I was at the gym and "Edge of Seventeen" started playing and just from the start of the song I thought: "aw yeah, Eye of the Tiger!" but then I realized it was the Stevie Nicks song and I was like: "even better!"
cc @Myr@lemmy.world @Blaze@piefed.zip
For a while it bothered me that my music-link posts on !gothindustrial@lemmy.world only got like 2-6 upvotes, maybe 10+ if it was a well-known song, and very little discussion. Then I went to look at similar communities on r$ddit, and even there, with several million users, most song posts would get a dozen or so upvotes and little if any discussion.
It makes sense if you think about it. Even if I click on a song I haven't heard before and even if I like the song, what am I gonna say? "yay I like this song"? No, that's just an upvote. More likely I have to click away to hear the song, and I never even get around to going back and upvoting. The only time I comment is if it's a song I already know and it brings back memories or controversies (and then I don't listen to the song!) And that's from someone like me, who really wants to help and promote the community.
The posts on r$ddit that got lots of dicussion were newbies who were asking questions that most experience people already knew: song reccs, or asking about controversies, or "how did you..." or "when did you first.." or "what's your favorite" etc. Then there were relevant announcements/news, video essays, and pics and memes, which often got lots of upvotes. Anyway, when I started posting on !gothindustrial@lemmy.world again, I started making non-music-link posts (cartoons, memes, images, discussions) and as expected, those got more interaction. So somehow it doesn't bother me that some of the song links I post only get 2-6 upvotes. I know that at least some people are hearing the music, or seeing the name / album cover and being aware of the artists. And plus, making all those non-music-link posts is fun!
Your situation is different, I know, bc your communities are specifically defined by being more specific than !metal@lemmy.world. There are much fewer questions or images or memes that wouldn't also apply to the general metal community. Not sure what the answer is. But I just took a look at r/heavymetal or r$ddit and even there, with 20K subscribers (2.4K "currently active"), most song-link posts get less than 5 upvotes.
btw you can select "auto-translate captions" under settings, and it's got errors but is good enough to understand. presumably the final movie will have human-made captions.
The scenery and costumes look gorgeous! Dunno if the story's any good, but it's always interesting to see a movie about an important part of history that I know very little about.
I mean... pies are very practical in cold climates. By "bland" I think you mean that they lack spices, which is true except for pepper, but that's like saying Japanese food is a problem because it doesn't have enough jalapeños.
"Boring" is subjective, tho I think we'd agree that to a modern palate it wouldn't be very exciting to only eat British food exclusively. That can be said of any country's cuisine tho.
Limewire! omg... that brings back memories... but I think after Napster got taken down, I mostly ripped CDs from the library and downloaded stuff from all those blogspots.
idk why people say that about British food, this all looks warm and filling, it's basically comfort food. The worst thing about it is there are very few fruits and vegetables but presumably those are side dishes.
So many great songs... Fuck the World, Play with Me, I Want my Shit, Bring it On, but my fave has got to be: EVERYBODY RIZE. mostly bc I like the line "Fuck outta here if you ain't down with the clown!" and it's got a great backing track.
Not my community, but FYI over on !thrashmetal@lemmy.world, @serpineslair@lemmy.world and @myr@lemmy.world gave notice that they're drawing down their activity: https://lemmy.world/post/38569125
On !vampires@lemmy.zip, @zagorath@aussie.zone finished their Dracula Readthrough that's been going on since May! it was an impressive feat, and a great example of on-topic event-based community building.
!sumo@lemmy.world: the November 15-day tourney is starting up! I'm following the same pattern as last couple tourneys: I did a post a week before it started, and a post today during the start. I'ma do another post towards the middle and another towards the end. The posts basically just have info on how to follow the action, and encourage others to make their own posts. Usually 1-2 people make posts during the tourney, we'll see.
!juggalos@lemmy.world is going along ok, there are 3 main contributors, others sometimes chime in. I've used piefed's scheduling feature to schedule a weekly post from now til the end of the year.
!gothindustrial@lemmy.world is chugging along. (er... clanging along? brooding along?) I've been thinking of ways of cross-posting to and from other communities, e.g. from !wicca@sopuli.xyz and !cyberpunk@lemmy.zip, and to !comicstrips@lemmy.world for example.
Nice, sounds like something you'd play on your way to take out some rogue replicants.
Hey, it's been great following your and @Myr@lemmy.world 's posts on !thrashmetal@lemmy.world. tbh thrash isn't my main style, tho I've like most of the songs I've listened to, and the album covers are always killer!
But i can relate to the "burn-out" of constant posting, I felt the same after doing near-daily music posts for like 8 months elsewhere. Now on !gothindustrial@lemmy.world and !juggalos@lemmy.world I've found a couple things help: doing posts that are pics (of fans, bands, memes, comics) as well as music posts; scheduling posts ahead of time using piefed.social; limiting myself to 1-2 posts a week; OR limiting myself to posting only after someone else has already posted something (so I'm not the only one posting); OR not posting if I just don't feel like it; talking to people on the weekly "how is everyone doing with their communities" thread on !fedigrow@lemmy.zip.
Anyway, glad to see y'all aren't letting yourselves go bonkers over this, and glad to see you'll still be around!
sample use: https://lemmy.world/post/37898757
you can use this template to say like "me when I'm (doing something that requires thought)"
The Howling (1981) is the movie for this Sunday's "monsterdon" watch party over on Mastodon, our fediverse sibling!
