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by A Person
Sun Jul 19, 2020 8:05 pm
Forum: Welcome to the Family
Topic: The Birthday Thread
Replies: 2438
Views: 132880

Re: The Birthday Thread

Today Eloh and I become something we've never been before. Parents of a...teenager. :faint: If you wish to leave Simon some well wishes for a happy and lucky 13th, I'll make sure he sees them tonight after our guests depart. :) Happy birthday, Simon! Have a good one, and remember that the oncoming ...
by A Person
Wed Aug 21, 2019 12:10 am
Forum: Tin Pan Alley
Topic: ruining music you love
Replies: 19
Views: 1062

Re: ruining music you love

Epignosis wrote: Wed Aug 07, 2019 8:53 pm I just looked up a picture of "Lil Peep" and I got depressed.
Aw. I really appreciate lil peep for living as authentically as he perceived it. I'm not sure if I would ever get the tattoos he had, but I can respect it.

Still, love the dude's music though. Great stuff.
by A Person
Sun Jun 10, 2018 1:18 pm
Forum: Welcome to the Family
Topic: Kudos To You!!
Replies: 701
Views: 34519

Re: Kudos To You!!

Congrats MP!!
by A Person
Fri Apr 20, 2018 7:57 pm
Forum: The Book Cellar
Topic: What do you be readin'?
Replies: 403
Views: 21764

Re: What do you be readin'?

Recently finished The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin.
by A Person
Fri Mar 02, 2018 2:29 am
Forum: Tin Pan Alley
Topic: SAW [Week 64 - "Home of the Strange"]
Replies: 2046
Views: 79660

Re: SAW [Week 49 - "Petrushka"]

MovingPictures07 wrote: Mon Feb 26, 2018 6:19 pm Oneohtrix Point Never - Replica / 2011 / [Experimental Electronic] [Ambient] [Plunderphonics] / 10 tracks / 40:57 / Available on Youtube and Spotify
v good album

Daniel Lopatin is up there with Aphex Twin and Burial in terms of influence over the music i like most.
by A Person
Fri Jan 19, 2018 6:17 pm
Forum: Tin Pan Alley
Topic: SAW [Week 64 - "Home of the Strange"]
Replies: 2046
Views: 79660

Re: SAW [Week 43 - "dataplex"]

Dataplex is such a tactile album if you listen with headphones, it's like someone is literally tapping on them at points. I like to think of it as a brain massage.
by A Person
Tue Jan 16, 2018 12:53 pm
Forum: Tin Pan Alley
Topic: SAW [Week 64 - "Home of the Strange"]
Replies: 2046
Views: 79660

Re: SAW [Week 43 - "dataplex"]

dataplex is probably a 4/5 imo, i should relisten. i think the first time i heard him it was because someone used one of his pieces in a skate vid that was posted to reddit.
by A Person
Sun Dec 31, 2017 4:08 pm
Forum: Tin Pan Alley
Topic: SAW [Week 64 - "Home of the Strange"]
Replies: 2046
Views: 79660

Re: SAW [Week 38 - "Cosmogramma"]

Submission: MovingPictures07 - Ryoji Ikeda - dataplex / 2005 / Microsound / 20 tracks / 55:31 / YouTube and Spotify This one should be interesting. :mafia: I may have to make a comeback for this one. As an aside, I used to not be much of a fan of Cosmogramma, but last time I listened I liked it mor...
by A Person
Sat Aug 26, 2017 6:57 pm
Forum: Apollo Square
Topic: Age of Empires II
Replies: 353
Views: 22608

Re: Age of Empires II

Quin wrote: Sat Aug 26, 2017 6:37 pm @A Person too.
Yes I would not be able to run it on this computer even if i owned it
by A Person
Fri Aug 18, 2017 12:37 am
Forum: Tin Pan Alley
Topic: SAW [Week 64 - "Home of the Strange"]
Replies: 2046
Views: 79660

Re: SAW [Week 22 - "First Utterance"]

Comus is an old favorite, so I don't really wanna get into rating it, but I will say it was the standard by which I measured all other acid folk. Very few bands compared, despite my long searches through the internet (well, mostly Lizzy's searches to be fair). I am always so much more appreciative o...
by A Person
Thu Aug 10, 2017 11:45 pm
Forum: Tin Pan Alley
Topic: SAW [Week 64 - "Home of the Strange"]
Replies: 2046
Views: 79660

Re: SAW [Week 21 - "Mobius Trip and Hadron Kaleido"]

I haven't posted here in ages, so my grand reentrance will be suggesting an album, I hope I get a chance to listen to some of the backlog soon.
Image
noise/hip-hop, image is a link to the album on bandcamp
by A Person
Fri Apr 21, 2017 2:38 pm
Forum: Tin Pan Alley
Topic: SAW [Week 64 - "Home of the Strange"]
Replies: 2046
Views: 79660

