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Framboise posted:How does one even define alternative aside from "not mainstream"? I've always been a huge fan of the genre but never really knew how to explain how it differentiates. Like indie, it's a genre term that largely doesn't make sense after it gets popular; however, I think it can still be loosely defined as "music that uses a lot of the same elements as an existing genre, but also deviates from the standards of that genre". So for example, I would call Fiona Apple "Alternative Pop" -- although that doesn't really make sense so I'd just stick with "Alternative" -- because she's a singer/composer who isn't part of a band, which in most cases would describe a Pop or Folk artist, but her music really doesn't sound like either of those. You might say "Singer/Songwriter" but that has other implications as well, which don't really fit her. And then take your pick of '90s "Alternative Rock" bands -- they had all the same elements as "Rock music" but with more focus on songwriting and production and generally just doing very different things with that setup, and less "rocking out". And I have always preferred the term "Alternative Metal" to "Nü-metal" (all judgement aside for now) because really that's what it was. It undeniably had a lot of the same sounds and trappings as Metal, but used them in a totally different way.
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Aug 3, 2022 19:52
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I've always liked the definition of alternative as basically garage bands that made it big, then sucked a big fat rear end after an album or two.
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Aug 3, 2022 20:17
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Iron Crowned posted:I've always liked the definition of alternative as basically garage bands that made it big, then sucked a big fat rear end after an album or two. https://youtu.be/fV4DiAyExN0
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Aug 3, 2022 21:48
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Back before the Onion was owned by Gawker, the AV Club had a really good longform series on the rise and fall of alternative music. The series is itself a dozen years old by now, so it's itself as dated as alternative was when the column was written, but it's still an excellent read: https://longform.org/posts/whatever-happened-to-alternative-nation
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Aug 3, 2022 22:12
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twistedmentat posted:I always figured what happened was they shot the video with the young hot people because no one wanted to see old guys singing their hot dance track, something that was pretty common at the time, a lot of the women in dance videos were not the ones singing the songs. One of the women from the Weather Girls sung on a ton of dance hits in the 90s but was always replaced in the videos with someone young and thin. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ousaiByU1ko
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Aug 3, 2022 22:43
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That one's an explicit Wizard of Oz "behind the curtain" thing though. As for singers getting replaced by models: yeah, 90s eurodance was easily the worst offender.
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Aug 3, 2022 22:51
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Phanatic posted:Back before the Onion was owned by Gawker, the AV Club had a really good longform series on the rise and fall of alternative music. The series is itself a dozen years old by now, so it's itself as dated as alternative was when the column was written, but it's still an excellent read: Pro click. I used to look forward to this column every other week more than anything else. The AV Club used to be so good, dammit.
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Aug 4, 2022 00:19
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deoju posted:The video for Blues Travelers' Run-Around has a young and beautiful group on stage and then the real band playing in the shadows. It's loving weird. yeah like Trabant says, that video is making fun of both the tendency for music videos to do that kind of thing in the 90s and also the Counting Crows because the frontman of the fake band looks like Adam Duritz
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Aug 4, 2022 00:51
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Adam Duritz managed to score both Jennifer Aniston and Courtney Cox in their respective primes so I'm pretty sure "looks like Adam Duritz" isn't the joke John Popper thought it was. Amusingly I had a friend in college who looked like Popper in that he was big and overweight and was a hell of a harmonica player who cultivated the similarities, down to a fishing vest with sewn-in pockets for his harps and a hat with a band made out of Hohner Special 20 faceplates. We were at a BT concert watching the opening act and one person came up to him and was in the middle of asking for an autograph when he realized it wasn't him.
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Aug 4, 2022 01:30
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That’s a big ol’ tower.
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Aug 4, 2022 11:41
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Gonz posted:That’s a big ol’ tower. Drive bays for days...
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Aug 4, 2022 14:30
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PhotoKirk posted:Drive bays for days... Need room for the CD-ROM, CD-RW, DVD-ROM, and DVD-RW.
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Aug 4, 2022 14:34
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Phanatic posted:Adam Duritz managed to score both Jennifer Aniston and Courtney Cox in their respective primes so I'm pretty sure "looks like Adam Duritz" isn't the joke John Popper thought it was. Blues Traveler once stayed at a hotel I worked at a few years ago. There was about $1,200 in damage to Poppers room. Not from excessive partying or anything, dude tore up the carpet dragging a chair over to the window so he could sit in front of the ac unit while he ate a bucket of wings. He destroyed the curtains by using them as napkins and when he finished a wing he would hurl the bone as hard he could against the wall.
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Aug 4, 2022 14:36
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Macdeo Lurjtux posted:Blues Traveler once stayed at a hotel I worked at a few years ago. There was about $1,200 in damage to Poppers room. Not from excessive partying or anything, dude tore up the carpet dragging a chair over to the window so he could sit in front of the ac unit while he ate a bucket of wings. He destroyed the curtains by using them as napkins and when he finished a wing he would hurl the bone as hard he could against the wall. https://youtu.be/w1jv7NKUlj8
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Aug 4, 2022 14:55
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Cartoon Man posted:Need room for the CD-ROM, CD-RW, DVD-ROM, and DVD-RW. Fortunately it appears there's a slot left for the DVD+RW as well.
