Posts by Sardonic Pickle

  • Decades in Music

    Quote from LinkSkywalker


    We can agree that the '60s and '70s was great. (By the by, if you care, the apostrophe is correctly placed before the decade to indicate the missing millennium and century. The decade is not possessive, and thus does not have an apostrophe before the suffixed "S"). However, we disagree on why.

    Thanks for letting me know, I shall try to remember that.

    Quote from LinkSkywalker


    With the rise of the Radio in the 1920s, popular music began to become a monolith. Music was no longer something you listened to first-hand, with the musician actually within the hearing range of your ear. Music was something you could experience with the entire nation. And so, music started to flatten itself out into something that would be palatable to the entire nation. Aiming for broad appeal + fundamentally capitalistic motivations = the death of art. We slowly started to resist the force of this trend in the '50s. Buuuut IMHO the music of the '50s is bland as fuck. The renaissance of popular music really reached fruition in the '60s and '70s, when it undeniably produced some of the best popular music of our age.

    Makes sense.

    Quote from LinkSkywalker


    We're going to have to chalk some of this up to a difference in taste. As evidenced by the "Favorite NES Tunes" thread, I have a love for electronic music. I don't think it's about sounding futuristic. I think we discovered a way to make entirely new kinds of sounds. Sounds nobody had ever heard before. And the 80s were a gloriously popular exploration of those new sounds.

    But even ignoring electronic music, the 80s has my love for giving rise to metal. Most of metals roots are in the '70s, but the genre didn't really come into its own until the '80s. And unfortunately, the '80s was also the peak for awhile, as metal would start to get real shitty in the '90s.

    It is definitely about taste, I can't stand electronic music, besides game tunes. I also don't like metal very much.

    Quote from LinkSkywalker


    I'm struggling to think of a really good band from the '90s. I suppose you could count Nirvana. But I tend to think of them as going against the grain of what was being produced at the time. They're not really emblematic, in my mind, of the music of the '90s.

    Would you mind giving me some samples of good '90s bands?

    This is of course subjective :p

    Green Day
    Smashing Pumpkins
    Dave Matthews Band
    Red Hot Chilli Peppers
    R.E.M
    Goo Goo Dolls
    Faith No More

    I'm probably just biased because it's the music that surrounded me. Though my Dad was always playing '60s and '70s music too.

  • Decades in Music

    All right, the 60's and 70's had the best music to me. Mainly because they used real instruments. It was a lot more authentic talent back then.

    The reason I can't stand most 80's music is the over use of synthesisers. When I listen to the 80's music I try hard to hear real instruments, it becomes like a mixture of today's music and maybe the earlier music. Of course I'm generalising. There are some bands and artists/songs I like from the 80's, same with today's music.

    It just seemed that the 80's tried to be 'futuristic' with their music and it ended up sounding just fake.

    Then the 90's came around, and early 90's punk popped up. Back to being guitar, bass, and drums. Real instruments, real sound. I'm not a huge fan of grunge, but there was nothing synthesised about that. It was a bunch of guys or girls, playing instruments and making music again.

    Of course I'm generalising once again, and there are bands from the 90's that I don't like. Though I feel the majority of the popular music from the 90's tried to bring it back to 'real' instruments.

    Also I'm not saying it doesn't take talent to produce music through synthesisers, I just think the sound is fake and I prefer music that's relatively left untouched by machines.

    After the 90's, it started to get all auto-tuney and synthetic again. So with a few exceptions, I don't like much of the popular stuff today.

  • Link now has a Last Name?

    Quote from LinkSkywalker

    Ya'll're on shrooms motherfucker! The music of the '80s was the last gasp of the musical renaissance that was the '60s and '70s. Metal and punk rock really came into their own during that decade.

    The '90s are the dark days, where every piece of popular music was over-polished corporate mush.


    You kiddin'?! The 60's had my favourite music, the 70's were pretty good. Something went wrong in the 80's but the 90's saved music, then it went bad again in the 00's. Hasn't been the same since, because I'm old and despise anything new.

  • Jorbs

    Quote from LinkSkywalker

    It's a mocking way to refer to someone crying, usually over something stupid. (Baw, your class was nerfed in the latest patch, QQ moar nub). Two Qs next to each other look like a pair of eyes with tears coming down them.

    Someday, we'll do away with that sort of reward point nonsense, during the glorious worker's revolution.


    Oh I seeeee. Yes all the QQ to the management.

    Rewards points are mostly useless.

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