FMs equating U2 to Radiohead is just fucking reckless. Just listen to the U2 track I posted, and tell me Radiohead weren’t trying to cop that 3 years later on Kid A. I am in no way equating their songs or talent, only the chopped & screwed approach to guitar music during their “innovative eras”...

As much as I'd like to not give Radiohead too much credit, unless you were already super into late-90s IDM and deep into Krautrock, which I certainly wasn't as an 18 year-old in 2000, putting out a record incorporating some of the glitchier/noisier elements of both and having a #1 album seemed pret...

The elephant in the room here is U2...something like Zooropa was well ahead of the curve in terms of what Radiohead was going for with their dystopian electronics with a conscience era. The caveat to that elephant is that U2 - with the dozens of semi-trucks and >$100 price tag for tickets for the Z...

- The electronic meets organic thing was way less explored within pop/rock at this time. Pretty much Bjork was the only other person seriously placing a foot in each bucket (forget the lightweight singer songwriter with a drum loop boom). I'm sure there are less famous contemporaries because there'...

I think that's a valid comparison, I assume Lindgren probably read Twain...he was probably quite a cultural mainstay at the turn of the century. But in my experience Lindgren's characters are even more anarchic and wild. What's your relation to those stories? How have they appeared in your life and...

Lu Zwei wrote: Sun May 11, 2025 11:46 am What is Simple Plan!?

I wish it was this...but its not. RIP Bill Paxton...

It is funny though, because age of consent is one of those things that differs across states. There is just an assumption that it is 18 everywhere (probably from adult media, where they are forced to comply with federal statutes to not get in trouble), whereas the vast majority of the US states it i...

It’s no different to the UK or Canada…and I suspect a lot of places. Certainly navigating laws across the EU is more complex, except those explicitly meant for the whole territory.

What are we supposed to get out of that image above? That's the cover of the most recent godspeed you! black emperor record NO​ ​TITLE AS OF 13 FEBRUARY 2024 28​,​340 DEAD , so maybe just acknowledgement of a band that is definitely not Zionists and is fully supportive of Gaza and Palestinians. Ha ...

jfv wrote: Thu May 08, 2025 7:01 pm she had to tell multiple kids to stop trying to set their Chromebooks on fire.

Fahrenheit x86