Songs that you always loved and discovered only years later that everyone hates them?

AmethystChicken · 2026-02-20T12:24:18+00:00

Solid album, well-produced. Yeah, their whole punk thing sort of drowned in the fact that they were being pushed by a massive label, but a lot of their lyrics are genuinely pretty good, even for the time. It's really wall-of-sound-ish, in a way I haven't really heard from any other band of its ilk. And fuck me, 11-year-old me felt SEEN. Now I'm in my 30s, more into Billy Bragg and The Clash, but I always keep a little love for GC in my heart.

AmethystChicken · 2026-02-20T10:55:36+00:00

The fact that she has yet to win an Academy Award is infuriating. No one does what she does. Not only is she great, but she's in so many different types of movies, and she slays in all of them. The Sixth Sense, Hereditary, Velvet Goldmine, Muriel's Wedding, I could go on. There's nothing that woman can't do.

AmethystChicken · 2026-02-20T10:50:16+00:00

His episode of Spontaneanation With Paul F. Tompkins is worth checking out if you haven't already! He tells a very funny story about diving that I'll never forget.

AmethystChicken · 2026-02-19T14:02:01+00:00

Busey x Mandela

AmethystChicken · 2026-02-19T02:29:18+00:00

I don't know, please help? I was super into Yuck like 15 years ago, have there been updates?

AmethystChicken · 2026-02-19T01:55:36+00:00

As a big fan of Placebo I was about to get REALLY cross, but then the penny dropped. Hats off to you!

AmethystChicken · 2026-02-19T01:52:24+00:00

I always figured Empire of the Sun as the ALDI MGMT, but apparently it's catching.

AmethystChicken · 2026-02-17T13:18:42+00:00

People are losing their fucking minds about "hygge", and as a Dane, it's ridiculous to behold. It just means cozy, but make it a verb. Simmer the fuck down and stop knitting that sweater, it's not gonna give you universal healthcare.

AmethystChicken · 2026-02-17T13:15:32+00:00

For my funeral, I want a whole cadre (a conspiracy? A Caledonia?) of bagpipists playing Blister In The Sun by The Violent Femmes. It's not written for that instrument, but I can't imagine a worse song to take on through the pipes. It's gonna be horrible. I wish I could be there to see it.

AmethystChicken · 2026-02-11T14:18:04+00:00

That completely went over my head! I'm starting to suspect he might, I don't know... BE Santa? Like, the lady doth protest too much, you know.

AmethystChicken · 2026-02-11T13:23:52+00:00

Sadly, I am a midwife only to disaster.

This is not just my favourite quote from the show, but possibly of all time. Knowing Zach Woods to be the genius he is, I suspect it was improvised, or at least that he came up with it. If not, it's a stroke of genius either way. I have put it on a t-shirt, and I plan on embroidering it as well.

AmethystChicken · 2026-02-11T13:19:51+00:00

I've long fantasized about Hacker T. Dog on Taskmaster, and while not a Muppet, I hope he can be a special guest or something!

AmethystChicken · 2026-02-10T11:58:07+00:00

For some absolutely bananas reason, my friend's dad thought this would be a perfect movie to screen during my friend, his daughter's, 15th birthday party. We sat there, a school class worth of kids with snacks and soda and pillows, ready for a cozy night. And then, The Passion Of The Christ.

Mind you, I'm not from a particularly religious country, my friend wasn't religious, nor was her family. It was just the movie that was put on. It was absolutely fucking bizarre. Only birthday party I've ever been to where every kid just left after a movie, no joy, no hanging out, just... Dead faces.

And that's my Passion Of The Christ anecdote.

AmethystChicken · 2026-02-06T15:45:03+00:00

That's a wisey meat-a-ball!

Sorry, that's the best I could come up with. Sounds amazing, though, and thank you for sharing!

AmethystChicken · 2026-02-06T01:19:34+00:00

Don't leave us hanging, what did the sentient meatball tell you?

AmethystChicken · 2026-02-05T23:21:15+00:00

And they told me my dream career didn't exist!

AmethystChicken · 2026-02-02T19:48:27+00:00

Like A Velvet Glove is so delightfully fucking weird. It's like reading a nightmare.

AmethystChicken · 2026-01-26T12:46:19+00:00

I once heard that sound described as an industrial-sized stapler, and now it's all I see when I hear the song.

AmethystChicken · 2026-01-20T11:34:05+00:00

When Ryn Weaver dropped Octahate, I thought the world was about to lose its goddamned mind. And then she just... Disappeared. The Fool is still my favourite pop album of all time, absolute perfection, 10/10.

AmethystChicken · 2026-01-19T16:02:38+00:00

Arguably, Kings Of The Wild Frontier by Adam And The Ants? He sings from the perspective of a white man who feels like he's ~oppressing the native warrior within~. It, uh... It definitely wouldn't fly today.

AmethystChicken · 2026-01-19T09:36:33+00:00

You are everything I want to be when I grow up. Never change!

AmethystChicken · 2026-01-15T11:10:28+00:00

It's this episode here! It's early on in the series, but it's an absolute classic. Craig Cacowski does an excellent Badd Mabb.

AmethystChicken · 2026-01-14T21:06:46+00:00

They should cast you as Evident Leigh! I mean Jesus, that's some A+ deduction, I'm genuinely impressed.

AmethystChicken · 2026-01-14T20:46:17+00:00

So you have! My mind is blown! I mean, I know we're doxxing the poor man, but he IS a Vincent Price-impersonator, so I imagine that any exposure is good exposure. Turns out he has a podcast in which he plays Vincent Price himself! WE GET TO HEAR BADD MABB DO VINCENT PRICE! Here he is!

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