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Post by antiram on Dec 23, 2017 23:10:15 GMT
A mental health professional would probably have some rational explanation as to why we might be devoting our attentions to that which we should really be ignoring and not giving the time of day to. Never be ashamed of Stereo Central. I think we can offer some plausible excuses. First of all, this place is amusing. It provides genuine laughs. Laughter is like air to me; it keeps me alive and fabulous looking. So, this forum has stress relief properties. It is good for our health. I also think it is a creative outlet of sorts. Maybe not as creative as writing a novel or recording an album or painting a portrait or something tangible... But I think a lot of wit goes into a lot of poats here. Sometimes the act of typing out one's thoughts, without fear of Gorting, can fire up the imagination a little, freshen up our creative minds to apply to whatever real-world tasks we are facing. One could argue this forum provides a necessary community service in providing a counterbalance and context for Hoofer's immense forum. I bet a lot of lurkers here lurk just to be reassured that they aren't crazy, Hoofer and his Gorts and his regs are the crazy ones... It provides an archive of sorts that will be of use to scholars in the 22nd century. That's why the loss of the old forum was a tragedy on the scale of the burning of the Library of Alexandria; 9 internet years of thorough reporting and analysis are lost to the ages. This was my deciding factor in rolling up my sleeves, coming out of lurkerdom, and offering to help rebuild. It also serves a purpose in letting utter pricks and morons know that they aren't fooling anybody. There is satisfaction in that, which may have the same salutary effects of laughter. Every time you expose Scoot's stupidity, you add months to your life. Finally, anyone curious about music is curious about its weird extremes. So I think a lot of us are willing to listen to some pretty leftfield shit. However, that which sucks should be called out for sucking. Scoot and James McCartney ought to be thankful that we care so much, they aren't really leftfield enough to be interesting. I will also add in deference to the longtime crew here that I think in some respects that this is one of the most intelligent and level-headed and even sane troll forums ever created, remarkable in and of itself but moreso for also lasting a decade. I actually respect everyone here a lot. Can I hear a kumbaya! If anyone here needs to use excuses for being here, with loved ones or colleagues or neighbors or internet friends, feel free to use any of mine. However, I admit that they are just excuses. Really, I am here now because I don't wanna wash the car, which I have put off for weeks and which looks filthy and needs to be done before tomorrow. So, really, I have no excuse. And I'm outta James McCartney videos to watch.
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Post by graucho on Dec 23, 2017 23:53:49 GMT
A mental health professional would probably have some rational explanation as to why we might be devoting our attentions to that which we should really be ignoring and not giving the time of day to. Never be ashamed of Stereo Central. I think we can offer some plausible excuses. First of all, this place is amusing. It provides genuine laughs. Laughter is like air to me; it keeps me alive and fabulous looking. So, this forum has stress relief properties. It is good for our health. I also think it is a creative outlet of sorts. Maybe not as creative as writing a novel or recording an album or painting a portrait or something tangible... But I think a lot of wit goes into a lot of poats here. Sometimes the act of typing out one's thoughts, without fear of Gorting, can fire up the imagination a little, freshen up our creative minds to apply to whatever real-world tasks we are facing. One could argue this forum provides a necessary community service in providing a counterbalance and context for Hoofer's immense forum. I bet a lot of lurkers here lurk just to be reassured that they aren't crazy, Hoofer and his Gorts and his regs are the crazy ones... It provides an archive of sorts that will be of use to scholars in the 22nd century. That's why the loss of the old forum was a tragedy on the scale of the burning of the Library of Alexandria; 9 internet years of thorough reporting and analysis are lost to the ages. This was my deciding factor in rolling up my sleeves, coming out of lurkerdom, and offering to help rebuild. It also serves a purpose in letting utter pricks and morons know that they aren't fooling anybody. There is satisfaction in that, which may have the same salutary effects of laughter. Every time you expose Scoot's stupidity, you add months to your life. Finally, anyone curious about music is curious about its weird extremes. So I think a lot of us are willing to listen to some pretty leftfield shit. However, that which sucks should be called out for sucking. Scoot and James McCartney ought to be thankful that we care so much, they aren't really leftfield enough to be interesting. I will also add in deference to the longtime crew here that I think in some respects that this is one of the most intelligent and level-headed and even sane troll forums ever created, remarkable in and of itself but moreso for also lasting a decade. I actually respect everyone here a lot. Can I hear a kumbaya! If anyone here needs to use excuses for being here, with loved ones or colleagues or neighbors or internet friends, feel free to use any of mine. However, I admit that they are just excuses. Really, I am here now because I don't wanna wash the car, which I have put off for weeks and which looks filthy and needs to be done before tomorrow. So, really, I have no excuse. And I'm outta James McCartney videos to watch. I agree with pretty much all you've said here. I was really just sending myself up, and am hoping the James McCartney thread will run on and on. The subject is just the catalyst as far as I'm concerned. And it's quite clear that people here are here because they quickly got fed up with the narrowness of opinion, lack of humour and deference on SHF.
