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Thermos H. Christ

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  1. Nirvana’s best album came out in 2009
  2. Nirvana obviously. Neutral Milk Hotel made one album amazing and influential enough to be right up here. Some honorable mentions with smaller, less consistent, or less influential overall catalogs who nonetheless made some of the very best rock songs and albums: The Breeders (“Pod” is insanely good, and arguably the purest example of Steve Albini doing his thing) The Unicorns (only four years in existence, dropped one of the best albums ever in year 3) The Shins The White Stripes Green Day (in the mid 90s) Smashing Pumpkins (in the early-mid 90s) The Distillers The Yeah Yeah Yeahs The Strokes The Decemberists Voxtrot (purely on the strength of their first EP)
  3. I've heard a million stories about their horrible quality control in recent years, and their prices are outrageous. They're putting out guitars with serious fit and finish issues, often playability issues, that cost as much as Fender Custom Shop stuff. Morale within has been notoriously low for years (seriously read glassdoor about working at Gibson, it sounds like a nightmare). See also endorsers jumping ship because they can't be bothered to listen. Plus apparently their minimum buy is outrageous if you want to sell them, to the point that many mom n pop shops have had to drop them entirely. And on the side they're trying to be a general consumer electronics company. Sure, guitar-centric music isn't the all-encompassing cultural juggernaut it once was, but people are still buying and playing guitars. Plenty of them. This isn't that hard. Follow the Fender plan. Sell versions of all your iconic models at basically every imaginable price level, and take advantage of the advances in CNC to deliver really high quality instruments at a price point previously undreamt of. By all accounts, Epiphones are pretty decent. But you gotta get people talking about them the way they talk about Squier Vintage Modified - having their minds blown by the professional-quality instrument they got for $300. You can still sell $3,000-$5,000 guitars to a tiny number of people, but the boomers are dying off and millennials are poor as shit. You have to make it where people can buy an LP worthy of the Gibson name for like $600. And you definitely can. Other people are doing it. The "Standard" Les Paul should not be $4,800. And when you're asking someone to pay $4,800 for a guitar, it has to be perfect. It has to be beyond perfect.
  4. Wait MajorHarsin was Canadian?
  5. I hadn't checked in on the cloak room lately. Tonight I did and at a glance it seemed like most of the people still posting are the alt-right/pizzagater types. Wonder how many of them are bots still going through the motions.
  6. I mean I suppose it's one of the cooler things I might expect to see hanging on the wall of an accountant's office
  7. Today I learned that Joan Jett was younger circa 2010 than she was in the 80's (70's?)
  8. John Mayer is so awful that he singlehandedly makes Dead & Co. completely unappealing to me. He's obviously very technically proficient but his voice and even his guitar tone are just nauseating. Actually now that I think about it he is kind of the PRS of guitar players. Sure it's well made, there's clearly skilled craftsmanship and attention to detail going on, but somehow it all just adds up to being really bland and offputting at the same time. Look at this thing. Fuck this thing. It looks like how John Mayer sounds.
  9. I see it and raise you
  10. Dear lord, this thing on Craigslist in Austin right now... looks like a bargain at a $900 asking price. https://austin.craigslist.org/msg/d/rare-2008-fender-aerodyne/6544537849.html
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