u/MarkLambertMusic

I'm pretty sure I remember listening to it when I played back in the pre-froob days. They mostly played techno music (naturally). I'm just wondering if it still exists; I'd be very surprised if it does. I'd like to give it a listen for nostalgia's sake.

As a fan of the Silent Hill games, it was something I was thinking about with all the remakes. As a huge fan of the original Team Silent games, I hate the very idea of them. Of course it goes beyond just Silent Hill. The movie industry keeps returning to the same wells in lieu of developing new ideas. There have always been remakes, but it used to be that a respectable amount time was allowed to pass before churning them out.

There are always exceptions, especially in the indie scene, but the entertainment industry as a whole is creatively bankrupt.

Since I built my PC back in 2021 (a Ryzen 9 3900X), a recurring problem I had was if the power suddenly went out, it wouldn't boot back up for a long while afterward; it would power on, but never post. I just had to leave it powered off, and it would finally start working an hour or two later. For the longest I did everything I could imagine to fix it, but nothing worked. I finally gave up and just accepted that I had to deal with it.

A few months ago, I updated my video card to a 5060ti from an AMD RX 580. Since then, despite a few power outages (unfortunately rather common in my rural area), I've not had the problem reoccur. My computer always instantly powers back on and boots up. The only thing that's changed is the GPU upgrade, so I imagine it had to be something with my old AMD card that didn't deal well with sudden power outages, despite it working fine at all other times.

Yes, I just had a power outage which brought this topic to mind, and I thought I'd share it here in case anyone else finds themselves tearing their hair out dealing with a similar issue. Though I imagine this problem was extremely specific to my case.

Last year I suffered a severely broken upper arm, and it's the first time I'd ever been put under general anesthesia; once when they were resetting the break and again for the surgery to repair it. What struck me immediately upon waking was just how different it was from sleep. When you sleep you remain aware on some level, even outside of dreams, and when you wake you have this vague sense that time has passed. But general anesthesia is a complete off button for your brain, and when you wake it feels like the mask to administer the anesthesia had only just been slipped on your face. I know it is probably different for different people, but when I woke I wasn't the least bit groggy . . . I was instantly fully awake. The first thing I said when I came around was Wow! I was completely amazed.

I hope all your memorabilia is safely stowed, especially Rich Evans.

It isn't the lack of monetization which bothers me, because it's not like I was making a killing anyway. Konami claimed several of my other cover songs, and that's perfectly fine because these are songs from their games, and they deserve their cut. And, most importantly, they are actually the copyright holders. But the entity that claimed my song isn't Konami or doing so on behalf of them. It was WMG, and they claim my song is a cover of a 40+ year-old tune by The Smiths called "Reel Around the Fountain", which I never heard of. The song I actually covered that they claim is theirs is called "Your Rain" from the Silent Hill 4 game.

What's worse, the claim is based on a couple of seconds of solo drums during the intro to the song. The beat itself is simple and straight-forward, hardly something I think could be covered by copyright protection. The beat isn't even exactly the same, as simple as it is. The tempo is different, and the rest of the song is nothing at all like the one claimed.

Anyhoo, I disputed the claim. I'm sincerely doing it more on behalf of Konami than myself. I'm a huge fan of Akira Yamaoka, Silent Hill's longtime music composer, and the claim feels like a sideways swipe at him (though I don't know if he ever received money from my previous covers, or if Konami pockets it all).

I know the whole process is automated, and hopefully WMG will relent upon review. I guess I just wanted to vent a little and hear others' experiences.

In 1993 the band had their first hit with the song "Shine". This is the song they're most remembered for, though they had a long string of hits after that, continuing to 2004 when they finally started to fade from popular consciousness. Even after that they never broke up, despite some personnel changes.

I guess why they're not really remembered is because they were uncontroversial and not flashy. They just consistently cranked out great songs. They had numerous appearances on late night talk shows and songs in big movie soundtracks - in particular "She Said" on the Scream 2 soundtrack, one of my favorite CS songs, but even that one doesn't seem to be much remembered. They also played at both Woodstock '94 and '99 (where they did a killer cover of "Crazy Train").

As a guitarist, I always loved Ross Childress's playing. He was one of the few guitarists who continued to fly the flag of "shred" in the 1990s; a time when it was seen as a badge of honor to suck on the instrument (a somewhat understandable reaction to all the poofy-haired guitar hero shredders of the 1980s). But he was also a highly melodic player that did much give the band their distinct sound, despite Ed Roland being the singer and primary songwriter. But alas, Childress couldn't keep it in his pants and made the idiotic move of sleeping with Ed's wife, which got him kicked out of the band.

I just wanted to share my love of the band, who provided much of the soundtrack to my formative years.