M.H wrote: Sun Oct 23, 2022 4:27 pm

seby wrote: Sat Oct 22, 2022 8:02 pm I have been trying to like revco for 30 years. Still no dice.

Try listening to You Goddamned Son of a Bitch from 'You Often Forget' to 'Attack Ships on Fire' - rabid intensity w/ unfuckable grooves, it's what really sold me on them (though it's more post-studio trickery than an actual document).

Debut is great if you like Front 242 / Luc Van Acker (and I do). The rest is patchy, the 'reunion' stuff is dreadful.

Lots of patches/sequences/samples from Big Sexy Land (listening now), used on Twitch I see.

Anyhow, thanks! Not minding this one bit : )

DaveA wrote: Mon Oct 17, 2022 4:25 pm Clearly I need to hear more Steve Miller Band, if they're comparable to CCR.

I super hate Steve Miller Band, and really got nothing good to say about CCR, but man, I fucking HATE SMB!

Is the Steve Miller Band really a sacred cow, here or anywhere? I mean every band in existence has a superfan who thinks they are the best, but I assumed the thread to be about things that had a general consensus of high quality but which to your unique discernment are not all that.

ChudFusk wrote: Tue Oct 25, 2022 12:48 pm Is the Steve Miller Band really a sacred cow, here or anywhere? I mean every band in existence has a superfan who thinks they are the best, but I assumed the thread to be about things that had a general consensus of high quality but which to your unique discernment are not all that.

Perhaps the sacred cow is shitting on SMB?

Geiginni wrote: Tue Oct 25, 2022 1:17 pm

ChudFusk wrote: Tue Oct 25, 2022 12:48 pm Is the Steve Miller Band really a sacred cow, here or anywhere? I mean every band in existence has a superfan who thinks they are the best, but I assumed the thread to be about things that had a general consensus of high quality but which to your unique discernment are not all that.

Perhaps the sacred cow is shitting on SMB?

Sacred cow or not, that fucking Space Cowboy song makes me just as angry as any RHCP song and that says a lot.

seby wrote: Mon Oct 24, 2022 3:55 am Lots of patches/sequences/samples from Big Sexy Land (listening now), used on Twitch I see.

Anyhow, thanks! Not minding this one bit : )

Apparently Waxtrax brought Al et al. a Fairlight (back in 1986! - not cheap) - the manual was 100s of pages long and all they could figure out was how to construct 4 bars and loop it w/ the time the Belgians had in the U.S.A. Def an 'overcoming your limitations' kinda project, v. unlike anything else Al ever did. That Fairlight ended up making tons of classic Waxtrax records later on - smart investment...

My fav is still the live record that followed, a great mix of simple, then-state-of-the-art post-punk / electronic grooves coupled w/ thrash metal levels of intensity - quite a unique mix. Makes me wanna dance and kill at the same time.

I hate popcorn.

Several things ruined popcorn for me. One was working in a movie theater. After a few hours behind the snack counter your pores start to ooze peanut oil and your face develops a slick sheen. You really haven't had the true popcorn experience until you've thrust your entire upper torso into one of those machines to wipe that oily goo off of the inside walls. Then you go home with your clothes and hair reeking of popcorn and your glasses looking like factory windows. Even after a hot shower the smell tends to linger. My girlfriend and I literally burned our polyester uniforms when we left. That job was over 30 years ago and the aroma of popcorn still makes me gag a little. Now I work in a restaurant and I just smell like onions and garlic when I go home.

Another is people's eating habits. Going to the movies is really another excuse for Americans to cram food in their gobs (not that popcorn counts as food). Sitting next to someone I deeply care for and watching them snarf down a tub of popcorn you could wash a baby in (their 128 oz. schooner of Diet Pepsi covered in greasy orange fingerprints) before the film even starts is a disheartening experience and another reason we don't deserve free health care. "I'm going to get some butter on my popcorn!" No you're not. That warm salty yellow petroleum extract has never seen the inside of a cow. The lube I put on my bicycle chain is more nutritious. The first person who decided to make that stuff self-serve was a genius, they saved theater employees hours of pumping time. Imagine washing out that crusty apparatus five nights a week.

Don't get me started.

Popcorn machine popcorn is disgusting, partly because of the vegetable oil topping, which isn’t even artificially butter flavored any more. The other issue is that it sits in the machine a long time. The moldy smell is what kills it for me. Remember before Target had Starbucks or whatever inside, and instead they had a little snack bar with a popcorn machine? The locker room stench of the popcorn machine would fill the store.

Real popcorn is fine.

I like popcorn but I hate how the husks get stuck between your teeth enough for me not to want it again.

Possibly guilty pleasure, but I do like those holiday tins of caramel popcorn and whatnot. Theater popcorn is definitely trash though, and I don't know why anyone would want to sit there for 2 hours with greasy fingers.