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Post by As You Built The Moon on Sept 9, 2016 13:55:29 GMT -5
Just wondering if anyone prefers later day Oasis to their glory years. I am a teacher and I have noticed a lot of children prefer the Star Wars prequels to the original trilogy because it's more their era. Wondering if the same thing applies to Oasis. I was too young for 90s Oasis, just caught the tail end of Be Here Now( 31 now), so the 00's albums each have a memory attached, unlike the 90s albums. From a music point of view, my Oasis is definitely te 90s incarnation. Going on 34, I'm kind of in that boat. I started with BHN after I kept seeing the D'You Know What I Mean video on MTV, just after the backlash (in the US,) so I had to wait a few years to have a regular internet connection and find places like this where Oasis were still a thing. To me I guess it was like discovering the Beatles right after they broke up ... you fall in love with something that until just then was massively popular and now you couldn't even hear from them because no one cared anymore. I don't think in my particular case it made too much of a difference. I doubt that looking forward to the first three or even discovering them after they broke up would have changed much. When SOTSOG came out I fell asleep through the first listen and it had to slowly grow on me. Frankly, I was just glad they hadn't broken up and I could still see them live, which I got to do a few times. I listen to the 00s albums more often. I think it's partly because those albums are more mature and of course I've gotten older myself. But that's not to say they're better; when the time is right I'll play either of the first two and there's certainly an unmatched quality that stands out. BHN, I don't really have the usual complaints about it, but it feels kinda childish. FYI, I hated ALL of Definitely Maybe when I listened to it for the very first few times. That punk-pop sound took a bit for me to break into after I was expecting another WTSMG. Thankfully I didn't have more CDs back then or I might have forgotten about it. But once I got attuned to it I was shocked by how truly great it was.
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Post by As You Built The Moon on Sept 6, 2016 20:00:55 GMT -5
Arctic Monkeys album - AM is the only one I've really sat and listened to. It's pretty good.
I don't hate being called Justin, but I never particularly liked it. It sounds like a sensitive little boy's name and the association with Timberlake and Bieber hasn't helped.
Leather or cloth seats on a car?
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Post by As You Built The Moon on Sept 6, 2016 9:22:46 GMT -5
Definitely Maybe, WTSMG?, and Stanley Road.
Got any old clothes you wouldn't be caught dead actually wearing?
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Post by As You Built The Moon on Sept 5, 2016 19:42:24 GMT -5
I won't say it's logical thinking because some people are so much better at it than me, but I like that I can leave emotion out of my thinking and be open minded and think independantly.
Do you like stoner metal at all (Black Sabbath and the like?)
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Post by As You Built The Moon on Sept 5, 2016 14:09:23 GMT -5
I guess it would be unpopular to say the only Oasis songs I don't love are The Quiet Ones and Ain't Got Nothin'.
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Post by As You Built The Moon on Sept 5, 2016 1:49:07 GMT -5
I never really understood Shakermaker's appeal to be honest. You have to be a slacker.
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Post by As You Built The Moon on Sept 4, 2016 15:28:23 GMT -5
If the only problem with using your phone is battery life, why not use a portable wireless charger? I've thought about getting one for long trips and they're pretty cheap.
Otherwise, personally, I'll never again buy anything but an iPod as far as mp3 players are concerned. I tried a few non Apple players years ago that were cheap enough to risk losing at the gym and they were complete crap. I have the 160 gb Classic but it stays at home to be played occasionally on my stereo.
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Post by As You Built The Moon on Sept 3, 2016 11:55:05 GMT -5
Thank you. I'm sure this information will radically change all of our lives. Good to know your time posting that was wisely invested, then.
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Post by As You Built The Moon on Sept 2, 2016 13:16:06 GMT -5
Couple of Oasis ones. From Some Might Say - actual: "if you don't get yours I won't get mine, as well" perceived: "if you don't get drunk I won't get high, as well" From Gas Panic! - actual: "my eyes are dead and my throat's like a black hole" perceived: "my eyes are dead and my throat's like a Burlap whore"
What about yours?
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Post by As You Built The Moon on Sept 2, 2016 11:07:05 GMT -5
I find it staggering the number of people who are INTP. It's one of the rarest, and it's in the lead. I've long gotten used to being the only INTP in the room, so amazed there are so many others. Maybe INTPs prefer forums instead of talking to people in real life Seriously, I bet that's true. And I think I've heard the most common result for people who take this online is INTJ. INTs probably are more likely to care enough about these things to take the test in the first place. If you stopped people on the street and offered them enough money to take it you'd have way more E's, S's, and F's, and they'd all look at this post and say that I'm overanalyzing it.
