Originally Posted by butthead aka 216 (Post 1434543)

Butthead, why do you hate feminists so damn much? Why do you constantly mock Tumblr? Why do you laugh heartily at social activism through social media?? Why do you trash social justice warriors? Why do you loathe professional victims?

It all stems from guilt. Not my guilt, of course, because I have none. I've said in other threads, but I have no shame or guilt with any of my feelings or who I am as a person. I don't feel bad about being White, Straight, Cis-Gendered, Hung, American, etc. The guilt I am referring to comes from the Tumblr tards of the world who bark about 'male/white/cis/whatever privilege" and want people like me to feel guilty about it. If you are one of those people, please take direction from the one and only Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson, and shove your opinions straight up your candy ass. You people are as smart as a bag of cheese curls.


Because I am privileged enough to have a social life, family life, and work environment where I very rarely run into one of these turds-for-brains, most of my interaction with these fools comes via the internet, and strangely enough they usually aren't even interactions at all. More often than not, it's me reading an article or comment on Facebook/Twitter/Reddit. For that, I feel fortunate, and though I realize the pointlessness of allowing my jim jims to become slightly rustled, this is my journal and I just want to vent.

So, back to the guilt tripping. The main agenda of the internet armchair activists is mainly two things. 1) Make people like me feel guilty and 2) Discredit the hard work and success of people like me. It's so obvious once you break past the walls of stupidity and wade through the trenches of hypocrisy and irony. These people will never admit that because they have convinced themselves it's not true through the power of the hivemind and their strength in numbers.


In the rare event that a young man or child is reading my journal, I will present you this warning about the internet: Nobody who mentions your privilege is being genuine or sincere. The reason privilege is brought up at all is because of the two reasons I listed above the picture of the two white guilt losers. It's a way for someone with a loser lifestyle to justify their shitty life to themselves, while at the same time discrediting any hard work you've done. I know I shouldn't, but I do take it personally because I know the hard work I've put in through many years to get where I'm at in life. My hardships aren't on par with any starving Ethiopians or Congo War victims, but I know how hard it was to get from A to B and I'm a proud person. You can actually be proud of yourself while still acknowledging that people helped you along the way. Who would have guessed?!?!

The idea is to subtly trivialize your success and chalk it up to privilege and luck. Which is ironic, because the very fact we are using the internet makes us all extremely privileged. Of course, these shart stains can't realize that because they have developed a victim complex and can't see themselves in any light that isn't dimly oppressive. They almost always lack a solid perspective and aren't able to see the big picture because of the blinders of pseudo-oppression.

Not everyone is created equal. Some people have hardships that are nearly impossible to overcome. Some people are born into terrible situations. I recognize all of these things. But living life as a victim will never get anyone anywhere - it's unhealthy and unproductive. Dwelling on what you don't have won't get you what you want, it's that simple. So, a lot of this BS I'm talking about comes from that victim complex, which whether it's actually more prevalent or just seems to be, is still harmful for everyone. The problem is that it's convenient for the lazy.

Time to wrap it up for now because I am feeling uninspired and lazy. tl:dr anyone who mentions priv is a loser, ignore them and strive for glory.

Originally Posted by Black Francis (Post 1436344)

Thnx for the mention TH :)

i've never done a musical journal before so it's a learning experience for me.

I've been checking out your Classic album journal, i even wanted to suggest one to you cause i would like to hear your review on it but i was afraid to ask.

i also enjoyed Yorkedaddy's journal, i hope he keeps updating it.

This whole thing of reading journals and making journals is a new thing for me but im digging the experience so far.

Originally Posted by Trollheart (Post 1436388)

Glad you're having a blast Francis! Your journal's pretty good so far. Throw your rec at me, though I have said that I'm going back to my own list for a while. Still, you never know: if it's interesting enough....

Originally Posted by Briks (Post 1436523)

Does that mean we'll see some The Queen is Dead soon?

Originally Posted by Trollheart (Post 1436527)

Also, I just said throw it my way and I'll see.

