Things You Just Don't Care About

someone ought to tell the guy that a dewy finish on his moisturizer just makes him look more like an absolute pervert

this documentary about biohacking is pretty good tbh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moyabKVvY1c

guns 'n' roses. don't care. never have. will sing along with their songs in the car. will laugh at funny axl photos or funny stories about how dysfunctional they are. but i agree with siegbran on that g&r thread. they hit people at a certain age or time in their life when g&r made total sense. and i get that. like kiss. or pearl jam. or something else i never listen to. god bless them!

they had a pretty darn successful debut album that actually took awhile to gain traction, it was not an overnight hit at all... I think it was Sweet Child that made it finally pop

And then a racist acoustic album, then November Rain and mostly worthless garbage right up to the present day

Differentiating between November Rain and worthless garbage seems unnecessary there.

Listen, that acoustic album wasn't all racist.

They had that one song with the violent misogyny, for example.

“Patience” fucking rules

perhaps not the right thread for it but don’t really understand why people are praising a racist ahit band that used racist shit iconography throughout their careers.

call it another case of The Year of Dialectical Thinking. I don't much enjoy Céline, though.

Picking up from the last few posts, and as someone who has felt exasperation directed at me at times when I say I still love a couple of Polanski films and a whole bunch of songs by Chuck Berry, I'm glad I'm not the only one puzzled by this. Does "One in a Million" count for anything? Is it that people accept what the band always said--something about "distance," I think--that they put it down to being just words rather than actions, or is their hatred of that particular song simply understood and not worth mentioning?

its ok to like things

Honestly, I feel exactly the same way. I only bring it up because I'm forever intrigued by where that line exists right now.

As ever, these are personal thresholds.

I like a few GNR songs. If I were writing about them professionally, I'd feel an obligation to mention how that sense of apocalypse conveyed by their arrangements also manifests itself in racist bilge like "One in a Million."

If xhuck still posted here, he'd offer his own explanation. The question's worth asking in the GNR thread, though.

Who tweeted Trump’s mug first

Trump tweeting again

Whether the Rolling Stones have a new album coming out or not - though that's been true for most of my life.

for ages I didn't care about Trump. But since becoming aware of the RICO indictment and the logjam of lawsuits and civil cases against him my first port of call every morning is updates on these cases. Sad, really but what can you do?

Sadly we will go on drinking that garbage.

Giuliani losing the defamation case was a pretty great popcorn moment tbf

New Rolling Stones is kind of interesting because who, actually, is psyched for new Stones? Who is that person? Even fogies stuck in 1973 would presumably rather just listen to Exile.

I mentioned it because there's a kind of inane nudge nudge wink wink advertising campaign going on over here trailing a new Stones album, the worst aspect of which is that it's managed to get on the news when it isn't news.

I heard that on the news this morning and my initial cheery response was: you lads ever considered dying.

I try to avoid ageism but I make an exception for 80 year old rock stars who should have retired 30 years ago.

Mick Jagger has regular blood transfusions from babies and is a tory. There is nothing to admire about him. If ever you see a pic of a dishevelled looking Keith Richards drinking Jack Daniels, the bottle is actually full of Ribena. Fake pisshead.

"This is a truly global moment," the band said.

https://i.imgur.com/h0YtnXe.gif

Generally I’m more interested in what the Stones are doing now, in their 80s, than what they were doing in the 80s

who, actually, is psyched for new Stones? Who is that person?

I work with that person. This person, who is my age, will undoubtedly call this the best album released in the last 19 years.

The album of blues covers they put out seven years ago was good. If this album sounds like that (it won't) it will be interesting (it won't).

The problem with the Rolling Stones still being out there playing "rock 'n' roll" is that it sends the wrong message. Instead of saying "see, 80-year-olds can still rock 'n' roll" it says "rock 'n' roll is music for 80-year-olds."

Their last new song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdhENdBYqdo

no doubt it will be ‘their best album since some girls’

Best since 1978 according to the front page(!) of the online edition of The Times. Would that be Some Girls?

bigger bang was good too

obviously these people have no reason to exist but tbf nor does anything else

they have always been people who felt you should play until you die like their old blues guy heroes. but those people really did have to play that long in order to make ends meet! the stones own all the fancy tea sets by now. they obviously don't need money. so they must like it. or they are just the greediest people on earth.

a guy in town here was charlie's drum tech and i felt really bad for him after charlie passed. it was a sad time. and he had worked for him for years. so many tours. last time i saw him he said he was going to Vegas to work with U2. so, now he's working for kids!
i did have to make a snare drum marching band joke when he told me the U2 thing.

The problem with the Rolling Stones still being out there playing "rock 'n' roll" is that it sends the wrong message. Instead of saying "see, 80-year-olds can still rock 'n' roll" it says "rock 'n' roll is music for 80-year-olds.

"Problem"; "Wrong message"

I mean, that's kind of accurate, isn't it? 80-year-olds love rock music.

It's not JUST for them, but it is, I'm a sense, for them.

perhaps anecdotal but the "rock died in the 70s, GVF brought it back!" crowd usually is comprised more of Eric Clapton fans and Zep fans and less Rolling Stones fans.

so that's one for them I guess.

also I do like RS

I love them, but I do not care in the least about anything new they might put out now.

i'd listen if they put out a rival Honkin' on Bobo

(I know they had an album of blues covers as mentioned upthread but I want them to do Aerosmith's Honkin album, right down to the song choices and the arrangements)

cable news wanted me to care about burning man SOOOOOOO MUCH. in the words of george w. bush: not gonna do it.

That goes in the same category as the billionaires in the submarine.

i don't care about them personally, but I am heavily invested in making fun of them

I still laugh when I think of the phrase "Blink-182 Submarine Stepson."

it lead me into a long period of reading about submersibles, technical diving, saturation diving, marine disasters etc.. cos I'm a boring cunt.

was at a family reunion a few days ago and found out a bunch of my family members once went to a Stones show because they assumed it was going to be their last chance. this was nearly 40 years ago, lol

I saw them in fucking 1981 and we thought they were old then.

tbf you were wrong

It's all relative, lol, I was 16 and they seemed like pretty old dudes.