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Post by crash46 on Jun 23, 2008 19:24:55 GMT -4
I have a theory. What if her beloved "Drama Queen" by The Switches had a completely different band name and song title? What if the band name was something like, say, The Beerbuckets (I don't know; I'm trying here) and the song's name was "Born to Rock"? Despite the name changes though, it would be the exact same song. Honestly, The Switches are a name that fits right in between The Kills and Elbow. And let's face it, the song titles in her top 5 (Sour Cherry, Shut Up & Let Me Go, Drama Queen, Discipline, Grounds For Divorce) aren't exactly the most conventional. Or at least, they aren't as trite and unimaginative as "Born to Rock". So what do you think? Would oscie gladly gloat and promote The Beerbuckets' "Born to Rock"? Or, what if a band like Elbow, or The Switches grew some cajones and created a song called "Born To Rock" that isn't tongue-in-cheek? Of course it would be too unsophisticated to use such a bare-bones title on one of their own numbers. I mean, I'm not picking on her for liking bands that sound like that. I'm only picking on her for thinking bands that sound like that are original, and not realizing that they are actually as unoriginal as Nickelback. And those bands like that probably feel the same way about themselves.
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Post by Pipa on Jun 23, 2008 19:46:43 GMT -4
One of these days I'll write about Puddle of Mudd in a oscie-esque post. I'll hype up Wes Scantlin as he if was Alison Mosshart or Alex Turner or whoever it is that's tickling her fancy these days. I'll say something like "Wes paints a flawless palette of garage rock with a touch of early punk and grunge influences, thanks to the sonic production styles of Brian Howes and his polished, modern techniques" or some other completely pretentious bulls***. And it'll be about Puddle of f***in' Mudd. It'll prove the point that buzzwords and words used maybe thrice since the 17th century are irrelevant to the quality of the song. But what do I know? After all, The Black Kids "capture what it feels like to truly be alive and breathing in a way that I never believed possible".
And yes, some of her bands are quite unoriginal. The Ting Tings are pretty much CSS part deux, and "One Day Like This" is essentially a rewrite of "Hey Jude". Of course, it's more "hip" to copy bands like The Beatles and CSS than it is to copy the "flawless palette of garage rock" that is Puddle of Mudd.
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Post by crash46 on Jun 23, 2008 19:58:22 GMT -4
"Music Is My Hot Hot Sex" had to have been one of the ten worst songs of 2007 and here you've got CSS in the same subject of the sentence as The Beatles in similarly positive lights. .
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Post by Pipa on Jun 23, 2008 20:19:22 GMT -4
I really didn't want to do that...but since I brought them both up anyways I had to recap. It's not my fault oscie likes one great band and one mediocre band.
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Post by a Nick O! on Jun 24, 2008 3:58:25 GMT -4
"One Minute Man" has always been one of Missy Elliott's few good songs in an otherwise obnoxious canon, but the instrumental just cycled thru my WMP and I heard awesome nuances to Timbaland's track that had never come through before.
...Pretty bitchin'.
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Post by crash46 on Jun 24, 2008 23:33:31 GMT -4
On my way to work this morning in someone else's van. They've got the pop station playing and of course, being in the morning, it's morning talk radio, because every pretty much every FM station in America thinks there's enough talent to go around for hundreds of radio markets to all have multiple listenable morning talk show hosts, and that it's preferable to music in the morning, but only in the morning, but whatever.
I don't know what they were talking about--it seemed like a whole lot of nothing as usual--but they get to playing a clip of "Handlebars", which I only began to pay attention to because of how sped up it was. They started pausing it repeatedly to pick fun at it--how you can make anything into a repetitive catch phrase and call it a hook...the first notes by the trumpet player sound like an elephant...how the band thinks they're the s*** because they have a trombone in the song (actually the trumpet). They stop the song and the lady jock sums it up by saying "Oh my God, that's the stupidest song I've ever heard."
And I'm like, "Cool, a pop station taking a stand against stupid music".
Except that I went home and looked up their playlist on Mediabase. "Sexy Can I": 85 plays. "I Kissed A Girl": 57 plays. "Damaged": 51 plays. "No Air": 26 plays. So much for taking that stand.
That reminded me of what got me away from pop radio to begin with.
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Post by Mega248 on Jun 27, 2008 21:03:03 GMT -4
12,000 posts in 32 months. Go us.
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Post by a Nick O! on Jul 2, 2008 2:04:20 GMT -4
Um, why is Pulse insisting (yesterday & today) that I supply them with a gender and my birthday. I purposely left my gender unlisted when I registered, but they're also claiming I need to give them my birthday too. I didn't think you could get away with avoiding that one when registering, but I'm sure not interested in giving it to them now, since they're hassling me about it. In the meantime I can't post there.
