The exciting and sexy teams are our of the Women’s European Euros, so we are back to “square root of fuckall” status.
Here is a conversation topic you may consider, or ignore altogether. It finds genesis in the following song:
Pondering my favoUrite lyric…what IS the last classic rock band’s last solid record? I place no particular bounds on one’s selection criteria.
But my choice would be Southern Harmony and Musical Companion.
If I’m the German coach, my speech before the PKs would be something like “Let’s win this fer country, fer each other, fer our fans, but most of all fer our courageous goalkeeper. Let’s win this fer Berger!”
(If you’re wondering whether I’ve been trying to workshop that specific term into a comment this whole game, I plead the fif)
I’m thinking he’s saying, “Key party at my place after the game”
Scissors and hair pulls for all!
LET THE MISSES BY THE MISSES BEGIN!
My prediction:
The crossing pass from the France midfielder that ended up falling at the far end of the pitch, 15 yards aside the crease is a harbinger of how the pennos are going to go.
Look at me, the most prescient son of a bitch.
Methinks the Germans will start deploying the Horatio strategy of “Just kick it way the fuck high in the air and long!”
Love the German just rolling like a tank over the French defender.
Germany looks really tired. France looks slightly less tired. Am I getting this right?
/I’ve been watching soccer in a ‘serious’ way since 2018 and I still can’t make an observation that I’m confident of.
Stick to pervin’ like Hippo and you’ll be fine
If we go to pennos, what’s the O/U on fails?
I say 3.5
Of 10? Over. All day and all of the night.
I was thinking per team. But yes
Much like two of Sweden’s tries, way over.
/A bit of unsophisticated advice for the French striker
Me: “STOP FUCKING AROUND AND BEING CUTE IN EXTRA FUCKING TIME-PUT SOMETHING ON THE NET, FUCK!”
Insane save by German goalie.
Holy shit what a save.
German ladies raising their arm in the air to the crowd as they’re being subbed off is not the good look that they think it is.
Me: “Overtime!”
People on X: “ITS CALLED EXTRA TIME! I’LL SHOOT YOU WITH A GUN WITH ALL OF MY HEART IF I CAN EVER GET UP OFF THIS CHAIR!”
DFO: ALSO IT’S GOING TO END WITH ANOTHER PATHETIC DISPLAY OF PENNOS!
“It’s my time to shine.”
-Balls defected off the post/crossbar
This Hoffman is a brute.
I haven’t seen the French under this much pressure since Ardennes Forest lost to Blitzkrieg FC back in 1940.
Clearly, women can’t take penalties.
The belt around my waist and my microwave dinner not being ready on time says different.
Ball don’t lie?
Holy French Goalie!
/Coneheads voice
Greetings from France
Did you take away their goal?
Eat a sheep’s cheese from the north-eastern part of Alsace for me, if you’re able.
/don’t cheap out either
Eat a sheep’s cheese from the north-eastern part of Alsace for me, if you’re able.
Pretty sure that’s code for “get a rough trick named Maurice to jam a toe in your arse and you’ll cum for days” and look, we don’t need that kind of filth here.
Mrs. BFC: “What say we check out the Eiffel Tower?”
BFC: [shudders for the 34th time this morning, wipes sweat from brow] “I’m going to sit this one out.”
This damn country and their damn pasturization.
European sheeps milk cheese convinces me that their really are civilized parts of the world.
Cuz this place sure isn’t that.
#18 is who Jim Morrison was talking about in this song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBiIbV0qhRk
“A Game Of Inches” sounds like a Lifetime biography of Deanna Favre
Plural?
/this game remains tied deep into the second half
Jim Ross: (who is announcing this game for some reason). And so France and Germany remain locked in a titanic struggle, exhausting themselves in fruitless offensive thrusts that go nowh…
//sound of shattering glass, followed by ‘The Star Spangled Banner’
Ross: BAH GAWD!! THAT THE USWNT’S MUSIC!!!!
///The Americans storm the field behind the French, resulting in a decisive 6-1 victory over Germany
“Has no one ever considered the ‘Choking Them With Our Dead’ strategy? Just me?”
-Stalin
And so it begins…
The fun way to explain to the kids why daddy doesn’t live here anymore.
At least it’ll make the kids stop asking when he’s coming back with those cigarettes
So…what would have happened if they hadn’t reacted?
No one in the arena knows who they are, the clip remains uninteresting (except to the people who were actually on the cam), and no one outside the concert ever sees it?
The only way that gets out is if it starts to go viral inside the company, and someone from that place had the vid and lets it out.
So maybe an 80% chance we never see it, and life/cheating goes on as normal?
Likely true, but if you and your sidepiece are suddenly on the Jumbotron in front of thousands of people I’m not sure “let me think this through rationally” is the first thing through your mind.
