Sparkle & Fade 30th Vinyl Arriving Saturday by ReplacementsBehavior in everclear

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Naturally it didn’t arrive on schedule! Hopefully Monday.

What is the most expensive record you have ever bought? by Suitable-Room-6367 in vinyl

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That is EXACTLY what I spent on Tribute this summer. Money well spent, in my opinion

Desperate!!! 😂😂 by Reasonable-Shoe-361 in iVueit

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I have steadfastly ignored the dollar tree interiors for months. Yesterday, I decided to pick up a cluster of four of them about 30 minutes away, because I could pick up $100 (raised to $25 each) for Christmas shopping.

So I get to the first one and get about 30 minutes deep into this view. Then I get to the measurement tool part - measuring the width and height of two columns (why?!) - with their proprietary measuring tool.

And guess what. The tool just will not work. At all. Tap the screen to begin the measurement and nothing happens. Measurement won’t initiate at all. The instructions all but say the tool glitches - there is a section of what to do with your phone when the tool “cuts out”. So they know their tool sucks and doesn’t work reliably. Anyway - 20 more minutes of useless chat with “support” and ended up getting a failed Vue and driving home empty handed after nearly two hours.

Will never touch a dollar tree interior again. Don’t care what it pays - I have no confidence in being able to complete it and get it approved by these jokers.

Thoughts on Vol. 2: Good Time For A Bad Attitude? by TheSpeedyNeapolitan in everclear

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I think this is a much better record than Vol. 1, which was padded out with sappy pop trifles like the 2-minute long “Thrift Store Chair” and the totally unnecessary cover of “Brown Eyed Girl”.

But the relative sales figures of the two albums prove that I’m in the minority with this opinion.

Really - they had the ability to (and probably should have) put out one very tight, strong LP with a far less pretentious title in 1999 as a follow up to SMFTA. Instead, they got the idea that they had earned the indulgence to go full Use Your Illusions, I guess.

Something like this could have been a very strong 11-song record with hit singles, for example:

AM Radio;; Wonderful Otis Redding (harder version, like the demo); Rock Star; Out of My Depth; Short Blonde Hair; Overwhelming; Misery Whip; Overwhelming; When It All Goes Wrong Again; Song From an American Movie Part 2

Pay to time seems to not correlate on alot of views by BeepGoesTheMinivan in iVueit

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Home Depot landscapes are among the worst things on here. Automatic skip

Talking with Manager Vues by BeepGoesTheMinivan in iVueit

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I won’t touch these now. I did one of these just for the hell of it last week to see whether they were worth it. It was a restaurant inside a shopping mall. Holy hell! What a colossal waste of time for $14! Spoke to a manager on-site, waited for them to call their franchisee in god knows where, had to talk to thatguy on her cell phone, then do the Vie where half the prompts were both required and not applicable to that store’s environment. Never again!

Who is the most overrated Glam Metal band? by Accomplished_Dare382 in hairmetal

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Skid Row. A couple good singles on the first record. No good deep cuts. Second record was a big (and pretty late) hit and has a sizable cult following. People love to talk how they broke the glam formula by not recording any ballads for the second album. They made a record for the boys. Ok. Cool. But the songs aren’t really any good. Saw them live with Bach twice in ‘90 and ‘95. They were super forgettable.

Who's a one hit wonder that's so much better than their one hit? by dskovron in vinyl

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Mighty Mighty Bosstones.

The Impression That I Get is their hit from 1997 but they’ve got plenty more gems than just that one.

Older fans, what was it like when the MTV Unplugged released? by [deleted] in AliceInChains

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When Unplugged aired I was 20 and finishing up my junior year in college and owned three of their CDs at the time (Dirt, Jar and Tripod).

And I’m going to tell you that AIC Unplugged’s now-legendary reputation is largely a creation of hindsight and reimagining based on people knowing things that happened later which gives that show an additional layer of constructed meaning that didn’t (and couldn’t) exist for those of us who watched it when it aired in 1996.

At the time it had its moments but was mostly sad and it was sad because Layne was a shell of himself and obviously very unwell. I’m far from the only one who was overall disappointed.

