Derek™

Imagine having to crutch on “dude big post numbers 😂” as a retort, while also being too dense to realize those 16K posts have been made over 14 years. The forums were actually quite a bit more active back when you were conceived. And across that last decade and a half, and through that very intimidating number of posts… I can’t recall a single time I was licking my lips over getting a reaction from an unpopular opinion. You can stop embarrassing yourself whenever you wanna’.

Imagine getting off on the reactions elicited from shit takes on a mostly dead Invision forum. Yowza.

The photos on Discogs looks pretty teal to me. Do you suppose they used a filter or something?

Glad that interest in this seems to be pretty low (especially after monitoring inventory all morning) – that Rose variant has potential but Numero are pretty hit-or-miss with their mock-ups. I’ll probably wait around to see how these turn out before chasing one down.

Blankenberge are 3 for 3 for me, 100%.

How wide is the spine on that thing? Hopefully visible enough to spark interest from across the room. Would kinda’ bum me out to import a $100 shelf decoration and never get a chance to use it as a conversation piece.

I went last night and don’t regret it, personally. Totally agree that Isaac started to rattle off the rails at the end – musically he felt on point but there were probably 3 different songs where he started the wrong lyrics on a verse and had to back it up / try again. Not a huge deal but by the end I was rooting for him just finish it out. ⚠️ Ignore the rest of this post if you’re not an avid Modest Mouse nerd. Easily the funniest moment of the night, though, was Life of Arctic Sounds as an encore. My immediate thought when they started playing it was “oh shit. Isaac is gonna’ have to remember lyrics and do basic math at the same time? This can’t end well.” And sure enough… it did not. 😂 As anyone familiar with the song can tell you, each line of the song (before the finale) is “And X-hundred miles is a [real] long drive inside a car.” With X starting at 100, and incrementing by 100 to reach 11 hundred miles – which is decidedly too far inside a car. Tallying the miles and going off his vocals, I’m pretty sure he referred to; 100 miles 200 miles 400 miles 500 miles 500 miles 600 miles 900 miles 1000 miles 1100 miles 1200 miles – Isaac ‼️ Alert: mile capacity exceeded; what are you doing? ‼️ And he started to keep going after that, too, but probably realized “thirteen hundred“ is too many syllables that doesn’t roll off the tongue, so he just went quiet and omitted singing during that part with the rest of the band jamming behind him. Then the song wrapped up as normal. I know this doesn’t read as all that funny but if you’re intimately familiar with the band’s b-sides, it was definitely a “you had to be there” kind of moment. Extended outro of Cowboy Dan was god-tier. I loved what they did with JCWAOC. Lighting felt really dynamic and killer. Got Edit the Sad Parts as an encore… honestly, there was a lot to be happy with. I probably wouldn’t catch them on a normal / new album tour, but I’m glad I got to see them play LCW in full. Yeah, I would’ve loved to see the original lineup play. But the few flubs didn’t tarnish the price of admission or the drive to make it happen, for me.

I mean it’s a thread about insurance, no?

Reflections had way better grooves, riffs, twists, and turns with the songwriting. Moments of it feel like it dips into the post-rock well for me and I think that’s why it clicks so nicely for my ears. Omens feels a little more straightforward with nods to classic prog, which is not my preferred sound at all. For folks who dig that sound, I can see why Omens would have huge appeal. Just my 2¢ on where I’m coming from with my previous statement.

I love and still revisit Reflections quite often, but Omens was a misstep for me. Not terrible by any means but just a downgrade. How’s this new one align to either of those?

Good luck doing a quick video of the covers or spines, and trying to prove that it’s a limited 1st press variant /150 and not a 2022 repress ordered through Amazon.

Unfamiliar with Farm, but that’s a very spicy $40 for 28 minutes of music. (Not as spicy as those OG prices on Discogs though.)

