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| I'm bored. Ask me stuff
First 3 items are releases that came out this week that I heard. Since when do I hear 3 2025 releases in the same week. Wtf? | | 1 |  | fantasy of a broken heart
Chaos Practitioner
Do you like Feats of Engineering? Yeah this is more of that, but also not exactly because it's evolved a bit? Love them.
Neo-psych, dream pop, some sorta indie rock idk
4/5 | | 2 |  | Mamalarky
Hex Key
13 tracks, but it doesn't get good til track 5. Still good though.
Neo-psych, indie rock, actually pretty different than Chaos Practitioner I promise...
3.5/5 | | 3 |  | The Jesus Lizard
Flux
Is this a real EP if it's just 3 singles put together without anything else for Record Store Day? I like "Westside" more than anything on Rack lol.
Noise rock, post-hardcore, the expected for them
3.5/5 | | 4 |  | Nine Inch Nails
Year Zero
CaliggyJack asks: "Which specific drugs were you on when you rated Nine Inch Nails Year Zero a 5 and where can I acquire then?"
Not only is Year Zero my favorite NIN album, it means a whole great deal to me personally. It was my favorite album of all time when I was like 15. I used it (as encouragement) to come out of the closet via Facebook post (back when Facebook was relevant.) I told myself I needed to post about being gay before the album ended or else I failed my task. When my favorite song from it, "The Warning" came on, the line "your time is tick tick ticking away" got me to click the button. Mission accomplished.
That being said, that moment didn't make it a 5, but I chose it directly due to how much I liked it.The 'alternate reality where aliens threaten to wipe out humanity if humans didn't stop being dicks' theme is a a great concept. Also I think every song on it is at least good if not great lol. No drugs needed | | 5 |  | Mazzy Star
Among My Swan
budgie asks: "how big is your dick"
Certainly bigger than your mother's. Well actually, I don't know that for sure. | | 6 |  | Pixies
Surfer Rosa
Trebor asks: "Do wavy Lays actually taste different or is it psychological from the different texture of the ridges?"
I've never had them. At first, I thought you meant Ruffles, but apparently FritoLay makes wavy Lays too. That's dumb. What was wrong with Ruffles? Ruffles are less oily than Lays if my memory serves correctly. I'm not sure if this applies to wavy Lays. | | 7 |  | Creedence Clearwater Revival
Green River
Emim asks: "What do you think of the new Naked Gun trailer"
Looks decent actually. The OJ joke was unexpected and got me to giggle. Liam Neeson is a weird choice for the Leslie Nielsen replacement, though. Wait...why do their names sound so familiar? | | 8 |  | Crass
Penis Envy
SlothcoreSam asks: "Hey Arse, Top 10 Crass tracks?"
10. Taking Sides
9. Dry Weather
8. Upright Citizen
7. Bumhooler
6. Systematic Death
5. A Rock 'n' Roll Swindler
4. Birth Control 'n' Rock 'n' Roll
3. Do They Owe Us a Living?
2. Big A, Little A
1. Bata Motel | | 9 |  | The Doors
Waiting For The Sun
PunkerBlast asks: "Do you prefer summer or winter and why."
Summer. I like being able to walk around as comfortably as possible. I'll still walk in 25 degree Fahrenheit weather, but it's nicer when it's 81 instead. My favorite season is Spring, though. | | 10 |  | Sly and The Family Stone
There's A Riot Goin' On
widowslaugh123 asks: "What director do you think would make a good musician and what musician would make a good director?"
I know one thing: as much as I love David Lynch, he does NOT make for a good musician haha. I bet Wes Anderson would make the quirky pastiche psychedelic musical nonsense I adore if he had taken a different life path. Maybe a boring answer, but Tom Waits really knows how to set a scene in his music and is already a good actor, so he'd probably direct well. | | 11 |  | Bjork
Vespertine
Asdfp277 asks: "favorite theorem?"
I majored in GIS in college, so I have a particular appreciation for Tobler's 1st Law of Geography. It states: "everything is related to everything else, but near things are more related than distant things." It's simple and sort of obvious, but it's the basic framework of all of Geography, so it's important to me.
