June on the Calendar: NMP

dcsimpson · Postby **dcsimpson** » Fri Jun 03, 2005 5:22 pm

<table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> (Rooster @ Jun 3 2005, 11:41 AM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> Out aof all Nirvana's albums, I like Bleach and In Utero more than Nevermind. Nevermind was what the record companies wanted them to sound like, not what they actually did. That's why the band disliked the record when compared to any of their other stuff. </td></tr></table> <br>Bleach is what Sub Pop wanted them to sound like, though, which is why it's all riffs and noise. If they had made the record they really wanted, it would have sounded more like Incesticide--freakier and more experimental.<br><br>And In Utero, while it has some great songs on it, also is about half filler. Nevermind is wall to wall great songwriting, with great hooks and great lyrics. Every single song on Nevermind earned its place on the album, which is, frankly, more than anyone can say for, for instance, "Radio Friendly Unit Shifter" or "Very Ape," from In Utero.<br><br>So the record company, via producer Andy Wallace, put a bit of gloss on Nevermind. So what? Kurt was fine with that at the time; I think he only started complaining about the slickness of the production later, to protect his alt-rock credibility.<br><br>Say...did I ever tell y'all about the time I kissed Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic? <img src='http://definecynical.mancubus.net/forum ... s/cool.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='cool.gif' />

Rooster · Postby **Rooster** » Fri Jun 03, 2005 6:27 pm

<table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> </td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> Bleach is what Sub Pop wanted them to sound like, though, which is why it's all riffs and noise. If they had made the record they really wanted, it would have sounded more like Incesticide--freakier and more experimental.</td></tr></table> <br><br>Yeah, that's probably true. I still love Bleach though, but I will admit that my favourite song by the Seattle trio is Aneurysm.<br><br> <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> </td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> So the record company, via producer Andy Wallace, put a bit of gloss on Nevermind. So what? Kurt was fine with that at the time; I think he only started complaining about the slickness of the production later, to protect his alt-rock credibility.</td></tr></table> <br><br>That's probably true too. And I have nothing against the songs on the record, just the production. I'm a firm believer in the band being recorded (whole) live, then the vocals and maybe fiddly guitars over the top. That's how I do all my recordings at Uni anyhoo...probably explains why I get such low marks for them.<br><br> <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> </td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> Say...did I ever tell y'all about the time I kissed Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic?</td></tr></table> <br><br>No, but I hope you know that its pretty hard to put the lid back on a tin of beans. <img src='http://definecynical.mancubus.net/forum ... iggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' />

Muninn · Postby **Muninn** » Fri Jun 03, 2005 7:30 pm

Mutts sunday strips also always feature a parody of a painting, sculpture or comic.<br><br>As for Nirvana, I was too young at the time and living in Kenya. To this day the only Nirvana song I've heard is Smells Like Teen Spirit. I remember it being loud with undecipherable lyrics (at least when I listened to it then), and I never became intirested. Though I'll not judge the band without hearing a wider range of their discography. I do recall that they apparently did a Leadbelly cover, which is nice.

dcsimpson · Postby **dcsimpson** » Fri Jun 03, 2005 7:37 pm

<table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> (Rooster @ Jun 3 2005, 06:27 PM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> Yeah, that's probably true. I still love Bleach though, but I will admit that my favourite song by the Seattle trio is Aneurysm.  </td></tr></table> <br> Actually, Aneurysm is mine, too. Or at least one of my top few.<br><br>The story is, as a teenage Nirvana fan, I met Krist Novoselic at a concert in Tacoma. He's easily recognizable (he's six foot six and kind of goofy-looking). I went up and introduced myself and probably said something embarrassing, as teenage fanboys will upon meeting a hero of theirs.<br><br>Then some teenybopper girl came up to him too, and bubbled about how she wanted to kiss him. He let her kiss him on the cheek, and she ran off.<br><br>Then I said "hey Krist, can I kiss you too?"<br><br>He looked at me and said "sure, that'd be queer."<br><br>He let me kiss him on the cheek too. He needed a shave.

