The Ranting Room

Agree with Dean. sh*t idea and little more than a cynical revenue raiser.

This is probably a common rant, but here it is anyway. I cannot stand mainstream indie (mainstream indie because I haven't dug hugely into anything hugely underground in the indie scene) rock. Stuff like Neon Trees, Local Natives, Arcade FIre and Vampire Weekend. It just sounds so dispassionate and lame. The vocalist never belts out and uses all of his throat, but just kind of disconnectedly mumbles all the verses in lyrics that are completely nonsensical in an attempt to be deep. The bass is usually inaudible, the drummer plays a single pattern for the whole song and the guitarist strums a long pattern of one or two single notes. Sometimes with a band like arcade fire you'll get different instruments (arcade fire has 15 members or something) but you'll have some weird instrument play one note the entire album as an attempt to be 'avant-garde'. I'm not expecting every band to be like Behemoth or produce a multilayered prog epic, but very simple music can be some of the most passionate like blues, punk and even some of inde rock's contemporaries in the indie folk scene like Fleet Foxes, The Decembrists and Bon Iver. 

But perhaps the thing that gets me most about this stuff is the band and their fans will try to pass it off as 'sophisticated' or 'avant-garde'. Sure, I can't stand listening to top 40 pop, party hip hop or scenecore emo, but those bands aren't trying to bs me over what they are. I get exactly what I expect to get. But no, with an indie band the description is always like 'well, we take influence from the late pavement and mix it with world folk, post-punk and our sound resolves with echoes of freak folk and early psychedelia' and then they end up sounding like every other indie band. It doesn't realize that it's making pop music too, very few riffs and a basic chorus-verse structure and some of it's fans try to pass it off like it's experimental classical it's the most infuriating thing ever. Between this indie crap, emo rock and post grunge, what happened to rock just having fun? It's become so whiny, self important and pretentious. This said, I do like The black keys and The Flaming Lips.

Edited by Evangelion2014 - June 07 2013 at 02:10

Finnforest wrote: I can't remember the last time I've encountered a stapler that works consistently well.

I have. After years of fighting with staplers that jam or fold the staples in on themselves (you know, when they end up looking like a squished letter "w") and generally fail to staple together more than 4 sheets of paper without mangling the staple and the corner of the page, or worse still, just puncture vampyre tooth-marks in the corner of half the pages while the remainder are untouched (and thus unattached), I have finally found one that works - and even works on documents that are more than 10 pages.

This may be a tired and tried one, but I'm here to rant about it anyway - the Christianity-promoting f$%kers. The other day I had a middle-age a$$%#le coming over to me, said something, and gave me a pamphlet about some church. Surely it's a small thing. It gets worse. Some girl was shouting at the top of her lungs on the local university campus, saying something about god and sin and us and s$%t. I just shut my ears and ------ - --- --- -------- ------, - ----- ---- - --------, --- - ----- ---- -- ---- -- --- ----- --- -- ----- ---- --- ---. Then there's this a$$%&le (these pictures are also posted in a couple of other threads ... eh ...):

Edited by Dayvenkirq - June 09 2013 at 04:51

Maybe Americans  can have their own ranting thread? 

Dean wrote: DO you mean the Libertarian Thread?

I hate frigging fridges that beep when the door has been open too long, as if we dont have enough time window pressures without a f&^%ing fridges telling us to put the margerine back.The next fridge I own will not have a beeper...seems like a trivial rant I know

I hate fridges that warn you when they are reversing or about to reverse.  The lights are quite enough thank you very much.

We once owned a Renaut Clio. What a naggy little car that was, everytime you forgot to do something "beep!" leave the lights on "beep!", not fasten the seat belts "beep!", door not closed "beep!", rear hatch open "beep!", arse on fire "beep!" - every damn thing "beep!" - yet no indication of what the problem was, just "beep!"...  

...and the "bong-bong" in every damn Law and Order franchise tv programme. Gaahhh!, that gets on my nerves.