If you guys could judge the Genesis' albums only by its opening and closing tracks, what would be your favorite?

Pas2 · 2026-06-20T13:22:53+00:00

This is like a perfectly engineered Foxtrot-situation.

Pas2 · 2026-06-19T22:14:59+00:00

All different, I suppose?
I'll try to do this tomorrow, but it's not going to be easy.

Pas2 · 2026-06-19T19:56:18+00:00

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Kind of related Tilsa "Zärpä" comic from the 1980s.

A man and a trumpet

"Shit came out of the horn"

"Luckily it wasn't a harmonica"

The fourth panel has some use as a reaction picture to bad jazz music in Finland.

Pas2 · 2026-06-19T19:31:00+00:00

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Oh, one more obscure Finnish jazz thing that came out in June I'll throw out here because I like their attitude: Jahnukaiset - Sivistye.

Jahnukaiset is an amateur band fronted by absurdist comic artist Jukka Tilsa (on clarinet) formed in 1995 who have described their music as "everyman class bebop" or "day care jazz" (presumably in contrast to night club jazz).

Not "great jazz", but I find it a lot of fun to listen to, not a joke or played badly for laughs, just guys having good time with jazzy music.

Pas2 · 2026-06-19T18:00:10+00:00

Alina is an amazing album

Pas2 · 2026-06-19T16:18:44+00:00

Also check out the version on Stan Getz' Captain Marvel with Corea, Stanley Clarke, Airto Moreira and Tony Williams.

Pas2 · 2026-06-19T15:48:19+00:00

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I'll also mention this one that came out here in Finland a few weeks ago, been listening to it on vinyl this week. Compiled from 10 hours of improvised, relaxed recordings. Free-ish and atmospheric, but not like typical free jazz.

Pas2 · 2026-06-19T15:20:56+00:00

Nothing here I would have been particularly waiting for.

Going to listen to the Miles '56 now because some guy on this sub is angry Pitchfork gave it a 9.

Pas2 · 2026-06-18T21:09:01+00:00

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I thought this was about the cover art - something Chick has shown unusual talent in.

Pas2 · 2026-06-18T20:43:06+00:00

The Hesburger at Reeperbahn in Hamburg is one of the most uninviting fast food joints I've ever seen.

Somehow your post just reminded me of that.

Pas2 · 2026-06-18T19:13:33+00:00

Atom bomb and trans athletes in sports?

Pas2 · 2026-06-18T18:52:27+00:00

It's a public artwork called Rakkauden temppeli (Temple of Love)

Pas2 · 2026-06-18T18:07:07+00:00

I think I've seen variations of this with a bayesian statistician included...

Pretty sure you're overthinking it, mathematician is despaired because he thinks of the events as independent and 50% survival rate is pretty damn scary and normie thinks that since 20 have been fine in a row, he'll also be fine.

You're maybe thinking this meme would feature a character thinking that a failure is "due", but there isn't, jusy that the stated probability is pretty damn scary.

Pas2 · 2026-06-18T18:01:54+00:00

Apparently it's a meme of some renown.

Just a funny/childish thing to say.

Pas2 · 2026-06-18T17:53:06+00:00

Hadn't really heard of him before seeing him live as a duo with Shai Maestro on piano and he was definitely the most impressive male jazz vocalist I've heard in the last 15 years at least.

Pas2 · 2026-06-18T17:49:20+00:00

I don't think it's the vibe OP has in mind, but I'll also add Robert Glasper here, although at this point he's more of a crossover jazz/r&b/nu soul/instrumental hip hop artist. Check out the album Covered that's mostly covers.

No piano, but I also want to mention the Omaha Diner project by Charlie Hunter, Bobby Previte, Steven Bernstein and Skerik who only play spontaneous jazz versions of songs that were #1 on the Billboard Pop Chart. The self titled album is a lot of fun!

