OT: The Avalounge but every time someone posts the quality declines

[Bonzai12]

PE was the NWA before NWA was a thing. And while Dre was a good rapper he's an exponentially better producer than rapper.

I’ve always seen PE as the first pioneer of rap for social causes and for explicit language (can’t think of any other way to describe it except exactly what it was - explicit language labels on music). Remember when you got your age checked to buy an album? PE was like black market music if you were 12 years old lol.

Always have seen Run DMC as the pioneer of pop rap. Maybe the two have eventually converged a bit.

 

[The Abusement Park]

I’ve always seen PE as the first pioneer of rap for social causes and for explicit language (can’t think of any other way to describe it except exactly what it was - explicit language labels on music). Remember when you got your age checked to buy an album? PE was like black market music if you were 12 years old lol.

Always have seen Run DMC as the pioneer of pop rap. Maybe the two have eventually converged a bit.

You’re 100% spot on with this. PE practically “terrorized” white radio with their music and the black community loved it because they were basically saying what they were all thinking. Or vocalizing to the masses, PE changed the landscape of music not just rap for the most part.

 

[Bonzai12]

my first concert in Denver was David Bowie, Public Enemy, and the Sugar Cubes (Bjork's group before she went solo). Was at the Old Mile High

David Bowie really knew how to pick his opening acts I guess

 

[McMetal]

I'm a metalhead through and through, so most of this conversation goes over my head, but I do kind of enjoy Eminem. He's got an aggressive, urgent energy to his music that reminds me a bit of what I like about metal. Other than that and passively enjoying some old school hip-hop like Run DMC, rap just is not my thing, although I can usually stand to listen to anything that isn't Kanye.

 

[LieutenantDangle]

Wait you listen to metal? I guess that explains your user name...

 

[LieutenantDangle]

Wait you listen to metal? I guess that explains your user name...

@McMetal how do you feel about nu-metal from the 2000’s like static x, staind, Korn, slipknot, etc

 

[Papa Francouz]

What songs would you recommend from the Stones?

There is a lot of good foreign pop, but for me it tends to be in form of techno-sort-of-sounding-songs and when it comes to electronic music, people either love it or hate. And I don't know if you're part of the former or latter group. Not everything needs to be judged by Kpop here as foreign either. For example, one of my favourite top 3 bands in the world is a JRock band called Luna Sea where I love everything about their style and songs.


If you like this, cheque out True Blue and Rosier.

Spirit Dreams Inside
L'Arc~en~Ciel is another amazing pop band, probably more pop than LS

Полина Гагарина - Колыбельная
This is also an amazing Russian pop song, but you gotta like this type of genre to enjoy the song

BREAKOUT - Poszlabym za toba
Here is a solid Polish 60's band.

My favorite Stones song is Angie. It’s one of their hits, yes, but for their less super duper popular stuff, I almost always enjoy hearing Under My Thumb, Can’t You Hear Me Knocking, Time Is On My Side, Midnight Rambler, Rocks Off, and Loving Cup. Their music has gone through a lot of different sounds over the years, and most of what they’ve come out with has been decent. Some has been pretty bad, admittedly.

Thanks for the foreign music recommendations! I’ll give them a listen-to while at work this week. A coworker of mine is sharing with me some jazz music I’ve never heard before, so I’ve got a lot of new music to listen to these days. Feels good.

 

[Murzu]

So many rap fans here. Damn.

Only rap I like is pre ~2005 Eminem. There are a lot good songs he wrote there.

Here guys, listen to some real music:



*hides*

 

[McMetal]

Wait you listen to metal? I guess that explains your user name...

You cracked the code! McMetal is actually my nickname at work, because my last name starts with Mc- and I am never seen without a metal shirt.

@McMetal how do you feel about nu-metal from the 2000’s like static x, staind, Korn, slipknot, etc

That stuff is what I got my start on back in the late 90s, so it will always be something I can go back to. My tastes have expanded a ton since then, but it will always be something I enjoy even if the majority of my music isn't that. A lot of metalheads hate it, and it's not for everybody, but those are my roots.

Staind had one halfway decent album, the debut, before they got poppy and awful. Mostly, I liked the really aggressive stuff like Slipknot, American Head Charge, Mudvayne, Spineshank. Korn was great for the first two albums and never recaptured it again. Too much of that stuff was very commercialized and sanitized. The good nu-metal was raw. I kind of regret the genre flared out, but you can never take away the old stuff.

 

[Nzap]

Moving to Gothenburg in one month with extremely mixed feelings.

Got a sweet internal move inside the company with lots bigger responsibilities and higher up the chain, but I absolutely love Poland so leaving will be tough when that day comes.

I came to Poland with nothing, wanted a fresh start with everything.
And man, did it deliver everything above and beyond expectations!
Found love, found friends, found interesting work, found opportunities to progress both socially and regarding work.
And most of all, I found happiness and peace.

I have not been posting here a lot lately, but I have still been reading the boards and watched almost every game this season.
Just being so damn content with my life has meant that writing here has not been such a priority anymore.

 

[Murzu]

@Nzap sounds great mate. Hopefully Gothenburg treats you as well as Poland has. I've heard only good things about that place. My girlfriend was an exchange student at Gothenburg for a short period of time and she loved the place.

