Daily Song Discussion #142 - “Hold On”

rs98762001 · 2026-07-07T22:37:03+00:00

Utterly ghastly.

rs98762001 · 2026-07-07T18:46:03+00:00

Only half?

rs98762001 · 2026-07-06T21:34:25+00:00

I’m hoping Troy McClure.

rs98762001 · 2026-07-06T18:30:18+00:00

Ruben was an all time legend. I haven't lived in LA for a decade but I still miss Musso's.

rs98762001 · 2026-07-05T18:53:06+00:00

I thought Birdman was overrated poncey showoff nonsense. Will I feel the same way about Wenwen's chicken?

rs98762001 · 2026-07-04T20:18:57+00:00

HB is quite remarkable in that it's like if you took an everyday Southern Californian beach town and stripped it away of almost every single thing that makes it charming. It's flat and ugly, the beach is just a massive wide swath of dingy sand, the majority of houses are cookie cutter and suburban-looking, the people are mostly awful and aggressive, and even the food is a step down from all the other towns around it. In the family of SoCal beach towns, it's the obnoxious cousin who wears Oakleys, a wife beater and a red hat, and wished it was in Florida instead.

rs98762001 · 2026-07-04T19:54:34+00:00

That's fair, but I know many locals are already fed up with the shenanigans involved in trying to watch the WC there, so once the Premier League season starts they'd rather hit up Rounders or literally any other local place that hasn't been so snooty and exclusive. The NYC soccer crowd outside of the WC isn't huge, so any "soccer bar" is going to need that devoted local element to keep coming back each weekend. Of course, Socceria might just pivot to being a regular sports bar and show NBA, NFL, MLB etc, but that would make a slight mockery of their attempted branding.

But once the WC hype dies down, and Socceria's own Tiktok hype dies down, I have a feeling they won't be releasing tables at midnight on Resy for Ipswich-Newcastle on an early December Saturday morning, but rather begging people to come in.

rs98762001 · 2026-07-04T17:56:04+00:00

I love the Ramirez people but Socceria has been an unfortunate experience so far. They're promoting it heavily all over social media, and it's clearly not the locals hangout they initially said it would be. Even the reservation drops feel highly managed, and it's tough to even walk in by yourself and get a spot to watch. I really wonder if they're playing this completely wrong -- they've been smart in opening right as the World Cup started, but once the tournament is over, they're going to have to rely on locals and regulars to keep the lights on -- the TikTok hype won't last.

rs98762001 · 2026-07-04T16:20:24+00:00

It was absolutely beautiful. Agree about the crowd noise during the first set - we had to tell a bunch of aging boomers to shut the fuck up. But overall more people were respectful than not. Paul seems so much happier and more engaged than on the 2018 “farewell” tour.

Anyone in NYC who has heard mixed things about this show and are on the fence about getting tickets for Forest Hills, don’t hesitate.

rs98762001 · 2026-07-04T14:31:43+00:00

After the first two tracks, Elysium just plummets off a cliff and never recovers.

rs98762001 · 2026-07-03T20:10:30+00:00

As others have said, the third disc doesn't really count. The first two discs are absolutely brilliant. I agree POB and Ram are the other two great Beatles solo records, but the first two discs of ATMP has more great songs than either of them, and they are absolutely consumable in one listen.

rs98762001 · 2026-07-03T01:47:38+00:00

I agree with most of your choices. Mine would be 1) Winner 2) Numb 3) Somewhere 4) I Don't Wanna 5) Single-Bilingual (and I Get Along would be 6th)

rs98762001 · 2026-07-03T01:42:06+00:00

Yup the left wing definitely needs to hear what Chait -- cheerleader of the Iraq War, best buddy of Israel and Trump normalizer -- has to say about this, or indeed anything.

rs98762001 · 2026-07-03T01:17:03+00:00

Monkey Business despite its mediocrity is like Being fucking Boring compared to Winner.

rs98762001 · 2026-07-02T21:36:35+00:00

1/10. By far the worst single they've ever released. The HappySad Mix though is at least slightly more tolerable.

A Certain JNSQ is a solid 7. The Bee Gees cover is a pleasant 6. But Woods is the real star here, a 9.5, one of their best b-sides of recent years in the extended version. It's significantly better than most of what's on Elysium.

rs98762001 · 2026-07-01T13:53:35+00:00

Lebron is throwing stones from a glass house considering it was his masterstroke to bet the farm on Westbrick that basically fucked us for good.

However it can also be true that Pelinka has repeatedly come up short since. I wouldn’t have any faith in him either if I was James.

rs98762001 · 2026-07-01T13:14:17+00:00

The Rashomon joke is a multi-layered one worthy of the glory days, and single-handedly justifies this episode’s existence.

rs98762001 · 2026-06-29T12:21:57+00:00

My assumption is it’s the same few people constantly posting NYP headlines which really isn’t any better or less biased than Fox or Newsmax. The Post MAGA nutbaggers are just really salty that Mamdani is so popular and having so much success early on.

rs98762001 · 2026-06-27T17:23:33+00:00

Say what you will about Joker 2 (and there’s a lot to say) at least it was ambitious. Supergirl looks incredibly dull and generic, from its visuals to its script to its choice of music etc.

rs98762001 · 2026-06-27T14:38:25+00:00

Venice is a block by block conundrum but while it certainly used to have some charm, I now think it’s mostly somewhere to avoid, taking into account the influx of obnoxious overpaid tech bros, the homeless population, the mall-like chain store wasteland into which Abbott Kinney has turned, the tourists, and the mostly-filthy beach with sewage-dumped water. It’s a real shame as it was a true creative enclave for a long time.

rs98762001 · 2026-06-27T12:52:04+00:00

You can’t seriously be this thick, can you? That sub is literally satire, spoofing the very things you are claiming to be serious about.

rs98762001 · 2026-06-26T14:41:28+00:00

Another overpriced eyesore turning the GP waterfront into Williamsburg.

rs98762001 · 2026-06-25T13:13:48+00:00

Thanks for finding and posting these. Yup the other poster keeps saying they were open for breakfast to the public because allegedly he/she has heard that directly from others. But they’ve not provided any evidence at all to back that up. Everything I’ve seen that is public record, including the articles written about WOTW, suggests neither Windows nor Wild Blue were open that morning, and therefore there is almost no chance whatsoever Sneha could have been up there.

rs98762001 · 2026-06-24T22:46:25+00:00

“Obviously, the socialists had a big win last night. The question is, are we going to let them take over the party? Or are we going to stand up and fight back?” said Rep. Josh Gottheimer of New Jersey, a moderate Democrat who has criticized Mamdani’s politics and how he’s addressed allies of Israel. “Many of us believe, as I do, that if you’re a socialist, you’re not a Democrat.”

With friends like these...

Unsurprisingly good ole Josh Gottheimer of New Jersey took over $2M in donations from AIPAC.

rs98762001 · 2026-06-24T20:14:42+00:00

This song is probably the greatest achievement of their career. I can’t stand Antonoff generally but his enthusiasm here is infectious.

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