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Sirius XM Lithium is playing a 20th anniversary interview with the surviving members of Nirvana. It's fun listening to them just be weirdo music nerds and talk about how they passed up on things like co-headlining tours because the thought of that was so alien to them.
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Iron Crowned posted:How about this: A slower punk / less technical metal music that heavily relies on a mixture of distortion AND overdrive guitar effects combined with simple 4/4 meter with a mildly dissonant sound mostly played in a minor key. You are either in two camps of grunge: The punk inspired simple grunge like Nirvana/Mudhoney/the Melvins. Or The progressive rock/metal inspired grunge like Soundgarden/Pearl Jam/Alice in Chains dialhforhero has a new favorite as of 21:53 on Sep 24, 2021 |
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Sep 24, 2021 21:49
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dialhforhero posted:You are either in two camps of grunge: lol what it is extremely easy to like all of those bands at once (i do not, because pearl jam are dad rock trash)
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Sep 24, 2021 22:01
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mactheknife posted:lol what it is extremely easy to like all of those bands at once (i do not, because pearl jam are dad rock trash) You can like all of those bands but they are clearly different subgroups in sound. Like if you can’t hear a big metal (at times even hair metal) kind of influence in Alice in Chains that is definitely not present in Nirvana then  However both are grunge. Look at their influences respectively and you’ll see the lineage. dialhforhero has a new favorite as of 22:40 on Sep 24, 2021 |
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Sep 24, 2021 22:38
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Trabant posted:
Can you post a link to it? I do love me some 90s edm. Also Tenchi Miyu is one of the most 90s of animes.
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Sep 25, 2021 21:50
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dialhforhero posted:A slower punk / less technical metal music that heavily relies on a mixture of distortion AND overdrive guitar effects combined with simple 4/4 meter with a mildly dissonant sound mostly played in a minor key. AIC and Soundgarden were often using non 4/4 time.
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Sep 25, 2021 22:02
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Seldom Posts posted:AIC and Soundgarden were often using non 4/4 time. That is what makes them progressive
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Sep 25, 2021 22:22
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Trabant posted:
Running in the 90’s thread
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Sep 25, 2021 23:19
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twistedmentat posted:Can you post a link to it? I do love me some 90s edm. Ah, I'm afraid I was originally dumb enough to set up Spotify with my Facebook account, so I'd be doxxing myself if I posted a link. But here are the terrible, wonderful songs I   
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Sep 26, 2021 00:17
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Trabant posted:Ah, I'm afraid I was originally dumb enough to set up Spotify with my Facebook account, so I'd be doxxing myself if I posted a link. But here are the terrible, wonderful songs I Oh poo poo lol I almost posted my 90s Playlist then realized that I had done the same thing. Not like I do t have lots of goon friends on fb from a long dead marvel game on there, maybe not a great idea. I say your just missing some Ebenezer Goode. I also like how many of these are exactly how I have them organized too.
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Sep 26, 2021 02:36
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https://youtu.be/XP5rakahDbs https://youtu.be/GeOSWLGKuaE
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Sep 26, 2021 06:22
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mactheknife posted:lol what it is extremely easy to like all of those bands at once (i do not, because pearl jam are dad rock trash) Years ago when Starbucks had those free iTunes singles cards at the counter I saw one for Vedder's solo album. He was strumming a banjo in a beached canoe on the shores of a lake and without thinking I yelled "Eddie No!" and everyone looked at me funny.
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Sep 26, 2021 18:39
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twistedmentat posted:I say your just missing some Ebenezer Goode. I also like how many of these are exactly how I have them organized too.  Also, this chat finally made me add KLF's stadium house trilogy (and its cousins) to the playlist. I always remember during the run, but I feel like utter poo poo afterwards that I never get around to it. Not this time! 
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Sep 26, 2021 18:47
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uber_stoat posted:Kurt was very outspoken about the music he liked and what his influences were. he never missed a chance to talk them up in interviews. Along the same lines, I'd recommend what is basically the Canadian version of this book: 
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Sep 26, 2021 19:32
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Trabant posted:
Excellent. Most people see them as just some weird house band that featured rappers, sorta proto gorrilaz, but in reality they were a weird art collective. White Room still slaps. Also the woman in the America what time is love video is burned into my mind. EDIT now i'm not phoneposting I can post that video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEeYtwwh3SE NSFW due to taped over nipples. It was certainly one of the sexiest things I'd seen on daytime tv at the time. I also recently realized Scooter's video for Weekend is a referance to this video, which explains why they're dressed as vikings and the topless dancers on the boat, but not the kids with H.P.'s face on them. That poo poo is nightmare fuel. twistedmentat has a new favorite as of 06:08 on Sep 27, 2021 |
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Sep 26, 2021 22:19
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twistedmentat posted:I also recently realized Scooter's video for Weekend is a referance to this video, which explains why they're dressed as vikings and the topless dancers on the boat, but not the kids with H.P.'s face on them. That poo poo is nightmare fuel. H.P. gave a shoutout to the KLF in the end of the song as well: ”Respect to the man in the ice-cream van”
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Sep 27, 2021 06:28
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j.peeba posted:H.P. gave a shoutout to the KLF in the end of the song as well: ”Respect to the man in the ice-cream van” A lot of their stuff references KLF, to such a point I thought Scooter was just a new incarnation.
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Sep 27, 2021 07:41
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  Since it's not obvious from the headline: JMS is writing and exec-producing. quote:The new iteration of the sci-fi series is described as a “from-the-ground-up reboot.” In the series, John Sheridan, an Earthforce officer with a mysterious background, is assigned to Babylon 5, a five-mile-long space station in neutral space, a port of call for travelers, smugglers, corporate explorers and alien diplomats at a time of uneasy peace and the constant threat of war. His arrival triggers a destiny beyond anything he could have imagined, as an exploratory Earth company accidentally triggers a conflict with a civilization a million years ahead of us, putting Sheridan and the rest of the B5 crew in the line of fire as the last, best hope for the survival of the human race. I suppose he had to change the story since we're not exactly decades away from the original run. *holds hand up to ear* I'm sorry, I'm being told that we are decades away from the original run.
