The Other Side of Midnight - Richard C. Hoagland - Live Chat Thread

[trostol]

Smashing Pumpkin albums are the definition of filler. Their radio hits are usually really good but the actual albums I have never enjoyed.

agree

[ShayP]

What do you like then, a million slight variations of rap and hardcore throat metal?

LOL!

[trostol]

It continues to get beat to death by a million outdated bullshit bands that all sound the same.

thrash spawned some awful awful crap sadly

[Yorkshire pud]

90's hit or miss but some good stuff like the SP.  But the 00's, I stopped listening then.  The real Y2K was the music apocalypse.  All we have now is corporate country, hip-hop marketing, and glam-dance disney pop.

There are one or two beacons out there, (6 Music on BBC radio is a good start to find em), but I take your point.

[norland2424]

If you can't enjoy Hanson you have no soul.

you know i have no soul but its a known fact that hanson created isis!!!

[zeebo]

Smashing Pumpkin albums are the definition of filler. ...

This would have shocked me, but I'm already desensitized after someone put Hootie above Dylan on another thread.

[Sandra Kristen]

agree

I don't like it when we agree. Stop it. It freaks me out.

[norland2424]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5X2kVKRA6c

[Sandra Kristen]

This would have shocked me, but I'm already desensitized after someone put Hootie above Dylan on another thread.

Hootie is what Frat people listened to before they discovered DMB.

[trostol]

I don't like it when we agree. Stop it. It freaks me out.

sorry but it is  true

[Yorkshire pud]

I like the simultaneous strumming/picking here...great track.

https://youtu.be/I305j3vYsbk

[trostol]

Hootie is what Frat people listened to before they discovered DMB.

there is another band that sucked

[BellBoy]

Hope you feel better soon Merle!

[Sandra Kristen]

you know i have no soul but its a known fact that hanson created isis!!!

http://whatculture.com/music/9-popular-songs-with-disturbing-implications-you-never-noticed.php/2

[SciFiAuthor]

LOL!

That was the 00's. I couldn't find shit from that decade to listen to other than a very few bands that bucked the trends of the times. It was awful.

[Yorkshire pud]

you know i have no soul but its a known fact that hanson created isis!!!

Yeah, but not deliberately. Was accidental.

[zeebo]

"crater dreams" ... the dude is 'remembering' the ancient pluto past in his mind.  So my dreams about playing chess with yoda actually happened.

[Yorkshire pud]

"crater dreams" ... the dude is 'remembering' the ancient pluto past in his mind.  So my dreams about playing chess with yoda actually happened.

Of course; why would anyone doubt it?

[BellBoy]

That was the 00's. I couldn't find shit from that decade to listen to other than a very few bands that bucked the trends of the times. It was awful.

You should have tried being a teenager in the 70's... popular music was pure shit. Thank god for punk and metal or I would have died.

[Sandra Kristen]

"crater dreams" ... the dude is 'remembering' the ancient pluto past in his mind.  So my dreams about playing chess with yoda actually happened.

Did you win?

[trostol]

And as we wind on down the road
Our shadows taller than our soul
There walks a lady we all know
Who shines white light and wants to show
How everything still turns to gold
And if you listen very hard
The tune will come to you at last
When all are one and one is all
To be a rock and not to roll

[SciFiAuthor]

thrash spawned some awful awful crap sadly

Lyrics of a thousand bands of those days. And today, but less so. "Ghooooooooooooooooooooh. Bluh. Bluh. Bluh. Ghoooooooooooooooooh".

[zeebo]

Of course; why would anyone doubt it?

I wasn't sure, but said a few "hu's" and, yep, confirmed.

[ShayP]

That was the 00's. I couldn't find shit from that decade to listen to other than a very few bands that bucked the trends of the times. It was awful.

Oh I agree with that.  I can't help but feel that the flannel wrapped pablum from the 90's caused an overload in the melancholy sense and breed a vanilla music decade to follow.

[Mind Flayer Monk]

NOW

We need to save Merle.

[Yorkshire pud]

I dearly hope Stuart Robbins calls in!! Please

[ShayP]

We need to save Merle.

yes

[Dr. MD MD]

I agree with the later part of your statement.  AND I retract my statement regarding the 90's.  I just think the 90's caused some of this.

The music industry kinda died around the time Cobain did. Before that there was quite the little musical renaissance going on, kicked off by grunge and the alternative scene but including many diverse influences. After that it was all pop tarts and hip hop. Then mp3s took a big bite out of an already dying industry. Of course, there's always great music going on somewhere. Since then you have to really look for it though. Choices have become more diffuse in a much more leveled playing field that could probably never support a band as big as the Beatles anymore.

[Mind Flayer Monk]

Sci Fi Author plays his sax solo at 1:40.

https://youtu.be/w99UIu9N44w

[ShayP]

You should have tried being a teenager in the 70's... popular music was pure shit. Thank god for punk and metal or I would have died.

I wish I was a teenager in the 70's...however I was but a wee lad.