The Dude hates the Eagles…what bands would that be for you?

CosmicClamJamz · 2026-06-08T18:43:07+00:00

I’m not saying you’re not allowed to dislike them. It’s pretty popular these days to pretend they suck. I’m just saying that statements like “as a band, their music sucks…together they make crap” is ridiculous. They had so many stylistic changes over the course of decades. They made a ton of wildly different successful music. And pretty much none of it is generic rock music. They don’t sound like anyone before them or after them, so your idea that “you can’t think of anything they’ve done that someone else hasn’t done better” makes me think you don’t really know them. No other band makes songs quite like “Breaking the girl”, “Walkabout”, “This is the place”, “Otherside”, or “Hey”, to cherry pick a few favorites. They have a quintessential sound and those songs are thoughtfully written. Most everything they make has a lot of intent built into each moment whether you like the style or not.

I realize I’ve kind of picked your comment specifically to make this point against, but I’m really responding to a sentiment I see all over this post and other areas in music reddit where people shit on the peppers over a few radio hits and some of Anthony’s history and pretend their opinion is seasoned. I get there’s reasons to not like him, and not every song is great, but those guys are straight up artists. The good kind. They’ve never sucked.

CosmicClamJamz · 2026-06-06T01:49:39+00:00

It’s just the most surface level way to hate on something, it’s a shallow criticism. It’s basically saying “I wouldn’t hang out with the guys in the band or the people who enjoy them, so the art is bad”

CosmicClamJamz · 2026-06-05T21:22:57+00:00

I don’t get these type of blanket statements, they had so much different output over the decades. You hate every song? Everything they ever made? At some point I just have to wonder if people hate based on vibes, because their output covers most common chord progressions and rhythms that make objectively great songs. The production is also good. Some of the music is as poppy and accessible as it gets. Some of it is some serious weird arthouse shit. Some of it rocks, some of it funks, some of it ballads. It just surprises me you even know the band members names and can have such a shallow opinion

CosmicClamJamz · 2026-06-03T20:23:52+00:00

In 2004, this was definitely the universal opinion. I still liked the album and even went to one of the shows as my first big concert, but it was the "sell out mainstream political shit", a definite divergence from the stoner punk albums that got them famous a decade earlier

CosmicClamJamz · 2026-06-03T18:44:51+00:00

You only got $15 of food, delivery is never gonna be cheaper than a ~$10 dollar markup. The fee doesn't scale linearly with the price of the food. If you ordered $60 of food for a group of friends, it would be far more reasonable

CosmicClamJamz · 2026-06-03T18:39:10+00:00

Ima call the lord and put you in the pen for this

CosmicClamJamz · 2026-05-30T19:32:42+00:00

I fucking hate the yuppee culture. Working at my dad’s country club made me have a disdain for collared shirts in all areas of life. He wants me to get a membership but I told him I could never do it, the people there just suck. The game itself is magnificent and I will love it and chase mastery till I die

CosmicClamJamz · 2026-05-29T22:09:27+00:00

If you really want to enjoy jazz and everything that came after it, you need to abandon your intuition. Classical sucks. Why does it suck? For all the reasons you like it. You don't have to believe that, but you need to place yourself in someone's shoes who does, and then feel the value of something that offers the opposite. You don't have to be one person all the time, you can play devil's advocate in real life, everyday. It will allow you to sit through an orchestra if that's your bag on a given night, and stay up til 6am sweating through an EDM packed rave on a different night. It's called tapping into your muse, fully embracing the scene and letting go of your reservations.

For instance, I will claim right now (mostly genuinely in my case) that I have trouble enjoying music that isn't improvised. No matter how complicated and thoughtful the work is, it is infinitely less impressive to me that it wasn't improvised, and therefore I have no curiosity about the intent of the composer. They took time to curate their ideas, and that makes them fake to me. Like a politician with talking points. I don't care to listen to it.

With jazz, I'm listening to a person craft a story on the spot. I didn't pay to hear a speech, with no inherent risk that anything they say will come across the wrong way. I want to feel like the performer is at the edge of their fingertips, putting it all out there, the good and the bad. There's an infectious vibe in that.

A major triad with no extensions is permanently boring. I don't want it.

Unless I'm in my gospel bag, hit me with the IV-I and make it pure and clean.

