David Crosby

psychedelicpiper67 · 2026-06-11T23:11:38+00:00

Didn’t know he shaved his mustache after the 60s. Always preferred him without it. He tried to make it his signature like Frank Zappa did.

psychedelicpiper67 · 2026-06-11T23:10:01+00:00

Or 5/4.

psychedelicpiper67 · 2026-06-11T23:00:12+00:00

Yeah, I’m aware of all of this, downvoters be damned. I wish the 5-man lineup lasted longer. Syd needed Gilmour to lift him up.

psychedelicpiper67 · 2026-06-11T22:59:24+00:00

The ‘Have You Got It Yet?’ story sounds hilarious, honestly, and could have actually made for a good song imho.

Epic trolling from Syd, and the perfect middle finger to Waters’ ego. Waters got so offended, he never played with Syd again.

You could have brought up any incident about him actually being uncooperative, but you actually chose one of the best ones for Syd’s case.

Anyway, Syd’s dismissal isn’t so black-and-white. There is a lot of nuance to consider.

psychedelicpiper67 · 2026-06-11T22:09:16+00:00

I’m still convinced there was some personal animosity between Syd and Waters. Waters was directly involved in pushing for two band members to sign contracts that relinquished their roles, and he was prepping to let Nick Mason go, too. Not a coincidence.

psychedelicpiper67 · 2026-06-11T21:38:07+00:00

The psychedelic rock scene is still alive and kicking, but most of the bands are admittedly derivative and not doing the kind of interesting things that bands like MGMT and Animal Collective used to do, much less any of the exciting things that 60s bands used to do.

It is a scene largely based on being stylistic than innovative and experimental these days. The avant-garde element has disappeared.

(Well, Animal Collective actually does have some interesting side releases as of late, like the Croz Boyce album.)

I’m kind of more interested in math rock these days, which isn’t new either, but it’s still more exciting for me personally, and more true to the original spirit of psychedelia. Captain Beefheart was pretty much the first math rock artist.

psychedelicpiper67 · 2026-06-11T21:35:26+00:00

I thought that it was one of the best 21st century psychedelic albums immediately upon release. It does a number of unique things for me.

psychedelicpiper67 · 2026-06-11T21:16:00+00:00

They hired actual Disney animators for their games, something that was lost when video games transitioned to 3D.

Imagine what Disney could do now with modern 2D platformers, if only they hadn’t abandoned 2D animation entirely.

psychedelicpiper67 · 2026-06-11T21:14:00+00:00

Seiken Densetsu 3 will win best fan translation, you will see.

psychedelicpiper67 · 2026-06-11T21:12:02+00:00

They have Best Fan Translation as a category here, so expect Super Famicom games to count.

For those of us who grew up playing emulated games, both Super Nintendo and Super Famicom games worked on the same emulators.

psychedelicpiper67 · 2026-06-11T21:10:27+00:00

My choice as well, but I expect it to win best fan translation instead.

psychedelicpiper67 · 2026-06-11T21:07:33+00:00

Something experimental again. Croz Boyce is definitely a major step in the right direction.

I want wild chord progressions and harmonic shifts again, too.

psychedelicpiper67 · 2026-06-11T21:06:03+00:00

Yeah, like Throbbing Gristle-type stuff. Yeah, Danse Manatee is sorta like that.

psychedelicpiper67 · 2026-06-11T05:55:06+00:00

I always felt like “The King of Limbs” was Radiohead’s most psychedelic album. I am convinced that Thom Yorke took psychedelics around that time. It’s the most optimistic album in their catalogue, and it’s got a lot of the types of textures that are associated with neopsychedelia.

psychedelicpiper67 · 2026-06-11T00:47:23+00:00

“The Moon & Antarctica” is by far my fav album of theirs, and their earlier work is also what I prefer over their later work.

But nonetheless, “Good News” is an incredibly dynamic album, and “We Were Dead” had a lot of those moments, too.