Bocaj Claw · Postby **Bocaj Claw** » Fri Jun 03, 2005 8:47 pm

I'm sorry to say that I've never been a huge fan of any kind of music. Its not that I don't like it necessarily (although some "popular" music nowadays makes me cringe) its just that i've always been more comfortable in silence.

Tom Flapwell · Postby **Tom Flapwell** » Fri Jun 03, 2005 9:18 pm

I guess Krist wanted the rebellious novelty of being kissed by a...dragon.

Ruedii-X · Postby **Ruedii-X** » Fri Jun 03, 2005 10:02 pm

<table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> (dcsimpson @ Jun 2 2005, 10:47 AM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'>  <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> (VisibilityMissing @ Jun 2 2005, 03:44 PM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'>  <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> (dcsimpson @ Jun 2 2005, 09:43 AM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> Anyone who doesn't know that reference was officially not paying attention to pop culture in the early 1990s. <img src='http://definecynical.mancubus.net/forum ... /laugh.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='laugh.gif' /> </td></tr></table> <br>Oh, come on, give the young 'uns a break <img src='http://definecynical.mancubus.net/forum ... iggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /> </td></tr></table> <br>We had real music back in those days! Also, values! And school was uphill both ways!<br><br>...the fact that I'm being asked to give young 'uns a break, and I'm still safely in my 20s, makes me feel that we get old faster than ever these days. <img src='http://definecynical.mancubus.net/forum ... /laugh.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='laugh.gif' />  </td></tr></table> <br> Yeah, and a 66Mhz computer with 32MB of memory was a performance computer, bullies were more mentally tramatizing because they weren't mind numbed by today's aweful teenage pop culture. <br><br>Our homework was a WAY bigger load, our teachers were ruder, less open minded, and we had to clean our own desks at the end of the school year!!!<br><br>Our first jobs paid less, our allowance was less, and we did not get one dime out of our parents that we didn't have to work our butts off to get!<br><br>Our playgrounds were made of wood and MEHTUL, gave splinters and burns, were built over wood chips that gave you scrapes, instead of these playgrounds where a minor bruise is a big deal. Skinned knees made us kids, they gave us character!!<br><br>Our video games were 2D, 256 colors, actually NEEDED an instruction manual, and many of them had to be played in one sitting!! This was because that was the way we liked it! These kids today, who need a strategy guide for Donkey Kong Country obviously never played Super Mario Bros straight through World 1-1 to finish without warping!!! Our video games taught work ethics, the new stuff is just mind rotting violance and pandering of obsenities.<br><br>Our cartoons made political jokes all the time, and nobody cared, anyone who did was called a zealottes wanting attention,1 and thus ignored, allong with the nuts who said the Smurfs were supose to be poligimisits or the KKK. Knowing TV companies today they would have taken Smurfs off the air for such aligations!!! Back then Disney was the big right wing media giant, and Fox the left wing radical!!!<br><br>These "terrorist threats" are nothing, in the 80s we were still living with Russian nukes pointed at us!!!<br><br>*Snaps out of it as he starts cracking up at comparing lame Right-Wing farces used to distract the media from various bad government decisions*<br><br>Yeah, it sort of feels funny being the elders when your this young. Me being 25, and being the elder of so many places.<br><br>

Rooster · Postby **Rooster** » Fri Jun 03, 2005 11:06 pm

Remember when Sonic the Hedgehog was "cutting edge" game design?<br><br>Or when the whole Blur/Oasis thing came out (more for Brits)?<br><br>Or when The Offspring released Americana? Ah, my first "rock" album. Followed by RATM's first release.<br><br>To be young in the mid-nineties again...

