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[twiztor]

On 12/4/2025 at 5:39 PM, zendragon said:

I don't think we properly appreciated how delightfully weird the 90's where 

because we thought the weirdness would continue, instead of morphing into a homogenous look and sound for everything. i think the McDonalds meme is a perfect encapsulation of this:

there's also this parking lot picture which really says the same thing:

Edited December 8, 2025 by twiztor
added a second example

[supremebve]

1 hour ago, twiztor said:

because we thought the weirdness would continue, instead of morphing into a homogenous look and sound for everything. i think the McDonalds meme is a perfect encapsulation of this:

I've seen a lot of things over the last year or so about how visual design has lost all character.  I think it started with a dude on YouTube complaining about NBA logos and how everything has went from bright colors, weird fonts, and creative graphics to looking like it was stamped out in the same factory.  Recently it has been stuff like this where nobody wants to buy a building that used to be a McDonalds, so they made McDonalds look like every other building.  I don't know what it says about our society that we look at being unique as a burden, but I don't like it.  

[zendragon]

9/11 broke us?

[twiztor]

17 hours ago, zendragon said:

9/11 broke us?

that kind of thinking is how the terrorists win! America's the best country in the world! Freedom Fries!  [/s]

[zendragon]

[zendragon]

really feeling this today

[Zimbra]

For the low, low price of $10K YOU can own Jello Biafra's Toyota Celica

[Curt McGirt]

I don't know if he mentions it in the video, but that's probably the car that he received from his wife's parents as a wedding gift, and he was so ashamed he just put it under a tarp in the back yard. 

[zendragon]

Ashamed for what reason?

[Curt McGirt]

It was an expensive convertible. A punk, especially a super-political, anticapitalist one, shouldn't be seen dead in it. 

Of course looking at it now it's just a piece of junk and not special at all... but a man's gotta have principles!

[zendragon]

I guess if he donated it to charity (like Elvira donating her tesla to NPR) the parents would have been pissed

[Shartnado]

On 12/13/2025 at 1:27 AM, zendragon said:

really feeling this today

This would be one of the few Type O songs I still listen to, ever so often, along with We Hate Everyone and Christian Woman. Kinda odd, given how big of a fan I was in the late 90's.

[Zimbra]

On 12/13/2025 at 6:42 PM, Curt McGirt said:

It was an expensive convertible. A punk, especially a super-political, anticapitalist one, shouldn't be seen dead in it. 

Of course looking at it now it's just a piece of junk and not special at all... but a man's gotta have principles!

He should race J Mascis for slips

[Curt McGirt]

Jay's birthday was yesterday, I believe (or in the last couple days).

[ExcellenceofAirPollution]

I too enjoy Roy Wood and Wizzard (I'm not posting in the WWE folder just to say that)

[Nice Guy Eddie]

On 12/16/2025 at 12:11 PM, Shartnado said:

This would be one of the few Type O songs I still listen to, ever so often, along with We Hate Everyone and Christian Woman. Kinda odd, given how big of a fan I was in the late 90's.

My favorite Type-O song. I really enjoy the cover by Trivium as well. 

Edited December 18, 2025 by Nice Guy Eddie

[Shartnado]

3 hours ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

My favorite Type-O song. I really enjoy the cover by Trivium as well. 

Well, I need to check that cover our right away!

[zendragon]

 

[Nice Guy Eddie]

 

[Cobra Commander]

finding out Oran Juice Jones was a Marine kinda puts the lyrics in "The Rain" in a different light. Not a bad light, but more of a "oh that's why he decided to follow his girl to find out she wasn't faithful"

also, a lot of radio versions of songs are either a bit distracting or just not as good but the radio version of "Kiss Me Deadly" somehow works

although the one radio version that was better than the original was "Guilty Conscience" by Eminem since it had a chorus not in the album version

[zendragon]

7 hours ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

 

This is like that Metallica cover he did where he just ends up sounding almost identical to papa het

[Curt McGirt]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOIV87gZL8Q

Youtube won't let me embed this. Weird. 

Anyway, this is the dope '70s soul song from the Farmer's Dog commercial running on TV right now. I'm amazed it isn't in Jackie Brown or some other Tarantino film. 

[twiztor]

On 12/18/2025 at 3:00 PM, Cobra Commander said:

the one radio version that was better than the original was "Guilty Conscience" by Eminem since it had a chorus not in the album version

i ended up with an edited copy of Eminem's "Slim Shady LP" album back when i was a teenager (not sure how, since i had already had the explicit version for some time) but what blew me away was how many verses were changed. Not just censored or bleeped out, but new rhymes, and in a couple cases, this led to multiple lines being completely rewritten and re-recorded. I still sometimes catch myself singing the edited versions rather than the uncensored.

And the version of "Guilty Conscience" on that cd wasn't even the one with the intro and cool chorus!  seeing that version in the music video blew my mind all over again.

[zendragon]

 

[odessasteps]

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