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Neito posted:I dunno if it's just that I have very limited tastes, or the YouTube Music algo sucks, or what, but I always end up hearing Two Princes, followed usually really quickly by Flagpole Sitta, at least once a session. Which is the more 90s White People Problems is up for debate, but jesus is there a more 90s sentence than "I want to publish zines, and rage against machines"? this is why i just ended up making my own spotify playlist for 90s stuff i want to hear, and have been adding to it for like 10 years now
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Neito posted:I dunno if anyone else did this, but I have a distinct memory of buying or owning, for various reasons, strategy guides to games I didn't own. Like, I would get the strategy guide almost as a replacement for getting the game; I know at the very least I had a Super Mario RPG OFFICIAL NINTENDO POWER GUIDE for a while before getting the game. I would read it like a book, front to back and then back again. Hokkaido Anxiety posted:Definitely not alone. We couldn't afford consoles but I could check books out from the library and dream about what they must be like to play. This is for y'all, then. Just an insane amount of strategy guides / books in various formats, free for the reading, going as far back as the early 80s. (Ignore the weird URL; there's more than just a Tekken 3 guide in this collection.) Oh, and Neito, Keith Courage isn't a particularly good game, but the TG-16 is a great system with a library worth digging into.
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Funky See Funky Do posted:For some reason (cultural cringe I suppose) it was really uncool to like Silverchair in Australia, at least where I grew up it was. People would call them Nirvana in Pyjamas. But hearing it now it's kinda nuts how good they were for 15yos Odd, in my school Silverchair were huge when Freakshow came out. They were really very very talented but I wish Daniel Johns had just retired the name entirely and just made a new band as the Young Modern album was just an entirely different form of music.
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Pastry of the Year posted:This is for y'all, then. Just an insane amount of strategy guides / books in various formats, free for the reading, going as far back as the early 80s. (Ignore the weird URL; there's more than just a Tekken 3 guide in this collection.) Amazing, thanks for the link. I was just thinking at work how much I used to like reading the strategy guides.
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Achtane posted:Amazing, thanks for the link. I was just thinking at work how much I used to like reading the strategy guides. The best strategy guide that was ever written for a video game was "Civilization, or Rome on 640k a day." Phanatic has a new favorite as of 17:11 on Oct 30, 2020 |
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Phanatic posted:The best strategy guide that was ever written for a video game was "Civilization, or Rome on 640k a day." I loved the "Sim City Planning Commission Handbook" as a kid, which was also by the same author. It was pretty dry, but I couldn't stop poring over it.
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It's eerie that I saw most of the bands on that bag on some guy's Range Rover the other day except take off the rwb peace sign and replace it with a blue stripe on black flag. looks a lot cooler than that hippy thing from a design perspective 
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Oct 31, 2020 05:14
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Revelstoke, Big White, that's some 90s British Columbia hippies. Livin the stereotype. Doesn't exactly explain the stars and stripes though.
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no broccoli please posted:Revelstoke, Big White, that's some 90s British Columbia hippies. Livin the stereotype. Doesn't exactly explain the stars and stripes though. Being in to foreign bands is also cool. Did you know Bush is foreign?
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Revelstoke is a town and Big White is a ski resort in BC. I don't blame you for the mistake since there is a BC town that is both a place and a band - Chilliwack.
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I was watching Todd's Trainwreckords playlist and when the one about the Beach Boys came on I was reminded how in the 90s, at least the early part, if some boomer wanted to show how cool they were, they were the go to band. Kokomo was from the late 80s, but the 90 gave them a real second life. At least what Mike Love was calling the Beach Boys at that point. This was probably due to Stamos hanging out with them all the time, but the fact that suddenly the kids knew who they were, meant that the boomers were going to try to connect to with them though that. But that made them even more uncool, but we kept being force fed this completely edgeless boring sugary pop songs from 30 years ago. I was dragged to do many stupid school anti drug concerts and the cops playing the music always dragged out some Beach Boys song but you knew it was the cool one because they put on sunglasses when they played it! I know that at the time the stuff was pretty out there, that surfer culture wasn't really a thing outside of California until they came around, and the early 90s was all about the surfer dude if media from the time was to believed. So many guys dressed for the beach going "whoa dude!" everywhere. And if you like them that's fine, but they were everywhere and they became super uncool very quickly, but they kept trotting them out. I remember very distinctly in a late season of Full House (my sister loved it so i saw way more than i wanted) and Mike Love and some other nameless member of the band shows up and you'd think um (Thinks of a current popular band of the time) REM showed up. I made my 90s playlist recently, its basically what I listened to in high school and stuff i liked in high school but was too ashamed to be seen listening to. I would have literally gotten my rear end kicked if I was caught listening to like 2unlimited or Pre Firestarter Prodigy. I came to school once, and one of the rich kids that bullied me grabbed my classic yellow sony sports walkman out of my hands and looked at the tape inside. He said "why are you listening to this poo poo?" and then stomped on it, breaking both the walkman and my NWA, Public Enemy and Black Sheep, and probably some other stuff like that. They really liked the pop rap at that time, which is weird because that poo poo was going to be super dead soon. But these are the same guys who thought that Grunge was going to be a fad and music for losers. Oh and when my dad found out this kid smashed my walkman, he called that kids dad and they bought me a new one. Unrelated to this thread, a lot of my high school bullying was due to a perceived idea that I was above my station, as they though i was actually poor, and not as or even more rich than they were. Because my dad didn't blow his money on owning a condo in Vale or going to Nice for the entire summer, or I didn't get a car of my own. It was halloween in I think 93 when I was handing out Candy and some kids from school came by escorting younger siblings and where "uh wait, you live here? I thought you were poor". Thanks assholes. I realized how much of my memories from the first half of the 90s, basically high school, and that reminds me of the absolute brutal bullying I experienced. twistedmentat has a new favorite as of 08:10 on Nov 1, 2020 |
