Louie Louie is the greatest rock song that will ever be written. Ace Of Spades is a very close second.
Pizza is nature’s most perfect food.
Bowling is the sport of kings.
People are idiots.
[SIZE=2]Strongly confirmed by this thread. Grump grump grump. I’m going to go home tonight and watch Office Space and drink an IPA. That’ll show you![/SIZE]
Things matter.
Is that subjective? Maybe to a nihilist, or a hard physicalist, if that’s a thing.
Joe Morello was the best jazz drummer who ever lived or ever will live.
Duke Ellington was the greatest jazz composer who ever lived.
Thelonious Monk was a towering, staggeringly brilliant genius of the piano.
The soprano saxophone is not a musical instrument; it’s a Chinese torture instrument that was too awful for Torquemada or the Marquis de Sade to consider using. Hitler outlawed it from the labor camps. Dante dared not delve to a level of Hell that contained it. Modern “artists” who insist on forcing air through this honking, squealing instrument to produce a cacophony of noise that turns people into twitching, gibbering lumps of helpless flesh, moaning in a helpless heap on the floor, should be hanged.
Alecia Beth Moore, AKA Pink, has the most gorgeous singing voice of just about any female ever.
Similar to The Other Waldo Pepper’s entry:
The ending to Stephen King’s “Dark Tower” series is the only possible ending, and absolutely the right one.
Also:
There are some people who exist only to function as real-life trolls, and it is perfectly acceptable to completely ignore their opinions on everything without bothering to give them the benefit of the doubt.
(note: my first subjective opinion is unrelated to my second).
Firefly was the best canceled show of all time.
Battlestar Galactica’s ending was phenomenal, the best ending of any series…even better than Babylon 5’s.
The extended Two Towers is the best Lord of the Rings movie.
Hugh Jackman should have won an Oscar at this point(either for Les Miserables, Prisoners, or the Fountain). Prisoners is still a possibility. The Fountain was an amazing performance, one of the best in any career.
The first 3 Pirates of the Caribbean movies are amazing. Perfection.
The end of The Sopranos was perfect and Tony got whacked.
Disco still sucks.
And this state of affairs-despite the fact that, for one brief moment in time, it was NOT true-will never turn around in my lifetime (based on genes and such I expect to last another 40 years or so).
Glenn Gould’s second recording of the Goldberg Variations is the greatest human achievement. Period. And that includes the General Theory of Relativity, the Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection, the Mona Lisa AND Bo Derek’s breasts, ca. 1979 CE.
I prefer his recording of The Art of Fug
(By way of explanation, I had a fat thumb error on my iPhone, so my original posting ended with the r in "Variations. Flywheel’s pretty damn funny! And fast!)
A good professional wrestling match is better than a good boxing match or MMA fight.
Composing that work in the first place was surely greater than performing it.
Ask Alex Lifeson or Brian May who’s the best, they’ll tell you Jeff Beck.
You can’t be serious.
http://www.guitarplayer.com/article/brian-may-still-reigns-as-the-king-of-tone/148233
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Jeff Beck. Jeff Beck is always an influence.
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I found a bunch of stuff where Lifeson cites Beck as a key influence, with Hendrix and Page…
I was trying to come up with something I felt that strongly about and the only things that come close are my admiration for Walter/Wendy Carlos and the two albums I think I literally wore out as a kid - Switched On Bach and The Well-Tempered Synthesizer. I probably can’t name a single selection from either but both are etched into my memory.
The English Patient is a cynical enterprise of the scriptwriter and the director to see if they could make a movie so ponderous that it will force awards to fall onto it, it is so full of itself. And win awards it did even though nothing happened during the whole ten hours of it.