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Everything posted by Celery Man
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ha, as someone who still has his warped tour all access pass and literally headlined an emo night concert week before last I don't really disagree with you overall. In this thread I'm needling a little bit because it's fun and also because, while I don't disagree with you broadly, I truly don't get the band choices (modest mouse and at the drive in) you've made to illustrate the point. Which, also, totally fine. We covered Modest Mouse - for At The Drive In, I personally don't understand the first fucking thing about what they're saying in the lyrics and while yes I know you said it's not about lyrics, I also don't get where else you have the limp passive thing or the my fees fees thing unless it's because they're wearing girl jeans. Which, fine, but that's one of the cross generational things and is a tale as old as time. I am about 1000% certain that you could track the rise and fall of mall emo with instances of teen self harm. There were several fucked up toxic things about that genre, one of which was how mental health and generally being fucked up and somehow traumatized got turned into what makes you special and essentially fashion or part of the whole affectation. That stuff is bad, but on the flip side you also have very sick and twisted people (obviously not talking about 650) who use that kind of obvious toxicity to take a completely opposite and evil stance towards mental illness and people who are different than themselves or have had the audacity to face actual obstacles in their lives. I bristle at that because I think we should treat others how we'd like to be treated. Anyways, that's a tangent that's really not related to even this side conversation which is distracting us from the important purpose of this thread. Also I really don't know anything about Mumford and Sons - before I ever listened to them I got the sense that they sucked and so I never did. But there have been several times I've been tricked into liking his stuff (Ted Lasso theme, Oscar Isaac duet from Llewyn Davis, New Basement Tapes, which also reminds me of Dawes being a band from this category) and so my assumption is that he is actually a super talented guy who has the audacity to make extremely accessible music that girls like. So maybe I'll check out that album. If you really want to hurt my millennial feelings, tell me that Sufjan is a pussy whose music is bad.
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Some collection from The Last Waltz. Is that.. Danko on the bass?
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Well yeah but now you're trapped in a conversation about Modest Mouse. I think it's kind of interesting actually - to me, Modest Mouse is about 1 iteration away from the grunge era. Band of Horses falls into a different camp that I don't have as good of a handle on but it is much more of a.... My Morning Jacket, Tame Impala, even Mumford or Avett Bros early 2010s indie jam folk etc stuff. But also, I really don't have a ton of familiarity with Modest Mouse past Good News. The first thing that pops into my head when I think of that band is Lonesome Crowded West from 1997. Which I would describe as following the loud soft loud thing, where the loud has a lot of grungey/80s alternative influence and soft is downtempo bass with noise. The pussy music thing is also interesting because... say we're talking about music from the 2000s/2010s, what do we even mean by pussy? Cutting yourself pussy or scarf wearing banjo pussy? Cause we had both, but they were different scenes entirely.
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I’m really not a lyrics guy and I haven’t spent a lot of time pondering what is meant by a guy with teeth like god’s shoeshine getting another orange Julius or whatever but at this point I’m curious - what about Modest Mouse makes them seem like passive victims? This would make sense to me if we were dissecting Bright Eyes, I don’t quite follow for Modest Mouse.
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I’ve posted about some family stuff with someone having a failed run at rehab and sobriety and then checking her ass into LaHa. That experience reinforced the feeling that I had that there are a lot of places that exist to warehouse addicts and cash checks and some places that exist to guide people at their bottom into a successful recovery journey and a chance at salvation. La Ha is that place, it’s still that place. serenity. Best of luck to your bil. My relative just celebrated 6 months.
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I don't know shit about fuck and none of this makes me think he's a bad guy, but - a) wasn't invited back for the King of the Hill reboot, no reason stated b) crashed an event and seemed drunk/incoherent c) house burned down d) murdered in some sort of altercation sounds like some addict shit to me. I bet his neighbors are shitheads to and probably are homophobic but I think it's high odds that his husband was recently married to an addict circling the drain, which also weighs into how I understand anything he might be saying. Sad shit. Sucks to die like that, and kinda especially sucks (if it's death related to spiraling addiction) to die in that way in just the moment where it raises visibility into the circumstances of your death.