Re: SAW [Week 10 - "> album title goes here <"]

I regard this as the difference between, say, Thomas Cole and Jackson Pollock. Anyone can make something that resembles a Pollock piece. Good luck trying to create something that looks like "The Voyage of Life" unless you are truly that talented. I'm sure it will come as no surprise to yo...
by A Person
Fri Apr 21, 2017 2:29 pm
Forum: Tin Pan Alley
Topic: SAW [Week 64 - "Home of the Strange"]
Replies: 2046
Views: 79660

Re: SAW [Week 10 - "> album title goes here <"]

>album review goes here< I will just respond to the album by agreeing with this. I thought it was interesting he was trying something somewhat different, and I thought it interesting he took (to my ears anyway) some cues from the likes of BT on "The Veldt", but overall I was unimpressed a...
by A Person
Fri Apr 14, 2017 11:47 pm
Forum: Tin Pan Alley
Topic: SAW [Week 64 - "Home of the Strange"]
Replies: 2046
Views: 79660

Re: SAW [Week 9 - "Whole Stories"]

My high school orchestra director drilled into me the opinion that the only correct definition of music is "organized sound," which I think is better articulated by AP's description of intention. So I tend to be pretty generous about what I consider music, and this album is still close to...
by A Person
Fri Apr 14, 2017 9:10 pm
Forum: Tin Pan Alley
Topic: SAW [Week 64 - "Home of the Strange"]
Replies: 2046
Views: 79660

Re: SAW [Week 9 - "Whole Stories"]

Personally, for me the debate over what is music and what's not, and more largely what's art and what's not, often comes down to some idea of intention. I have no formal training in either music or philosophy, so I have to say things in general and unwieldy ways like that, but is a basic aspect for ...
by A Person
Wed Apr 12, 2017 10:47 pm
Forum: The Speakeasy
Topic: God Tier Quiz
Replies: 56
Views: 1583

Re: God Tier Quiz

Soul Poet of Space? It's more of an OR than a combination it's typically a gender thing What does that mean, it's typically a gender thing? I think one title is gendered male, the other female. Take this one for example: 3w2- Prince (female:*Queen) Prince as a title is gendered male, queen female. ...
by A Person
Wed Apr 12, 2017 12:47 pm
Forum: Previous Job Sign-Ups
Topic: Majora's Mask [Sign-Ups]
Replies: 128
Views: 4780

Re: Majora's Mask [Sign-Ups]

I love MM but i am still not into playing mafia again.
by A Person
Wed Apr 12, 2017 1:07 am
Forum: The Speakeasy
Topic: God Tier Quiz
Replies: 56
Views: 1583

Re: God Tier Quiz

I'm going to say Soul of Hope, if I did it right. 4w5 and 5w4 were pretty much tied, but type 9 was the highest individual score so whatever.
by A Person
Thu Apr 06, 2017 1:20 am
Forum: The Speakeasy
Topic: Random~
Replies: 4326
Views: 142320

Re: Random~

RIP great-grandma Epi :(
by A Person
Mon Apr 03, 2017 11:02 am
Forum: Welcome to the Family
Topic: Syndicate Chatzy
Replies: 152
Views: 9115

Re: Syndicate Chatzy

You don't need to be owner for that kind of thing, just a mod.
by A Person
Tue Mar 28, 2017 10:47 am
Forum: Tin Pan Alley
Topic: SAW [Week 64 - "Home of the Strange"]
Replies: 2046
Views: 79660

Re: SAW [Week 7 - "Woodface"]

One of the most hard-ass and hard-core reviews I follow on RYM (mostly anything besides atonal contemporary music and Morrissey is banished to the Land of Suck) expresses his rating system in philosphers and whisky. 5.0 foucault / laphroaig 4.5 adorno / lagavulin 4.0 levi-strauss / ardbeg 3.5 freud...
by A Person
Sun Mar 26, 2017 11:18 am
Forum: Tinsel Town
Topic: Can We Talk About Mulan For A Second?
Replies: 19
Views: 948

Re: Can We Talk About Mulan For A Second?

