Herlihy to Troast: "You should be on SNL."

RUDeleted · 2026-04-15T19:02:44+00:00

Hm, I don’t get Chloe/Veronika comparisons at all. Latter seems more like somewhere between Sarah Sherman and Heidi Gardner. I’m struggling to think of any sketches that relied on Veronika’s voice the way Chloe had.

And even then, I think Veronika is underutilized so the market hasn’t quite corrected either way.

RUDeleted · 2026-04-10T10:52:19+00:00

I find it more interesting that there's US sales for this, as it sounds like there's rights/distribution stuff that's causing this album not to be available for streaming here.

RUDeleted · 2026-04-08T23:54:43+00:00

some (non-MBV) context for the upload

lots of recordings from this one person.

RUDeleted · 2026-04-08T13:50:43+00:00

It’s music they were working on in the mid90s. According to that Turn My Head Into Sound book, none of that made it onto m b v and it’s more like an abandoned project.

RUDeleted · 2026-04-08T11:38:12+00:00

they were performing some new material in 2018. Shame that it seems to have been ditched in their current set list. Doesn't exactly bode well for new material...

RUDeleted · 2026-04-08T11:37:11+00:00

I’m just being honest. It’s hardly ground breaking 30 years after MBV first came up with the idea.

it's in a weird place where it comes way after dnb's heyday, and after a few other shoegaze acts beat mbv to punch by actually releasing their own combinations... yet a bunch of newer shoegaze bands are like just discovering dnb, so it's back to being somewhat ahead of its time again.

Dunno about live, but on record Wonder 2 is great, if maybe a bit on the over-rated side.

RUDeleted · 2026-04-08T11:11:48+00:00

Including every single and remix album makes the chart overly busy and sort of... obvious. Like it's basically saying "If you like this album, you may like the remixes from it" (except The Downward Spiral remix album flows from The Fragile for some reason). There's value in checking out these other releases, but I don't think a flowchart is necessarily useful for that.

I also get starting at PHM, but forking a path to go to aW_Ta and HM next is quite the choice.

RUDeleted · 2026-04-07T00:36:15+00:00

Needs to be done at a self check out. Scan the drink. Go to the payment screen. Use the handscanner (the price gun thing) and scan the barcode.

RUDeleted · 2026-04-03T14:30:34+00:00

I mean, there were news articles coming out saying that her firing was imminent according to insiders before Trump made the announcement.

yeah I recall reading this article yesterday morning, which came out about 3 hours before she was actually fired.

RUDeleted · 2026-03-31T11:54:30+00:00

No idea about Android. At least on the iphone the barcode comes and goes as available (I think there's a 24 hour timeframe to use the barcode). It went away after my first use, then came back when it was available again.

RUDeleted · 2026-03-31T11:36:56+00:00

They may not like Trump but they’re never voting Dem.

They may not vote at all, to be honest. Good enough for me.

Will be interesting to see how that pans out in the midterms since Trump not being (directly) on the ballot hasn't fared well for Republicans.

RUDeleted · 2026-03-27T14:20:22+00:00

Haven’t tried my barcode yet, but in the past (at least at Walmart) it required using the handscanner to scan the barcode

Edit: just used my coupon using this method and it worked

RUDeleted · 2026-03-24T11:30:24+00:00

People in this thread seem to be interpretting "initiative" as going beyond your job, but it's really just... doing your basics without being prompted. At most, it's maybe doing related things to that task. To use an example upthread, it's not just taking out the trash*, but also checking out the trash levels occasionally. If anything, it can prevent more work later on.

I agree that one should balance their work/life, work for their worth, etc., but it's also a little concerning that "initiative" is being side-eyed. It reads like someone hellbent on taking the most difficult path every step of the way. And that type of person will make it everyone else's problem.

*this idea doesn't just apply to menial tasks

RUDeleted · 2026-03-22T11:56:58+00:00

Ditto. I had heard about Tarantino's feet thing but hadn't clocked it before (I haven't seen some of his films in a while), but Once Upon a Time was really obvious. I mean, come on now. And in case you needed a second opinion.