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Post by AnalogRearEnd on Dec 24, 2017 0:55:28 GMT
I'm just here for the poontang.
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Post by Urethra Franklin on Dec 24, 2017 2:21:55 GMT
Never be ashamed of Stereo Central. I think we can offer some plausible excuses. First of all, this place is amusing. It provides genuine laughs. Laughter is like air to me; it keeps me alive and fabulous looking. So, this forum has stress relief properties. It is good for our health. I also think it is a creative outlet of sorts. Maybe not as creative as writing a novel or recording an album or painting a portrait or something tangible... But I think a lot of wit goes into a lot of poats here. Sometimes the act of typing out one's thoughts, without fear of Gorting, can fire up the imagination a little, freshen up our creative minds to apply to whatever real-world tasks we are facing. One could argue this forum provides a necessary community service in providing a counterbalance and context for Hoofer's immense forum. I bet a lot of lurkers here lurk just to be reassured that they aren't crazy, Hoofer and his Gorts and his regs are the crazy ones... It provides an archive of sorts that will be of use to scholars in the 22nd century. That's why the loss of the old forum was a tragedy on the scale of the burning of the Library of Alexandria; 9 internet years of thorough reporting and analysis are lost to the ages. This was my deciding factor in rolling up my sleeves, coming out of lurkerdom, and offering to help rebuild. It also serves a purpose in letting utter pricks and morons know that they aren't fooling anybody. There is satisfaction in that, which may have the same salutary effects of laughter. Every time you expose Scoot's stupidity, you add months to your life. Finally, anyone curious about music is curious about its weird extremes. So I think a lot of us are willing to listen to some pretty leftfield shit. However, that which sucks should be called out for sucking. Scoot and James McCartney ought to be thankful that we care so much, they aren't really leftfield enough to be interesting. I will also add in deference to the longtime crew here that I think in some respects that this is one of the most intelligent and level-headed and even sane troll forums ever created, remarkable in and of itself but moreso for also lasting a decade. I actually respect everyone here a lot. Can I hear a kumbaya! If anyone here needs to use excuses for being here, with loved ones or colleagues or neighbors or internet friends, feel free to use any of mine. However, I admit that they are just excuses. Really, I am here now because I don't wanna wash the car, which I have put off for weeks and which looks filthy and needs to be done before tomorrow. So, really, I have no excuse. And I'm outta James McCartney videos to watch. I agree with pretty much all you've said here. I was really just sending myself up, and am hoping the James McCartney thread will run on and on. The subject is just the catalyst as far as I'm concerned. And it's quite clear that people here are here because they quickly got fed up with the narrowness of opinion, lack of humour and deference on SHF.
I'm here for a lot of reasons. Yes because it's a laugh, but also because I was gorted by Jerry one too many times for absolutely nothing, Keef is unashamedly up to 7000 mostly crap ceedees, Oatsdead is a dog torturing Madonna loving dick, the Monkees are the third biggest band in Shiteville so my respect for their musical opinions is low. I could go on forever.
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Post by hoffa_nagila on Dec 24, 2017 3:47:32 GMT
I'm only in it for the obi
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Post by Ago on Dec 24, 2017 9:29:01 GMT
I'm only here for deh pwesident uh wock.
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Post by thisonehurts on Dec 24, 2017 11:17:31 GMT
Good to see Oatsdead mentioned. Not enough is said about this guy. The nauseating group-hugs on SHtv when he allows yet another maltreated poodle to die in pitiful agony is just another example of the warped, inverted worldview that so many of them share.
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Post by daved on Dec 24, 2017 15:54:37 GMT
Good to see Oatsdead mentioned. Not enough is said about this guy. The nauseating group-hugs on SHtv when he allows yet another maltreated poodle to die in pitiful agony is just another example of the warped, inverted worldview that so many of them share. Never mind going to shows from the same tour 30-40 times. You gotta have serious issues to wanna do that. No one is worth seeing that much, especially with today’s military precision, scripted shows.
