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General Music Discussion / Re: Sucal's daul roulette v6 - OMG IT'S FINALLY OVER!!! CONGRATS!!!1!!!1!!!!!!!!
« Last post by Crow on Today at 01:50:21 PM »
listened to american candy this morning and

yeah i don't get it  :lol

very pleasant but there is like, NO substance here at all and being able to recognize so many of the samples here was incredibly distracting the whole way through :lol not necessarily bad but if this is what RYM is calling the 8th best album of 2024 then RYMers have really shallow taste lol. i never take the RYM charts all that seriously but

i'm listening to the You Like Music songs on YT rn tho and this one seems WAY more up my alley so i'm kinda annoyed they don't have the full thing up anywhere  :lol
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General Discussion / Re: What pissed you off today?
« Last post by TheHoveringSojourn808 on Today at 01:48:11 PM »
The song invites you to sit in silence and listen and absorb your surroundings. Except when it's about a protest I disagree with, then it's just "distracting noise"

The point is this guy is missing the entire point of Cage's piece if he thinks there are "noises" that this piece shouldn't be listened to with. Someone mentioned a marching band as background, and I don't see how that'd be any different. The point of the piece is to listen to what is "here and now" and if it's a marching band, or loud protests, what is the difference? The point is to STFU and listen. And publicizing that there are exceptions to that are the most obvious way to signal you have no idea why the Cage piece is important. Hard for me to comprehend how someone that closed minded and, frankly, dumb, got a job teaching at a university that is supposed to be as prestigious  as Columbia

The political nature of these "noises" is obviously the thing the guy takes issue with and it's incredibly dubious and obviously a bad faith argument for him to try and make it about distracting noise. I highly doubt John Cage only intended his piece to be listened to under conditions only a milquetoast liberal would be comfortable with. It's art, get offended and think a bit!
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General Music Discussion / Re: Taylor Swift
« Last post by TheHoveringSojourn808 on Today at 01:44:55 PM »
Yeah, I didn't include Beyonce but I should have, her new one is great as well! Don't mean to take over the TS thread with other music but the level of saturation with her is so high these days that it's always good to expand horizons a bit and check out some other artists in the same vein! And since it's a prog forum it seems likely that threads like these are where you'll find the folks that are likely to like these other gals anyway.

Monopolies are bad, especially in music!
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Movies and TV / Re: Stuff on Netflix
« Last post by hefdaddy42 on Today at 01:41:54 PM »
Quote from: BlackInk on Today at 11:31:01 AM
Okay, then that may be a misinterpretation on my part.

I thought that was the whole point of the "if one of us survives, we all survive" line. Additionally, I interpreted their seeming inability to even comprehend dishonesty that hiding any part of one's thoughts or intentions from another member of their species is just a conceptaual non-starter. Just from an evolutionary stand point, as soon as members of a species are distinct entities with unique mental properties, things like deception and misrepresentation and dishonesty seem to arise naturally, even in unconscious behavior in things like flowers, as a direct result of Darwinian pressures to gain resources and ultimately propagate genetic material.
They communicate to each other by telepathy.  It is not possible for them to lie to each other, so they had no way to imagine that lying was possible.
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General Discussion / Re: Official food thread v. Jingle.star
« Last post by hefdaddy42 on Today at 01:40:27 PM »
Quote from: TheHoveringSojourn808 on Today at 11:58:21 AM
Don't hate me just because I have non-standard food takes! :lol
3 or 4 different responses off the top of my head, sacrificed once again to the gods of civility.
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General Discussion / Re: The post funny stuff thread v.Aleph-naught
« Last post by hefdaddy42 on Today at 01:39:15 PM »
Florida Man still reigns, undefeated and unchallenged.
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General Music Discussion / Re: The official Opeth thread v. In Cauda Venenum
« Last post by gazinwales on Today at 01:38:51 PM »
Quote from: TheHoveringSojourn808 on Today at 12:01:08 PM
Is Opeth connected to this music somehow? Sorry for the ignorant question (maybe)

If it wasn't Opeth connected I wouldn't have posted it in this thread  :biggrin:
FYI Opeth bass player Martín Méndez 'side project'.
https://www.discogs.com/artist/7713403-White-Stones
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General Music Discussion / Re: What album are you listening to v.9
« Last post by twosuitsluke on Today at 01:38:26 PM »
Some soothing video game music, in the bath...

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General Discussion / Re: What pissed you off today?
« Last post by hefdaddy42 on Today at 01:38:00 PM »
Quote from: TheHoveringSojourn808 on Today at 12:03:18 PM
I think it's related in the sense where you see Op-Eds in the NYT with these whiney trustafarian professors who have never worked a real day in their life complaining that the protests are disrupting campus life.
What the fuck does that mean?

Quote from: TheHoveringSojourn808 on Today at 12:03:18 PM
To me that kind of pathetic response just highlights how cartoonishly corrupt these big private schools are.

EDIT: here's the piece I was referring to



How did Columbia University hire this absolute moron?
In what way is he a moron?
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General Music Discussion / Re: The Official CREED Thread - v. Never Die
« Last post by gzarruk on Today at 01:36:42 PM »
Hopefully they'll make an album too.
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