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Novice Member
Joined: 11/02/10
game is also real
GW2 = patchwork of bit of WoW, Rift, GW Prophecy, and something else I can't even recall.
Good game if you have no time and money to play anything original or deep.
Can be hard to play w/o group finder and healer/off-healer, but normally it's not that hard to get how to do.
Can be annoying if you like progressive PvP, don't like WvW and hate jumps. =D
most you need to do is jump and WvW, rest is not that important, or you gonna do exploration only once on main char and will be bored to death to never do it on alts.
try before buy, even if it's a game to avoid bad surprises.
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Joined: 5/12/12
Something about this game bores me to death i tried for the third time now to atually enjoy the game but somehow around lvl 20-30 it always gets me and i just cant go on.
I cant even rly explain what it is maybe its cause the zones are so empty and noone ever does any dungeons apart from 1 high lvl dungeon so all you can do is solo grind DEs and Hearts. Or maybe its cause you get the feeling your Character doesnt progress anymore after you get your weapon skills, the perks and points you get dont really help .
I tryed the pvp for abit but im not rly interested in the zerg WvsW and the spvp feels strangely disconnected from the rest of the game.
Maybe im just late for the party dunno.
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Joined: 6/29/06
Originally posted by tet666
The mid-level 20-70 zones being barren is known and being worked on.
I'd suggest you look at it later in the year when ANet puts these 'big solutions' in.
More than half of GW2's official 'what is in 2013' blog was dedicated to how they will populate those 20-70 zones again.
Gdemami -
Well, I've never seen this argument before. Somebody discovers GW2 and both political parties swarm to recruit him. And political buzz words like zergfest and wow-clone make anti-GW2 chatter weaker. Just because GW2 is different doesn't mean its better. It has room for improvement, no doubt.
Hard Core Member
Joined: 5/12/06
The Title of this thread is exactly right , as GW2 barely resembles an MMO ,partiularly from lvls 20-70 , then at 80 it morphs into BoreWars 2, of the 7 friends that i went into this game with, none remain playing ,and all have been gone for about 2 months, its a shame becuase we all had hope for this game, but in the time we have been gone not once has anyone even broguht this game up in conversation (as far as returning or what if they ....) Thats how ingsignificant this game is to us ..
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Joined: 1/04/05
Originally posted by Scorchien
I can see it is not insignificant to you if you come here to post against it. It must really stick in your craw.
Originally posted by Doogiehowser
Youre kinda funny.
So GW2 has all Rift has and then some. And things Rift can only dream about. Joke is on you.
I know you wanted to make GW2 look bad here but you did quite the opposite.
Originally posted by Lovely_Laly
Uh yea, if you dont have tens of millions to make your own "dream game" you might as well stick with next best thing.
"no time and money to play anything original or deep" lol, thats rich, can you enlighten us all about this, oh so elusive game which is so "original and deep" compared to GW2?
And yes, i just adore companies that charge sub to not make game better. Or different. Or whatever. When they finally do - here 40-50$ on top of sub.
"progressive PvP"? You mean abomination of gear based PvP lol. yah, i see where youre coming from.
Originally posted by Demogorgon
Posting on forums takes several hours we all know that you can't possible post on a forum and play games at the same time.
If it's not broken, you are not innovating.
Hard Core Member
Joined: 7/08/09
Originally posted by tet666
I feel your pain too, I have 2 level 80s, 1 warrior and 1 Ranger, finished the main quest line on the warrior and waiting to finish the last dragon battle on the Ranger. I have 1 level 53 and 2 level 48 and 1 level 11 and now it is just boring to think about doing those lower levels. I lack the motivation to do it, there is no sense of accomplishment once you have done the whole parade twice already.
When I play WoW/RIFT and LOTRO always was something you could achieve that would take grinding but you knew you could achieve, specially if you were in a good guild, here in GW2 I dont see that, whatever new armor is out there is like is going to take me months to be able to grind the mats I need.
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Joined: 2/20/12
Originally posted by Torgrim
lol not to mention like ive said a hundred times I was in a job that litteraly allowed me to post for hours on end.. now could I be playing then? no of course not.. honestly people need to get over themselves
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Hard Core Member
Joined: 1/25/12
I'm only playing the role chosen for me. Who you supposed to be?
I found GW2 to be different in execution. I really had to change the way I thought an MMO should play to remotely enjoy it. Most MMOs are based on a form of linear progression. You do what is presented and progress until you reach the 'end' That in and of itself is a hook to some (I'd say most people). Anybody addicted to that hook I cannot fathom will greatly enjoy GW2 because that means of growth is not present. But typically in these games there is no real exploration. You are not rewarded for leaving the beaten path. The majority of the content is 'mapped' through the quests.
What I see GW2 doing is simply placing these 'events' across the world to be found as opposed to be directed. This sounds small but is a signifigant difference in terms of gameplay. In the former model the real draw is achievement through structured/rigid rules. Its what you DO in the quests that your focused on (i.e. - how many X of Y do I have to kill). Where as the latter is focused on the world and exploration (i.e. - where can I go). A sidebar to that is (obvious) combat which is where I see the hearts come in (Im still only level 11). Though they are there they are not the focus but the actual seeing what is in the world - and growing from that.
