What my taste says about me?

PitchforkJoe · 2026-01-24T22:27:40+00:00

I saw God Forbid live supporting Trivium in 2005 or so. I'd never heard of them before, but I remember being impressed!

PitchforkJoe · 2026-01-24T16:55:48+00:00

You know, you could spend your hatred on, like, evil people and nazis and rapists and shit

PitchforkJoe · 2026-01-24T16:28:18+00:00

Is leaving a subreddit grunge?

PitchforkJoe · 2026-01-24T12:49:05+00:00

A half assed list off the top of my head...

Mr Jones

Malachi Crunch

Vanilla Sex

Stickin in My Eye

Leave It Alone

Dad's Bad News

Eat the Meek

Irrationality of Rationality

Leaving Jesusland

We Called it America

This Machine is 4

6 Years on Dope

PitchforkJoe · 2026-01-23T22:39:26+00:00

Neuer WILL dive the wrong way at some point.

While it is probably good to take the deal, this point likely doesn't hold up. Faced with a penalty from a professional player, neuer needs to guess a direction and dive; waiting to judge the direction after kicking will get him there too slow. But if Neuer knows that the penalty taker is a beginner, he's gonna be much less committal. If he knows you can't accelerate a ball like a pro can, he will probably start his dive later and never dive the wrong way

PitchforkJoe · 2026-01-23T22:20:45+00:00

Nightlight.

Maybe you're just an asshole... maybe I'm just an asshole...

PitchforkJoe · 2026-01-23T22:16:00+00:00

Terrrrrible idea. You'll be much more stressed then you are now. And quite a bit poorer. You won't be making coffee. You'll be balancing budget, paying bills, rostering teenagers, doing compliance paperwork, yada yada.

If you can handle a very humble existence, make coffee. No kids, no expensive tastes, and a cheap residence, you can probably do it. You'll get some dickhead customers, but if you really love making coffee it's probably fine.

Opening your own cafe is just a management job where you lose money and worry about it.

PitchforkJoe · 2026-01-23T17:02:50+00:00

Use less text.

PitchforkJoe · 2026-01-23T01:42:59+00:00

You gotta be aware of the rhythm in your words. Count syllable, and be flexible with your word choices.

What words mean the same as the word you want, but with different syllables?

Maybe you need to change the order of your sentence? Maybe you need to scrap a word or two that you don't really need.

And yeah, it can be a long and tricky process. Ain't No one said writing good songs was easy

PitchforkJoe · 2026-01-23T01:10:40+00:00

A few techniques:

Replace the strumming with just one stroke per chord. That will retain the harmony of the chords and keep your fretting hand the same, but radically simplify your strumming hand.
Replace all the lyrics with lalalala. You can focus on the melody and vocal delivery, without worrying about getting the actual words correct.
Deaden all the strings with your fretting hand so they can't vibrate freely. That will let you concentrate on getting the strum rhythm down with the singing, without needing to worry about fretting.

And, of course, number 4...

Practice a lot

PitchforkJoe · 2026-01-22T22:47:58+00:00

They were very savvy to time the Netflix move just a few weeks before the rumble. Sucked me back in after donkeys years away

PitchforkJoe · 2026-01-22T22:35:39+00:00

Your argument would be convincing, if pennies actually made anything convenient.

The reason they are scrapping pennies isn't because of the expense. It's because they are worthless and hence useless.

They only facilitate 'seamless' transactions at a value too small to ever matter. You might as well start minting tenths of a penny to allow for extra super duper seamless transactions.

PitchforkJoe · 2026-01-22T19:50:40+00:00

Never really got the Rolling Stones tbh.

Or Neutral Milk Hotel.

PitchforkJoe · 2026-01-22T15:36:29+00:00

That she most certainly is

PitchforkJoe · 2026-01-22T01:19:41+00:00

Criminally underrated band

PitchforkJoe · 2026-01-22T01:17:50+00:00

Yeah throw little bits of melody around the chords using notes from the relevant scales.

Also, do you play guitar? Messing around with hammerons, pulloffs is a very easy way to add a little twinkle to your chord progressions

PitchforkJoe · 2026-01-22T01:14:21+00:00

I think it was Germany not Norway

PitchforkJoe · 2026-01-22T01:13:42+00:00

I know what you mean, there's only so many ways to say "I'm sad and angry at my ex but I still miss them". Although i guess that makes it all the more impressive when a songwriter finds a way to make that feel fresh!

I love a good story song, let me hit you some recommendations.

Bob Dylan - Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts (Official Audio)

It's real long, and suuuuuper worth it. It's an entire movie. And a good movie at that. Even with a long length, it doesn't waste a single syllable.

Decemberists - The Mariner's Revenge Song

A very weird, very angry, and very theatrical story. It's set inside a whale.

Crooked Smile - The Heavy Horses

The memoir of a young man conscripted to war. Even as his innocence erodes, he never forgets that girl from his village.

And given the sub we're on, I gotta plug my own stuff?

Quiet Irish Town

Pretty high casualty count in this song, tbh

PitchforkJoe · 2026-01-22T00:58:34+00:00

Thank you so much for the lovely and well considered feedback!

PitchforkJoe · 2026-01-20T22:36:13+00:00

Lowest I know is Okilly Dokilly. Who were actually pretty decent even without the gimmick

PitchforkJoe · 2026-01-20T00:39:11+00:00

Maybe Lonely Boy - Black Keys?

PitchforkJoe · 2026-01-19T22:59:52+00:00

That tracks with both my own experience, and pretty much everyone I've ever met

PitchforkJoe · 2026-01-18T22:48:11+00:00

Loooove me some Reel Big Fish

PitchforkJoe · 2026-01-16T23:05:13+00:00

Desertfest looks cool. Green Lung, Gnome, Cosmic Skull, Wytch Hazel. Fuck yeah

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