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#131 Re: GN'R Downloads » Monsters with buckethead » 98 weeks ago
I'll download this when I get home.
100 mb for this song? 
#132 Re: Guns N' Roses » The General and Monsters » 98 weeks ago
Exhibit B
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYBOzI2TMiE&pp=ygUUZ3VucyBuIHJvc2VzIHBlcmhhcHM%3D
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#133 Re: Guns N' Roses » The General and Monsters » 98 weeks ago
Needless to say I think a lot of negative opinions come from expectations that we as hardcore fans needlessly put on these tracks. If we hadn't heard prior versions or quotes by drunken washed up rockstars, opinions on these tracks would probably be very different.
It's not just the unnecessary hype of the tracks that killed it for hardcore fans....it's the insane passage of time.
We first heard about The General and Leave Me Alone/Soul Monster/Monsters in 2002. ...and the songs were only instrumentals at the time. Yes...a hype train rolling for instrumentals.
That second batch of Chinese songs never should've been mentioned until closer to completion and after CD was released. Unfortunately, the project required hype to keep the hardcore base interested enough to keep buying tickets.
Fans had to wait until fall 2023.
No one complained about the Hardskool mix or the Perhaps solo lol.
A few things....
Most people don't complain about mixes/mastering of songs in a casual setting and in many cases, not at all.
The way a lot of new music sounds nowadays and how people listen(earbuds on a smartphone), it's not as abrasive as it is to either audiophiles or people listening on actual stereos. Some people just don't give a shit either way.
Unfortunately I'm not one of those people. I listen to a fuck ton of Pink Floyd, Fleetwood Mac, and Soundgarden and when going from that to these leftovers, the contrast and abrasiveness is off the charts.
Only extreme hardcores know anything about the rough mixes, old solos, or even the CD lineups. Nobody else cares.
Exhibit A
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You don't have to be an extreme audiophile to realize there are huge issues with the first song while the second sounds sublime.
#134 Re: Guns N' Roses » The General and Monsters » 98 weeks ago
I just checked the video.
It only has 736k views in two weeks.
They have 11.8 million subscribers.
Horrific stats.
#135 Re: The Sunset Strip » What Are You Listening To? » 98 weeks ago
I cried.
Robbed of an Oscar.
#136 Re: The Garden » The Wrestling thread » 98 weeks ago
. 2024 is not the same as 1999 in the same way the late 90s weren't the 1970s.
The only real difference between 70s and late 90s is the end of kayfabe.
Watch some Florida- Georgia -Mid Atlantic 78-85 and youll see a more realistic portrayal of the Attitude era.... including the cheesy sexual angles that probably shouldn't have been on TV.
They just didn't give names to specific eras at the time.
When McMahon, Russo,. and whoever the fuck were coming up with those storylines, they had stuff like this on in the background....
Stone Cold before there was Stone Cold....
The Undertaker/Ministry crap done much better with satanism in place of death....
The only reason that stuff isn't more outlandish as it would be in the 90s is because the crowd isn't being winked at and let in on the joke. Thank God for that.
#137 Re: The Garden » The Wrestling thread » 98 weeks ago
I don't know anything about what Cornette does now.
I'll say this...but it's true of most of those guys... he's a product of his time.
Wrestling isn't wrestling anymore and hasn't been for 20+ years. I'm not surprised he has a spotty record in the 21st century.
You know who else would have a spotty record had he continued? Ole Anderson...and he was a fucking genius.
Between movies I've been watching some late 84-early 85 NWA. I became a hardcore NWA fan summer 85 and that's my usual starting point when going down memory lane.
There's some killer shit happening there. It's right before key players like Steamboat, Slaughter, etc are gone and they have to freshen up the angles.
There's a really interesting angle being cooked up between Kernodle and Steamboat against the Russians...and they started including Magnum in it before both Kernodle and Steamboat bail...kiling the whole thing.
This is Magnums first confrontation with Nikita. No one knows at the time how historic that is.