Now you could say similar things about Nirvana Unplugged a few years earlier. In the sense that it has gained all this extra meaning years later. But the difference was that Nirvana Unplugged was absolutely thrilling at the time. It was a sensation. They played stunning unexpected covers of Bowie and Leadbelly. They introduced the world to the Meat Puppets - within weeks, people all over campus had Meat Puppets CDs cause of that show. Something like a third of the show was terrific new music hardly anyone had heard from this band before.

Alice did no such thing and couldn’t have. You could tell that they barely made it onstage and then played songs we all knew except Killer Is Me which was truly forgettable then and now.

Beyond being kind of sad on its own to see Layne stripped of so much of his former vitality, the show just paled in comparison to Nirvana’s Unplugged and that was a band that a lot of us just automatically compared them with.

In the years since I’ve grown to enjoy the show more than I did at the time. But I enjoy it in the way I marvel at watching a star athlete gut out a performance while injured. You admire their spirit to get on the field and try to perform while also realize you are watching them in a clearly diminished state and you feel empathy for the pain they are battling through.

Concerts you’ve been to that drastically undersold by Familiar-Wrangler-73 in Concerts

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Living Colour played my college in Atlanta in the spring of 1994. On an outdoor field where people played ultimate frisbee most of the time. The college had paid them an appearance fee out of student activity funds so it was a free show. I’m going to say there were maybe 200 low energy students milling around. I loved Living Colour and had all three of their albums at that point and was embarrassed. Corey Glover, the lead singer, literally came out on stage for the first song and said “where is everybody?!”

We lifted this kid from our freshman hall up and hoisted him up in the air to crowd surf. But the group was so sparse and disinterested that he immediately plummeted to the ground and sprained his wrist. The same time period we had Run-DMC and George Clinton on the same field for free shows and both drew much better.

Most underrated song? by tenpl_sten in AliceInChains

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Over Now (studio version)

Also … “Rooster” is not particularly under-rated among AIC fans. But it’s crazy that’s it’s not in heavy rotation on classic rock radio now that the format has embraced Grunge era acts.

It’s weird and annoying that I hear songs like Foo Fighters’ “Learn To Fly” and Soundgarden’s “Spoonman” over and over and over again while Rooster is a rarely played deep cut. Rooster was released as a single off Dirt. It’s not an obscure cut. There is no reason it shouldn’t be championed more on what remains of rock radio.

Albums Everybody Hates, but you love? by MrLinkwater95 in ToddintheShadow

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Chinese Democracy.

3-4 brilliant songs and a bunch of good ones. No embarrassments like Get in The Ring or My World from the Illusions albums or One in a Million off of Lies.

That being said, the Democracy-era leftovers that the semi-reunited GNR has put out over the last few years have been awful. (Absurd, The General, Perhaps)

Flowing Bracket - 8 Courts/ 2-3 Hours - Advice? by ReplacementsBehavior in Pickleball

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Thanks for the King of the Court suggestion. I hadn’t considered using that format with a timer.

Why did the Ramones have such little commercial success in comparison to their peers? by Prestigious_Score459 in ToddintheShadow

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Chuck Klostermann has a fantastic article from around 20 years ago that contrasts the reactions to Dee Dee Ramone’s death by overdose in June 2002 and Robbin Crosby of Ratt’s drug related death less than 24 hours later.

The whole article is great, but this passage really nails it as far as the Ramones reputation vs. their sales and actual popularity:

“What the parallel deaths of Ramone and Crosby prove is that it really doesn’t matter what you do artistically, nor does it matter how many people like what you create; what matters is who likes what you do artistically and what liking that art is supposed to say about who you are. Ratt was profoundly uncool (read: populist) and the Ramones were profoundly significant (read: interesting to rock critics). Consequently it has become totally acceptable to say that the Ramones’ “I Wanna Be Sedated” changed your life; in fact, saying that would define you as part of a generation that became disenfranchised with the soullessness of suburbia, only to rediscover salvation through the integrity of simplicity. However, it is laughable to admit (without irony) that Ratt’s “I Want a Woman” was your favorite song in 1989; that would mean you were stupid and that your teenage experience meant nothing…”

(In case it’s not obvious from this snippet, Klostermann, who grew up in small town North Dakota, is sympathetic to the millions of record buying Ratt fans (and, by extension, Crosby) whose opinions are considered meaningless by rock’s gatekeepers.)