The 20th anniversary remaster of Exile in Oblivion comes out tomorrow and boy does it sound HUGE. Absolutely phenomenal. Kyle Black really did it justice.
Remaster sounds killer. Can hear the drum intricacies much clearer. New song does absolutely nothing for me.
Yeah this remaster sounds absolutely fantastic. The run these guys had from Suburban through Exile was something else.
I tried to give it a listen but as a tranny, Jason's transphobia has poisoned music I genuinely loved and felt a deep connection with. Every time I try to listen to them, his bigotry is at the forefront of my mind. I've listened to Strung Out since I was a teenager, so knowing how the man singing all of these songs I fell in love with feels about people like me hurts a lot. I hope one day I can disconnect their music from him and his bigoted views about my community, but until then, I can't even enjoy listening to their stuff even outside of streaming platforms/via piracy.
Listening to Exile in Oblivion for the first time via the 20th anniversary release and it's brilliant. Guitar work doesn't let up, loving the mix of punk energy and heavier moments. Always liked the odd track I heard from them but never went deeper.
Jason is posting more incredibly stupid shit in his stories. Fuck Jason. Fuck Strung Out. Fuck anyone who keeps platforming this stupid fucking band and Jason's genuinely insane beliefs.
After reading all the comments from that reddit page, I think everyone’s taking the context of his post and trying to spin into something that I guarantee you Jason was not. Everyone’s screaming about how racist & sexist it is when it’s very clearly just a dig at Eilish’s post win comment at the Grammys. Personally I don’t side with his political take (on this matter at least), but to be saying stuff like “fuck Strung Out and fuck anyone who still listens to them” is a bit dramatic. Just my humble opinion that’s all.
Well firstly, even taking "a dig" is a bad take seeing as how Eilish was voicing support for the people being brutally and wrongly attacked by ICE, so start there. But then the "dig" is a picture of a Native American dragging Eilish by the shirt, clearly referencing gross "stereotypes" of Native Americans and white women in distress, so yes, it is both racist and sexist. Not sure how you could possibly look at that image and not reach that conclusion.
Reading the Reddit thread further, I see that apparently Eilish’s home was built on Native American land and so the image is trying to show her being tossed off their land, which... whatever. It's still in poor taste, ignores the point being made, and still invokes bad imagery.
I'm gonna be honest, fuck you. Dramatic? As a trans woman, I don't tolerate people like Jason, who has objectively been transphobic. This is just another thing on top of that. His apology for his transphobic posts were because the woman was cis, not because of his transphobia, so forgive me if I don't believe I'm being even slightly dramatic.
Also, I didn’t say fuck anyone who listens to them. I listen to them, but platforming and financially supporting them is bad. I'm sick of people responding to things in bad faith and putting words in my mouth.
You’re telling me to get fucked based on a completely different topic of conversation? I don’t know you at all, so my sincerest apologies for any shit you’ve gotta endure as a trans woman. I’ll always be an LGBTQ supporter, however that has nothing to do with anything I said. My post was in regards to a picture that…while I don’t agree with it myself…I think everyone’s getting way too worked up over.
Why though? Why should this get a pass? Explain why you think this is okay and why people should be okay with it.