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I know they don't get a lot of play here, but it feels like this video is important enough to merit mentioning here in this thread: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14WUuya94QE If you find the format of the try guys to be a lot, you'll be pleased to hear that this is a documentary style, Eugene is the only one of the try guys to show up, and it's very interesting to boot. Glad they're using their platform to send these kinds of messages.
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Mar 24, 2021 23:55
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Even as a Load apologist I don't have a lot of good things to say about St. Anger. I think the title track is good and Some Kind of Monster is decent (if overlong) but other than that it's such a trudge.
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Mar 25, 2021 00:37
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cool kids inc. posted:I know they don't get a lot of play here, but it feels like this video is important enough to merit mentioning here in this thread: yea Try Guys are hit or miss for me ranging from 'these guys do seem fairly charming' to 'oh my god shut up' depending on my mood, but this is a really good way for them to use their huge platform and I have nothing but respect for the bravery that's needed to talk about things like this.
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Mar 25, 2021 01:11
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For a moment there I thought "try guy" was a new term for a long-form Youtuber.
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Mar 25, 2021 01:14
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BrianWilly posted:Alright sure Justice League was a movie but you know what's also a movie but different? Civil War! Literally just now I saw it referred to as the one that the Winter Soldier is better than, which is fair, but I still like it so here's a new video about it:
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Mar 25, 2021 02:05
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St. Anger....hey, at least the film was cool I guess. What an awful album. Like, it's not just "Metallica plays nu metal", it's "Metallica plays absolute dogshit nu metal that would be awful even when compared to the very worst of the genre", mixed up with the worst production they'd ever had on a record (which is saying A LOT). It's like everything about the band that was good just completely and totally left them, possibly never to return. Thank bloody god then that Death Magnetic was a lot better. I still chuck a lot of songs from that one on now and then. I'm more inclined to go with Megadeth these days, mind -- In the classic periods anyway. Metallica...just never did a Rust In Peace. Dave Mustaine may be a complete cock but that kind of is the perfect Metal album.
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Mar 25, 2021 02:34
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BrianWilly posted:Alright sure Justice League was a movie but you know what's also a movie but different? Civil War! Literally just now I saw it referred to as the one that the Winter Soldier is better than, which is fair, but I still like it so here's a new video about it: I think this is really good
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Mar 25, 2021 03:14
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And in some sad news...  https://twitter.com/ProZD/status/1374952756100747267 https://twitter.com/ProZD/status/1374953915800637445 But Sungwon is going to do another Lets Play channel so that's good atleast  https://twitter.com/ProZD/status/1374954794347978757
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Mar 25, 2021 06:46
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Two couldnt play at that game
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Mar 25, 2021 10:22
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FuturePastNow posted:I think this is really good Ghostlight posted:I liked this, but could have done with more Greek mythology. Get all that mythology up in there.  I'd seriously considered doing intro-to-mythology videos at some point if I ever find the time, though it may devolve into me whining about Ovid a lotWell, the next video is planned to be about Wonder Woman, which splits the difference a lil' bit.
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Mar 25, 2021 11:40
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Kim Justice posted:Thank bloody god then that Death Magnetic was a lot better. I still chuck a lot of songs from that one on now and then. I always kind of wondered about Death Magnetic because I don't think I've heard a track off of it save All Nightmare Long, and that because I heard it harkened back to the band doing songs based on Lovecraft's stuff. (And the answer there was 'sort of, kinda.')
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Mar 25, 2021 13:42
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I'm currently listening to St. Anger all the way through for the first time, inspired by Todd's video. I heard the title track and "Frantic" around the time it came out, and/or via Guitar Hero. I joined in the mockery like everyone else but I've always been morbidly curious to hear the whole thing. 2 songs in: "I've made a huge mistake." And those are the ones I've actually heard before! It's just so bad, in ways that are hard to summarize. It really is like a first draft. In addition to sounding horrendous, the songs just go on and on and on with no actual flow, no rise and fall, no buildup. Just repetition of song fragments in seemingly random order with barely any transitions between them. Like halfway through "Frantic" I always end up thinking "Well this sounds like embarrassing garbage, but maybe if you changed the mix here and there..." but then it just. Keeps. Going. Dawgstar posted:I always kind of wondered about Death Magnetic because I don't think I've heard a track off of it save All Nightmare Long, and that because I heard it harkened back to the band doing songs based on Lovecraft's stuff. (And the answer there was 'sort of, kinda.') It's pretty solid, just skip the official release and go straight for the Guitar Hero rip. They drastically overcompressed it so that it's painful to listen to, but the GH rip is really dynamic, even if maybe it could use a little EQ to boost the bass and stuff. Some of the songs are overlong, but overall it's pretty good Metallica. Better than the more recent album (Hardwired) which had its highlights, but once again has production issues which are harder to fix this time. It just sounds very sterile like nothing was recorded in the same room.