Originally Posted by Trollheart (Post 1436284)

Down at http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...seur-cave.html Briks is digging into metal still (not literally: he'd need some sort of pneumatically powered machine for that) and finding himself disillusioned with both Ghost and Dragonforce. Well who woulda thought? Ah, I still have a soft spot for the Dragons, no matter what anyone says. :shycouch: :band:

Originally Posted by Briks (Post 1436575)

I'm throwing The Queen is Dead your way, or Meat is Murder

Originally Posted by The Batlord (Post 1436600)

I'm not sure but I think this calls your prog cred into question. Anybody else wanna weigh in?

Originally Posted by Trollheart (Post 1436662)

Um, why? I can like a band everyone else hates if I want. Not saying I'm a huge fan but I don't hate them. Also, what has that to do with prog? If you had said it put my METAL cred into question, fair enough. But prog? I don't think anyone here would deny I know my prog rock...

Originally Posted by The Batlord (Post 1436664)

If you can dig such an awful band with such incompetent (nonexistent) songwriting abilities (and this is coming from someone with little to no knowledge or ear for songwriting) then I can only assume that you like Pink Floyd cause they sound pretty. Booyah.

Originally Posted by Trollheart (Post 1436672)

Your logic is flawed. I know why I like Floyd. I don't make any pretensions to thinking DF are cool or great, but considering all the hate they get here and elsewhere I was just surprised that they didn't suck as I thought they would. You know me: if it's metal, has melody and I can understand the singer I'm usually fine with it. Is it original? Hell no. Do I care? See last response.

I would probably not listen to a full album again for pleasure (though I may review another just to annoy you) but I would grab a track or two for a playlist and not feel in the least ashamed or embarrassed.

Originally Posted by The Batlord (Post 1434734)

P.S. I hear Dragonforce speed up their guitar work in the studio and can't actually play that stuff live. So they don't even get credit for that.

Originally Posted by Briks (Post 1436725)

Just kind of throwing that in there

Originally Posted by Trollheart (Post 1436755)

Yeah. Still don't care. If I like how it sounds I'll listen to it. If 100000 people hate it and me and one other person likes it, so what? We've all different tastes and I'll be damned if I'm going to stop listening to a band just because they're universally hated and laughed at. If I did that I wouldn't even exist! :laughing:

Originally Posted by Trollheart (Post 1436672)

Your logic is flawed. I know why I like Floyd. I don't make any pretensions to thinking DF are cool or great, but considering all the hate they get here and elsewhere I was just surprised that they didn't suck as I thought they would. You know me: if it's metal, has melody and I can understand the singer I'm usually fine with it. Is it original? Hell no. Do I care? See last response.

I would probably not listen to a full album again for pleasure (though I may review another just to annoy you) but I would grab a track or two for a playlist and not feel in the least ashamed or embarrassed.

Originally Posted by The Batlord (Post 1437058)

Any nonsuckiness they may have is merely down to their blatant ripping off of Stratovarius and they deserve no credit for it. Bu yao.

Originally Posted by Trollheart (Post 1436388)

Glad you're having a blast Francis! Your journal's pretty good so far. Throw your rec at me, though I have said that I'm going back to my own list for a while. Still, you never know: if it's interesting enough....

Originally Posted by Tristesse (Post 1438144)

I know I'm not black and my name isn't Francis, but may I be permitted to recommend something also, my dear Trollheart?

Originally Posted by Astronomer (Post 1439152)

Boy oh boy am I glad I found this thread to keep me going until Series 8 airs ;)

The Lazarus Experiment is definitely one of those "filler" storylines that pretty much epitomises the badly CGI-ed monsters and predictable endings and so forth (however, at least it's not as bad as The Unicorn and the Wasp...) One thing I did like about the episode was the idea of throwback DNA creating a so seemingly unhuman monster, even if it was slightly ridiculous. In a way it also set up the ongoing suspicion that Martha's family have about The Doctor and the trouble that it will eventually cause in the major plotlines of that series.

I loved Martha as a companion, and it's episodes just like these that never did her justice!

Anyway, really enjoying the thread (that I pretty much just read in its entirety) :thumb: Love your little references to other aspects of the show... the big red button.

