One of the key events that gave the United States the politically-charged push into the war was the sinking of the Lusitania, and it was done by a German u-boat.
Here’s another weird one you didn’t expect: Germans used zeppelins to bomb London.
Compounding the problem, this environment rewards charlatans and sociopaths. There will always be some that will exploit a weak spot in the system, in bad faith, no matter what the system is.
The best radio stations to me today, the ones that keep me compelled, are ones that mix freely from all eras (including this one) and genres. Try BBC Radio 6 Music, or WPRB (from Princeton University), Soho Radio.
From what I hear on these stations, where DJs are expected to fearlessly put on whatever they like, it seems, the music of today sounds just as good as from any other era, but for me it’s always been about discovery, and sometimes that includes being a little uncomfortable, I like to teach my mind a new groove every once in a while and it has been known to resist. It happens to all of us, I’m afraid, more and more as we get older.
That said, I can comfortably be against some music industry tendencies, there is no “pop utopia” in the past.
Last decade it’s been software tools like autotune; in the 90s the “volume wars” began and frankly, most USA rock sounds too similar, all trying to channel Led Zep and Black Sabbath through a punkish filter; in the 80s many bands were overproduced half to death, submerged in sonic synthetic fluff, all the new studio toys abused, layer upon layer upon layer.
In the proper hands, these technologies can help a piece of music shine brighter, but in the hands of producers following the bandwagon - and that’s always been the majority of 'em - everything ends up sounding the same, like neon ads all around you.
So strange that everyone looks back at hip-hop in the 90s and 90% of the time it’s about stuff like Tupac and NWA, while another parallel current with bands such as De La Soul, A Tribe Called Quest and Arrested Development gets overlooked.
Those bands were extraordinary, like Hip Hop in a tradition of Stevie Wonder, and kept putting out excellent albums that sound just as fresh today and are just as influential as anything from that era, but mid-decade the music industry swept them aside swiftly and unceremoniously, to make way for West Coast and Gangsta Rap.
Oh, I didn’t mean you, sorry if that’s the impression I gave, I was just pondering on things the way I’m remembering them.
Now that you mention “tapes out of a car”, before the internet there was another way that music spread in those days, for those of us who lived in smaller cities. Somebody would go to the cool city and take along his portable stereo, record tapes of the cool radio station, then back in town those tapes would circulate and get copied like bootlegs.
From LA in the 80s, it was KROQ with Punk, Post-Punk (The Stranglers, Joy Division) and Technopop (Depeche Mode, Human League, etc.).
In the 90s it was MARS FM with Techno and House.
I can only imagine the Hip-Hop that was being played in low-power radio stations in places like NYC or Philly.
A friend used to go to San Francisco every summer, brought back a bunch of tapes from the LIVE 105 graveyard shift, all carefully catalogued with dates, DJs and playlists. It was like KROQ but more subtle and varied, listening to those tapes felt exotic and meaningful.
One time he brought back a tape of KFJC, one where I first heard things like Liquid Liquid and Pharoah Sanders; that one felt like my mind got a firmware upgrade. Extraordinary.
Since the internet and starting with Real Player, now the entire world is at our fingertips (and ears), and I’m glad about this, but I will forever be grateful for those tapes from back when we weren’t directly plugged into “the action”.
If that idiotic and corrosive Brexit campaign had been defeated, the headline might be screaming how scheming EU nations drag the UK into their expensive transport plans.
Also the same mindless parrots on their tellys and newspapers would be mindlessly arguing the point, tossing out word salads, exactly as they would with the EU making their plans and keeping the UK out of them.
Meanwhile, non-voters who could have made a difference will be just as idiotic on polling day: “Politics is for wankers/both parties are the same. Shall we go for drinks?”
Mom made me wash the dishes AND clean the cat box!
Math is hard, and I can’t concentrate on homework 'cause I wanna play Fortnite!
I went to McDonald’s and their soft serve ice cream machine was not working!
The Wifi was slow!
I didn’t like the latest Aquaman movie!
The all-powerful all-knowing Creator Of The Universe… needs little old ladies to at least once a week open up their pocketbooks and make a check out to The Creator, through His official human regional managers, because The Creator Of The Universe… does not have direct access to the Federal Reserve or any of the banks, and even with a constant stream of revenue from little old ladies AND a privileged tax status, He ALWAYS seems to be bitching and whining about how He. Needs. More. Money! I guess?
If there’s something the internet has confirmed since its’ inception, is that humanity is both incredibly clever and incredibly stupid, in equal measure, beyond what I ever imagined was possible, beyond what I could conceive.
Man… I love this description so much, like a glimpse into the intellectual processes that go into the acting on screen, in best case scenarios like this one - top actors surrounded by sock puppets - there are crucial and consistent choices to be made.
It’s like what they say about dogs and cats.
Dogs see themselves as fellow humans.
Cats see humans as fellow cats.
Banned books (lemmy.world)
Aerial view of a beached U-Boat in the UK, WW1, 1919
He is technically right! (lemmy.world)
Hey guys, the trolley problem has finally been solved. (startrek.website)
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You are great (lemmy.world)
Judgement (lemmy.world)
bread is metal (mander.xyz)
Ancient wisdom often sounds like common sense now that it is commomly taught. What is some ancient wisdom that we no longer teach because it was wrong?
This question inspired by this post..
Bonjour, je m'appelle Jesus (lemmy.world)
"Kids these days" by Extra Fabulous Comics (lemmy.world)
www.extrafabulouscomics.com...
Duh ! (lemmy.world)
Don't even ask. (lemmy.world)
How could the EU do this?? (lemmy.world)
Christmas day grind (lemmy.world)
Just be happy (i.redd.it)
Prometheus (lemmy.world)
What you're about to watch... (lemmy.world)
Humans Against Shitting (lemmy.world)
Start the new year off right and leave this bad habit behind you, it’s disgusting!
NASA has some explaining to do (startrek.website)
Also, the Jewish God and Muslim Allah are on the International Space Station.
“I come from the slums; I come from a hard background; I come from a poor family; and I was a soldier.” (lemmy.ca)