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I was just a kid, absolutely obsessed with X-Files, when they wheeled in Robert Patrick and a lot of the changes, but having watched the entire series again several times, the last just a couple of years ago, it honestly didn't seem as bad. Sure Duchovny and Anderson kind of were the driving force behind the series, but I think they managed to deal with all of that quite well.

As much fun the "monster of the week" type episodes were early on, the further the show went on they seemed to deal with st least some kind of story arc. I think Patrick & Co were fairly good in that regard honestly. I hated the change bscl in the day, but I really enjoyed even the later seasons later on.

It had potential to be great, but falls far from that. Some cringe-inducing writing and acting there. It was fun and entertaining enough to watch. Hope the next season is better.

I had to stop watching at some point, it was just too close to home. The overall feeling was just like christmas at home and I don't go anymore, because I value my sanity more these days. Holy shit what an episode.

People are so different, I feel exactly the opposite. There's a bunch of games I'd want to play, but most of the time when I'm about to start playing, I'm just overcome with the feeling of "What's the point? It's just a waste of time". When I'm watching a show I'm processing a shit-ton of stuff, emotions, life, depression. Games are just "for fun". I just don't seem to get the same out of games no matter how "deep" or whatever they are. I accomplish something in a game, 99% of the time I just feel "Well, I could've used all that time and energy doing something real and now I just wasted all that time for some virtual character in a virtual world.".

NO THERE IS NOTHING IN EXISTENCE OUTSIDE OF MY BUBBLE SO EVERYBODY ELSE IS WRONG AND HAS POOR IMAGINATION AND OPINIONS

I repeat. It's an article about dental health. You can pretend your comment was anything other than you circlejerking the same tired bullshit without saying a single fucking thing, just to stroke your ego and feel like you're any better than the people you make fun of all you want. It doesn't change a thing. You repeating some hyperlative bullshit doesn't either. It just reveals who you are.

Very well aware of the threat of American idiots, mainly due to the fact that because people exactly like you on the other side of the spectrum keep shoving the same bullshit down everyone's throats everywhere they go, it spreads and now, thanks to exactly the same behavior you're so proud of here, we have idiots all over the world repeating the same idiocy down to a tee.

Just because people don't want your dick shoved down their throats 24/7 everywhere they go doesn't mean they don't care.

"Conservatives are like: "Herppp derppp I'm a conservative there's microchips in ma teef!" Hahaha! Right guys?!" isn't exactly the kind of eloquent and well thought argument you think it is. Behaviour like that contributes to the problem, it doesn't solve anything. You're a part of the problem. Be better.

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Americans reading anything: "How do I find a way to shove our idiotic polarized, tribal politics into this?".

Seriously. It's an article about dental health...

You have the right idea. To most people a lot of the stuff she paved way for and influenced in some way or the other, directly or indirectly in more experimental music scenes, probably still sounds awful. And it's not like this cult of personality thing people tend to have with hit and hip bands like The Beatles, but more about the whole scene and movement. She was involved with a lot of cool people back in the day - hell she was involved with Fluxus and if she didn't do anything else at all that's a big enough of a merit in it's own right.

The Japanese noise scene would definitely not be the same, Yamataka Eye and his work with Hanatarash, pre-'Super æ' Boredoms, Naked City, is vocally very similar. Yoko is just as much proto-noise/japanoise as Black Sabbath is proto-metal.

As lowly as Diamanda Galás speaks of her (Galás says that she can't sing, which is true, but it really is beside the point), I'd be hard pressed to believe she wasn't at least indirectly paving the way for her work. Hell they both draw from free jazz and both collaborated with Ornette Coleman.

Members of Sonic Youth have said she has influenced them, Thruston even did a track for 'Rising Mixes' (a la Ono's 'Rising' album) that featured, and Kim has been even more vocal about her. On the same album you can find Tricky (Massive Attack) and Ween as well. Ween has talked about her on at least one occasion. You can find quotes from Mike Watt of Minutemen and fIREHOSE talk very highly of her. Iggy Pop is apparently also a fan, which doesn't really surprise me. Björk?