What's the big idea?
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Post by Mega248 on Jul 2, 2008 16:37:55 GMT -4
It's the work of Proboards, not the Pulse staff. They're insisting that everyone supply their gender now, but if you select "hide gender", nobody will be able to see it, including the staff members. I'm not sure about the birthday; I think the Pulse staff (but nobody else) will be able to see that. I'm surprised Proboards didn't make you enter a birthday years ago.
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Post by a Nick O! on Jul 3, 2008 2:13:36 GMT -4
It's the work of Proboards, not the Pulse staff. They're insisting that everyone supply their gender now, but if you select "hide gender", nobody will be able to see it, including the staff members. I'm not sure about the birthday; I think the Pulse staff (but nobody else) will be able to see that. I'm surprised Proboards didn't make you enter a birthday years ago. OK, whatever. Fixed. (I notice we have a special YouTube encoding icon on the "post message" screen now, too.)
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Post by halo19 on Jul 7, 2008 10:36:43 GMT -4
A couple days ago, my local active rock station played "Zombie" by the Cranberries. I don't recall ever even hearing that on the alternative stations as a gold. However, they play lots of '90's golds on there ("Superman's Dead" by OLP is played there very often).
What's kind of off setting is that most of the best stations here don't really play new music. And the stuff on aforementioned radio station is usually tired '90's golds they can rest on or boring currents.
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Post by crash46 on Jul 7, 2008 14:02:33 GMT -4
I was looking through that DuckHead's Modern Rock database and something that really stood out was how insignificant the performance of "Dreams" and "Linger" had been on the charts, compared to "Zombie", which went to #1 and didn't waste much time. Because today, in terms of the cranberries' songs heard on radio, it's about 40% "Dreams", 40% "Linger", 19% "Zombie", and 1% for the rest of the catalogue.
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Post by Pipa on Jul 7, 2008 14:43:50 GMT -4
I was surprised when I looked up Alice In Chains. No "Man in the Box", "Rooster", "I Stay Away", or "Would?"
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Post by crash46 on Jul 7, 2008 15:47:19 GMT -4
...and the song's name was "Born to Rock"? Or perhaps, " He's A Rocker"? Oh look, she's disappointed. Lol.
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Post by Pipa on Jul 7, 2008 16:04:19 GMT -4
The Vines never had very imaginative titles in the first place.
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Post by Mega248 on Jul 19, 2008 14:34:07 GMT -4
Does anyone else frequently see the words "3 staff members" listed under the users online in the last 24 hours, even though we only have 2? (and no, "Not Admin" has not been signing on )
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Post by a Nick O! on Jul 20, 2008 10:50:25 GMT -4
Does anyone else frequently see the words "3 staff members" listed under the users online in the last 24 hours, even though we only have 2? I've never thought to pay any attention. It only says 2, now that I just looked.
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Post by crash46 on Jul 31, 2008 16:15:16 GMT -4
Mother-F***er! I heard "Psycho" today. Already forgotten it though. .
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Post by Mega248 on Jul 31, 2008 22:25:42 GMT -4
lol how'd that happen? I'll take it you were somewhere where shutting off the radio was not an option?
Look on the bright side, at least you don't have to hear it at work multiple times a week and then listen to a co-worker sing the chorus all the time like I do.
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Post by crash46 on Aug 1, 2008 12:42:05 GMT -4
Yep. It was on the "rock" station I never follow or listen to, and it wasn't my car. The DJ tried to be funny by opening with the signature sound from the film Psycho, and once I realized it wasn't a commercial, I knew right where they were going. Then the driver, a casual follower of music who was humming along with "All Summer Long" the entire day after it was played on an AC station earlier (?), and owns CD's of Daughtry, Christina Aguilera, and Carrie Underwood, said "Oh they put a lot of thought into that name; Pile of Mud???" .
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Post by halo19 on Aug 4, 2008 11:30:29 GMT -4
I listened to "Cherry" by the Smashing Pumpkins ("1979" b-side) yesterday, finally noticing the lyric "all the boys have been left for dead/'cause we know where they fear to tread," while they had an actual song from Mellon Collie titled "Where Boys Fear to Tread." Aurally there's no real similarities, though.
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Post by Pipa on Aug 18, 2008 13:12:48 GMT -4
I'm now the proud owner of an iPod Classic 80GB Silver. I've got 22GBs of music on it and all the album covers to boot. ;D It's pretty slick.
Technically the first song I played was +44's "155", since it was the first one on my playlist and I wanted to see if it worked. The first one I played all the way was Muse's "Starlight".
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Post by friday on Aug 19, 2008 0:10:38 GMT -4
A Black Opal is a great way to get f***ed up, if I do say so.