Finally got a chance to listen to this. Amazing. Dude is completely omitting context, and skipping right over the part where he went off the fucking deep end with comments on completely unrelated, personal IG posts outside of relevant comment threads. Really trying to play the victim, evidently? “Well I mean it was a snarky comment so I replied with my own sass and now I’m a bad guy? 🤷‍♂️ Why?” Clown world. Verbatim: “So we do this. And we release the artwork for the re-releases. I’m super stoked on it ‘cause it’s the first time that, like, I’ve actually executed what I want the aesthetic to look like on the covers.” Main problem underlined for emphasis. Maybe just acquire and execute an aesthetic that isn’t completely tepid dog-shit and you wouldn’t have this problem to begin with? Or, I suppose, just stick with your own (gross) artistic vision on this one, and then publicly broadcast how butt-hurt you are about any kind of negative feedback. Yeah. That’s the play. 🤡

I think I’m gonna’ buy that for when I want to feel like shit, and want to accomplish that as loudly as possible.

What’s the story with all the panels on the left wall? Obviously I see the cohesive theme with them, but are they a reference to anything in particular? Or tie into the bands in any way? I feel like I’m completely missing something and my curiosity outweighs the risk of embarrassing myself with ignorance here.

Imgur is real pain in the ass to work with on mobile – or iPhones, anyway. The golden rule seems to be that the URL you paste must end with .png, .gif, .jpg, etc.

Yeah but imagine being one of the 2 dipshits who paid $270+ for a teal on Discogs.

No definitely freak out, I wanna’ see if this will flip in the interim.

…For the initial scramble. Some autographed or lenticular tomfoolery with no mention that a more reasonable version is a week or two away from preordering. And perhaps even then a modest, no-frill version some months down the road. Or it could be a DVD with a new music video, for a song off an album that’s 16 years old. Fully prepared for either.

Tool being Tool and posting Tool things with a #10,000days tag on IG. Not gonna’ get my hopes up but wouldn’t be surprised if they had a lightbulb moment with how much they made off of FI vinyl.

To lean even further into the Spider-Man meme here, I neglected to mention that my mom had a copy of Blue that she kept in the car with a random assortment of CDs. It was among the ranks of Bon Jovi, Puddle of Mudd, and Three Doors Down. Maybe a Shrek soundtrack or something in there for good measure. Suffice to say, teenage me had automatically nope’d away from all of those for obvious reasons. So in a way, it’s kinda’ Blue’s own fault for having so much mom appeal and hanging out with the wrong crowd.

It’s funny you mention OOTV; in the late 90s and early 00s – as a preteen – I really gravitated towards the main singles from S/T and Blue. But this was way before I started to appreciate full albums front to back, so I never actually checked out anything else by the band. A shame, I know. By 2005 I was listening to a lot of VC-core, and really deep-diving “modern” genres, labels, artists, etc. As a 16 year-old, anything I was listening to at 11 felt prehistoric and corny. So I didn’t revisit any 3EB for a long while. It wasn’t until 2011 that a [now] ex of mine was adamant that OOTV is the best 3EB album, and was still held in high regard by her. So one shift I threw it on to soak it in, and found myself surprised at how fun it was. It actually kind of inspired me to check out S/T and Blue, end to end. To this day I hear the singles from those records and think of walking home from school, firing up Winamp on Windows 98 / XP, and procrastinating homework with MSN Messenger. They’re kind of nostalgic but also kind of ugh. I think there are far better songs on each album that I enjoy today. Anyway. All this to say that I can actively enjoy those first 3 albums quite a bit today, for when that alternative / pop mood strikes. Ironically enough I had listened to all of OOTV for the first time in a bit, on a drive this past Saturday. It’s still a very consistent, fun album… I’m surprised it doesn’t get talked about nearly as much as the S/T or Blue. I’d maybe argue that it’s better than the latter. Still haven’t even tried out Ursa Major after a decade+. I couldn’t really tell you what I’m waiting for; maybe I assume(d) with such a large gap between it and OOTV, it must surely not hold up to the first 3 albums. I’m not really sure.

1999 still falls within “the 90s”. Bored troll isn’t getting enough attention in his Used threads; disregard any dumb shit he posts elsewhere. 🥱

Oh yeah, I didn’t figure as much. More than ever with newer users on this forum, it’s pretty apparent who’ve been a part of this hobby and who are pandemic collectors that crawled in from Reddit. That’s a name I haven’t seen in a minute. VC was all aboard the Superheaven train with OIC back in the day – or so it felt like. Even though I was never fully sold on them, just seeing the art for that album has me feeling a smidge nostalgic.