Hot Take/ Musical Confession Thread!

Joe Mac said:
That’s disappointing!

My favourite craft brewer, English I know, is beavertown, their Smog Rocket smoked porter is a special beer, I struggle to find it over here though, we only seem to get the Neck Oil or Gamma Ray IPAs! At my off licence I tend to go for Galway Bay Brewing Company, I do like their Milk Stout, it’s good!

I’m overdue a Saturday trip to Blackrock for a wander, I’ll have to give your offy a visit! I’ll just have to stay out of Cloney, I’ve spent enough on hifi gear this year...
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Love the fact that Beavertown is run by Robert Plant's son. Part owned by Heineken if you want to be a craft purist though.

I've fallen out of love with a lot of craft to be honest. Too many sours and citrusy IPA's out there. I just end up being lazy and get Brooklyn or Sierra Nevada or Little Creatures and that's me.
 
Joe Mac said:
Oh yeah I know, I’m never that serious when teasing about these things, I’m not a complete dick.

I’ve just only had the mass market crap that’s on supermarket shelves and digging deeper isn’t necessary when I can get a good local one off the same shelf! If I’m ever over there I’d enjoy finding more out and visiting a few distilleries. I could imagine someone from your neck of the woods that had only tried Bells (shudder) might not think so kindly about scotch either...
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Never had Bells. The most popular Scotch around her seems to be Johnnie Walker and Glenlivet. Granted I'm also a big fan of Tomatin from time to time. The most popular Irish Whiskey seems to be Jameson.
 
Count_Vader said:
Never had Bells. The most popular Scotch around her seems to be Johnnie Walker and Glenlivet. Granted I'm also a big fan of Tomatin from time to time. The most popular Irish Whiskey seems to be Jameson.
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The better Glenlivets are very nice but it’s still in the lower end price and quality wise. Jonnie Walker is corporate trash with the odd drinkable bottle. Jameson’s is a nice enough mixer, and because of the triple distillation even our cheaper stuff doesn’t tend to be rough, but I wouldn’t be drinking it straight..
 
Joe Mac said:
Why do people like King Gizzard? Why do they have their own thread on here? What do people here in them?

I find them irredeemably bad...
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I like them! Most of my feelings for them are due to their variety, creativity, and off the wall-esque musical stylings. You never get the same KGATLW album twice. That and the sheer proliferation of album releases keeps me interested. But I actually find in them the same sorts of qualities that I appreciate in The Mars Volta.
 
Tyr said:
I like them! Most of my feelings for them are due to their variety, creativity, and off the wall-esque musical stylings.
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That’s the thing, when someone says they don’t Like KGATLW I ask them which album since they almost sound completely different on each record. Personally I shy away from their more straight ahead garage style releases and tend to favor The genre exercises (I am probably in the minority). My favorite releases they have put out thus far are their Jazz inflected team up with Mild High Club “Sketches of Brunswick East” and their folky “Paper Mache Dream Balloon”. I also thought the “Fishing For Fishies”boogie album was quite good and really think they nailed the thrash metal sound of their upcoming release “Infest the Rats’ Nest”. I personally think they are probably a tad overrated as band but as a “brand” I get the appeal. They seem to be a raucous good time.
 
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Joe Mac said:
Why do people like King Gizzard? Why do they have their own thread on here? What do people here in them?

I find them irredeemably bad...
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I keep trying every now and again because people jibber jabber on. I’ve yet to get beyond a song in anytime, they sound like boring people trying to be interesting, i was subjected to that shitshow rattlesnake song on the car radio earlier which caused my outburst...
 
Joe Mac said:
I keep trying every now and again becuase people jibber jabber on. I’ve yet to get beyond a song in anytime, they sound like boring people trying to be interesting, i was subjected to that shitshow rattlesnake song on the car radio earlier which caused my outburst...
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This guy doesn't like sweet riffs! What!
 
Also I saw the Mars Volta mentioned above. Another band I’m not keen on, they’re like all the edge and vitality has been taken out of At The Drive-In, an absolute pale shadow of them...
 
