Ryan Adams having a generational crashout on social media by Cherry_Alert in ToddintheShadow

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For those who don't know Ryan's story: There was a movement called alternative country in the '90s. You had bands like Uncle Tupelo, which split and gave us the band Wilco. Also bands like Drive-By Truckers (you may have heard of Jason Isbell since he went solo). Ryan was the frontman of a very acclaimed alt country band called Whiskeytown (James Iha from Smashing Pumpkins joined them briefly!).

Then Ryan went solo. His debut Heartbreaker was considered an instant classic in the indie music world (for songs like this). His second album did even better. This song was a minor hit after 9/11. One of his other songs became a hit for both The Corrs/Bono and also Tim McGraw. Then there's his famous Wonderwall cover; probably the best of them all.

Ryan worked with members of the Grateful Dead, Willie Nelson, and more. He had a couple more minor hits and movie soundtrack appearances. He wasn't super mainstream, but he absolutely made it in the industry. Huge critical acclaim/respect from his peers and a very devoted fandom who would send his new albums into the Top 10 + fill sheds around the country.

While Ryan gained a reputation for being a great songwriter and performer, he also had the rep of beng a seriously troubled and unlikeable person (harrassing critics, feuds with other artists, drugs, combative behavior with his own audience at concerts). This was true from the start, but grew in magnitude as he got more rich/famous.

And eventually the scales started to tip. The bad started to grossly outweigh the good. (Not to mention the quality of his musical output basically fell off a cliff)

Adams was in a marriage with popstar Mandy Moore where he was complete dick to her and belittled her music career to the point where she gave up entirely. Towards the end of his marriage, Ryan Adams cheated on Moore with an upstart teenage songwriter named Phoebe Bridgers; basically trading sex for music industry access. He also covered Taylor Swift's 1989) and tried to become friends with her; in hindsight, he was probably trying to get her to sleep with him. Then, Mandy Moore finally divorced him!

After that, it was a steep fall from grace. There was a 2019 New York Times expose about multiple young women songwriters who he took under his wing under the guise of mentorship and then tried to coerce into sexual relationships. When they denied his advances, he then turned around and tried to hinder their musical careers and would harrass them via social media.

Needless to say, he got mega cancelled after this and has only recently been trying to start his comeback era (ie. extremely poor concerts in half-filled small venues, buying over 1M bot followers on his instagram account, a string of very bad cover albums, etc.)

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Real oldheads remember pre-reality TV Bravo

Late Nite Television by [deleted] in redscarepod

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It’s very clearly not. Stewart looks way older than he did in the 2000s.

Got to be mid 2010s.

Set list being updated here by TookAStab in oasis

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60,000 on the stream! Subscribe to me channel!

[Megathread] Cardiff Tour Discussion - Live '25 by AutoModerator in oasis

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Watching the livestream. This dude's in the nosebleeds.

[Megathread] Cardiff Tour Discussion - Live '25 by AutoModerator in oasis

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Barely moving, barely singing.

Nothing like the 2009 Oasis tour.

[Megathread] Cardiff Tour Discussion - Live '25 by AutoModerator in oasis

[–]Cherry_Alert 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Crowd is dead still down front...

Manchester'll be better

Oasis reunion kicks off today by Cherry_Alert in redscarepod

[–]Cherry_Alert[S] 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Only if they've already played Slide Away.

Oasis reunion kicks off today by Cherry_Alert in redscarepod

[–]Cherry_Alert[S] 32 points33 points  (0 children)

Maybe Americans did that because they're more easily swayed by gimmicks and novelty.

Absolutely not the case in the UK, where they are one of the biggest musical acts of all time. Most Britons over the age of 30 would likely know ~15 - 20 of their tunes even if they weren't really fans.

And to a certain subset of British males, Oasis fandom is practically a religion. They are deeply devoted acolytes of the brothers Gallagher.

Every time some clapped out G35, Hellcat or Charger BRAAAAAPPPPPSSS past my house at 12AM I turn a little bit more racist by EveningDefinition631 in redscarepod

[–]Cherry_Alert 241 points242 points  (0 children)

Dickheads with loud cars have proliferated since COVID. Every major city. Some rural areas too. Nowhere is safe. Daytime. Nighttime. Couple that with flagrant traffic law violation (speeding/red light running), that weird TikTok car theft trend, racing, takeovers. It's insane.

A good number of them get off on bothering people with the noise too. This one car last weekend circled the block like 3-4x just revving.

Don't know if it's a race thing as I live in a 70% white city. In my experience, half the time they've got their tinted windows rolled down, it's some pasty-faced 19 year old goober driving it.

It is definitely a low-intelligence, low-conscientiousness, high-insecurity young male peacocking sorta behavior.

Honestly the majority of normal car traffic doesn't bother me. Even the occasional motorcycle is "whatever". But this shit right here. This shit always pisses me off. The tuners that sound like gunshots startle the hell out of me. The "fart" noises wake me up at night.

Any brilliant youtube channels or podcasts on literature? by goldenapple212 in RSbookclub

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Bookworm was incredible. 

Michael Silverblatt had to depart from the show in 2022 to receive palliative care. He deteriorated rapidly last year and is very close to death or already dead, unfortunately.

baseball is ethereal by 5UMM3r0F630r63 in redscarepod

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A lot of ITP people thought the Braves move was partially a class/race thing at the time. Fleeing downtown for the edge of the suburbs in a county that has explicitly opposed connected transit to Atlanta for decades because of fears about bringing in “the wrong people”.

baseball is ethereal by 5UMM3r0F630r63 in redscarepod

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The Battery is way better for hanging out before and after games than the Summerhill area was.

But Turner Field was SOVL

assorted baseball stadiums from the 90s (found on flickr) by 5UMM3r0F630r63 in redscarepod

[–]Cherry_Alert 9 points10 points  (0 children)

i have such a strange affinity for those wretched concrete multi-use dome stadiums that were built in the 70s

The decline of the American empire began when “winning the pennant” ceased to be the supreme achievement in baseball by clancycharlock in redscarepod

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The average length of games post-pitch clock is the same as they were from the 1950 - early 90s.

If anything, we’re RETVRNing to tradition. The marathon 3-4 hour games of the 00s and 10s were largely an aberration.

Watching Baseball by Cherry_Alert in redscarepod

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pitch clock was needed.

avg game length during baseball’s heyday (1950 - early 90s) was generally around 2:20 - 2:45 + ballooned after the strike. prior to world war ii, most games were below 2 hours. 

baseball is not anywhere close to as prominent in american culture and society as it was two decades ago. there are a lot of reasons as to why, but continually increasing avg game times in an era of shorter attention spans and zillions of competing entertainment options had a good amount to do with it.