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Post by crash46 on Jan 7, 2009 15:50:36 GMT -4
I'll start the year off on a gloomy note with the mention that my iTunes playlist file has become corrupt and all my play counts have been lost, after two months on and off of trying to recover them. , . It goes back to August of 2005, which is when I got this computer. I still have my last.fm scrobbles, but those aren't the same and they do not come close to matching up what was really played. My most played song was "Afterlife" by Avenged Sevenfold, with 51 plays. "Knights of Cydonia" and "Map of the Problematique" from Muse had 48 apiece to split silver medals. I don't remember anything exactly beyond that. So my most played song over a 3½ year period basically matched the average amount of daily plays of certain pop songs by various Pulse members. .
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Post by Mega248 on Jan 15, 2009 0:13:41 GMT -4
pulsemusic.proboards48.com/index.....ay&thread=80922Earlier today I saw jazklash was the last replier. I'd never seen him talk about U2 before, but nonetheless thought "he's probably going to talk about how U2 used to be good, only to resort to generic and/or sellout music lately". Seriously, is there any band that's been around for a decade or more that hasn't since become "sellouts" in his eyes? It's not just him either; this seems to be a very popular attitude among the elitist music snobs I've encountered.
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Post by crash46 on Jan 15, 2009 0:31:50 GMT -4
f*** him. Does he ever have anything positive to say about anything.
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Post by Pipa on Jan 15, 2009 10:40:31 GMT -4
He's still less annoying than ABEL.
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Post by a Nick O! on Jan 15, 2009 18:06:03 GMT -4
He's still less annoying than ABEL. Who's ABEL?
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Post by Pipa on Jan 15, 2009 22:19:26 GMT -4
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Post by crash46 on Jan 15, 2009 23:05:13 GMT -4
Those who are assholes are far worse than those who merely exist.
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Post by Mega248 on Jan 15, 2009 23:59:37 GMT -4
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Post by crash46 on Jan 16, 2009 0:46:52 GMT -4
In that case, why is he still posting at all?
Granted, Abel is better than Ooooooo thus far, but I mean guys like Dj General provided us with hours of unintentional comedy with his nine minute public apology on YouTube and he's not even allowed back but one December night per year. Abel didn't even need to do that!
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Post by Mega248 on Jan 16, 2009 1:28:10 GMT -4
In that case, why is he still posting at all? Granted, Abel is better than Ooooooo thus far, but I mean guys like Dj General provided us with hours of unintentional comedy with his nine minute public apology on YouTube and he's not even allowed back but one December night per year. Abel didn't even need to do that! He was never banned under the old name, he deleted it and soon came back. But he has 4 warnings now (6 = gone for good), so his days are numbered.
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Post by halo19 on Jan 16, 2009 3:08:46 GMT -4
That guy's pretty obnoxious although people who don't look beyond the rock forum will likely never have to see his posts, anyway. I kind of figured he couldn't be any older than 20, to write stuff like that. Although I kind of figured he might be a bit younger, with the amount of pointless-ness generated in the topic.
While jazklash has the rude way of expressing his opinions as more valuable than others, penance never refuses to hold back in response.
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Post by friday on Jan 16, 2009 23:52:17 GMT -4
I guess jazklash is kind of a throwback to those posters from the old R&R Alternative forum who thought any music released after 1993 was beneath their dignity to acknowledge positively. I remember way back how funny it was when one of them (I believe the guy who called himself exknddlistener) said he turned on MTV2 only to see an Avril Lavigne video and assumed that was what was typified current alternative rock, causing him to write a 1000-word diatribe against her and the state of alternative music.
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Post by crash46 on Jan 17, 2009 0:27:16 GMT -4
Seriously, is there any band that's been around for a decade or more that hasn't since become "sellouts" in his eyes? It's not just him either; this seems to be a very popular attitude among the elitist music snobs I've encountered. There aren't many, but...Morrissey (because it's, you know, The Smiths and everything), and Bauhaus (because they're in the Guinness book of records for longest existing band in which nobody really knows who the hell they really are).
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Post by halo19 on Jan 17, 2009 1:04:37 GMT -4
Well they've been silently gone for several years now but Fugazi and any related projects haven't been considered sellout by anyone. Although, I've interestingly never seen the hipsters on Pulse talk about them really.
LOL, Bauhaus released Go Away White maybe two years after the peak of my interest of hearing new music from those kinds of groups. Keep in mind they really stopped existing in 1983 only to reform a few other times: namely, 1998 & 2005-8. +: If you've heard any Love and Rockets, they were an offshoot of Bauhaus. And I've got a solo Murphy album.
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Post by Mega248 on Jan 18, 2009 21:19:48 GMT -4
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Post by crash46 on Jan 18, 2009 23:42:45 GMT -4
There has never been anyone in more need of a permanent ban than this asshole. Can we pull the six strikes in one topic trick like they did with Kid Pulse?
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Post by a Nick O! on Feb 4, 2009 2:33:35 GMT -4
So, did anybody else go get their free Denny's Grand Slam this morning (or early afternoon), per the Superbowl ad, or was I the only one?
All my friends I'd ask to go with me for something like that all have day jobs, so I had to go by myself. I just brought a magazine to read while I waited to be seated (at the counter) and during my meal. Surprisingly, I didn't get very much reading done.
