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  5. (Un)Official Metal Thread

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    14 minutes ago, Skummy said:

    "Jesus He Knows Me" is definitely the highlight; that's been in pretty constant rotation for me since it was first released. "We Don't Need Another Hero" is good too, could see myself DJing that one if I were still playing rock/metal nights. 

    The rest doesn't really do anything for me; Phantom Of The Opera, in particular, just makes me want to listen to the original instead.

     

    Khanate dropped a surprise new album yesterday - it's very, very heavy, and I love it.

    For me, the weakest is the opening track. Agreed on Jesus He Knows me being the best one - it's also the one they have started playing live. 

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  12. Overwatch thread

    in Coin Op Arcade

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    Yeah, I've been reading about this. I get the impression they promised too much prior to actually getting to the nitty gritty, and now that OW is promoted as a live service game, they are too stretched to work on, what would essentially be, an entire new game (mode). 

    I will say, I am enjoying OW2 in general. It's still flawed as heck, but still fun. 

  19. Eurovision Song Contest 2023

    in Movies & TV

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    The judging panel needs overhauling. Each country's representative(s) is/are made up of former Eurovision performers and songwriters etc. The UK's panel was: 

    🇬🇧 United Kingdom

    • Debby Bracknell – Backing vocalist for the United Kingdom at Eurovision 2018
    • Katrina – Winner of Eurovision 1997 with “Love Shine A Light”
    • Paul Jordan – BBC Eurovision correspondent, known as Dr. Eurovision

    You can see the rest here: 

    https://eurovoix.com/2023/04/17/the-euro-jury-2023-jurors/

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  20. Classic Cinema Discussion

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    On 14/05/2023 at 03:18, Your Mom said:

    Ok I tried to do something a little different tonight. I've not seen much of his work so I figured it was time for a double feature starring the legendary Mr. Sidney Poitier! Then Pluto TV decided to be an asshole and cut my double feature in half to a...single feature. Anyway

    In the Heat of the Night was amazing and really showed me why people think so highly of Sidney. Not going to go through the whole thing I'm sure most of you know it but when Sidney backhanded rich white dude I pumped my fist. He was a damn good detective and he didn't let these racist assholes take away his dignity. "They call me Mr. Tibbs!"

    The Defiant Ones well I mean the first ten minutes seemed promising enough before the kind folks at Pluto TV told me it was no longer available :angry: I may be a little ahead of myself with it but both those guys seemed like violent criminals and the movie seemed to be setting me up to cheer for them? Like why would I do that? I think I'll get back to it when I get an opportunity though. However until then I withhold judgement.

     

    Classics watched this year:

    1. 12 Angry Men (1957)
    2. The Maltese Falcon
    3. The Third Man
    4. The Searchers
    5. Network
    6. Casablanca 
    7. In the Heat of the Night

    If you want another classic Poitier film, I can recommend Guess Who's Coming To Dinner. Also has Spencer Tracey (in his final role iirc) and Katharine Hepburn. It's a racially charged rom-com-dram. 

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  23. The 2023 Music Thread

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    21 hours ago, Skummy said:

    struggling with new albums this year.

    In the last few years, I've had a spreadsheet I use to track new releases, and make a quick knee-jerk reaction on them. Anything I think is quite good or deserves another couple of listens gets highlighted in yellow, anything I think is going to make my personal "best of the year" list gets highlighted in green.

    By this time last year, I already was well into double-digits for albums that I found good enough to be worth a green highlight, and more yellow.

    So far this year, my only "green" albums are by The Go! Team, Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs, and Belle & Sebastian. 

    There's a few in "yellow" that I might go back to up and upgrade; Depeche Mode, Laibach, Fever Ray and John Cale have all done good stuff.

     

    Still a few to listen to - The National, Beach House, Mars Volta, Pet Shop Boys, and Kim Gordon's new thing to name but a few - but I feel like it's been a fallow year so far. Anything important I might have missed?

    https://rateyourmusic.com/list/Haldamir319/2023-ranked-albums/

    https://rateyourmusic.com/list/Haldamir319/2023-ranked-eps-and-mini-albums/

    There's links to my ongoing lists, with genre descriptors for each entry. I've done 301 albums so far this year, and am just on my 43rd EP / Short Album as I type this ('Strong Heart' by Wytch Hazel). 

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    I would also broadly recommend using Rate Your Music for keeping track of these sorts of things. It has an upcoming releases box that is curated to you, based on artists you give 3.5/5 or better scores to. I use it in tandem with https://everynoise.com/new_releases_by_genre.cgi, which tracks everything uploaded to Spotify each week. You can filter via which country's Spotify you have, as well as a few other elements. 

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