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post your five favorite songs with slide guitar bite me just wrap my donald duck comics to go frodo

― A Pile of Ants (Boring, Maryland),

OTM

i don't know if i find it immature so much as i don't understand the impulse at all, why would anyone want to do that

i also think those kinds of lists are really harmful and destructive.

and very old fashioned.

i could definitely rank my 5 favorite donald duck comics

I like making lists in my mind, and I don't even know why. It's not that I think the lists have much value, it's just the kind of exercise that my brain likes as a thinking prompt.

xp please rank your 5 favorite Donald Duck comics!

Jessie J was better than Adele, even if she too supported Spurs.

Return to Forever is massively underrated, in all their prog rock pomp jazz fusion grandiosity.

prog house is precisely not pompous and grandiose enough, every prog house tune should have a plague of light house keepers as its minimum length with various movements and tempo changes. Instead it's just heterosexual house for indie prog haters extended and made more boring.

stfu

Return to Forever is massively underrated, in all their prog rock pomp jazz fusion grandiosity.

Agree with this. The majority of Chick Corea's catalog after the mid '70s is terrible, he was born without taste, but the classic RTF lineup was amazing.

It's like when password reminders are like "what is tour favorite food?????

subjective security questions! it is a special pet peeve of mine

https://i.imgur.com/r5tAjr9.jpg

these are fucking epic and I would sign up for whatever service required them
maybe a poll?

they're giving me flashbacks to the essay section of the GRE

i have kind of a crazy story about that, the essay portion of the GRE

short version is that i only did one practice essay, from a practice book, within a few days of the test. the question? something about whether indoor smoking should be outlawed in public places. this was the early 2000s, of course. anyway, i did a half-assed practice test essay version of it, and then spent some time time reading the 5.0 answer that was provided.

on my actual GRE, a few days later, what was the essay? of course, the same exact question about smoking and how it should be regulated in public spaces, almost word for word. instead of treating this like the easy alley oop that it was, i freaked out. i spent 20 minutes just staring at it, wondering what to do, worried that somehow if i replicated the 5.0 answer that i had just read a few days later, it would be plagiarism of some sort. i finally started scribbling something when it was way too late and rushed through everything, yeah badumdum after that

I got something like, "Are the events of your life within your control or not? Answer in a five-paragraph essay and cite sources." (I'm not making this up, that was the question, I just don't remember exactly how it was worded.)

Actually they didn't tell me the five-paragraph-essay and sources part, so naturally I wrote a personal essay, which is why I failed the writing section of the GRE, didn't get into grad school, and ended up living in a shack in Alaska.

holy shit, what did you answer? to the "are the events of your life within your control or not?" question!?

jfc just thinking about this is stressing me out

it's like well half of life is just showing up, but, fuck

I don't really remember! I think I did a sort of light, "on the one hand/on the other hand" personal/anecdotal thing, because I really couldn't wrap my head around the idea that the GRE wanted me to take a firm stance on the issue and make my case in five paragraphs.

Isn't Anything is better than Loveless.

I don't think that's an uncommon opinion - controversial or not tbf

Isn’t Anything ISN’T ANYTHING to write home about! Hyuk hyuk, oh that was a good one!

Isn't Anything is better than Loveless.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Wednesday, 10 November 2021

has there been a poll on Isn't Anything vs Loveless? I would also vote for the former.

xpost “prog house is boring music for boring people” is hardly a controversial opinion?

At this point I’m more interested in hearing someone passionately defending it. But to be clear, I am not that person.

i also think those kinds of lists are really harmful and destructive.

explain please

Isn't Anything is better than Loveless.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Wednesday, 10 November 2021

Sunny Sundae Smile is better than both

At this point I’m more interested in hearing someone passionately defending it. But to be clear, I am not that person.
― Siegbran, Wednesday, 10 November 2021

Yes, it's boring because it doesn't live up to its progressive rhetoric. It should be the prog rock of dance music with tempo/key/time signature changes all eventually resolving to an ultimate, grandiose 4/4 at various tempos, but instead its more like the English version of jam bands. just noodling.

