Ah gotcha.
It's amazing how he's managed such success, whilst at the same time being quite the failure!
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Ah gotcha.
It's amazing how he's managed such success, whilst at the same time being quite the failure!
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Originally Posted by Wolfshade
Which is how x factor works...
It is worrying on both accounts, and is why we can no longer have democracy, but instead we need to elect and install a new leader, someone who can bring about sustained economic growth, ou can deal with these bulgarians coming across and stealing our polish people's jobs, someone who can ban red tops and urban patois.
Just ban Das Daily Mail and the Red Tops and I'll be happy.
Oh, and the Express, because I'm sick of hearing about made up bad weather, Madeleine Sodding McCann, and Princess Diana.
Freedom of the press? Not when you're outright lying/distorting the truth you don't!
You'd have to add the agree with us or you're racist guardian to that list
So we are left with the metro as the official newspaper....
HA! Trick question!
Metro is to the Daily Mail as Cannabis is to hardball smack injected into a Toddler's eye....
Left with I, and the Independent. And The Times, and the Torygraph (who are at least sedate and rational for the main part).
Or just tell all papers to butt out of Politics entirely. IF they can't manage it, we burn down their offices and eat their staff.
Beano & Dandy?
Also it appears that my anger at Birmingham City Council, might have been misplaced, instead it might be Worcestershire County Council...
Beano fine, Dandy no.
And we'll defo keep Viz.
And The Daily Sport. At least it doesn't take itself seriously at all.
[url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-26224813]Also, MIND CONTROL MONKEY FOR THE WIN![/url]
And hats off to Harvard for feeling deliberately spazzing a Monkey for their experiment might be a bit evil.
Found an interesting new type of curry in Iceland earlier: Chocolate Chicken Curry. Part of their Indian Takeout range. I had to buy it and its cooking now, certainly smells really good.
Watching The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes. Episode 5, Ant man is attacked by a team of mercenaries in Africa, and the mercenaries are the guys from Predator :D
IT'S THE SAME THING.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr Mystery
If you're going to moan, do it correctly. ;p
And hip hop has evolved, just not in a way you understand, clearly. xD
Hip Hop "back in the day" was rarely chirpy upbeat stuff, it was about west siders mercing up the east side and vice versa. It was started as an expression of oppression that the black and latino community was feeling back in the 70s, where they could lash out at other social groups.
If anything, modern hip hop has now started to show advancement and tolerance for different groups of people, it was incredibly homophobic back in the day, now you have artists like Macklemore and Ryan Lewis who are quite openly saying that they support gay rights.
Even Eminem was homophobic back at the start of his career, but he only did it really as it was the "in thing", when interviewed he said he had no problem with anyone that didn't have a problem with him.
People like Notorious B.I.G. and even 2Pac were massively discriminatory too, and they were big in the 90s.
Don't give me none of this "modern music has no progression" cr*p when you can't back it up with the facts.
What as opposed to that weak, spineless, gormless **** the Labour Party have a leader ? As much as you loath the political right it's hard to argue there's a credible alternative at the moment from labour.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr Mystery
I know those from north of the border aren't traditionally Tory voters, but really Mystery would you really have Milliband and co in government at the moment. Not many would.
Nothing wrong with a bit of Rap or HipHop. Anyone who disagrees obviously hasn't heard Rappers Delight by the Sugar Hill Gang, and how many so called Rock bands resorted to having their songs incorporate rap into them.
Aerosmiths "walk this way" was a boring bland turd of a record, chuck in some Run DMC and boom, awesome classic.
Mmmmm Run DMC. :p
Even Rapper's Delight is a devilishly naughty song, just look at the lyrics. xD
And there are plenty of actually gay rappers like Le1f, Mykki Blanco and Zebra Katz too.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tzeentch's Dark Agent
Thing is rap/hip-hop has diversified so much that people look at things that are the same as they were before and say "it hasn't changed", when there's Outkast, Kanye, Nikki Minaj and others actually doing all sorts of things musically and lyrically that aren't seen anywhere else - and that's absorbed by other genres and they take influences in turn (see Kanye & Daft Punk with Stronger).
Update to my earlier post, Chocolate Chicken Curry is actually really rather good. Very surprised and delighted with it. Now I wanna try the Atomic Chicken Vindaloo they have added to the range also.
But you can say the same about Run DMC's It's like that, bland rap song and Jason Nevins comes along, BOOM 90's classic... :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Deadlift
You lost me at curry.Quote:
Originally Posted by Brakkart
Chocolate Currey, that is some fusion action going on!
There are lots of mexican (proper mexican meals not tex-mex) meals that have chocolate. It was chocoloate was expensive so it was a way to show honour to your guest to cook with expesnive ingredients. I imagine that it would work well.
Also: [url]http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-mathematics-of-change-ringing-and-peal-bells/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaig n=Feed%3A+sciam%2Fphysics+(Topic%3A+Physics)[/url]
Overtook a police car today, BOOM!
Stuff I hear just sounds exactly the same. Drone drone drone drone, same old beat.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tzeentch's Dark Agent
Early stuff I quite like, Sugarhill Gang are cool, as are Public Enemy.
But it's all become so staid, and generic.
And seeing as it sells less than 10% of the albums Rock does, how come Rock struggles for airplay? There are so many truly excellent bands out there. Skunk Anansie have returned, with two pretty impressive albums (not as angry as their first couple, but what do you expect, they've matured and mellowed!) yet not one radio station played any track. At all.
