If there are metal bands that you already like, start with Sunbather.
If you don't really listen to metal enough to have favorites, start with Ordinary Corrupt Human Love.
Well, it's not what I normally go to Deafheaven for, but they're on a 3-album streak of putting out my favorite album of the year, so they at least have my attention.
If you're gonna try to copy Springsteen's whole deal this closely, you really gotta put together a better band than this. "Jangly indie rock clearly inspired by Springsteen" is a well-worn genre at this point, and it can be quite good. This just sounds like a middling cover band.
Chinatown was pretty good, though.
Nah, I don't think he's a solid enough live performer yet to pull off that look of surprise. That was genuine.
Besides, if you're gonna stage a pants ripping incident, wouldn't you want to do it in a way that the audience can actually see the pants rip?
Yeah, a clear theme of a lot of Prince Stories(TM) was that Prince was often a huge dick, but most people found it charming because he was fucking Prince. It's like that John Mulaney bit about Mick Jagger; the dude was almost literally worshipped by millions of people for decades, of course he was an asshole!
I've mentioned it around here before, but Gojira is the band that made me realize I'm Too Old For This Shit and need to start wearing earplugs to metal shows. These dudes play loud as hell. Good band, though.
So, I don't think it's wrong to have this question; from the outside, it does seem inexplicable that a person could go through this and still stay with the abuser.
But rather than just asking "why would she stay?", I would challenge you to flip it around a bit and try to imagine the level of psychological abuse that would be necessary to make someone *want* to stay in that situation (or feel they *need* to). Imagine for a moment that someone hurt you like this, and that you nevertheless felt *compelled* to stay with them. What would your mental state have to be for that to happen?
Your first reaction might be "well, I would never stay," which is fair, I think. Nobody who hasn't been there thinks they would stay. But for just a moment, imagine that you *did* stay. What would a person have to do to your mind, your sense of self, your self esteem, your sense of reality to get you to a point where you would stay? What would it take to make you more afraid of leaving than of staying?
It's not wrong or unreasonable to wonder how a person could possibly stay in a situation like this. It seems unthinkable. But that's not a sign of fault or weakness in the person who stays; it's a sign of just how deeply and profoundly damaging abuse is to a person's mental state.
I dunno, I thought folklore was pretty good.
That said, I've only listened to like half of it, once, and that was on the way home from a ketamine treatment session. So there's that.
This is a good excuse to throw out my strongest Ringer-style take, which is that we as a culture need to come together to agree that there's a difference between "greatest" and "best" and to do a better job of distinguishing which one we're talking about when making lists.
Mike Trout might end up being the best baseball player ever, but he'll never be in the conversation for greatest; that is and almost certainly will always be either Ruth or Mays. Tom Brady probably isn't the best quarterback ever, but I think he's got a pretty firm grip on greatest. You could make a good argument for any number of best bands ever, but greatest probably comes down to the Beatles or the Stones. etc. etc.
"Smells Like Teen Spirit" is unambiguously Nirvana's greatest song. Deciding on their best song is where the action is.
What do you think "bring men's sneakers" means?
I dunno man, I just think that if you're gonna do comedy about something like this, you should probably at least come up with something less lazy than four minutes of jungle fever jokes.
I mean, the sketch basically just repeats the same two jokes over and over, which are "black men have big dicks" and "Africans are poor so you don't have to pay them much for sex." So I'm not really sure how it's making fun of white women.
We quite literally do not deserve Dolly as President. The office itself would demean her.
Just one more reason America should switch to a parliamentary system: so we can finally show proper respect to Dolly by installing her as our ceremonial monarch.
I think it's fine, a respectable C+. Somewhere in 0.5-1 WAR range.
Bruce has been pumping out replacement-level material for a while now. This is a bit better than that, but doesn't strike me as the sort of thing I'm likely to seek out from among his catalog for repeat listens.
glad the folks at New Pope were able to get this reaction shot of Manson realizing his album would be ready for a 9/11 release date
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EOmE8E6VUAISfZE.jpg
Runaway Train is one of the earliest pop songs I remember loving. I have a very distinct memory of lying in bed as a kid, listening to the local rock station run through it's daily top 5 (or whatever), hoping it would get played.
Anyway, great cover.
I mean, it depends on how we're defining it. In terms of career trajectory (pop band branches out into more artistically expansive territory), Nirvana clearly doesn't match up.
But if we're talking about "the most totemically important band to a particular generation," which is what I think of when someone says "this generation's Beatles," then Nirvana strikes me as the clearest choice.
by "the author of this piece," do you mean "the person who was describing her direct, personal experience with being prescribed an antipsychotic for something other than psychosis"?
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