If that's too much of a "law not a theory" I guess I can tack on Regionalized variable theory, which is built on Tobler's law. | | 12 |  | Fela Kuti
Expensive Shit
DadKungFu asks: "Is Film Forum still good?"
I've never been, oops. I like IFC though, which is only like a block away. | | 13 |  | The Avalanches
Since I Left You
Flashmobba asks: "what does it feel like to be bitchmade"
Hmmm, that's a pretty nasty rhetorical comment from someone I've hardly talked to. What crawled up your ass and died? | | 14 |  | Pink Floyd
The Dark Side Of The Moon
pizzamachine: "What are your thoughts on human cannibalism"
It's bad. And not just because of prion diseases. It might be the the least pro-society behavior imaginable. | | 15 |  | Depeche Mode
Violator
EoinCofa: "Will Paddy beat Chandler?"
I had to google this. A boxing match, eh? The brunette looks tougher and is hotter. That's apparently Chandler, so I guess he'll win. | | 16 |  | Marvin Gaye
What's Going On
Asdfp277 asks: "seacond question: is cyan a shade of blue?"
No. It's not blue at all. If it were, mixing cyan paint with magenta paint wouldn't give you a neutral blue, but it does. The fact that cyan and magenta aren't considered "main colors" is a societal failure. Why do we know what orange is better than cyan? There is yellow in your red, and cyan in your green, and magenta in your blue. Unless we're talking about light, then it's reversed. Purple and orange are tertiary colors, like chartreuse.
Broccoli, kale and cabbage are all the same species. George Washington never chopped down a cherry tree. George Washington Carver was a brilliant agricultural scientist, but had nothing to do with inventing peanut butter. There is no historical evidence that Socrates was real and it's possible he was just a character Plato made up for philosophical lessons. The Wright Brothers did not invent the airplane. The American education system has failed us. | | 17 |  | Mortem (Per)
The Devil Speaks In Tongues
evilford asks: "Question- does my new review suck ass?"
No, it's pretty engaging and thought out, though you may wanna break paragraph 4 in half for readability. | | 18 |  | The Smashing Pumpkins
Siamese Dream
keaton_86 asks: "What is your biggest regret?"
My biggest regret (that I can think of) is not being the one to sever a toxic, once super close, friendship of mine. I was definitely more tired of their shit than they were of mine, but me being me, I kept trying to hold onto it until it just got us to be super argumentative with one another. Of course, this friend eventually got to the limit where they severed it, but I should've ended that shit like a year prior. My friendships since are much healthier now. Attachment can be tough. Letting go once its too far gone can be tougher. | | 19 |  | Cocteau Twins
Treasure
gabba asks: "What do you consider as your biggest achievement in life, and what are you still looking forward to?"
My biggest achievement is getting a job that makes me feel fulfilled. So many people work dead end jobs just to get by, but I feel like my job is part of a system that makes a difference. Plus it has good health insurance, good job security, and a union. Public sector, baby! Not federal though, thank god.
What I'm looking forward to is finding a longterm partner to share my life with, I guess, oh and the probability I'll get a dog. And further deepening connections of friendships. I'm not going for anything grandiose, y'know? | | 20 |  | Nirvana
In Utero
arthropod asks: "What's your point of view on naturopathic medicine?"
I'm skeptical. Obviously, modern medicine (in the US,) has a lot of issues due to capitalistic corruption. Doctor's being pressured to prescribe you pills when you may not need them etc. But naturopathy seems to focus on things like "natural herbs" and "acupuncture" and other less-than-scientifically-valid enough systems. Basically, it has too much pseudoscience involved for me to take it seriously. Too many snake oil salesmen out there. | | 21 |  | Black Sabbath
Paranoid
Vercetti asks: "Any thoughts on pineapple pizza?"
I was raised on Long Island and currently live in Brooklyn, so I guess I'm speaking from an important pizza region: I've only had pineapple on pizza once and it was meh. It was at a pizzeria I've loved other slices by, but their pineapple and ham was meh. An abomination? No, I've seen macaroni and cheese on pizza, which is way scarier. I'd try it again, but I'm in no rush.
OKAY best pizza topping go:
-A classic margarita slice (no frills, but nicer than the regular ones) with sone red pepper flakes maybe on top.
