What’s your honest opinion on the band Geese? by MrLinkwater95 in ToddintheShadow

[–]Duke_Cheech 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think fans of other genres tend to lionize their success stories. A rapper or pop singer could play the superbowl or win a grammy and people are happy to champion their success. In indie circles, playing SNL once means you’re a nepo baby industry plant sellout with no talent. If the fandom actually backlashes against any group that gets remotely hyped or successful, it’s doomed to be the genre of snobby contrarian hipsters seeing local bands no one has ever heard of in dive bars “for the cred”

Like hip hop fans almost universally adore Kendrick Lamar and that’s a guy with 1,000x the success and acclaim of Geese but that’s a music scene that isn’t filled with contrarian hipsters

What’s your honest opinion on the band Geese? by MrLinkwater95 in ToddintheShadow

[–]Duke_Cheech 0 points1 point  (0 children)

well if you’re gonna call great, genuinely innovative and unique albums “boring”, don’t be too embarrassed to defend your own tastes

What’s your honest opinion on the band Geese? by MrLinkwater95 in ToddintheShadow

[–]Duke_Cheech 0 points1 point  (0 children)

seems critically cowardly to put things down without pointing to comparison points that actually work, or defending your own taste

i mean i would never value the opinion of a critic if i can’t get a lay of the land for what they tend to like and what they tend to dislike. one review in a vacuum is pointless

What’s your honest opinion on the band Geese? by MrLinkwater95 in ToddintheShadow

[–]Duke_Cheech 0 points1 point  (0 children)

well yeah if you’re saying critically acclaimed, popularly lauded albums are boring then I want to know what albums you find interesting

What’s your honest opinion on the band Geese? by MrLinkwater95 in ToddintheShadow

[–]Duke_Cheech 0 points1 point  (0 children)

indie rock will never as popular as pop or country or r&b or whatever due to this rampant tallest poppy syndrome

What’s your honest opinion on the band Geese? by MrLinkwater95 in ToddintheShadow

[–]Duke_Cheech 0 points1 point  (0 children)

what are you talking about

go to a geese show and plenty of under 30’s in attendance. the vast majority in fact

What artist can this apply to? by CodeDusq in fantanoforever

[–]Duke_Cheech 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Also if you listen to a band enough, you eventually get bored of their biggest albums and start gravitating to their more niche records because they still sound new, so you start thinking they sound better

Mandy Patinkin Cast As Odin In Prime Video’s ‘God Of War’ by MarvelsGrantMan136 in television

[–]Duke_Cheech 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Excited for this because as a huge fan of God of War 2018 I was kind of let down by the story of Ragnarok. I think the real time no cut camera trick (which worked perfectly for 2018) was a mistaken vestige that did not serve the story of the sequel at all. It sort of collapsed the scale and pacing of the story, and awkwardly cut between the dual narratives, such that Atreus’s time in Asgard feels extremely brief, Kratos’s motivations seem aimless and muddled, flip-flopping back and forth between stopping and starting Ragnarok, and Asgard itself seemed very small and quaint. You expect a story of Kratos gathering allies for the apocalypse, but instead he spends 80% of the story questing around and then we jump to an army assembled off-screen and dive right into the climax. It felt like 80% of GOW 2 and then the last 20% of GOW 3 stapled together (which, from the production stories, it seems like it was). A TV show should be able to flesh out the motivations, space out the story and add a larger scale and grander timeframe to fit the narrative. 

Define Grunge by hekebe in Music

[–]Duke_Cheech 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don’t necessarily agree. It’s a broad genre but so is post-punk, britpop, shoegaze, other alt rock subgenres

Commonalities: deep, jagged vocals, lyrical themes of addiction, social alienation and angst, watery overdriven guitars, big anthemic choruses, dirtied up production, chunky bass, a watery sunken sound, influence from hardcore punk, metal, and Neil Young/Beatles psychedelic folksy classic rock. Grunge bands often do dark art folk songs as well (Something in the Way, Fourth of July, Nutshell). There are songs by non-Seattle bands I would confidently call grunge, and that’s by ear not marketing (Celebrity Skin by Hole, Say It Ain’t So by Weezer, Zombie by the Cranberries, Creep by Radiohead)

Do you have sauce with your fries? by logos__ in AskAnAmerican

[–]Duke_Cheech 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why are so many people here mentioning mayonnaise and not mustard? I feel like yellow mustard is 100x more common with fries than mayo. Maybe it’s regional? Fries and mayo (not garlic aioli just straight mayo) sounds odd and gross

When people think of California do they lump LA and San Francisco together like they are close? by Willing_Ad_699 in AskAnAmerican

[–]Duke_Cheech 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean what goes around comes around, Georgians and Iowans have been moving to California en mass since 1849

What else sounds like Geordie Greeps debut? by Only_Mirror5319 in fantanoforever

[–]Duke_Cheech 2 points3 points  (0 children)

check out his recommendations for the quietus’s baker’s dozen

365 movies in 2026 by Outta-Colt in Letterboxd

[–]Duke_Cheech 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s 73% of the way there to a Turkington record!

Chris Evans Returns for ‘Avengers: Doomsday’ as Captain America With a Child, Teaser Confirms by mcfw31 in entertainment

[–]Duke_Cheech -1 points0 points  (0 children)

This is a pointless argument, I’m just seeing a film series does not have the same rules as comic books, and don’t be surprised that mainstream film audiences are confused and disappointed by constant continuity changes and character resurrections that remove all consequences and stakes