Red Mosquito

bart wrote:They have plenty of great songs with melodic variation but yeah that one sucks

The melody sucks or the whole song sucks? Cos it's essentially just a vehicle to shred guitar. I don't have a problem with it.

Sometimes I think about how the Beta Band was supposed to open up for Radiohead when I saw them in 2001 but didn't, and instead some local DJ opened on short notice, and how in the era before social media that fact was not communicated very well, and so I (having not heard The Beta Band at that point) simply thought said local DJ was The Beta Band and therefore formed an unfair opinion about the real Beta Band that lasted for years until I heard the real band on college radio and went down a Lime Wire rabbit hole that blew me away.

Top 20 Albums/EPs of the Last Five Years (unranked):

Abbath - Outstrider
Better Lovers - God Made Me an Animal
Better Lovers - Highly Irresponsible
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Ghosteen
Chat Pile - Cool World
Danny Elfman - Big Mess
mclusky - Unpopular Parts of a Pig / The Digger You Deep
Ms Nina - Perreando por fuera, llorando por dentro
Kim Petras - Clarity
Princesa Alba - Besitos, Cuidate
Shygirl - ALIAS
Shygirl - Club Shy
Slayyyter - STARFUCKER
Snow Wife - QUEEN DEGENERATE
Taichu - RAWR
Teenage Wrist - Earth is a Black Hole
Terminal Sleep - Chapter 2: Elicit Fear
Tool - Fear Inoculum
Kanye West - JESUS IS KING
Lola Young - This Wasn't Meant for You Anyway

washing machine wrote:Sometimes I think about how the Beta Band was supposed to open up for Radiohead when I saw them in 2001 but didn't, and instead some local DJ opened on short notice, and how in the era before social media that fact was not communicated very well, and so I (having not heard The Beta Band at that point) simply thought said local DJ was The Beta Band and therefore formed an unfair opinion about the real Beta Band that lasted for years until I heard the real band on college radio and went down a Lime Wire rabbit hole that blew me away.

Ahh the years without internet...i used to go regulary to a few record stores in the 90s to see if Gnr had released a new album...

JESUS IS KING lmfaooooo

LoathedVermin72 wrote:Lola Young - This Wasn't Meant for You Anyway

Produced partly by famous RM figure Cass

Jorge wrote:

LoathedVermin72 wrote:Lola Young - This Wasn't Meant for You Anyway

Produced partly by famous RM figure Cass

The drums sound very nice

That Lola album is fun yeah

Sweet Home Alabama is pro-segregation so it would be bad even if it was good (which it isn't, it's bad)

Ms Harmless wrote:Sweet Home Alabama is pro-segregation so it would be bad even if it was good (which it isn't, it's bad)

even worse, he talks bad about neil young.

warehouse wrote:

Ms Harmless wrote:Sweet Home Alabama is pro-segregation so it would be bad even if it was good (which it isn't, it's bad)

even worse, he talks bad about neil young.

What part of Sweet Home Alabama is pro segregation?

Higgs wrote:

warehouse wrote:

Ms Harmless wrote:Sweet Home Alabama is pro-segregation so it would be bad even if it was good (which it isn't, it's bad)

even worse, he talks bad about neil young.

What part of Sweet Home Alabama is pro segregation?

i dunno, the governor line? i'm actually much more offended by the neil young line than anything else

warehouse wrote:

Higgs wrote:

warehouse wrote:

Ms Harmless wrote:Sweet Home Alabama is pro-segregation so it would be bad even if it was good (which it isn't, it's bad)

even worse, he talks bad about neil young.

What part of Sweet Home Alabama is pro segregation?

i dunno, the governor line? i'm actually much more offended by the neil young line than anything else

it's written as a diss track to Neil Young and his anti-racism songs "Southern Man" and "Alabama"; it's basically saying "Not All Southerners"; they also performed the song in front of a confederate flag until fan backlash

Any chance I ever had of liking "Sweet Home Alabama" was completely killed by overexposure. It gets play on both rock- and country-leaning stations and playlists, and it's an easy song to play so it's common fodder for cover bands -- and in downstate Illinois, it's tough to go anywhere in public without encountering any or all of those things. And it's just not a good enough song to withstand that level of overplay. I'm not a huge Skynyrd fan but they do have many better songs.

