ShrimpShady

ShrimpShady

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    Daily music recommendation #62

    Even if I think they're kinda stuffy and sterile, I keep coming back to Steely Dan. They're not emotionally resonant enough to be a favorite, but they definitely know how to make a nice tune that sticks.

    But the most interesting thing about the Dan is the contrast between their sophisticated sound and their lyrics about the absolute dregs of society.
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    R.I.P Steve Albini

    ShrimpShady
    ShrimpShady
    And R.I.P Walter Becker. It felt disrespectful to talk about Steely Dan without mentioning him.

    He played a mean guitar even among the 90 or so guitarists they'd hire for a single song, most of whom probably got the boot.
    ShrimpShady
    Indigenous cultures are super fascinating to learn about :blob_hmm:

    Learning about Aboriginal creation myths and songlines right now. Riveting stuff.

    Which in turn makes me think about how much culture and history has been lost to or destroyed by centuries of colonization :blob_pat_sad:
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    RepresentingWrath
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    The thing that destroys just as much indigenous cultures and traditions as colonizations are modern people. By actively rewriting history. The prime example that happened recently to a not so small, and not so tribey country is Japan, and appropriation of Yasuke by French videogame company. The same thing happens everywhere all the time to every tribe, country, and so on.
    ShrimpShady
    ShrimpShady
    I've always thought the Yasuke stuff was overblown and forced, but I also don't follow games discourse that deeply.

    You brought up an interesting point though about the erasure of culture that still happens in the modern day and under different labels... though my examples would extend beyond games and into things that would 100% get me in trouble for talking about here

    So I'll leave it here :blob_whistle:
    RepresentingWrath
    RepresentingWrath
    Yasuke stuff wasn't overblown considering the hypocrisy around it, and the fact it wasn't just a single issue.
    ShrimpShady
    Outside I'm an alternative rock guy who will claim that Steely Dan is sterile jazz-flavored yacht rock for shitty dads,

    But in truth, I bust it down sexual style whenever I hear Deacon Blues.
    ShrimpShady
    I saw a sparrow perching on a supermarket refrigerator once.

    It felt like I was in a Radiohead song.
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    Went to an apartment viewing once, the redhead woman who was renting it was still asleep in the very messy bedroom, her face planted in the bed, her red hair like an explosion.

    It was like a Florence and the Machine music video.
    ShrimpShady
    ShrimpShady
    That was an obnoxious indie film waiting to happen
    ShrimpShady
    Daily music recommendation #61

    My favorite Zeppelin track on most days. Bonzo's downright legendary here, giving us both an iconic shuffle groove and a samba break that's just a hoot and a holler. Jimmy's sloppy fretwork kinda works here. Plant delivers a charming tale of a love almost lost because he was waiting on the wrong spot for his date. JPJ plays bass.
    ShrimpShady
    I am in love with Raora Panthera of Hololive English Justice.
    ShrimpShady
    Scallions honestly make life worth living, and I'm not sure if people today understand that enough. Put them on any soup-based food and it'll turn into a spiritual experience.
    ShrimpShady
    Whenever I need a quick dose of disgust and despair, I just need to look up some American news. Y'all really can't be topped :blob_okay:

    Local news does it too, but often the comments people make are worse than the news itself. I've seen shit :blob_blank:
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    Rezcore
    Rezcore
    Now you talking about my state. And it isn't that bad here, outside the ATL shit hole. But, ATL's influence ruins us
    Prince_Azmiran_Myrian
    Prince_Azmiran_Myrian
    Here's the thing, being declared brain-dead isn't actually dead, some people recover from such a state.
    ShrimpShady
    ShrimpShady
    I'm no doctor, but brain death is irreversible. The people who have come back from "brain death" were likely misdiagnosed as such.

    The baby also has a real chance of being born with severe defects, and might not even survive. Even beside that, the mere idea of the law forcing a dead woman's body to be kept alive to incubate a fetus is terrifying.

    That's what I'm getting at.
    ShrimpShady
    Daily music recommendation #59

    Woke up with a headache today, so this is the recommendation.
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    Now, for a little music theory. This song experiments with 64th notes, giving it that uneasy wonkiness in the rhythm.

    What's a 64th note?

    Count 4 beats at a reasonable speed. Each beat is called a quarter note. Now divide each beat into 16 parts. Those are 64th notes.
    ShrimpShady
    ShrimpShady
    Ofc this only works at low tempos, like in this song. It plays around with 64th notes to give that feeling that it's very very very slightly off rhythm.

    Try listening to a standard drum beat. Then try saying the first 16 letters of the alphabet within each beat. It's impossible.
    Daydreamers
    Daydreamers
    It gave me a headache, thank you!
    ShrimpShady
    I replied "Thus Spake Pekothustra" to a tweet and it instantly locked my account??? :blob_unsure:
    ShrimpShady
    I wish there was a device that could painlessly and harmlessly knock me out whenever I need to sleep but can't.
    ShrimpShady
    Daily music recommendation #57

    This one's for all the stinky emo shoegaze women.

    This song feels like a VHS tape, despite it being released in 2012. Honestly, mixing the introspective lyrics and guitar vocabulary of emo with the dense sound of shoegaze sounds like an obvious choice, like French fries and ice cream, so I'm surprised it took until these guys to really try it out.
    ShrimpShady
    Just finished with a scholarship interview. Lowkey think I nailed it, but watch it be revealed that some minor thing I said had irrevocably fucked up my candidacy.
    ShrimpShady
    Daily music recommendation #56

    More j-rock. nano.RIPE are severely underrated. No, the singer does have a good voice. Fuck you.

    Omokage Warp makes me feel human. Maybe it's Hanasaku Iroha nostalgia. Maybe the song is just that good.

    The guitar work is heavily tinged in that classic midwest-emo inspired j-rock sound, and the hook truly encapsulates seishun.
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