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Sister and EVOL definitely sound better than Daydream Nation, and yeah I like all these records, but they could be so much better. I hate when shit production stifles great songs, most egregious example is Teenage Riot.

anyway i started a different thread, moving on w/ nonmusical controversial opinions um..... Eyes Wide Shut is the best Kubrick movie

on White Light White Heat you can barely make out the drums what is up with that shitty production? for christ's sake learn how to mix properly

apples n oranges my dude. Teenage Riot is an anthem and the production doesn't serve it well. and fwiw i love the production on every VU record. i'm not saying everything needs to have big booming production, just that these particular records would've been served well by it.

xp

bullshit punk rock diy ethos

I always felt a little guilty that "Incinerate" is probably my favorite Sonic Youth song

hell yeah, the super saturated/wet chorus guitar that comes in on the last verse rules

poll

― baby boomer death wave (bizarro gazzara), Friday, May 12, 2017 8:34 AM

done

thanks brimstead i appreciate u

anyone caring non ironically about the eurovision should be neutered

anyone caring ironically about it should be executed

Yeah, I guess castrating / killing a disproportionate number of gay people would be pretty controversial.

^ doesnt care about executed straight ppl

Better save your excuses for your testimony to the ICC, darraghmac

neither is original but i will fight for the truth of these two:

good criticism is often more enjoyable & more valuable than its subject

disdain for irony indicates a dangerous lack of understanding of how humans think & exist in the world

surely neither controversial

if only

there is a lot of bad criticism and a lot of bad irony, and they can also have a crippling effect ('understanding stops action' some nerd said once), so i appreciate the temptation to eschew them entirely like a toxic ex, but earnest straightforward unreflective positivity is pernicious

it is the worst thing imo

ilx is a good place full of excellent people and i have not wasted the 16 years i have been posting here

planet earth is a good place full of excellent people and i have not wasted the 37 years i have been living here

good criticism is often more enjoyable & more valuable than its subject

disdain for irony indicates a dangerous lack of understanding of how humans think & exist in the world

― ogmor, Wednesday, May 17, 2017 10:10 AM (thirty-seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

surely neither controversial

― spud called maris (darraghmac), Wednesday, May 17, 2017

the "good criticism" line is, even here

The new imbedded tweets function is a disaster

The subsequent trend towards posting embedded threaded tweets is the worst thing to have happened ilx

Ned on the trump thread is ruining your life, isn't he.

ned on the trump thread
two bits

there are a few people on ilx that i can say this about: ned can do whatever the hell he wants. and don't scare him away from the trump threads i like having him there! it's comforting. like a warm bowl of soup.

also, sister sounds awesome. the 80's stuff sounds good! people who prefer 90's SY are trump voters and disgusting savages and garbage people and they are also fake news. we put sonic nurse on in the car recently and i had never actually heard it and man oh man that was the first and last time i will ever hear that. so sad.

i got original (they looked vintage anyway...) zen arcade and new day rising CDs in at the store and they sound awesome! better than vinyl. now i don't even need the vinyl. like, really really good. i don't know why, but digital agreed with them. and yeah i definitely used to daydream about what those albums would have sounded like with someone like john loder behind the board, but on CD those guitars are killer. don't know about later versions on CD.

okay, i looked it up. the zen arcade i have is not a 1987 CD. probably a 90's issue. but none of that modern era in the red crap. i can crank it loud on my klipschs and it sounds great.

scott otm

... on all of that.

Not very controversial then is he

Everyone else might disagree with him though.

P sure Ned knows that we're cool tbh

OPINION

flowers are fine but there are too many

tattoos are ugly

The Mens Rights movement raises some valid points esp regarding custody of children and domestic abuse of men

literally a thread for that!

If you say there are valid points to be raised, I agree fully. If you say that MRA's actually usually raise these points, then... I don't know.

The men's rights "movement" refuses to be intersectional and that's how you know it's bullshit

Always love a hoos callback

the strasserites raise some valid points regarding economic justice and rentier capitalism

christianity should take a harder line against heresy

Magic is real

Neanderthal did you see this? It's a long read and on Slate but I thought it was pretty good. I like that Bem's takeaway is "I wish more people believed."

http://redux.slate.com/cover-stories/2017/05/daryl-bem-proved-esp-is-real-showed-science-is-broken.html

tattoos are ugly

― Cyborg Kickboxer (rushomancy), Saturday, May 27, 2017 8:14 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

High five

It is Good when Trump voters suffer materially.

The ugliness of tattoos is a well-established ILX opinion (and I agree).

Well-established RONG opinion, that

Ten is the only good Pearl Jam album

This sentence is false.

that's just like, your opinion, man.

"Black" is the only good Pearl jam song. And that was on Ten. Thus, Ten is the only good Pearl Jam album. #prologic

I can get with that but I like all the Ten singles

and "brain of j"

Pearl jam doesn't have any good songs therefore it doesn't have any good albums of songs