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  1. On 3/20/2024 at 11:25 AM, Rickodez said:

    Is this like the honorary oscar? Do they get an actual Grammy? And they totally deserve one.

    This was my question. Do they actually get a Grammy now? Because they do deserve one, and it was an egregious omission all those years ago that they never won one. IMO, these "lifetime" type awards are a way to honor artists who definitely deserve accolades. Especially when the record or music in question has stood the test of time.

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  2. 3 minutes ago, allwaystired said:

    Nice one, thanks. Yeah- looks like they cleared up the issue.....which is good, but shit for those that got stuck with the pixelated ones! 

    How does the CD sound? It's an SACD, and I was a bit ambivalent to it, but the other day I was listening to an SACD and was struck by how good it sounded. 

    lol no clue how it sounds! I kept it wrapped. But yeah, I preordered that vinyl day one, and it says it was made in Czech Republic. Not sure if the pixelated ones also came from there or were packaged elsewhere. 

  3. The Decemberists released their first new song in, I believe, six years. It's called "Burial Ground." It's a nice song. I was reading other people's opinions on it, and this sounded familiar:

    Without pulling any punches: this mix is ass. Like just toggle between this song and any decemberists song from the past and even if you know nothing about mixing, you'll hear how murky and strange this sounds and how clean the old productions sound by comparison. 

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    Audible hard clipping/digital distortion too. Like beyond anything that makes any sense as a "creative decision". the lyrics are mid and repetitive, and the entire sound is incredibly derivative.

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  4. On 2/4/2024 at 3:45 PM, allwaystired said:

    No one noticed they'd sent files that weren't big enough to publish on the Perhaps sleeve either, so the printers had to blow them up until they pixelated which is equally dumbfounding. 

    I genuinely don't understand how these things can happen. 

    My Perhaps vinyl and CD are not pixelated. So that could have been a legitimate fuck-up from the printing company. Who knows.

  5. 2 hours ago, Gordon Comstock said:

     

    "What could've been" is the best way to describe this band. Imagine they actually met the March 6 2007 date and dropped basically another UYI kind of release. 2 CDs, maybe a couple bonus tracks, just clean the slate again.

    If they had finished versions of Oklahoma, Tonto or Zodiac, add those somewhere on either album. Going Down definitely should've been somewhere on CD2. OMG and TIL remix could've been bonus tracks. The fact this project dragged on for a decade and Axl's still fucking around with these songs is truly absurd.

    “Not in this lifetime” tour name was a nod to Axl’s response to a GNR reunion way back when. I actually like “What could have been” as the name for a new Guns N’ Roses album. A nod to the wasted years. 

  6. I’m looking forward to seeing Sublime if they end up doing dates beyond Coachella. I saw Sublime w/Rome, and it was fine. I like their original material too. But seeing Bud and Eric with Nowell’s kid would be pretty cool.

  7. 2 hours ago, downzy said:

    Some of these choices are absurd.  Didn't mean this post to turn into a rant but here it goes.  

    Twisted Sister's "We're Not Going to Take It" over Van Halen's "Panama"?  Not a chance.

    How do they give it to the Crue's "Home Sweet Home" over Bryan Adams' "Summer of '69"?  Adams song dominated the charts in a way that was no way comparable to HSH.  It still gets way more radio airplay than anything Motley Crue has made.  Not saying that HSH isn't a good song.  But Adam's song is iconic (even if it's overplayed).

    And while Pour Some Sugar On Me is an anthem, I have a hard time understanding how they chose it over Sweet Child O' Mine.  GNR's track went #1 on the Billboard Hot 100; PSSOM topped out at #2.  SCOM has over 1.7 billion streams on Spotify; Def Leppard's track has just over 400 million.  SCOM has one of the most iconic intros of all time, not to mention its solo.  And while Axl's lyrics may not win any Pulitzers with this track, PSSOM has what I think is some of the worst lyrics in all of rock music ("Listen, red light, yellow light, green-a-light go, Crazy little woman in a one man show," "Do you take sugar, one lump or two.").  This isn't even a contest (and SCOM isn't even in my top five favourite Guns tracks).

    Personally, for 1994 I'd take either "Black Hole Sun" or "Interstate Love Song" over Green Day's "When I Come Around."  Black Hole Sun is incredibly unique in terms of its chord arrangements (name me another hit song that starts with a sus chord).  I think "Interstate Love Song" is one of the best songs written of all time.  

    I get it's arbitrary, but how they chose White Zombie's "More Human Than Human" over Alanis's "You Oughtta Know" is crazy.  The Zombie's track has a cool guitar riff, but that's all that song really is.  There's not much of a melody.  You Oughtta Know was a monster with a killer chorus that dominated airwaves for months, if not an entire year.

    And while I really like Hole's "Celebrity Skin," there's no way it deserves more credit than Foo Fighter's "My Hero."  Not a huge Foo Fighter's fan, but that's one of the better written songs of the decade.