The Dusty -Tully feud is kicking off even though Dusty is currently tag team champs with Raging Bull. This causes Bull to team with Magnum briefly.
It kinda sucks how this played out because a Dusty-Bull vs Road Warriors angle was starting before Dusty switched gears. This is why they quickly drop the belts to the Russians.
Flair feuding with US champ Wahoo. This is right before Magnum wins the US title.
If anybody wants to watch some of this....
Jan 85 Worldwide
Steamboat and Kernodle vs the Russians
Here's something bat shit crazy from 1983 in Georgia that makes you wish it had all turned out differently....
Magnum TA and Randy Savage as a tag team
While I loved Savage in WWF, he would've been amazing in NWA.
#138 Re: The Sunset Strip » Most Recent Movie You've Seen » 98 weeks ago
Been watching a lot of movies while trying to recover.
Taxi Driver - Yeah...this is overrated. I hadn't watched this in probably 30 years. I didn't even remember the ending. I would've bet my life on Jodi Foster being a big part of this film. She only has a handful of scenes as it nears the climax. Only thing I liked about it is the 70s NY setting. I'd kill to eat at that cafeteria those cabbies eat lunch at.
I didn't remember him surviving. That was a trip.
I also never realized until now what a hot piece of ass Cybill Shepherd was in her youth.
Mean Streets - I don't think I had ever watched this.
This is THE prototype for Quentin Tarantino films.
Other than the 70s NY setting...which is amazing....it's not very good. Very little happens, mostly conversations, and there's no real payoff at the end.
Great soundtrack.
Una - Like Nesting Dolls, this film comes awfully close to greatness. If dealing with such a subject....child abuse victim confronting the guy 15 years later and you want to shock your audience, go all the way. Don't half ass it and then give it a lackluster ending.
While she's everyone's darling and she does a good job here, I don't like Rooney Mara. Not fond of her sister anymore neither. As I get older, I loathe these Taylor Swift types who are only in the position they are in because they threw fits in front of their rich families to become movie stars and then the whole world is instantly handed to them on a silver platter.
Society of the Snow - Until a few days ago I had no idea this existed. It's an Alive remake...one of my favorite 90s movies.
It was ok but I hated the editing style. I also didn't like how they handled certain aspects of the story...the lone woman dying is barely an afterthought here yet in reality it almost killed their spirit.
Loved how the actors took it seriously and went on crash diets to lose a bunch of weight. Made it so much more realistic.
The CGI plane crash was inferior to the 90s version.
I'll finish my list later. I gotta go somewhere.
#139 Re: The Garden » NFL 2023/24 season » 98 weeks ago
I may not even watch it this year. It's the worst matchup possible.
Chiefs win the Taylor Bowl.
Had the NFL known a year ago that this craze would happen, she would've performed the halftime show.
I was already losing interest in football. This season almost killed it completely.
#140 Re: The Garden » Current Events... » 98 weeks ago
As much as I hate to admit it...it does seem like Trump is on a path to win again. I've always hated Trump...I actually think Biden has done an ok job...the thing that will take him down are these stupid social issues.
As a business owner, I can tell you the government is paying businesses to stay open...maybe that's what socialism is? If I were being honest, I'd say the economy isn't good...I do not know how we sustain this and all these other social issues very likely go by the wayside with enough people to vote for the economy over all sorts of other stuff.
He's a one termer.
Not only did they refuse to abandon the extremism, they doubled down on it with the Hamas supporters and the illegal alien nonsense.
That's not a winning formula.
He's also getting much worse. That statement he made a few days ago where it's just undecipherable gibberish coming out of his mouth would've instantly created a crisis in the 20th century. Now it's just laughed at like a meme.
I'm not a fan of Trump but he's capable of stringing a few sentences together. He wins by default.
The debates are going to be a disaster. I bet they don't even do them. If they do, Biden will have to freebase an 8 ball of cocaine to handle it.