I'd need to read the source material. I don't think Disneys version is though. I think it's about gender stereotyping. In some ways, if it is about a transgender woman, I think that would undermine the message about gender stereotyping significantly. I mean the Disney Movie, if that wasn't clear fr...
by A Person
Sat Mar 18, 2017 1:21 am
Forum: Tin Pan Alley
Topic: SAW [Week 64 - "Home of the Strange"]
Replies: 2046
Views: 79660

Re: SAW [Week 5 - "The Crazy World of Arthur Brown"]

I'm going to be honest and say I voted APP in part because I need a reason to push myself to dig through that stuff again.
by A Person
Thu Mar 16, 2017 6:25 pm
Forum: Tin Pan Alley
Topic: SAW [Week 64 - "Home of the Strange"]
Replies: 2046
Views: 79660

Re: SAW [Week 5 - "The Crazy World of Arthur Brown"]

This was a lot of fun though and it kept me engaged. The highlight track "fire" that everyone is familiar with is additionally entertaining for me now, because I had been considering submitting a hip hop album for this thread that samples that track without realizing the connection. INTO ...
by A Person
Thu Mar 16, 2017 5:08 pm
Forum: Tin Pan Alley
Topic: SAW [Week 64 - "Home of the Strange"]
Replies: 2046
Views: 79660

Re: SAW [Week 5 - "The Crazy World of Arthur Brown"]

Yeah i suggested it because it's on Bandcamp, which as far as I know isn't a problem but if it is I know one that is on the tube of Us
by A Person
Thu Mar 16, 2017 1:52 pm
Forum: Tin Pan Alley
Topic: SAW [Week 64 - "Home of the Strange"]
Replies: 2046
Views: 79660

Re: SAW [Week 5 - "The Crazy World of Arthur Brown"]

I submit Vanessa Rossetto's Whole Stories, because y'all need some musique concrete in your lives and I want to hear Rico talk about it.
by A Person
Sun Mar 12, 2017 11:05 am
Forum: Tin Pan Alley
Topic: SAW [Week 64 - "Home of the Strange"]
Replies: 2046
Views: 79660

Re: SAW [Week 5 - "The Crazy World of Arthur Brown"]

I AM THE GOD OF HELLFIRE
LORD OF TH- wait, wrong song

I'll try to think of a submission today.
by A Person
Sat Mar 11, 2017 8:33 pm
Forum: Tin Pan Alley
Topic: SAW [Week 64 - "Home of the Strange"]
Replies: 2046
Views: 79660

Re: SAW [Week 4 - "Bish Bosch"]

The sameness of every track, the sameness of the vocal performance of every track, the sameness of basically remaking The Drift, etc is the biggest let down of the album for me too. I quit listening halfway through the long track because it was apparent that he was just going to keep doing the same...
by A Person
Sat Mar 11, 2017 11:42 am
Forum: Tin Pan Alley
Topic: SAW [Week 64 - "Home of the Strange"]
Replies: 2046
Views: 79660

Re: SAW [Week 4 - "Bish Bosch"]

The sameness of every track, the sameness of the vocal performance of every track, the sameness of basically remaking The Drift, etc is the biggest let down of the album for me too. I quit listening halfway through the long track because it was apparent that he was just going to keep doing the same ...
by A Person
Wed Mar 08, 2017 10:19 pm
Forum: Tin Pan Alley
Topic: SAW [Week 64 - "Home of the Strange"]
Replies: 2046
Views: 79660

Re: SAW [Week 4 - "Bish Bosch"]

They remind me of Gira's latest output, so cringeworthy that they make me embarrassed for him. ur le grumpy But I'd agree, the lyrics are the least I concern myself with on Swans' '10s trilogy - The Glowing Man had especially uber edgy and hard to believe ones, probably in light of accusations agai...
by A Person
Wed Mar 08, 2017 1:06 pm
Forum: Tin Pan Alley
Topic: SAW [Week 64 - "Home of the Strange"]
Replies: 2046
Views: 79660

Re: SAW [Week 4 - "Bish Bosch"]

Ricochet wrote:
Spoiler: show
Personally I agree on the subjective or more phenomenological aspect of listening to a piece of music being more important than the contextualized aspect of a piece of music.
by A Person
Wed Mar 08, 2017 12:51 pm
Forum: Tin Pan Alley
Topic: SAW [Week 64 - "Home of the Strange"]
Replies: 2046
Views: 79660

Re: SAW [Week 4 - "Bish Bosch"]

OK, listening to the first track which I rather like. This surprises me somewhat since INH and I seem to have few tastes in common. At first I misheard the lyrics (I thought he was saying, "While *fucking* feathers..." but once I realized he was saying "plucking" it worked bette...
by A Person
Sun Mar 05, 2017 11:50 pm
Forum: Tin Pan Alley
Topic: SAW [Week 64 - "Home of the Strange"]
Replies: 2046
Views: 79660

Re: SAW [Week 4 - "Bish Bosch"]

I gave him another try and have to say I give it a 2/5 on the Rico Scale. Is it really experimental to do the same song over and over?
by A Person
Sun Mar 05, 2017 4:52 pm
Forum: Tin Pan Alley
Topic: SAW [Week 64 - "Home of the Strange"]
Replies: 2046
Views: 79660

Re: SAW [Week 4 - "Bish Bosch"]