Since what you do isnt the focus, it removes the need of what you have (thus all is equal).
While I agree the game is not perfect, its also not a bad game. It is an interesting separation from the structure which is out there today. Like EQ, WoW and others before it I am curious to see what 1-2 years of growth will offer for this title (housing please! :) They have the opportunity to really create something unique and fun.
It wont be THE ONE MMO but then again I dont believe any of them are (or will be), but it will sit (back) in my rotation fairly towards the top.
What do I have to lose? Definitely not a sub...
Hard Core Member
Joined: 5/13/10
I am more than some of my parts
Originally posted by Demogorgon
Curious if you actually think that a personal attack is a valuable contribution to the forums
All of my posts are either intelligent, thought provoking, funny, satirical, sarcastic or intentionally disrespectful. Take your pick.
I get banned in the forums for games I love, so lets see if I do better in the forums for games I hate.
I enjoy the serenity of not caring what your opinion is.
Originally posted by darkhalf357x
Well sead.
I'm enjoying just running around doing what I see not what I'm forced to do aka quest hub A--------B----------C I can go explore, find a cave system, kil a boss in there and get a chest and or a rich mining node.
If it's not broken, you are not innovating.
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Joined: 9/28/06
Dyslexics of the world...UNTIE!
Originally posted by mikahr
I honestly think they all feel too similar. I am not hating on the game, I just genuinely feel that way.
Hard Core Member
Joined: 5/13/10
I am more than some of my parts
Originally posted by bigsmiff
I honestly don't know how you could feel like that unless you never gave much effort into any more than 1 class, or played 2 similar classes. The only two classes that seem similar are the two heavy armor classes.
All of my posts are either intelligent, thought provoking, funny, satirical, sarcastic or intentionally disrespectful. Take your pick.
I get banned in the forums for games I love, so lets see if I do better in the forums for games I hate.
I enjoy the serenity of not caring what your opinion is.
Novice Member
Joined: 2/20/12
Originally posted by eyelolled
i could see early on maybe for instance i played my early engineer similar to how played my ranger and thief just sat at range and picked things off.. but once you get all your utility slots and some traits going the play styles really open up a lot... in all honesty i could say all Rift classes feel the same because I run around pressing buttons which fire skills off which kill enemies... i could say that with pretty much any MMO/game:)
I angered the clerk in a clothing shop today. She asked me what size I was and I said actual, because I am not to scale. I like vending machines 'cause snacks are better when they fall. If I buy a candy bar at a store, oftentimes, I will drop it... so that it achieves its maximum flavor potential. --Mitch Hedberg
Originally posted by Aerowyn
Thats the point, once you start meddling with skills/traits/weapon choices it gets juices flowing, of course that at low level they feel similar, no skills/traits, 1 weapon to shoot/punch stuff with.
But i guess its a good thing in a cetrtain way, it weeds out laziest players ;P
Novice Member
Joined: 9/14/10
Facts do not require fiction for balance.
I personally found two things "challenging" with regards to the game, mainly the combat. First, the first hour or two it felt... odd. It was different enough that there wasn't that old-glove comfortable feeling right away. After that first couple hours, though, that began to flow. The second part was going further in the combat and breaking from the old "spam it off cooldown" mentality. Taking the time to look at secondary and tertiary skill effects and how they not only synergize with each other but also with other players... it takes time to learn it all, if you ever do. But going that route has really had a significant effect on how I play now. Rather than the archaic rotation combat method I'm far more situational in the use of skills, often setting things up to give a more greatly enhanced effect. It takes time, but it comes. You simply need to blend "proactive" into your "reactive".
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Joined: 8/21/04
Logic be damned!
I've found that I'm not a big fan of action combat. I'm just not very good at it these days.
I like it when a MMO makes me feel really powerful - like I'm a total bad ass ya know?
I never - not once - really got that feeling playing GW2.
All of the base weapon skills were useful sure and sometimes fun but I never found a complete 1-5 set I truly enjoyed all 5 abilities - I kept wishing I could mix and match skills like I could in GW1.
And the utilities and even elites always felt kind of "meh" to me - so I'd end up just using as many passives I could get.
I missed abilities that really had that "punch!" ya know?
Only thing that really came close (for me) was a Warrior using a complete gimmick-based Rifle build all about maxing out my Adrenaline and having all kinds of +Crit+Damage+Crit Damage and getting some massive Power Shots or whatever the special was called.
But it was a one trick pony...
I don't know, I'm still waiting for a Fantasy MMO that allows me to feel like a bad ass and be an offensive power house in PvE and PvP using a Sword + Shield combo.
Why is Shield ALWAYS a defensive only tool in Fantasy MMOs? wtf
I've probably been lurking for way, way too long.
Originally posted by BadSpock
In that MMO you speak of expect a nerf or kill grey critters for that feeling of yours.
If it's not broken, you are not innovating.


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Pop music too loud and all sounds the same
What kind of opinions do all of you have about this?
I am not here just to keep the beat; I add color, timbre, and presence.