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Jimmy Eat Azz
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That Franz Ferdinand album was also summer ‘04. And American Idiot. i totally get hating/not digging Modest Mouse, but Lonesome Crowded Wesr, Moon and Antarctica, and Good News are all more important to me than any album from the Killers or Foo Fighters. summer 04 was also the… Rilo Kiley album with Portions for Foxes. I am excited about seeing Rilo Kiley this year.
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we had a version of this where ztejas and I argued over who was a better band between Weezer and Jimmy Eat World. Although I don't think we actually disagreed that much and it's kinda the reverse of my stance in the foo fighters/killers thread. Weezer is clearly more culturally significant and a bigger band, just they basically suck (I actually like Weezer enough, but an identical band that sounded identical would be just absolute trash) and Jimmy Eat World's run from Static Prevails through Chase This Light is incredible.
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Ha that just awoke the memory that When We Were Young and Story of my Life were both on Guitar Hero III. Many a drunken party with both of those songs, littered with more and more guitar string plinking noises as the night wore on.
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Cause you’re gen x. It charted equivalently or higher than Monkeywrench.
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I’m not commenting at all on complexity or musicianship because in this context I do not care, but I think that Mr Brightside and When We Were Young would easily fall into that discussion at the same tier as those Foo Fighters songs. If we’re talking about influence and cultural impact.
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Well I was taking some pictures for help troubleshooting why my a/b/y box sounds like shit, but it turns out I just needed to spray deoxit all over everything. So here’s some pedal innards pictures of an interesting a/b/y box, or at least interesting as far as a/b/y boxes go.
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I think we’re winding up here because she wants to stop spending money at Starbucks on cafe americanos and my requirements are a drip machine that I can program to brew in the morning. The additional requirement that is making this stupid (why not just get an espresso maker and I can have a $30 Mr Coffee) is that she only wants one thing on the kitchen counter and it needs to be pretty. What complicates this is I can feel myself wanting to get the best version of this thing and potentially doing down a rabbit hole, although I think this fits our needs likely. I do have a baratza encore (or whatever it’s called) that I used to grind beans, so probably this will be good enough to work for now and then gradually hook me and then I’ll fight with my wife over having additional appliances.
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wife has a bug about upgrading our coffee machine and is keying in on this one https://www.delonghi.com/en-us/all-in-one-coffee-espresso-maker/p/COM532M looks like some folks have commented positively about DeLonghi, but bumping for any general commentary that folks would like to share about the brand or this specific machine
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I would challenge that they are really contemporaries. It’s close, but Foo Fighters are much more of a gen x band and Killers are strongly millennial aligned. Purely regarding the importance and prevalence of their music in my life and nothing else, it’s easily the Killers for me. Neither band is one of “my” bands but… I remember the footos video as a kid and the foo fighters have always been around, but those first two Killers albums were Very Big Deals for people my age.
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fify
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I saw a bunch of people I recognized and remembered from long ago, I was not expecting to recognize and remember the lady who runs sound at The Parish. But it was her, same lady who always did it, and she was always the best.
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Also, show this weekend was great. Both guitars survived, we came just short of selling out the Parish (sigh… should’ve kept the guest list a bit smaller). It was bizarre just getting right back onto the bike playing with those guys again. And then seeing the exact same crowd from 15 years ago but all middle aged or near middle aged. Loved seeing 40 something year old women in their scene era shirts from 2004 that I can date precisely because we pressed that batch exactly one time. We had someone shooting photos, so I’m hoping to get some good pictures. The video fucked up but there have been some good ones.
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I saw that headstock and immediately remembered that weird brand of guitars I had forgotten about with the thumbs up. In retrospect, super weird headstock but pretty interesting body if you're into the whole Dano thing. I really like that band (Ratboys) - the lead guitarist plays a cool old Ibanez LP copy and is very much in my wheelhouse. She plays what i had assumed was some kind of old Danelectro, but upon further research it's actually some small danelectro style boutique builder in Iowa - Nepco. (hers is a V with humbucking lipstick pickups). Cool.
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