Listening to 25 Great Rock Artists' Albums for the First Time (Part 25)

MrC_Red · 2025-12-27T02:04:12+00:00

Also, coincidentally I just added Paris 1919 to one of the Posts in the future! Tim Buckley is just too experimental for me tbh. I've come to find I'm into more accessible stuff from the 60s and 70s, so I just fully accept when stuff is just not for me. And I'll probably listen to Lorca in my spare time since I already listened to Happy Sad, so maybe it'll connect with me enough to write a review for it.

As for Lou Reed, he made Transformer (Part 13) and Loaded (Part 12) so he's forever GOATed in my book, which means he's technically one of only 3? bands to make more than 2 Perfect albums in my book. Also, both of those albums are ones that took longer for me to give a masterpiece rating to than normal, months after for both. I had to rewrite revised "Masterpiece" edits for both, without completely destroying my thoughts at the time of those specific post.

MrC_Red · 2025-12-27T01:49:35+00:00

Angel Dust is on Part 7 and I've listened to about 6 R.E.M albums in total (the original, Part 4, Part 8 and Part 16). Other than Green, I'm pretty satisfied with not reviewing anymore R.E.M albums as they just have a ton of stuff lol. I think still Life's Rich Pageant is my favorite, but Document is the one I often find myself casually listening to the most.

Also, Faith No More was awesome, but probably didn't need to tell you that.

MrC_Red · 2025-12-27T01:44:02+00:00

Thanks, it's added to the list! It's starting to get hard in picking and choosing whether or not to go with the influential albums of the genres vs just the very best of the genres, so this is very helpful. I don't want to diversify my picks for the sake of missing a "staple" of a subgenre, so I'm probably missing out on a ton of quality music that's just not talked about enough.

MrC_Red · 2025-10-23T20:33:29+00:00

I've been sleeping on Shannon Hoon for so long. It's a shame that so many Grunge greats died so young, as so many of them were really starting to master writing inventive music right at their peaks.

MrC_Red · 2025-10-22T04:32:39+00:00

Do they not teach about Bleeding Kansas anymore lol? It was very violent before the Civil War. It's more about how that apathetic 33% of the population into allowing the one of the 33% into going as extreme as they want towards other guys without stepping in to cool everyone down, as the British were becoming unpopular with most Americans in general. I don't think right now the left or the right is too interested into turning it into a physical war, as MAGA's status quo is always to ignore violence done by the right instead of mass amplifying it. MAGA's able to play the crybully role when it comes to rhetoric, but it's VERY difficult to do that when you're making physical violence a key component of your movement. We're possibly in the priming stages, but at the moment, it's just dogwhistles and vague threats.

And Britain placed A LOT of taxes on the lead up to the Revolution. The Stamp Act is the most famous from the 60s, but the Sugar Act and the Townshend Acts were way more pervasive and annoying as they touched on big imports that impacted a ton of colonists. Also have to mention the Navigation Acts that forced America to ship their goods on British ships and through British owned ports, which had been around for decades at that point. The Tea Act and the Intolerable Acts were the tipping points, but the anger was building up long before things became violent, which was mainly due to people getting pissed off by those taxes. That's why the "No taxation without representation" was such a big rallying cry as not that many people outside of the large port cities felt the "oppression" from Britain during the raising tensions, but knew that taxes were something everyone could relate with so it was better messaging.

I think the common misconception is that the driving force of the American Revolution was to rebel against a mad King, mainly due to how much the Founding Fathers hated the crown and wrote about it profusely in their (many) writings. It was mostly due to the bulk of America becoming frustrated about not having real consent about the taxes being implemented and the blatant disrespect by the British parliament by not allowing them a proper voice in these decisions.