I have embarrassingly little experience with sidepieces.
“Juggling two partners at the same time is beyond my skillset” is featured on my LinkedIn bio. I’m honest like that.
God could you imagine the stress? No fucking (literally) thank you.
Clearly, this is an area where the French are way more advanced than the good ole US of A.
It helps a great deal if everyone’s doing it and no one’s upset.
Have you ever worked in the public sector?!?
I have not! I prefer my sectors private.
They moved some of the horses around so the three stooges have a new neighbor and now they’re doing little drag races along the fenceline and just generally running around acting like idiots and it is adorably hilarious. Meanwhile the two horses in the paddock across are just hanging out and providing a peanut gallery. Love these guys
I’m curious as to where the explosives came from that blew up those LA sheriff’s deputies. I’m going to assume it was from a right-wing terrorist’s stash until I hear otherwise.
The People’s Republic of Santa Monica, so probably not.
Oh and Germany is right back in it thanks to some good head!
(puts hand to earpiece)
I’m being told the proper term is “header” and apologize for the mistake.
/somewhere Nick Castellanos prepares to hit a home run
THAT GERMAN GOAL I CALL IT THE SCHLIEFFEN PLAN, BECAUSE AN OVERCONFIDENT FRANCE NEVER SAW IT COMING!!
(now to go look up how badly I misspelled Schlieffen)
Holy shit, nailed it.
You’re the anti-Nick Young
Unironically.
Watching the last of round 3 of The Open, Cubs don’t play for another 3 1/2 hours.
Guess it’s “The 36th Chamber of Shaolin” for me.
Women’s Euro is on Fox.
Yeah but I need some Shaw Brothers right now.
Welp, worst phrase you can think of, “Germany’s on the comeback trail!”.
Achtung!
So for me, at age 56, oldies are the initial rock acts from the 50’s: Buddy Holly, Not-Fat Elvis, Bill Haley, and continuing up through all those girl groups Phil Spector
exploitedproduced records for.Classic Rock is when 50’s rock and/or roll shifts into the Jimi Hendrix, Rolling Stones, The Who, mixed in with Southern rock like Allman or Skynrd. Classic rock therefore ends for me when those bands started ODing, flying planes into the ground, or in the case of the Stones and The Who, just became caricatures of themselves. YMMV on when exactly that occurs.
This is correct. Or at least my opinion despite the age difference.
56 year old white men are correct about everything.
Just ask us.
I think of Hailey and Holly as rockabilly.
I’d bleed off the girl groups as a continuation of the McGuire Sisters, The Andrews Sisters, The Chordettes of the 40’s and 50’s with much better production and more relevant lyrics. And still, somehow, under the thumb of male control at every level.
Totally agree on SkyNerd.
As far as the Stones are concerned, Jagger and Richards chased fame like a fox chases a chicken. They began by imitating some Blues records they heard (everyone has to start somewhere) but they’ve gone through many stages. Richards tried to imitate Hendrix, then Jagger tried to imitate Bowie during his Glam Rock phase. (does no one remember pics of Mick with sparkles on his face?) They also did some dumb, weird, awkward crap when The Band was so influential. They tried everything on for size because they were whores.
/rant over
I don’t disagree about rockabilly; I’m just going Oldies vs. Classic. We could, and knowing this group will, spend hours if not days subdividing various genres within the broader Oldies/Classic categories.
As for the Stones, anything after Exile On Main Street, (1972), I can do without.
This is the correct take
That has to be one of the dumbest red cards that I have ever seen. What the hell was the Kraut thinking???
The only thing that makes sense to me is that she thought she had a hold her jersey. Still not a wise move, but wouldn’t get you sent off.
As one might suspect, German foreplay is not exactly a subtle art.
I don’t think there was a lot of ‘thinking’ involved. Just incredibly dumb.
Her mood must be pretty sauer.
Everyone knows that female soccer players start pulling hair during celebrations after the game, not during the game itself.
I think my favorite German player is the one named “Minge”.
My vet overcharged us for the meds when our husky got the minge
Husky minge doesn’t get as much attention as it should.
Oh, Mingey!
[searches desperately for any historical references regarding France and Germany being in conflict]
Me: “Jesus Christ, Bing-there’s got to be something!”
Scotcnaut, pictured researching conflicts between France and Germany:
Well this fixture is already over. So long GER.
You misspelled “longger”.
Classic rock ended with ABBA.
In your heart you know I’m right.
Classic rock did indeed end with the dissolution of the ABA and Dr. J joining that other league.
I don’t know that I’ve cheered for England in any other context other than WW2.
Even then, Montgomery made it difficult.
The IRA made sure he blowed up real good.
My vote for the end of the era band would also be GNR.
