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nyrage said:
I almost typed that example out, but considering how much I loved Saving Private Ryan that year, I just couldn't. I was so mad about it at the time.
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You probably already know this but Forrest Gump beat Pulp Fiction & The Shawshank Redemption for Best Picture!?! 😡
 
Beliveau said:
You probably already know this but Forrest Gump beat Pulp Fiction & The Shawshank Redemption for Best Picture!?! 😡
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My last year in NY was 94. I went to the Rangers parade and then not long after I got in to see an early screening of Forrest Gump. Admittedly, I thought it was pretty good.

Then I moved to Florida. In October, Pulp Fiction and Shawshank were released on the same day. I saw PF on Friday night and thought it was incredible. The next day I went to see Shawshank. I wasn't expecting much, but loved it. I went to see Pulp Fiction again on Sunday night. Both were better films.

I'm one of those people that re-watches movies many times. I have seen Shawshank a few hundred times. I have rarely watched Forrest Gump. Maybe a handful of times.
 
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I love classic metal, but I'm neutral on 21st century for 2 reasons. 1. The themes haven't evolved since Black Sabbath. 2. The themes are so childish.

Is there one twenty first century metal band that I can listen to that's composed of intelligent, well-educated guys who don't sing about darkness, death, evil, Satan, and all the other childish themes?
 
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Beliveau said:
I love classic metal, but I'm neutral on 21st century for 2 reasons. 1. The themes haven't evolved since Black Sabbath. 2. The themes are so childish.

Is there one twenty first century metal band that I can listen to that's composed of intelligent, well-educated guys who don't sing about darkness, death, evil, Satan, and all the other childish themes?
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A lot of punk music....like a lot of rap music is a socio/cultural critique. Public Enemy is in their own way a punk band or at least that's how I see them. On the Brit side.....from the Pistols/Clash end of things it was a very bad time to be young in the late 70's and early 80's. Massive youth unemployment in the late 70's---gray, eroding industrial cities.....the rise of far right movements and Cold War nuclear proliferation and an insurgency in the north of Ireland which sometimes meant bombs going off in England. Thatcher was trying to destroy unions and kind of successful at it. Here in the United States it was more sticking out like a sore thumb and police repression though Reagan was never very popular with younger people and subject matter for would be poets. As in Britain.....lots of urban decay and the Cold War thing. Not every punk band cared all that much about the political though. There's a lot of variation.
 
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@eco's bones Good post. I lived in London in the 70s, there were bombs in the subways, and my dad was responsible for 20 college students. Thatcher wanted to put HIV positive humans in concentration camps.
 
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Beliveau said:
I love classic metal, but I'm neutral on 21st century for 2 reasons. 1. The themes haven't evolved since Black Sabbath. 2. The themes are so childish.

Is there one twenty first century metal band that I can listen to that's composed of intelligent, well-educated guys who don't sing about darkness, death, evil, Satan, and all the other childish themes?
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Avenged Sevenfold. Especially their newer work.

Betrayed - Dimebag Darrell's death (yeah, it's death, but it's a real death).

Unbound - a mostly upbeat track about the journey of life and the human condition.

Nightmare - about a surgery using the allegory of Hell.

The entire second half of the Nightmare album - the Rev's actual suicide note if you want to get your conspiracy hat on.

The Stage - living in a simulation.

God Damn - Let's just say it's about people who were running for public office the year the album came out, which would have been 2016.

Simulation - exactly what you would think it's about.

Fermi Paradox - exactly what you would think it's about.

Exist - this song is literally about everything. It's 16 minutes long. Neil deGrasse Tyson is in it. That covers intelligence.

Mattel - living in a fake reality, a la the Truman Show, which I'm 100% convinced they had in mind when they wrote this.

Cosmic - this is a love song dedicated to Shadows' wife and it's very nice.

Most of the last two records are loose concept albums about what it means to exist.
 
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@eco's bones Good post. I lived in London in the 70s, there were bombs in the subways, and my dad was responsible for 20 college students. Thatcher wanted to put HIV positive humans in concentration camps.
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Also:

Gojira

Napalm Death

Cult of Luna - I recommend the collab album with Julie Christmas, Mariner.

Primordial - The Coffin Ships is an amazing song about the Famine and those that left.

Latitudes - Body Within a Body

Akimbo - Jersey Shores is amazing

Fantomas - The Directors Cut

Bossk - Migration

Devin Townsend Band - Terria

OM - Advaitic Songs

1914 - The Blind Leading the Blind

Sulphur Aeon - The Scythe of Cosmic Chaos (Lovecraft / Cosmic Horror subgengre is full of good stuff and expansive lyrics)

Revocation- The Outer Ones (see above)

YOB - Our Raw Heart (I mean they have a song Beauty in Falling Leaves that is epic)

Russian Circles

I mean there will always be your Cannibal Corpse and Behemoth bands that stick to the same script that may be off-putting for most normies, but I would say Mastodon’s Leviathan was a huge sea change for metal to go beyond the expected and the genre as a whole cannot be accused of being that way for a while now.