-broccoli rabe & sausage (broccoli rabe is not broccoli (it tastes very different) so anyone who's saying "ew broccoli on pizza!" NO, it's different and amazing.
-Sausage and peppers
-The buffalo chicken slice (shameless, but hey it's butter, hot sauce, chicken, and blue cheese. Yes please.)
-Artichoke (I don't see artichoke slices anymore, but they're good.)
-a really good plain Sicilian slice | | 22 |  | System of a Down
System of a Down
anode asks: "What’re some of your soft spots and pet peeves when it comes to music?"
Soft spots: deep rich bass lines, sharp orchestral strings, trippy warped synths, offbeats, emotional honesty, overall goofiness, music with lore, expectation subversion halfway through the song, crowded sounding production, a unique vocalist, short bursts of dissonance, marimbas, a guy and a girl trading off vocals (I Bleed by Pixies is a key example,) Purposeful choppiness, sometimes angry political lyrics
Pet peeves: Cry-whine vocals (nasal whine is fine), screeching, guttural growling, when the guitar is such a central instrument that the rest of the instruments are only there to aid it, high arrogance lyrically, heavy autotune, production that sounds like you're standing in an empty tunnel, shoegaze guitars that are SO loud the rest of the song is nearly drowned out | | 23 |  | The Mothers of Invention
One Size Fits All
Frippertronics asks: "As a fellow fan, how do you reconcile your enjoyment of Zappa with his increasingly overly cynical worldview and the overwhelming "i'm better than you" attitude he held, especially after the final dissolution of the Mothers in 1975, as well as the fact that for all of the insights he had on the political world, he often remained pretty centrist for the time, which can also be seen as him trying to have his cake and eat it too? (I will not go into the whole part where he was a serial cheater and treated women like shit, but you know the deal)."
With Zappa, it's tough. My worldview has grown increasingly cynical as well, but I suppose I'm not known as arrogant (thank God.) Arrogance is a major negative for my taste, but it doesn't come through as much in his lyrics since he's often not singing about himself, but rather others. He thinks he's smarter than everyone else, but it's in a "read-between-the-lines" kinda way. | | 24 |  | The Mothers of Invention
We're Only in It for the Money
Frippertronics pt, 2 because his question was so long:
His anti-religion takes, his anti-censorship takes, and his claim that Reagan was leading us down the path of Fascism take all aged decently well even if he's crude as all hell about it. The man called Christians "fish people." He also made an audioplay in 1984 about the AIDs crisis (a total mess and flop with surprising small victories for reasons that would take awhile to explain.) He had balls to say the least and seemed to at least be genuinely fighting for what he believed in. He was one of the only musicians to testify against Tipper Gore's censorship plan (John Denver and Dee Snider being the others.)
I think, in many ways, his centrism was likely financial, since socially he seemed left. He wrote civil rights songs like Uncle Remus (where he asked George Duke to write it with him, for perspective) and Trouble Every Day, he hated Nixon and Reagan more than other presidents of the time...I'm running out of space lol | | 25 |  | Primus
Pork Soda
jrlikestodance asks: "What is your ultimate chase song in a Primus set?"
MY favorite song by Primus is DMV, so I guess that. It's fast paced enough to create a rush too, if that's what you mean by a "chase song" lol | | 26 |  | PJ Harvey
I Inside the Old Year Dying
klauswagon asks: "What do you consider your five healthiest habits?"
1. I genuinely try to (almost always successfully) get 10,000 steps a day.
2. I always include vegetables in my meals. Special focus on cruciferous vegetables. I'm a big fan of broccoli, brussels sprouts, and broccoli rabe especially.
3. I have a therapist I talk to every other week.
4. I don't drink alcohol often and I don't smoke anything. I'm living a primarily sober life.
5. I make sure to make plans ahead of time with close ones and plan out events so I always have things to look forward to. Social health is health. | | 27 |  | DJ Shadow
Endtroducing.....
YoYoMancuso asks: "What's something fun about you that we wouldn't know from interacting on Sput?"