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Post by Urethra Franklin on Dec 24, 2017 17:29:42 GMT
Loved the way Oatsdead moralistically poated on Shiteville about how counterfeit music is wrong even after he was charged and convicted of selling pre-release movies to warez sites.
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Post by gary191265 on Dec 26, 2017 17:32:23 GMT
I too am here because Jerry is the fucking worst. It was Jerry that made me sought out the original site.
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Post by thisonehurts on Dec 27, 2017 14:42:42 GMT
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Post by graucho on Dec 27, 2017 18:25:42 GMT
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Post by antiram on Dec 27, 2017 19:44:44 GMT
That particular thread has to be one of the most annoying ones I've seen this year. Encapsulates everything that's wrong with thinking like a SHite. It is based on a flawed premise, looked at the wrong way, provides ample opportunity for smugness and hand-wringing, and just is so stale and stifling. One thing interesting about that list. I noticed that David Bowie's name wasn't invoked until page 17, and even then he was sharing a passing aside with Scott Walker. I've never been a huge Bowie fan myself, but I thought that last album was the epitome of going out with a bang and on your own terms. It was also his most serious attempt at music since maybe the Eno days, or maybe even ever. At the very least, it was a much better album than any he's made since 1980 or so. However, the SHites don't seem to like it. Maybe it is too dark for them, considering the album is as close to literally death itself as an album probably can be. And death is the one topic that spazzes them all out. On the other hand, I noticed Macca defenders come crawling out of the woodwork. The older I get, the more McCartney starts seeming like a bubblegum matinee idol who hit his peak in 1965-1967, around the same time Peter Noone did, and has managed to mutate into a bizarre caricature of himself because he never was able to slip into comfortable obscurity as other teen idols always do. That is one guy who hasn't aged well, no matter what the SHites say. Trapped in a life of singing rote versions of a young man's love songs over and over; his purgatory is having become his own portrait of Dorian Grey. Guys like that can't make good music unless they let go of everything. Maybe that's what saves guys like Bowie, or maybe Dylan, or even Neil Young. They have never been willing or expected to play the role of a 23-year-old for life. The Rolling Stones are kinda trapped in the same purgatory as McCartney musically, but they were never pretty boys so at least getting old and ugly suits them. Paul McCartney's Old Man Paul trilogy of Chaos, Memory Almost Full, and NEW has some of his richest most rewarding music. "His most rewarding music..." Get a fucking clue, man. Those are three vapid, tuneless albums that could only be made by a doddering and decrepit matinee idol with the money and means to keep working. They are freaks of nature for even existing. New is a Frankenstein mishmash of expensive life-support production glossying up fraudulent "rockers" and meaningless, dried-up ballads, sung in a croaky voice by a guy who lost his voice decades ago but never learned how to phrase around it. It is a lite version of Electric Arguments for those who thought that one too experimental (guffaw, guffaw), with more expensive producers. New is a worst-case scenario for an old musician. It is a perfect example of an album your favorite old geezer of choice should have the dignity not to make. The other two albums fucking suck as well. I was embarrassed to even sit at Starbucks when that stupid bricked Starbucks-label album with the mandolin was played non-stop. I bet the barristas hate that fucking album. Name me one fucking good lyric from any of those albums, or even a melody worth remembering. Yuck, it just gets embarrassing at a certain point.
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Post by hoffa_nagila on Dec 27, 2017 21:24:34 GMT
Bowie's last album is inextricably of its time. It's nothing like his seventies stuff, and it never tries to be. McCartney's been resting on his laurels since about 1976.
On the topic of Scoot:
I was listening to an album called Blondel by Amazing Blondel. It's boring 70's proggy Renaissance fair crap, that Steve Winwood inexplicably plays bass on (I can only imagine he owed someone a favor.) Why I mention it, however, is that while the music is ably performed but utterly vapid, the singer's voice has more than a passing resemblance to our favorite rocker. Maybe he should put down the 'letric guitar and pick up a lute? He could be medieval times last hope.
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Post by thisonehurts on Dec 27, 2017 21:36:58 GMT
That's the one that starts with "The Leaving Of The Country Lover"? Scoot couldn't even say it, let alone sing it.
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