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Post by Pipa on Aug 21, 2008 16:54:59 GMT -4
I was very impressed by the oldies station playing the Ramones. Wasn't expecting that at all.
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Post by friday on Sept 7, 2008 22:37:49 GMT -4
I don't know why Matt Pinfield would be in a Shop Rite in Newark (well, other than to buy food), but I swear I passed by him today in the potato chips section.
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Post by a Nick O! on Sept 8, 2008 2:03:07 GMT -4
I don't know why Matt Pinfield would be in a Shop Rite in Newark (well, other than to buy food), but I swear I passed by him today in the potato chips section. THAT'S BADASS! Justin Foley, the drummer for Killswitch Engage, came to a show at my place of business Saturday night. As I stamped his hand, I asked him, "Do you play drums for Killswitch Engage?" He said, "Yeah." And I said, "Awesome. "
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Post by friday on Sept 17, 2008 0:07:25 GMT -4
I really regret not being able to go to one last game at Yankee Stadium, if for no other reason than to be able to take scores of pictures to show my two stepnieces (not to mention, ahem, my potential kids down the road). I would've liked to go to the Yanks-Rays game on Sunday and get the added bonus of seeing Derek Jeter tie Lou Gehrig's record for most hits ever at the Stadium. Unfortunately, I had to wait for my financial situation to become clear, and by then almost every ticket sold out. It was either get $400 box seats or deal with the price gougers at StubHub (who apparently don't allow you to buy just one ticket if that's all you want). But it's gonna be really emotional for me after Sunday night to realize that they won't be playing baseball at the Stadium after this year. Ironically, I've been to about twice as many games at Shea Stadium than Yankee Stadium, which is also closing this year to somewhat deservedly less fanfare, though that stadium will also hold a special place in my heart. It was where I saw my first baseball game, my first doubleheader (in which Robin Ventura became the first and only player to hit grand slams in each end of a doubleheader), my first (and only) interleague game, and a few Fireworks Nights. But I'll never forget my first game at Yankee Stadium (actually I forgot a little since I had to go to Baseball Reference to verify the facts ). It was July 24, 1996, against the Texas Rangers. Ivan Rodriguez of the Rangers hit a home run that landed literally a few rows in front of where we were sitting. Bernie Williams hit a homer, and Tino Martinez had a bases-loaded double to provide the difference. The pitching was textbook for the Yankees that year: Pettitte went six, Mariano Rivera pitched the 7th and 8th, and John Wetteland got the save. Unless I ever get a chance to see a Yankees no-hitter in person, that'll probably go down as my favorite memory at a ballpark. Steve probably knows a little about what I'm talking about since he had watch the Tigers leave Tiger Stadium back in '99 (which, sadly, finally met the demolition crew earlier this year). But I'll always have the memories, which, as any baseball fan worth their salt will say, are what matter most. And I did take a few pictures during my last visit back in '06, though these were a little more artistic in nature. Ironically, it was the day after they officially broke ground on the new Yankee Stadium (which, for the record, looks great from what I've seen, and I can't wait to see it in person next season). Here are (some of) the photographs, if anyone wants to take a peek. highway99.deviantart.com/art/The-Stadium-I-Light-of-Day-39084851highway99.deviantart.com/art/The-Stadium-II-Underneath-39085376highway99.deviantart.com/art/The-Stadium-III-Frieze-39085927highway99.deviantart.com/art/The-Stadium-IV-Defeated-39132876
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Post by halo19 on Sept 21, 2008 1:45:46 GMT -4
The new "environmental" lids at Starbucks I feel are a failure. It is fairly annoying and rarely sticks on to the cup of the drink. Also, usually when I have it the straw is pushed in to an extent where you get NOTHING when you sip it.
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Post by crash46 on Oct 9, 2008 2:10:48 GMT -4
I've finally decided that I like Tina Fe. I hated her weekend updates on SNL and was irritated by that hatred not being unanimous, and the show just went totally downhill from there. Then I was skeptical about her other efforts such as "Mean Girls". But her Sarah Palin impersonations are so hilarious and spot on that for the first time this millennium, I'm actually looking forward to SNL this weekend just to see what's gonna happen.
And with the inevitability of John McCain finding away to pull off an election victory, at least the result will be sixteen more years of Sarah Palin impersonations on SNL to replace the Bush impression Will Ferrell used to nail.
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Post by friday on Oct 9, 2008 16:00:13 GMT -4
Yeah, the great irony about Tina Fey is that she's putting in the best performance of her SNL tenure when a) she's not even a cast member anymore and b) she's actually playing a character/impersonation. I mean, the thing that always irritated me about her was that the only thing she did aside from being head writer, for the first few years anyway, was Weekend Update. But the funniest part I find about her Palin character is that she appears to simply be doing a reenactment.
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