Re: Pop music too loud and all sounds the same
I believe the same. Those repetitive and boring lyrics are just common these days in pop. Many of the faces that we see everyday on TV lack talent and don't deserve to be on the spotlight.
A big amount of those "stars" can't even perform live.
I totally dislike the 21st century pop and I totally avoid listening to it. The research is correct IMO.
Re: Pop music too loud and all sounds the same
So true.
...but yet, a simple, terrible song like "Call Me Maybe" will get lodged in your brain quicker than anything, and stick around for hours, despite all attempts to replace it with another, less obnoxious, catchy tune. THAT'S what sells, evidently...
Be vewwy quiet, I'm hunting Lawwy
My kit: http://drummerworld.com/forums/showthread.php?t=44195
Re: Pop music too loud and all sounds the same
I am old enough to remember when disc jockeys of local radio stations were able to program their own shows and choose what music they were to play. Unfortunately, now everything is programed from a central location.
In my opinion, the internet is not a means to replace the local disc jockeys, simply because everyone now is a local disc jockey of a their own radio station.
So I believe what has happened is that because there are so few programmers, the music is similar to a biological gene pool of 1st cousins. Eventually everyone in the town will have red hair and freckles because of the inbreeding.
I am not here just to keep the beat; I add color, timbre, and presence.
Re: Pop music too loud and all sounds the same
I really can't stand listening to most pop music. Too much of it lacks originality and any message beyond "let's paaaaarrrttttyyyy, bro!"
I always wonder why all of these "performers" face so much success, albeit temporary. Why don't they just pay skilled musicians to do the same job? Somebody who took years to perfect his or her craft will undoubtedly put out a much higher quality product than some talentless piece of eye candy without the need of all sorts of programming and adjustments (depending on the style of music).
Yes, a lot of people just want to listen to something that's fun and catchy, but one would think hearing the same stuff over and over and over again would get a little stale.
Re: Pop music too loud and all sounds the same
Yep. The suits have increased their stranglehold on the scene. What we are hearing is the sound of cash registers. That's quality control ... so the stinkers are not quite as stinky as in the old days but they never reach the heights either ... Macarthur Park, Classical Gas, Bohemian Rhapsody, Time is Tight, Sasha, I Just Don't Know What to do with Myself, Bridge Over Troubled Water ... all tops hits.
Now it's all shake your booty assy baby (add melisma and autotune "character") boom boom boom boom. Yeah, Pig, let's paaarty! Not music I'd ever seek out.
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the loudness thing is basically due to compression. there have been loudness wars for a while but now the dynamic range is so limited it makes the song louder. as for it sounding the same i totally agree...everything has a four on the floor kick at 80-90 bpm with some synth melody. hopefully the pendulum will swing back in the other direction soon
Keep on Rockin' in the Free World
Re: Pop music too loud and all sounds the same
I can't tell you guys how happy it makes me to see others who share the same opinion on 21st century pop. It seems like if I talk to anyone about it I always get the same bs answer that its always been this way.
" Without music, practice is just exercise." - Jojo Mayer
Re: Pop music too loud and all sounds the same
Pop music whether you like it or not (and I do not by the way), throughout history has inspired new music to be introduced into the musical collective. When new music gets into the musical collective, it does eventually teach older forms of music some new tricks.
There are some blogs, some apps, and some web sites, that do provide an avenue for new music. I do not think currently, that all of those avenues combined are able to provide a cultural source for new music. Perhaps we are now in a time that is still evolving, a time where the new technologies for music are still gaining an audience, and some newer technologies are still to be discovered by the music audience.
I can only hope that eventually, these times will bring a pulse to the new music, and new music will emerge through the mass of everything being too loud and sounding the same.
I am not here just to keep the beat; I add color, timbre, and presence.
Re: Pop music too loud and all sounds the same
Alas! Comforting news indeed!
May I suggest examining a bit of evidence?
"I am glad that at least in my life I found someone
That may not be here forever to see me through,
But I found strength in you,
I only pray, that I have shown you a brighter day
Because that´s all that I am living for, you see.
Dont´t worry what happens to me."
- Stevie Wonder, "You and I" (1972 - Talking Book)
"And if I ever lost my hands
Lose my plough, lose my land
Oh, if I ever lose my hands- Oh, if...
I wont have to work no more
And if I ever lose my eyes
If my colours all run dry
And if I ever lose my eyes - Oh,
I won't have to cry no more
Yes, I'm being followed by a moon shadow
Moon shadow moon shadow
Leaping and hopping on a moonshadow
Moon shadow moon shadow"
- Cat Stevens, "Moonshadow" (1973 - The Teaser and the Firecat)
"Your stare was holdin',
Ripped jeans, skin was showin'
Hot night, wind was blowin'
Where you think you're going, baby?
Hey, I just met you,
And this is crazy,
But here's my number,
So call me, maybe?"
This part of the article I find particularly revealing:
"They also found the so-called timbre palette has become poorer. The same note played at the same volume on, say, a piano and a guitar is said to have a different timbre, so the researchers found modern pop has a more limited variety of sounds."
