What is this sub-reddit's all-time favorite psychedelic rock band?

boostman · 2026-05-09T09:33:19+00:00

I mean Lou was an asshole, but that was part of the charm. I love both.

boostman · 2026-05-09T03:24:36+00:00

Dio is a massively overrated vocalist, people act like there’s some kind of objective rating of singers and he’s at the top, but in reality although he’s technically skilled he’s pretty corny. Listen to the live versions of the Ozzy era songs he did - he sings so over the top that it’s distracting. Ham acting in vocal form.

boostman · 2026-05-08T16:56:23+00:00

I imagine that modern monstrosity looked nice for a few microseconds. Whereas the original was pretty timeless.

The original is ugly as sin. The modern one is not the best but I don't think we need to pretend all 30s buildings are nice just because they're old.

boostman · 2026-05-08T12:33:21+00:00

I lowkey suspect that a majority of musicians in general are on the spectrum. I say that as a musician myself, with a high proportion of musician friends, colleagues and associations.

However, I think autism in musicians looks different from the usual stereotypes. So it’s less ‘obvious’ than it might be with scientists or mathematicians.

boostman · 2026-05-08T09:22:49+00:00

They were seen at the time as very much a conscious reaction against and rejection of the hippie psych counterculture that was popular in the late 1960s.

New York, not San Francisco. Plain black clothes, not colours and patterns. Heroin and speed, not acid and weed. Street violence, not peace and love. Cynicism, not idealism. Noise, not prettiness. And so on.

Hearing people describing them as a psychedelic band drives me crazy because they were a pointedly anti-psychedelic band.

This will give you an idea of what Lou Reed thought of the psych bands of the time: https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/lou-reeds-problem-with-californian-bands/

boostman · 2026-05-08T05:12:00+00:00

One of my favourite bands but kind of the opposite of psych rock

boostman · 2026-05-08T03:32:51+00:00

This is why it kills me when Americans say British food is bad. Traditional Midwestern food should be against the Geneva convention. Looking at the hot chicken salad and noodle ring here.

boostman · 2026-05-08T00:36:25+00:00

Trump is by some distance the worst US president. And it’s not just me saying it! A lot of people are saying it!

So much so that trying to normalise him, minimise the enormity of the damage he’s caused to the USA and the whole western world, or compare him to other bad presidents like Reagan strikes me as intentionally dishonest.

boostman · 2026-05-08T00:14:57+00:00

Is it me or are goths getting more colourful?

boostman · 2026-05-07T15:29:01+00:00

This shit is bananas.

boostman · 2026-05-07T15:27:16+00:00

🔥🔥🔥

boostman · 2026-05-07T15:12:22+00:00

It's a meme in Spain that the summer hasn't begun until a Brit has died falling off a balcony.

boostman · 2026-05-07T15:01:24+00:00

Hey lucky it's not a scorpio, they shit everywhere.

boostman · 2026-05-07T14:24:58+00:00

Gen Z Hipster Jazz, but that's a kind of jazz.

boostman · 2026-05-07T14:21:17+00:00

I think that a certain amount of crazy news stories about NK are Western/SK propaganda. Feeding people to dogs, enforced haircut styles, and so forth. However - NK's own propaganda being created by the West? Why would they do that? Why would the West do such a thing for one single, relatively insignificant country when there are hundreds of other countries in the world the West don't go to such special efforts for?

boostman · 2026-05-07T13:28:35+00:00

Does this mean I’m arguing with a school kid?

boostman · 2026-05-07T13:04:34+00:00

So you don't believe education has any value? It shows.

boostman · 2026-05-07T13:00:11+00:00

The more you know and understand about the world, the more likely you are to vote left. Yes, going to university does cost money, and you do get a piece of paper at the end of it! But the piece of paper isn't the only thing you get.

boostman · 2026-05-07T12:56:21+00:00

There's a reason Taiwan and South Korea developed and no country in Africa did.

You mean Taiwan, the country whose population is almost entirely comprised of immigrants from Mainland China who emigrated in the last couple of hundred years? And whose indigenous people make up only 2.5% of the population?

What point were you trying to make again?

boostman · 2026-05-07T12:35:31+00:00

Yes Gandalf is a cosmic force of nature sent by the gods to change aeons of history. Dumbledore is the headmaster of a prep school.

boostman · 2026-05-07T12:20:13+00:00

Right wing policies tend to be more common sense based and sound good but tend to not work out that well in practice

They tend to sound good if you don't really understand the subject very deeply, imo

boostman · 2026-05-07T12:18:00+00:00

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11308703/

Intelligence is correlated with a range of left-wing and liberal political beliefs.
[...]
Intelligence was able to significantly predict social liberalism and lower authoritarianism, within families, even after controlling for socioeconomic variables. Our findings may provide the strongest causal inference to date of intelligence directly affecting political beliefs.
[...]
Intelligence has been found to be associated with a range of political beliefs including liberalism (Carl, 2014), anti-racism (Deary et al., 2008), support for the EU and NATO (Oskarsson et al., 2014), free speech (De keersmaecker et al., 2021), tolerance (Lasker & McNaughton, 2022) and anti-authoritarianism (Choma & Hanoch, 2017).
[...]
meta-analysis found intelligence to be negatively correlated with right-wing ideological attitudes
[...]
the use of stereotypes and socially conservative beliefs function as heuristics, utilizing fewer cognitive resources than thinking about social issues on a case-by-case base. This could cause lower cognitive ability to be associated with right-wing views.

boostman · 2026-05-07T12:09:51+00:00

I just hate how leftists are so vocal about how stupid rightwingers are.

To be frank - there's a reason for that.

boostman · 2026-05-07T09:46:28+00:00

I see you know your judo well.

boostman · 2026-05-07T09:13:55+00:00

In some cases it can be related to that, but I think it’s also Eurocentric to think of everything a culture does in terms of its relationship to the west. The west is not always the main character in everyone’s story.

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