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Turns out I'm not the only one who dislikes gravy!
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I've had that **** they call biscuits and gravy when in the USA... if that's the gravy y'all on about, I agree, I don't like gravy.
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- Rallywgn81
That's sausage gravy. If you've not had it home made, the disregard it. I have yet to go to a restaurant that has a good gravy. But, there are lots of different flavors and types of gravy for all sorts of different foods, be it mashed potatoes with chicken (made with the chicken stock and some giblet and organ meat) or beef gravy for SOS (aka $#!% on shingles, aka chipped beef on bread slathered in beef gravy) or what have you. All of it is really good if its home made, and rather crap if out of a can or package.
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It was at someones home, might have been out of a packet, not sure. It was white and fairly smooth. In either case, whilst I get it was not going to be what an Englishman from Yorkshire, living in the Midlands, might consider gravy.. it was 'orrible anyway.
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Houses of the Holy is the best Led Zeppelin album.
From D'yer Mak'er's sexy riff to the atmosphere of No Quarter and The Rain Song, it feels much more versatile than the untitled album. Oh, and Stairway to Heaven isn't that good of a song.
From D'yer Mak'er's sexy riff to the atmosphere of No Quarter and The Rain Song, it feels much more versatile than the untitled album. Oh, and Stairway to Heaven isn't that good of a song.
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You "fixed" what was NOT broken!
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You misspelled Presence.
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I'm not sure which album I prefer. Stairway is alright. The blues stuff like Dazed and Confused and Since I've Been Loving You are some of my favourites, although I have a soft spot for the heavier tracks like Black Dog and Immigrant Song.
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Don't know if this is an unpopular opinion but the old hard rock/metal bands don't hold a candle to the current stuff like Metallica. I mean, some of the stuff from the 70's is good like Rainbow, Led Zeppelin and Uriah Heep but it's not as aggressive as the modern metal that I'm used to. Not that Metallica is modern, but lets give a bit of context here: Iron Maiden's produced songs like Run To The Hills at the same time Metallica was producing stuff like Kill Them All and Fight Fire With Fire. Compare those songs and you'll understand what I mean. Iron Maiden is more like the 70's stuff whilst Metallica was in another league. Their brand of heavy metal is like nothing else and that's why I like them.
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Led Zeppelin is absolutely in a different genre, that's for sure. Metallica is pop metal and I haven't liked anything by them from load on. I'd personally rather listen to Pantera, SoaD, Kitty, or a whole bunch of other far better metal bands than Metallica. I mean, if I really listened to that kinda music anymore.
PS, Lars.... Summers eve comes to mind for some reason....
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Well yes, Led Zeppelin are a different genre. Metallica is popular but it's actually thrash metal, not pop metal. That just sounds like a misnomer because metal isn't the most popular genre right now. I have heard other metal bands but I simply cannot go past Metallica.
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I'd imagine that is an unpopular opinion, and I don't agree. Thing is...I don't disagree either, because what Pink Floyd "is" encompasses so much that it's difficult to pinpoint this as being better than that.
I think the only Pink Floyd album I can say with any kind of confidence Wish You Were Here is "better than" would be The Final Cut. I envision the three of them in the studio during the recording of it, Roger shouting "No! No! No!" and snatching Nick's sticks to fling at David's head, but missing and having them break as they hit the wall, preventing any further drum recording for the album. I love Roger, but I think he was done before they even started recording it. Similarly, I love The Final Cut, but I see it more as a precursor to Roger's own The Pros And Cons Of Hitch Hiking than The Wall's successor.
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I happened across a video essay on Wish You Were Here which explored the turmoil the band faced while writing and recording it and their state of mind. I was really able to sense their mood in the music more than I have with any other of their records as for that particular album I had a view to what was going on in their minds and how it factored into the tracks they made.
Chiming in on the Metallica debate (as a huge, mega, mahoosive Metallica fan) I think they are a genre defining band and there is little that comes close to them. Like all band of a certain age, they’ve made some crap, St. Anger pretty much blows entirely, but their discography has more hits than misses which is great considering the age of the band and that they’ve rarely spent long periods on hiatus.
Others like Pantera and Mega Death have the same ingredients but they just aren’t baking the same cakes; whether it’s that they can’t match Hetfield’s singing or don’t off enough variation in a single track - Metallica just seem to have the metal formula nailed.
I would term the band heavy metal rather than thrash metal as the majority of their work lacks the speed and aggression of thrash, but certainly maintains the dark undertones and the D Minor scale riffs of metal. Once Hetfield actually learnt to sing and stopped screaming they left that raw, thrashy sound behind only to revisit it upon occasion.
Later Metallica stuff gets a bad rap, especially since the mixed reviews of Load and Re-Load. Those albums were a mix of meh, alright and “hey, that’s surprisingly good”. The cover of Bob Sieger’s Turn the Page springs to mind. The latest album, Hardwired, has really gone back to their metal roots, avoided anything soft and heads full force into the heavy part of the genre.
If it wasn’t for the fact Lars Ulrich seems to be such a dick I think they’d be one of the coolest bands ever. Only yesterday at the closing of my school semester I broadcast the full Ride the Lightning album - my personal favourite - across the school PA (all the kids had gone home, I should mention).
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I agree with all of these points. Hardwired really is a great album compared to some of the crap that's played on the radio.
Cancelled until further notice anyway. I will be furious if I have to wait another decade to see them... Hopefully they'll come back in 2020 because there are THOUSANDS of people who want to see them. All my hype about the concert has just gone; I was thinking about it all the time and now I'm sitting here at a complete loss... If they do announce new dates, I hope that I don't miss out
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Now that it's that time of year again, I'm fine with black/whiteface. If it's done to capture the essence of a character and not in a tasteless manner like a minstrel show, I'm cool with it.
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That's your cue...
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I never understood that; if something's funny, you should be able to laugh at nearly anything or any time where a coffin isn't being lowered or extremely bad news isn't delivered to the person sitting next to you. And if it isn't funny, it's either a joke you don't understood or it's just not funny, and it's okay not to laugh at stupid or dumb jokes. To be an adult, and having a box tell you how to feel is to become a marionette.
That's because Friends was never funny in the first place, and its resurgence is a signal to go back to Cloud Cookoo Land.
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I think you are looking at it to much to an extreme. Laughing, like so many other things in life, is better shared with a group than as an individual. A joke that you may just chuckle at when you're alone might be something you split your sides on when your laughing with the group, and a good hearty laugh is much nicer than a little chuckle. It's just more comfortable to laugh harder when your laughing with someone, even if that someone is really no one.
There are shows that do tend to over due the laugh track though. Especially some of those crappy Disney kids shows. And that can really take the wind out of the sails for some thing that might have been funnier than it was with an obnoxious laugh track, sona good balance is key for sure.
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I've posted about it elsewhere on the forums but laughing is something I never do alone except in very rare circumstances.
Any time I see a YouTube comment about how someone couldn't breathe because they were giggling so much or they broke the decibel record because something was so funny, it just makes me wonder. I never laugh watching videos on my own.
In no way am I agelastic, in fact I perform stand-up comedy sometimes, but laughing appears to be something that occurs only in the company of others to demonstrate that you get it. I can watch something hilarious with my friends and be in stitches but the same thing alone and it's silence. Laughing is a social action.
It takes something exceptionally comedic to make me even breath-laugh on my own.
The last thing to make me actually laugh out loud alone was this about two months ago:
It's the red M&M's face; whipping it out like a pro.
