• Deacon@lemmy.world
      15·
      15 hours ago

      I might almost consider if we were to pretend OK Computer was their debut, but even that just don’t feel right. I still love most of what they’ve put out since then and they can still kick it on stage.

      This is pure ragebait for a certain (my) demographic and I love it.

      • Starik@lemmy.world
        5·
        13 hours ago

        I thought the consensus was that they were like the Beatles, in that they initially made more mainstream songs (that they’re semi-embarrassed of today) in order to have the freedom to make better, more creative music later in their career.

        I have no opinion.

        • Deacon@lemmy.world
          7·
          12 hours ago

          I’ve viewed it as artistic progression, plain and simple, similar to the Beatles, but I think we’re basically saying the same thing.

          I kind of split the Beatles into before and after Revolver. Revolver is a truly brilliant album that also acts as a nice bridge between the two major eras that I think of the Beatles run. Their Beatle-Mania Pop Sensation era culminating (masterfully) in Rubber Soul on one side, their Concept era on the other. And Revolver an era unto itself; the Beatles Fully Embrace Getting Weird era.

          I feel like OK computer represents a similar point in Radiohead’s artistry to Revolver.

          But in both cases, I think these are more milestones in their artistic ability than an intentional shift leveraging their previous success. But I’m not sure you meant that this was intentional on their part, so I may just be agreeing with your nonopinion in a ruminative meandering way.

        • frunch@lemmy.world
          4·
          14 hours ago

          I fuckin loved The Bends though. And while Pablo Honey may not be anything compared to Ok Computer, the track Blowout is soooooo good. They also have a substantial amount of excellent b-sides around their earlier few albums. OK computer was a monster of an album though, no doubt.

          I haven’t really listened to them in years now, lol. Funny how things change…

  • frog@feddit.uk
    42·
    17 hours ago

    Shoutout to all my peeps who are the only one in their family to like mint chocolate chip ice cream!

    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
      32·
      16 hours ago

      Funnily enough, hardcore liquor doesn’t seem to affect them much.

      I was 21, and poured myself a shot of Bacardi 151. This is a liquor so strong they stopped making it because people were going to the hospital. Jack Danials whisky is 80 proof. Bacardi 151 is 151 proof. So just barely shy of being twice as strong as Jack Danials.

      Anyways, I pour myself a shot, and don’t drink it. I get up, go to the kitchen to see if I still have any gatoraide left.

      I come back with 2 bottles, and my shot is gone. I’m like “…I know I didn’t drink it…” and I was failing to think of a reasonable explaination for what just happened. Then I see my cat looking at the end of the table looking guilty. I was like “OH GOD NO!!!”

      But it was 4am. There are no vets open at 4am.

      I was like “Well, I don’t know what to tell you. Even if a vet were open, I’m waaaay too drunk to drive right now. You better just stay alive, you sneaky little shit. Oh…I don’t mean that. I don’t want that to be the last thing I say to you. Come here, let me hug you.”

      And she vomited all over me. And I said “Hopefully thats good. C’mon, lets go feed you some more food so you can vomit more.”

      She wouldn’t eat. I stayed up until 7am, called the taxi place (because this story was in 2003 before uber), and told them I needed an emergancy taxi. And explained why.

      The vet saw her, and said one shot of alcohol wasn’t enough to kill a cat. I explained how strong this stuff was, but he said she wouldn’t die.

      She did however hate all noise for the next day, and prefered darkness. And then I realized “oh my god, my cat is legitimately hung over…”

      The day after that she was fine. And I never left open alcohol near her ever again. Not even beer.

      • palordrolap@fedia.io
        1·
        5 hours ago

        I got nerd sniped by 151 being “nearly twice as strong” as 80. Not because 151 isn’t 160, but because you can’t get stronger than pure ethanol at 200 proof. (Other alcohols, additives and dehydrating agents notwithstanding.)

        From a certain perspective then, 200 proof would count as infinitely strong, and that’s reflected in the difficulty that exists in distilling pure ethanol. This is a lot like the amount of effort required to reach light speed, so maybe “relativistic” mathematics is required here.

        Sooo, from this particular ~reference frame~ perspective, 151 is about “twice” 91 proof, and “twice” 80 proof is about 138, assuming I haven’t messed up the calculations.

        And if my even sketchier algebra is right, 151 proof is about 2.324 “times” 80 proof.

        (This would have been a lot funnier if 151 had turned out to be exactly “twice” 80 under this system, but alas it is not.)

  • Hegar@fedia.io
    19·
    15 hours ago

    Maybe 2 years ago my partner had to explain to me that most people actually prefer milk chocolate, so when i buy dark chocolate as presents it’s not actually appreciated.

    I’ve always preferred dark chocolate because it’s just so obviously better, and presumed everyone else did too. Finding out that most people like worse chocolate was quite a surprise🤷

    • dkppunk@piefed.socialEnglish
      1·
      4 hours ago

      I don’t like black licorice, but I like a few candies that are not very popular among people I know, which leaves more for me!

      • Peeps
      • Candy corn
      • Cadbury cream eggs
      • Sweethearts (Valentines Day)
      • Peppermint bark, although this one isn’t as controversial
    • LedgeDrop@lemmy.zip
      2·
      11 hours ago

      …and if you get the super salted one (ie: haribo super pirate coins - are my fav), it’s hard to even call it candy.

    • affenlehrer@feddit.org
      7·
      15 hours ago

      Here it’s very common to have children like it. Not super young ones (who prefer a pure diet of French fries and ice cream). E.g. Haribo Lakritzschnecken or Drops in the Netherlands.

  • FiniteBanjo@feddit.onlineEnglish
    2·
    17 hours ago

    “First Three Albums” is kind of a mood but personally one of the only Radiohead songs I like was Creep and the band actually hates that song, so yeah.

    • JayDee@lemmy.sdf.org
      3·
      17 hours ago

      I’m a huge fan of Kid A, though I can also accept that experimental music isn’t everyone’s bag.

      Thom Yorke had something of a mental break and made Kid A, which was fueled by a feeling that rock ‘was dead’, just a formulaic and commodified product now.

      I still like Creep, it’s a great-sounding song. I do get why they don’t like it, based on their statements about why they want to leave it behind.

      Yorke told Rolling Stone in 1993: “It’s like it’s not our song any more … It feels like we’re doing a cover.”[13] During Radiohead’s first American tour, audience members would scream for “Creep”, then leave after it was performed.[7] Yorke said the success “gagged” them and almost caused them to break up; they felt they were being judged on a single song.