Joe Mac said:
Also I saw the Mars Volta mentioned above. Another band I’m not keen on, they’re like all the edge and vitality has been taken out of At The Drive-In, an absolute pale shadow of them...
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WAT?!?!?!

I...... I cannot even! LOL. I'm a fan of both bands but they are completely separate and IMO are working to accomplish two very different things. To me, Mars Volta wasn't meant to be ATDI Pt 2, they were meant to go in a completely different creative direction and genre. I don't know man. Your take is one of the hotter ones.
 
Tyr said:
WAT?!?!?!

I...... I cannot even! LOL. I'm a fan of both bands but they are completely separate and IMO are working to accomplish two very different things. To me, Mars Volta wasn't meant to be ATDI Pt 2, they were meant to go in a completely different creative direction and genre. I don't know man. Your take is one of the hotter ones.
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I agree. They weren’t trying to be the same. But, what they became as that band was infinitely less interesting to me and the fact that it also meant there was no longer any At The Drive-In made it worse too.

You think it’s hot, I don’t think it’s one of the hotter takes, taste is a funny old thing...
 
Joe Mac said:
Also I saw the Mars Volta mentioned above. Another band I’m not keen on, they’re like all the edge and vitality has been taken out of At The Drive-In, an absolute pale shadow of them...
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I know it’s like saying you prefer Son Volt to Wilco amongst the devoted (for the record, I prefer Wilco) but I always fancied Sparta to Mars Volta after ATDI split up. Wiretap Scars is a damn fine record
 
on the King Gizzard discussion - they're decent, but also one of the more gimmicky bands in music right now. At the end of the day, for me personally, it still feels like they mostly just write run of the mill, bog-standard psych rock that they then apply secondary pastiches of other genres to. I really don't see nearly as much variety in their discography as their fans do - I see compositionally uninteresting and safe psych rock with the VERY surface level aesthetics of thrash, or jazz, boogie, etc. thrown on top of it. I also don't think they're nearly as innovative or experimental as a lot of people make em out to be - hearing them hailed as "saviors of psych rock" "pushing boundaries" "weirdest band ever" gets old very quickly, especially when they're really only just a step or two above Tame Impala on the experimentation
 
chrb98 said:
on the King Gizzard discussion - they're decent, but also one of the more gimmicky bands in music right now. At the end of the day, for me personally, it still feels like they mostly just write run of the mill, bog-standard psych rock that they then apply secondary pastiches of other genres to. I really don't see nearly as much variety in their discography as their fans do - I see compositionally uninteresting and safe psych rock with the VERY surface level aesthetics of thrash, or jazz, boogie, etc. thrown on top of it. I also don't think they're nearly as innovative or experimental as a lot of people make em out to be - hearing them hailed as "saviors of psych rock" "pushing boundaries" "weirdest band ever" gets old very quickly, especially when they're really only just a step or two above Tame Impala on the experimentation
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I think I probably like some King Gizz more than you, but I agree with a lot of your points, which is why I can't bring myself to get on the hype train enough to pre order expensive Australian presses of theirs.

I think people throw pushing boundaries and innovative, etc. around way too much. I know you aren't basing your opinion on this alone, but I do think it is worth noting that annoying fanbases that say those things shouldn't necessarily be held against the band themselves.

I keep seeing black midi being called things like "the future of rock" but they just sound like they are really wearing the influence of great math rock/experimental rock bands from the past several decades on their sleeves to me. I do really like their sound though and don't hold that against them.
 
Selaws said:
The print on your glass reminded me......has anyone ever had a 'snakebite'? Half lager and half cider.
Then there's the 'snakebite and black, same as above bit with a splash of blackcurrant cordial.

We used to drink these all the time at university (until the local pubs banned them) because they were cheap and would get you wasted at lighting speed.
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Man, you just reminded me.of my youth in Essex drinking gallons of snakebite and black. Good times!
 
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