The Things You Are HAPPY About Thread.

[Jolemai]

Congratulations!

 

[Tyrannosaurus Dan]

Stan - very well done on the Degree! It must take a lot of effort and willpower to get a First when there are so many distractions at Uni - either that or you are a clever bastard I blame the student union, stupidly cheap beer and my natural laziness for my 2:2.

Hamlet - hopefully you will be living with a good group of people and you are going to fucking love it. Uni is awesome. Halls are awesome. Living away from home for the 1st time with lots of spare time and access to cheap alcohol is awesome. Enjoy!

 

[Tyrannosaurus Dan]

I was thinking along the lines of the less heavy rock albums:
Deftones first two albums
Metallica - Load
Corrosion of Conformity - Wiseblood
Down - Nola
Incubus - S.C.I.E.N.C.E.
Sepultura - Roots
Machine Head - Burn My Eyes
Nirvana - Nevermind
Silverchair first two albums
Rage Against The Machine first two albums
Pantera - everything!
(Hed)pe
Limp Bizkit - Three Dollar Bill Y'all
The Offspring - Smash
Millencolin first two albums
Presidents of the USA

I love 90's rock - it's my era. In fact I was listening to 'Load' this morning on the way to work. Limp Bizkit though, really? Never understood the attraction myself. Smash by The Offspring however is a fucking brilliant album!

 

[b3h]

Congrats mate! That's really good.

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Now rant time:

I quit college in year 1 and in hindsight I am glad I did - I have no idea where I would have ended up, or what doing!

I really think the support and help that kids get towards going to college and uni should be looked at.

I don't think they should carry education on "just because" and pick subjects based on "what I'm good at" - Why?!

They end up in debt up their eyeballs, have a pretty pointless degree if they leave and haven't a clue where to go, and have wasted several years of their life that they could have ended up on an alright salary even if doing something simple, and no real life experience.

I am not getting at Uni students in general, not using any negative aura's - I do really think this, because it happened to me.

I started secondary school as one of the brightest in the year. It didn't take long before I found my role as the 'class clown type'. I didn't do any revision for my GCSE's (Stupid, I know) yet I got the 2nd best results in our whole year. I was auto-accepted to go to Kind Edwards college and got pushed to do so by my family and so-called career advisors/teachers, so I did, and what did I pick? I picked what I was good at. It was full of snobs and I wasn’t motivated enough to do well, and so I left after year 1. I now have what I feel is a good job with decent prospects for future, and I am happy where I am right now, personally.

But what if I carried on doing what I was good at, and what was clearly made to be what I should be doing, and lasted the 2 years and got the results to carry on? Then what? I would probably have done exactly what my friend did, take Classics and do decently well in it, leave uni with a Degree and not have a fucking clue what to do, with a load of debt to go with it.

Again this was me, and everyone is different. And I DO support those who know what they want to do (This is key!) and pick what they need to do, either have financial backing from family or the brain to realise they will be left with debt as soon as they finish – Careers like doctor, teacher etc , That do need Uni work etc. Of course I support this – It’s just the kids that just go, for any of the reasons mentioned, I don’t think its right! I feel they need way more support in making a decision on their future........

 

[machin05]

Limp Bizkit went epically shit, very quickly, but Three Dollar Bill Y'All is an exemplary album for the time and genre. Some good shit on there.

Honorary mention goes to White Zombie's La Sexorcisto & Astro Creep 2000. Both fine 90s rock albums.

 

[YoungWolf]

Back from a great trip to Lanzarote and the weather in London is pretty damn nice too!

 

[lemonjelly]

It must be an age thing.

You callin' me old?
:swordfight:

 

[lemonjelly]

Halls are carnage. One of my friends from work studies zoology. She's just finished a placement at Bristol zoo observing gorillas for a year!

Take it she never left halls then...

 

[lemonjelly]

Limp Bizkit went epically shit, very quickly, but Three Dollar Bill Y'All is an exemplary album for the time and genre. Some good shit on there.

Honorary mention goes to White Zombie's La Sexorcisto & Astro Creep 2000. Both fine 90s rock albums.

I can't understand to love for either limp bizkit, or tbh load. Metallic (for me) fell off a cliff after the black album and tour. I went to see them on 4 November, & whilst it was a decent show, with hindsight they've never capped that for me. I remember standing in the snake pit thinking "they've lost the plot". No support, almost a 3 hour show, however too much padding with drum solo's, bass solo, guitar solo, & fucking about moving the drum kit (put your tongue away lars you twat!) They haven't done anything decent for me since, and I'd still rather listen to puppets...