No wonder I miss the old recordings, where so many wonderful instruments were used... Instruments that are criminally absent from today's pop landscape, like the electric organ, the saxophone and even the (REAL) piano...
"The music industry has long been accused of ramping up the volume at which songs are recorded in a 'loudness war' but Serra says this is the first time it has been properly measured using a large database."
I have caught myself squinting at the excessive compression used in modern day records. Even albums with otherwise good musical content (like Audrey Assad's music, which should ideally have a quaint, subdued quality about it) are squashed into an ungodly mass of trebly artifacts, too noisy and obtrusive to enjoy.
Re: Pop music too loud and all sounds the same
My son, who is twenty, despairs at the pop music of today, and says he can't possibly envision sharing it with his kids years down the road. Unless things really change, I expect he will be dipping back a bit further in the musical pantheon when exposing them to new, old music.
There is a huge irony in these loudness wars, too. When digital recording and CDs were first introduced, one of the major advantages was supposed to be the much wider dynamic range that was realistically available, without too much background noise. Now, they compress everything so much there is less dynamic range than my old LP records. It's just stupid, to this old musician.
Re: Pop music too loud and all sounds the same
There's more good music around today than there ever has been. The main difference is that you're expected to look for it yourself and with new digital media that's perfectly possible. Just a few weeks ago I bought a great new album by Amon Tobin because it was recommended to me by a lady in a specialist music shop.
The rose-tinted spectacles are mostly just that. Sure, the charts today are generally much worse than a few decades ago (I'm in total agreement there) but time is a natural filter of detritus. How many number ones do you actually remember from the 1970s? Number twos? Number threes? There weren't that many worth remembering; it's just that we tend to remember only the better material of the date.
As for the lack of dynamic contrast - yes. Although this is changing and there are plenty of groups advocating change.
Do yourself a favour and stop looking at the charts. Look elsewhere. It's not exactly difficult - get yourself a Spotify subscription (I had one for two years) and explore. In fact, why not experiment? Go to a real record store (they do still exist) and talk to somebody knowledgeable.
For any of our UK constituents, if you want exciting and innovative new music there's a fantastic shop in Totnes (Devon):
I went in there just over a month ago and the owner was quite happy to play music we were discussing over her (beautiful) sound system that was connected to her point of sale. Genuinely wonderful.
If you want the same, boring guitar music you've been listening to for thirty years you can go to HMV. If you want the same, boring pop music that's been flooding everything for decades, you can go to HMV. If you want something interesting and exciting then you're going to have to do a little less complaining and a little more exploring.
Re: Pop music too loud and all sounds the same
Duncan - a coincidence that you say that. I've been keeping a little diary of late (a bit old fashioned - most people would make it a blog) and this was this morning's entry, which touches on what you were talking about:
Funny thing. I'm looking up music for Dan's wedding and checked out Percy's Sledge's Man Loves a Woman on YouTube. By far the top rated comment was "this is real music not todays shit".
Re: Pop music too loud and all sounds the same
I understand your point, but the discussion (and the study, as I read it) were about pop music.
Sure, there is good stuff out there too. But that wasn't the point, really. The point was that pop(ular) music has grown increasingly homogenous. And loud.
Re: Pop music too loud and all sounds the same
Stro, I think Duncan has given up pop as a bad job and suggests that exploring new vistas is a better option than being grumpy about what happens at the pointy money end of the music industry. I agree - it's another planet.
I prefer this planet (whatever one it is) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2FnIzSf48k
That's what I call real disco music :)
Re: Pop music too loud and all sounds the same
" Without music, practice is just exercise." - Jojo Mayer
Re: Pop music too loud and all sounds the same
On the other hand, sometimes interesting songs become popular:
Ok, the lyric is fairly asinine but there's some interesting things going on. The melody is vaguely Phil Collins-esque (in the good way) and the instrumentation is totally off the wall. The video is great. There are gems out there.
Watch the album charts, too. Those are often much more interesting.
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Re: Pop music too loud and all sounds the same
Metric is the only good pop band ever.
(understand I'm talking about what is considered the "pop" genre, not all popular music, but they are still one of the best popular bands)
Re: Pop music too loud and all sounds the same
Its all "junk food". Maybe Ive been at the age of the typical generational gap, I dont know but the Pop music within the last many years to me has been nothing but the equivalent of junk food pure industrial strength garbage. The crap Ive heard (which is not much) sounds like it has no band just a vocalist who attempts to sing to some sort of backing tracks not played by a group of humans. It seems though in order to qualify, the vocalist(s) must have the look to sell magazines and videos. All image and no substance.
You know what Pop music I personally find somewhat musical? Some Top 40 Country. It seems as if someone is actually still trying to make music that can sell with some form of melody and decent musicianship. Though rare, I hear it on occasion while spinning through the dial and end up stopping there to listen. I dont know if its all like that but Ill take it over the pure sewage the other pop stations are playing.
If I were forced to play Top 40 music today, I'd only play Country to do it.
Re: Pop music too loud and all sounds the same
MAKE IT STOP. It's all the same drivel, some kind of merge between a really bad form of house music and autotuned crap. Same tempo, same key, same hooks apart from maybe a note or two changed. You can replace generic singer A with generic singer B and nobody will know the difference.
