Random Music Talk CXXVIII: Cobbler's 42 Hat Sucks

[cobl04]

hahahaaaa

[bono_212]

Originally Posted by GirlsAloudFan

Ugh, I swear it's the only song he plays anymore. So stale and predictable.

The song totally made sense for the moment, I was just shocked by acoustic.

Originally Posted by gump

Did not expect Bon Jovi covering the Beatles.

Doing this from a boardwalk is the most Bon Jovi thing.

Originally Posted by GirlsAloudFan

Oh god, Bon Jovi covering the Beatles. This is so cringey.

Meh, it was just Jon, and it was the perfect song for the moment, honestly. I'm good with it.

There was clearly a theme going on of keeping the event tastefully somber, because, *SHOCK* we're actually talking about the pandemic and the people who have died this last year.

[lazarus]

Thank god I didn’t watch this and have to witness Bon Jovi doing anything.

[cobl04]

Really brave of Bono to thank conservatives in a social media post. So brave. So moving.

[bono_212]

You're reaching to criticize here. There's nothing wrong with what he said.

[iron yuppie]

Originally Posted by DaveC

https://twitter.com/WatchPolyphonic/...80887278190594

https://www.instagram.com/p/CKRyjOzlV-h/

https://www.instagram.com/p/CKRqLB5lCse/

[lazarus]

Originally Posted by cobl04

Really brave of Bono to thank conservatives in a social media post. So brave. So moving.

Yeah, that was pretty lame. But not surprising at all from him at this point.

These people enabled Trump for 4 years and then suddenly got a conscience when their own lives were threatened.

[Moonlit_Angel]

Originally Posted by cobl04

So one of my best mates has a 'mate' who is fully QAnon. He lives in Queensland and is Australian but has developed quite the interest in US politics. He bet my mate $2,000 that Trump would inaugurated today, and now that Biden has very clearly been inaugurated, his response to my mate asking for his money is "how do you not see what's happening? This is all part of the plan - Biden gets sworn in to reveal to everyone the web of corruption... he is about to be arrested and Trump will be re-inaugurated within days..."

He's been wrong every step of the way, all his predictions have been false, but he just keeps saying it's all part of the plan, and just delaying the next step.

I've been reading about how a lot of QAnon people are having a total meltdown online today, and some of them are feeling like Trump's betrayed them and isn't the 5D chess master they thought he was.

Just...no words to describe the delusion. Maybe Biden should hire a cult deprogrammer for his administration or something.

In music discussion, I missed the evening performances, but I did like the ones at the inauguration today. Lady Gaga especially sounded good.

[LemonMelon]

I wrote a piece about You Get What You Give after listening to it all day today:

https://rateyourmusic.com/music-revi...give/143431649

And no, I didn't mention the outro, because I don't think it's overly relevant to anything happening right now. If Gregg had gone all-out and switched the celebrities to Trump, McConnell, Giuliani and Cruz, I would have been all over that.

[LemonMelon]

The inauguration concert wasn't anything to write home about, but I thought they struck the right tone. There are still thousands dying every day from (not with) COVID-19, and the economy is still in ruins, so while they could recognize that today served as a potential turning point, they couldn't be overly celebratory about it. It was a solemn but uplifting set of performances.

[Hewson]

This should go in the random movie thread, but I'll just add it here...

[Jerry Dunk]

Originally Posted by cobl04

So one of my best mates has a 'mate' who is fully QAnon. He lives in Queensland and is Australian but has developed quite the interest in US politics. He bet my mate $2,000 that Trump would inaugurated today, and now that Biden has very clearly been inaugurated, his response to my mate asking for his money is "how do you not see what's happening? This is all part of the plan - Biden gets sworn in to reveal to everyone the web of corruption... he is about to be arrested and Trump will be re-inaugurated within days..."

He's been wrong every step of the way, all his predictions have been false, but he just keeps saying it's all part of the plan, and just delaying the next step.

Yeah, that's the Q move every time: make a prediction that's false, and then either say "it's part of a larger plan" or "actually, it did happen like I said, but they had to do it in secret." And that includes arrests and executions. The arrests are ones with ankle monitors so that they keep up appearances and more get arrested; the executions include replacing people with body doubles/clones/holograms.

It's deranged and also very demonstrably absurd.

[gump]

This one is for cobbler.

[cobl04]

Beautiful, thank you Gump. Very Bernie, too, to sit there not giving a shit about this pretentious sophistirockpop indie band from Vancouver.

[cobl04]

Originally Posted by LemonMelon

I wrote a piece about You Get What You Give after listening to it all day today:

https://rateyourmusic.com/music-revi...give/143431649

And no, I didn't mention the outro, because I don't think it's overly relevant to anything happening right now. If Gregg had gone all-out and switched the celebrities to Trump, McConnell, Giuliani and Cruz, I would have been all over that.

I enjoyed that.

[LemonMelon]

Originally Posted by cobl04

I enjoyed that.

Thank you! I enjoyed writing it. When an idea is rolling around in your head, it's best to put it to paper before the moment passes.

[LuckyNumber7]

Yeah that’s a cool idea. Liked the read.. maybe that’s something I should adopt more of. Writing it down.

[bono_212]

With it being the time of year where there are only a handful of new albums out by any artists I've ever heard of, this is where I'll listen to just about anything that has above a 70 on Metacritic. Even then, I almost skipped this one when I saw the genre tags Baroque Pop and Tom Waits listed as an influence. Glad I didn't! Quite solid and I would think something Interference might enjoy:

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCSSh9yUD5Q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tD0bRzUui6I

He's apparently friendly with a lot of bigger names out there, specifically Jarvis Cocker, so I suspect this may be one of those acts that's on the rise. Or perhaps he bubbles under forever, who knows. This isn't exactly radio friendly stuff. Also he did some Twin Peaks and Mr. Rogers music last year, so that's probably something I'll check out.

[bono_212]

Some random dumb shit I thought might give you all a chuckle, but tonight I was reminded that the band Rhye exist. I said something about the "Female" lead singer and Travis had to remind me all over again that the lead singer is a man. Which jogged my memory that we might have talked about that here once before. Sure enough:

https://www.u2interference.com/forum...ml#post7660576

It made me laugh to re-read that collective moment.
(Sometimes links to posts I send don't work because I don't have the default posts per page turned on, it starts at post # 963)

[gump]

Originally Posted by bono_212

Some random dumb shit I thought might give you all a chuckle, but tonight I was reminded that the band Rhye exist. I said something about the "Female" lead singer and Travis had to remind me all over again that the lead singer is a man. Which jogged my memory that we might have talked about that here once before. Sure enough:

https://www.u2interference.com/forum...ml#post7660576

It made me laugh to re-read that collective moment.
(Sometimes links to posts I send don't work because I don't have the default posts per page turned on, it starts at post # 963)

Keyser Soze!

Imperor

I miss joyfulgirl, my fellow Wilco fanatic.