The PLAY MINNESOTA Thread!

vant0037 said:

I'm comfortable with that track record. As embarassing as Limp Bizkit and Korn were by themselves (remember those pants? And those stupid Yankees hats? OzzFest? The Family Values tour??? ) ), that was about as far down the cringe-worthy rock or "nu-metal" pipe I ever got.

Good way of putting it, Vant. I am also comfortable with my track record; it is what it is.

I saw Theory of a Deadman, Trapt and Socialburn all on one bill. I can't remember whose "show" it was, but I was pretty into the post-grunge-not-quite-metal stuff for a while.

And I'm 29. So, when I was into this crap, I was also getting into Pearl Jam. I didn't fall off the musical scale into the realm of PJ and forget about everything else. Pearl Jam has proven their greatness over time while other bands fall off, but I certainly listening to lots and lots and lots of different stuff. And a lot of it has faded into being trapped by time and forever will be looked at with a nostalgic lense.

vant0037 said:

R.I.P. Harold Ramis.

Besides his role in Ghostbusters, I think one of my favorite roles of his was the Dean of Admissions in Orange County- "Sean! You're my same height. That is neat."

i, too, was a classic rock teenager. growing up my father figure listened to the doors and other 60-70s bands. pink floyd blew my mind when i was 14-15. the forrest gump soundtrack in 94 introduced to me to a range of artists, and i spun that cd all the time. i got into classical and movie scores (jurassic park ftw!) from being in school band. i bought stuff like weird al and guns n roses, but i was listening to them when i was 10. it was pink floyd that changed my life in terms of music.

i didn't REALLY get into pearl jam until 95, my senior year. other alternative acts of the time (nirvana, stp, the pumpkins, etc.) never did much for me until after i was in college, if they ever did at all. besides alternative, rap/hip hop and pop music were generally the biggest sellers between 92-96 and none of those really did anything for me like pink floyd or zeppelin did. i will say i am a sucker for janet jackson's .janet album, though. meat loaf's bat out of hell 2 is another. bands of the era that i feel i actually *listened* to during that era include pearl jam, r.e.m., they might be giants, garbage, dave matthews band, blind melon, and metallica, but really most of those i started listening to intently only just before or during my senior year- and all of them took a back seat to pink floyd.

sure, i can look at top 50 lists of songs from 92-96 and recognize the majority of them, but i couldn't tell you three songs off of whatever album bone thugs' tha crossroads is on, the lyrics to water runs dry, or the tracklisting off in utero. my music interests were never in line with what my friends were listening to. i remember buying jj cale's guitar man album in 1996 and playing that at a party only to have it taken out within minutes. granted, it wasn't an album to really party to, but i was excited about it and i remember feeling dejected that no one else cared to listen to it.

Not too much blows my wig off these days. I've always liked PJ because combine brains and balls (to be blunt). I struggle to find bands that are like that today.

I'm ready for winter to be done. I know why my Norwegian ancestors came here though...long, cold winters.

evenflow82 said:

I'm ready for winter to be done. I know why my Norwegian ancestors came here though...long, cold winters.

and moreso, the rich soil was far more enticing than what they were dealing with back home (rock garden anyone?) Otherwise, yes, the weather was most like home and they could put up with it!

Whooooo's getting excited for St. Patrick's day in a few weeks?! :!! Z and I will be in St. Paul, as per usual..

Everything is worth it on st. Patricks day

vant0037 said:

Dirty Frank Z said:

Everything is worth it on st. Patricks day

St. Patrick's Day is great, if you're 22.

St. Patrick's Day is, along with New Year's Eve and Halloween, one of the worst nights of the year to be out in an American bar.

St. Patrick's Day ruins bad beer with food coloring.

St. Patrick's Day makes a random Tuesday at a decent sports bar a drunken overpriced mess.

St. Patrick's Day gives white people "fun" ethnicity. You know, the kind you can take on or off, not the kind that could exclude you from a job or housing or get you picked up by the cops.

I modify that last part: St. Patrick's Day gives cops a reason to racially profile white people. Fair is fair.

Bah humbug! )

Oh Mr. Scrooge.. you never fail to comment

Gonna get colder. Screw you, winter!