by 'people' I assume you mean "European people'
― Number None, Friday, 29 October 2021 11:56 (two years ago) link
I don't know how I didn't know but: a VIP remix isn't done by some extremely prolific dude (or collective) who did thousands and thousands of remixes in the most diverse genres, for decades now.
VIP means Variation In Production and it's a remix done by the original performer of the track.
― StanM, Friday, 29 October 2021 19:59 (two years ago) link
me = head asplode gif
if you are into d&b then surely you would know this already? or if you aren't then surprised you know about VIP mixes.
― edited to reflect developments which occurred (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 29 October 2021 20:01 (two years ago) link
Oh! is it especially D&B? I thought it was way more ubiquitous, somehow.
― StanM, Friday, 29 October 2021 20:20 (two years ago) link
it's definitely in other genres too, and I never realized this either. I thought it just meant like this is a special exclusive mix.
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Friday, 29 October 2021 20:31 (two years ago) link
thinking about it the first time I was really aware of it was this, which isn't even d&bhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvIWnh8dNOw
― edited to reflect developments which occurred (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 29 October 2021 20:38 (two years ago) link
Every day before today is dim and gray in retrospect, because on all of those days, I did not know this:
Things I Did Not Know: After their defeat and loss at Copenhagen in 1807, the Danes responded by planting 90,000 oak trees toward the Navy’s rebirth. The Danish Nature Agency, successor to the royal forester, informed the Defense Ministry in 2007 that their trees were ready. pic.twitter.com/R2L2hrMn1k— aniemyer (@aniemyer) November 1, 2021
― but also fuck you (unperson), Monday, 1 November 2021 19:04 (two years ago) link
Good time for them to challenge Spain, then
― gin and catatonic (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 1 November 2021 19:10 (two years ago) link
That reminds me of a story in the old The Whole Earth Catalog about some Cambridge students who noticed that some ancient oak beam in some ancient hall was showing signs of bug infestation. And then the campus forester reminded everyone that some replacement oaks had been planted in 1640-whatever as replacements, and they were ready to be harvested. We don't think in those terms anymore.
― Andy the Grasshopper, Monday, 1 November 2021 19:40 (two years ago) link
(xxp) It's good stuff but it really doesn't belong in this particular thread tbh.
― Des Weerelds Dool-om-berg ont-doold op Dool-in-bergh (Tom D.), Monday, 1 November 2021 19:45 (two years ago) link
It is pretty cool tho. Most major Japanese temples and shrines have nearby forests of carefully maintained trees timed to mature when the structure needs renewal, Ise being the most famous example because it’s entirely dismantled and rebuilt every 20 years. Transferring the kami is the key part.
― assert (matttkkkk), Monday, 1 November 2021 19:51 (two years ago) link
Things I Learned Today
― visiting, Monday, 1 November 2021 20:36 (two years ago) link
That I can resize this Add a Post text box area woooo
― Chicks and Ducks and Geese better scurry (Ste), Thursday, 4 November 2021 13:37 (two years ago) link
That Cybill Shepherd dated Elvis!
some truly mind-popping quotes about it here
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Thursday, 4 November 2021 14:37 (two years ago) link
ew
― Nhex, Thursday, 4 November 2021 15:19 (two years ago) link
That there is an apostrophe in Jack Daniel's. I thought it was Jack Daniels. Only realized while reading this article:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-police-lodge-jack-daniels-committee-investigation/2021/11/04/e035a92a-3377-11ec-a1e5-07223c50280a_story.html
― peace, man, Friday, 5 November 2021 15:13 (two years ago) link
Everyone knows how Jack Daniel and Evan William used to hang out together.
― pplains, Friday, 5 November 2021 16:48 (two years ago) link
stop off with kroger for groceries or mcdonald for fast food
― When Young Sheldon began to rap (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 6 November 2021 06:10 (two years ago) link
That "Chopsticks" was written by someone and didn't just emerge out of the public domain ether.
― Exploding Plastic Bertrand (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 11 November 2021 17:01 (two years ago) link
You can be too tall to serve in the US Armed Forces. Can't be over 6'6" in the Army and Marines, or over 6'8" in the Navy.
― Josefa, Thursday, 11 November 2021 18:46 (two years ago) link
this was an issue for David Robinson:
At the time the Naval Academy had a height restriction of 6 ft 6 in (1.98 m) for all midshipmen, and in the autumn when the new academic year began Robinson had grown to 6 ft 7 in (2.01 m). Assuming that he was unlikely to grow much more, the academy's superintendent readily granted him a waiver. However Robinson continued growing, and by the start of his second year at the academy he had nearly reached his adult height of 7 ft 0 in (2.13 m), which later prevented him from serving on any U.S. naval ships.
― Piven After Midnight (The Yellow Kid), Thursday, 11 November 2021 18:51 (two years ago) link
And yet that military discipline he learned no doubt helped him when called upon to assemble in Precise Modern Lovers Order.