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Mar 25, 2021 15:18
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Mar 25, 2021 15:19
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Count me in on "I can't hear MY LIFESTYLE, DETERMINES MY DEATHSTYLE without laughing pretty hard, additionally thanks to Matt"
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Mar 25, 2021 15:22
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For people who are interested in this sort of thing, Kyle Kallgren is airing the first part of his look at Starship Troopers as a franchise later today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5bHLrGBUKo
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Mar 25, 2021 15:45
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When I first heard the words “MY LIFESTYLE DETERMINES MY DEATHSTYLE”, I legit thought it was Weird Al singing. It’s just so silly.
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Mar 25, 2021 17:01
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Dawgstar posted:I always kind of wondered about Death Magnetic because I don't think I've heard a track off of it save All Nightmare Long, and that because I heard it harkened back to the band doing songs based on Lovecraft's stuff. (And the answer there was 'sort of, kinda.') I like it and second what Sir Lemming says. It's derivative of course in that you've basically got your classic thrash-type songs (Cyanide/That Was Just Your Life etc.), your One/Fade to Black metal ballad (The Day That Never Comes), your epic instrumental (Suicide and Redemption) -- nothing like that's in any way original but they're all good runs of stuff the band's done before and certainly at the time, everyone was grateful of Metallica going back to the '80s and doing it well. Lars' drum sound is still poo poo of course. All Nightmare Long is probably the most "modern"-y song on the record. Bit of a different sound there to the norm. Funnily enough it's probably my favourite on the album. It kinda feels like what St. Anger could have sounded like if it was good and actually a more inspired attempt by the band to make a sonically relevant record.
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Mar 25, 2021 17:03
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Even though I consider it a weaker record than Death Magnetic, the last song on their last album "Spit Out The Bone" is probably the best they've done in ages, and it has an awesomely cheesy video to go along with it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m46Z0-HXySo
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Mar 25, 2021 17:43
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the best metallica album is clearly Lulu https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adyC404_gEk
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Mar 25, 2021 20:48
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I miss Lou Reed.
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Mar 25, 2021 20:49
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I really like "The Unnamed Feeling" because the early guitar sounds like NES Metroid music.
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Mar 25, 2021 21:00
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Arcsquad12 posted:I miss Lou Reed. I put a goofy meme, but I genuinely do like Lulu on some level. Hearing Lou Reed and Metallica gently caress around and make something different...was really nice.
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Mar 25, 2021 21:03
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the actual worst Metallica song isn't even from St. Anger, it's from the Biker Boyz soundtrack https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqM3Z3rWlAI
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Mar 25, 2021 21:06
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I'm gonna go all "unpopular opinion" here for a moment, but imo Metallica has always kinda sucked when it comes to the sound quality on their albums. Even their supposedly-poppy self-titled kind of sounds - I guess not quite like rear end, but kind of decidedly leaning towards the direction of rear end. I'd say out of the Big Four of thrash metal bands Metallica is by far the suckiest-sounding (not touching on songwriting/live performances/all that, just talking purely about recorded material) So I'd say St. Anger is not that out of character for them in all honesty. With some appropriate songwriting it could've even worked. It's just that its songwriting is not quite there, really, so we are left only with bonk
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Mar 25, 2021 21:32
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nurmie posted:I'm gonna go all "unpopular opinion" here for a moment, but imo Metallica has always kinda sucked when it comes to the sound quality on their albums. Even their supposedly-poppy self-titled kind of sounds - I guess not quite like rear end, but kind of decidedly leaning towards the direction of rear end. I'd say out of the Big Four of thrash metal bands Metallica is by far the suckiest-sounding (not touching on songwriting/live performances/all that, just talking purely about recorded material) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z77Z4ckED-w
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Mar 25, 2021 21:40
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nurmie posted:I'm gonna go all "unpopular opinion" here for a moment, but imo Metallica has always kinda sucked when it comes to the sound quality on their albums. Even their supposedly-poppy self-titled kind of sounds - I guess not quite like rear end, but kind of decidedly leaning towards the direction of rear end. I'd say out of the Big Four of thrash metal bands Metallica is by far the suckiest-sounding (not touching on songwriting/live performances/all that, just talking purely about recorded material) I think early Metallica has a punk vibe to it in terms of production. It's not GOOD but it sounds raw, which IMHO made them stand out from their peers - Megadeth sounds closer to Iron Maiden than Metallica, for instance. The issue with St. Anger is that it's both sterile production AND it's trying to get that Kill 'Em All sound at the same time via TERRIBLE decisions (that snare drum...), so it's just the worst of two worlds. Then you add the awful songwriting to the mix and they just sound like a bad high school metal band.