I hate going to clubs and stuff even though my friends persuade me to, because the DJs just play the same generic crap and the same songs they've been playing for the last 6 months. And for some reason my friends are happy with this!
Joining the Army as a musician. Yay!
Re: Pop music too loud and all sounds the same
It's a millennium-old argument, but it's interesting to see them go about it in a more quantifiable way than just "what's up with kids and their music these days, amirite?". I'll admit, however, that every once in a while a pop song will come out that I genuinely like (Katy Perry in particular has had a couple of those just on her own), although I would never argue that those have any lyrical depth whatsoever.
Re: Pop music too loud and all sounds the same
That brings us to the whole point of being a suit - to impose controls, minimise risks, rationally analyse threats (eg. cost of session players) and opportunities (eg. tech) and produce consistent and reliable outputs that become synonymous with the brand, providing security and assurance for stakeholders.
Pretty obvious what kind of effect this economic rationalist - *sensible* - process will have on the arts, with all its inspiration, creativity, craziness, outlandish ideas, imagination, chaos, irreverance etc. As per their function, the suits are increasingly adept at churning out safe and predictable product with defined functions, usually dance or background. The CQ has become tighter and tighter - "quality" = more $$.
There's no art to it. Agree with Duncan as per below - the choice is out there if we are active. I've been checking out Sun Ra clips on the Tube for the last few days ... out with autotune in with cosmic :)
BUT ... there are a lot of passive music consumers out there and they are at least somewhat shaped by this music. Many don't have the choice - many work groups listen to the radio all day. The choice of station always goes to the blandest and least offensive channel, depending on who makes the most aggressive push for conformity.
And the suits have just the right product to augment your groovy clubbing lifestyle, a fine fashion accessory for the chic young urban bros and babes. Welcome to the machine, kids.
Re: Pop music too loud and all sounds the same
Also, I think it's kind of "children's music", it's often child-like and childish in a way, and
young people are a huge market.
Re: Pop music too loud and all sounds the same
I blame the suits. They are the ones who have over-analyzed, over-processed, packaged, condensed, simplified and stripped pop music of any creativity it may have had. And in doing so they've created a new type of music consumer who has absolutely nothing invested into music as a passion anymore, but as a backdrop. And to keep the public's attention, the suits have processed the music to such a degree as to take all subtlety out of it, turning every pop song into a relentless power drill at [insert today's popular beat-per-minute here].
I don't blame the technology [except for autotune, which I hate with the intensity of 1 million red-hot supernovas], I blame the suits abuse of that technology. They heard about compression and turned it into a "thing". They found out people liked particular songs, so instead of having their artists write songs that were in the similar vein, they just sample them outright and add an uninspired drum machine track, essentially regurgitating the same stuff over and over.
There's no originality, no passion, and certainly no subtlety in pop music anymore. It's run by money-hungry people who have creatively lost their way.
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I won't even read the article, but I do know that even semi-decent pop bands today like Coldplay may not have made it on radio back in the 1970s. There were a ton of bands who were just as good then. Heck, most music today is programmed, auto-tuned and could not even touch mediocre soft rock bands like England Dan & John Ford Coley or Seals & Crofts. Every female voice sounds like Katy Perry. She's cute and all but the talent ends there. And Disco wasn't the same as today's junk because there was at least some musicianship going on and an attempt to write a melody. Songs by Abba, Chic, Bee Gees, Donna Summer were actually quite good.
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Pop music's been around for a long time, in a variety of styles too, there's always been the flops, the gems, the "must be avoided at all cost", most of them going up and down the charts.
For some of us, we've been through the 60's, 70's, 80's, 90' and 00's (yes I'm that old), and we've seen almost anything and everything, the drum machine and/or electronic drums started as far back as the 70's, so nothing's new here... today's music is no different, there's some good stuff still happening (Adele comes to my mind, good music, good voice and played by musicians), but in this day and age, anything that is somehow "good" is overplayed on every TV shows and radio stations, you just get tired to hear it after a while, no matter how good it is.
Yes, some music is on the "cheap" side, with the same video, the same drum track and the same overplay in all medias, but I'm not that bothered, I don't listen to charts music that much, my daughter's doing that for me, but as Duncan rightly said, if you're looking hard enough, there's still some good stuff around.
The "other" side of this topic is that we're discussing it among musicians, and we tend to have a different views than non-musicians, many people listen to music "for fun", and as long as it is catchy, danceable, easily available with a goog looking guy or chick, it's more than enough for them... just check the CD collections next time you're invited for a meal by some non-musicians friends, sometimes I want to cry... :)
You know, songs like Abacab, Rosanna, Sultan of Swing, Every Breath You Take, Baker Street, Get it On and many many more seems like they came not that long ago, geez, does times fly...
The worst one so far? it must be 'Born to be Alive" by Patrick Hernandez :-)
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I've played with mostly Punk bands, but I've also done rock cover bands, metal, even country and folk bands. And I will say shamelessly that there is NOTHING WRONG with pop music.
