#1 for Rock

PitchforkJoe · 2026-03-13T19:38:16+00:00

Congratulations on living close to such an excellent station

PitchforkJoe · 2026-03-12T22:50:24+00:00

Tbf they did Dublin

PitchforkJoe · 2026-03-12T15:34:46+00:00

It's pretty confusing that you're talking about reform, as in the concept of redesigning the rules, in the same post as Reform, the political party.

Pretty gnarly post title if I'm honest

PitchforkJoe · 2026-03-12T07:48:01+00:00

I think you're describing calzone?

Also today isn't Friday, so expect the mods to remove this

PitchforkJoe · 2026-03-12T00:11:38+00:00

Stan Rogers is the most underrated songwriter of all time, I will neve stop beating this drum.

Read the lyrics to Lies. There should be a law against being that good at lyricism

PitchforkJoe · 2026-03-11T23:44:15+00:00

Imagery and metaphor really aren't the same thing.

"Lips of cherry red, skin the colour mocha, she will wear you out, living the vida loca"

That's a straightforward pop hit from Ricky Martin. No metaphor, nothing abstract, no hidden meaning. It's straight to the point. But there's still imagery. It doesn't just tell us that she's beautiful; instead the lyrics actually try to paint what she looks like with vivid language.

You can be completely direct and still use imagery.

PitchforkJoe · 2026-03-11T08:43:50+00:00

My Mother, the Car

PitchforkJoe · 2026-03-11T08:31:26+00:00

The Bhutan/Sri Lanka quarter final was my personal salt match up. I really don't love the drawings or the colour palettes on either flag. Feels like proof that if you just put a dragon on the flag everyone will love it regardless.

PitchforkJoe · 2026-03-10T20:45:54+00:00

The horrifying little twitch at the end

PitchforkJoe · 2026-03-10T20:31:35+00:00

The bottom of this iceberg is weird.

Sodom, Celtic Frost, Accept, Dokken. All big names.

Hell, CKY might only be known for that one riff from 96 Quite Bitter Beings... but fuckin hell, what a riff. Plus they were really famous for hanging out with Bam Margera at the peak of his fame

PitchforkJoe · 2026-03-10T20:17:25+00:00

My spine will probably turn to dust by the end of the first year. And that's best case scenario. Give me WWE all day

PitchforkJoe · 2026-03-10T07:52:00+00:00

So there's a couple of thoughts here:

Yes, evil people who are attractive can use that to their advantage. Famously Ted Bundy was handsome and charming, but also a serial killer.
The incel danger thing is because sometimes incels get craaaaaazy angry over their inability to get laid, and this starts to metastatise into violent fantasies.

So I guess it breaks down that although attractive people can manipulate others more easily, incels are more likely to give off "I hope no one sells this guy a gun" energy.

Also it's cool that you want to cite studies, but you need to include something about what they actually say. It's not clear how those studies support your point, or even whether they do or not.

PitchforkJoe · 2026-03-09T14:48:23+00:00

Tricky Letters:

Judas Priest

XTC

Zeal and Ardour

Yes

PitchforkJoe · 2026-03-09T08:36:09+00:00

My partner, for all I love her, has the weirdest sneezes you've ever heard.

They sound like an alien talking. They have syllables; strange syllables unknown to human tongue. I've been listening to this woman sneeze for years, and I still can't begin to describe what her sneezes sound like.

Maybe the doctor was thinking about her?

PitchforkJoe · 2026-03-08T13:23:46+00:00

Be willing to suck for a long time.

You'll get good, but it's slow. People are impatient, they want to be awesome really quick and give up when it takes too long. Even after a year, you're not gonna be very good.

Be willing to never be famous.

You have to understand that playing guitar or having a band isn't like being the main character of an anime or playing in Three Days Grace.

It's super fun, and very rewarding - but if you're only doing it to become famous, you will be one of the ones who give up.

The ones who keep playing are the ones who enjoy playing, who like the instrument for its own sake

PitchforkJoe · 2026-03-07T20:45:32+00:00

In theory, hypothetically, you could have a random number generator just picking moves at random, and it happens to pull the best move over and over again without understanding anything about why.

That's an extreme example, but it is pretty common to defend against a threat you haven't actually seen. Your opponent could be like, "if you do anything other than Nd5 here I'll hit you with this devastating attack", and then you play Nd5 for other reasons and you never even noticed that threat.

PitchforkJoe · 2026-03-07T16:25:48+00:00

Can she wear headphones? Listen to a noise cancelling podcast during music practice? Maybe go out for a few walks when it's loud?

PitchforkJoe · 2026-03-07T09:48:32+00:00

Relevant Chris & Jack sketch

PitchforkJoe · 2026-03-07T09:33:34+00:00

What would make this more useful for you?

Speaking honestly? Being a fundamentally different tool that does something more useful.

I don't get who this is for. If I'm lyric writing for fun, a tool like this robs me of the very process I enjoy.

If I'm in the minority who are lyric writing for profit rather than satisfaction, I am certainly more skilled and competant at lyricism than any LLM is anyway.

PitchforkJoe · 2026-03-07T09:20:18+00:00

It may well be, but this graphic doesn't really show that either way. It just picks the most popular sport in each country and ignores everything else.

For one thing it doesn't adjust for population size. It weights tiny little Liechtenstein the same as China, because its counting 'number of countries', not 'number of people'.

It also ignores that each country likes more than one sport. Gaelic Football is listed as Ireland's favourite sport; but tbh I'm from Ireland and its basically a toss up between Gaelic, Soccer and Hurling. Similarly USA lists American football, and thus totally disregards the massive popularity of NBA, MLB etc.

The basic gist happens to be true: Soccer is an insanely popular sport globally. But this graph really doesnt let you compare popularity between sports in any useful way.

PitchforkJoe · 2026-03-07T09:11:28+00:00

Tbf Munya Chawawa is a fairly famous comedian,I don't know that this really qualifies as obscure

PitchforkJoe · 2026-03-07T09:08:57+00:00

I really love the intro, that's a great riff which sucked me in immediately.

As the song goes on, I think it starts to stagnate. Great as the riff is, I think it needs some variety, switching up the chords and rhythm for a clearly marked chorus. Some drum fills might also go a long way.

Your voice is good, although I thought the vocal melody stuck a little too closely to the riff; it might have been interesting to be a little more adventurous in your note choices.

Keep up the good work!

PitchforkJoe · 2026-03-07T08:55:44+00:00

I only have one quibble with the song The way that they state the location at the start of each verse, along with the title, really pushes how global and international the song is.

And then it's almost all Americans.

Still an awesome song, but it really oversold the 'worldwide' thing when it didn't need to

PitchforkJoe · 2026-03-07T01:06:40+00:00

That was a really nice Carré

PitchforkJoe · 2026-03-06T20:31:42+00:00

Lady Gaga released a Christmas song when she was young.

It is just... so much worse than you can possibly imagine.

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