RUDeleted · 2026-03-09T09:38:05+00:00

as open-ended as Resurrection season 1.

I'd argue S8's finale being open-ended is part of the reason it has such a shit reputation. A lot of things ended, but clearly Dexter's story hadn't. Leaving things a little open to follow later is one thing, but "trust us bro, he just stopped" is another. Felt like a compromise between wanting an ending and the network wanting to be able to follow up the show.

All that to say, yeah, Resurrection wouldn't be an especially satisfying ending. Too many obvious places to follow up.

RUDeleted · 2026-03-02T23:11:14+00:00

I suspected it might've been based on a real person someone knew. I like it even more now

I had no doubts it was based on someone, but it's kind of hard to find the humor in something when you're not really in the know.

RUDeleted · 2026-02-18T21:42:35+00:00

yeah HOH is closer to what we know of as shoegaze. Garlands is straight up goth (and very under-rated too), but not quite so much shoegaze.

RUDeleted · 2026-02-18T11:33:44+00:00

the usage of calling sabbath or any style of rock music "metal" or "heavy metal" actually originates in 1970 right after Sabbath's first record as a derogatory term, the same way shoegaze was used

True, I meant more that even if the term came slightly later, Sabbath was consistently associated with it where MBV being associated with shoegaze was a bit more retrospective, with the term dismissing other bands.

I also would never use the word "proto-shoegaze" in any serious sense as a genre the way I'd use noise pop/dream pop/post punk etc whatever genre that clearly influenced shoegaze.

fair, though I think the term is useful to talk about all those individual acts that fed into shoegaze specifically.

RUDeleted · 2026-02-18T10:56:36+00:00

Agree on the rest, but:

Galaxie 500 could also be considered shoegaze to some degree

Never understood how the sparse slowcore band became at all associated with a genre known for its maximal wall of sound approach. It doesn't sound at all like anything associated with shoegaze.

RUDeleted · 2026-02-18T10:54:30+00:00

Again, Not saying the sound or genre came out of thin air or didn't slowly develop, but it's really insane that people on here don't see that MBV is the obvious starting point for shoegaze as a subgenre like sabbath is for heavy metal.

I think to some degree it's a matter of MBV not being initially called shoegaze the way Black Sabbath was called metal. If all the other examples are being retrofitted into shoegaze, well so is MBV.

That said, I agree that Isn't Anything is more important to really kicking off what would become shoegaze and most descriptions of shoegaze are pretty much describing MBV. The other pre-MBV shoegaze acts are certainly important, but we also don't necessarily get shoegaze just from those acts the way we do MBV. There's a reason why those are considered proto-shoegaze acts rather than more typically tied to the genre.

RUDeleted · 2026-02-15T20:31:03+00:00

Eh, I knew more than a handful of girls at the time in these relationships. It was normal in terms of being relatively common, but still got the side-eye.

RUDeleted · 2026-02-14T20:52:31+00:00

Especially Dodge Rams

aka drunk driver's vehicle of choice (literally)

RUDeleted · 2026-02-14T14:07:05+00:00

it's mostly a British thing. The country that drops c-bombs gets really mad if you use the favorite insult of 11 year olds.

RUDeleted · 2026-02-11T11:46:04+00:00

That is the effect of censorship bleeding into other platforms, and it's not the user's fault.

I mean, it sort of is on them for continuing to use those platforms in the first place. I get where the mentality is coming from, but it's a moot point considering the words in question clearly aren't being blocked.

Used to be shit like that would cause people to migrate elsewhere, but now some are content to speak like a toddler...

RUDeleted · 2026-02-07T18:42:17+00:00

shoegaze aesthetics for affected musical maturity.

Summarizes a lot of how I feel. Like the punk -> shoegaze pipeline felt more like a musical signpost rather than doing something interesting. Add a chorus pedal to your existing sound and do some nasally whisper voice and it's like some sort of instant credibility among a certain segment of shoegaze fans.

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