It's true that the media is forcing it - there's almost no rock music on the radio these days, but the artists can't help that. I dislike Justin Bieber's music, but I don't hate the kid or think he should die. He's a phase, and he'll fizzle out soon enough.
I do like Lady Gaga - her music always gets stuck in my head, and the rhythms are so unique. I also like classic Pop like Prince, and even some Michael Jackson songs were groovy.
I'll listen to anything that catches my attention. But if you want to talk about music that sounds the same? Look at Nickelback, Godsmack, Disturbed... I'd rather listen to modern pop than ANY of those three bands, just because all the albums and songs sound the same. Nickelback's first two albums were good Rock N' Roll. After that forget it.
I'm sure a bunch of people will assault this post - I could really care less. But the bottom line is: pop music is here to stay. So rather you love it or hate, you'd better get used to it.
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I'm guessing that the production, instrumentation and arrangement will sound old to you. Can you get past it to enjoy the other aspects? Can you get past it to the point where you enjoy the songwriting, the vocal performance and the dynamics and musicianship?
Reason I ask is that I recognise that there are some groovy tunes, riffs and rhythms in modern pop but I find it hard to get past the drum machines, glossy production and not much songwriting.
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What worries me is the apparent dearth of artists in their teens/twenties who may look like they are capable of taking up the mantle of filling the larger venues of the world once their forebears are too old or too dead to carry on.
I mean, if you look at all the big gigs in the UK this year that were either festivals or part of some national event (e.g. Royal Jubilee/Olympics etc) - the vast majority of acts and certainly all of the headliners are artists that have been around forever:
Now, this is all well and good but let's be honest most of these acts are past their best (in some cases considerably so) and I for one would very much welcome an act that is under 30 that is capable of putting on a decent rock/pop show of some magnitude. Let's not forget that John Bonham was 22 years old when Led Zeppelin first played Madison Square Garden and a mere 25 when they played that record-breaking gig in Tampa to around 60,000 people. I can't think of any drummer [certainly from the UK] that young who is regularly playing to such numbers these days. Dominic Howard of Muse and Will Champion of Coldplay are both 34 but there aren't any rock bands younger than them (that I know of) who can command the kind of audiences that they do.
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entertaining show, doesn't he?
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... or Jamie Cullum maybe?
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You want to listen/read what goes into making a hit song?
$78,000 to make the song, and another $1 million to roll it out (Rihanna)
From NPR http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2011/...t-song?ps=cprs
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What I don't like is the bland Mariah Carey / Whitney model on which so many female singers base themselves. Kelly Clarkson etc. The only TOTP female singers of late who I enjoy are Anastacia (her voice - dislike those endless lurve hooks), Adele (one good song) and Christina Aguilera, who oversings but has a great voice. Less mainstream I love Fiona Apple's Criminal.
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Oh and as to Bing, he was pretty damn marvelous at an uptune and no stranger to faster tempos. He had the range and understood that it takes less breath control to sing a fast song than a ballad and more acting ability to put a ballad over convincingly than a fast number like Sweet Georgia Brown or to bring it back to Elvis All Shook Up. Actually the former is about 20 clicks faster than the latter on the respective recordings.
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None of this has been helped by the Idol shows, where the singers have one song to prove that they have the chops if required, so they show them off where it's not required (or even desirable).
The trend was already there, as you say, to provide some interest in slapdash, formulaic commercial tunes but the "sensitive talented female singer with the big voice who is cute and can dance" meme has been done to death.
Bring on the edgy women, I say!
Didn't know about Bing singing faster tunes, apart from his version of Caravan that IMO sounded anaemic as compared with Duke's.
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I used to use SplitMail, but there's a nice gesture built into Mail which is usually overlooked, and makes me not use it anymore: Just swipe from left to right in portrait and the Inbox/messages list comes in. You can swipe it away, or tap a message to hide it again. It's really elegant–far, far better than tapping the "All Inboxes" button upper left. I can't stand doing that.
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I agree with the above comments, tried split mail... Uninstalled after 2 days. Didn't like the look/feel of it. Cleaner and easier to use the swipe gesture.
I, too, grabbed SplitMail and enjoyed it for a few days. When I encountered a bug in which the toolbar buttons wouldn't respond (compose, reply, etc) until I quit/restarted mail, I contacted the dev for support. He then curtly told me this was made during "Tweak Week" during which he was releasing a free tweak a day for a week but offering support for none of it.
Nice that a support-less app made its way to the Cydia home page.
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Friday, July 13, 2007
McFarlane Toys rolled into San Francisco with a booth to set up and figures to sell. We were quite sure how this show would do, this being our fifth year selling Exclusive figures at the MLB FanFest and all. As it turned out, we had no idea...
A FanFest official told us that San Francisco bought twice as many advance tickets as they normally expect for the event, and the baseball fans poured into the building at 9am Friday morning. The McFarlane Toys booth had a line for six hours on Friday, selling exclusive Barry Bonds and Reggie Jackson figures. The mass of people created some "line hypnosis," where people would get to the cash register and not know what they had been waiting to buy.
