[Canadian_Mind]

MDR-XB500s from Sony here. Picked em up in Dubai for about half the cost here in Canada. No noise cancellation, but the quality is awesome... And the bass, THE BASS!!! Crank the things up all the way and your vision starts to blur from the vibrations going through your head.

And before anyone tells me it'll kill my hearing, 120mm and several 25mm cannons going off within feet of my head are the reason I bought these headphones in the first place.

[SprCForr]

Zipperfish Zipperfish:

Refreshed Refreshed:

Goodbye everyone.

I've disagreed to the point certain folks want me to leave and I'm about to be banned.

Some people support free speech as long as they agree with it. If they don't, some people get angry and stop thinking clearly. Ironic but true. Take care hypocrites.

But I'm still waiting for my apology...

Mr Credibility hasn't left despite his ragequit goodbye, he's still foaming via pm, but don't hold your breath Zip.

[SprCForr]

Dayseed Dayseed:

To everyone else: Censorship is a way of life around here. The song isn't being banned, it's been edited for terrestrial radio play like a thousand other songs before it.

Guess what? Movies are also edited for basic cable! Holy shit! Is anyone here up in arms that you can't hear Biff Tannen and the gang yell "Shiiiiiiit" as their car slides sideways into a manure truck on basic cable?

Yes it is and I'm not very happy with it actually. I think you should be able to hear the Savagegarden [<-- Zing! ...ok, weak...I'll stop now] song you like on the radio as it was meant to be. I'd prefer that DJ's use their discretion on when to play it as opposed to being directed to alter it. Sandwich that song between birthday wishes to Grandma, trouble. Play it in the evening, no trouble. Same for the TV stations, play American Pyscho in the evening, not between Teletubbies and Barney.

[raydan]

SprCForr SprCForr:

Mr Credibility hasn't left despite his ragequit goodbye, he's still foaming via pm, but don't hold your breath Zip.

If you're going to ban someone, I vote we ban Barilko and keep Refreshed.

Refreshed just got caught up in a heated argument, like a lot of here have done in the past. Barilko's a meanie.

[EyeBrock]

I think it's a toss up between 'Jump' and 'Money For Nothing' on the best guitar intros Zip.....whaddya think?

[EyeBrock]

raydan raydan:

SprCForr SprCForr:

Mr Credibility hasn't left despite his ragequit goodbye, he's still foaming via pm, but don't hold your breath Zip.

If you're going to ban someone, I vote we ban Barilko and keep Refreshed.

Refreshed just got caught up in a heated argument, like a lot of here have done in the past. Barilko's a meanie.

We seem to have opened a can of new people with less than polite tendencies. I think it should be a rule that you have to have had 500 posts before you can be a dickhead. I think I did it at 501 through to 11,000 then I became ever so nice……

[andyt]

EyeBrock EyeBrock:

I think it's a toss up between 'Jump' and 'Money For Nothing' on the best guitar intros Zip.....whaddya think?

That's a synthesizer on Jump.




How about this:
You should have seen The Edge's and Jack White's faces when they were jamming together and Jimmy let loose a little bit of that.

Or how about this (you gotta wait for it, so not strictly an intro):

Then there's always this:




This is fun, we could play this all day.

[Zipperfish]

EyeBrock EyeBrock:

I think it's a toss up between 'Jump' and 'Money For Nothing' on the best guitar intros Zip.....whaddya think?

Definitely. There's lots of others--Where the Streets Have No Name (U2), Rock You Like a Hurricane (Scorpions), Crazy On You (Heart), Stairway to Heaven (Led Zeppelin). The more I write, the more I tink of, so I'll stop now!

[andyt]

Or this:

[Zipperfish]

$1:

You should have seen The Edge's and Jack White's faces when they were jamming together and Jimmy let loose a little bit of that.

It was fuinny, because at teh start ofthe movie ("It Might Get Loud"), Jack White was totally not expecting to be impressed by Jimmy Page. And the minute he starts playing the intro to Whole Lotta Love, his jaw just drops. Magic.

[SprCForr]

raydan raydan:

If you're going to ban someone, I vote we ban Barilko and keep Refreshed.

Refreshed just got caught up in a heated argument, like a lot of here have done in the past. Barilko's a meanie.

Dude, I'm not banning anyone. Ahh, n00bragequit, whatever would we do without it?

[Lemmy]

As long as the topic has become "Best guitar intro", there is no question. Hands down, the best intro to a rock song is AC/DC's "Hell's Bells". Honourable mentions go to "Smoke on the Water", "Layla", "The Spirit of Radio" and, as much as I can't stand the vocals that will follow, "Sweet Child o' Mine". "Where the Streets Have No Name" is a great intro, but not so much for the guitar, per se. And fuck Jimmy Page. He's not only a thief but is about the sloppiest guitar player I've ever heard.

[Zipperfish]

Lemmy Lemmy:

As long as the topic has become "Best guitar intro", there is no question. Hands down, the best intro to a rock song is AC/DC's "Hell's Bells". Honourable mentions go to "Smoke on the Water", "Layla", "The Spirit of Radio" and, as much as I can't stand the vocals that will follow, "Sweet Child o' Mine". "Where the Streets Have No Name" is a great intro, but not so much for the guitar, per se. And fuck Jimmy Page. He's not only a thief but is about the sloppiest guitar player I've ever heard.