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Mar 25, 2021 21:55
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nurmie posted:I'm gonna go all "unpopular opinion" here for a moment, but imo Metallica has always kinda sucked when it comes to the sound quality on their albums. Not an unpopular opinion at all, it was even mentioned in Todd's video. I don't think any Metallica album is considered to be an especially good example of how a record should sound.
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Mar 25, 2021 22:05
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Metallica have mostly had lousy arse production. I think that punky sound works good for Kill 'Em All but t's way iffier for Lightning and Puppets 'cause a lot of those songs don't really have that same punkiness to them. Kill 'Em All is actually one of the better sounding records in the whole discography. And Justice For All is a sonic crime. My god, the production is horrid. And that's BEFORE they turned down Jason and decided that nah, they'd rather not have any actual bass on the thing because gently caress the newbie. But I suppose that's one of the things that always pisses me off about the early Metallica records - even freaking Cliff struggles to be heard a lot of the time thanks to how badly they're produced. Like, it was really helpful when Guitar Hero and Rock Band came out and you actually had isolated Cliff tracks to screw around with and see exactly what he was playing, because previously on some songs it was bloody guesswork. And this is one of the greatest and most influential metal bassists ever we're talking about -- poor Jason didn't stand a chance. Again, isolated GH/RB tracks were bloody great to actually hear the very cool stuff he plays on record -- different to Cliff but still VERY good. Jeez..it's a good job the songs are good enough on these first four albums to make this production an annoyance more than anything. The '90s albums...well, they sound like Bob Rock production. Black Album is so dated. Load and Reload are better suited to it, I guess. St. Anger we've been through. Death Magnetic is a compression wars nightmare. It's...yeah. A constant problem for the band.
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Mar 25, 2021 22:10
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As weak as Metallica's post-80s material could get, they did also make their best song over 30 years after their debut. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RETgWcV_lPs
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Mar 25, 2021 22:28
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I'm not big into metalica but I do rember a lot of complaints from the time about Death Magnetic blowing out peoples speakers. Iirc people were ripping the album from its release as Rockband DLC as the actual album was unlistenable on high end speakers. Edit: did a goigle just make sure I'm not half remembering some bollocks, turns out it was Guitar Hero 3 dlc lol https://www.audioholics.com/news/metallica-death-magnetic-sounds-better-on-guitar-hero-iii Mr Phillby fucked around with this message at 22:53 on Mar 25, 2021 |
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Mar 25, 2021 22:50
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Metallica is a decent cover band. They do alright covers of Blue Oyster Cult and Ennio Morricone.
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Mar 26, 2021 01:20
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When they tossed Phil Spector's corpse into a deep hole did they also throw in the Beatles tapes he meddled with?
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Mar 26, 2021 01:24
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Arcsquad12 posted:For people who are interested in this sort of thing, Kyle Kallgren is airing the first part of his look at Starship Troopers as a franchise later today:
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Mar 26, 2021 01:24
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Supersonic Shine posted:It's a drat good watch. I could swear I heard that "sheepdog" line of thinking being espoused by conservative gun owners somewhere... Have I got a video for you! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vRJgCEWUXE
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Mar 26, 2021 02:14
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im so glad karl included the horse cum bible verse
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Mar 26, 2021 02:34
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There was a company that made a Metallica brand whiskey that was getting clowned on in the Stupid Music poo poo thread, so I browsed there website and there’s a video where Hetfield is wearing what looks like a 3 percenter tshirt.
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Mar 26, 2021 03:04
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsTmkCGYrPk This guy showed up in my recommendations and he's talking about Killzone which I find a pretty drat interesting experiment as an FPS series. It's excellent. Arc Hammer fucked around with this message at 06:01 on Mar 26, 2021 |
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Mar 26, 2021 03:39
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Arcsquad12 posted:For people who are interested in this sort of thing, Kyle Kallgren is airing the first part of his look at Starship Troopers as a franchise later today: 
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Mar 26, 2021 05:17
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Arcsquad12 posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsTmkCGYrPk Also that's just part 1 of a 2 part series, so here's the follow up https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8R-vYGPhfE It's nice after years of futilely screaming the same sentiments into the digital void through Let's Plays to finally be proven right by an outside source.
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Mar 26, 2021 09:08
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This came up in my youtube recommendations and I put it on expecting to just skip past all the buildup and history to when the record happened... but then I got sucked in and watched the whole thing. I enjoyed it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_b67SC7Y4qA
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Mar 26, 2021 09:25
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