The Batlord

Don't rock the status quo.
Free trade will spread freedom.

Yup, neoliberal credentials check out.

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Frownland

That's quite an unpopular music opinion. Most music enthusiasts aren't down with that Uncle Tom ****.

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Chula Vista

That's the concept. It's baby steps though.

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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

Frownland

The 0% success rate of free trade introducing any kind of freedom to a country apart from the freedom of US corporations to exploit local markets is hard to argue with, Bats!

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The Batlord

I'm certain all those US dollars going into China will save Hong Kong.

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Frownland

I bet the Miles Davis collab would've been cool to hear, but if Hendrix survived he would have definitely soiled his career. I think he'd basically wind up in SRV's role and it would overshadow his psychedelic work.

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Exo

This is an aside to your specific point but I think most top tier musicians go through a time where they're putting out garbage. Top tier in this case meaning mainstream popularity. Hendrix most likely would have put an album out in the 80's that sounded like a mix between Stevie Ray Vaughn and The Edge. I mean...look at what the 80's did to Iggy f*cking Pop...



Motherf*cker had a shirt on AND tucked into his jeans. Nobody survived the 80's unscathed.

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Frownland

Mr. Waits would like a word. And if you use Blood Money or Alice as counterexamples I swear to god I'll ban you.

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Exo

So as I was typing up my post, I thought about Waits, and I deliberately added the part about "mainstream popularity" which is a line I think Tom stayed right under. He never really had a "radio" hit. Popular? Yes. Household name? No. Obviously there are artist who never put garbage out and stayed clear of the hivemind 80's garbage machine but most didn't and Hendrix certainly would have succumbed to it. I mean, f*ck, look at Jefferson Airplane.

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Frownland

He was in the Shrek movies though (twice!), it doesn't get more top tier mainstream than that.

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