Mega Thread The Random Thoughts Thread Part 1

[Duck Farmer]

I remember you guys discussing which Australian state capitals sucked the most, how South Australia was so terrible and all those #firstworldproblems

Saw this today:

Told ya.
https://www.bigfooty.com/forum/thre...eadwear-thread.965949/page-2797#post-42890822

 

[diegodcg]

Told ya.
https://www.bigfooty.com/forum/thre...eadwear-thread.965949/page-2797#post-42890822

That's right you did, don't know why this ranking popped up on my timeline if it's relatively old info though!
Anyway, you guys are pretty lucky to live where you do.

Rio is around 70th I think

 

[Far Kern]

That's right you did, don't know why this ranking popped up on my timeline if it's relatively old info though!
Anyway, you guys are pretty lucky to live where you do.

Rio is around 70th I think

Australia is a beautiful place, and like a spoiled child we often forget how good we have it.

Do you think there's any chance of the Olympics bringing about any lasting change for the poor in Rio? I believe that there has been a program to bring at least some of the favelas under control, clean up, reduce violence, the influence of gangs. I saw a show where the building of a cable car had made a huge difference. Will such programs continue?

 

[edgie]

Come stand a little bit closer
Breathe in to get a bit higher
You'll never know what hits you
When I get to you!

How ****ing good are Savage Garden? My favourite alt band of the 90s.

 

[Doctor Feel]

Come stand a little bit closer
Breathe in to get a bit higher
You'll never know what hits you
When I get to you!

How ******* good are Savage Garden? My favourite alt band of the 90s.

No.

 

[El_Scorcho]

Savage Garden helped bridge the void in interesting Australian music between INXS and the likes of Violent Soho

 

[Doctor Feel]

 

[Eddie Dingle]

Come stand a little bit closer
Breathe in to get a bit higher
You'll never know what hits you
When I get to you!

How ******* good are Savage Garden? My favourite alt band of the 90s.

Does alt mean steaming pile of shit these days?

 

[edgie]

A couple of effeminate Aussie blokes form a pop band specialising in catchy easy happy music during the height of moody grunge rock and alt metal.

What was the real alternative? Who were the real rebels?

 

[edgie]

Does alt mean steaming pile of shit these days?

These days it does. Back then it meant anything alternative to mainstream culture of the time.

 

[manureid]

MC Hammer.

 

[Eddie Dingle]

These days it does. Back then it meant anything alternative to mainstream culture of the time.

In 3000 words or less please describe in any possible way that you can how the **** Savage Garden were anything but mainstream.

 

[I Dont Care]

In 3000 words or less please describe in any possible way that you can how the **** Savage Garden were anything but mainstream.

Indeed. Pure pop

 

[Magus]

A couple of effeminate Aussie blokes form a pop band specialising in catchy easy happy music during the height of moody grunge rock and alt metal.

What was the real alternative? Who were the real rebels?

Yeah, they stood out like a sore thumb against a backdrop of Barbie Girl and Spice Up Your Life.

 

[JimmyBeerCans]

**** Savage Garden

 

[edgie]

In 3000 words or less please describe in any possible way that you can how the **** Savage Garden were anything but mainstream.

Because they didn't wear flannelette, sing in a gravelly drawl, and play with drop d tuning.

 

[raman]

I don't even particularly hate Savage Garden but alt? lol

 

[Doctor Feel]

Because they didn't wear flannelette, sing in a gravelly drawl, and play with drop d tuning.

You honestly think everything revovles around ac/dc, and anything that isn't ac/dc is not mainstream. That's the way I'm reading it here.

 

[Eddie Dingle]

Because they didn't wear flannelette, sing in a gravelly drawl, and play with drop d tuning.

Maybe they should have. And then they wouldn't be the dictionary definition of "popular" music.

Edgie they were very good at what they did but it was pop music and it was mainstream.

 

[Magus]

Because they didn't wear flannelette, sing in a gravelly drawl, and play with drop d tuning.

Dude you're mixing two different things there. Flannelette was 100% a grunge thing. Pearl Jam were huge in 92/93/94 and Nirvana were done by the time Savage Garden were doing their thing. Your drop d tuning comment I can only guess was an observation based on nu-metal?

 

[edgie]

Let there be Rock isn't me favourite album, but that says more about the strength of AC/DC's body of work than its quality. I can see how it is Dave Mustaine's favourite album of all time. That reminds me, Megadeth > Metallica.

TV shows.

Right, that's everything covered for today?

Good, I need to get some sleep, I suspect I'm going delirious.

 

[Eddie Dingle]

...I'm going delirious.

There's your get of jail free card.

Savage Garden an Alt band.

**** me.

 

[Magus]

Went to a birthday party last night. Many drinks were consumed. I woke up this morning with my t-shirt inside out and back to front, wearing a pair of jeans that I thought I had just passed out in. Then I realised these weren't the jeans I was wearing last night and when I took them off, I had pyjama pants on underneath.

I feel like I'm still making more sense than edgie, though.

 

[edgie]

I think I've crossed the Rubicon of self parody where piss taking becomes impossible to detect over text form.

Serious about the delirious part though, why they **** did I take this old job back that involves 5am weekend starts?

 

[edgie]

Dude you're mixing two different things there. Flannelette was 100% a grunge thing. Pearl Jam were huge in 92/93/94 and Nirvana were done by the time Savage Garden were doing their thing. Your drop d tuning comment I can only guess was an observation based on nu-metal?

It was a sarcastic generalisation of how history looks back at musical trends. 20 years later, people don't think of pop music defining the 90s, they thing soundgarden and Korn.

Same with the 80s and hair metal when really at the time it was pop and hip hop, the 70s with rock, the 60s with Brit rock. None of it was ever as massive as it has become it hindsight, except perhaps the Beatles.

Thought I do respect savage garden for starting a group of that style when at the time 9/10 kids starting bands were Nirvana wannabes. That part I'm genuine about.