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Music Shit / Re: Source Close to AC/DC Confirms Singer Brian Johnson was Fired
« on: March 21, 2016, 07:12:10 AM »
The Young clan have always run AC/DC with an iron fist. This makes sense.
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Music Shit / Re: The Killing Joke
« on: March 11, 2016, 02:42:57 AM »
Great band. Very influential. I'm not down with the aesthetics of late 80's/early 90's phase, o/wise all good. Even like the new albums, pretty heavy and smooth.
BTW Millenials are ppl born from '80 onwards, so if you're 36 it's quite conceivable to be a millenial. Millenials rapidly heading to middle age, Gen X for the pension cheque.
BTW Millenials are ppl born from '80 onwards, so if you're 36 it's quite conceivable to be a millenial. Millenials rapidly heading to middle age, Gen X for the pension cheque.
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Non-Music Shit / Re: Clinton mansplains Sanders
« on: February 10, 2016, 05:35:49 AM »Rebecca Solnit's original essay on the subject, "Men Explain Things to Me," is worth reading. She didn't coin the term "mansplaining" (she's a good writer) but she identified this behavior and shed light on it in a way that resonated with many people.
https://www.guernicamag.com/daily/rebecca-solnit-men-explain-things-to-me/
Thanks Whet Bull - that was a great article. Good to get to the source.
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Pop Punk / Re: Cuntroversy
« on: December 30, 2015, 08:40:52 AM »
A point of order.
I have spent the last decade living in London, but grew up in Australia. In certain social contexts in Oz, as explained by Sprague and Androo, cunt is high praise indeed. However, the liberal use of cunt is likely to get your head bashed in, in my part of South East London. And if you're ever visiting Australia and assume that throwing cunt around willy nilly is a harmless pastime, you might be surprised that even in this purportedly relaxed backwater, context is everything, and someone might box your ears in.
There's also an often unacknowledged element of working class cringe/appropriation to the use of the word cunt in Australia, but this is both a bit more complex than this thread can bear, and probably too specific for most people's interests on here.
I have spent the last decade living in London, but grew up in Australia. In certain social contexts in Oz, as explained by Sprague and Androo, cunt is high praise indeed. However, the liberal use of cunt is likely to get your head bashed in, in my part of South East London. And if you're ever visiting Australia and assume that throwing cunt around willy nilly is a harmless pastime, you might be surprised that even in this purportedly relaxed backwater, context is everything, and someone might box your ears in.
There's also an often unacknowledged element of working class cringe/appropriation to the use of the word cunt in Australia, but this is both a bit more complex than this thread can bear, and probably too specific for most people's interests on here.
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Non-Music Shit / Re: List the 3 Worst Places You Have Been To
« on: September 22, 2015, 04:52:06 AM »I played my first ever gig doing motorhed covers at a biker wedding in the garden of a terrace house in Scunthorpe. .. second at highfield house social club there.... great days. An old school friend of mine has actually started booking pretty cool gigs there, I reckon touring bands should consider it!You'll probably have a good time doing that tbf. Theres a purple tree in the park which is good for knocking back Pulse cider under... few valiums... then hit Club 2000. Used to be on the 80s punk revival circuit in the 90s tho so I got to see 999 uk subs etc as a teen which was alright. Yeh it doesn't belong in this thread at all really its a fucking great town.BOOZE MASTER!!!!!!!!!this is the better option
Buuze! Scunthorpe has rapidly moved to the top of my destination list. The goal: drinking a beer from every off license in town. Scunthorpe, Whatta name
watch out for the super gonorrhoea tho (this article was literally from today) http://www.scunthorpetelegraph.co.uk/Rare-super-strain-gonorrhoea-spreads-Scunthorpe/story-27823578-detail/story.html
Perhaps we could organize some sort of festival there and call it "The Scunthorpe Bangaround" or "The Scunthorpe Bangaround and Gonnorhea Awareness Days".
A little Scunthorpe trivia, Scunthorpe FC fans are known as "the Cunts".
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Music Shit / Re: RIP Gary Richrath (REO Speedwagon)
« on: September 17, 2015, 10:33:42 AM »
Trucker hats, keychains, devil horns, extra chromosomes and a lotta laffs vs. your auntie dancing around her handbag drinking pre-mixed.
Tough call.
Tough call.
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Music Shit / Re: RIP Gary Richrath (REO Speedwagon)
« on: September 17, 2015, 08:02:02 AM »
I think REO Speedwagon holds up better than REO Speedealer FWIW.
