Wendyk5

January 23rd, 2023 at 12:22 PM ^

How are they a boomer band? They were formed in the late 90's. Boomer bands are CSNY, The Stones, The Who, David Bowie, Zeppelin.....classic rock at its finest. 

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HollywoodHokeHogan

January 23rd, 2023 at 2:32 PM ^

Those are certainly the good ones, but people have a distorted version of music from the past because they only know or care to remember the enduring songs.  But the 1960s, e.g., birthed just as much crap music as any other era (The Dave Clark Five?  The Monkees, who were every bit as corporately created as the maligned boy bands of later eras, etc..). 

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HollywoodHokeHogan

January 23rd, 2023 at 7:10 PM ^

And the bands that people complain about from today, like say, Nickelback, also had major hits that still get played years after their release.  So I don’t know what that’s supposed or prove.  Dave Clark Five was probably better than a ton of other bands from that era that never made it big; same goes for Nickelback et al. 
 

But the Monkees left to their own devices  were probably not better than many never made it bands.  Hendrix was right call them dishwater; they suck, and I don’t care how many records they sold. 
 

 

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Wendyk5

January 23rd, 2023 at 4:04 PM ^

There are way more Monkees-like bands now than back then because there are more producers now taking center stage. Back then, Monkees aside, there were musicians getting together in studios with instruments, working out melodies and lyrics, having to deal with each other's foibles and girlfriends and drug use. That's, in part, what made it so great. The authentic humanity of it. What are the great bands of the 2000's and 2010's that will stand the test of time the same way the bands from the 60's and 70's will? 

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HollywoodHokeHogan

January 23rd, 2023 at 7:23 PM ^

You’ll have to wait until 2050 to see which ones have that kind of staying power, but I can’t justify just assuming none will because I personally don’t like their music.

Plenty of popular 60s artists used session musicians and song writers, mostly vocalists like the Supremes and Marvin Gaye.  And plenty of bad current acts (I think the Jonas brothers and Kesha) write all their own stuff.  

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TeslaRedVictorBlue

January 23rd, 2023 at 12:23 PM ^

Those awful stripes around the outside of the rim of the stadium. 

I cringe at the shitty shitty seating on bleachers. I didn't love it as a student, its awful as an adult. Get fucking chairs already. Have it coincide with expansion so we can keep the stadium capacity. 

Food is still sorry. Wireless access not great.

Getting into the stadium is weirdly log-jammish, despite the large # of gates that are open.

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ShadowStorm33

January 23rd, 2023 at 12:48 PM ^

I didn't mind going for it (I was actually hoping we would). But don't call that trick play bullshit. Use our Joe Moore Award winning OL and power our way into the endzone. Even if we come up short, ok fine, they get the ball at their one yard line. But running out of bounds for an eight-yard loss completely is the worst of both worlds...

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ChuckieWoodson

January 23rd, 2023 at 12:55 PM ^

Exactly.  If we were playing Georgia in 2021 I would've agreed with this call.  Set the tone early, play like you've been there before.

Of course the counter point there is if it works then everyone is calling it a genius play.  But despite that, I think the correct call is kick the FG - play your %'s, especially on the 1st drive of the game.  

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goblue2121

January 23rd, 2023 at 12:29 PM ^

The noodle. You know you love it. All the offensive coordinators in the stands that would always call the touchdown play. A certain AD calling his home "Ever After".

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Bohannon

January 23rd, 2023 at 12:37 PM ^

 

EDIT: I'll never be able to resist applying a gif from The Office. As far as things that make me cringe about the fan experience, one thing that comes to mind was an observation from my visit for the MSU night game. We were walking through the west concourse and could hear crowd noise coming from S. Main. The noise was coming from a full-blown stage production from a well known digital media company that I don't care to name. The amplified obscenities and garbage rolling around everywhere (actual garbage; not STAEE fans, though there might have been a few) seemed more appropriate for East Lansing than Ann Arbor. I realize the production wasn't university-affiliated, but the proximity to the stadium put a bit of yuck taste in my mouth before the game. The victory, however, was sweet. 

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brad

January 23rd, 2023 at 12:48 PM ^

Recent, sudden overuse of the word cringe to describe literally everything someone finds distasteful.  We can better people!  We have the vocabulary.

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