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the fact that I see the strokes & yeah yeah yeahs, healthy, living well, and wistfully think “but the cars & Blondie had more great songs because the label made them record constantly until they exploded” is part of why I should be called a boomer.
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I need little of a bass-less band of film students revealing European artsong, blues and improv poetry is chart-topping rock & roll as long as it’s about sex and/or drugs, but I need some.
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It’s the perfect joke that Gen X will go down screaming “no our guitar tones and haircuts were very different and we only got our asses kissed in the limelight for a half-decade!!!!” as everyone younger rolls their eyes
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I feel ya, and that’s why everyone who can remember the 20th century will be told “ok boomer” when they vocally do.
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They’re with the Doors where I love the insanity of synthesis on the debut even if it got old fast. “Hey let’s do Vegas covers, lots of solos, and originals about how we’re so high we can’t read clocks or tell if it’s the 4th of July.”
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Yeah I’m using boomer in its ultimate shorthand meaning: “believes nothing will culturally top the last half of the 20th century.”
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Ha yeah they’re down there, filed under “I need half a singles comp.” But I can still hook to their “canny weirdos make it big” story, esp now that Paul is in his post-therapy memoir stage.
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I’ve grown to accept “American pie” as a feeling - “rock peaked when I had a paper route” - even if it’s pitiful to consider fact. “Vincent” is an even more embarrassing example. But it’s easier for a solo artist to be evil than a band, imo. Friendship is cute!
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Yeah, Bad Company suffers from the Supergroup problem (see CSN) where their best qualities were in earlier bands, and I can only think of a few redeeming singles. McLean is pretty awful but I don’t think of him being a warhorse as much as the song.
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I did recently realize Mark E Smith could be described as Ian Anderson meets James Brown!
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I only did D&D for the first time this decade so it’s POSSIBLE I’ll click with these guys someday. But I also resented my friends getting into Tolkien paperbacks when I couldn’t hack it in 4th grade, so they press a lot of buttons.
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I am so grateful the Layla album was credited to Derek & The Dominoes so I can claim I don’t need any solo material. He was fine in ensembles where others were allowed to provide context & steal focus.
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I don’t get what it is about flutes but 99 times out 100 I’m just like “can you please find any other way to express yourself.” Hard to explain why I find it such a grating, cloying timbre when I love woodwinds and brass. But I do!
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Ok, remembered one. Jethro Tull. Zappa is close, but occasionally the joke doesn’t cancel out the music. “Trouble Everyday.” Instrumentals. I have yet to find a moment where I get Tull in the slightest. Ren Faire Zappa. Also flutes annoy me.
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I love a number of their singles, particularly “I Feel Free.” Appreciated as proto-QOTSA. Just did “tales of brave Ulysses” at karaoke! I don’t think the kids know that one. bsky.app/profile/othe...
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I think the issue might be that, no matter what they became over time, all these rock gods started as weirdos coming up with a sound that made a lot of people go “WOW, NEAT!” and love them. If I can hook into that moment, I can’t write them off entirely.
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I like a lot of Who singles. Early Sabbath is great. Deep Purple rocked. Jefferson Airplane I struggle with but find hard to hate. Haaaate CSN but I can’t pretend they didn’t call in Y.
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I like the first Doors album. Floyd’s Meddle. Dead’s Live/Dead. Lots of Beatles, Neil, stones, Dylan, zep, ccr. Every third or fourth Eagles single.
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I love that this is like 70% “I somehow haven’t seen it,” 25% “eh overrated” and…”ok, I’ll give you magic mike XXL.”
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Ah those bands were still very CANON for me as a US alterna-kid, but where I experienced the 90s crossover pop and treasured the mid-80s best-ofs that defined “college rock” here, I had no real romantic context for the late 80s doing-e-with-stone-roses UK thing.
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I’ve grown to enjoy it, but by quirk of age it’s an After The Classic Comp/Before I Was Paying Attention album like DM’s Music For The Masses where I don’t get how it’s anyone’s fave because it belatedly heard as Yet More Songs By This New Wave Staple.
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“Auteur” became a really messianic rock star thing with Spike Lee, Tarantino, Eyes Wide Shut, PTA, etc. or a branding niche like Wes Anderson. A commitment to strong genre storytelling like soderbergh’s is a passion that requires workmanlike restraint. Rare today.
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God if there’s ever a show that could get across how little time these things are in actors’ life compared to ours… The “wanna make six figures in the time it takes to do errands, but annoy fans twice every streaming ad break?”
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You don’t recall famous Union cheer “pumps and a Cump, pumps and a Cump, we like the guys with the pumps and a Cump?”
(Actually the pump shotgun was invented after the war, but print the legend)
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Not once have I heard a politician denounce the phrase “give me all the peanut butter,” which leads me to believe they might be ok with me having all the peanut butter. which is ok with me but kinda weird cuz lotta people like peanut butter. Just saying.
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In a sense, Batman & Robin is the Best Superhero Movie if you find power fantasy unaffecting and silly, but people shouting in leather swimsuits is a hoot. But B&R assured canny filmmakers know better to take nine figures to say that again.
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Boys, watchmen, etc grasped you’re playing with earnest fantasies of absurd power. If your feeling about them is “lol whatever, but I do like how they stomp around in tight clothes” you should probably let someone else TELL the story.
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It’s watchable, but it’s made from the pov that the most interesting thing about superheroes is that they’re goofy, rather than that goofiness is inherent. So there’s a lot of actors awkwardly glomping around while Schumacher giggles behind the camera.
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“Alright, Brett, just listen. Everything is going to be fine. You’re very high right now. You will probably be that way for about five more hours. Try taking some vitamin B complex, vitamin C complex.. if you have a beer, go ahead and drink it..”
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Iirc in one of the last original series eps I watched even Kirk seemed like he couldn’t believe he had been zapped to a planet run by an all-powerful faux-god and had to convince a clown to decent AGAIN. Shatner and Kelley’s punchiness, with Nimoy’s weird sarcasm, is what makes me the mildest “fan.”
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I keep saying I’ll watch it someday, esp when I see a montage like this. But I’ll probably just watch the original series again cuz I don’t think I finished it. And finally see Wrath Of Khan. youtu.be/lVIGhYMwRgs?...
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I’ve watched no movies in full & no full episodes of anything other the the original series (& the animated on 80s Nickelodeon, which I barely remember) but I still can’t join you. Cuz I like a show about three pompous moralist master & commander hams. Better liberal fantasy than The West Wing.
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That video was taken across an ocean over fifteen years ago, of a Walker song I first heard a decade before that, and I still had to fight the urge to yell “Parklife!” at the end of lines.
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I think deep down he knows he’s the useful idiot. He’s the Trojan Horse, not the mastermind inside of it. So you can call him silly cuz he knows the long game is holding your attention. Too many “satirists” flatter him by not just treating him as a contemptible pawn, a symptom of rot.
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Randomly had this comic and looked it up in the dictionary
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My fave of hers
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Wait this isn’t a fantasy metal band’s new single?
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I wish I was actually old enough to shout “well here’s to the love generation!” or something when it’s revealed the modern guitar bauble I’m hearing is a subcultural smash over a decade old.
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Signed, a guy he inspire to walk around in an Unwritten Law shirt in his early 20s cuz we got it at the radio station and I loved saying “that single on the radio is ok” when people wanted to know why I was wearing it.