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Celery Man

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  1. There go the improvements to Gibson’s quality control
  2. I've really never looked at Quora. It feels like one day "Ask Jeeves" rebranded to Quora and nobody really noticed, i assume that anybody answering a question there is broadcasting their response from a ham radio. On the one hand, I do think that Reddit is the first place to look for non-enshittified reviews. But I would love to read some sort of dunning-krugeresque study on collective wisdom in points incentivized internet discussions. It's fucking wild to read a subreddit on something you are actually knowledgable about, and makes you question the input you see when you're trying to figure out what brand of jigsaw you need or whatever it is. The people in cleaningtips will tell you to put barkeepers friend on literally everything, and the people in lecreuset will tell you that not only can you not use metal utensils, you shouldn't use the rough side of a sponge. In guitar, someone will get upvoted for writing a takedown of Gibson, their piss poor quality control, and how their use of plek machines is idiotic - clicking their post history will reveal a question on how to replace the pickups on their affinity strat with humbuckers. *barkeepers friend is an abrasive that will harm many surfaces, the whole goddamn point of enameled cast iron is that it is easy and low maintenance, and how to turn your $80 guitar into a different kind of guitar is a question for 14 year olds
  3. guy that plays the banjo keeps on handing me the old crow which multiplies my sorrows I can’t take it anymore
  4. Ours is Salome, which is even less appropriate but was effective for getting her to chill. “My blood’s turned to dirt, girl you broke every part of me” super low tier 97s song but Curtain Calls was one too. “You believe in cards and you believe in signs. And I’ll be leaving soon but I’m here tonight”.
  5. Big Brown Eyes has some great ones - and the cherry burns the corner of the page that says the end is coming soon - not soon enough, restring all your guitars and pack up all your stuff A box of red and a pill or three and I’m calling time and temperature just for some company
  6. But seriously though.... there was some discussion upthread about Miller not getting his due as a lyricist, and that's absolutely right. I don't know how to describe what he's the master of, but it's that thing where there's just a fucking line that's great. And fun to sing. Victoria has a bunch of them - the percodan and rohypnol ones, but "She lived in Berkeley till the earthquakes shook her loose - she lives in Texas now where nothin ever moves." Streets of Where I'm From was mentioned upthread, I think that's where he says "I've been had, well at least that's how it looks. But it's not funny like on TV and it's not smart like it is in books". St Ignatius - I mean that whole song is fun to sing, every line. I guess the "We're just shadows" line where he refers to Plato's allegory of the cave and then says he'll bring the kerosene to burn down the Palace. We could just name songs and the most fun line from the song. Maybe he's the master of song lines that you can deliver with a wink. My name's Stuart Ransom Miller, I'm a serial lady killer. She said I'm already dead, that's exactly what she said.
  7. there's the one off Southeastern where Isbell rhymes... benzodiazapine then you got MF DOOM - One for the money, two for the better green, 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine
  8. Probably 504 and If My Heart Was a Car as well. i saw somewhere, probably Ken on some video or even a livestream where he was talking about how they made their setlists and that he would always lose to Philip’s veto on 504 because it was such a beating to play. heart was a car was always a kinda middle tier Old 97s song for me 20 years ago but it has grown on me a lot.
  9. I made $27 in performance royalties as a composer in 2023 and couldn’t accurately transcribe the chorus of a single one of those songs
  10. she was my indie rock crush in high school
  11. looks like john mulaney cosplaying ryan adams, but this is intriguing - Stephen Wilson Jr. is a singer/songwriter from rural Southern Indiana. Self-described as “Death Cab For Country,” Stephen Wilson Jr. draws upon indie rock, grunge and country to create a distinct sound that is influenced by artists as diverse as The National, Willie Nelson, John Mellencamp and Nirvana.
  12. oh yeah I wouldn't really compare against Too Far to Care or expect any subsequent album to match that. Just, I think with some of their newer albums I've gotten a track or two in and have decided I just want to go listen to the albums I love. I'll have to go give Most Messed Up a fair shake, though - I don't know if I ever did. I would compare newer albums to Rhett solo albums a bit. I actually always liked this one off of The Believer -
  13. Johnny's in Loisburg (kinda out there, but still)
  14. This is the bbq place that people from my office near Raleigh will go out to for lunch. literally it’s this and chicken. They call it “barbecue”. Lady was very confused when I asked about what the choices were for the “pound of barbecue”. Fuck,
  15. I remember hearing Rhett on some podcast talk about a suicide attempt when he was a teenager - I assume that's what that line references? Just listened through the song, but fairly passively. Old 97s is a formative band for me, although i haven't dug too much into their releases since the grand theater albums. I think I'm probably missing some stuff but I feel like Rhett is flanderizing himself a bit in his older age (leaning too far into being kinda adorable, which was always part of his schtick) and I also heavily suspect that a) there used to be a healthy creative tension between Rhett and Murry and b) now these guys meet up and learn each others songs before laying down an album. I don't know if that's right, but it feels less like albums of Rhett pop songs that Murry has seasoned up with country western (and one or two of the exact opposite). Anyways, I'll try to give the new album a few good shakes before I just go back and listen to Too Far To Care again. Which is just pure bangers front to back.
  16. Pro. I saw a post from Shires talking about quitting nicotine. Man, that is not the time I’d be doing that but good on her.
  17. The information age has allowed for the industrialization of hate and stupidity. And the incentives are all fucked up, and most people are highly defenseless. That’s what has happened.
  18. A big part of why we can’t do better is how our culture and media landscape require us to entertain morons with stupid equivalencies.
  19. McCartney has said that Pet Sounds spurred them to make Sgt Peppers. I think Rubber Soul was an influence on Wilson making Pet Sounds. If The Beach Boys were a real band, they’d be pretty easy to call the greatest American band.
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