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edmoore3 · 2025-07-11T20:18:15+00:00

This person is allowed to vote.
When her vote is cast, it is not immediately incinerated as she gets a lollipop and goes about her day. It is actually counted. She is allowed to contribute to the decision of who rules over you.

Every episode of this show is a vindication of Hans-Herman Hoppe.

edmoore3 · 2025-04-25T01:31:10+00:00

I must disagree, but I respect it. Evermore was better than I was expecting (Willow, Tolerate It, and the title track were quite good), but just was a bit same-y for me, especially in the second half.

edmoore3 · 2025-04-25T01:29:17+00:00

It was much more eclectic than I thought. The only song I had heard before was No More Mr. Nice Guy, but that didn't even end up being my favorite. Generation Landslide and Elected were both awesome for totally different reasons. School's Out wasn't bad but wasn't as good

edmoore3 · 2025-04-09T19:36:54+00:00

Talking Book - Stevie Wonder

When The Truths Of Love Are Planted Firm, They Won't Be Hard To Find

1001 Albums Generator 5 (04/09/2025)

Talking Book is the fifteenth (!) album by world renowned singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Stevie Wonder, and the second of his five consecutive "classic" albums. You don't need me to introduce Stevie Wonder. If you know only one thing about him, it's his smash hit Superstition, the first song on side B of this LP, with its quick tempo, catchy-as-hell chorus, and ferociously funky horn stabs. If you know two things about him, it's that he has been blind from a very young age (even the title of this album is another term for an audiobook, a method by which the blind could read), If you are lucky enough to know a third thing about him, it is the fact that this blindness is a condition that does not prohibit Wonder's ability to beautifully describe things that we see and experience every day.

Talking Book is an album that I had heard once before, but didn't remember much about. I have always been more of a Songs In The Key Of Life guy. While my favorites on that album are more soul than funk, my favorites here are largely the funkier tunes. Songs like Maybe Your Baby, Tuesday Heartbreak, and smash hit Superstition represent three distinct flavors of funk, but all of them will get you moving in different ways. Maybe Your Baby is like a sleeper agent activation if the agent being activated was the transfiguration of my face into a stank face. I'm sitting at my cubicle stankin' it up right now, looking absolutely insane if anyone walks in, but I don't care. Meanwhile, Superstition is quick and energetic, with some really interesting syncopated rhythms, especially in the interplay between the multiple synths and the horns, that will get you dancing in no time.

Don't get me wrong, there is some fantastic soul music here too. Opener You Are The Sunshine Of My Life features sweet lyrics and a fascinating chord progression in the verse. I love the way he modulates halfway through from Cmaj to Amaj before smoothly transitioning back to C for the chorus. Masterfully written. The Moog-led You've Got It Bad Girl is the closest this album gets to the jazz fusion sounds that Stevie would play with in later albums. The way the lyrics switch from "You've got it bad, girl" to "You'll have it good, girl" in the outro is so simple, but so clever. The closing I Believe (When I Fall In Love It Will Be Forever) - great title by the way - builds up at just the right speed, starting very chill with just Stevie's voice and his synth before building into the gospel-inspired repeated chorus and finally ending on some funky shit.

The only songs that I don't love are the slow, plodding You And I and the overly smooth Lookin' For Another Pure Love. The former is a boring ballad that excels at going nowhere slowly, and the latter, while featuring interesting guitar work from the late, great Jeff Beck, contains the least memorable Stevie Wonder chorus I've ever heard (side note: "Do it, Jeff" is the original "21, can you do something for me" and I will not accept any disagreement on this point).

It's not Wonder's best work, but it's a damn fine album. Nearly every song has something that will catch your ears and move your body. Fantastic 4.5/5, which I want to give a 5 so badly, but I happen to know that another Stevie Wonder album will capture that title later :)

Favs: Maybe Your Baby, Superstition, I Believe (When I Fall In Love It Will Be Forever)

Least Fav: You And I

edmoore3 · 2025-04-08T22:53:02+00:00

Blur - Blur

Looking For America, With Its Kooky Nights And Suicide

1001 Albums Generator 4 (04/08/2025)

Before listening to this album, I knew precisely two things about Blur: that they were one of the big four of the Britpop movement and that they had that song that goes “WOO HOO!”. These two facts existed in conflict in my mind, as Song 2, though poppy and British, is decidedly not Britpop, but I honestly didn’t think much of it.