How to watch the movie:
the film follows a news anchor who, following a traumatic encounter with a serial killer, visits a resort secretly inhabited by werewolves.
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On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, The Howling holds a 76% approval rating based on 45 critic reviews, with an average rating of 6.4/10. The consensus reads: "The Howling packs enough laughs into its lycanthropic carnage to distinguish it from other werewolf entries, with impressive visual effects adding some bite".[12] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 68 out of 100, based on 11 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews.[13]
In 1981, Roger Ebert's 2-out-of-4 star review described The Howling as the "silliest film seen in some time", but Ebert also said the special effects were good and the film was perhaps "worth your money, IF you get it two for one".[14] Gene Siskel liked the film and gave it three and a half stars out of four.[15] In his Movie Guide, Leonard Maltin wrote that The Howling is a "hip, well-made horror film" and noted the humorous references to classic werewolf cinema.[16] Variety praised both the film's sense of humor and its traditional approach to horror.[6] Kim Newman, in his 1988 book Nightmare Movies, called The Howling "a brisk chiller that effortlessly revives the prowling-through-misty-forests genre", and called Picardo's transformation sequence "the movies' most impressive werewolf monster".[17]
The Dracula Readthrough that @zagorath@aussie.zone is doing on !vampires@lemmy.zip is in its final run! Daily Dracula Action from now til "The End"! It doesn't matter if you've missed stuff so far. The story at this point is: a bunch of normies are planning to infiltrate Transylvania to assassinate Dracula, who is a metahuman and a member of the local nobility! Just follow !vampires@lemmy.zip and start reading the Dracula Readthrough posts as they appear daily!
Tina the Troubled Teen is "fourteen, listens to Switchblade Symphony , cuts Geography class, and smokes cloves when no adults are around.” Character created by Lore Sjöberg (who is active on Bluesky) and Lori Matsumoto (not publicly active online?)
What’s your favorite track on Milenko?
track listing from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Milenko
playlist of all songs: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLij7jh-3jepCMT7um_DgctFm5DC7I3mAe
This oughta be a meme! Like a combo of Sickos and Anthony Adams Rubbing Hands Together .
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dracula_(1931_English-language_film)
Source:
Apparently this was also released on VHS in 98 and reissued on DVD in 2004.
One of the group's first projects with Island Records was an hour-long documentary titled Shockumentary, which aired on MTV. The station initially refused to play the documentary, but Island Records persuaded them to air it as a personal favor.[28] Shockumentary helped increase album sales from 17,000 to 50,000 copies per week.[28]
Pumpkinhead (1988) is the movie for this Sunday's "monsterdon" watch party over on Mastodon, our fediverse sibling!
How to watch the movie:
After a tragic accident, a man conjures up a towering, vengeful demon called Pumpkinhead to destroy a group of unsuspecting teenagers.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095925/
On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, Pumpkinhead holds an approval rating of 50%, based on 54 reviews, and an average rating of 5.5/10. Its consensus reads: "With effects work and solid direction from Stan Winston—and Lance Henriksen adding welcome gravitas—Pumpkinhead is a creature feature that stands a cut above".[13]
Dave Kehr of the Chicago Tribune wrote: "As a technician, Winston clearly knows how to make a monster, but as a director he's yet to learn how to bring one to life".[14] Richard Harrington of The Washington Post wrote that the film has poor writing and acting, but it is surprisingly polished for a B movie.[5] Chris Willman of the Los Angeles Times wrote that, despite its poor writing, the premise is interesting, but it's not executed as well as Forbidden Planet.[15] Empire rated it 2/5 stars and called it a Friday the 13th clone with "little atmosphere and no surprises".[16] TV Guide rated it 2/5 stars and wrote that the film's second half becomes tedious because of its overdone slasher formula.[17]
In a 1992 retrospective, Jon Nalick of the Los Angeles Times described it as "a well-executed film in a genre that is littered with dimwitted slasher flicks".[18] Bloody Disgusting rated the film 4/5 stars and called it "a gothic story of love, loss, vengeance, and redemption".[19] Joshua Siebalt of Dread Central rated the film 4/5 stars and wrote that film "stands as a timeless, dark fairy tale".[20] Reviewing the 2000 DVD release, G. Noel Gross of DVD Talk rated it 3.5/5 stars and wrote that the film is "too good to pass over", despite its lackluster presentation.[9] Nick Nunziata also criticized the 2000 DVD release and wrote that the film does not hold up.[21] Nick Schager of The A.V. Club called it an endearing pulp film that lacks subtlety.[22] Reviewing the film on Blu-ray, Ken Hanley of Starlog said it is "one hell of an impressive directorial debut".[23] Writing in Horror Films of the 1980s, critic John Kenneth Muir called it "a meditation on vengeance" that is "surprising and rewarding" for its rejection of vigilante justice, a popular theme in the 1980s.[24]
I haven't owned any band t-shirts in a while but I have a couple plain t-shirts dying and I was like: I should buy a band shirt, to "represent" and to support the band, you know. But who?!? I was paralyzed by indecision. Then I was like... ok, let's reframe the problem, if I could only own ONE, which would it be? But I still couldn't decide. So then I was like: I know! I'll ask the fine folks on !gothindustrial@lemmy.world what THEY would do and then maybe inspiration will strike! so... "if you could ONLY own ONE band t-shirt, what would it be?!?"
Compare to: Obelix falling in the cauldron of magic potion as a baby.