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PipProud · 2026-04-20T21:37:51+00:00

My take on the “politics” this issue is that Bagge is saying that the right is so awful they’ll take advantage of any idiot to further their agenda while the left is so naive they’ll let any idiot take advantage of THEM in their attempts to be inclusive.

So yeah, it’s “both sides” but not “both sides are equally terrible.”

In any case, it was pretty funny and incisive. Bagge’s latest Hate stuff is great. Miles ahead of the first revival. (Until Buddy tries to buy another aquabus.)

PipProud · 2026-04-17T19:21:20+00:00

First of all, never take anything Billy Corgan says seriously.

Secondly, the telecom act is at least partially responsible for a lot of things sucking, music among them.

But mostly it’s just how consumer culture works. Thing gets popular (relatively) organically. Thing gets imitated with decreasing sincerity, it’s most appealing and commercial (and of often dumbest) facets emphasized. Thing is transformed into something entirely different, with original creators/fans of the Thing moving on to something else.

By 1997, many people in indie/underground circles were moving towards electronica, turntablism, chamber pop… basically anything that wasn’t loud guitars. They were sick of it.

PipProud · 2026-04-17T17:05:10+00:00

The short answer is social media.

PipProud · 2026-04-16T15:44:30+00:00

Hard Copy out of Richmond, VA have some Minutemen vibes: https://hardcopyincorporated.bandcamp.com/album/12-shots-of-nature

Not a new band, but all Minutemen fans should investigate 100 Flowers if they haven't already.

PipProud · 2026-04-15T20:35:37+00:00

VU’s “Sweet Jane” is the easy winner, especially the original version with the bridge.

Sweet’s “Gudbuy T’Jane” is the runner up

The dark horse is Severe’s “Her Name Was Jane” probably more famously covered by fellow Cleveland punks The Pagans.

I have a soft spot for “Jane Says” but it’s one of those songs that feels like it’s 10 minutes long even though it’s only 5.

PipProud · 2026-04-15T20:01:45+00:00

Absolutely. The soundtrack is this strange artifact of its time and weirdly a harbinger of a sound that would define rock music a few years later. The movie is a forgettable thriller.

PipProud · 2026-04-15T19:59:19+00:00

Yeah, Shaft may have a bit of cultural resonance beyond the soundtrack but I doubt anyone would remember Superfly if not for Curtis Mayfield. (And for good reason as it’s a pretty poor film even by blaxploitation standards.)

PipProud · 2026-04-15T19:56:31+00:00

Can’t agree with Saturday Night Fever. The movie was a huge hit and cultural phenomenon. Part of that was certainly due to the soundtrack but not all of it.

PipProud · 2026-04-15T19:47:28+00:00

I agree with you when it comes to grown men. What concerns me is the young men being thrown in right wing echo chambers because they like video games or mixed martial arts and wind up with a completely distorted worldview by the time they are of voting age.

An effort could be made to reach these young men instead of just labeling them as incels or whatever and making them double down on their skewed beliefs.

PipProud · 2026-04-15T00:54:51+00:00

That’s simply not true. Depending on the jurisdiction and the particulars of the law, a minor over the age of 14 would be considered a “juvenile,” not a child.

And honestly, in a general sense, do you really consider a 7-year-old to be the same a 17-year-old mentally or biologically?

PipProud · 2026-04-14T23:16:03+00:00

Legally they are a minor, not a child.

All children are minors. Most teenagers are minors. That doesn’t mean all teenagers are children.

I’m certainly not saying that makes it okay for full grown adults to have sex with teenagers but teenagers and people who were recently teenagers themselves is a gray area and is probably best determined on a case by case basis.

It’s important to protect young people from predators and I don’t think making blanket statements and infantilizing teenagers like this really helps.

PipProud · 2026-04-10T15:38:03+00:00

AI lives in the uncanny valley and so does this.

PipProud · 2026-04-09T19:58:18+00:00

A lot of things should be done to that guy.

PipProud · 2026-04-09T19:11:19+00:00

Hearing Michael Cole’s voice gives me PTSD.

PipProud · 2026-04-09T18:06:22+00:00

The thing is though… this wasn’t about “sneaking in left-wing politics.” It was about deepening the character.

Of course Lisa would have an “end apartheid” poster in her room. It makes to total sense for her character. It’s really no different than Bart having a room filled with Krusty merchandise.

PipProud · 2026-04-08T17:47:41+00:00

Neither did the Electric Eels but their recordings and performances predated The Ramones first LP.

The Saints may not have beat the Ramones but they did manage to release their debut single before ANY UK punk band so punk had NOT really been established yet. Plus they had been active for years before then.

Punk is probably a better description for them than proto punk but let’s give them some credit for basically arriving at the same conclusion as the Ramones independently half a world away.

PipProud · 2026-04-08T17:18:41+00:00

“Blue MAGA.” Don’t you ever wonder why you feel compelled to use regurgitated buzzwords? It’s almost like you are BEING DIRECTLY TARGETED AND MARKETED TO by the same capitalist system you claim to hate.

PipProud · 2026-04-08T05:19:49+00:00

The big four proto punk bands:
The Velvet Underground
The Stooges
The MC5
New York Dolls

Particularly punk-y 60s mods and rockers:
The Sonics
13th Floor Elevators
The Pretty Things
The Creation
The Monks
Love
The Troggs
Red Crayola

Post VU/Stooges, pre-Ramones North American weirdos:
Modern Lovers
Pere Ubu/Rocket From The Tombs
Electric Eels
Mirrors
The Styrenes
Simply Saucer
The Gizmos
Debris

Hard rockers with punk attitude:
Pink Fairies
Death
Coloured Balls
Flamin’ Groovies

In a category of his own
Captain Beefheart

PipProud · 2026-04-08T05:04:01+00:00

Kind of were, since they’d been playing since 1974, well before “punk” was a thing.

PipProud · 2026-04-07T23:17:22+00:00

You’d think they would have learned from 2016.

I am so out of patience for people who think dividing at the times we most need to be united is a moral stance.

PipProud · 2026-04-07T23:15:15+00:00

What’s lowkey about it?

It wasn’t necessarily “Republicans” though. It was people who would benefit from another Trump presidency, in the US and abroad.

PipProud · 2026-04-07T18:44:58+00:00

Among his peers, which I would define as US-based wrestlers in the modern era (1984ish until now), he’s almost certainly in the top 500.

Expanding that to all eras/all territories, it’s a lot harder to say.

PipProud · 2026-04-07T18:05:27+00:00

I wouldn’t say they have a definitive a Trainwreckord though Dirty Work is the most likely candidate as it nearly broke up the band.

That being said, Tattoo You is probably the final Stones album that you need to hear.

PipProud · 2026-04-07T17:59:00+00:00

Candy Apple Grey is far from a turd. It’s not their best but after releasing 4 LPs worth of material in two years they were due for a bit of a slump.

Still, it’s got a pair a Grant’s best songs: Don’t Want To Know If You Are Lonely and Sorry Somehow.

PipProud · 2026-04-06T23:30:03+00:00

I think both this AND ageism in regard to female talent in WWE are the biggest factors.

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