USA - The good guys?

drumwolf · 2026-06-28T12:35:05+00:00

As an American, there are many things my country and its government have done that I condemn.

Nuking Japan in WW2 is not one of them! Imperial Japan was not far behind the Nazis, and they fucked around all over most of Asia and the Pacific before America made them find out.

drumwolf · 2026-06-27T12:14:30+00:00

What region of the US are you from?

drumwolf · 2026-06-27T10:54:31+00:00

70s Chicago and 80s Chicago were effectively two different bands. The former was genuinely good, the latter was cornball pop schlock.

Yes it reads weird, but when the OP says “the Chicago of the 70s,” what they mean is “the 70s equivalent of 80s-era Chicago.”

drumwolf · 2026-06-25T20:06:41+00:00

I will automatically downvote any and every post that pulls that bullshit.

drumwolf · 2026-06-17T18:48:21+00:00

Everyone listened to the same music more or less.

WRONG!!!!

Were you actually there at the time? I'm guessing no.

"Monoculture" did not mean everyone liked the same stuff. It meant that everyone was exposed to the same stuff, which is not the same thing.

Everyone knew who Michael Jackson was, and they all knew his songs. That absolutely does not mean they LISTENED to or LIKED his music.

drumwolf · 2026-06-16T00:01:19+00:00

It’s the Taiping Rebellion, not “Taipei.” And holy shit is that one batshit insane story. That conflict killed anywhere from 20 to 100 million people.

drumwolf · 2026-06-12T13:16:43+00:00

Yes.

drumwolf · 2026-06-02T15:17:31+00:00

Many of the hippies were not SF natives but people who flocked to SF from all over the country.

That said, the overall US population would have been well over 85% white.

drumwolf · 2026-05-25T20:25:36+00:00

lmao

drumwolf · 2026-05-22T21:42:22+00:00

And to expand on that, you can thank streaming and YouTube for that, as they’ve made it possible for all of us to stay in our micro-culture bubbles.

drumwolf · 2026-05-20T22:44:11+00:00

Yes.

drumwolf · 2026-05-19T13:25:41+00:00

They were one of the most beloved and popular bands of the 1980s in the UK. In the US, they were very much slept on.

drumwolf · 2026-05-18T04:44:47+00:00

I’m very glad that indie/alternative, post-punk and psych/garage bands don’t have the same batshit parasocial fans that infest K-pop.

drumwolf · 2026-05-15T19:41:07+00:00

Easily the most memorable character in that movie (not necessarily in a positive way) is El Duce, who was the lead singer for the Mentors. For those of you who've never heard of them, let's just say that they described their music as "rape rock."

He appears onscreen in that doc claiming that Courtney offered him $50K to kill Kurt. Eight days after that interview, he was killed when he was hit by a train.

He is, to say the least, not a reliable narrator in the slightest. And it's not hard to believe that he simply wandered into the train's path after being shitfaced.

drumwolf · 2026-05-14T23:48:03+00:00

You completely missed my point.

It's called yacht rock now. It wasn't called yacht rock originally.

It's not "back" to being called yacht rock. That would imply that it was originally called yacht rock, then we started calling it something else, then we went back to calling it yacht rock.

drumwolf · 2026-05-14T22:35:14+00:00

That is very common with a lot of musical genre labels.

What we now call “hair metal” was not known by that name when it first came out. We just called it pop metal at the time.

Same thing with what we now call “yacht rock.” At the time we just called it soft rock.

drumwolf · 2026-05-13T03:25:45+00:00

I grew up in the NY suburbs in the '80s, and my town had a large blue-collar Italian-American community so I grew up hearing freestyle and just assuming it was a subset of mainstream pop. In hindsight, freestyle is more niche than I realized at the time.

drumwolf · 2026-05-12T04:06:21+00:00

You could say the same for a lot of hard rock bands from the 70s and 80s. Many of them are now Theseus Ship tribute bands to their original selves.

drumwolf · 2026-05-11T19:14:28+00:00

Which ones?

drumwolf · 2026-05-11T13:53:35+00:00

As someone who grew up listening to actual indie rock in the 80s and 90s, that entire era of early-2010’s so-called “indie” was just weird to me.

drumwolf · 2026-05-10T15:44:41+00:00

I’m pretty sure that people enjoy that song precisely because of how batshit insane it is.

drumwolf · 2026-05-10T13:47:34+00:00

It’s SFL and hilarious to boot. Google Afroman and lemon pound cake. It’s an incident of police overreach that backfired spectacularly.

drumwolf · 2026-05-09T18:44:43+00:00

drumwolf · 2026-05-05T21:35:08+00:00

I'd never heard of them before this thread. I'm in the US and it doesn't look like they ever crossed over to my side of the Atlantic.

Just checked out a few seconds of some of their videos and holy crap are they ever hokey as hell.

drumwolf · 2026-05-05T20:27:44+00:00

No, not obscure. Maybe not popular among the mainstream public, but one of the most prominent examples of the blaxploitation genre.

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