Pet Peeves - Page 6

EricF, I recently purchased Mastodon's Blood Mountain, and it reminded me of something I absolutely despise in music.

Why, WHY, do musicians allow for their albums to end with two songs on one track separated by over 5 MINUTES of SILENCE?! In Mastodon's case, it's 20 minutes, just to hear Josh Homme read a joke. Our Lady Peace did it on Spiritual Machines leading into RK's discussion with Molly. It's goddamn aggravating. I hate it when bands do this, it's a waste of track space and it's terribly inconvenient for setlisting.

This is better mastered and appreciated in the works of Tool (Undertow), Silversun Pickups (Pikul), and Coheed and Cambria (In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3). On those albums, at least the silence was a number of separate tracks varying in length to effectively separate the 'secret song' from the rest of the album.

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EricF, I recently purchased Mastodon's Blood Mountain, and it reminded me of something I absolutely despise in music.

Why, WHY, do musicians allow for their albums to end with two songs on one track separated by over 5 MINUTES of SILENCE?! In Mastodon's case, it's 20 minutes, just to hear Josh Homme read a joke. Our Lady Peace did it on Spiritual Machines leading into RK's discussion with Molly. It's goddamn aggravating. I hate it when bands do this, it's a waste of track space and it's terribly inconvenient for setlisting.

This is better mastered and appreciated in the works of Tool (Undertow), Silversun Pickups (Pikul), and Coheed in Cambria (In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3). On those albums, at least the silence was a number of separate tracks varying in length to effectively separate the 'secret song' from the rest of the album.

I wish I grew up when vinyls and CD players were all the rage to be honest. Hidden tracks will never work today because the majority of people will look at the song length on their iTunes or Windows Media Player and think "hang on...". Imagine buying an album, listening to it religiously for about a month and only realising then that there was a hidden track at the end - the feeling would be amazing. But sadly it'll rarely have that effect again unless you avoided using music software on a computer. I actually have Mean Everything to Nothing by Manchester Orchestra (purchased in America) and there's a hidden track at the end. The booklet inside has the lyrics to all tracks and on the inside it has the hidden track's lyrics. Really cool.

As for Blood Mountain, I actually love Siberian Divide and Pendulous Skin, but you're right. The track is like 22 minutes long which is ridiculous because I think the actual song could be only about 5 minutes long. I've never even heard Josh Homme chat at the end of it, that's how little I take notice of it after the music stops.

*scowling cow in front of the shopping centre holding a cup thingy to hold money for sick kids* no. *nice old lady asking for money for a contribution to the same thing* yes. Even if it is just my 20 cent coins and below, every little helps. But I'm not going to give it to somebody who's being a cow. No matter for what cause.

My personal pet peeve is when I type up about a 5 page essay about a subject that i put a lot of thought in for the someone (Usually my crush) and all i get in response is"Oh" or "Ok" Makes me mad every time

When people sing and don't hit the right notes. That is my very biggest pet peeved. I hear someone singing and just want to say "STFU you tone-deaf piece of...crap!"

Another is when my parents stop me in the middle of whatever I am doing for something completely trivial. *Playing Mario Kart 7 against the world* "You forgot to turn the light off!" Me: "Yeah, yeah." Mom: "Turn it off if you want to play Mario Kart tomorrow!" Me: "I'M IN THE MIDDLE OF A F***ING RACE! WHY CAN'T YOU DO IT YOURSELF IF YOU WANT IT OFF SO BAD!!!???"

It's pretty hard to grind my gears but here's a recurring one that I just can't ignore: the endlessly mooching fat friend. Now this behavior can come from people of all shapes and sizes, but it's guaranteed with bigger folk in my experience. That one friend who, especially when you're at home grabbing a snack or preparing a meal, you KNOW is going to wander over and ask for a piece of whatever it is you're having. Without fail. Happens every time. My antidote to this situation is preparing a meal so lavish and time-consuming that the fat friend couldn't possibly justify asking to partake, as they've contributed nothing to it. This is the natural extension of that one kid we all knew who never brought a snack to recess and thought it was his right to mooch off of everyone else. Now of course I have no qualms about being charitable with my food, but on my terms you know?

When people say a movie is the best movie they've ever seen simply because there was a big buildup, it's popular, or they liked the book and go on and on and on about it for ages when obviously it isn't the best movie ever, far from it.
I know, doesn't happen often, but The Hunger Games has been way overrated, and I just wanted to share my feelings about that, for one. It's a prime example here.