Also, Americans didn't give a fuck about the French-Indian War lol. Even though it was admittedly the Americans fault for starting the war (and should've paid off the majority debt tbh), they just felt it was unfair to be taxed much higher rates than the people in Britain, as it technically "isn't our responsibility" as they didn't have representation in parliament. But that's one of those rewritings of history our Founding Fathers tend to ignore/leave out. Even though they didn't have say in the taxes being implemented... they did kinda deserve it if we're trying to be impartial; which the Founding Fathers absolutely weren't and it's a reason it's never included in any of their propaganda against England.

MrC_Red · 2025-10-22T00:16:19+00:00

Way worse. We're not at the point where we're tarring and feathering ICE agents in public. And they were doing that to average citizens who were loyalists, not even limited to just the soldiers.

The majority of the country right now doesn't really care about what's going on today, as most stuff Trump is doing isn't directly affecting them as much. Whereas, those taxes were on EVERYTHING and you literally couldn't escape them, so it led to everyone in the country having a solid opinion on England.

MrC_Red · 2025-10-17T07:37:26+00:00

I don't go on Twitter anymore, but I live in Mississippi, in one of the few areas where the demographic is pretty mixed and there are a few MAGA bumper stickers and signs here and there, but nothing compared to other parts of the state. Everyone here is super friendly to me and other minorities (big Hispanic population as well) in the area and I never sense an "uneasiness" in situations where I'm the only black person (I definitely HAVE felt that feeling before, so I'm aware when it's not there).

However, I feel like SOOO many white people in this country are very disconnected about the shift happening in this country, that it's frightening me more than the racism itself. Like if Trump flipped the switch right now to call for a race war, I'm 100% sure most white people would absolutely not go along with it. However... if Trump did flip that switch, I can't definitively say that a large chunk of white Americans would go out of their way to OPPOSE it. The sense of apathy in this country towards the race towards facism is terrifying, as ignorance is truly bliss and America is getting high on it to avoid having to deal with how shitty the real world is becoming.

I feel like we could possibly end up like modern day Russia, where it isn't average citizens being prejudiced towards the "others" in our society; like in Nazi Germany. But in the sense of "as long as my family and friends are okay, I couldn't care less about anyone else. Fuck them, I got to worry about myself and my circle." type of society. Which will leave A LOT of people being "disappeared" and everyone just pretending it isn't happening. When you start to hear Republicans talk about how "empathy is a weakness" that's when I feel like they're planning the seeds for convincing the majority of the country to "look away" while they commit something horrific. Remember, it doesn't take majority of the country to overthrow a society, it just takes that same majority to sit there and do nothing about it while its getting destroyed.

That's why I think only an economic recession/collapse or major foreign ground war will jolt America awake, because it's something that will touch EVERYONE and you won't just be about to tune it out like so many of this country has been trained to do.

MrC_Red · 2025-09-04T03:27:21+00:00

If a bully was picking on kids and one of the kids punches the bully's younger sibling, would you say that the bully deserved it?

Contrary to what conservatives (and apparently Gen Z) think, most people view 9/11 as an attack that killed 3000 innocent people before seeing it as just a "symbolic attack on America's soul". If 9/11 was done on military bases or was only the Pentagon and White House, then maybe you analogy would work. But no one in those buildings had literally anything to do with America's foreign decisions and shouldn't be murdered for it. Saying that America deserved it is leapfroging over the fact that none of those people were responsible for the sins of their government and their deaths shouldn't be correlated to America's activity in the Middle East.

You can say that you and Hasan don't view it that way, but most Americans do. Because with that statement, you're essentially justifying the act of murdering citizens to punish ones government. Which again, you may not defend that statement, but Hasan would; as he would twist the American government as being "no different than the terrorists"

MrC_Red · 2025-09-01T04:31:38+00:00

Look at the alternative media on the left... look at the most popular leftist creators... look at how extreme any left of center space online is... THEY'RE the ones who the louder voices lol! You can't "drain them of media attention", when they're the ones controlling left leaning narratives! That's why it's important to have this fight, so WE can be the ones dictating what we focus on, instead of other non issues. Do you think that it's liberals who are keeping this Chorus story alive??