    It's hard to take a list seriously that doesn't include Radiohead's "Paranoid Android" for 1997 (wasn't even included as a runner-up).  It is night and day better than any of the songs listed.  Crazy.

    And I agree that it's hard to accept Creed as having released the best rock song for any year, the fact that it won for 1999 just goes to show how bad rock music was during this period.  I guess you could argue that RHCP's Californication album was decent, but that's not saying much.  The turn of the century was a dark time for rock music.  And while I personally enjoy Oh My God, I think we need to be honest that outside of the hardcore GNR fanbase, no one else did.  

    2002 was a much better year, but they went with the weakest of the included tracks.  "Cochise" by Audioslave is fantastic.  Same with "No One Knows" by Queens of the Stone Age.  I really don't need or want to hear "All My Life" by Foo Fighters ever again.  "Get Free" by the Vines should have been included for 2002 as well.  Killer track.

    The last rock song to still have cultural relevance is Seven Nation Army by The White Stripes.  It still gets played everywhere (movies, tv shows, literally every sporting event).  But whoever wrote this list gives the nod to "Bring Me Back to Life" by Evanescence.  Sure Jan.

    [rant]
    It's amazing how irrelevant rock becomes after 2005/2006.  Paramore, Five Finger Death Punch, Halestorm, and a bunch of bands I had never heard of and likely few others outside of diehard rock fans have.  And no offence to Ghost fans, but if Dance Macabre was the best rock song in 2018, that's not saying much for rock music.  It's not a bad track, but it sounds like a b-side from the early 80s (like Loverboy). 

    This is a big reason why I generally don't listen to new music anymore.  At best, it's mediocre.  There's a reason why 70 percent of streams are from back catalogues.  I've come to the conclusion that most great songs have either been written or it's just too hard to mine for more gems at this point.  Rock music use to have catchy melodies that were sung over interesting and diverse chord progressions or time signatures.  Artists tried to incorporate their influences but to do their own thing, make their own sound.  Now they all sound the same.  It's just strumming 1/8th notes in drop d tuning with little concern for giving audiences a hook.  It has grown so stale that I can't be bothered to listen to hundreds of mediocre songs every month to find the one or two that do anything for me.  Once in awhile I'll come across an artist or song that I missed that catches my attention (Børns's "10,000 Emerald Pools" is a good example, and it came out nine years ago), but it's few and far between.  It feels like most artists today are less concerned about writing catchy melodies with hooks.  They're too wrapped up in a sound as a crutch for their inability to write a decent song.  

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    I was with ya till the bit about not listening to new music. I have a voracious appetite for music, and I still enjoy a ton of newly-released music across many genres. But yeah, I am convinced lists like this one are basically made to be controversial and get people fired up.

    I have to also add that "You Oughtta Know" by Alanis is a banger. Just a monster of a song. Giving it to "More Human Than Human" makes no fuckin' sense whatsoever.

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  8. 14 hours ago, Its Tino said:

    Monsters release has already been fumbled twice IMO

    First fumble is the obvious confusion being registered seemingly with TG. All signs pointed to a release on the Perhaps EP, but that didn’t happen. And of course, it leaked  

    Second fumble, is just an opinion… I think changing the name from Soul Monster is a mistake. The song is directed at a singular person (or monster) yet the title is plural.  

    The leak is the big fuck-up. They sat on this for no reason. Should have been the first banger out of the gates. The comeback song, IMO. Not "Absurd," not "Hard Skool" with the goddamn bell. "Soul Monster."

    And don't get me wrong, I dig "Absurd." I love "Hard Skool" and "Perhaps." I like "The General." But the comeback song was "Soul Monster," and it's the song that (beyond the cell leak snippet in abysmal quality) no one had ever heard before. 

    I know "The General" is the ACTUAL one of the four released that we hadn't previously heard, but that's not as accessible and catchy as "Monsters." The surprise this month shouldn't have been "The General" video. It should have been a surprise drop of "Monsters" with a video. I would have been much kinder on the dumb AI. lol

     

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  9. 4 hours ago, DTV88 said:

    Hey, at least he didn’t buy it on release date like some of us! There wasn’t anything in that box that was worth not waiting until it came down in price. Lesson learned. Even though the UYI box is much better with the live stuff IMO, I waited until there was a price drop this time.

    I still plan to get the Illusions box set. I have been waiting for the vinyl version to come down in price.

    On Instagram, GNR posted concept art for "The General." The art is cool. The concept is cool. I just don't like the AI execution of the video.

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  10. 7 hours ago, allwaystired said:

    You bought two Locked N Loaded boxes?! 

     

    No. I bought one when it dropped to $399 (and also used a 10 percent off promo code). I complained to them that the original cabinet had parts that were coming unglued, so I asked about an exchange. They sent me an empty cabinet and didn’t want the original back. So I kept both, one for storing extra GNR memorabilia. It’s become even more unglued since (the top piece mostly, but I think I’d be able to glue it back).

     

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