I will, thanks. This track rules.

Someone once gave me a collection of everything TBP had ever recorded, downloaded off SoulSeek I think, and it wasn't the ideal introduction cause there was just too much stuff on there including live performances etc, too much to sort through, although some of it was clearly brilliant.

Discount Tom Waits/Steve Albini hybrid

Weaksauce trolling Tristan. You can do better now, come on.

Yeah, that's not the way you want to listen to TBP. My advice - check out Prayers on Fire first and if you dig it, peep Junkyard. It's up for grabs which album is better - you be the judge.

Wait, what have you heard?

Nick Cave is currently in my top 1001-2500. That's my 5th tier. (I don't have my rankings more fine-tuned than that.)

I want to see your top 2500 list. I can't get past 200. :D

Your tier list sucks donkey dong.

I'm not going to post a couple thousand names here. Again, it's not that I have everyone ranked. It's in tiers, where they're just in alphabetical order in the tiers. Tier 1 is my top 50 just listed in alphabetical order, tier 2 is 51-250 just listed in alphabetical order, tier 3 is 251-500, etc.

Currently I've got 8 tiers with increasing numbers of artists in each tier. 8 is 10,001 up at this point. 9 would be if I get to over 20,000.

The main reason for this is for listening purposes. The higher the tier, the more often I play albums from that artist. It's a way to ensure that I'm hearing favorites more often, but also I listen systematically to avoid hearing anything so often that I get burned out on it.

Hence why it can carry so much. You keep the donkeys happy, they work for you.

I don't want to hear about your Shrek fanfics bro

what the **** is a jguy grungeman?

Keep going as long as you like cause this argument never dies.

https://www.musicbanter.com/general-...ml#post1745458

Wow, that was ****ing exhausting. I made it around 6 pages in. What a nerd.

That whole thread is divided between music discussion and us trolling the **** out of how he ran it. It was pretty great.

Not exactly my idea of a great time, but you do you Batty.

Centrist scum.

You keep your Manowar, and I'll keep my Kate Bush.

this guy was good

Too good. Refused to listen to Slayer cause of his religion.

This is the best thing I've heard all day.

Elph and Tipper sittin' in a tree. L-E-G-I-S-L-A-T-I-N-G.

Rock n' roll doesn't need to be saved. It's doing just fine.

Is it tho? :/

sure it is. why wouldn't it be?

That'll probably happen before you finish your Fall journal. Just put Levitate in there and call it a day already.

I think we touched on this subject before but I don't remember you putting your money where your mouth is. So, let me know 5 great rock albums in the last 5 years please. :D

Money meets mouth:

1) Ty Segall - First Taste (2019)
2) Japandroids - Near to the Wild Heart of Life (2017)
3) A Perfect Circle - Eat the Elephant (2018)
4) Manic Street Prechers - Resistance is Futile (2018)
5) Queens of the Stone Age - Villains (2017)

None of those are from fresh and new artists though.

That wasn't part of the original question. Don't go moving the goalpost on me now, I gave you what you asked for.

Rock is only alive and well if fresh new artists are pumping out great records?

Of course. If there's no new talent to carry the torch, then even if the rock mainstays keep churning out records (although I would say most of those bands are well past their prime), all we have to do is wait for them to die off. It's true, Mick Jagger is still alive, but do the Rolling stones keep rock and roll alive? Or is rock and roll in fact, enabling them to have some sort of unnatural hold on life?? Hmmm??

What do you consider 'new' talent to be? Ty Segall and Japandroids aren't 'new' enough for you?

You seriously think those two bands, just for example, are going to eventually (say in 10-15 years or something) stop making records and there will be no new talented bands making great rock albums?

Well Japandroids have been around for more than 15 years and are pushing 40. Ty has also been around for more than a decade.

By new and fresh artists I mean people in their early to mid 20s, which is normally when kids are rocking the hardest.

But anyway, sure, I think there will probably always be some rock bands around. Just not sure if they will be as exciting as ones we've already seen.

Kids in their 20s today had overprotective parents and too much social media so they don't even **** each other.* If you're not ****ing, you're not going to be able to tap into the Shamanistic roots of rock music.

No one felt a communal sense of repressed emotion because they were liking memes.


*https://www.insider.com/teens-less-c...nts-did-2021-3

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Punk is more dead than rock.

Ok, but they're still trying to get laid. Rather than bitching on a subreddit that the State should provide them women to breed with.

The well connected?