Spirit of the Radio--forgto about that one, thanks.

I'm pretty sure that Jack White had a similar impression of Jimmy Page, which made it all the more magic when his jaw dropped like that. Jimmy Page was sloppy because he wanted to be, not because he had to be.

[Dayseed]

Zipperfish Zipperfish:

I conveniently skipped over a lot of things because I didn't want to getting the way of your hissy fit. Who knows how many people didn't speak out about this song--not that many given that evidence posted here to date indicates people overwhelmingly oppose this decision.

What I read from that is: Well, my sloppy arguments were poorly thought out and I didn't know how to keep from being blinded by all my loose threads flying together so I just gave up and blamed it on you.

$1:

I'm sorry, could you please try to be even a little more pompous. "you may be enlightened to know..."

Thanks Chandler Bing! I'll keep that pompous thing in mind while I read the rest of your post.

$1:

Hey, I'll save you the argument--I am a hypocrit. Show me a man who says he's not and I'll show you a hypocrit. AS Walt Whitman said "I am large / I contain multitudes." As insults go, it's not much of one as far as I'm concerned.

Oh, where to go from here. This is just an absolute abortion of a thought but fuck, in for a penny in for a pound so here we go dissecting it.

First, spell hypocrite correctly. CKA comes with a free spell checker.

Second, you're not Walt Whitman. You shot your mouth off on this topic with poorly constructed arguments which represent slipshod intellectual efforts and then, rather pompously, try to sweep it all away as though you share commonalities with a gifted poet. Sorry Body Electric, but nobody's buying.

Third, I certainly wasn't asking you to rate insults. Considering your rebuttal involves aping a picture, I certainly don't look to you for leadership in that category.

Fourth, don't inflict your own intellectual shortcomings onto others. Illustrate my hypocrisy, I certainly would be interested in seeing it.

$1:

As far as the "crying like a little bitch bit," no such luck there.

Sigh. Yes, you are crying like a little bitch.

$1:

Your attack lost its bite long ago, my friend. You're a yappy Chihuahua that looks in the mirror and sees a pit bull.

Well Holy Shit! Watch you don't cut yourself putting away your rapier wit!

$1:

A couple of things. First off--one of the best intros ever. I must have seen--aging myself here--three dozen bands cover this song in the clubs in the 80s. No one could ever get that face-melting opening riff the way

And in another stunning, yet predictable, collapse of intellectual achievement, Zipperfish heroically admires NOT the lyric in question, but rather a guitar riff which isn't covered at all by the editing. So, editing the song does nothing to curtail his enjoyment of it since he doesn't mention lyrics at all when he says he's enriched by it. He gave himself counsel and blew it on that.

$1:

Also, we used to play the song when we go fag-bashing outside the gay bars at closing time.

I don't care how you get dates, it's irrelevant to the topic at hand.

[Zipperfish]

Dayseed Dayseed:

What I read from that is: Well, my sloppy arguments were poorly thought out and I didn't know how to keep from being blinded by all my loose threads flying together so I just gave up and blamed it on you.

Read into what you please. Says more about you than it does about me.

$1:

OhFirst, spell hypocrite correctly. CKA comes with a free spell checker.

Oh, waddaya know--the last resort of the intellectually bankrupt: let's criticize spelling. You know who criticizes spelling? Riiiight...this guy...

$1:

Second, you're not Walt Whitman. You shot your mouth off on this topic with poorly constructed arguments which represent slipshod intellectual efforts and then, rather pompously, try to sweep it all away as though you share commonalities with a gifted poet. Sorry Body Electric, but nobody's buying.

Really, I wasn't under the impression that quoting Walt Whitman meant that I claimed I was Walt Whitman. Anyways, old Walt was commenting on human nature in general, and how we contradict ourselves. He used the terms "I" and "my," to be sure, but--and you'd know this if you'd been paying attention in class--earlier in the poem Song of Myself he states "it is you talking just as much as myself…I act as the tongue of you."

Consider yourself pwned.

No need to thank me, it's what I do.

$1:

Fourth, don't inflict your own intellectual shortcomings onto others. Illustrate my hypocrisy, I certainly would be interested in seeing it.

You wouldn't see your hypocrisy if it was dancing on a table in front of you in a pink tutu. The obnoxiously arrogant, in my experience, have limited capacity for self-reflection.

$1:

Sigh. Yes, you are crying like a little bitch.

Now who's projecting? If you read back a few posts you will see that--as per your usual modus operandi--when challenged even trivially you immediately start screeching and flinging feces like some purple-assed outraged baboon. I think your post history bear this out.

$1:

And in another stunning, yet predictable, collapse of intellectual achievement, Zipperfish heroically admires NOT the lyric in question, but rather a guitar riff which isn't covered at all by the editing. So, editing the song does nothing to curtail his enjoyment of it since he doesn't mention lyrics at all when he says he's enriched by it. He gave himself counsel and blew it on that.

I said the song enriched me, and it does. Bowdlerizing the song does indeed curtail my enjoyment of it.

$1:

I don't care how you get dates, it's irrelevant to the topic at hand.

"Irony is wasted on the stupid."

This is fun!