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Aug 4, 2022 15:01
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Cartoon Man posted:Need room for the CD-ROM, CD-RW, DVD-ROM, and DVD-RW. It's the 90's, you need a Zip drive and a Jazz drive. click, click, click, click, click... And an external SyQuest drive.
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Aug 4, 2022 15:27
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Macdeo Lurjtux posted:Blues Traveler once stayed at a hotel I worked at a few years ago. There was about $1,200 in damage to Poppers room. Not from excessive partying or anything, dude tore up the carpet dragging a chair over to the window so he could sit in front of the ac unit while he ate a bucket of wings. He destroyed the curtains by using them as napkins and when he finished a wing he would hurl the bone as hard he could against the wall. Lol, fuckin A I can picture it perfectly for some reason I wonder if he was able to hurl the bones hard enough to feel something again Probably not, I heard he was a serious douche. Good music though
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Aug 4, 2022 16:50
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"Why... why you... wanna give me... a RUN AROUND" through gritted teeth as i hurl chicken missiles at the imagined faces of my enemies.
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Aug 4, 2022 16:59
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It doesn’t matter what I payyyyyy-eeyayay. As long as I can eat with cUUr-eyahah-tains.
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Aug 4, 2022 18:12
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namlosh posted:I wonder if he was able to hurl the bones hard enough to feel something again what would such a scenario even entail?
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Aug 4, 2022 18:30
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Cartoon Man posted:Need room for the CD-ROM, CD-RW, DVD-ROM, and DVD-RW. Or the CD-RW, CD-RW, CD-RW, CD-RW and CD-RW. In case you're in the business.
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Aug 4, 2022 18:30
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Macdeo Lurjtux posted:Blues Traveler once stayed at a hotel I worked at a few years ago. There was about $1,200 in damage to Poppers room. Not from excessive partying or anything, dude tore up the carpet dragging a chair over to the window so he could sit in front of the ac unit while he ate a bucket of wings. He destroyed the curtains by using them as napkins and when he finished a wing he would hurl the bone as hard he could against the wall. Didn't he also destroy the bathroom too? I remembered this story vividly.
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Aug 4, 2022 21:02
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I remember more recently he doxxed some guy on Twitter.
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Aug 4, 2022 21:11
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Gonz posted:That’s a big ol’ tower. For every like we make this case one bay taller
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Aug 5, 2022 03:42
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Sometimes these pop into my head from some dusty corner of nostalgia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bihoNRc8GDQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wg-HZd4Lb2Q
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I can't believe that show is still going in the age of youtube.
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Aug 6, 2022 16:33
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I'm not sure which version of this it was, but someone on Youtube commented "Every Ska song sounds like someone trying to cover the AFV theme".
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Aug 6, 2022 17:03
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Someone made that comment in another thread and that's how we ended up with that post.
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Aug 6, 2022 17:06
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ultrafilter posted:Someone made that comment in another thread and that's how we ended up with that post. That might've been me, actually. I was spreading that around the past couple days after I heard it.
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Aug 6, 2022 17:08
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Neito posted:I'm not sure which version of this it was, but someone on Youtube commented "Every Ska song sounds like someone trying to cover the AFV theme". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UT8WMvvxzI 
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BaronVonVaderham posted:I can't believe that show is still going in the age of youtube. My mom watches it and it's basically a best of youtube weekly clip show. Which considering some youtubers make bank at doing, I guess it works? Probably just some intern watching Jimmyherelive every week and putting up the best stuff.
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Imagine if the "computer station" design took a slightly different turn and instead of this:Gonz posted:
we got the Tower of Power aesthetic:  I think it's effectively a proto-standing desk? Found it while browsing a 1985 HiFi/furniture catalog, as one does.
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As someone whose parents had one, those are not standing desks unless you're very short. They're variations on the Kneebanger 5000 line of computer desks, with a combination of minimal leg space and shelves/printer trays strategically placed to inflict maximum damage. Note also the boomer-esque glass/wooden shutters to hide away your unsightly computer paraphernalia when guests comes over.
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Ah, gotcha. Sounds like the worst possible combination except this:Porfiriato posted:hide away your unsightly computer paraphernalia when guests comes over. I mean... If that could be done with any elegance whatsoever, it wouldn't be the worst thing even today.
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Aug 7, 2022 03:54
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I can understand the wheels on the one on the bottom, but why would you want a rotating base like the top one?
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because german
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KHLAV KALASHNIKOV posted:Pro click. I used to look forward to this column every other week more than anything else. The AV Club used to be so good, dammit. "I can no longer read these pieces, nor comment anywhere on the AV Club. In case you haven't heard, Something Awful has declared that the AV Club is "dull" & "pedantic" (singling out this whole "boring" series), & that all of us commenters are "crass, insulting, and overall dumb as goddamn rocks". My delicate sensibilities cannot withstand such withering criticism. If you need me, I'll be curled up whimpering in the corner" (This comment was in the last article in the above series. Snake eats its tail etc.) Edit: added quote marks Seldom Posts has a new favorite as of 16:38 on Aug 7, 2022 |
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