Despite the fact that I've always known it's a pseudoscience and "horoscopes for people who think they're smart", I used to be SUPER engaged in the MBTI community. I'm talking being in like 20+ different Facebook group groups about it. Reading about cognitive functions, typing people in my life and in media. For a couple of years, a friend and I, created and ran both a Facebook Film Club and a Facebook Music Club about MBTI. The latter of which used to have genre themes every week. My biggest musical takeaway from that club was getting into Gal Costa. | | 28 |  | The Zombies
Odessey and Oracle
osmark86 asks: "If you could give your younger self one piece of advice at a pivotal point in your youth what would it be?"
I'd go to my 12 year old self and say: "for the love of god start trying vegetables, and stop being so picky with food. You LOVE broccoli and spinach. You stunt your height during puberty your picky bastard. You're 5'6" as an adult when the rest of the men in your family are like 5'9"-5'10." Earlier could work too, but definitely would need to relay that advice before puberty. | |
ArsMoriendi
04.13.25 | Mamalarky is 3/3 for the wonderful album art thing.
Yeah technically a hex key on an neon red background isn't that engaging, but it looks cool, right? Okay, still not as cool looking as a weird teal smiley face carpet, or a microscope's look at sand, but hey! | CaliggyJack
04.13.25 | Which specific drugs were you on when you rated Nine Inch Nails Year Zero a 5 and where can I acquire then? | budgie
04.13.25 | how big is your dick | Trebor.
04.13.25 | Do wavy Lays actually taste different or is it psychological from the different texture of the ridges? | Emim
04.13.25 | What do you think of the new Naked Gun trailer | SlothcoreSam
04.13.25 | Hey Arse, Top 10 Crass tracks? | PunkerBlast
04.13.25 | Good on yas over all the Year Zero stuff. That album does rule. So uhhh for my (dumb) question. I don't know what to ask. Do you prefer summer or winter and why. | widowslaugh123
04.13.25 | What director do you think would make a good musician and what musician would make a good director? | Asdfp277
04.13.25 | favorite theorem? | ArsMoriendi
04.13.25 | @PunkerBlast: I picked Waiting for the Sun for your question cuz it has the songs "Wintertime Love" and "Summer's Almost Gone" on it. | PunkerBlast
04.13.25 | Fair enough. I read that. Thanks for the acknowledgement, Ars. I prefer winter over summer still. | SlothcoreSam
04.13.25 | Solid selection, I'll send you mind later. | DadKungFu
04.13.25 | Is Film Forum still good? | Asdfp277
04.13.25 | not a theorem, but sweet answer, loves it ! | PunkerBlast
04.13.25 | I never made a list, but I feel like I could. I just, I'd have to pick albums and think about that and it seems like a lot of work. I don't want to sidetrack this any further, but user was (a) board. I'd prefer to just try and post intelligently on bands I like and maybe learn more about some I am not so sure of or laugh at the popular mayhem, mayhem, mayhem. | SlothcoreSam
04.13.25 | Off the top of my head
1. Do they owe us a living
2. Bata motel
3. Big A little a
4. Banned from the Roxy
5. Systematic Death
6. Nagasaki Nightmare
7. Major General Dispar
8. Bloody Revolutions
9. System
10. You've got Big Hands | ArsMoriendi
04.13.25 | @Sloth:
Best Before 1984 Major General Despair or Christ the Album Major General Despair? Since they're completely different songs lol | Flashmobba
04.13.25 | what does it feel like to be bitchmade | pizzamachine
04.13.25 | What are your thoughts on human cannibalism | EoinCofa
04.13.25 | Will Paddy beat Chandler? | SlothcoreSam
04.13.25 | Best before 84 version | Asdfp277
04.13.25 | seacond question: is cyan a shade of blue? | PunkerBlast
04.13.25 | Yea. Also so were robots and Cyan was a famous Final Fantasy VI character!!!!!! *hides* spoiler, NO!!!!! I don't think there were many robots in FFVI. Bless. I am going off the plot, and did post a spoiler. Also I think Cyan isn't that liked tbf. He's not Sabin or others. | Asdfp277
04.13.25 | ive never played a final fantasy game, smh | Flashmobba
04.13.25 | im just kidding my friend I wish you the best in your health and future endeavors | evilford
04.13.25 | Question- does my new review suck ass?