Bocaj Claw · Postby **Bocaj Claw** » Sat Jun 04, 2005 1:17 am

<table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> (Ruedii-X @ Jun 3 2005, 06:02 PM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'>  <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> (dcsimpson @ Jun 2 2005, 10:47 AM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'>  <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> (VisibilityMissing @ Jun 2 2005, 03:44 PM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'>  <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> (dcsimpson @ Jun 2 2005, 09:43 AM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> Anyone who doesn't know that reference was officially not paying attention to pop culture in the early 1990s. <img src='http://definecynical.mancubus.net/forum ... /laugh.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='laugh.gif' /> </td></tr></table> <br>Oh, come on, give the young 'uns a break <img src='http://definecynical.mancubus.net/forum ... iggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /> </td></tr></table> <br>We had real music back in those days! Also, values! And school was uphill both ways!<br><br>...the fact that I'm being asked to give young 'uns a break, and I'm still safely in my 20s, makes me feel that we get old faster than ever these days. <img src='http://definecynical.mancubus.net/forum ... /laugh.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='laugh.gif' /> </td></tr></table> <br>Yeah, and a 66Mhz computer with 32MB of memory was a performance computer, bullies were more mentally tramatizing because they weren't mind numbed by today's aweful teenage pop culture. <br><br>Our homework was a WAY bigger load, our teachers were ruder, less open minded, and we had to clean our own desks at the end of the school year!!!<br><br>Our first jobs paid less, our allowance was less, and we did not get one dime out of our parents that we didn't have to work our butts off to get!<br><br>Our playgrounds were made of wood and MEHTUL, gave splinters and burns, were built over wood chips that gave you scrapes, instead of these playgrounds where a minor bruise is a big deal. Skinned knees made us kids, they gave us character!!<br><br>Our video games were 2D, 256 colors, actually NEEDED an instruction manual, and many of them had to be played in one sitting!! This was because that was the way we liked it! These kids today, who need a strategy guide for Donkey Kong Country obviously never played Super Mario Bros straight through World 1-1 to finish without warping!!! Our video games taught work ethics, the new stuff is just mind rotting violance and pandering of obsenities.<br><br>Our cartoons made political jokes all the time, and nobody cared, anyone who did was called a zealottes wanting attention,1 and thus ignored, allong with the nuts who said the Smurfs were supose to be poligimisits or the KKK. Knowing TV companies today they would have taken Smurfs off the air for such aligations!!! Back then Disney was the big right wing media giant, and Fox the left wing radical!!!<br><br>These "terrorist threats" are nothing, in the 80s we were still living with Russian nukes pointed at us!!!<br><br>*Snaps out of it as he starts cracking up at comparing lame Right-Wing farces used to distract the media from various bad government decisions*<br><br>Yeah, it sort of feels funny being the elders when your this young. Me being 25, and being the elder of so many places.  </td></tr></table> <br> I'm feeling slightly unappreciated. But only slightly.

Ruedii-X · Postby **Ruedii-X** » Sat Jun 04, 2005 5:52 am

<table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> (Bocaj Claw @ Jun 3 2005, 03:47 PM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> I'm sorry to say that I've never been a huge fan of any kind of music. Its not that I don't like it necessarily (although some "popular" music nowadays makes me cringe) its just that i've always been more comfortable in silence.  </td></tr></table> <br> I've lately been getting into the Accoustic alternative scene, along with a lot of mixed music that is it's source, including punk, reggee, folk-alternative. The funny thing is that my parent's favorite of 70s folk rock is in that mix. I'm sure DC Simpson at least can relate.<br><br>I really like MxPx's latest EP "The AC" (Good luck getting a hard copy anywhere. It's still distributed on iTunes, that's your best bet. You know how limited distributions are. I really should have grabbed a hard copy when I had the chance.) the download version of their next album has a nice melodic hardcore version of Grey Skies turn Blue. It is incredibly true to the accoustic version, and if you play the two you will clearly see the folk roots of Punk Rock.

