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disambigujason liked Importer/Exporter's post in the thread World General Politics Discussion (XI).

This is why I call you a liberal. I don’t even mean it in a derogatory way, I mean it in a way where I’m trying to describe the political forces at play. Socialism is not just some stuff becomes free or some things become available to people that weren’t before (although that’s certainly a byproduct of it). It’s more about who society is organized around and ran by. I believe it needs to be run by the working class and in a completely different format, and not by our current class of politicians or our current political system. So I do see the fact that you are not interested in how we get to that point as a vital distinction. I recognize that it further shrinks the pool of people in my political camp from even what it already is, but i don’t think politics is actually about majorities and polling and changing hearts and minds. It’s about power and organization. America, being at the epicenter of global capital as well as the greatest imperial power in world history, is an incredibly difficult place for people with these goals to take power or to build that organization. It’s like trying to keep an ice cube frozen in the sun. As long as the treats here flow and the central heating and air work - things achieved by exporting human misery around the world on a massive scale - it’s hard for people to become agitated enough to take power here. This caused me to feel like a doomer for awhile, but I now instead think the goal needs to be to have a firm worldview staked out, solutions and actions clearly defined, and to create a shape for the future to take when we do inevitably experience systemic collapse and the treats cease to flow and people need a political home to go into that can account for what’s happened and offer a path forward in a coherent way. And there cannot be room to abide the people exporting misery today in that future. I might not see that in my life, but I do believe that’s how things will shake out. I know that’s a little far afield from where this conversation was, but it’s the difference in worldview I’m trying to illustrate. And you might say that it’s not helping people right now, but very clearly neither is democrats having power.

disambigujason liked Garrett's post in the thread Album Taylor Swift - The Tortured Poets Department (April 19, 2024).

disambigujason liked SpyKi's post in the thread Album Taylor Swift - The Tortured Poets Department (April 19, 2024).

1989 is usually my pick for a favourite Taylor album and some of those songs are still getting better for me. I usually rank it as my edited version though with one of her best songs (New Romantics) switched for one of her worst (Bad Blood) which is maybe cheating. Either way I love this album!

disambigujason liked incognitojones's post in the thread World General Politics Discussion (XI).

The kids are doing great and they are going to be failed by every institution in this country over and over again.

disambigujason replied to the thread Album Taylor Swift - The Tortured Poets Department (April 19, 2024).

I haven’t come back to TTPD very much but each time I listen to it I like it a bit more than the last. Think I’m trying to manage fatigue more than anything. I’m firmly in the camp that it’s overall one of her best lyrical records. reputation has never grown on me really. Plenty of songs have parts I really like drowned out by parts I loathe. Absolutely adore don’t blame me and dancing with our hands tied though, and a few others I think are quite good, but that’s it as far as songs I enjoy all the way through.

disambigujason liked SpyKi's post in the thread Album Taylor Swift - The Tortured Poets Department (April 19, 2024).

Honestly don't understand this at all. I think this has a lot of the best lyrics she's ever written.

disambigujason liked iCarly Rae Jepsen's post in the thread Absurdist Twitter.

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disambigujason replied to the thread Album Underoath - Voyeurist (January 14, 2022).

I’ve always wanted to hear an underoath song with Aaron as the lead vocalist. Give him the verses and chorus, let Spencer scream the bridge. Let Aaron loose. loved those songs from day 1 but I remember worrying the next record would eliminate screaming. Oh how little we knew lol

disambigujason liked Jdfleming89's post in the thread Album Underoath - Voyeurist (January 14, 2022).

Here's a wild alternate universe: Aaron starts singing/playing guitar and daniel comes back and plays drums/does the creative media.

disambigujason liked LightWithoutHeat's post in the thread Album Underoath - Voyeurist (January 14, 2022).

Sunburnt is one of my favorite Underoath songs. So good.

disambigujason liked sophos34's post in the thread Album Saosin - Along The Shadow (May 20, 2016).

yeah ISOG was always held back by the production. thankfully that’s not a problem anymore with this band since beau is pretty damn good at producing

disambigujason replied to the thread Album Underoath - Voyeurist (January 14, 2022).

Ik it’s a pipe dream but I wish Spence would largely stop singing. Don’t like his singing voice (too nasally) or melodies (too grunge-y) much at all. Thought they sounded cool and fresh on disambiguation but I’m very over it. Gimme an album with Cycle on it 11 times and I’m good. Still can’t believe that song exists and that it’s not a staple.

disambigujason liked ChampsMusic's post in the thread Album Underoath - Voyeurist (January 14, 2022).

Disambiguation was weird accessing as someone who had JUST gotten into them as a band and their “hits”. I believe it came out in 2010? I remember hearing a new Underøath album was coming out and not really knowing that a main member of the band was “missing”. I remember thinking that it was HEAVY as hell and was definitely the heaviest material of music I had ever heard at the time. I still like it (Disambiguation), but I think their strongest stuff is with Aaron. His hooks and his vocals compliment Spencer so well. I think that this new era of Underøath tries to push Spencer’s “singing” alongside Aaron and it doesn’t work as well as they have in the past. It’s definitely not a jab at Spencer, but I feel like they are trying to figure out how their voices mesh the best in this new era. Voyeurist was MILES above Erase Me in terms of quality and lasting value. So many songs have amazing hooks and catchiness while also capturing the heavy values of Oath past. I’ve said this in the past, but I truly hope they begin to experiment with unique song structures and abandon the “verse-chorus-verse-chorus” they’ve become so accustomed to in this new era. Like, I'd give anything to hear a modern Oath effort similar to In Regards to Myself or Writing On The Walls.

disambigujason liked sophos34's post in the thread Album Underoath - Voyeurist (January 14, 2022).