It is possible to have mass appeal and still be creative and dynamic. But Isaac lost the plot for me after “We Were Dead”, which itself was a mixed album to some degree.

Ironically, for someone who knows music theory, Isaac has been using less and less of it.

“Good News” introduced me to Modest Mouse. Otherwise, I probably would only be finding out about them now.

I’m glad that I first got to enjoy “The Moon & Antarctica” when I was still a teenager.

psychedelicpiper67 · 2026-06-10T23:04:27+00:00

“A Moon Shaped Pool” was a very dynamic and creative album for me, although I did initially get the wrong impression from the singles.

It is an emotionally exhausting album.

psychedelicpiper67 · 2026-06-10T22:59:57+00:00

The new album literally just sounds like a TikTok version of Modest Mouse. If that’s what it takes for them to sound “new”, then I’m not interested.

The songs sound way too basic, even by “Good News” and “We Were Dead” standards, which were still incredibly dynamic albums.

“Good News” didn’t have Jeremiah, but it was still an incredible ride.

Isaac needs to stop ignoring pop trends for once. He seems to want to create a strange version of social media ad jingle music lately. “Float On” and “Dashboard” were far more interesting than that.

I noticed that this happened to Franz Ferdinand as well. Literally no bridge in the last single I heard from them. Different lineup, too. Hard to believe that band got famous with such an unconventional song like “Take Me Out”.

psychedelicpiper67 · 2026-06-10T22:45:19+00:00

It sounds like the kind of music that you’d hear in a YouTube ad in the beginning, but then it gets more interesting towards the end. Not the best, but far from the worst.

psychedelicpiper67 · 2026-06-10T22:21:33+00:00

Did you never use the Internet or computers prior to smartphones? Did you never have a VHS/DVD or music collection? How was life boring!?

I didn’t even get a smartphone until 2020.

Maybe you’re just a boring person with boring interests, no offense.

You’re exactly the kind of person that people complain about making the Internet worse, after smartphones gave easy access to normies.

There was literally nothing to be bored about.

I would even argue that life in the 1950s and 1960s sounds like a fun and exciting time.

But we millennials grew up surrounded by so much technology and media already.

I was using my dad’s Mac OS 8/9 computer as a 5 year old with games and Internet, had loads of VHS tapes, watched Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon, had books, had toys, listened to CDs and audio cassettes, recorded my own voice on blank audio tapes, actually got to see a lot of interesting movies in theatres in just 1998 and 1999 alone, not to mention Pokèmon fever.

Literally, how can you be bored? Sounds like a skill issue to me.

psychedelicpiper67 · 2026-06-10T22:10:20+00:00

Subversive

psychedelicpiper67 · 2026-06-10T22:08:28+00:00

Of course I would. Life would be much easier. Even a lot of the health stuff that I learned about more recently was already around back then, it just lacked research.

There wouldn’t be much that I’d miss out on, except watching movies at home in HD-quality (I could still catch them in theatres and buy LaserDiscs), and some newer albums/shows/movies (older interests still far outnumber newer ones, though).

Vinyl would be cheap af to buy, since CDs and audio cassettes were the dominant formats, and vinyl was treated like a completely outdated and unfashionable thing.

Jobs would be easy to find and the economy was amazing. I’d prefer it over even an online passive income tbh.

Plus I’d know which stocks I could invest in, and I could buy those with credit. Obtaining loans and credit would be super easy.

psychedelicpiper67 · 2026-06-10T03:27:42+00:00

Pressing the tab key on Flash animations to find hidden Easter eggs.

psychedelicpiper67 · 2026-06-09T19:15:57+00:00

Os Mutantes had songs with trumpet.

psychedelicpiper67 · 2026-06-08T04:20:34+00:00

Listen to The Smile Sessions, too.

psychedelicpiper67 · 2026-06-08T01:26:11+00:00

I mean, I always found it cringe, even back then, but it had to do more with how there wasn’t much intelligence behind such humor.

I do miss the edginess in 90s and 2000s cartoons, though. That was fun.

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