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View Poll Results: Witch is it? | |||
Adoor | 27 | 46.55% | |
Masheena | 22 | 37.93% | |
lol u suck foolf | 9 | 15.52% | |
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10-25-2018, 10:55 AM | #61 |
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Just listened to Machina again last night because of this poll and man, I just cannot get into it that much
Adore, I listen to all the way through every time and I'm straight shook by the time Blank Page starts up Machina has some good tunes but a lot of, pardon me, dross |
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10-25-2018, 11:15 AM | #62 |
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10-25-2018, 11:24 AM | #63 | |
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Like in Wound, he has that stupid line, "Last night I turned around and thought I saw myself turning." He seriously couldn't think of another word so that he didn't have to use "turn" twice in the same line? Or his "let me die for rock n' roll" line in HMM. Or saying "everywhere you are" 5 million fucking times in The Imploding Voice. I realize I'm being very nitpicky here but lyrically, I just found most of the album to be garbage. Now, a lot of the stuff on Machina II, in contrast, I really dig. And not just because a lot of it is heavier than MI; I just found many of the songs to be more interesting, both lyrically and musically. How you could leave a beautiful piece of music like Speed Kills (either version) off of the album but in-clude an excruciating piece of excrement like The Crying Tree of Mercury, I'll never know. Or how you could record THREE versions of Blue Skies Bring Tears and somehow choose the one that SUCKS to put on the album. Only Billy could do that. |
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10-25-2018, 11:30 AM | #64 | |
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10-25-2018, 11:43 AM | #65 | |
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10-25-2018, 11:44 AM | #66 |
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He should be banned just for having that name.
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10-25-2018, 12:02 PM | #67 |
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10-25-2018, 01:04 PM | #68 |
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I don't think Machina ever quite hits the heights Adore does with For Martha and Night Mare, but it's a weird comparison. One's this grueling, intimate work informed by the loss of a parent, a divorce, and loss of a friend and integral band member, one's an incomplete, neutered grandiose rock opera with overt religious themes that's half overproduced and half comprised of rough mixes. One is an emotional experience in that it's harrowing, the other can only be really called that by virtue of its historical context, in that it felt like a goodbye - and it still kind of feels like that when I listen to it, despite everything afterwards.
The fact that the poll is so divided is great. |
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10-25-2018, 01:05 PM | #69 |
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Who the fuck gave this thread less than five stars??
This some ol' b0llshit! |
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10-25-2018, 01:09 PM | #70 |
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10-25-2018, 01:11 PM | #71 |
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Pumpkin's music seems to bring together a lot of people who'd otherwise have nothing in common. I'd be surprised if there was a more acrimonious fan base. I guess it's reflective of the band's own internal dysfunction.
Speaking of dysfunction, I just saw this for the first time last night https://youtu.be/9u6OsvDhEig?t=2130 , Billy berating both Iha, and entire crowd of Japanese fans, in four awkward minutes. At one point they pan over to Melissa and she looks stone faced. A lot of people say Billy is an asshole, but a lot of people say he's friendly, then you see footage like this, there's not question he's an asshole. Last edited by MonumentsRocks : 10-25-2018 at 01:20 PM. |
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10-25-2018, 01:11 PM | #72 |
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10-25-2018, 01:29 PM | #73 |
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10-25-2018, 01:30 PM | #74 |
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This is how I feel, I'm cold and I am shamed
Lying naked on the floor |
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10-25-2018, 01:44 PM | #75 | |
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Absurd lyrics are fine if they're enjoyable, but then again its hard to define what is enjoyable gibberish. I don't mind his tendency to repeats words on a Machina, like the lyrics to "Home" were based around repeating words. It was just an aesthetic he wanted to mess with, I like it. |
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10-25-2018, 01:47 PM | #76 |
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10-25-2018, 02:04 PM | #77 |
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LOL look at this basic fanboi liking the singles best
My favorite song is "Saviour Self" from the Machina sessions which no one including me has ever heard, it's that rare and that cool to say you like the best Second place is definitely one of the snippets from Pastichio Medley which I could definitely name off the top of my head but choose not to for reasons |
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10-25-2018, 02:40 PM | #78 | |
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10-25-2018, 03:01 PM | #79 |
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What the fuck is/was with them? Every other band seems to have figure this out. It's not hard. "Thank you Japan! We love being here! You have a beautiful country, the cutest girls and the best seafood on the Pacific rim, it's a shame we can't stay. You always were our best fans!" the crowd cheers, you're all done.
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10-25-2018, 03:46 PM | #80 |
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Will anyone engage with me on my half-formed idea that With Every Light is completely deceptive and is actually about Glass getting suckered in by the Gnostic, false, God
Aside from the fact that all the other songs (possibly not AoI) are dire and dark as hell and suddenly WEL is all sunshine and lollipops, you have two key lines: "Could you believe in Heaven if Heaven was all you had?" (Seems like he believes he's in Heaven now, so why question it?) "Away with anything that holds you sane" (Like I dunno dude, those things seem worth keeping unless you're surrendering to a higher power who may or may not have your best interests at heart) If I ever catch Billy's question and answer period Imma ask him about this, as well as I can with the like 40 characters you get |
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10-25-2018, 03:48 PM | #81 |
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topleybird: the meth years
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10-25-2018, 03:48 PM | #82 |
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10-25-2018, 04:14 PM | #83 |
Janis Jopleybird
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IT'S A SOLID THEORY
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10-25-2018, 04:16 PM | #84 |
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Glass is Billy, so any song about Glass is really about Billy.
To me the song has contradictory messages interwoven in the verse and choruses, 1) death is great, you're relieved of all your worries 2) life is great, if you ignore all your worries. Last edited by MonumentsRocks : 10-25-2018 at 04:22 PM. |
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10-25-2018, 04:39 PM | #85 |
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Monuments doesn't rock. Nothing you have to say is believable due to your handle. Also I am Frida Kahlo.
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10-25-2018, 05:02 PM | #86 |
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10-25-2018, 05:08 PM | #87 |
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Glass is meth, dude.
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10-25-2018, 05:10 PM | #88 |
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You know I never realised that until today. Do you think Zero might be Billy? I know it's a stretch. But just imagine.
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10-25-2018, 05:12 PM | #89 |
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billy was into meth. this is a fact. speed, speed kills, glass and the ghost..., glass' theme, spun soundtrack, the everlasting gaze vid, all this shit spells M-E-T-H. oh yeah also he was really skinny.
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10-25-2018, 07:00 PM | #90 | |
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Last night I turned around and thought I saw myself turning Inside the strangest dream of life unloved and cities burning seriously love wound. |
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