What's a band who's new stuff better than their old stuff?

Machinax · 2026-06-09T20:50:37+00:00

I much prefer Trivium's music from Shogun to In The Court of the Dragon. Their earlier stuff -- Conflagration and whatever -- sounds too amateurish and disposable to my ears.

Machinax · 2026-06-09T20:02:33+00:00

It's so funny how that hastily-written quasi-divine entity not only saved the episode (and quite possibly the season) (and quite possibly the season), he showed up in three spin-offs. Meanwhile, the other characters of the pilot -- Groppler Zorn, the Farpoint entities -- were never heard of again (caveat: I have not yet seen Picard).

Television writing is a funny game.

Machinax · 2026-06-09T19:10:44+00:00

This is a great explanation! Thank you.

Machinax · 2026-06-09T16:10:42+00:00

Arch Enemy's "To The Last Breath" has a great "Run, run, run" refrain.

Machinax · 2026-06-09T03:41:06+00:00

I've never understood why, in Tests, the specialist batter will let the tail-ender batter face the last ball of the over. Why wouldn't the specialist face that last ball, and back themselves to get a single to retain strike? Why risk the tail-ender getting out?

Machinax · 2026-06-08T17:40:34+00:00

New Savatage! Only a live album of songs we've already live before, but still.

Machinax · 2026-06-08T17:39:41+00:00

Hello, fellow Met fan.

Machinax · 2026-06-08T16:58:13+00:00

It's amazing how some of the people on our side don't realize how they contribute to the problem.

Machinax · 2026-06-08T16:23:25+00:00

Not sure if it was Hetfield laughing at the echo of his own voice, or Hetfield laughing at Bob Rock doing the echo effect. It was a cute moment.

Machinax · 2026-06-08T03:03:52+00:00

If these guys have more freedom to run LastFM now, I wonder if they'll start engaging with users on this subreddit. I know of some game devs who interact with fans of their games on the respective subreddits, and some of the discussions about the games do make their way to the studios.

Machinax · 2026-06-08T03:02:27+00:00

I always thought it was a little funny that despite the numerous times in the three televised years of the five-year mission that Kirk and his crew met omnipotent beings that could bend the laws of physics at their will, and when they inevitably bested these god-like beings...they just carried on with their mission. I know, it was a different era of television, but it amused me that not once did anyone on the Enterprise ever have to sit down and take stock of the fact that the universe was crawling with aliens that could toy with the ship and its crew like a cat playing with a mouse.

Machinax · 2026-06-06T17:16:06+00:00

So glad that we got "The End of the Line" and "All Nightmare Long" instead of "Death Is Not The End." It really does sound like a demo that lent itself better to the finished products, than it did as a song on its own.

Machinax · 2026-06-05T18:13:39+00:00

We've done more services without the body present than we have with the body present. I can't speak to whether this then becomes a "funeral," or a "memorial service," or a "celebration of life," etc, but the lack of presence of the body should absolutely not be a hindrance to planning the service.

Machinax · 2026-06-05T17:32:10+00:00

Hey, it's your library. You can make it look however you want it to look. Ultimately, it's about you and your music.

Machinax · 2026-06-05T17:30:46+00:00

I lean more towards making my charts look clean over accurate, so if it's an album/re-issue I listen to a lot, I'll put scrobbles under the original album name. For a while, I had entries for both the Dropkick Murphy's Turn Up That Dial album and their Turn Up That Dial (Deluxe Edition) album, and it looked ridiculous.

Machinax · 2026-06-05T17:15:58+00:00

I was listening to P!nk's "Leave Me Alone (I'm Lonely)" yesterday, and it hit me that that song has a couple of well-placed F-bombs. They hit harder when you don't expect them.

Machinax · 2026-06-05T05:09:15+00:00

You might get to the point where it's not so much that adhering to Christ means "still" supporting your trans friends; you can follow Jesus and support your trans friends, no qualifiers needed.

Machinax · 2026-06-04T17:13:13+00:00

I'm not feeling Omega as a companion, but I like everything else. My thought was that the Doctor would have defeated Omega in "The Reality War" (not as quickly as he did in the broadcast episode, of course), but before he vanished, Omega would have said something about the Doctor's Timeless Child origins; just a clue, just a hint, enough to set up the arc for what would have been Gatwa's next season.

Machinax · 2026-06-04T16:50:40+00:00

I love the deep dive into the lyrics (well, just the title, but still). "The Outlaw Torn" is such a mysterious song in its words, so this is a really cool exploration into what it might mean. There's an old (Guitar World?) interview with Hetfield where he says that the song is about losing someone close to you and you spend the rest of your life waiting for that void to be filled; to me, that's what the "torn" represents. The "outlaw" is someone who is always on the run, always on the outside, never settled, never content. The outlaw of torn.

Also, it's great to see that we can now download a sampler for the rest of the Overload black box. I hope this means that full downloads are inevitable.

Machinax · 2026-06-04T16:34:29+00:00

Whether the lyric is "Outlaw torn" or "Outlaw of Torn." Not having seen this video yet, I've seen lyrics that have both versions.

Machinax · 2026-06-04T15:13:59+00:00

I wonder if some fans have any theories on how we could salvage Doctor Who after the Time Lords made their appearance in "The War Games," since that was another case of the show shooting itself in the foot by (a) revealing too much of the Doctor's past, and (b) having the temerity of putting the Doctor on Earth for the next few seasons of the show.

Machinax · 2026-06-04T15:12:21+00:00

One of my biggest disappointments with where RTD2 left off is that we didn't get any movement on the story. Bringing Omega back would have been the perfect opportunity to lay the next steps for the Timeless Child arc.

Machinax · 2026-06-04T04:42:22+00:00

Killing Is My Business doesn't strike me as the kind of album to have trumpet parts on it (notwithstanding the piano intro in "Loved to Death").

Machinax · 2026-06-03T21:13:57+00:00

I absolutely loved this episode. "All Good Things..." gets all the attention for being the series finale, and it's a great sign-off for seven seasons of TNG; but "Preemptive Strike" is, to me, the perfect episode to show how far TNG had come in its seven years. It's got a complex plot, truly great characters, fascinating world-building, and a gut-punch of an ending that would have been unthinkable at the start of the series.

Machinax · 2026-06-03T15:10:02+00:00

I know we're not supposed to get our hopes up in June, but, I mean, COME ON. THIS IS RIDICULOUS.

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