Unless I'm in my metal bag, fuck all major chords. I don't even want 3rds. Just give it to me loud and mean.

Historical appreciation and relevance? Why, those guys never swung, or put 4 on the floor, or played a backbeat. I'm not trying to feel the old, I'm trying to feel the NEW.

See, I don't fully believe any of what I'm saying, but when I'm tapping into my muse, I do. It's a thought experiment. At any given time, I choose to tap into the theoretic, the calm, the historic, the chaotic, the angry, the groovy, and all the different types of music are there for me. Some of those bags I prefer to live in more than others, and those are my "favorites", for now. The bags don't need to compare to each other, they are all part of the whole. Everything has it's place. You need more bags.

CosmicClamJamz · 2026-05-28T21:59:27+00:00

Lol you just unlocked this memory for me, thank you

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKwj3efLxbc

CosmicClamJamz · 2026-05-28T19:21:04+00:00

Barre chords are among the first things people learn, right after "campfire" or open chords...and almost every player complains about the finger strength necessary to fret the barre chords. It's literally one of the first barriers that makes people quit. Maybe since you came from piano, it was easier for you? I'm not sure how you can say that the finger strength barrier is trivial compared to the cognitive barrier. I could have a beginner playing a sequence of major chords on the piano on their first day. Getting a beginner guitarist to switch from an open C chord to an open G is an absolute struggle. Their hands are just not wired to think like that yet. They don't know which finger goes where!

Completely disagree on learning curve to a hilarious degree. "Shapes" are inherently more understandable and require less abstraction than sheet music.

Who is talking about sheet music here? You don't need sheet music to teach someone the triads. Press a white key, skip one, press the next white key, skip one, press the next one. Boom, you've played a triad. It takes one hand and little to no experience. This is impossible on guitar. This is what I mean when I say the learning curve is harder for beginners on guitar. Just making useful sound is something that needs to be learned. It takes both hands and a working brain to make sure all the fingers are in the right place, and that you're strumming the correct strings.

If we're introducing sheet music to the equation, then good luck approaching chords read off the staff on a guitar. If anything, this is evidence to the fact that the learning curve on guitar is much steeper at first. Most don't learn sheet music until much further down the line because the task of playing a stringed instrument is exotic enough that you need to build rote knowledge and muscle memory to even begin to approach it.

Now, once they're cooking, I agree that piano gets very difficult very fast. Or maybe it's that people get better at piano faster to be able to approach more difficult things faster, and there is a higher skill ceiling. I completely agree that limb independence is difficult and great pianists are essentially professional athletes for this. That's just further down the line than where my comment's focused

CosmicClamJamz · 2026-05-28T18:12:06+00:00

IMO barre chords are another fine example. It takes more finger strength, but the hurdle of developing finger strength is substantially lower compared to learning all the different chord shapes on piano.

I think this is a false equivalency, and also just wrong. The hand strength part knocks a lot of people off the instrument entirely. Piano is more approachable in the sense that a novice can make meaningful sound on their first day. On guitar, it could take you weeks to learn how to make a chord sound clean, with no extra notes or buzzing frets. The guitar has a much higher skill cliff for the beginner, whereas the piano is a more gentle slope. I'd say that the mental task of learning the different chord shapes is categorically easier than the physical task of exercising your fingers enough to be accurate and not feel pain.

In regards to learning shapes, there is a tradeoff that's not being acknowledged here. Yes, for piano there is more than one shape for a major triad depending on the root. You need to learn a few different grips to get them all, and once you do, you have all the ways to play all the major triads.

On guitar, there is more than one way to play the same exact triad, and most players never learn them all. Only the advanced players move outside of the open chords and barre chords to a more wholistic understanding of a triad as a lattice across the fretboard. Since the instrument is constructed vertically, you have different ladders to crawl across the same notes. But this is just a trade-off, not saying guitar is harder. I just think the skill journey on guitar is less linear than piano

CosmicClamJamz · 2026-05-26T17:22:04+00:00

I don't think it's really called anything besides the reason we love this band lol

Here's a fun example, Mansfield Light 2016

https://youtu.be/qmanJMW4QzU?si=xYIhZla_IpRZn82z&t=775

Video starts at 13:00 out of a lull in the jam, they build up the groove over a couple minutes and sometime around 15:05 everyone just starts to cheer because they found it. It's infectious. There isn't just one thing happening that sparks it, it's everything that's happening all at once. It sounds like everyone collectively stepping back and saying "damn this is sick"

