horrible stories about people being rescued from cults and such. I had to watch soaps at my grandparents house.
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