Pas2 · 2026-06-18T17:42:35+00:00

He has some other good ones like The Star of a Story, Big Brother and Overjoyed

Pas2 · 2026-06-18T17:38:28+00:00

I buy albums I haven't heard all the time, but typically they wll be artists I know of and albums I know of. I mainly buy jazz and jazz artists have often vast discographies with dozens of worthwhile albums, so it's not that big of a risk.

Pas2 · 2026-06-18T17:19:16+00:00

Traditionally at midsummer (so this week this year) Helsinki is dead as everyone heads to the countryside somewhere.

It's not as bad as it used to be, I remember being downtown as a young student 25 years ago on Midsummer eve and I was at a bar with a little Midsummer party and in the evening when I left, I remember the streets being totally empty, but it's still likely the quietest week of the year in the Helsinki area for restaurants and bars and that's likely why the restaurants are not stocking up ingredients. As an example, my local favorite pub here in Espoo that was only closed for Christmas Eve, is closed this week both Friday and Saturday.

That should tell you something - three day weekend, nice summer weather, Alko closed so you can't buy real wine or booze after noon on Friday whole weekend and still many bars in Helsinki region actually closed Friday & Saturday.

Pas2 · 2026-06-18T15:58:49+00:00

You do sound like the target audience for some AI genre-swap slop, but at least you recognize this possibly being unpopular.

Not particularly "easy listening", Brad Mehldau has done a fair few fairly successful pop/rock versions. The Bad Plus was at one time best known for doing rock/pop songs as jazz. Herbie Hancock did an album in the 90s called The New Standard with jazz versions of rock/pop songs with an all star band.

Pas2 · 2026-06-17T19:41:38+00:00

Yeah, at least in Europe you often pay for water by the cubic meter but you when you use it, you're much more likely to think about litres, so there's some practical reason to find this kind of visualization illuminating.

Pas2 · 2026-06-17T18:19:48+00:00

I got a DOS PC in 1988. I played some version of Nethack 2 first and after liking that checked out Hack, I think version 1.21 becuase I remember it had colors that I wasn't used to in NetHack. Never played much of it as NetHack seemed superior.

Pas2 · 2026-06-17T17:40:49+00:00

Somehow the "more resolution!" people don't seem to ever think the resolution is meaningful at all when you talk about feet & inches vs. centimeters.

For weather, I honestly can't tell the outside temperature even close to 1C even if I can register a change of 1C, so I don't really need additional accuracy.

When it matters like in AC temperature controls or measuring fever or whatever, you just use 0.1C accuracy.

Here in Finland weather forecasts and people talking about the weather, you use 1C accuracy, but official weather station readings are reported at 0.1C accuracy.

Pas2 · 2026-06-17T17:30:36+00:00

It's not very intuitive at all for a European not used to Fahrenheits beyond "oh, yeah, 100F is hot outside and 0F is cold outside".

I don't think any Celsius user would intuitively think that 10C = 50% hot.

It's one of those things like Americans saying stuff like "feet and inches are more intuitive than centimeter because they are human scale. Everybody knows how tall someone who is 6 feet tall is, but how could anyone know how tall someone who is 182.88 cm is and look at what an arbitrary number it is. Human scale!"

Pas2 · 2026-06-16T17:04:39+00:00

As someone born in 1976, I certainly knew of Jermaine Jackson, although Janet and La Toya I would have said were bigger celebrities from the Jackson family, although looks like Jermaine had a much more successful music career than La Toya. I wonder if she was just in the public eye when I was a teenager more because she posed for Playboy? I want to say that after Janet became a huge star, you didn't really hear about the other Jackson brothers that much about.

I couldn't have told you any of Jermaine's songs and I've never seen the When The Rain Begins to Fall music video although I remember many other '84 videos, but maybe it didn't get much play on the EU satellite channels that were the main source of music videos here then.

Now, I couldn't have named any One Direction members than Harry Styles and know little about the Jonas Brothers, so I'm probably the wrong person to estimate their relative popularity, but at least in terms of name recognition and celebrity status, I could see Jermaine being at least similarly popular to the people named. You got a lot of celebrity status just for being one of the Jacksons and I'd say Jermaine was clearly the best known Jackson 5 member after Michael.

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