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Post by As You Built The Moon on Sept 1, 2016 21:39:23 GMT -5
Through the gift of profanity.
Pretend you're a guest at my house for Labor Day and we're having ribs. What would you like me to make for dessert?
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Post by As You Built The Moon on Aug 28, 2016 11:13:50 GMT -5
First youtube video I ever saw, I was on a message board probably the first year youtube was around and someone had a video embedded in their signature of the Family Guy clip where Peter, Brian and Stewie kept throwing up in the living room. I thought they were going to be shut down any day for all the copyrighted stuff that was on there.
First internet video I saw ever would've been something I downloaded on my dialup connection rather than streamed. I'm gonna say either banned cartoons from World War II or the Budd Dwyer suicide clip (don't watch the last one if you don't know what I'm talking about.)
Favorite album cover?
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Post by As You Built The Moon on Aug 27, 2016 19:33:22 GMT -5
^ Thanks.
I got some books to teach myself Spanish. I'm hoping to learn a few languages and work my way up to Japanese.
What's the first video you can remember watching online or on youtube?
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Post by As You Built The Moon on Aug 27, 2016 19:10:40 GMT -5
That was still basically true of Family Guy when South Park did that episode, but they do more observational humor now. Anyone who still uses the "joke after joke" line hasn't been keeping up with the show. And South Park has tired formulas of its own. For example going back quite a few seasons now any time they do an episode about a controversial topic they don't actually make a point by the end of the episode and instead cop out by saying something that has nothing to do with the issue. I don't think either show is really smarter at this point.
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Post by As You Built The Moon on Aug 27, 2016 17:12:09 GMT -5
I grew up at my grandparent's house because basically after my parents divorced neither of them could afford to raise me on their own and apparently this led to a rumor at school that my parents were dead. That wasn't really nasty but later some people I was socializing with got creeped out by how quiet I was and told someone I'd been friends with for ten years they were worried I could be a serial killer. It would have been one thing for them if they were in high school but they were in like their mid-20's which I thought made it ridiculous/funny.
Last thing you bought on Amazon?
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Post by As You Built The Moon on Aug 27, 2016 12:25:34 GMT -5
Can we just give Obama a third term and try this again in four years?
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Post by As You Built The Moon on Aug 26, 2016 11:55:13 GMT -5
First time I've gotten INTP(-A); I've always gotten INTJ.
Possible I've grown more perceptive; I see shades of myself in the description. "When INTPs are particularly excited, the conversation can border on incoherence as they try to explain the daisy-chain of logical conclusions that led to the formation of their latest idea. Oftentimes, INTPs will opt to simply move on from a topic before it's ever understood what they were trying to say, rather than try to lay things out in plain terms." - yeah, I'll take that.
I notice as usual with these sites that they pepper in a lot of intense words and phrases like "relentless" and "full-fledged" and "every idea possible." FWIW, I've actually gone somewhere and taken this test professionally, which is supposed to be more accurate. I think there's some validity to Myers-Briggs, but a lot of it is just saying things that generally apply to anyone who answers the questions like you do. Like a slightly more scientific horoscope.
I'm a Libra. The basic description happens to fit but I've never read a horoscope without eyerolling. And I've got Asperger's and ADD and avoidant personality disorder and everything else that's supposed to explain that general condition.
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Post by As You Built The Moon on Aug 25, 2016 20:30:15 GMT -5
I have maybe missed some bands but, what the fuck are Oasis and Elliott Smith doing between Taylor Swift, Lady Gaga, Bruno Mars, fuckin James Blunt, etc, on that soundtrack ??! Like I said, it's probably a dig on them/their fans. Saturday Night Live did the same joke with Fiona Apple once.
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Post by As You Built The Moon on Aug 25, 2016 17:28:40 GMT -5
Old news actually but I couldn't find any mention of it in search. I watched the Valentine's episode from season 11 and it opens with a mock romcom style trailer that ends with this screen: Of course the takeaway is these bands are lame because they're who you'd expect to see on a romcom soundtrack so I wondered if they took a shot at someone who doesn't really belong on this list and freeze framed it. Oasis are in the center towards the bottom.