Originally Posted by Trollheart (Post 1439405)

So who's this week's
http://www.trollheart.com/quill.jpg
Well, strangely enough and I think for the first time it's awarded to someone but not that person's journal, in other words, it's posted in someone else's. When I read how excited and enthusiastic Astronomer was about Urban's Doctor Who Thing I just had no hesitation in awarding this to her. Not only does it surely make Urban happy that someone is so into his journal, on which he has worked so hard, but it just fair warms the cockles of your heart to see someone so genuinely passionate about a show, and a journal. So young lady, this one is yours. And welcome back!

Originally Posted by Franco Pepe Kalle (Post 1440219)

Song 3: Ms New Booty by Bumba Sparxx

I love this song because I love booty so much. This song is the perfect there for booty lovers. I mean it puts the song saying Booty rocking everywhere. It is a genius song and it had then Ying Yang Twins who are dirty as hell. I enjoy this song because it gives girls confidence to shake that booty. Vanilla, this song is for you. If you have any bootylicious girls and love their booty. Please play this song.

Originally Posted by Frownland (Post 1444622)

Musicbanter regulars, you surely know all about my group Wolves In Sheepskin because I never shut up about us. Today I'll be reviewing our most well received (and best selling) album, Indecent Vibrations. This album is my second favourite of our output, with A Van Per Oven being my favourite. This music speaks to me because the group does what we love as opposed to what would sell or sound appealing, and I'm glad to say that I'm a member of one of my favourite bands.

Indecent Vibrations consists of four tracks ranging from 6 to 17 minutes in length. It is entirely improvised apart from basic song structures that I came up with ("when I start to do this, change to that"). Stryder Rymer plays guitar for tracks 1, 2, and 4 and mandolin on the 3rd, Christophe Bassett (myself) plays guitar on the first track, electronics on the second, and drums on the last two, and Zach plays drums on the first two tracks and guitar on the final two.

The opener, Robot Intestines has Zach on drums and Stryder and I on guitar. It starts off with a kickdrum assaulted with reverb before the guitars enter. The sound is noisy and industrial, which is why we named the track Robot Intestines. The first minute or so is slower and more droney until it breaks into a faster part where indigestion occurs in the robot's intestines.

The song carries on like this with the crazy and noisy soundscape offering a variety of electric guitar noises from myself and rumbling rif***e from Stryder. There are points where we slow back into the opening part before breaking into another chaotic passage. The track ends on a drone and closing drums. This one is my favourite track on the album, and one of my favourite WISK tracks overall. Everybody did a great job on this song, and I don't have a favourite player on it because the sounds meld together so well. We recorded this track in my garage and after we were done with this tune, my dad came out and said "why don't you play a SONG?" so we knew this was a really good track if he felt the need to say something about it.

The second track is Flashback, where Stryder is on prepared guitar, Zach plays a reverb box and drums, and I play effects-heavy theremin. This track clocks in at 17 minutes long and is the longest on the album. It starts off very ambient with the players trading echoey and strange sounds. Throughout the track the theremin abandons the ambient atmosphere that the other two instruments are creating and overlays them with other-wordly sounds. About 9 minutes into a theremin solo comes in that makes you regret taking the brown acid. The other instruments grow in intensity until the quasi-sudden end of the track.

Out of the four tracks on this album, this one is my least favourite, but it's still a great track nonetheless. We thought that Flashback would be an appropriate track name for obvious reasons.

Then we have the last two tracks which are rather similar but still very different animals. Anyeurysm, which is intentionally misspelled as a reference to our album Any of Many, is a noisy track where Stryder jumps on the mandolin, Zach plays the guitar, and I sit at the drums. It starts off with a tremolo guitar and mandolin trade-off combined with drums. There's one tom that really complements the track as it's very prominent and gives the track some semblance of order to the track. There are points where you can't even differentiate what's each instrument is doing as it's a great wall of noise. I'm rather proud of my drum work on this track, especially the from the point where I rapidly play the snare up until the end of the song. It carries on in the noise ridden industrial sounds until it ends abruptly (the reason for this being that my recorder ran out of battery, the actual performance ran at about 12 minutes).

