Posted by Grey

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And she's sufficiently "mature" for the forum, too.

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Are you calling me old?
And don't I keep telling you to get off my lawn?
Fucking kids. No respect I tells ya.

lol, cheers everyone for the support. I was sort of kidding, but I'm more than happy to help around the forum

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I'm curious, has anybody here used Frets on Fire? It's an open source Guitar Hero clone, looks interesting.

Stepmania for Guitar Hero nerds?

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Posted by Rydain

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It's peanut butter pity party time!

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How many times can you say that fast?

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Only by Nine Inch Nails. I think it is from the album With Teeth.

I never really got into NIN before, but I've been listening to a little more lately. Quite interesting stuff to listen to.

If I keep this up, I may yet become a fan?

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Posted by Toxic

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OK Computer, IMO, was OK. Same with any Alan Parsons Project. A lot of people dig that stuff, but for some reason I just like Dark Side moreso than any other 'trippy' album.

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It's not that it's "trippy" that keeps me coming back to OK Computer. It's the melody. The album is very melodic, very pretty in places. Sometimes it's sad, sometimes its angry, and sometimes it makes me remember that my Macintosh can make voices.

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Posted by Xeogred

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Yeah, there's actual hacks all over for the real game too also.

This is probably the coolest custom track I've seen so far, FFVI Boss Theme:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pn9cl_81sT4

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Ohhhhhhhh thankyou great and wonderful Xeogred, you have truly shown me the light. And I showed it to Derek. And he's all liek zomg. And now we are on a mission.

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If anybody orgasms over this forum then they have serious mental problems and should probably have those attended to by a trained professional.

I don't know how you'd even start to raise that with the doctor though.

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Course, I am doing no fucking rocking or fucking rolling...

GUITARS.

I have one now. It's a classical guitar, and I'm learning to play it kill songs I used to like. I've owned it less than a week and so far the casualties include Come As You Are and Heart Shaped Box by Nirvana, Smoke on the Water by Deep Purple and Fuck Her Gently by Tenacious D. I've also injured several chords, tortured GarageBand with my tuning, and made a dent in my pinky.

As I don't think this forum should just be about *showing* art / music / etc, I thought it would be nice to discuss guitars with y'all.

Who here plays guitar? What kind of guitar do you play, and how long have you been playing? Do you make your own music?

I play a classical guitar, I've been playing for 6 days, and I murder other people's music. You?

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I only feel *really* old when I'm on the internet. Usually when I realise that most people on this forum are a fair bit younger than I.

This said, I am aware that there are also people on the forum older than I. I wonder if they want to play a game of lawn bowls...

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Another one of my favourite albums:

Whatever and Ever Amen by Ben Folds Five.

A bit of a "comfort album" for me, it has music on it that just makes me happy. I can sing along to it (very badly), I love hearing the piano in it, and the lyrics are cheeky and silly sometimes.

I cannot feel too sad when listening to Ben Folds (even when sometimes it's a sad song) and this in and of itself is a little bit of magic for me.

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I'm curious about Eureka Seven for the silliest of reasons -- Apple references.

Mostly I seem to like Studio Ghibli stuff lately (both Miyazaki and Takahata's work).

Is Megas XLR actually anime?

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Posted by SamuraiX

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Howl's Moving Castle is a movie, no?

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Yes, it's a movie by Studio Ghibli / Hayao Miyazaki.

If you like it, some other films you might like are Spirited Away, Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind and Princess Mononoke.

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Posted by BooUrns

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I also trust the staff more if there are fewer of them. I always wondered what they all talked about in the private forums. If there's only a few, I won't wonder as much.

Or maybe I'm just paranoid.

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We talked crap. Well, I didn't do a lot of talking crap, but to be sure there was a lot of talking crap. And not productive crap, just crap.

I don't know why we're even discussing this yet. I think we should just wait and see what the hell happens and is needed and then act accordingly.

If that means we wind up with large staff, meh. Small staff... meh. I really don't give a rats'...

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Posted by Keitaro

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Why trust more if there's fewer of them? Really, whatever happend to trust based on...you know, integrity? ;x

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The only problem I can really see where large staff may have real problems is in communications. And even small groups of people can have communications breakdowns.

Which is why in other threads I've proposed more things in the board to cut down on communications fuckups.

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Dammit Nick, you're getting predictable in your old age!

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On a slightly different topic to the 'Favourite Album' thread, I'd like to talk more generally about Albums.

More specifically about Albums as a whole, and if the art of releasing an album as a whole is dying. Sure, you can buy collections of recent songs on a CD -- but I'm not talking about that.

I'm talking about albums with a theme to them and not as a mere collection of songs. For instance, the album Plans by Death Cab for Cutie has several underlying themes to it, and this helps tie each song together as a whole. And some albums even make a point of making each song transition to the next, as with Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd, and The Fragile by Nine Inch Nails.

But some albums are just recent material by an artist, and filler tracks they put in to get in the way of the one track you should have just purchased as a single. And is it just me, or are more albums recently like this, sometimes so bad you wind up skipping to the point of missing half the album...?

I need to find more albums that you can sit down and listen to from beginning to end, and be taken on a journey, or explore a theme from different angles, or other fun stuff.

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Funny, the Wikipedia article describes a Concept Album as such:

'In popular music, a concept album is an album which is "unified by a theme, which can be instrumental, compositional, narrative, or lyrical" Most often they are pre-planned (conceived) and with all songs contributing to a single overall theme or unified story, this plan or story being the concept. This is in contrast to the standard practice of an artist or group releasing an album consisting of a number of unconnected songs that the members of the group or the artist have written, or have been chosen to perform or cover. Given that the suggestion of something as vague as an overall mood often tags a work as being a concept album, a precise definition of the term proves problematic.'

But the thing is, I wouldn't describe Ben Folds last album, Songs for Silverman or for that matter, any of Ben Folds' albums, as "concept albums". However they do have a few common threads that go through the tracks, and a few nifty things. The Unauthorised Biography of Reinhold Messner by Ben Folds Five even has tracks that refer to other tracks (lyrically or musically) on the album but I wouldn't call it a concept album either.

Ahh, the concept of concept albums does my head in.

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...... my partner wants to play Dragonforce on Guitar Hero II now....

I don't think he believes that this "breaks" anything, Grey. I'm unsure, and I might keep the first aid kit handy in case it breaks him.

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I'm not sure that Guitar Hero counts as actual musical talent. It is however good to provide some inspiration to go play a real guitar or other musical instrument.

As for other musical instruments, I own a very lovely piano. I've not played it for years however, and when I did, I played the keyboard on it, owing to my mother not really getting things and sending me to keyboard lessons instead. I've always felt bad that I don't know how to play the piano proper.

One day when I have a more permanent home, I'll get the piano moved from my mother's house to mine and shall have a proper crack at it.

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I can make out random words from anime. I cannot form a sentence with these words, and doing so would probably make me sound crazy.

I wouldn't mind learning the language, but I guess I'd realistically have to do one of these teach-yourself things, and I'm guessing that's going to be hard right?

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