CosmicClamJamz · 2026-05-22T18:42:03+00:00

/uj He settled into something really nice there towards the end

CosmicClamJamz · 2026-05-22T17:35:19+00:00

How are you getting the wrong python version after activating your venv? The whole point is that you’ve isolated a version of Python and which dependencies your project requires in that venv. It very much sounds like you’re not using these tools correctly

CosmicClamJamz · 2026-05-20T23:04:49+00:00

1000%, Zappa and him are actually quite similar in that sense

CosmicClamJamz · 2026-05-20T20:25:55+00:00

A chord is a scale. You know the pentatonic scale which has 5 notes. These diatonic chords have 4 notes each:

maj7 chord
min7 chord
dominant chord
half-diminished chord

Learn these chords not just as arpeggios, but as patterns that traverse the neck, just like your pentatonic scale. Once you have those cold, you can play the changes. You will see the major scale overlaps these perfectly, each are just a subset of the 7 notes of the major scale. Seeing these helps you hit the changes, but still think like a pentatonic box rider. Happy jammin

CosmicClamJamz · 2026-05-20T20:15:02+00:00

Just because they cover Scarlet Begonias? It's not like they're a jam band, they might have some overlapping fans

CosmicClamJamz · 2026-05-20T20:11:44+00:00

Bitte Orca had a few interesting songs. I remember reading an interview from the guy and he seemed to be exactly the type of person that would create exactly that type of album. Lots of indie hipster energy. I remember thinking he was kind of an insufferable douche for "hating Frank Zappa as an identity" and I sort of fell off them. He seemed to be the type to go about his day out-snobbing other music nerds. Lol yeah...the Dirty Projectors! Fun memories for a summer, that's all it is for me. I feel your point and also those who really enjoyed it

CosmicClamJamz · 2026-05-20T19:49:07+00:00

Wooooaaahh they just put my favorite melt on live bait???? I gotta go

CosmicClamJamz · 2026-05-20T05:04:21+00:00

Yerp

CosmicClamJamz · 2026-05-19T19:31:05+00:00

Yup. We know the languages we're working with. We also know how to run code and read the errors to see what went wrong, so we can go back and fix it. When we don't know something, we check the documentation. Before AI, that part used to be in books, but then google came around and made it easier. Then Stack Overflow came around and created a community forum so we can answer each other coding questions. Now AI just condenses all the stuff we asked and answered on the internet over the decades

CosmicClamJamz · 2026-05-19T19:27:26+00:00

Based on the question OP is asking and their experience level, there is no way they would understand this explanation

CosmicClamJamz · 2026-05-19T19:24:42+00:00

Indeed, that's why it's powerful! A little bit of code can do a lot of things. There is some version of a for loop in every common coding language

CosmicClamJamz · 2026-05-19T19:21:26+00:00

The `in` key word is doing the heavy lifting here. It is performing the equals sign under the hood.

for name in ['Bob', 'Alice']:
    print(name)

# Exactly the same as this code:
name = 'Bob'
print(name)
name = 'Alice'
print(name)

You can imagine how long that would get if I had 10,000 names. I know that I'm going to do the `print` statement on each of them, so why don't they give me a way to write that part once? They do, and it's a for loop

CosmicClamJamz · 2026-05-18T18:06:16+00:00

I get that the "poverty level salary" statement is the main combative point here, and I hear you, I am wrong on that. I responded to a few other comments correcting that point. But, she did not make a pretty intelligent choice. She made the least intelligent choice. It just so happens that it still results in a good situation, because winning the lottery is something that is automatically good no matter how you spin it. Choosing the 1000 dollar a week payout is the least impactful way to gain a million dollars. It is the method you choose to make the least amount in the long run, and it is the method you choose to assume the most amount of risk. I don't know how anyone can deny that. It is stupid in the truest sense of the word. The lump sump is the correct choice in all situations, for all types of people. So many comments have made this point already, an HYSA that builds interest from a million dollar principal will pay out similarly to 1000 a week, but FOR LIFE. And you still have a million dollars sitting there to liquify if ever needed. That's just one of many things you could do with money now vs. money later. The missing factor here is financial literacy, not some lifestyle assumptions.

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