The closing track, Echoes of a Distant Memory has the same line up as Anyeurysm but this time with Stryder on guitar. A strum of the electric guitar and the clunkety drums enter. This one has more standard drumming in the beginning that breaks into a fast paced, almost Han Bennink-esque style. The guitars on this track are anything but standard. They're very angry and inseparable, and that thing called melody that Trollheart is always going on about is gone from this track. Everything is lost in the wall of noise. The track continues on in the metal-influenced aggression that we hear in the beginning of the song until we get another abrupt end. Again, this is because of the recorder running out of battery.

This album was incredibly fun to make and I find it a lot of fun to listen to. The sound of this album is somewhat unparalleled in our other six albums, save for a vague similarity on some tracks from A Van Per Oven and the title track from Lizard of Ox, which sounds like Indecent Vibrations on heroin and bath salts. We found a unique kind of sound that's specific to us with this album, and that's something I'm glad that we've done.

For the art piece on this entry, I'm going to give you guys the album artwork to Indecent Vibrations. It's a photograph of the reflection of the inside of a drainage pipe. We got the lines to be really messed up by throwing rocks in the water and taking the photo right after.

http://f0.bcbits.com/img/a1123048212_2.jpg

Originally Posted by Briks (Post 1446665)

Too bad Nickelback week didn't catch on... Now I listened to that **** for nothing.

Originally Posted by Briks (Post 1446665)

Too bad Nickelback week didn't catch on... Now I listened to that **** for nothing.

Originally Posted by Anteater (Post 1448959)

So lets start off by stating the obvious: yes, 1990's No Prayer For The Dying wasn't within spitting distance of Seventh Son.. quality-wise, and the relatively lukewarm reception this album received from the hardcore Maiden fans upon release wasn't completely undeserved either. Whilst the musical landscape was beginning to change as the rumblings of "alternative" and "grunge" music echoed in the distance, the synth-laden approach Maiden had adopted on their two previous outings was still in vogue for most of the fans. Nobody went up to Dickinson, Harris or Smith and asked them to "strip down" their sound, but strip it down they did after their massive world tour wrapped up in '89. It didn't help that Adrian Smith decided to vacate about halfway into pre-production either, forcing Dickinson to recruit his buddy Janick Gers on axework to pick up the slack. No wonder people were pissed: the album hadn't even been recorded and many people had already convinced themselves it wasn't going to be any good! And as the saying goes...most prophecies are self-fulfilling ones for those that have already made up their minds beforehand.

In retrospect though, the truth is that No Prayer For The Dying is far from a bad album. It is definitely weaker than anything they band had done from '81 onwards up until that point...but this is Iron Maiden we are talking about. Even a 'by the numbers' release from them is going to be better than what others of their ilk might have cooked up as long as their classic lineup was mostly intact...and intact it was in 1990.

So instead of writing up a long review of why you should give this underrated record another shot if you had dismissed it previously based on a collective rep, I'll sum it up in five quick points-

1. It's an interesting album sonically. Bruce Dickinson not only snarls and curses a fair amount throughout (which is unusual for a Maiden album), but it seems like he and the band actually developed a sense of humor as well. ('Public Enema Number One', 'Bring Your Daughter...To The Slaughter', etc. etc.)

2. 'The Assassin', 'Run Silent Run Deep', 'Fates Warning' and 'Hooks In You' are all here, and those songs are prime goodies that would have fit well on any of the past classics.

3. It's one of the shortest albums in the IM's discography, with no cuts running longer than 5 minutes, which actually makes the experience fairly breezy regardless of how much you enjoy (or despise) the music contained therein.

4. Great album cover, and the last one where we'd see "classic" Eddie for awhile.

5. It's better than 'Fear Of The Dark' or anything recorded with Blaze Bayley...a LOT better! *shudder* :yikes:

So that's my take folks. Anyone got a second opinion? :love:

Originally Posted by Silenzio (Post 1485272)

Welcome back, Trollheart! :D
It's great to hear that this thread, one of the best on MB, will be revived soon.
I am looking forward to the updates of the next weeks, but please take your time!

Originally Posted by Neapolitan (Post 1491843)

The topical theme is a must read, another well written piece by Janszoon. This issue: Capitol K—Andean Dub (2008) The Exotica of Baxter's Jungle Jazz + Downtempo = Capitol K's Folktronica.

http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...ml#post1489422