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Post by As You Built The Moon on Aug 25, 2016 13:01:44 GMT -5
I tried getting drunk a few times just to see what it was like and it was a letdown. About all I got for it was a dry throat, a dizzy headache, loss of concentration, and a hangover the next morning. I didn't want to trash my liver over it, so I gave up. I've said it in this thread before, but I think the effects of alcohol are exaggerated. I almost have to wonder people are just acting the part and putting themselves into it when they're "drunk" because the reason you get drunk in the first place is to have an excuse to not act normal. I know dependency is a serious matter and I'm not denigrating people who are naturally prone to it. But as far as doing anything ridiculous like making rude catcalls or dancing around with a traffic cone over your head, I think that just comes from the person doing what they want and using the alcohol as a cover. I think there's even been double blind studies where people were given non alcoholic beverages and acted differently because they were told it was alcohol. Maybe I just react to alcohol in a far less pronounced way than others, but otherwise that's what I think. tl;dr people just want an excuse for acting like children.
Favorite song on Abbey Road is Because.
Favorite Smiths song?
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Post by As You Built The Moon on Aug 25, 2016 12:53:34 GMT -5
I never understood the Blur feud. As I read about it in books some time after it ended I kept thinking I should see something in Blur since I loved Oasis but they did almost nothing for me. The two bands sound nothing alike and I don't see how Blur were ever supposed to have the potential to "break America" half as much as Oasis did. I'm listening to Modern Life is Rubbish right now and ... how did Brits think people all over America were about to be listening to this? This was never going to get over here. All I can kind of understand is there was disagreement over whose music spoke more to the working class. And I don't see how Noel ended up making the infamous AIDS comment, or even paradoxically how there was enough of an outcry that he had to apologize for it.
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Post by As You Built The Moon on Aug 25, 2016 9:37:56 GMT -5
Re: LG's next album: Still like him and all but I'm keeping my expectations low. From how he described it it's just going to be simple rock and roll with 'la la las' and 'yeah yeah yeahs' padding out half the lyrics like he's always done. But I loved GGTIA so there's always that hope.
Re: fav '74 album: ultimately IV, but mostly for Stairway and Battle of Evermore. As an album I'd say Meddle.
How environmentally conscious are you?
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Post by As You Built The Moon on Aug 23, 2016 15:34:35 GMT -5
The first thing that comes to mind is that Mountain Dew Baja Blast you can only get at Taco Bell. I always get that when I go there. But regularly I drink a lot of green tea.
You're the music supervisor on a major hollywood film and you decide you want to use an Oasis song. Which song do you pick and what sort of scene/montage would it be?
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Post by As You Built The Moon on Aug 22, 2016 20:21:16 GMT -5
The first one is, in a word, interesting. I don't think I can remember a serious attempt to reinterpret Live Forever so a jazz treatment is nice to hear. But I agree that it just makes you wonder what someone like Ella Fitzgerald could have done with it, because it sounds kind of unpolished.
I liked the second one a lot more. The guitar solos at the end are just dicking around, sure, but the first part really shows how the song should be covered, IMO.
The Katy McAllister one would fit nicely on a soundtrack. It doesn't exactly reinvent the wheel but covers like that have their place. And when you do trance like that it kind of has to be long, but dragging on those extra couple minutes will probably keep me from coming back to it.
Does anyone remember an a cappella Wonderwall by The Virginia Gentlemen from way back in the day? I got it off Napster but I think my CD is long gone and I haven't seen it on youtube.
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Post by As You Built The Moon on Aug 19, 2016 23:30:59 GMT -5
This thread is depressing because it reminds me that us too, frenchies, do have election, in 9 months. Fuck, you know... We're at least as much in the shit than America or UK, trust me. Our governement is the biggest joke ever, and that's something, cos' the precedents were atrocious aswell. I've never heard of a governement so much hated (85% of dissastifaction !). It's a calamity ! There are no borders between the left wing and the right wing parties. Each of them have multiple problems with the justice (our ex president has 9(!) process in progress and still eligible), their politic is the same and they are all as much ridiculous than the other... It's not the candidates that bother me. It's the electorate. It's knowing I live in a country with a substantial number of people who are like this: And I swear this is real. If they used paid actors for this they pretty much didn't have to. If Trump were more like some of his own supporters and instead of the life he was given he'd just been raised in a depressing run down rural shack and found an escape in blaming minorities, I would understand it. I don't hate people like the ones in this video the way I hate people like Trump who should know better and are taking advantage of them. But knowing there's enough of them out there to have influence and that our schools and media are continuing to fail them is what leaves me with the bleak notion that this election could be the new normal.
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