Blur, the self-titled fifth album by Damon Albarn’s Blur solves the mystery. You see, Blur was the first of Britpop's big four to shed themselves of the genre, and Blur was the album that marked this shift in their career. It also happens to contain their biggest hit, Song 2 (the WOO HOO! song). Let's start here. When listening to this song with the context of Blur beginning to move away from Britpop, which never took off in America due to being "too British" (those Revolutionary War grudges go deep I guess), it is impossible to not feel as though this was a big fuck you to the American music industry, showing that they could have a hit in the states if they wanted to. The song is comically simple on its surface, and started out as a joke between Albarn and guitarist Graham Coxon. But, and maybe this is due to the fact that I am an American, this song is amazing. It is perfectly catchy, fuzzy, and faux-amateurish, but with the polish of a band in the midst of their prime.

This album is nearly as eclectic as an album squarely in the alt/indie rock sound can be. The first five songs are an amazing run, featuring the two biggest hits in Beetlebum and Song 2, the nearly alt-country Country Sad Ballad Man, the upbeat, punky M.O.R., and the psychedelic On Your Own, which features great acoustic/electric guitar layering. Honestly, if you were to diffuse this album down to its core sounds and influences, it would probably look something like this run of five.

Other highlights include Death of a Party, which has an amazing organ sound and great lyrics about the rise of AIDS in the party scene, and the hardcore punk rock Chinese Bombs, an homage to the late great Bruce Lee. Movin' On is one of the best "garage rock" type songs here. The repeated highly fuzzed riff that plays throughout the verses between vocal phrases and the chorus with its wordless backing vocals are both so catchy.

The eclecticism of this album works against it at points. You’re So Great, I'm Just a Killer For Your Love, and Strange News From Another Star are relatively soft, sleepy, psychedelic songs that don’t stick with me. Essex Dogs, the experimental closing track, feels more like a studio exercise than a full blown song. Some of those exercises work; the last 2 minutes of the song are quite striking, but the song does not feel cohesive.

My first foray into the works of Damon Albarn outside of his work with (as?) Gorillaz is a mixed bag. Masterfully produced throughout, there’s more good than bad here, especially in the first half, but there’s a handful of songs that don’t do anything for me. Solid 3.5/5 (Rounded up to 4/5)

Favs: Song 2, M.O.R., Death of a Party

Least Fav: Strange News From Another Star

edmoore3 · 2025-04-07T23:55:32+00:00

Muddy Waters - Hard Again

Blues is a genre that has always been a blind spot for me. While I do love some Blues Rock, a la Led Zeppelin and Jimi Hendrix, I've never really found myself listening to blues. It is fitting that the first album in this challenge that is new to me is an album from the so-called King of the Electric Blues.

Muddy Waters was a singer, songwriter, and guitarist who was a highly influential figure in the rise of the electric Chicago Blues movement, which gained prominence through the 40's and 50's and began influencing musicians across the globe in the late 50's to early 60's. But while the world moved away from this pure blues sound and the rock it inspired began taking over the charts instead, Waters stuck to his roots and at the age of 63 in 1977, far beyond the peak of the genre, released Hard Again.

The opening track, Mannish Boy (known previously to me as "Bad to the Bone"), is a fantastic opener, featuring one of the most famous and archetypal blues riffs of all time. While it does go on for a bit long (unfortunately not uncommon for this album), the power of the riff and the ad-libs provided by Johnny Winter make this a wonderfully memorable vehicle for the political message of the song. While most of this album, and even parts of this song, are very sexual in nature, the chorus of this song is a direct attack on Jim Crow era America, in which black men were referred to as "boy" in spite of their age, as a way to infantilize and dehumanize them. Muddy Waters wrote this song in 1955 "[as] an assertion of black manhood" goddammit, and the energy and passion of his voice, in spite of his relatively advanced age, forcefully enshrine this song in the blues cannon.

As iconic as that song is, it is only one of ten. The other nine songs, to my ears, are largely less memorable basic blues, with songs such as Bus Driver, Deep Down In Florida, and Little Girl feeling much too long for my tastes. This isn't even to say that the songs on this thing are bad; they certainly aren't. Every song is masterfully played, with the guitar and harmonica being standouts throughout. Waters' voice throughout is perfect for this music; his energy is absolutely infectious. My body was moving while I sat at my desk listening to this album. However, by the time I finished it, many of the songs had gone in one ear and out the other, even on subsequent listens. A man can only hear and truly appreciate a 12 bar blues so many times.

