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Casey Kasem from Battle of the Planets

Never sacrifice

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Anyway, constructively, when you're there inside the death throes of an exhausted dominant system you can't trust it really will die, and rejecting it is exhilarating but it doesn't much feel like winning, and only well afterward do the people who played Chicago everywhere start playing Public Enemy

Good engagement here though

It's not a reevaluation of the music, it's the original evaluation of the music. And these "u wanted engagement" posts are incomprehensible to me, this site ain't monetized, I didn't actually want to know how many people insist "Girl You Know It's True" is up there with "When Doves Cry."

HAVE YOU HEARD THE GOOD NEWS

It's sort of impossible (blessedly!) for present-day music listeners to get what it was like when the entire soundscape was only physical media and small finite numbers of broadcast outlets—every time someone played "Every Rose Has Its Thorn" meant someone NOT hearing "Fascination Street"

Yeah I had all their demo tapes

This is a what originally put this chip on my shoulder, a Pitchfork thing confidently holding forth on the public reception of the various different singles off Surfer Rosa when they came out

I think we’ve reached Making Up a Guy to Make Up a Guy Who Was Mad At to Be Mad At

Also seems like a whole lot of people think the way not to be an overbearing music snob is to be an overbearing reverse snob about music

Calling 1989 “a perfect year in music” is like calling 1988 “a perfect year in the Soviet Bloc”

The replies are convincing me that people who use the word “banger” mean “bad song”

The word “find” in “find an audience” is pretty much the whole point here

Post an album I had to travel 350 miles to learn had been released

I don't think you quite got the point here

Yeah, Haus der Lüge and Pretty Hate Machine came out that year too, and "I Don't Know Anybody Else" was released in December

Yes, out of all the genres that were getting played on the mainstream charts in 1989, R&B was the one that had fallen off the least from its earlier heights

I see we broke containment on this one

“They can’t come on and play me in primetime…”

People need to stop retconning literally the worst era in American popular music history into something it wasn't, just because there were also some amazing records that like 250 people happened to be hunting down and listening to

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No it doesn’t, it creates endlessly multiplying opportunities to rig events where now you can tank prop bets on your own performance instead of even needing to recruit teammates to help shave points

*taps the sign*

How did this become a thing at all, let alone the default?

Somehow the “saying you’re sorry” part has dropped clean out of the list of things that are supposed to happen on the way to people granting you forgiveness

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Cool, where's The Elephant Man?

Notably, aiming to make up for her own knowledge and biases, Lane chooses to spend the interview rehashing third-party attack lines against Superman, ventriloquizing his enemies to try to push him into saying something that would allow her to write about conflict rather than substance. She's a pro!

Anyway literally none of the things that the original post was complaining about were worse in the '90s and '00s, even if you were watching dumb ol' linear broadcast TV the ad breaks weren't as incredibly predatorily long as they've become.

One thing you could do at a video store in the '90s and '00s was rent movies from the '80s through the '00s as opposed to having them be unfindable because nobody bothered

Yeah I'm so spoiled rotten I wanted to watch The Elephant Man oops

Complete with K-Pop Demon Hunters Nongshim Ramen brand activation event fenced off in the middle

Thirsty—sad!

How about 3. the people who demand other people use it come off like smarmy dopes at best

Everything about John Roberts's approach to the Voting Rights Act makes sense when you remember that John Roberts has has always been hostile to the Voting Rights Act, never believed it was appropriate, and has spent most of his 45-year legal career working to hollow it out.

I think one of the biggest cleavages in our society that no one talks about is the division between those that think powerful people must be held to a higher standard than non-powerful people and those who think powerful people should be flattered and sucked up to.

Hey why don't you try quote-tweeting someone who did the thing you're complaining about instead of someone who wrote something entirely different

If you leave one magazine job and go write a book, apparently for a major publisher, and you deliver your manuscript and take another magazine job less than a year later, when did the exile part happen, exactly?

This sucks I just finished my book about this exact thing

Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.

OK the leak came from someone even worse, got it

Oh boy

To take the wider view I’m also not getting push polls funded by Cuomo backers anymore either