I have to admit I've only tried listening to Scott Walker('s The Drift) once and got bored before I even finished.
by A Person
Wed Mar 01, 2017 6:19 pm
Forum: Tin Pan Alley
Topic: SAW [Week 64 - "Home of the Strange"]
Replies: 2046
Views: 79660

Re: SAW [Week 3 - "World Music"]

nutella wrote:I think by OM they mean of Montreal, lol


and fwiw I hadn't heard of Crowded House until this thread :blush:
They mean Om the experimental doom metal band formed by members of Sleep.
by A Person
Thu Feb 16, 2017 3:37 pm
Forum: The Speakeasy
Topic: Random~
Replies: 4326
Views: 142320

Re: Random~

I always just use foobar2000 and VLC for all media playing needs
by A Person
Thu Feb 16, 2017 12:16 am
Forum: Tin Pan Alley
Topic: SAW [Week 64 - "Home of the Strange"]
Replies: 2046
Views: 79660

Re: SAW [Week 1 - "Beneath the Brine"]

For your eyes only https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jThzBlzm_iw Beautiful. I like how you differentiated yourself from Fantano by not having terrible opinions on everything and actually knowing what you are talking about. As for the review, I felt the same way. I felt like they could do more with le...
by A Person
Wed Feb 15, 2017 7:05 pm
Forum: Tinsel Town
Topic: Rate the last movie you've seen
Replies: 274
Views: 30344

Re: Rate the last movie you've seen

Prisoners for me is mostly memorable for Paul Dano's performance.
by A Person
Tue Feb 14, 2017 11:03 am
Forum: Tinsel Town
Topic: Rate the last movie you've seen
Replies: 274
Views: 30344

Re: Rate the last movie you've seen

If you liked Arrival check out his other movies, Enemy is what I saw first from him and it blew my mind. Mongoose did not like it though >:(
by A Person
Tue Feb 14, 2017 12:42 am
Forum: Tin Pan Alley
Topic: SAW [Week 64 - "Home of the Strange"]
Replies: 2046
Views: 79660

Re: TSARS [Week 1 - "Beneath the Brine"]

Epignosis wrote:First of all, the lead vocalist is clearly a male. I don't understand how anyone thought otherwise.
Seriously. It was clear as day.
by A Person
Mon Feb 13, 2017 2:54 pm
Forum: Tin Pan Alley
Topic: SAW [Week 64 - "Home of the Strange"]
Replies: 2046
Views: 79660

Re: TSARS [Week 1 - "Beneath the Brine"]

Okay, I lied; I will say one thing before finishing the album: Not sure where the vocals criticism is coming from. I mean, they're not mindblowing or even amazing, but I think they sound just fine alongside the music. I'm digging it. I only listened to about a 3rd of it last night but I agree, they...
by A Person
Mon Feb 13, 2017 12:01 pm
Forum: Tin Pan Alley
Topic: SAW [Week 64 - "Home of the Strange"]
Replies: 2046
Views: 79660

Re: TSARS [Week 1 - "Beneath the Brine"]

WHICH
IS
BETTER
YES OR GENESIS?
I NEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEED
TO KNOW
by A Person
Sun Feb 12, 2017 10:02 pm
Forum: Tin Pan Alley
Topic: SAW [Week 64 - "Home of the Strange"]
Replies: 2046
Views: 79660

Re: TSARS [Week 1 - "Beneath the Brine"]

I'm pretty sure a long time ago there was a regular on the RYM boards with "Walter" in his username who would insist that music made after 1989 was all bad. Same reference I guess? Or maybe the same person? :faint: Anyway, that's complete nonsense. :p He did have a RYM account, so I'm sur...
by A Person
Sun Feb 12, 2017 8:20 pm
Forum: The Basement
Topic: Undertale Mafia [SPEED probs]
Replies: 16
Views: 871

Re: Undertale Mafia [SPEED probs]

i still haven't tried to finish undertale oops

i should do that

someday
by A Person
Wed Feb 08, 2017 11:58 am
Forum: Apollo Square
Topic: Video Game Discussion
Replies: 177
Views: 18832

Re: Video Game Discussion

Donkey Kong Country 2 has some of my favorite video game music

by A Person
Sun Feb 05, 2017 3:00 pm
Forum: Welcome to the Family
Topic: Kudos To You!!
Replies: 701
Views: 34519

Re: Kudos To You!!

Can I talk about music with you guys? I love music. Remember that time we talked about Mike Oldfield? I love music! Man, I haven't listened to Mike Oldfield in forever. I should do that. He has a new release, Return to Ommadawn . I am scared to listen because Ommadawn is a great album and I don't k...
by A Person
Sun Feb 05, 2017 11:36 am
Forum: The Speakeasy
Topic: Random~
Replies: 4326
Views: 142320

Re: Random~

My mom has shown me a superbowl commercial once before the game was even on. -_-

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