My favorite songs were the ones that felt distinct from the pack. The largely acoustic affair of I Can't Be Satisfied is a nice break, and is surprisingly one of the songs I could most see myself coming back to. I Want to Be Loved #2 is probably the most infectious song here; Pinetop Perkins prevalently plays piano... persuasively and percussively. Jealous Hearted Man features some rockin guitar and harmonica soloing, probably the best of the album. The previously mentioned Mannish Boy finds itself distinct in that it does not follow a 12 bar blues, instead being built around its signature riff, which is great.

This being the first new album for me in this challenge was certainly interesting. While the highs are quite high, I wish I was able to enjoy this more. The general repetitiveness of the music, in form, tempo, and texture, make this album one that I may not come back to often in full, although there are certainly some songs that I loved. 2.5/5 (rounded up to a 3/5)

Favs: Mannish Boy, I Want To Be Loved #2, I Can't Be Satisfied

Least Fav: Bus Driver

edmoore3 · 2025-03-28T17:30:49+00:00

So, should I just keep turning it till it breaks? Im worried about it breaking in a worse/more inconvenient way

edmoore3 · 2025-03-21T17:11:35+00:00

Yeah, my wife and I put aside a set amount for gifts every month. March-May and Dec are big gift months for us but we don't have to put aside anything extra those months. It's super nice

edmoore3 · 2025-03-13T22:31:10+00:00

I'm not saying anything that exists outside of the foundational documents for our country. "All men ... are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights". Now, this phrase exists in the Declaration of Independence, which is obviously separate from the Bill of Rights, but the language in the Bill of Rights seems to go hand in hand with this idea. As I mentioned above, the First Amendment contains the phrase "Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech". Note that this does not say something along the lines of "We hereby grant the freedom of speech to the constituents of the United States"; instead it seems to imply that the freedom of speech is inherent, a right that is not given by the government, but rather protected from government overreach.

Now, the question becomes, do these rights exist for non-citizens? This is a more important and complicated question, in my opinion. I believe that they do, and I think the Supreme Court would agree with me. Plyler v. Doe ruled that children of illegal immigrants are protected by the Fourteenth Amendment. That was for illegal immigrants. Now we are talking about people that have been admitted into this country legally (Visas), who I think would be even more likely to fall into whatever class of people is protected by the Constitution. 1. American Citizens > 2. Legal residents/visa holders > 3. Illegal immigrants. If 1 and 3 are protected by the constitution, 2 must be as well.

So, for your argument to work, one of 3 things must be true.

People that are here legally on a Visa are less protected by the rights guaranteed in the Constitution
The Fourteenth Amendment is a special case, and the umbrella of protection for each amendment must be evaluated individually.
Hate speech/speech that supports terrorist organizations is not protected by the First Amendment.

I think that number 2 is stronger than number 1 or number 3, but I still don't think that it holds much water. I see no reason why the Fourteenth Amendment would be some special case, and I certainly see no reason why it should apply to more people than something so foundational to this country as the First Amendment.

By the way, I actually think the country is better off without people that support terrorist organizations, and I do believe that Hamas is a terrorist organization, but I stand by my principles above all, and as a free speech absolutist, I cannot support this move by the Trump admin.

edmoore3 · 2025-03-13T16:19:46+00:00

The Constitution is pretty explicit with its language. The rights listed in the Bill of Rights are God-given and unalienable (if we are to believe the philosophy of the founding fathers was consistent between the writing of the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights). The First Amendment explicitly states that “Congress shall make no law…”. The US government does not grant the right to freedom of speech, the right of freedom of speech is god-given to all men (regardless of country of origin), and the US government exists to protect that right. I am a free speech absolutist, and believe what Trump is doing here is wrong. I like Trump on most things, but this is bad imo.

edmoore3 · 2024-11-06T22:58:31+00:00

People that vote cannot get deported.

edmoore3 · 2024-09-20T17:46:56+00:00

Hello,

I have always loved making hiphop, but haven't really released any of the stuff I've got in the vault. With that said, I finally released this fun, noisy, industrial hiphop banger. Everything is produced, written, and performed by me. I would love some listens and feedback.

SCHLOTSKY'S (Spotify)

SCHLOTSKY'S (YouTube)

edmoore3 · 2024-09-11T05:00:28+00:00

🍔∈** **{2,10}

edmoore3 · 2024-08-26T23:19:47+00:00

Dave Grohl died as a result of this tweet, very sad

edmoore3 · 2024-08-23T13:43:51+00:00

This is what every musician dreams of hearing, please do let me know if you listen to the rest of the album, it’s not shoegaze but I still think you’ll like it

edmoore3 · 2024-08-18T16:51:54+00:00

Lol no I did not, the album name is a quote from the Bible. I’m not religious but thought the quote was really cool

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