I quoted the wrong post. Sorry.
 
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idk if science has admitted this is a fact yet but strong powerful women playing music is sexy & not because of their looks.
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It's funny that you posted this, but yesterday I was going to post some of my female favorites. Might as well now.

Joan Jett - the music is a little sugary, but I still love her rebel attitude e.g. "Bad Reputation".

Karen Carpenters - Karen was a great singer and drummer

Beth Gibbons (Portishead) - what a sultry voice

Kim Deal (Pixies/Breeders) - Whether fronting a song like "Gigantic" or "Cannonball" or singing back-up vocals, she's a queen. The Pixies weren't the same without her.

Karen O (Yeah Yeah Yeahs) - Premiere entertainer. Your eyes immediately focus on her whenever the YYYs perform live.

Debbie Harry (Blondie) - Oh man, Debbie/Blondie in the 70s. Ooh la la that New Wave era.

Kim Gordon (Sonic Youth) - Loved her attitude on stage

Victoria Legrand (Beach House) - I grew up on metal, hardcore, punk, etc, but I mellowed out in my old age and Beach House is one of my favorite bands. Victoria has the ultimate dream pop voice.

Sade - Even in my heaviest of death metal days, I had love for Sade, my original queen of sultry songs.

Rachel Goswell (Slowdive) - Funny how I grew up on such heavy music and now I'm old and mellow listening to Beach House and Slowdive. I look at Rachel in her early days of Slowdive and watch her now in her 50s and it makes me think of me. Another great ethereal voice for this kind of music.

I'm probably leaving out a few, but these are my favorites that I can think of right now.
 
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Non-Platinum Underrated Albums by Artists with < 100k Spotify followers
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I'm interested in what albums you think are underrated. They cannot be platinum, and the artist must have less than 100k followers on Spotify. If you don't use Spotify, please use your streaming service or your best judgement. Please don't post huge groups such as the Beatles, Stones, Who, Led Zeppelin, etc.

If I don't choose Punk, I like "You're never alone with a schizophrenic". I would have changed the title to "You're never alone WHEN you're a schizophrenic". Ian Hunter was also in Mott the Hoople. David Bowie was a fan, let them record his song "All the Young Dudes", and it was their biggest single. The original Cleveland Rocks is on this album. The album came out in 1979. In 1997 the Presidents of the United States released a cover of it. The Drew Carey Show used it as their theme song.
 
Pantera and Amon Amarth July 26th Jones Beach Theatre
Dropkick Murphys August 9th Pier 17 Rooftop
Alestorm September 15th - Brooklyn Warsaw
 
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Anyone going to Louder Than Life in September?

New Sleep Token album dropped last night. It’s a bit more of a mixed bag but has a few absolute gems. Give this one some patience, the end is killer.

 
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NCRanger said:
Templars isn't bad, but it sounded like more of an album track than necessarily a lead single.

I've heard the album is going to about events/figures of the middle ages.
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It doesn't look like they are touring the 13 Colonies this year. Did you see the musik video for this song? What a production!
 


First song from this collaboration. You will thank me. Project is gonna be very good.
 
Saw Metallica on Sunday at Lincoln Center in Philadelphia. Great experience! (Pantera was opening for them). This is after seeing Disturbed at MSG in March which I loved too.

In between: Max Richter in Brooklyn lol...
 
nyrage said:
It's funny that you posted this, but yesterday I was going to post some of my female favorites. Might as well now.

Joan Jett - the music is a little sugary, but I still love her rebel attitude e.g. "Bad Reputation".

Karen Carpenters - Karen was a great singer and drummer

Beth Gibbons (Portishead) - what a sultry voice

Kim Deal (Pixies/Breeders) - Whether fronting a song like "Gigantic" or "Cannonball" or singing back-up vocals, she's a queen. The Pixies weren't the same without her.

Karen O (Yeah Yeah Yeahs) - Premiere entertainer. Your eyes immediately focus on her whenever the YYYs perform live.

Debbie Harry (Blondie) - Oh man, Debbie/Blondie in the 70s. Ooh la la that New Wave era.

Kim Gordon (Sonic Youth) - Loved her attitude on stage

Victoria Legrand (Beach House) - I grew up on metal, hardcore, punk, etc, but I mellowed out in my old age and Beach House is one of my favorite bands. Victoria has the ultimate dream pop voice.

Sade - Even in my heaviest of death metal days, I had love for Sade, my original queen of sultry songs.

Rachel Goswell (Slowdive) - Funny how I grew up on such heavy music and now I'm old and mellow listening to Beach House and Slowdive. I look at Rachel in her early days of Slowdive and watch her now in her 50s and it makes me think of me. Another great ethereal voice for this kind of music.

I'm probably leaving out a few, but these are my favorites that I can think of right now.
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Also thought Karen Carpenter was underappreciated -- her version of This Masquerade is excellent.. Always felt that she and Cass Elliott would have been even bigger stars back in the 40's.
 
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