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Ads a punch of pattern to my living room when draped over a chair. love how soft it is! my girls always want to cuddle up with it.Read More
Lovely! I get compliments on this throw a lot.
The fabric is so soft and I love that the throw has two sides which can be displayed. I am happy with this purchase.Read More
Amazing Blanket!!!!
This blanket is amazingly soft and comfortable! Perfect size too, not too small but not too big. I highly recommend this blanket to anyone who is considering buying it! You won't be disappointed!Read More
Very soft, beautiful color but small.
Bought this for my daughter's room as a throw for her reading area. The colors are lovely and it's very soft but make sure you note the size. It's not very large but is a good size for a throw for a child.Read More
nice product but didn't work for our application
Need throws for a picnic type reception - this was too dressy to throw on the ground! Very, very soft. Would be lovely, as other reviewers have noted, thrown over a chair or bed and for cuddling under.Read More
Fun Throw
I purchased this blanket in the yellow color and really love it. It is very, very soft and extremely lightweight which I like. It feels like you don't have much on you but you still stay warm at the same time. The yellow color is more gold...it is very true to the picture and the back of the blanket is solid in color.Read More
Just "OK"
The throw was soft, but it looks a lot nicer in the picture than it does in person. I wouldn't go as far as calling it "cheap," but for the price you can find a better throw. The colors are also a little off. I ordered the yellow and the harbor gray. The yellow on was pretty close with the color you see but that harbor gray was definitely a blue. It's not even close to being gray. I returned them both. After returning them, I saw the exact same throw (same brand, color etc) at 3 other stores for $$.Read More
Was searching for the perfect yellow throw to go with my bedding and I was unsure about the chevron side. After putting it all together, the chevron looks much better than the solid side! It is super soft and VERY warm! Quality so far is great. My boyfriend even loves it! Bought this with a LivingSocial deal and I hope another one comes up so I can purchase for my living room!Read More
very soft GOLD throw
The color should be listed as gold. Very deep sunflower color. It is very soft which is its best quality. It had lots of loose threads which made it seem cheap. The style was good and looks nice on my guest room chair. As always received promptly with great Overstock service.Read More
Okay, color not as expected
I got this as a gift for my sister for Christmas. I was a little disappointed in the color of blue that it was. It does seem soft and good quality, just wish I would've gotten her a different color.Read More
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Hello samlu! This throw is beautiful! Unfortunately, if all colors aren't sold out, there isn't a way to be notified when it comes back in stock. I would recommend checking back periodically. I apologize for the inconvenience. Thanks for shopping with us.
Hi -- I recently ordered the harbor grey color and was disappointed to find the color so different than the picture. I however, love the throw and would like to try a different color, but wanted to make sure I asked about the colors first: 1) Do you know when the pewter throw will be back in stock? This would be my first choice. 2) What color is fungi? Does it have a maroon tent to it? Brown tent? 3) Is sea fog maroon? Or is it closer to pink? 4) Is the navy true dark navy blue on the actual throw? Thanks for the help!
Hi ashleed, unfortunately we are unable to tell if or when we will get more of the pewter in stock. We apologize for the inconvenience. The fungi option resembles a taupe color scheme almost resembling a dull maroon and or brown. The sea fog is more of a lavender. Finally the peacoat navy is more of a royal blue. Thanks for shopping with us.
Hi, The colors (for the most part) listed in the photo do not match the colors which you can select to purchase. For example, where is "Oasis Green"? What is "Dried Herb"? "Black" and "Lemon Curry" appear to be the only consistent names between the two. I am interested in the Oasis Green... how can I get that? Thank you
If you click the options button near the top right corner of the page, you can select Oasis Green from there.
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Served as captain of the water polo team at Redlands High School ... Gained numerous honors including All-CIF, All-Citrus Belt League, team MVP and all-tourney at the Winter Classic during her senior season ... Also voted Most Inspirational ... Has played on the Xtreme Water Polo Club in Corona, Ca. ... Has the ability to be a great NCAA Division I goalkeeper, according to the Matador coaches ... Has the size, leg strength and the arm strength to be a big presence in the cage ... Will make an immediate presence in the CSUN water polo program.
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Since I wrote my "I am Incredulous" letter two weeks ago I have received lots of feedback. Much of it agreeing with me, some disagreeing.
Many years ago I worked for the Appalachian Volunteers in southern West Virginia and eastern Kentucky as a community organizer. We sometimes monitored local elections.
These elections for county offices such as the high sheriff of Hazard County were notorious for the level of vote-buying that went on. When folks sold their vote they clearly knew who they were selling it to. You got a pint of moonshine and $5 or $10 to vote for the ticket of one county faction or the other. The system was fairly sophisticated; even the Kennedys participated. When John Kennedy beat Hubert Humphrey in the West Virginia Democratic Primary to put JFK on the road to the presidential nomination, his brother Bobby was running his campaign. The local lore was that Bobby would give one or the other democratic faction in a county the money to buy the election and put more money in an out-of-state bank escrow account. The local faction could only access the funds when John won the primary in their county.
