>>179079>>179132>>179135>>179136>Technology should be a helpful tool that helps us conquer the stars and make Jetsons World realI agree. We should aim to take the middle path between mindless techno-optimism and total neo-Luddism.
>Should we even call neutered "rock" like that rock?As good as rock was, it was always a bit of a controlled product of mass culture to begin with anyway. A lot of the ballsiness was kind of superficial. It makes me think of that Lemmy quote to the effect that the real rebellion happened back in the '50s, '60s, and early '70s, and the rest of it you can keep. Of course even back then the conflict between the free-spirited rock fans and the uptight squares was really part of a fake dialectic (whether intentionally so or not), and no matter the style of music you're talking about it's probably not any real threat to the people in power. And then there were always neutered lightweights like Pat Boone involved for the people who felt threatened by the wilder forms of rock music (and any potential social implications they might have seen in it) and who weren't keen on venturing out of the shallow end of the musical pool.
I definitely get what you're saying though.
>EBM I know a few bands ofIt came to mind for me because that's sort of what those harder-edged styles remind me of. It's like they're accidentally reinventing Nitzer Ebb or Front 242 from a 21st-century vantage point. My favorite EBM album is actually Twitch by Ministry though.
>Behind closed doors a rabid Sabbatean-Frankist and racial enemyHe was some kind of Italian mix, but he might as well have been a kike.
>Is Xurious still going? I wouldn't know either.I thought so. I think Survive the Jive uses his music.
>Man or Astroman is p good.I remember liking "The Human Calculator" but getting annoyed with all the vocal samples.
>I listen to tiki lounge music more though.Like Martin Denny?
>If you want some good lounge music, do you know Fantastic Plastic Machine? They are Japanese and play some exotic, james bond sounding, futuristic sounding lounge. There's a specific Japanese subculture that makes music like them, I forget what they call it though. Its tight, like '50's revival, playboy music, very funky and unique sound.No, I've never heard of them.
>Do you know Penguin Cafe Orchestra? Its this experimental world music lounge music. Really unique sound.I have Broadcasting from Home and should probably listen to it again. I actually found them after hearing "Music for a Found Harmonium" in Napoleon Dynamite and trying to track it down since it was nowhere on the soundtrack.
>Do you know Huevous Rancheros? They are an instrumental surf band from the 90s that I discovered on a lark. They are okay.Nope, I don't know them.
>I'm gonna look up Duane EddyI first learned about him from Link Wray covering "Rebel Rouser."
>I posted upthread about this, I confused the 2 guys. Mu would huff Christgau's farts and troll each other pretending to like him, lol. I respect how Christgau owned how much of a cunt he is and was just unabashedly a cunt at least, but his reviews suck donkey balls and he was retarded. All critics suck and get things way wrong and hype up trash for political purposes. Its more a political job than anything else, being a critic. All those "taste-makers" get their marching orders from Mossad, just like today's "influencers" would be the modern version of a critic.My big problem with Christgau is both how much of a wanker he is combined with how propped up he is by the musical establishment. If he was just some guy everyone would use as a punching bag, I'd have a lot more respect for him,
Speaking of critics, do you remember how /mu/ would suck off Piero Scaruffi all the time? The fact that the guy tried to describe the sounds of the really early Boards of Canada releases that aren't even publicly available makes it hard for me to take him seriously.
>>179134>Agreed but people have lost grip on the fundamentals of creating art and the principles of design, how to truly create and not just rip-off.You hit the nail on the head there. You just end up with endless retreads of much better works that bring little to the table.
>Yeah once you've seen or listen to a certain amount of media you get into the deep cuts, and then once you've experience the deep cuts, there's nothing left at a certain point. Well, there's always something left to watch or hear but you get what I meanThat's one of the reasons I tend to only dig so far into certain styles of music. After a while you start to understand what your favored niches are, and past a certain point you get diminishing returns. I feel like it's better to just move most of your attention toward something else and be glad to discover an occasional diamond in the rough that you'd missed before.
>One of the Rutracker's for him is working, thats how I got his discography. Did you like him? I love the ambient pieces he does. Very true to the spirit of black metalThanks, that worked for me. I'm so used to quickly grabbing individual albums off Soulseek that I never considered looking for a torrent.
Anyway, yeah, I liked what I heard. I appreciate how heavy on the atmosphere it is. I know a lot of people might not like the fact that the guitar sounds like a vacuum cleaner with a high-pass filter put over the top of it, but I've come to like that kind of sound.
>Amen. Normalfags have to filter everything thru the lens of society's approval just like a woman. We live in a henpecked, toxically feminine society and its cancer to the mind. White men everywhere should reject society whole-cloth.Maybe it's just because I'm a complete autist, but I've never understood how easily people fall for peer pressure. I understand having your sensibilities molded to a certain extent (I think I realized during my early 20s or late teenage years that I'd been forcing myself to like or dislike certain things because I felt like I was supposed to), but normalfags seem to have little immunity to not being pressured into doing things they wouldn't otherwise do.
>Yes, and all that Tipper Gore, satanic panic crap.And now a lot of "Christian nationalists" want to bring that idiocy back. Everything is demonic to them.
>My favorite song by them is "I Stay Away". So raw and real. You can hear the power in his voice, how bad Layne Staley wants to quit heroin but can't. And their acoustic album is great too. Love it all!I love that opening guitar line. I think their acoustic stuff is among the most noteworthy material in their discography.
What happened to Layne Staley was pretty horrifying. He was already skin and bones years before he died, and when the Grim Reaper finally came for him it was about two weeks before anyone found his body.