― Exploding Plastic Bertrand (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 11 November 2021 23:56 (two years ago) link
This is a mistake. Overly tall servicemen & servicewomen should be transferred to a unit of other really tall soldiers/sailors, as sort of a psy-ops cadre designed to strike terror in the hearts of enemy forces; modern day bezerkers, if you will.
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 12 November 2021 01:34 (two years ago) link
Candlebox's "Far Behind" is about Andrew Wood. Originally the chorus was "Aaaaaaaannnddddy, I didn't mean to treat you oh so bad", and he changed "Andy" to "maybe"
― Cool Im An Situation (Neanderthal), Friday, 12 November 2021 01:36 (two years ago) link
It makes sense now but I never knew until I read a Kevin Martin interview
Mother Love Bone is pretty awful
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 12 November 2021 01:40 (two years ago) link
Is that just a statement or just recently learned
― Cool Im An Situation (Neanderthal), Friday, 12 November 2021 01:40 (two years ago) link
I had a 12" years ago - not an album - and I remember trying to get into it, and then just deciding it was terrible. Like thirty years ago
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 12 November 2021 01:43 (two years ago) link
I still have a Green River album from that era, and the last time I listened to it, it was pretty crummy as well
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 12 November 2021 01:46 (two years ago) link
Green River were good. Mother Love Bone suuuuucked. A bunch of rain-soaked hicks who couldn't decide if they wanted to be the Red Hot Chili Peppers or The Cult, and couldn't manage either.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Friday, 12 November 2021 01:50 (two years ago) link
I'm not trying to be facetious. I remember reading the review of this album in Rolling Stone, and it was compared to Houses of the Holy. My high school buddies and I thought this record would sound pretty cool. Imagine my disappointment when I realized that I had been rooked.
A few years later, some guys in the dorm were raving about this band called Pearl Jam. I knew better and refused to get fooled for a second time.
― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Thursday, September 30, 2004 5:26 PM
― pplains, Friday, 12 November 2021 02:30 (two years ago) link
I will also stan for Green River.
― I'm a sovereign jizz citizen (the table is the table), Friday, 12 November 2021 22:40 (two years ago) link
I have a feeling I was shockingly old when I found out the Elgin Marbles weren't actually marbles.
https://media.istockphoto.com/photos/toys-marbles-isolated-on-white-background-picture-id115923962?k=20&m=115923962&s=170667a&w=0&h=U9VUfyQseDte5OMU-KBRrluPL9LDNAM4Dh0kBRdd7iU=
― When Smeato Met Moaty (Tom D.), Wednesday, 17 November 2021 11:02 (two years ago) link
Lol. In Texas they also have Elgin sausage.
― Sterl of the Quarter (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 17 November 2021 11:35 (two years ago) link
Which I used to think must be called so because of some marbling, but this turned out not to be the case.
― Sterl of the Quarter (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 17 November 2021 11:40 (two years ago) link
I was very old when I found out Elgin is pronounced with a hard "g" rather than a "j."
― nickn, Wednesday, 17 November 2021 17:20 (two years ago) link
"Gerrymander" should also be pronounced with a hard "g", but it ain't gonna happen.
― pplains, Wednesday, 17 November 2021 18:17 (two years ago) link
hard "g" is the OG
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Wednesday, 17 November 2021 18:20 (two years ago) link
It's hard out there for a g
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, 17 November 2021 18:23 (two years ago) link
For many years I could not handle which “g” was hard or soft, because “juh” sounds obviously harder than “guh” to me.
― assert (matttkkkk), Wednesday, 17 November 2021 18:56 (two years ago) link
yes! i still have to think about it
― kinder, Wednesday, 17 November 2021 21:03 (two years ago) link
relatable.
I am fifty muthaflippin years old and I can't alphabetize things without singing the song
― popcornoscenti (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 17 November 2021 21:07 (two years ago) link
https://tribunemag.co.uk/2019/01/irelands-red-troubadour
that Luke Kelly from The Dubliners was a cool as fuck commie.
― calzino, Wednesday, 17 November 2021 22:21 (two years ago) link
I saw The Dubliners live when I was 7-ish and I think he was an absentee after a car crash. One of them said something like "quite unreasonable for the road to turn like that when he wasn't turning".
― calzino, Wednesday, 17 November 2021 22:29 (two years ago) link
I've probably actually realised this before, but just doing it again for the hell of it.
― calzino, Wednesday, 17 November 2021 22:31 (two years ago) link
I was shockingly old when I found out his grandmother was Scottish and seems to have had a considerable influence on him musically.
― When Smeato Met Moaty (Tom D.), Wednesday, 17 November 2021 22:33 (two years ago) link
my mum says they lost their grit post-Luke
― calzino, Wednesday, 17 November 2021 22:42 (two years ago) link
Today I learned Adele's last name
― flamboyant goon tie included, Friday, 19 November 2021 18:10 (two years ago) link
i learned her middle names last night but i've forgotten them again one of them might've been Blue?
― huile about oeuf (Noodle Vague), Friday, 19 November 2021 18:12 (two years ago) link