Ruedii-X · Postby **Ruedii-X** » Sat Jun 04, 2005 5:58 am

<table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> (Rooster @ Jun 3 2005, 06:06 PM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> Remember when Sonic the Hedgehog was "cutting edge" game design?<br><br>Or when the whole Blur/Oasis thing came out (more for Brits)?<br><br>Or when The Offspring released Americana? Ah, my first "rock" album. Followed by RATM's first release.<br><br>To be young in the mid-nineties again...  </td></tr></table> <br> Ha, I remember when SMB was cutting edge, and yes that is SMB, not SMW, and DEFINATELY not SM64, of course I still feel most nostalgic about SMB3, I guess that was the last time in my life that everything was going perfectly smooth, oh lost childhood bliss, why'd I have to be forced to grow up so soon. *Makes cheesy shakespierian actor pose and the audience throws rotten tomatos*

Ruedii-X · Postby **Ruedii-X** » Sat Jun 04, 2005 6:06 am

<table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> (Bocaj Claw @ Jun 3 2005, 08:17 PM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> I'm feeling slightly unappreciated. But only slightly.  </td></tr></table> <br> Heh, such is the life of a N00b. <br><br>*gets killed for spelling like Stefan* <br><br>You'll be subject to ridicule the next few months if you chose to stay here, get used to it. Or do you want the fast initiation, it involves, a football, no pads, Millie, Locke, a Cannon and screaming the words "You call that a play?!" at a field full of jocks. I'll leave the rest up to your immagination.<br><br>Ah, screw it, there is no easy way out.

Arloest · Postby **Arloest** » Sat Jun 04, 2005 6:18 am

<table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> (Ruedii-X @ Jun 4 2005, 12:06 AM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> <br><br>*gets killed for spelling like Stefan* <br><br>  </td></tr></table> <br> No, you won't get killed for that, but perhaps for spelling "Stephan" wrong. D;

Ibun · Postby **Ibun** » Sat Jun 04, 2005 6:19 am

<table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> (Ruedii-X @ Jun 4 2005, 01:06 AM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'>  <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> (Bocaj Claw @ Jun 3 2005, 08:17 PM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> I'm feeling slightly unappreciated. But only slightly. </td></tr></table> <br>Heh, such is the life of a N00b. <br><br>*gets killed for spelling like Stefan* <br><br>You'll be subject to ridicule the next few months if you chose to stay here, get used to it. Or do you want the fast initiation, it involves, a football, no pads, Millie, Locke, a Cannon and screaming the words "You call that a play?!" at a field full of jocks. I'll leave the rest up to your immagination.<br><br>Ah, screw it, there is no easy way out.  </td></tr></table> <br> I assume by ridicule you mean light-hearted humor. We tend to frown on being cruel to people. By the way, n00b refers to somebody who is new, and acts like an idiot. Newb (or newbie) refers to somebody who is new. In this case Bojac would be considered a newbie. That, however, does not make him any less valueable to the forum. <br><br><br>PS<br><br>If you want some good reggae. Sinsemilia. Damn fine stuff. <br><br><br>EDIT: Sister. <3

Bocaj Claw · Postby **Bocaj Claw** » Sat Jun 04, 2005 4:54 pm

<table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> (Ibun @ Jun 4 2005, 02:19 AM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'>  <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> (Ruedii-X @ Jun 4 2005, 01:06 AM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'>  <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> (Bocaj Claw @ Jun 3 2005, 08:17 PM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> I'm feeling slightly unappreciated. But only slightly. </td></tr></table> <br>Heh, such is the life of a N00b. <br><br>*gets killed for spelling like Stefan* <br><br>You'll be subject to ridicule the next few months if you chose to stay here, get used to it. Or do you want the fast initiation, it involves, a football, no pads, Millie, Locke, a Cannon and screaming the words "You call that a play?!" at a field full of jocks. I'll leave the rest up to your immagination.<br><br>Ah, screw it, there is no easy way out. </td></tr></table> <br>I assume by ridicule you mean light-hearted humor. We tend to frown on being cruel to people. By the way, n00b refers to somebody who is new, and acts like an idiot. Newb (or newbie) refers to somebody who is new. In this case Bojac would be considered a newbie. That, however, does not make him any less valueable to the forum.  </td></tr></table> <br> Well if I couldn't take the heat I would get out of the kitchen and grab the bull by the horns while the iron was hot. Or something like that.<br><br>But really, I've been nothing but welcomed so far, so thanks. <img src='http://definecynical.mancubus.net/forum ... iggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' />

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