The day after that famous 1960 primary, the Logan, West Virginia, newspaper, The Logan Banner, said the election was a spree of "flagrant vote-buying, whiskey flowing like water, and coercion of voters.... You name it and we just about had it." A Logan political boss, Claude "Big Daddy" Ellis, claimed that the Kennedy camp sent him more than $50,000, which went for "sawbucks and half-pints," the standard payoff to voters who let precinct workers "assist" them in choosing the designated slate. Ellis quipped that JFK didn't "buy West Virginia; he just rented it for a day."
The big difference between those elections and our upcoming bond vote is those voters knew who was manipulating their vote. Here, in what we Vermonters believe is a sophisticated, modern, liberal, transparent democracy, the voters of Waitsfield do not have the same opportunity.
Some people have said to me that the anonymous donor may have good and pure intentions. That could be.
My question to the voters of Waitsfield is, "How can we judge what the motive or intentions of the person or persons are who are offering $100,000 to the town, essentially contingent on a positive vote for the Farm Stand site, are if we do not know who that donor is?
I sincerely hope the voters of Waitsfield are beyond being "rented for the day."
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The subject is, of course, the EPA ruling on greenhouse gases that came down Tuesday afternoon.
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Ive been alive for more than half a century. Youd think thats long enough for menfolk to make sense, but no.
At my annual physical recently, the doctor said, You should live well into your eighties. I wanted to ask him if Id understand men before I die, but I didnt because hes well, a man.
As my grandmother once proclaimed from her front porch rocker: Men! Cant live with em
And cant live without em, I chimed in.
She gave me the stink-eye and spit into her snuff cup. Naw. Cant live with em, cant gut em and toss em in the river. Its against the law. She spit again and rocked faster.
I have loved and been loved by my dad, two brothers and my husband Widdle. All that love is wonderful, but not one wisp of understanding is in the mix. I believe this may be because no two men are alike.
My father, who I adored, sometimes looked at me like I had green fangs. I remember asking him to buy me a new hairbrush, with which to beat my adolescent hair into submission. He pulled a 29-cent plastic comb from his pocket and said, Here, use this.
That wont work with a blow dryer, I said.
Whats a blow dryer? he asked.
You hold it in your hand and it blows hot air on your hair, I said.
Just ride with the window down, he said, and gave me the stink-eye.
Take my brother T-Bob and Widdle. Both men, but nothing alike. Consider these two recent phone conversations.
Widdles mother was hospitalized for some tests. Being a devoted son, he sat vigil at her bedside. I called him several times for updates. A typical exchange:
Me: Hows your mom?
Widdle: Shes not doing too hot.
Me: Which is why shes in a hospital bed. Are the test results back?
Widdle: Its her kidneys.
Me: What about her kidneys?!?!
Widdle: Theyre not doing too hot.
Me: Honey, what does the doctor say?
Widdle: He says shes not doing
At which point I began to wail and smash the phone against my skull.
Compare this to yesterdays chat with T-Bob. He announced that he is binge-watching the five seasons of Breaking Bad on Netflix.
T-Bob: Do you know anything about the show?
Me: Well, I never watched it but I know a little
T: OK, Walter White is a chemistry teacher in New Mexico and his students are disrespectful snots and he also works at a car wash to make ends meet. One day a student comes in, and Walter has to clean out his car and the student starts taking pictures with his phone and Walter is totally humiliated. Also, he has lung cancer. Anyway, he quits the car wash but he wants to provide for his family after his death, and it turns out he can cook the purest meth known to man. He joins up with a former student and they get involved with two double-crossing bad guys. And theyre cooking meth in an RV and Walter knows the bad guys are killers, so he holds his breath, fires up a toxic cloud of fumes and jumps out of the RV. Then he holds the door shut with all his strength, and the bad guys are suffocating inside, so they start SHOOTING THROUGH THE DOOR and
Me: Wow, thats an action-packed season!
T: Huh? Thats half of the first episode.
ME: Oh my GI mean, keep going. Take your time, brother.
And I didnt give him the stink-eye.
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UFC president Dana White recently opined that Cruz had delayed his return a little longer than needed in order to shake off any traces of cage rust before signing on to face Barao:
Cruz is 200 percent. I shouldn't say this, but I will, because this is what I f--- do to myself. I think that Cruz has kind of been stalling. I think Cruz has dragged this out longer than needed to be because I think he's working extra hard on working off the ring rust. Doing the things, that, this just came to our attention a few weeks ago, that Cruz possibly could have fought much sooner. Which makes the fight even more interesting.
Cruz was in New York on Thursday, and spoke to Ariel Helwani about White's comments:
I don't think he meant it that way, I really don't.
I think what Dana was trying to say was not that I've been waiting and doing nothing. Him saying that means to me, he's not saying that I've been sitting back waiting on my hands, I've been working to come back. What's he's trying to say is that my knee is fine. I've had the time to prepare, ring rust is not going to be an issue and my knee is not going to be an issue.
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Only hotels in 24008 zip code are listed below. Search for cheap and discount hotel rates in Roanoke, VA for your upcoming leisure or conference / group travel. We list the best 24008 hotels and motels so you can review the Roanoke hotel list below to find the perfect lodging. Hotels in Roanoke City county and area code 540 are also listed.
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