yeah I like voyeurist, it’s a great underoath album for sure, but man listening to disambigustion for the first time was just such a wild experience. I remember hearing in division and just being absolutely blown away and was like holy fuck they sound like THIS now??? I was never too terribly big on underoath; liked they’re only chasing safety and define the great line well enough but I missed the boat on LITSOS as I wasn’t listening to a lot of stuff like that when it came out. As disambiguation was releasing I was getting into heavier music in a way I hadn’t before and a lot of really great metalcore was coming out at the time from letlive, the chariot, bmth, norma jean, etc and it was just a super exciting time to be a fan of the genre. Unfortunately I found myself in a big minority of people who thought they were significantly better without Aaron in the band (I thought his pop styling clashed against the heavier side of the band in a way I didn’t always love) and we all know what happened next but yeah that album and those memories I have with it will last forever. I was going through some pretty rough times when it came out, being 18 and starting to struggle with my mental health for the very first time was alienating and scary and dark and infuriating and disambiguation was where I turned to feel okay

disambigujason liked iCarly Rae Jepsen's post in the thread Absurdist Twitter.

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disambigujason replied to the thread Album Underoath - Voyeurist (January 14, 2022).

I’ve said it before but it’s just absolutely incredible to me that a band got progressively heavier for 4(!) consecutive albums while the scene was getting more and more accessible. That they only got more popular for most of it? Unthinkable. I love Voyeurist and can’t fathom what people who don’t like it (obvi not referring to you) don’t like about it, as it’s an underoath record top to bottom. That said, my only real critique of it, and the one thing that diminishes my attachment to it, is that despite how creative and unique it is, it was the first underoath album that didn’t challenge me to like it. It felt fresh and revitalized, it showcased them using their old tricks in new ways, but for the most part it was still, well, old tricks. It was easy to like. It was exciting and a great reset, a fresh change, albeit mildly, in direction, but it didn’t push the underoath sound forward as much as its predecessors. Sounds like the new one will do that.

disambigujason liked Sean Murphy's post in the thread Severance (Feb 18, 2021).

if they werent cowards theyd just release it now

disambigujason liked mescalineeyes's post in the thread Severance (Feb 18, 2021).

fuck editing fuck color grading fuck mixing just drop the raw fucking files on apple tv+ cowards

disambigujason replied to the thread Genre Post-Hardcore/Metalcore Thread.

this band is blowing up like crazy but I just can’t get into the vocals or guitar work. Video and Poppy utilization are cool though.

disambigujason liked Craig Manning's post in the thread Album Taylor Swift - The Tortured Poets Department (April 19, 2024).

"But Daddy I Love Him" is definitely the best song here, and reminds me of the old Taylor. It's obviously an update of the "Love Story" fairytale, but I also hear a lot of the provocateur of "Blank Space," filtered through the wordiness of modern Taylor. It's smart and audacious and funny and biting, in a way that not enough of the rest of the album is. Just brilliant stuff.

disambigujason liked jordalsh's post in the thread Album Taylor Swift - The Tortured Poets Department (April 19, 2024).

but daddy i love him is such a rush it feels a little out of place lol. that is a great song

disambigujason liked ncarrab's post in the thread Album Taking Back Sunday - 152 (October 27, 2023).

Good God no more nostalgia album tours from TBS. (but yes on 152!)

disambigujason liked Serenity Now's post in the thread Band mewithoutYou.

“Pale horse songs of a slow decline…”

disambigujason liked Jason Tate's post in the thread Album Taylor Swift - The Tortured Poets Department (April 19, 2024).

"The songs you grow to like never stick at first..."

disambigujason liked wisdomfordebris's post in the thread Album Taylor Swift - The Tortured Poets Department (April 19, 2024).

I think the lyric is perfectly fine There's a lot clunkier stuff on here, haha. Anyway, I like some stuff from the second half, but I think the original half is stronger. I still think this album is pretty good - better than Midnights, and better than a lot of the discourse suggests.

disambigujason liked irthesteve's post in the thread Album Taylor Swift - The Tortured Poets Department (April 19, 2024).

I'm sure Charlie is fine

disambigujason liked radiodead's post in the thread Album Taylor Swift - The Tortured Poets Department (April 19, 2024).

If you told me in 2002 and again in 2013 the most famous person in the world, Taylor Swift, would be name dropping The Starting Line in a song about a failed relationship with Matty Healy of the 1975 my head would spin off its shoulders. Oddly disorienting for all this to come together like this, especially considering this particular website. From 2002 to 2013 to 2024. I feel old.

disambigujason liked irthesteve's post in the thread Album Taylor Swift - The Tortured Poets Department (April 19, 2024).

Puth line doesn't bother me at all TBH

disambigujason liked Richard's post in the thread Album Saosin - Along The Shadow (May 20, 2016).

I’m surprised by your take on Fireflies, as I feel like that’s one of the standouts. The pay off on that is great imo. Cove mentioned on that same podcast I think that it was a song he was most proud of (I know that doesn’t mean much, but still). It’s All Over Now I totally get thought. Same with your other takes.

disambigujason liked theagentcoma's post in the thread Tabletop Games.

You must train with the birds. Know the birds. Become one with the birds.

disambigujason replied to the thread Band Paramore.

I want to reward one of the newer records for being more expansive and “creative” but BNE is just masterfully concise, a magnum opus of that sound and era, so it’s my number one followed by AL. S/t would’ve been their best if they took away most of the quirky songs and left unperturbed the more atmospheric/elegant rock record contained within it. Feels like 2 records mashed into one for me.

disambigujason liked SpeckledSouls's post in the thread Band Paramore.

Brand New Eyes 5ever