Oggy

some guy who has opinions occasionally I make no promises said opinions are good, I write about media to force me to pay more attention to it <3 The music reviews are the way they are due to long-standing formatting, I've posted them to a Discord server for years and still post there first, then crosspost here. The main impact of this is that they are limited to 2k characters.

[godsmosthireablesoldier]

cooling my hands in the glow of the liquid nitrogen like warming hands in front of a fire… is this something?

[godsmosthireablesoldier]

Good & Evil - Tally Hall (2011)

What's good is really good, what isn't is lacking in adventurousness. There's a lot that I like, and a lot that I want to like that's played just a bit too safe, too close to a mainstream pop sound. Even then though, there's enough there there that if I had discovered this in middle school I would have eaten it up and grown out of it a year or two ago. I recommend 10cc to any Tally Hall fans, I think you would rock w it.

Standout tracks

& is a certified heater and will be stuck in my head for weeks (again).

Hymn for a Scarecrow is just gorgeous, I love that wall of sound-style buildup in the middle and the return to the original theme (and key!)

I love a good reprise, I love a good madrigal, I love a good reinterpretation of an earlier motif, A Lady was included for me specifically I think.

Fate of the Stars is the kind of ambition I went in expecting, it's some real prog stuff and I can really get behind that. That descending riff into the faster section around 2:00 is sooo good

Honorable mentions: Cannibal, Sacred Beast, The Trap, Misery Fell

Cover art: rips

[godsmosthireablesoldier]

It is hot as hell in this funky ass hot ass room

I’m boutta stick my hand in the liquid nitrogen bath, it calls to me

[godsmosthireablesoldier]

I swear. The labview enterprise code. Every time I have to figure out how something in it works it’s like. you think you know how an engine works in your car. And then you open it up to find there is no crankshaft, no cylinders, but a family of elves that have lived in there for generations existing solely to run on a treadmill when you hit the gas.

I wanna Email Chuck.

[godsmosthireablesoldier]

Goodnight Vienna - Ringo Starr (1974)

Nothing groundbreaking, but few are as good at bringing a smile as Ringo. I'm sad to say that the only song penned solely by Starr (Call Me) is the weakest by far, but this eclectic collection of covers and inspired songwriting contributions from collaborators including John Lennon, Harry Nilsson, and Elton John is held together by a sense of consistency and energy Ringo brings to every track. Lots of fun, with some actually crazy piano performances from Lennon, Elton John, Dr. John, and Billy Preston, and high-quality bass work as always from Klaus Voorman. The sequencing definitely does a lot of heavy lifting here, I find I liked nearly every track in sequence but found a lot of them weak when shuffling.

Standout tracks

I was genuinely shocked to find out George had no part in this one, Ringo's version of Husbands and Wives is the most George-esque song I've ever heard without his name on it and No-No Song is the same kind of tropical-tinged style George would adopt for Gone Troppo. Speaking of, Ringo's "AND HE WASN'T JOKING!" in the background of the latter is hilarious.

Back Off Boogaloo is technically not part of the album but it helps with the incredibly strange choice of ending the album with the "live band" saying they'll be back in 15 minutes. Also it slaps.

Honorable mentions: the rest of them except Call Me, album is good.

Cover art: did you know this photo was taken at 3:47 EST?

[godsmosthireablesoldier]

I was bored at work praying for something, anything to do as I often end up. Unfortunately today the monkeys paw has curled and my Real Boss remembered I exist and is sending me back to the Labview Enterprise Code mines. Kill me now.

[dragongirlsweetie]

hour 1 of shift: i love helping people and making people happy yay yay yay later today i am gonna go home and have fun and eat a tasty meal and work on my projects and

hour 6: if youu go to the store and buy groceriers you are a piece of shit

hour 8: if i wad 1 apples tall i could live off of one apple for a week... oh but it would rot away... no.... i hate the rot i hate the apple

[godsmosthireablesoldier]

there are coworkers listening to music you couldn’t conceive of for those with eyes to see

[godsmosthireablesoldier]

I’ve spent a lot of time getting familiar with various programming languages, and it deeply disturbs me that the one that closest matches how I visualize a program in my head is x86 assembly.

It’s extra bad learning Rust bc it’s low-level in a lot of ways so I keep thinking like “oh I can just branch past this whole section if-“ no mf you will be type safe and you will like it. No hacks!

[vixvigil]

it’s never a normal temperature anymore it’s always some fucking bullshit

[footlongdingledong2]

vomits

[godsmosthireablesoldier]

Aftermath - The Rolling Stones (1966)

British Velvet Undeground (derogatory). Guys I think Jagger and Richards might have some opinions on women, not sure what they are though just a hunch. I should note that the UK version comes off as waay less misogynistic since it starts with Mother's Little Helper rather than Paint It Black (which actually isn't on the original release), setting a completely different, more nuanced tone going into Stupid Girl and Under My Thumb. Why British labels felt the need to chop US releases up crazy style has always been beyond me. Just offensively mid aside from a few standout great tracks, as I have come to expect from the Stones. I will never understand the hype.

Standout tracks

Mother's Little Helper is a great little piece, kinda like an edgier version of material off The Who Sell Out.

Paint It Black rips, obviously, but I think it detracts from this album and should not have been included.

Lady Jane is really sweet, kinda reminds me of Guinnevere

Cover art: lame

[wormspeddler]

monkey spin

[canon-typical-violence]

Everything I read about Cpp is like “Unlike other programming languages, Cpp allows you to shoot your own dick off” and then like “shooting your own dick off is outside the scope of this introductory text”

[adastrabbit]

[godsmosthireablesoldier]

I miss my wife, tails

[parakeet]

little known fact about me i was actually isekai'd into this world from the video game world. i used to be a peggle orb

[godsmosthireablesoldier]

windows really is such a strange os, what do you mean there's no equivalent to "kill -9" without opening an entire application? (admittedly an application that can preempt anything via ctrl-shift-esc but still. really?)