Sharon Nichols

Unseen wrote:
I wonder if the trend to highly processing the vocals and cranking up the distortion on the guitar and bass might be in response to their producer’s wishes.

I wonder too, but I’m putting my bet on the band just having fun with it. Pau’s smiling a lot, and I really love her fills in Sun. In any case, their audience mostly loves it, a…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:
It’s the girls’ personalities. They are just fun to watch. Maybe it’s part of their latina-ness, but their are all very animated and effusive.

I think it also speaks to their incredible parents and other chosen support structures, including their absolute insistence on keeping final say on everything. It’s like they were train…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:
And they are not half bad.

Per YouTube reviews and comments, I expected they’d be pretty good. I’ve not looked into them because I need to limit my rabbit holes. Good song, this one. I estimate it’s about 150 bpm (if it’s time signature is written in 4/4 time), bannable in Chechnya. I wonder if/how the law defines time signatures,…[Read more]

Did you guys notice the eclipse backstage near the middle of Automatic Sun? I didn’t. Just watch for a minute if you can, where I jump into it.

Unseen wrote:
having a gorgeous lead singer

Ok, I’m unintentionally imagining, behind every gorgeous performer, Unseen dancing with arms up in the air.

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
Let’s see how their new album does.

I don’t love the song you first suggested, a lot because of the mono-tonality of the singer, but that shouldn’t be a minus in every case. A lot of hit songs pushing the tonic a lot, i.e. the root note of the key that the song’s in. BB King comes to mine, in a few of his iconic h…[Read more]

I accidentally ran into their newest release that’s only three hours old. I like it. It’s the 3rd video below. I looked for lyrics and lucked out. (I’m not impressed by the lyrics. Am I missing something?)

I’ll present the live fancam-quality video first. The audio is unsurprisingly awful (IMO), but you can see the professional video cameras on…[Read more]

I eat babies all the time. (Before they’re actually babies.) IIRC, Japanese eating chicken and eggs call it Mother and Son, or something like that.

Another side note, I only recently learned that cheeseburgers are not kosher. Although this belief might depend on which flavor (err, I mean interpretation) of Judaism one adopts, it’s a violation of…[Read more]

Loving Arugula! I mean, Eruca Sativa!

Oh, I like that. I’ve seen online sites that can separate music into tracks, but I haven’t messed with them yet, and I’m sure they’re not this good. But they’re handy when you want to play or sing along with specific tracks.

I came to post about another lesson on listening. I was impressed by Dany’s high belting in HYCAD, live, but it wasn’t a…[Read more]

unapologetic wrote:
Military ‘Section 8’ is a reason for a psychological discharge.

You are correct. But I was actually referring to the HUD-VASH kind of Section 8. And HUD vs HUD-VASH housing are often in the same housing complex, as contracts for both are often initiated and admistrated by the same authority, e.g. by the city or county hou…[Read more]

TheEncogitationer wrote:
You do know Trump’s Daughter Ivanka has Jewish In-Laws and that Ivanka herself converted to Judaism and Trump accepts them both, right?

I doubt Trump could keep breathing unless he had myriad cognitive dissonance during every thought.

Unseen wrote:
Here is the exact video that converted me because they were already so excellent I started a quest to learn all about them:

Yeah, he’s good! His viewpoint and expertise are inspiring and enlightening, and a good way to introduce TW to new watchers.

Coincidentally, my brother told me TW is his new favorite band. I only told him…[Read more]

I don’t know why the above Slayer links say “video unavailable”, but the following working link looks like it’s been around for ten years. (I hope we’re not jinxing the links.)

unapologetic wrote:
I hate bands like Slayer who shout the lyrics.

I’m not a fan, either, but sometimes I listen to see if I can feel some kind of spark, or learn why…[Read more]

I have fun listening to Steve. Especially when he looks like the opposite of fun.

We’ve both said we like the skeptical reactors who seem surprised when they finally listen after being pestered by commenters. I’m slightly disappointed in the reactor’s video above, because of the spoilers he drops in the beginning, including a preview from what he’s about to play in full. I would have skipped the first four minutes to here, for…[Read more]