 

[Nzap]

Thanks Murzu.

Yeah, the thing about Gothenburg is that I have heard some really good things, and I have heard some really bad things.
And when I was there for 1 month in 2016, I got that exact same mixed feeling from the city.

We will have to wait and see.
But no chance I could turn down the opportunity I got.

 

[UncleRisto]

@McMetal how do you feel about nu-metal from the 2000’s like static x, staind, Korn, slipknot, etc

I'll chime in on this as well. I used to listen to a lot of Korn, Slipknot and *shudder* Limp Bizkit in middle school. Now, Slipknot is the one I listen to the most out of those, but I've become a lot more selective of nu-metal as an adult. It's just not a mature genre, lol. Limp Bizkit is the most difficult to listen to now. I never listened to Staind or Static-X or any of that stuff. Deftones I sometimes listen to. I got into RATM and Audioslave around the same time and those hold up better.

 

[21]

Moving to Gothenburg in one month with extremely mixed feelings.

Got a sweet internal move inside the company with lots bigger responsibilities and higher up the chain, but I absolutely love Poland so leaving will be tough when that day comes.

I came to Poland with nothing, wanted a fresh start with everything.
And man, did it deliver everything above and beyond expectations!
Found love, found friends, found interesting work, found opportunities to progress both socially and regarding work.
And most of all, I found happiness and peace.

I have not been posting here a lot lately, but I have still been reading the boards and watched almost every game this season.
Just being so damn content with my life has meant that writing here has not been such a priority anymore.

Good luck, you may find Swedish people a bit reserved in the beginning when not being drunk but I hope you will like it, give us a chance. ;-) Almost everybody in Sweden speak decent English (with funny accents) which should help.

Sweden is a good country but very high taxes and high cost of living, also the climate may be tough... it rains quite a lot in Gothenburg. Gothenburg also have one of Europe's best technical Universities (Chalmers).
Chalmers University of Technology | Chalmers

Sweden is an international country with people from all over the world, mixed cultures, it helps if you are open minded otherwise it may be tough.

It's a very good hockey city (Frölunda Indians) and soccer city.

Frölunda Indians
English

 

[UncleRisto]

Good luck, you may find Swedish people a bit reserved in the beginning when not being drunk but I hope you will like it, give us a chance. ;-)

Sweden is a good country but very high taxes and high cost of living.

If only Nzap already knew of a country like this.

 

[Nzap]

Good luck, you may find Swedish people a bit reserved in the beginning when not being drunk but I hope you will like it, give us a chance. ;-) Almost everybody in Sweden speak decent English (with funny accents) which should help.

Sweden is a good country but very high taxes and high cost of living, also the climate may be tough... it rains quite a lot in Gothenburg. Gothenburg also have one of Europe's best technical Universities (Chalmers).
Chalmers University of Technology | Chalmers

Sweden is an international country with people from all over the world, mixed cultures, it helps if you are open minded otherwise it may be tough.

It's a very good hockey city (Frölunda Indians) and soccer city.

Frölunda Indians
English

Thanks, but as Risto points out, Sweden is no foreign country to me.
And the Gothenburg dialect is very easy to understand even for a normal native Swedish-speaker like me so I should be alright with Swedish there

 

[21]

Thanks, but as Risto points out, Sweden is no foreign country to me.
And the Gothenburg dialect is very easy to understand even for a normal native Swedish-speaker like me so I should be alright with Swedish there

Hehe, ok, I had no idea where you come from, funny. ;-)

 

[Bonzai12]

Thanks, but as Risto points out, Sweden is no foreign country to me.
And the Gothenburg dialect is very easy to understand even for a normal native Swedish-speaker like me so I should be alright with Swedish there

I was going to ask if you were already a Swedish citizen, or if your company was hooking you up with a visa etc.

I’ve always wanted to work abroad - kind of intriguing to me.

 

[UncleRisto]

If only Nzap already knew of a country like this.

Hehe, ok, I had no idea where you come from, funny. ;-)

I was of course referring to Finland here.

 

[UncleRisto]

400 words left to write and three hours to midnight, so naturally I'll start slacking now that I look to be making it easily. A 1200 word mini literature review turned out to be laughably easy to crank out in one night. I knew it.

 

[Ceremony]

400 words left to write and three hours to midnight, so naturally I'll start slacking now that I look to be making it easily. A 1200 word mini literature review turned out to be laughably easy to crank out in one night. I knew it.

It is, I do it regularly: http://hfboards.mandatory.com/threads/last-book-you-read-and-rate-it.2202211/

 

[21]

This thread is in desperate need of some balance. ;-)

Metal from Brazil featuring Dave Ellefson on bass, an oldie but a good one. I love the heavy unexpected ending of this song, starting at 2:40.

Soulfly - "Prophecy"

 

[Foppberg]

GOAT.

 

[21]

GOAT.

Wtf, I'm not feeling well now, omg.... this is probably my last post in a while... *cough* *cough* *heavy breathing*

 

[Murzu]

GOAT.

Dude. For that I throw this at you



"Enjoy". You might not understand a word and yet it remains in your head for days. And it's not funny.

Edit. Sorry @UncleRisto for posting this bs here