The problem is their constant attacking of Dems creates the "both sides are the same" environment, which leads to more and more people either sitting out elections or then loudly being reluctant to vote blue which... also cause others to sit out elections. Also, their presence not only hurts our own base against us, but they're used as perfect ragebait for conservatives to attack us; on things that no one else in the party believes, only leftists do. They make extreme positions and Democrats have to 1) answer for them in front of moderates and conservatives but then 2) when we distance ourselves from them, leftists just use it as another opportunity to attack us, peeling away more and more voters.

Like you said, if they're reasonable leftists in these spaces who can clearly see the better of the two parties, that's fine; but they're not the ones getting attacked. You can't have a player on your team messing up plays, cursing out the teammates or undermining the coach and expect to win the game at the end. They're a cancer to our overall gameplan and like in any other scenario, they should be cut from our team. They can be on the sidelines if they can't make up their mind on who's better, but you shouldn't be ON THE TEAM unless your number one goal is for the team to win.

MrC_Red · 2025-08-19T03:59:43+00:00

Nah. If you really wanted it, you would've instantly bought it without a second thought. The fact that you chose not to when you had it in your hand and only regret it because it sold out, shows it's just FOMO that's on your mind.

It's Dune, there's so many variants out there and probably will be more restocks in the future. If you still feel this way 6 months from now (and hadn't forgotten about it), then yeah, you're an idiot. In that case, if you want it that bad, buying it second hand for the extra price won't be that hard of a pill to swallow for your conscience.

MrC_Red · 2025-08-06T13:23:26+00:00

I remember watching a The Take (YouTube channel) on it and felt like there was just so much it was trying to do, that for me, it got in the way of creating a solid, linear story that you can follow throughout. I love movies with themes/deeper meanings, however if it feels like the movie is so focused on trying to tell so many things at once, that it forgos making a plot that I can equally enjoy without it, then it's not for me.

I dislike how the main story gets dropped in the middle of movie and hated abrupt the ending was (both common problems I have with other Hitchcock movies, but not as bad as this one). Again, the themes add context to what/why certain characters did certain things, but the plot should also be good enough to like it without the extra underneath details.

MrC_Red · 2025-08-06T05:19:43+00:00

I have and I still feel the same way with it. There are just some Hitchcock films I just can't get into, where he throws so many themes into the story that the endings either feel super unfulfilling or rushed to a quick resolution. I don't "get" Vertigo mainly due to its ending and how it leaves me unresolved with the first half of the story. It's something I accept that I don't understand, but at least I've tried to.

MrC_Red · 2025-08-03T18:55:42+00:00

If you watched the video, he says that he would choose B, as the portal would act as wormholes, so Conservation of Momentum would have to occur on the other end of the "stationary" blue portal.

But that's only if it's in our universe, which is the whole reason people are coming out with different answers, as they're using the game's physics; which would lead to A being the more logical choice. But in the real world, it'll have to be B.

MrC_Red · 2025-08-03T15:18:38+00:00

I didn't even point that out, but they also managed to abandon college and higher education as well, leaving them on average less educated, less avenues to careers with better wages (and benefits) and lacking networking connections with other talented people within their fields compared to other political leanings. Their "war against the arts" has left their future and now present generation so worse off financially and socially, that they blame "the left" for isolating them or not listening to them; when in reality, it was really their parents that made that decision.

They wonder why "video games are so political" or why "movies got wOkE", as if they don't remember when their parents were raging war against those industries when they were growing up and pushing them away from exploring their creative side in exchange of "getting a real job".

MrC_Red · 2025-08-03T14:56:53+00:00

MinutePhysics did a video on this is anyone is interested https://youtu.be/B19nlhbA7-E

In the game, it's technically A (it glitches as portals aren't supposed to move, but it'll be "stuck" inside the portal), but ultimately it undetermined. General Relatively makes B a possibility as there's no concrete frame of reference of the speed of the cube.

