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Rick’s “4 bands still played in 2100” video sent me down a rabbit hole, so I wrote an essay arguing the reason is older than streaming
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Rick’s “4 bands still played in 2100” video sent me down a rabbit hole, so I wrote an essay arguing the reason is older than streaming

Rick’s video asking how Nirvana, Queen, the Police, and the Beatles out-draw nearly everyone still working lodged in my head and wouldn’t leave, so I wrote an essay trying to answer it. My argument: his four winners share one thing that living bands don’t, a closed catalog. Nothing new can ever be added, so it stops being a career and becomes canon, bounded and knowable how scripture is. It builds on Rick’s own points (biopic, covers, small discographies) and pushes toward what he gestures at near the end, that history has already decided. Grateful to him for the question, and curious what y'all makes of my answer.

https://aquaregiascriptura.substack.com/p/sealed-vessels

u/ryanmaple — 13 hours ago
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A Response to ESSENCE’s Top 50 R&B Song of All Time

You might have seen that Essence magazine recently released their list of the 50 Greatest R&B Songs of All Time. It’s a pretty marvelous list, filled with some of the most talented artists and most moving songs ever created. In my opinion, they got a lot right. Their list is definitely better than some of those othermagazines and sites that try to compile the best of what musical artists have to offer and wind up showing just how much they don’t know music. I would quibble with some of the positions of artists and some of the some choices for particular artists, but Essence did pretty good—though, no Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin is diabolical!

In any event, Essence extended an invitation in the write-up of their list. They said: So yes, debate the rankings. Tell us what should have been higher. Tell us what we missed. Defend your favorite with your whole chest. That's part of loving R&B, too.
They ain’t have to tell me but one time!

List: https://robertjonesjr.substack.com/p/the-witness-top-50-greatest-r-and

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u/TheWriteRobert — 1 day ago
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Does this Richard Hudnut product still exist IRL?

Alright folks - I've exhausted my Google searching to find a physical manifestation of this short-lived product launch by Warner-Lambert/Richard Hudnut in 1969-1970.
I'm researching this specific product through the ages and this incarnation of it is impossible to find. I'm also trying my gosh dang hardest to narrow down the dispensing method of this and there is NO info/intel I can find after weeks or searching. Is this an aerosol spray, measure aerosol spray or non-aerosol spray.
Any help, ideas, suggestions, inclinations, pathways, sparks-of-thought: I'm open to whatever you've got, VintageCosmetic community!

XO!

u/Peeshee33 — 5 days ago
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The Haagen Dazs Ice Cream of My Childhood

I never even knew what a "Haagen Dazs" was until I became an adult lol.

What was your favorite childhood ice cream?

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u/lotusflower64 — 9 days ago
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Warped Tour 1

Handed out at the first warped tour in Northampton MA.

u/floodmatt — 13 days ago
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TIL Pierce Brosnan almost became James Bond years earlier, but Remington Steele's ratings spike after the announcement got him un-canceled instead

Been down a rabbit hole on 80s detective shows and this one stuck with me. NBC canceled Remington Steele in 1986, which freed Pierce Brosnan up to take the Bond role. But the announcement caused a ratings surge in reruns, so NBC used a contract clause to un-cancel the show and keep him, which meant he had to turn Bond down. Brosnan didn't actually become Bond until 1994's GoldenEye, almost a decade later. Wild bit of TV history.

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u/WhateverGenXPod — 11 days ago