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Nutsngum posted:Odd, in my school Silverchair were huge when Freakshow came out. They were really very very talented but I wish Daniel Johns had just retired the name entirely and just made a new band as the Young Modern album was just an entirely different form of music. They were huge in my age group but remember they were looked down on a bit when they first burst on the scene. Everyone wanted to start a band in my fist year of high school because of their success. I don't think I've heard Tomorrow in at least a decade and hearing it now has been the biggest nostalgia kick in the gut I've had in a long time. It is pure Aus summer 94-95. It also made me remember this which was a lot funnier when I was 13. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJRw6Rzun8w
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Around my area, a band called "Serial Joe" was our "highschool kids that have a popular band" in the 90s. They even played at Woodstock 99. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_Joe
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I was listening to Evil Empire today 'cause you know, timely. That poo poo could have been released this year and it's loving 24 years old. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0Fudohj3ig
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Funky See Funky Do posted:I was listening to Evil Empire today 'cause you know, timely. That poo poo could have been released this year and it's loving 24 years old. Clearly that's young Homelander on the cover
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empty baggie posted:The Battle of Los Angeles came out on this date in 1999. I'm listening to that too now and it just doesn't have the timelessness of Evil Empire. Evil Empire just goes for the guts and is musically different to any else I've heard.
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Self-titled, for sure. It's more raw and pissed off.
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Self-titled is better from front to back, but both Evil Empire and Battle blow it away lyrically.
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Evil empire is my least favorite rage album.
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Self-titled here. Bought it when it first came out, popped it in and instantly disliked it. Later came around but I was expecting some good music with the political stuff and did not find what I thought was good music. When I first borrowed a copy of Evil Empire and heard Rolling Through Rodeo I was like I knew I was right to want to like this band and now I do. Slowly went back to digging the earliest stuff.
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Battle of Los Angeles is amazing front to back and I have never gotten just loving ANGRY like I have after liste ing to that album. It may be on the nose to say, but it makes me feel serious RAGE.
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dialhforhero posted:Battle of Los Angeles is amazing front to back and I have never gotten just loving ANGRY like I have after liste ing to that album. RTJ4 has been doing a pretty spot-on job with that for me. Doesn’t hurt that Zach has a spot on Just.
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Bonus that the album was not only topical to its time but prescient beyond just 1999 and Bush/Gore. 20 years later (honestly all albums but this specifically) and it still speaks mad truth.
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It really is impressive to go back and listen to what RATM were saying in 92. It was all radical leftism then but now a lot of it's pushing the mainstream. For me, I think Evil Empire was the better album at the time, but the self-titled has aged a lot better. For whatever reason I never got into Battle of LA--I should probably give it another spin one of these days.
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Musically it is catchier for sure. The guitar licks are pretty much a staple to try to learn. I think Ashes in the Fall is the most intense.
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Listening to Bulls On Parade when I was 12 probably contributed to my leftist perspective.
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ultrafilter posted:It really is impressive to go back and listen to what RATM were saying in 92. It was all radical leftism then but now a lot of it's pushing the mainstream. I was never a huge Rage fan (just never got into them, the 90s/00s were a weird time for me musically and I haven't tried since), but a huge amount of hilarity for me lately has been watching people online be like "I wish RATM/Green Day/Whoever would stop trying to bring politics into music" as if, to steal a line, the machine they were raging against was a recalcitrant toaster or something.
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I recall the Tom Morello tweet where he roasted someone complaining with this very line and he pulls out a “I happen to have a degree in poly-sci go gently caress yourself” shut down.
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Are there many other notable musicians with similar educations? I know Greg Graffin is a doctor of evolutionary biology and occasionally teaches at Berkeley.
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Dexter Holland of the Offspring has a PhD in molecular biology. Brian May of Queen has a PhD in astrophysics.
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Macdeo Lurjtux posted:Are there many other notable musicians with similar educations? I know Greg Graffin is a doctor of evolutionary biology and occasionally teaches at Berkeley. Surprising dearth of degrees among pop musicians. Ludacris, the guy from Weezer, one from Offspring ^^^ and 2 from Queen. I was gonna say one of the guys from Tool but no one finished theirs lol. I wanted to say Tori Amos but she studied classically until she lost her scholarship at wait for it, eleven. Huh, still four years at a conservatory.
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Not a musician themselves, but I think Rake Yohn from Jackass/CKY/Viva La Bam has a MS, or at least BS, in Chemistry and works in synthetic materials right now.
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Macdeo Lurjtux posted:Are there many other notable musicians with similar educations? I know Greg Graffin is a doctor of evolutionary biology and occasionally teaches at Berkeley. Milo from Descendents has a doctorate in molecular biology and pretty much all the albums and tours the band did from the mid-80s on up until 2016 when Milo finally went full-time with the band were done in breaks during his college, post-grad, and scientific career.
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