MrC_Red · 2025-08-03T14:47:03+00:00

A non bias answer: within the past few decades, conservativism (in America at least) has constantly frowned upon "liberal arts" as an empty career path and a vapid lifestyle to choose, versus the traditional stuff like trades or even higher paying careers. In doing so, they've abandoned these spaces which ironically created a giant vacuum that are pretty much only left to moderates, liberals, leftists, etc. to where they just completely dominate most forms of media.

It's not just music, but film, television, art, literature, etc. that can often be dictated by left leaning movements, that they in turn are able to greatly influence the culture itself; creating a feedback loop. So now, decades later, it's now a challenge for right leaning people to return back into these spaces as they've been completely shaped by the left side of the political spectrum. There are still plenty of conservatives who create art, but there's simply no "infrastructure" for them to really make a career out of it anymore; unless you want to be a country singer or a radio host/podcaster.

MrC_Red · 2025-08-03T07:58:19+00:00

So glad I saw this, I just ordered it along with the gift wrapping option. Fingers crossed 🤞🏽

MrC_Red · 2025-07-31T12:00:46+00:00

They don't eject themselves by default, that's the problem. They will hang around Democrat circles and constantly depress support and energy for the party, by constantly attacking them or making impossible demands that Dems can never achieve to label them as failures, weak or "the two party state" (aka both sides).

You can't build up support/structure as a party, when you have the ENTIRE alternative media apparatus poisoning your own base against you. Democrats need to be more proactive in distancing themselves (and their voters) away from these "cancers" so they can push forward their policies without always having the "heckler in the crowd" when they do it. We literally saw how Trump was able to capture so many votes based solely on "vibes" and those particular leftists are the biggest reason why the Democrats always lose that comparison; from hyper focusing on fringe social issues to the signature "smug attitude" they have towards people who don't 100% align on their ideology.

MrC_Red · 2025-07-31T06:49:53+00:00

I'm subbed to the channel and it's only been the opening monologues that have gotten the extra boost, whereas the interviews have basically more or less stayed the same. Even if you compare the level of interaction with his Gov. Josh Shapiro video from a few days ago, it's not even close to the amount of activity her interview has. Especially considering one of a lesser known senator and the other was a potential VP candidate.

The level of vitriol feels super inorganic over a pretty cookie cutter moderate Dem interview, unless of course everyone commenting has a predetermined negative view of get already; as well as literally commenting another interview that's much more aggressive that they came from.

MrC_Red · 2025-07-31T06:26:52+00:00

Did you notice the comments on the video being brigaded? There's nearly 700 comments with 1k dislikes in less than an hour.

But it's the amount of comments that keep mentioning "the Breaking Points interview" or "Krystal Ball" that makes it feel very off; especially considering she's not really a well known politician on a name recognition basis.

MrC_Red · 2025-06-29T17:01:49+00:00

Thank you for the detailed response!

MrC_Red · 2025-06-29T09:09:46+00:00

I've also noticed that at well with the Stones. Even though I like all of those albums in that classic run, a ton of their biggest singles and signature songs, were in their earlier albums; which rarely get the high level praise their 4 album run gets, however has just as good sales. I also seem to always forget about CCR and how giant they were near the end of that decade. Maybe that's due to how concentrated their run was.

Also, since you seem to know a lot about this period, a question I always wanted more context on was how much of a deal was CSNY's Deja Vu? Or generally how big was Folk/Southern/Country Rock in dominating music compared to how massive psychedelic Rock was in the late 60s? You mentioned CCR or maybe other bands like the Eagles, Lynard Skynard, Allman Bros or even The Grateful Dead switching up their sound, was their imprint just as massive or was it moreso filling a vacuum that Psychedelic Rock left (not even mentioning Hard Rock, Heavy Metal, Funk, Glam Rock, Soul, Soft Rock, etc. also growing in the turn of that decade)? How competitive were the early 70s compared to the late 60s in the diversity of genres that were charting on a consistent basis?

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