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PostPosted: Thu May 24, 2018 1:51 pm 
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Aren't they like classified as a gang or something like that by the FBI?

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PostPosted: Thu May 24, 2018 4:08 pm 
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oh yeah, i forgot about that

this thread got interesting again


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PostPosted: Thu May 24, 2018 11:45 pm 
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And a lot more confusing. [googles Insane Clown Posse]

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PostPosted: Thu May 31, 2018 3:03 pm 
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I wasn't referring to their ignorance, I was referring to their choice to see the world around them as being miraculous.

the real issue with the song isn't the magnets line, it's the one that comes right after: "And I don't wanna talk to a scientist/Y'all mother******s lying, and getting me pissed". that's the sentiment people took issue with, and it's why I think it's unreasonable to assume that the magnets line is about anything deeper than surface understanding: the sentiment of actively rejecting any real attempt to answer these questions runs through the entire song. like, yes, if you take the magnets line in isolation you can do some handwaving about how if you drill down deep enough we don't actually know, but the rest of the song makes it pretty clear that that's not the level they're talking about. (also, I don't think it's a particularly interesting or useful point, since it's true of pretty much everything ever. we have pretty solid models for how magnets work down to a fairly granular level, but with any piece of knowledge except debatably pure mathematics, if you keep asking "why?" long enough you'll eventually get to an "I don't know". that's not deep, it's epistemology 101.)

I don't really have anything against ICP, but this whole "Miracles is actually really deep and meaningful if you look at it" stance requires not actually looking at it very closely.

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PostPosted: Thu May 31, 2018 7:18 pm 
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I am not a fan of the anti-scientific sentiment of the song although I really really really like the song and the message i think it sends. Its a song about how beautiful and amazing and wonderful the world is and seeing the kind of raw wonder in all of the little things that surround us. Its a sentiment that I really appreciate and the way they express it is, to me, really evocative. I wouldn't call it "deep" at all because its a pretty simple and old idea but i do really like it.

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PostPosted: Fri Jun 01, 2018 12:42 am 
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I guess I'm actually going to have to listen to the song aren't I?

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PostPosted: Fri Jun 01, 2018 1:01 am 
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icp is coocoo for faygo

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I am not a fan of the anti-scientific sentiment of the song although I really really really like the song and the message i think it sends. Its a song about how beautiful and amazing and wonderful the world is and seeing the kind of raw wonder in all of the little things that surround us. Its a sentiment that I really appreciate and the way they express it is, to me, really evocative. I wouldn't call it "deep" at all because its a pretty simple and old idea but i do really like it.

yeah, I'm all in favor of that message, I just think that Miracles is a poor vehicle for it.

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PostPosted: Tue Oct 02, 2018 8:09 am 
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My understanding of modern musical genres is a mess. I still don't know what precisely "rock" means. You can pick 3 random rock songs from diffrent groups and subgenres, and they'll have url=https://www.rachat-credit-rachat.com/]simulation rachat de crédit surendettement[/url] (or so I feel) almost nothing in common. Actually, you can pick 3 songs of Beatles, give them to a person who have never heard of them, and (I feel) successfully persuade them that those were diffrend bands playing in diffrent genres. (Cosider this a counterargument to "beatles are flat and one-dimensional.")

Rather than picking bands/artists to be a fan of, I usually choose individual songs/melodies I like, and ignore most of other stuff by same authors.
Lately, for example, I listened to
Yes - Roundabout
Woodkid - Stabat Mater
Rob Hubbard - Monty on the Run
Styx - Mr Roboto
Fall Out Boy - Centuries

I don't like most contemporary (00s, 10s) music that is in fashion in my country now. I especially dislike rap, because it mostly sounds awful. I can listen to some few songs though, mostly because of good lyrics or occasional epic charisma (read "epic charisma" as "snoop dogg is a walking meme").

I actually really like one of the folk bands, but it's from my country, so you don't know it. Its called Melnitsa (The Mill), they often have originally-sounding (to me) tunes, deep texts (once I've read an analysis of one, and the density of meanings, symbolism, and refrences is Homestuck-level), and I wouldn't call them "rock band without it's own style so they borrowed folk" either. The most impressive (for me) thing they pulled off once was a... how do I explain it... landscape-art in song form, which I never seen anywhere else.

As for other media...

I loooove absurd comedies. Hot Shots, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, A Haunted House, Rocky Horror Picture Show, etc. They don't feel dumb to me.

I completely adore Homestuck.

I find anime openings one of the worst things ever.

I often don't mind poor style in literature, as long as the plot is interesting.

You should review a little because sometimes we forget that music is important in life and we must always listen otherwise we go crazy.


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