And then finally for one very much direct and clearl influence: Dagmar Krause of Art Bears. There are times she sounds a little too similar, but to as much it does with Yamataka Eye and Diamanda Galás, they did it better. It's not like she's single-handedly made bands like Sonic Youth form their sound or anything. Influence can be more than just bands going "hey that sounds cool, let's do that, but like, in our own way".

Velvet Underground and Laurie Anderson I'd fathom as well and you put some of my thoughts (and many of these people's thoughts) nicely into words with that second paragraph. Especially considering the work of groups like Fluxus, among others.

I'm trying to be as coherent as possible I haven't slept in a couple of days.

As much as I haven't found a single thing of hers I can stand to listen she's actually influenced a fair amount of amazing bands and singers, but I suppose sometimes it takes someone making an idiot of themselves to inspire others. All I know is for some reason I have her to thank for some influencing great bands.

It's a feature on an app. There are no filters and you can't block instances unless you're using that one app and apparently in some people's minds everyone uses that one app.

As a side note check out The Pixies' cover of "Que Sera, Sera" they did for this Stephen King-esque horror series 'From'. I couldn't believe it was them. I only know early Pixies stuff and had no idea they're still going.

Oh I know Achilles Last Stand, maybe I'll give Presence a spin first.

Yeah I have to admit I don't really listen to anything from Physical Graffiti onwards so I admit I have a bit of a blindspot there. Maybe some day. I don't think I've ever even heard the last three albums.

And then you have examples of bands like Oranssi Pazuzu that kind of have achieved a similar thing to Led Zeppelin where they can be a lot of things across an album and throughout their discography but still very much retain their sound because they've always kind of incorporated influences from all over ito their sound and just making it their own. I wouldn't say they have ever been scared to "veer off" out of their fairly specific genrehole even if they have their sound throughout. It's tricky.

True, but some genres just kinda are like that with a lot of bands. Metal and punk especially. I don't a 100% agree that it's always being scared of experimenting/veering off, but just kind of the nature of the genre for a lot of bands. And even then you have examples of bands still retaining "their sound". Sure it's not metal, but punk, but I think Fugazi have quite a certain sound even though they evolved a lot.

From that another great example and one of my favorites: Bad Brains! Any of their songs could've been on any of their albums and it would not have been out of place.

Metal and punk are very similar in ways though so I excuse myself not thinking of metal examples.

Like I'd say Deathspell Omega sounds have retained their sound in many ways, but they've kind of evolved their thing so much you couldn't really say they have just that specific sound. Where as Deströyer 666 still have the same sound even though they've changed quite a bit, but you could go on forever about outliers. I don't remember what my point was.

Having said all that I wish more metal and punk bands tried something more different sometimes.

I was gonna comment about ZZ Top having a distinct early period, middle period and later, but I realized I think I've only hear like four albums by them.

Just needed to comment: there's a great band/cover band name for someone: ZZ Top Guns

Led Zeppelin stayed roughly the same, but they had all kinds of influences mixed in from the start to sustain their sound and not get tired.

High on Fire to an extent. Matt Pike is an absolute riff machine and it seemed like every album up til sobriety was just a banger of an album after the other.

Primus I kind of think too, just because they have a very unique sound due to Les's Residentsy vocals and his bass style.

The Smiths? The Fall! Sonic Youth as well. Elliott Smith.

I think it kind of depends on how much you allow and what you see as their sound. You can always find examples and some difference in sound, but for many bands and artists it's more song to song or even producer dependent.

Hell I'd chuck in a band like Kyuss as well, most post-Kyuss projects John Garcia was involved with still sound like Kyuss because he was a massive part of the sound, listen to Slo Burn or Unida and tell me you don't hear Kyuss.

A lot of artists change more drastically, like you can tell if some song is by Nick Cave, but there's a huge difference from album to album, where as The Birthday Party though kind of had a specific sound they stuck to as well even if they explored it a little.

Ooh and Judas Priest in a big way, Motörhead too to an extent.

Good question!

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