Because of the commercial success, it ruined them as a band, and sadly too many wanted to imitate their success. Too many bands were metallica clones. All the rock press did was talk about metallica, what they were doing, what they wanted them to do, & who would be the next metallica.

Agree with you re the white zombie album - superb (as is it's predecessor).

Good rock music then became very few and far between.

Grunge and brit pop came along. To an extent they were necessary. I never really liked hair metal, & elements of grunge I did like, but also a lot of it was faddish. Morrisey with extra guitars. The Simpsons summed it up by referencing making teenagers sad is like shooting fish in a barrel. I saw soundgarden 2 or 3 days after cobain shot himself, & it could've been a decent gig - they were obviously affected by events though, & apart from kickstand hardly moved.

I started feeling quite disillusioned with music/gigs, which I found quite scary given how much I listen to music.

Then I saw the chemical brothers live. Dig Your Own Hole tour. Fucking Hell! More like a rock concert than anything I'd been to in a while. It was dark, there were strobe lights, noises went BOOM!!!! Amazing.

It re-affirmed my love of live music, & expanded a few horizons. However I really don't feel rock music recovered from the black album & the subsequent 18 months.

 

[Papper]

Again this was me, and everyone is different. And I DO support those who know what they want to do (This is key!) and pick what they need to do, either have financial backing from family or the brain to realise they will be left with debt as soon as they finish – Careers like doctor, teacher etc , That do need Uni work etc. Of course I support this – It’s just the kids that just go, for any of the reasons mentioned, I don’t think its right! I feel they need way more support in making a decision on their future........

I read something a while back that we are taught to use only side of our brain and this hinders us when it comes to critical thinking. I came to the conclusion I'd rather do something I hate for ten hours a week rather than work ten a hours a day doing something I enjoy for far less cash.

 

[b3h]

I read something a while back that we are taught to use only side of our brain and this hinders us when it comes to critical thinking. I came to the conclusion I'd rather do something I hate for ten hours a week rather than work ten a hours a day doing something I enjoy for far less cash.

Sorry - Explain?

 

[Tyrannosaurus Dan]

I can't understand to love for either limp bizkit, or tbh load

I didn't think there was much love for Load - I thought I was in the minority! It doesn't sound like Metallica should so I suppose as a Metallica album it is a big disappointment, but if you forget that it's Metallica then as a rock album it's great IMO. I'm not quite sure when Metallica turned into a bunch of ridiculous, egotistical twats but they were certainly well on their way when they made that album! Some good tunes on it though.

The early 90's was when I got into rock music and went to my first gigs (Terrorvision was the 1st) so I love 90's rock! I hated all that stuff like Chemical Borthers/Leftfield/Underworld however.

 

[The Bear]

I really like Load.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

It's sort of okay. I can take it or leave it. Same with Re-load.

I utterly despise St Anger though. The snare sound makes me want to scromit just thinking about it. Fucking shite.

 

[Stan Hullis]

Congratulations to me...

 

[lemonjelly]

I didn't think there was much love for Load - I thought I was in the minority! It doesn't sound like Metallica should so I suppose as a Metallica album it is a big disappointment, but if you forget that it's Metallica then as a rock album it's great IMO. I'm not quite sure when Metallica turned into a bunch of ridiculous, egotistical twats but they were certainly well on their way when they made that album! Some good tunes on it though.

The early 90's was when I got into rock music and went to my first gigs (Terrorvision was the 1st) so I love 90's rock! I hated all that stuff like Chemical Borthers/Leftfield/Underworld however.

Terrorvision are great. I got Formaldehyde on the original total vegas label!

However, I must insist you wash your mouth out with those vulgar comments re leftfield/underworld/chemical brothers - all of whom are superb!

 

[lemonjelly]

Congratulations to me...

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Alright, you're taking the piss noww...

(said on behalf of all those still at work, & I'm here til 8.30!!!!!)

 

[machin05]

Load is superb. In their top two.

 

[Stan Hullis]

Well there was only ever one way in which today could get any better and that was to be offered a new graduate role...and I have! Fucking hell what a day!

 

[Langers]

Well there was only ever one way in which today could get any better and that was to be offered a new graduate role...and I have! Fucking hell what a day!

Wow!! Well done again mate! Is this good fortune contagious? If so, PM me some!

Seriously though mate - you deserve it. Get another beer in, quick.