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Sep 27, 2021 20:49
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hopefully the cg is good. i'd love to see some b5 space battles with graphics that don't look like poo poo.
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Sep 27, 2021 21:03
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uber_stoat posted:hopefully the cg is good. i'd love to see some b5 space battles with graphics that don't look like poo poo. They did not look like poo poo in 1996 
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Sep 27, 2021 21:09
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The original effects looked great 25 years ago, but the world has moved on. There are some HD versions out there, and the difference is pretty striking.
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Sep 27, 2021 21:19
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Yea, hopefully JMS will be given as much freedom as he got in the 90s AND more money.
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Sep 28, 2021 01:14
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Maybe not all the freedom, at least until we find out if it's Babylon 5 JMS or Everything before and after JMS.
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Sep 28, 2021 02:08
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Iron Crowned posted:They did not look like poo poo in 1996 I thought they looked like poo poo by the time I saw B5 in syndication in the early 2000s tho
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Sep 28, 2021 02:58
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Definitely looks worse than the star treks from the same time frame, though I guess those were models instead of cgi.
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Sep 28, 2021 03:01
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chglcu posted:Definitely looks worse than the star treks from the same time frame, though I guess those were models instead of cgi. DS9 and Voyager were the first to use CG, IIRC. Somebody correct me if I’m wrong, I’m too tired to Google it
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Ok Comboomer posted:DS9 and Voyager were the first to use CG, IIRC. Somebody correct me if I’m wrong, I’m too tired to Google it https://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/database/cgi.htm quote:The very first CGI created for Star Trek, was in "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan", where the Graphics Group of Lucasfilm was responsible for the Genesis effect as a subcontractor of the movie's effects company, Industrial Light & Magic (ILM). The Graphics Group would later evolve to Pixar. In before someone says Enterprise sucks.
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The Trek guys were, rightly, very wary of using CGI extensively until they were sure they could get it to look good. I think the first fully CGI scene of a bunch of ships flying around was only late into DS9 (i.e. late 90s). But, to be fair, they also had a pretty huge budget and all the experience in the world at that time, and I assume B5 simply didn't.
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Sep 28, 2021 12:37
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Sir Lemming posted:The Trek guys were, rightly, very wary of using CGI extensively until they were sure they could get it to look good. I think the first fully CGI scene of a bunch of ships flying around was only late into DS9 (i.e. late 90s). But, to be fair, they also had a pretty huge budget and all the experience in the world at that time, and I assume B5 simply didn't. Wasn't Lexx contemporary to Babylon 5? Its CGI AND practical effects are gutter trash, but the underlying sci-fi was compelling enough for me, at least. Never split your production companies between Canadian and German studios when your budget is paid in part with cocaine. I dunno if thats true but it sure would explain a lot.
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Sir Lemming posted:The Trek guys were, rightly, very wary of using CGI extensively until they were sure they could get it to look good. I think the first fully CGI scene of a bunch of ships flying around was only late into DS9 (i.e. late 90s). But, to be fair, they also had a pretty huge budget and all the experience in the world at that time, and I assume B5 simply didn't. Yeah, B5 had a small budget, and basically went fully CGI because they would be unable to afford to blowup a bunch of space ships otherwise.
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Sekhmnet posted:Wasn't Lexx contemporary to Babylon 5? Its CGI AND practical effects are gutter trash, but the underlying sci-fi was compelling enough for me, at least. Never split your production companies between Canadian and German studios when your budget is paid in part with cocaine. I dunno if thats true but it sure would explain a lot. Lexx was very odd. It felt like a late-night Cinemax show that had been edited for television.
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Sep 28, 2021 14:37
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PhotoKirk posted:Lexx was very odd. It felt like a late-night Cinemax show that had been edited for television. I see it as being more like the cutscenes of an FMV game. That fails every gameplay sequence and takes the bad route at every possible opportunity.
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Sep 28, 2021 14:51
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Lexx was a cool premise wasted on a bad sex comedy that had almost no jokes or sex in it. I kinda like the weird aesthetic of it though.
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Sep 28, 2021 15:42
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There’s plenty of military flavored sf TV so you have to savor the truly weird and bad where you can get it.
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Sep 28, 2021 18:10
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doctorfrog posted:There’s plenty of military flavored sf TV so you have to savor the truly weird and bad where you can get it. Someone reboot space above and beyond.
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The full CG scenes in Trek were done by Foundation Imaging, i.e. the people who did all the CGI in B5 from the pilot to S4 (I think?) - the intro CGI was by ILM and apparently cost crazy money, they'd not have been able to afford it even with Trek budgets.
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Sweevo posted:Lexx was a cool premise wasted on a bad sex comedy that had almost no jokes or sex in it. I kinda like the weird aesthetic of it though. Every second I watched as a teen was with bated breath to see if it would either turn sexy, funny, or into good sci-fi and it never turned into any. Great  energy though. Like really there's loving nothing like it.
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ookiimarukochan posted:the intro CGI was by ILM and apparently cost crazy money It's amazing that B5 did what they did, even if it looked terrible by TNG Modelship standards. Hell, the dumb VR mind washing game from TNG has the same vibe.
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Sep 29, 2021 02:36
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I just watched the x files into and it is the most 90s thing ever
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mind the walrus posted:
you were watching Lexx as a teen, the correct term is “‘bating breath”
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