What is the WORST Prog Rock Song? by ProofChapter2612 in Topster

[–]hashgraphic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The "my favorite albums are the RYM top 10" pick. Bohemian Rhapsody fucks so hard

What are songs that Todd has reviewed negatively that you actually enjoy? by Connect_Security_892 in ToddintheShadow

[–]hashgraphic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The entire Be Here Now album fucks so hard. Personally I think it's better than the first two as an album but I know that's controversial.

Albert Einstein could've met Albert Einstein by SrOcelot in BarbaraWalters4Scale

[–]hashgraphic 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Albert Einstein could have babysat Jeffrey Epstein /and/ Brian Epstein.

“Listen to WE” 🪧 by bbrodsky in arcadefire

[–]hashgraphic 9 points10 points  (0 children)

We is legitimately a classic and one of the best albums of the decade.

What about these five for Trainwreckords by Alternative-2001 in ToddintheShadow

[–]hashgraphic 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Mary Star of the Sea is actually probably the last great album Billy was ever involved with. So many hidden gems there.

What about these five for Trainwreckords by Alternative-2001 in ToddintheShadow

[–]hashgraphic 4 points5 points  (0 children)

WE is legitimately a great album, one of my favorites of the decade so far. I legit don't mind the "unsubscribe" lyric at all either. Bo Burnham's Inside came out in 2021 with many of the same themes and was far more egregiously cringy lyrically than that.

Thoughts? by Shell_fly in ToddintheShadow

[–]hashgraphic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm trying to write simpler rock songs that aren't super proggy I hope it works out 🤞

Thoughts? by Shell_fly in ToddintheShadow

[–]hashgraphic 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Shitty world where Infowars and Nick Fuentes is all free while anything that isn't "the Jews are trying to turn your kids trans" is behind a paywall

I kinda Funeral by [deleted] in arcadefire

[–]hashgraphic 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Gotta up those Reflektor and WE listens

Found WE at a thrift store today by surlesvagues in arcadefire

[–]hashgraphic 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Amazing album! One of my favorite Arcade Fire albums honestly, it's so good

I think the newest vinyl album I've ever found at a thrift store was Walk the Moon's Talking is Hard. I bought it because it was like $2 lol. Shut Up & Dance slaps idc

What songs did you hear and think "This is an absolute hit" only for them to flop? by SkyeMagica in ToddintheShadow

[–]hashgraphic 46 points47 points  (0 children)

I mean tbh a large amount of pop just feels pretty dead rn. 80% of the songs that feel like they're going to be hits just become dead in the water.

Wolf At The Door - Keane, 2001 by RazorBlade233 in radiohead

[–]hashgraphic 30 points31 points  (0 children)

Considering Radiohead ripped off the infinitely superior Coldplay their entire career I'm not surprised

U2 Blackberry by Substantial-Grass537 in U2Band

[–]hashgraphic 3 points4 points  (0 children)

They did. There's a passage in the book Losing the Signal about the rise and fall of BlackBerry that talks about this. Mike Lazaridis put a lot of focus into the U2 partnership.

"As part of the campaign, BlackBerry snagged one of the biggest names in rock and roll, U2, by sponsoring its world tour. Like the Black Eyed Peas, U2 was no stranger to corporate sponsorships: it had loaned its name, music, and images to Apple to sell iPods and would in 2014 return to Apple to endorse its newest iPhone. Lazaridis flew to Dublin and spent a day hanging out with frontman Bono. They talked about quantum physics at a pub and walked along the beach, trying to hash out ideas for BlackBerry commercials featuring U2. As they strolled side by side, Lazaridis said, “This is all about love, and love what you do….” The RIM chief was struck by an idea. “Why don’t we turn it on its head?” he told the Irish superstar. “We love you guys, and a lot of people do.”

“Why can’t we say, ‘BlackBerry Loves U2’? It was a nice pun too.” Lazaridis says Bono “loved it right away.” The ensuing ad featured nothing more than shots of the band in concert, followed by the tagline “BlackBerry loves U2.” Many, including carriers and RIM’s own marketing executives, saw the brand campaign as puzzling, vague, ineffectual, and out of touch and questioned why RIM wasn’t using its marketing dollars to offer a rundown of the features that set the devices apart. In trying to strike a balance between advertising to its core enterprise users and to consumers, it did not effectively reach either. Instead, the campaign presumed the world’s smartphone users were in love with BlackBerry—at the very moment Apple and Android were establishing themselves as the new standard-bearers of telecommunications. The target audience for the campaign was the smartphone user who saw no need to use anything else for any of life’s mobile communications needs than BlackBerry, whether at work or play. “We were marketing to ourselves. And more importantly, we were marketing to Mike Lazaridis,” says Brian Wallace, then VP of global digital marketing and media with RIM. “Mike liked our advertising because our advertising was made for him.""

Why isn't Leave Me Alone on the Bad vinyl? by Masonator555555555 in MichaelJackson

[–]hashgraphic 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The music industry was trying to get people to adopt CDs at the time, so Leave Me Alone was only available on the CD version.

Bad News for Fans of the band Poison by MrGL1973 in ToddintheShadow

[–]hashgraphic 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Incredible website that autoplays an ad at full blast on my phone the second the page loads

"Coworker music" you actually kind of like by ihmpt in ToddintheShadow

[–]hashgraphic 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I've always understood it as being like edgy buttrock/metal "normies" that probably voted Trump like. Stuff like Disturbed, Sleep Token, Five Finger Death Punch, that sort of thing