Non-Pol Hot Takes

[Jalfrezi]

Please can a mod take all this Nirvana stuff out into its own thread?

[Rexx]

omg yes please! it’s almost as bad as driving derails

[6ix]

@nunnehi

… I think it’s probably pretty close to what Vig did tonally minus it having way too much bass. The mixes being unfinished lends a lot more credence to a late stage ugly roll off at the mix stage. As you know, boosting bass a ton tends to lower the feel of the treble, so that might have been what Vig was doing in the ‘screener’ sessions with Cobain to try to trick him (the 60 bump is probably 14 or 16dB too hot in the DeMaster). He was probably just making ‘mixes’ to satisfy Cobain while still trying to preserve something.

Cobain probably asked him to play something similar to the DeMaster for the label, and after a sleepless night Vig probably said ‘what the eff do I do, because I can’t even make a cassette of this mix?’. So he just threw a bass roll off on it and took it to the label without playing it again for Cobain. The label hated it, and they went a different direction probably to Vig’s relief. He probably couldn’t imagine spending the rest of the time with Cobain giving him idiotic notes that would never get past the label.

…

I’ve often thought of this scene over the years when dealing with this sort of thing:

Homer Simpson:
[Homer is buying a shirt]… And I want the monogram to read “M-a-x P-o-w…”

Store Clerk:
Sir, traditionally, mongrams are just your initials.

Homer Simpson:
Max Power doesn’t abbrieviate! In his name, each letter is as important as the one that preceded it. Maybe even more important… No, as important.

Store Clerk:
Fine. [She walks away with the shirt to apply the monogram]

Homer Simpson:
And if there’s any room left, add a bunch of exclamation points and a pirate flag!

@nunnehi

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With Wallace being chosen, there was probably no ‘connection’ and the label had already put its foot down (all this stuff is softened in the history I’ve been reading, but I’m pretty sure it was a label move and not Vig). I think that was probably the moment Cobain ‘lost’ the album, and the fights probably became much less while Cobain hated it much more.

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Yeah, it’s surprisingly tricky finding out exactly how it went down. Probably, understandably, people don’t want to besmirch Cobain.

[6ix]

@Jalfrezi

Please can a mod take all this Nirvana stuff out into its own thread?

@Rexx

omg yes please! it’s almost as bad as driving derails

who around here can excise?

BRING ME THE EXCISOR

[6ix]

pol pot take but Nirvana is still on the brain, so, this is the best Nirvana song:

Nirvana - Aneurysm

[Rexx]

Bann 6ix!

[boredsocial]

Yup. I’ve heard that before and am 34.

[DrChesspain]

I’m 56 years old, and I’m sure that this song was on one of the albums of kids’ songs we played for our young children in the 1990’s.

[superuberbob]

Am 34. Don’t know. Then again my family didn’t get cable TV until the mid 90s.

[Jalfrezi]

@6ix

pol pot take but Nirvana is still on the brain, so, this is the best Nirvana song:

Skittamarinkydinkydoo > Aneurysm, but it’s close.

[Lawnmower_Man]

In range in USA#1 and know it somehow. I’ve never seen it. The adults in that video creep me out.

[gman42]

Hmm, I’m 48, have kids 20 and 14, and I definitely know the song through some kinda osmosis, although I remember others singing those first couple of lines more than actually hearing the song myself.

[jerry]

31, from the states and I’ve heard the skinnamarinkydinkydink but I have no idea where I heard it

[jmakin]

Vegans are obnoxious. Change my mind

[Rexx]

I don’t think that’s a hot take. The difference between vegans and vegetarians is monumental.

[jmakin]

Just wait

[Rexx]

I think that obnoxious vegans are just more visible. There are probably vegans about who just quietly do their thing and don’t treat it like a cult, but you don’t notice them.

[hokie]

Tbh while I’m personally turned off by vocal vegans, I also believe that they absolutely have the moral high ground and I predict animal rights will be one of those things future generations look back on that we got wrong.

[PabloHoney]

I haven’t met any militant vegans in the past fifteen years, and most omnivores bring the subject up more often. I’ll side with the vegans being less obnoxious.

[Trolly]

Just fucking lol at the people who get offended by the existence of vegans. I’ve known many vegans and vegetarians, I’ve never once met a “militant vegan.” I’ve seen lots of dickclown rednecks with People Eating Tasty Animals bumper stickers. So clever. Fuck those guys; I’ll eat ma po tofu for dinner just to piss those assholes off.