I ordered a cup of coffee and paid the waitress a fat tip for having to endure the massive turnout (the line was out the door the whole time I was there), but it was a wonderful way to start my day.
(I actually got invited out to dinner with two friends, so I ate out twice today. I can't remember the last time that happened.)
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Post by crash46 on Feb 4, 2009 2:57:21 GMT -4
So, did anybody else go get their free Denny's Grand Slam this morning (or early afternoon), per the Superbowl ad, or was I the only one? All my friends I'd ask to go with me for something like that all have day jobs, so I had to go by myself. I just brought a magazine to read while I waited to be seated (at the counter) and during my meal. Surprisingly, I didn't get very much reading done. I ordered a cup of coffee and paid the waitress a fat tip for having to endure the massive turnout (the line was out the door the whole time I was there), but it was a wonderful way to start my day. (I actually got invited out to dinner with two friends, so I ate out twice today. I can't remember the last time that happened.) It's something I would have definitely looked into if a) I didn't have to work that morning, and b) if I knew where a Denny's was in my area anymore (There is one about eight miles away, now that I've checked their store locator. Used to be one less than a mile away.) I did go to Bob Evans the other day for a midday breakfast and had four caramel mochas because they give you free refills! I could conceivably just go to the Bob Evans, pay a $2.49 admission, and sit and drink those all day long. Or at least until I become the next member of the Pulse 400lb club.
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Post by a Nick O! on Feb 5, 2009 1:21:24 GMT -4
Um... what? I don't even know where to begin with my inquiries about this. Are there seriously people that obese over there?
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Post by crash46 on Feb 5, 2009 16:25:01 GMT -4
Um... what? I don't even know where to begin with my inquiries about this. Are there seriously people that obese over there? Actually, just two guys who used to easily clear 400 lbs but have shed enough weight, one way or the other, to be in the mid-200's. The vast majority of Pulse members are haggardly underweight. Guys counting carbs and calories. Yep, sounds about right for them.
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Post by a Nick O! on Feb 6, 2009 5:00:20 GMT -4
The vast majority of Pulse members are haggardly underweight. Guys counting carbs and calories. Yep, sounds about right for them. That's what was so perplexing about your statement. Not to stereotype homosexuals by any means, but I'm just saying that with an apparent majority of Pulse members being gay, it wouldn't seem like there would be that many obese members. But I didn't realize you were talking about a very small number.
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Post by Mega248 on Feb 7, 2009 16:30:28 GMT -4
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Post by Pipa on Feb 7, 2009 20:27:07 GMT -4
Jesus Christ. I joined Pulse when I was 13, but I don't recall being that mentally deficient.
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Post by crash46 on Feb 9, 2009 1:04:06 GMT -4
I just entered Pulse's Nostalgia forum and went to work yesterday. I think we could conquer that forum if we tried. The kids over there who post a whole lot of nothing pretty much avoid that board, as the base of their musical memory begins chronologically with Pink's third album and Mika.
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Post by WotUNeed on Feb 10, 2009 17:29:11 GMT -4
A few comments from a class I had today: Girl one: "Seriously? Robert Plant & Alison Krauss for album of the year? How does that happen? How is that even right?" Slightly later, girl two: "So, like, who even is Alison Krauss? What makes her interesting? Why should I care?" Also had a few people giving M.I.A. flack for "exploiting her unborn child" to perform "Swagga Like Us."
I felt like I was on Pulse. It was very hard not to make snarky comments similar to those on Pulse. Actually, thank God there was a sympathetic soul sitting next to me to listen to said snark, or else I think I would have pissed off a whole lot of people.
Just had to rant about that somewhere.
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Post by halo19 on Feb 11, 2009 1:21:49 GMT -4
Yeah, one Pulse guy was talking about not who both Alison Krauss and Robert Plant were. Really shamelessly, too.
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Post by a Nick O! on Feb 11, 2009 3:39:27 GMT -4
Yeah, one Pulse guy was talking about not who both Alison Krauss and Robert Plant were. Really shamelessly, too. This is why I stick exclusively to the Alternative forum over there. If I don't know about that kind of juvenile idiocy, it doesn't occur, and I don't waste time and emotion reacting to it.
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Post by Pipa on Feb 11, 2009 10:00:56 GMT -4
Robert Plant? What kind of winner is he if he hasn't had a top 10 pop hit? FLOP!!1
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Post by halo19 on Feb 12, 2009 14:12:56 GMT -4
Outside the Polling Booth all you have to do is pretend the diva topics don't exist and it's generally that much more readable (To paraphrase oscie., the guy on post was 16 and will learn when he gets older). But a lot of those kids, as Steve pointed out, are too young for the Nostalgia thread. But a lot of those idiots aren't even on the Urban forum, either. (I rarely at all visit the CHR/Pop one, fwiw.)
General Artist Discussion is okay for me because of this. I never saw any of these kids post anything on a Radiohead topic and the forthcoming album's topic is pretty amusing. Maybe we should make a thread for the classic Pulse quotes, not just unintentional stuff.
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Post by a Nick O! on Feb 12, 2009 16:33:58 GMT -4
Maybe we should make a thread for the classic Pulse quotes, not just unintentional stuff. You mean like sick burns and other stuff and not just the mind-bending absolutely ridiculous stuff some of you guys use as signatures over here? Yeah, that's a good idea. (I'm assuming all of you know better than to submit stuff you say yourselves. )
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