Far better to stick to mindless hippityhop generic pap, and of course dubstep (which is apparently breaking wind into a microphone and letting the computer do all the work, from what I can tell). Dance has been in a mindless, repetitive rut ever since the mid 90's. Rock......Kerrang are doing their best to make it all staid and generic, but there's so much out there!
Listen to internets radio, whole channels doveted to nothing but darkwave.
Never have the time sadly. If it wasn't for Uncle Simon (my mate, not a relation) I'd struggle to hear new bands.
Me, I blame 'Yoof' TV. It was intended to be about what Yoof listened to, and had my support in a John Peel way.
Now? YEAH BOI!!!!!!!!! THIS IS WIKKID BECOZ IT IS WHAT I IS LISTENIN' TO IN DA CLUB WOT I OWN! Wikkidy wikkidy warp!
Or in other words, we're back to the Yoof listening to what they're told to listen to, because they bloke on the tv they are told is cool because of the magazine their friend told them is 'cool' said the bloke on the tv was 'cool', and as such, clearly whatever drivel he's pumping into your living room must be cool, because of this loop of 'cool'.
It's time to ressurect John Peel (for obvious reasons) and Kenny Everett and get them back on the radio.
Why Kenny? Because Kenny Everett was once in the same recording studio as Queen, and caught them rehearsing. And he liked what he heard so much, he swiped a demo tape. The demo tape was of a song the record company said would never be played, because it was too long, to grand in scale for any radio show. Kenny played that song several times on his show the following day, and indeed the following week.
That song, written off by the record company, and swiped by Kenny Everett? Bohemian Rhapsody.
Couldn't do that now (well, you could swipe the demo). But there's a playlist. Set seemingly according to whichever producer passed the thickest brown envelope that week.
John Peel?
Really?
Isn't he from the Jimmy Saville school of dj-ing?
Very much not, no.
John Peel was something of a Messiah of Music.
He had his show on Radio 1 for yonks. And if you sent him a demo tape. He'd listen to it. Every. Single. One.
Then, signed or not, if he liked it, he'd play it. And this is how a great, great many British bands go their break into the music industry. Because of one man with a radio show who took his music seriously.
Didn't matter what your genre was, he'd listen to that demo, and if you were good, he'd play you.
Who'd do that now?
I think the criticism about the noise of genres that you do not like are universal, modern jazz for instance is just a noise to me. Similiarly, some of the most extreme death metal acts, they are audio violence, but where is the melody? I have recently been developing a taste for EBM and stuff, which previously I would avoid.
Unfortunately on commerical radio you will only have popular stuff which measn that all the radio stations play the same music that the three record companies tell them to play.
You either need a proper independent radio, which is small enough that doesn't need to worry about listenership. Or, the Beeb. I remember the rock show, that was quite cool, they used to broadcast live from gigs, which was mixed results.
Like Ginger, of the Wildhearts, telling the audience that he has been told he isn't allow to swear, so got the audience to do so instead...
Kerrang Radio used to have an unsigned radio show then in a battle of the bands type thing wouild work to get them a contract with a rock label...
no...just no.Quote:
Originally Posted by Psychosplodge
John Peel was brilliant, he played anything that wasn't main stream pop. New stuff from very Heavy Metal to Progressive trance. I was introduced to all manner of good music though his show. Zane Lowe tries to do the same and I have discovered some great bands though listening to him but Peel was decades ahead of his time.
Right you are, just goes to prove you can't shoehorn a genre and say you hate it all.Quote:
Originally Posted by Psychosplodge
You have not met modern jazz...Quote:
Originally Posted by Deadlift
I meant his off air antics. I'm sure his name came up in the news. *shrugs*
I just hate everything with few exceptions, it makes deciding easier :D
Not that I'm aware of.Quote:
Originally Posted by Psychosplodge
To be honest, with the demo's he received, I doubt he had time for any such shenanigans.
If there wasn't a rule about it I would point out your miss use of an apostrophe....
And if you did and it was me I'd be rightfully ashamed, but as you cant I dont need to worry about it... :D
Is that the first ever meme?
Is that here we get the choice of font from?
How did they do it before the internet like that?
Depends what you mean, I like Mr Scruff who's kind of acid jazz :pQuote:
Originally Posted by Wolfshade
Yes,Quote:
Originally Posted by Psychosplodge
Yes,
It is russian orthodox tradition, as the population became able to read, then icons could then start to include some text they are often seem quite playfoul, yet their messages are often quite serious. So this icon of S.Nicholas is also reminding people that he didn't jsut give presents he punched heretics and so is an early church action hero..
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Originally Posted by Deadlift
*shudder*Quote:
Originally Posted by Deadlift
It's the same with Hip Hop, some of the best Rappers haven't hit the mainstream yet, which is disappointing.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr Mystery
We've had this discussion before, and you know I can't stand how musically insular you are. xD
Music genres I like: Rock, Alternative, Punk Rock, Heavy Metal, Nu-Metal, Hip Hop, Dance, Electronica, Dubstep, Jazz, House, Classical (usually soundtracks), and Pop (only like 3 pop singers)
So you can't even try to say that I don't know what I'm talking about.
Grrrr, get's me angry.
I haven't said that though.
My puzzlement is that the strongest selling musical genre in the UK is all but utterly ignored by the media, whereas a genre selling a fraction albums wise gets constant exposure, even when the vast majority of that genre is bloody awful droning nonsense.