Greta Van Fleet is however doing a notable job of keeping hope alive.
https://youtu.be/WO0OUoCDlBE?si=RtHH0mVjwu6Y_9PF
Love Greta Van Fleet’s sound and enthusiasm. As for their lyrics, well, they make Zeppelin look deep. But dammit, they’re trying.
It took a long time for teenage me to figure out that INXS’s lyrics weren’t deep, they were just mostly nonsense.
They were so fucking good live.
1983 US Festival.
They were tight as fuck.
Unfortunately, so were their knots.
I legitimately laughed out loud there.
They really were a very good band.
Saw the Kick tour and yeah, they were great. 1988ish.
And the fact that you learned to tell the difference meant you would never become a tech bro
I don’t know the definitive answer to the Hippo question, but it was in the 80s.
Like…Boston “Third Stage” or ZZ Top “Eliminator” or Queen “The Game”
Classic rock is 70s music, so it petered (heh) out in the 80s and morphed into grunge in the 90s.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXP963P0nDQ&list=RDTXP963P0nDQ&start_radio=1&pp=ygUfaGVhZCBlYXN0IG5ldmVyIGJlZW4gYW55IHJlYXNvbqAHAQ%3D%3D
That Zed Zed Topp was a good’un indeed
Like AC/DC, they know who they are and are fantastic at being that way.
Every day certainly wasn’t another wonderful secret for them.
The first band I thought of was Boston. But the second band I thought of was Foghat so I’m going with, “My opinion is invalid”.
Foghat was FUN. Platonic ideal of 70s music.
I’ve thought for the longest time that you could put the “Foghat Live” album up there with any other live album in the rock genre and it would fare well.
I shudder to think that my oldest skull-fractured boy would consider that The White Stripes would fit into the “Dad Rock” category for him.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5VLhwR4Y14
Separate, but related query. What is the percentage overlap in the Venn Diagrams of “Classic Rock” and “Dad Rock?”
/yes this is also a blatant bat signal for WCS
also depends on if Dad Rock is talking about your Dad or is it talking about you being the Dad
did some looking at splits between this with classic rock and spotify tracklists like Divorced Dad Rock: BANGERZ “This playlist is dedicated to divorced dads and daughters who had to listen to this on the way to swim practice.” that includes mostly light mid late nineties alt rock and nu-metal
I likes how OCD your mind darts down a rabbit hole. GOOD HUSTLE!
thanks been an interesting thought for me for a bit when had younger millennial coworker who would get sentimental about traveling last year to go to see Incubus and Staind with his dad on tour.
Man, I don’t want to wish ill upon someone I’ve never met and know nothing about, but it’s hard not to given that they traveled to see those bands.
Yeah, that’s a character-judgment thing.
That kid should have been taken away from his father at a very early age.
It’s pretty tight. 85%, maybe?
Yes. At least.
think dad rock would be a subset with having to be relaxing and ideally experienced with a beer in hand. anything that would involve more energy, emotions or hard substances would be somewhere else in classic rock spectrum
My kids would tell you that ‘Dad rock’ is Social Distortion, Ramones, or The Clash, but they’d agree about ‘beer in hand.’
& where does “yacht rock” fall on that spectrum?
It sails you away to where you’re going
obligatory lofi Yacht Rock wars mockumentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNTARSM-Fjc&list=PLBEB75B6A1F9C1D01
Well, you have to get laid to be a dad. So I’m guessing the Charlie Kirk generation of young men who are living amongst millions of women who would rather just be alone or homeless than even attempt a relationship with these in-their-prime “men”, is going to call any music that doesn’t help cover up Donald Trump’s multi-decade history of child rape as “Fake Rock”.
I see we are going to investigate Obama now.
He must have Epstein Files that Pam Bondii announced were on her desk months ago but now says they do not exist because Donald Trump has been documented traveling to Epstein Island over 100 times during his multi-decade PUBLIC relationship with Epstein where he raped dozens and dozens of trafficked children.
Greta Van Fleet.
Modern era last gasp of classic rock would be the White Stripes for me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4dx42YzQCE
Though do see bits and pieces of more guitar and instruments in some of the younger gen.
and now I realize I say modern talking about 20 years ago
I have Sirius in the car so I don’t have to listen to anything from the current century. At home, I have albums and cd’s of things I like. Notice I said albums. Not “vinyls”
Get off my fucking lawn.
enjoyed sirius when I had it but once started working from home wasn’t worth it. was a nice break from algorithmic choices and traps i end up finding myself nowadays
I listen to it on my computer at work every day.
It’s one of the only things keeping me sane.
