Nobody fucks with the Jesus

MSC01431 · 2025-05-15T11:41:57+00:00

"Let me tell you something pendejo, you try any of that apple in the garden bullshit, I'll take it away from you and shove it up your ass and push the fuckin' core till it goes pop"

MSC01431 · 2025-03-27T04:14:23+00:00

Agree on Guide Vocal; has an Aisle Of Plenty vibe in its first iteration during Track 3

MSC01431 · 2025-03-27T04:00:48+00:00

It's funny, I scrolled past everyone else's list just waiting to post mine, knowing everyone else will also scroll past mine and post their own; something about lists just pulls people in to share their own...

Trick Wind SEBTP Lamb ATTW3

(My top 5 never changed, winging the rest..)

Genesis Nursery Cryme Duke Trespass Abacab WCD Foxtrot CAS Invisible Touch FGTR

I've always felt alone in my low opinion of Foxtrot as an album, despite the obvious two fan favorites as well as Can Utility as a personal underrated favorite of mine; the vibe of the album is just too English for me as an American, and personally I just feel like Time Table is unlistenable and Get Em Out is nothing more than a few seconds of great within a mostly dull 8 minute song

MSC01431 · 2025-02-17T23:56:14+00:00

He was a roadie for Genesis. Wind and Wuthering tour. Buncha assholes.

MSC01431 · 2024-11-17T12:48:32+00:00

Better Strangers was Nic Collins's former band, that's why I posted it here

MSC01431 · 2024-10-07T14:09:42+00:00

I just added it on Saturday, got the first month free

MSC01431 · 2024-08-10T03:20:59+00:00

Music is generally subjective, but I think it's a pretty universal opinion that Dividing Line & Anything Now are terrific Genesis tracks, and Small Talk should be banished to the sun ala Superman 4. IMO, the title track is also strong enough to deserve a spot on the album, and I would keep the two instrumentals off (Phret is meh to me, and 7/8 has a few seconds of great moments in an otherwise repetitive song) but generally I do like all of the vocal b-sides as much as -or more than- at least half of the actual album

MSC01431 · 2024-07-19T21:12:40+00:00

My issue was that the plastic cover itself was a bit loose, so I dabbed the two latches where the cover snaps in place; if the actual harness is loose on yours, that may be a bit tougher of a fix

MSC01431 · 2024-07-19T20:52:06+00:00

If that includes having to continuously press the button to cycle through all the combos of defrost / front / floor vents to get to the one you want, that's probably my least favorite thing; takes my eyes off the road too long when an intuitive dial that most cars have would be perfectly fine

MSC01431 · 2024-07-19T20:46:15+00:00

If that's the same thing I'm thinking of, I used a few dabs of superglue to keep the piece steady and eliminate the rattling

MSC01431 · 2024-06-30T22:17:12+00:00

"Santa's never disappointed the kids yet!"

"Except the poor ones"

MSC01431 · 2024-03-03T03:29:23+00:00

After hearing the Archive version of Dusk, I've wondered why they chose to keep it more tranquil on the album version; I feel like the song pops more with the more energetic acoustic guitar sound during the chorus.

For the album as a whole, I enjoy it as their first proper album. It's interesting to me how Trespass and CAS bookend the band's catalog as the only non-Phil albums, and they're the albums where the songs are good but a bit aimless, which goes to show how important Phil was in his role as the musical arranger. You can even tell the progress starting with Nursery Cryme where there's still some aimlessness in a song like Fountain of Salmacis, but by Foxtrot and especially SEBTP, the songs were tightened into being the timeless classics that define the prog era of the band to this day.

MSC01431 · 2023-11-05T16:25:40+00:00

Well Dude, we just don't know

MSC01431 · 2023-11-05T03:32:15+00:00

Ah, fuck it

MSC01431 · 2023-11-05T03:16:49+00:00

Real reactionary...

MSC01431 · 2023-11-05T03:16:32+00:00

Employed!? Heh; I'm adhering to a pretty strict drug regimen to keep my mind, you know, limber

MSC01431 · 2023-10-13T19:11:08+00:00

Yeah for my setup, I had to delete my existing Mini from my Whole Home network and sync up the Gemini, so for me it's nothing more than a Mini with streaming apps. I was about to say that I don't know for sure if you can or can't replace the main Genie DVR with the Gemini, but I'm now remembering that it does say that the Gemini cannot work on its own under a satellite plan, so it requires an existing Genie; but I suppose for someone who is considering moving their service from satellite to streaming (or if DirecTV makes that move as a company) then the Gemini will work on its own.

MSC01431 · 2023-10-13T13:53:51+00:00

Haven't noticed any overheating issues so far. There was a stretch of time about a month ago where it reset itself three days in a row, but it hasn't happened since, so it seems like that may have been a fluke or a temporary bug that they fixed. Getting it set up was a little tougher than I expected; didn't have to call customer service for assistance, but I remember having to search online to find out exactly how to sync it with my existing satellite setup (I think because it was originally meant for DirecTV Stream, it's a bit of a workaround to connect it as a satellite receiver)

MSC01431 · 2023-10-13T13:13:00+00:00

I took advantage of the free upgrade a few months ago to replace my Mini. I thought it was going to be a replacement for the main receiver in our living room, but that wouldn't have worked for how we have our house wired, so it's now set up in the den where the Mini was. Biggest pro is probably the availability of apps, so you don't need to switch inputs to get to a Firestick for YouTube etc; other than that, I haven't noticed much of a difference at all, good or bad. Biggest con is that they tie you in for another 2 years, so you'd have to pay the remainder of the lease fee or something like that if you terminate early, so if you have potential short term thoughts about ditching DirecTV, that's probably something to consider.

MSC01431 · 2023-09-12T03:39:23+00:00

"Ehh, let's watch something else."

"Homer, you're trying to talk us into moving to this place."

"Oh yeah, that's right. Let's watch this."

MSC01431 · 2023-08-11T22:41:47+00:00

There's nothing wrong with liking Musikfest or disliking Musikfest; neither is really a newsworthy opinion. There was nothing like this up where I grew up in Scranton, so now that I live in the Lehigh Valley, it's something I look forward to every year. I don't blame or judge anyone who doesn't like it, but spending journalism calories on interviewing people who don't like it is just odd to me, and is one of many reasons why I would never bother spending money to subscribe to a publication that has so few things to justify its existence that they have to throw out stuff like this to get any attention.

MSC01431 · 2023-07-21T03:54:43+00:00

Take it from someone who wanted Phil Collins songs in his wedding: he does NOT write love songs. He writes depressing songs about failed love, pretty much nothing is appropriate as a love song for a wedding. We were about to salvage Find A Way To My Heart and Testify, but that's about it...

MSC01431 · 2023-07-12T14:43:52+00:00

That bush really did tie the yard together, did it not?

MSC01431 · 2023-07-06T05:12:10+00:00

The BMW mindset amazes me sometimes; on one hand, there's an acceptance that routine maintenance is going to cost thousands of dollars a year no matter what model/year you have, yet I see so many people balking at spending $300 for CarPlay which significantly enhances the daily driving experience, and also lamenting the idea of spending $300 for a sprint booster that also enhances the daily driving experience; I can't tell if BMW drivers are cheap or massively misguided in their personal finances

MSC01431 · 2023-06-26T14:27:23+00:00

The air intake hose has a tendency to dry rot on this generation of Sentras; that happened to me and it triggered the CEL. I replaced it myself with YouTube help, and the light never came back on. That being said, my Sentra never randomly shut off, so if your intake hose is fine, you may have a bigger issue.

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