I probably should have worked on it more. I think from a technical standpoint, it is decently well-written, but I could have dived into what the music sounds like a bit more. Oh well, there's always next time :-) | CaliggyJack
04.13.25 | Dammit I can't make fun of you when Year Zero means that much to you!
Now I feel bad... 😢 | evilford
04.13.25 | Year zero is a hard banger for the record agreed | keaton_86
04.13.25 | What is your biggest regret? | gabba
04.13.25 | What do you consider as your biggest achievement in life, and what are you still looking forward to? | arthropod
04.13.25 | What's your point of view on naturopathic medicine? | Vercetti
04.13.25 | Any thoughts on pineapple pizza? | anode
04.13.25 | What’re some of your soft spots and pet peeves when it comes to music? | Frippertronics
04.13.25 | As a fellow fan, how do you reconcile your enjoyment of Zappa with his increasingly overly cynical worldview and the overwhelming "i'm better than you" attitude he held, especially after the final dissolution of the Mothers in 1975, as well as the fact that for all of the insights he had on the political world, he often remained pretty centrist for the time, which can also be seen as him trying to have his cake and eat it too? (I will not go into the whole part where he was a serial cheater and treated women like shit, but you know the deal). | evilford
04.13.25 | Fripp sighting lfg | anode
04.13.25 | For 13 I would personally love to be a bitchmaid for free rent but my couch surfing friend got tired of it over time lol | jrlikestodance
04.13.25 | What is your ultimate chase song in a Primus set? | klauswagon
04.13.25 | What do you consider your five healthiest habits? | anode
04.13.25 | Respect for the year zero love | anode
04.13.25 | 15 has aged poorly and as a heterosexual male paddy is way hotter both physically and personality wise | ArsMoriendi
04.13.25 | Fripp, to save time I only kinda answered your question, but you get the gist | anode
04.13.25 | for soft spots i agree with: deep richc bass lines, trippy warped synths, offbeats, emotional honesty
for pet peeves i agree with: when the guitar is such a central instrument that the rest of the instruments are only there to aid it, high arrogance lyrically, shoegaze guitars that are SO loud the rest of the song is nearly drowned out | jrlikestodance
04.13.25 | By chase song I meant the song you'd want to see the most live and I think that's a great one. Mine with Ween was Pollo Asado and I got it in 2023. Now just need Mutilated Lips if they ever tour again | anode
04.13.25 | 18 sad and relatable | evilford
04.13.25 | @17 - v good point and i agree that that would make it more readable! Updated.
Thanks for the advice and for taking the time to read it | ArsMoriendi
04.13.25 | I've seen them do Mutilated Lips and when they said the line "everything is turning brown" they changed the lights to brown, it was wonderful | YoYoMancuso
04.13.25 | What's something fun about you that we wouldn't know from interacting on Sput? | osmark86
04.13.25 | If you could give your younger self one piece of advice at a pivotal point in your youth what would it be? | gabba
04.13.25 | Thanks for the response Ars, good to see that we share the appreciation for the public sector. I’m not a dog person, so can’t relate to that, but wish you luck with finding a partner you’ll be happy with! | Vercetti
04.13.25 | Some of these pizza toppings surprised me. nice | gabba
04.13.25 | it surprised me that anchovies are not mentioned, best topping on pizza imo
and despite me not being a fan of broccoli, I will taste the rabe if it ever comes my way | ArsMoriendi
04.13.25 | I don't really like fish
and yeah broccoli rabe is cruciferous like broccoli, but is no closer to broccoli than like cabbage, kale, brussels sprouts, cauliflower etc.
Broccoli rabe is Brassica rapa, when everything else I mentioned are variations of Brassica oleracea
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cruciferous_vegetables is a fun Wikipedia article about this | osmark86
04.13.25 | @Ars: I ate all my veggies as a kid but ended up 1.79m. My dad is 1.95m, my younger brothers 1.91cm & 1.88m respectively. I don't think that advice would have made all that much difference my buddy ;)
Still good advice though honestly. Everyone needs veggies. | klauswagon
04.13.25 | Thank you very much for your response! I really need to walk and eat more vegetables lmao |
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