Ms Harmless wrote:

warehouse wrote:

Higgs wrote:

warehouse wrote:

Ms Harmless wrote:Sweet Home Alabama is pro-segregation so it would be bad even if it was good (which it isn't, it's bad)

even worse, he talks bad about neil young.

What part of Sweet Home Alabama is pro segregation?

i dunno, the governor line? i'm actually much more offended by the neil young line than anything else

it's written as a diss track to Neil Young and his anti-racism songs "Southern Man" and "Alabama"; it's basically saying "Not All Southerners"; they also performed the song in front of a confederate flag until fan backlash

There’s nothing in the lyrics that address segregation at all. They boo the governor.

Yes, it addresses Neil’s song. Yes, it can be seen as an anti-Neil song. But it was a joke. There are many interviews explaining such. They even talked to Neil and he loved it and has actually played it a few times. He wrote Powderfinger for them, but they opted not to record it. Supposedly he and Ronnie Van Zant became pretty good buddies but I’ve never seen anything to indicate they were anything more than just acquaintances.

Kevin Davis wrote:Any chance I ever had of liking "Sweet Home Alabama" was completely killed by overexposure. It gets play on both rock- and country-leaning stations and playlists, and it's an easy song to play so it's common fodder for cover bands -- and in downstate Illinois, it's tough to go anywhere in public without encountering any or all of those things. And it's just not a good enough song to withstand that level of overplay. I'm not a huge Skynyrd fan but they do have many better songs.

I’m about as huge a Skynyrd fan as you’ll find* and I agree with every word here. It’s nowhere near their best song. But, it’s kept them on the air for 50 years so what do ya do?

*not so much as the band exists now, but from the old days, yes.

wease wrote:

Ms Harmless wrote:

warehouse wrote:

Higgs wrote:

warehouse wrote:

Ms Harmless wrote:Sweet Home Alabama is pro-segregation so it would be bad even if it was good (which it isn't, it's bad)

even worse, he talks bad about neil young.

What part of Sweet Home Alabama is pro segregation?

i dunno, the governor line? i'm actually much more offended by the neil young line than anything else

it's written as a diss track to Neil Young and his anti-racism songs "Southern Man" and "Alabama"; it's basically saying "Not All Southerners"; they also performed the song in front of a confederate flag until fan backlash

There’s nothing in the lyrics that address segregation at all. They boo the governor.

Yes, it addresses Neil’s song. Yes, it can be seen as an anti-Neil song. But it was a joke. There are many interviews explaining such. They even talked to Neil and he loved it and has actually played it a few times. He wrote Powderfinger for them, but they opted not to record it. Supposedly he and Ronnie Van Zant became pretty good buddies but I’ve never seen anything to indicate they were anything more than just acquaintances.

i thought he said 'they love the governor'? i dunno, i never thought it was pro-segregation, honestly. and the neil young line seemed like a joke. i'm not surprised neil young covered it. it's a fine song, i like 'calll me the breeze' way more.

President Trump is going to make this conversation illegal.

warehouse wrote:

wease wrote:

Ms Harmless wrote:

warehouse wrote:

Higgs wrote:

warehouse wrote:

Ms Harmless wrote:Sweet Home Alabama is pro-segregation so it would be bad even if it was good (which it isn't, it's bad)

even worse, he talks bad about neil young.

What part of Sweet Home Alabama is pro segregation?

i dunno, the governor line? i'm actually much more offended by the neil young line than anything else

it's written as a diss track to Neil Young and his anti-racism songs "Southern Man" and "Alabama"; it's basically saying "Not All Southerners"; they also performed the song in front of a confederate flag until fan backlash

There’s nothing in the lyrics that address segregation at all. They boo the governor.

Yes, it addresses Neil’s song. Yes, it can be seen as an anti-Neil song. But it was a joke. There are many interviews explaining such. They even talked to Neil and he loved it and has actually played it a few times. He wrote Powderfinger for them, but they opted not to record it. Supposedly he and Ronnie Van Zant became pretty good buddies but I’ve never seen anything to indicate they were anything more than just acquaintances.

i thought he said 'they love the governor'? i dunno, i never thought it was pro-segregation, honestly. and the neil young line seemed like a joke. i'm not surprised neil young covered it. it's a fine song, i like 'calll me the breeze' way more.

In Birmingham they love the governor. Boo! Boo! Boo!

And I like CMTB more too.