The Black Keys also vibe in a classic way.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCZI2C-tWzM
yeah giving the bonus to White Stripes for Jack White being one of those guitarist who plays a few notes and you know exactly who it is even though he’s cribbing so much
You can guess that tune (well, artist anyway) in TWO NOTES:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ru5afNNSPeU
They did a cool cover of this Jr. Kimbrough song…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsP4kBTa9X4
Feel like Tom Petty though late classic rock had longest modern run to at least Wildflowers
Tom Petty is tough because he straddled the line between folk rock and classic rock, and did so brilliantly for a really long time. He’s probably still doing it in Rock and Roll Heaven.
Good to be king just for a while applies to rock
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SF1iLXSQto
the outtro is so beautifully sad
Yeah, nobody wants to live in rock so long that they become Mick Jagger.
yeah like Neil Young. for a pure hard rock rock and roll I’d think AC/DC
quoting Angus
“I’m sick to death of people saying we’ve made 11 albums that sound exactly the same. In fact, we’ve made 12 albums that sound exactly the same”
I’m engaged in a long-term project of assembling every song ever played on 120 Minutes in mp3 form and have arrived at Love and Rockets.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMnaa__JZbU
For me classic rock ended the same time the seventies did, so that would make the last great classic rock record “The Wall” by Pink Floyd which was released on November 30, 1979.
RTD, explains classic rock.
https://youtu.be/YXKmsvRXE4A?si=waKDPu1ahzJNY152
Some very strong moments in that episode. I thought that whoever did the visualization of Otto’s acid trip clearly did so from a place of experience.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSLuaHGlF10
Pink Floyd, Time. One of my favoUrite.
“And then one day you find ten years have got behind you
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun”
My sister used “…and the worms ate into his brain” as her yearbook quote.
Wait, did she know RFK jr?
Strangely enough, she’s actually working at a high enough level these days that if she were in a health-related field she’d have to interface with him.
According to the youngs, Nirvana is a classic rock band and the bands you are speaking of are Oldies. No idea what they think actual Oldies are.
Oldies would be Skynard no?
Yes, and the Beach Boys.
https://youtu.be/BGrfhsxxmdE?si=gkhbhMHPC1cHR9vO
No.
Was just thinking what they used to play on the oldies station when I was a kid. I guess Beach Boys would fall into another category.
Simply check out my collection. But it is what it is and I’m at peace with it. AFN radio, which I now only hear while shopping in the commissary once a week, supposedly plays the top artists based on stateside air play. What a load of generic, computer enhanced, same sounding tunes. With the exception of a few bands some that are now getting a bit long in the tooth, you can have it.
Thusly, the most hipster answer to the query would be Bleach.
Heard GNR on the oldies channel and had a sad acknowledging chuckle
It seems my 8 year old over served me a bit last night.
He’s gonna lose his liquor license if he keeps that up
Some of these are frighteningly accurate.
“Allman Brothers Band: You do not own a bong, but can quickly make one from a piece of fruit or an abandoned toilet.”
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/what-your-favorite-classic-rock-band-says-about-you
This was fantastic
Steely Dan: You have snorted cocaine off a copy of Remembrance of Things Past.
Fleetwood Mac: You have snorted cocaine off a copy of The Hobbit.
Blue Oyster Cult: You have snorted cocaine off a copy of Type 2 Diabetes for Dummies.
Mountain: You have snorted cocaine off a Blue Oyster Cult record.
Nazareth: You have snorted cocaine off a member of Mountain.
Hawkwind: You sell cocaine to Nazareth fans.
Molly Hatchet: You sell baking soda to Hawkwind fans and tell them it’s cocaine.
“you only remove your socks to shower, then only reluctantly” (AC/DC)… I call bullshit. In the summer I only wear socks while running or at work.
/ currently in his trusty Reef flip flops as proof.
Glad you liked it. Seems to have sparked some discussions & general smart assery…
for me Rush: You carry a small flashlight everywhere, and use it at least three times a day.
Favorite quote “Yes: Your ideal partner would be into both tantric sex and fat guys.”
Sadly missing Heart tho
Deep Purple: Some part of a law named after a young girl applies to you.
I somehow missed this the first time through. Holy shit.
The whole thing is absolute gold.
I wouldn’t say Rush is my favorite, but doesn’t everyone have a collection of small but powerful flashlights? I don’t use them 3x a day though, so maybe that’s the difference
Does a self-inflicted George Foreman grill injury when I was 8 count as an incense scar?
/ELP is in part 2
Currently looking for Italian ladies appropriate memes in support of them in the semis.
So apparently the founder of the Heritage Foundation passed away. I hope they may follow his final teachings.
https://youtu.be/o8pkg7HjBIk?si=CWJQ0hdpFBOdqfLl
May he rest in piss.
He’ll be back for the sequel
Also, Senorita Weaselo and I still have to watch the last part of the last part of the last season of Attack on Titan, but it’s just so, so dark.
Like, the first episode starts with the protagonist’s mom getting eaten, and it steadily gets DARKER from there.