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Vinny Green Balls

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  1. You’re welcome. And maybe you’ll reconsider calling people dipshits for relating to certain music that you don’t approve of though. But I stand by highlight videos having objectively dog shit music
  2. And I do not accept the term “toon bro”
  3. That was a very fair question
  4. For somebody who confessed to being innately pessimistic, you're not doing a very good job at it. You're here quietly joining the sunny dark side with us.
  5. He'd like us to do on our research
  6. did you praise pineapple pizza or something?
  7. I got my ACL surgery in 1998. By 2000, I was near top speed and my lateral quickness was back. I wasn't an elite level short distance runner, but was fairly quick back in the day. Obviously not a professional athlete, but my doctor at the time expected me to make a full recovery. That was a quarter of a century ago.
  8. Most ACL injuries haven't been unrecoverable for 20 years.
  9. There are a few who will Three Mile Island if we don't get 3rd or 4th.
  10. There were plenty of odious comments about his appearance on here. Found it really disappointing.
  11. I’ll miss him, but we were generally pretty damn entertaining the times he didn’t play last season.
  12. It’s absolutely great shit. I became friends with Bombino when we worked in Niger and have been obsessed with his music since
  13. cles/srep00521 "After peaking in the 1960s, timbral variety has been in steady decline to the present day, the researchers found. That implies a homogenization of the overall timbral palette, which could point to less diversity in instrumentation and recording techniques. Similarly, the pitch content of music has shriveled somewhat. The basic pitch vocabulary has remained unchanged—the same notes and chords that were popular in decades past are popular today—but the syntax has become more restricted. Musicians today seem to be less adventurous in moving from one chord or note to another, instead following the paths well-trod by their predecessors and contemporaries." Abstract Popular music is a key cultural expression that has captured listeners' attention for ages. Many of the structural regularities underlying musical discourse are yet to be discovered and, accordingly, their historical evolution remains formally unknown. Here we unveil a number of patterns and metrics characterizing the generic usage of primary musical facets such as pitch, timbre and loudness in contemporary western popular music. Many of these patterns and metrics have been consistently stable for a period of more than fifty years... Beyond the specific outcomes discussed above, we now focus on the evolution of musical discourse. Much of the gathered evidence points towards an important degree of conventionalism, in the sense of blockage or no-evolution, in the creation and production of contemporary western popular music. This doesn't focus nearly as much on what is occurring in some other music genres not listed, but is overall looking at general patterns of western music in pop, rap, country, and metal. And since it was done in 2012, it obviously hasn't picked up on some new interesting patterns. This is an exception, but IDLES are very popular, but utilize a lot of chords and tones that are absolutely discordant and wouldn't exactly fit in. Saharan blues, as an example of a hybrid genre of western and sahel music, has only really been around since the early 90's, but has gained serious steam in invention in the last 10-15 years. Other studies have suggested that many if not most people get locked into the music that they listened to in high school, and arrogantly complain about all modern music being shit. Your initial statement about "dipshits" appears to lodge you in this camp. Especially now, we have access to so much music that even if the study is pretty sound (which I have no reason to think otherwise), there are more than enough exceptions to this even in contemporary western music. and finally it might be more accurate to look within smaller fragments of time. What you’ll likely find is that there are years of repetition in between quick spurts of invention. We’ve been stuck in the 4:4 pattern paradigm in the west for the most part for 100’s of years. Nothing wrong with it, but our minds are wired to find it pleasing.
  14. this is misleading. Studies were focused on modern pop songs. Plenty of music beyond them. what you could see is given the finite number of chords, there will be more and more overlap as time progresses.
  15. Isn't "meh" the most amped you get though?
  16. seriously. It's always a few with every damn thing. I can't help but suspect that they are touring support groups like the narrator in Fight Club.
  17. all I ever wanted all I ever needed is here in my arse
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