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Music Shit / Re: school me on BOC
« on: August 26, 2015, 07:08:33 AM »
I don't know what you guys mean by spotty. If by spotty you mean, there are possibly one or two songs that are awesome, but not classic, and the rest of the album is awesome and classic, then BOC put out spotty records.
Just work through the discography chronologically, can't go wrong with any of the 70s material.
Just work through the discography chronologically, can't go wrong with any of the 70s material.
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Music Shit / Re: The Mahavishnu Orchestra
« on: July 14, 2015, 03:23:00 AM »
A formative influence for me, one of the first groups I really, really got into, making a strange pairing to whatever the fuck else I listened to when I was 15.
Cobham in this period was untouchable, but the clash of egos with McLaughlin seems to have done them in. Egos to which all of the musicians that went through the group were perfectly entitled.
Untouchable Cobham.
http://youtu.be/nHp2KrgUW7g
Cobham in this period was untouchable, but the clash of egos with McLaughlin seems to have done them in. Egos to which all of the musicians that went through the group were perfectly entitled.
Untouchable Cobham.
http://youtu.be/nHp2KrgUW7g
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Non-Music Shit / Re: Women playing games
« on: April 20, 2015, 11:48:10 PM »For some reason my brain is wired to see the title of this thread as "Women in Uniform"
like this?
https://youtu.be/1Scn934CwsM
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Music Shit / Re: Favourite WEEN Song
« on: April 07, 2015, 07:43:54 AM »
https://youtu.be/Uk6B2kDljas pony
https://youtu.be/kDZRUxx56EY fluffy
https://youtu.be/Niorlvsu6Dg where'd the cheese go
https://youtu.be/RxMafF6mj1E you fucked up (you dirty nazi whore)
So many great songs.
Thanks for the heads up - I haven't listened to Ween for months. It's a consciousness test, I think, admitting to liking this or Zappa or the Frogs, but fuck the apparatchiks.
https://youtu.be/kDZRUxx56EY fluffy
https://youtu.be/Niorlvsu6Dg where'd the cheese go
https://youtu.be/RxMafF6mj1E you fucked up (you dirty nazi whore)
So many great songs.
Thanks for the heads up - I haven't listened to Ween for months. It's a consciousness test, I think, admitting to liking this or Zappa or the Frogs, but fuck the apparatchiks.
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Music Shit / Re: What Are You Listening To And What Do You Have To Say About it? PART VI
« on: February 27, 2015, 04:24:42 PM »
But if it's between Priest and Maiden, then Priest for aesthetics and toughness and Maiden for cocksmanship.
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Music Shit / Re: What Are You Listening To And What Do You Have To Say About it? PART VI
« on: February 27, 2015, 04:22:47 PM »
Saxon for me.
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Music Shit / Re: Best releases of 2014?
« on: December 11, 2014, 09:13:14 AM »
easily total control.
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Music Shit / Re: Whet Bull Presents: A Bono Scrapbook
« on: December 06, 2014, 07:11:30 PM »Good enough for Mandela; not up to steven-livingstone-seagal's standards.
I'm sure theirs was a deep and mutual relationship and not just a few snaps for some charity, and of course, Mandela is infallible, much like Jesus or Morgan Freeman.
Right -- Bono and Amnesty International did nothing for Mandela and the fight against apartheid. Bono is a shallow opportunist and Mandela was wrong to embrace him. You know best, migamiga.
And are you really comparing Christ and Nelson Mandela to Morgan Freeman? What is wrong with you?
I'll assume you're not just playing with symbols and will answer earnestly.
The comparison between God, Mandela and Morgan Freeman already exists, in two Hollywood blockbusters, the former two were represented by the latter, whose quiet, timeless homeyness is used, perhaps correctly, as some kind of American New Age code for the universal good that must not be questioned.
When I see a picture of Mandela and Bono, I see the picture of a lapsed Marxist who, at some point, fully intended to redistribute South Africa's vast riches to his people, and a guy who employs lawyers and accountants to keep his vast riches from being given to the people of Ireland through tax avoidance.
I also see the depressing message that most revolutions (Mandela) are ultimately embraced and brought into the fold of the free market (Bono).
By most measures, the majority of South Africans are now as badly off as they were during the Apartheid, albeit now with a multi coloured elite, which, of course, is progress, but not nearly the kind Mandela and his then comrades must have dreamt of in prison cells.
In a sense, the farce of Bono embraced by Mandela perfectly embodies what each represents and the joining up of their respective worlds, so my original sarcasm was probably much too kind and trivial.
