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  1. I don't think the earlier-written songs are bad, I just mean that their use points to Beefheart evidently writing less new material over time, which of course culminated in him ceasing to write new material at all: the ultimate tragedy.

  2. 14 minutes ago, Disintegral said:

    No Tropical Hot Dog AND NO ICE ROSE???  You're kidding, goog.

    I do still like Shiny Beast... I just prefer Bat Chain Puller. I like Drumbo more than I like Robert Williams, and Shiny Beast has no Denny Walley, whose slide guitar is so good.

     

    In general I have mixed feelings about late-period Beefheart, cuz it's obviously still really good, but also I guess I don't like the "feel" of the band on the last three albums so much, or the production. Also, a depressing number of the songs are recycled from years before, which lends to the feeling of general decline. Ice Rose (the music for it at least) was written in 1967, Owed T'Alex was a poem written in 1965, Suction Prints and Harry Irene were written in 1971.

  3. 7 hours ago, Disintegral said:

    Also, I'm curious (a) if _Tarkus_ gets its name from Akkadian, and (b) if Shadow Tarkus in Av1 got his name from this album.

    "Tarkus" (the album title) is a portmanteau of "tank" and "carcass", because this is prog rock and this is how we do things.

     

    I would be very amused if Shadow Tarkus got his name from the album, because every time I see his name in the game I already involuntarily think of the big armadillo tank, but like. Dark. Evil.

     

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    The Wayfarer approaches with another ethically dubious task...

     

    Shiny Beast is good... but original Bat Chain Puller is superior.

  4. 2 minutes ago, Coronets for the Cotton Girl said:

    But he does seem to have been rather more decent and genuine than many politicians.

    Except for the drug laws (which "equated possession of four or more ounces of certain narcotics with second degree murder") and also the Attica thing.

  5. 2 minutes ago, The Executable Branch said:

    I don't understand why there is a video game about that Polish labor union, but I'm down with labor unions.

    Because Solidarnosc led to free elections in Poland and thus the downfall of the Stalinist state!!! It's a video game 'bout organizing and agitating and stuff.

    3 minutes ago, The Executable Branch said:

    Also, the guy is a little weird.

    "the guy" is LECH WALESA, you philistine, he founded Solidarnosc and won a Nobel Peace Prize, then became President of Poland, and it turned out he was a much better union leader/dissident than president, and now he's a pathetic marginalized old man

     

    The Speedy Gonzalez screenshot is maybe my favorite game screenshot ever.

     

    Also, rank this post itself.

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