Symphonic house, now there's a thought. Does it exist?

basically simon should have demanded this in Energy Flash. Show us, where are ya?

dance music with tempo/key/time signature changes does not work as dance music, because nobody can dance to it.

dance music with tempo/key/time signature changes does not work as dance music, because nobody can dance to it.
― edited to reflect developments which occurred (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 10 November 2021

Decolonise your penis, please.

You are so gross

otm

That said, out of tempo, time sig and keychanges, one of these things is not like the others wrt dancing, unless admittedly like most of ILM a surfeit of melodic invention brings you out in a rash

You are so gross
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 10 November 2021

I'm extremely fastidious with personal hygiene, I'll have you know.

dance music with tempo/key/time signature changes does not work as dance music, because nobody can dance to it.
― edited to reflect developments which occurred (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 10 November 2021

Objectively and historically and scientifically wrong in any case, so quit with the patronising. Although this doesn't have key changes, but that would hardly be a problem for our future progressive dance epics.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUskMOQ6kP4

Circumcision cleanses the soul from imperialist prejudices.

jfc Robbie, not going to engage with this

jfc Robbie, not going to engage with this
― edited to reflect developments which occurred (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 10 November 2021

Sad face emoji vibes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtCxASlE5XI

Yes, it's boring because it doesn't live up to its progressive rhetoric.

Prog house not being all that progressive yeah that's clear but then again lots of genres got their name early on and ended up somewhere completely elsewhere - IDM very quickly ended up very much not "dance music", etc. If they had called it deep groove instead or something similarly accurate, it'd still be just as boring, but few people would make this big "progressive? ha!" deal about it.

It should be the prog rock of dance music with tempo/key/time signature changes all eventually resolving to an ultimate, grandiose 4/4 at various tempos

Well there's the whole psy angle - Shpongle, Younger Brother & all. Hard to make that work in the context of a DJ set though, which is what 99% of dance music is produced for.

I'm counting four tempo changes in this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRN2OgYoZUU

"in the context of a DJ set for a dancefloor" I should probably say.

I find the extremely specific genre names under the electronic and metal umbrellas silly.

of course it's silly, but at least it's fairly helpful for picking what club night to go to.

IDM is at least amusing though, as you can just pretend the phonetic way a speech synthesiser pronounces it, 'ihdm', is its own, made up word.

As for dj sets, this shouldn't be an excuse but then again the dance music industry is hopelessly anachronistic — still using cdjs (got to be a CIA psyop, surely?) when you can have 4-6 deck hooligan plunderphonics meltdowns on virtual dj, why would you choose to remain hopelessly out of date? At least in the 90s using an outdated format was born out of necessity, today it's just rave grandad-ism, which is fine and all, but at least own up to it rather than the pseudo-spiritual tosh of dj sets being some kind of amazonian shamanic ritual — they are rituals alright, but for sinners, and certainly not for noble or religious purposes. Structure - We are Structure and we will blow your mind out like a fuse on 303s.

I find the extremely specific genre names under the electronic and metal umbrellas silly.

It can be fun to mix them. Death trance acid. Hard black glam. Industrial hair.

Personal note: I pretty much noped out in 1995 when I encountered earnest gatekeeping about the boundaries of vegancore.

There should be more genres based on diet tho: ovo-lacto-disco. paleo ska. Etc.

I like that, I'll start to pronounce it 'iddim.

4-6 deck organized chaos will probably happen, but not by human dj's

i could definitely rank my 5 favorite donald duck comics

― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Wednesday, November 10, 2021 12:21 AM (fifteen hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

I like making lists in my mind, and I don't even know why. It's not that I think the lists have much value, it's just the kind of exercise that my brain likes as a thinking prompt.

xp please rank your 5 favorite Donald Duck comics!

― Lily Dale, Wednesday, November 10, 2021 12:23 AM (fifteen hours ago)

the golden helmet (1952), pool sharks (1951), the old castle's secret (1948), letter to santa (1949), the talking dog (1953). (all by carl barks, of course.)

Most songs would be improved if we replaced guitar solos with Mariah Carey whistle vocals.

paleo ska

This is giving me chills. A gang of like 7 ripped dudes with trombones.