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Not even spam.
Usenet is very nearly dead.
Bed Warmer <bedwarmer@gmail.com> wrote:
Not even spam.
Bedwarmer
On Tue, 06 Dec 2022 18:48:16 -0500, Bed Warmer <bedwarmer@gmail.com>
wrote:
Not even spam.
Despite the high prices, I very much enjoyed the Early Years boxed set
and (to a little lesser degree) the Later Years set.
Saw Nick Mason's Saucerful of Secrets a couple months ago, and they
put on a fantastic show.
There you go. It was even on topic.
-- Bob
Yah, it doesn't have eye candy so there's not much left of it. The
political groups are still active and there are still trolls there but
most groups are dead or are just crossposted. alt.fan.rush-limbaugh
is one of the few still active groups and political posters from left
to right gather there for discussion. Lots of crossposting brings in
other nearly dead groups so with crossposting, comprehensive and
detailed discussion is possible.
On Thu, 08 Dec 2022 15:56:03 -0500, Bed Warmer <bedwarmer@gmail.com>
wrote:
Yah, it doesn't have eye candy so there's not much left of it. The >>political groups are still active and there are still trolls there but
most groups are dead or are just crossposted. alt.fan.rush-limbaugh
is one of the few still active groups and political posters from left
to right gather there for discussion. Lots of crossposting brings in
other nearly dead groups so with crossposting, comprehensive and
detailed discussion is possible.
The written science fiction newsgroup (rec.arts.sf.written) still gets
enough posts that I sometimes have trouble keeping up with it. But
yeah, other than that one most of the groups I used to read are dead.
And even in r.a.sf.w it seems like most of the posters are in their
60s or 70s, so it's probably just a matter of time until that one
dwindles away too.
What Floyd tunes are in your regular rotation lately?
On Fri, 09 Dec 2022 18:38:45 -0500, Bedwarmer <bedwarmer@gmail.com>
wrote:
What Floyd tunes are in your regular rotation lately?
When the Covid lockdowns first started I was allowed to work from home
and I'm still doing that four days a week, so I put together a huge
playlist (around 4,000 hours) of everything I own and just started
letting it play in random order. I'm still less than half-way through
it. Occasionally a Floyd song will pop up, but I haven't sought out
anything specific to listen to in a while.
I guess the closest I've come to listening to a full Pink Floyd album
in the last few months is when I went to see Roger Waters in Philly.
I bought his "Us + Them" on blu-ray and CD and watched/listened to it
to prepare for the show.
My wife's been playing that album David Gilmour recorded with The Orb
a lot lately. She's a big Gilmour fan.
I'm sure eventually I'll get back in the mood to hear some Floyd and
start going through all their albums again. Usually happens every
couple years.
What Pink Floyd have you been listening to?
-- Bob
I guess the closest I've come to listening to a full Pink Floyd album
in the last few months is when I went to see Roger Waters in Philly.
I bought his "Us + Them" on blu-ray and CD and watched/listened to it
to prepare for the show.
*Warning! TFC gives me hives*
I bought Roger's latest album. I couldn't get through the first song.
I tried the next. Nyet. Another track. Ick. I've never put it on
since.
I'm sure eventually I'll get back in the mood to hear some Floyd and
start going through all their albums again. Usually happens every
couple years.
Same here except for my extreme fondness for TWLIB *other* than CN. I >hatehatehate the way Van Morrison and The Band sang it. Lol!
On Tue, 13 Dec 2022 21:15:56 -0500, Bedwarmer <bedwarmer@gmail.com>
wrote:
I guess the closest I've come to listening to a full Pink Floyd album
in the last few months is when I went to see Roger Waters in Philly.
I bought his "Us + Them" on blu-ray and CD and watched/listened to it
to prepare for the show.
*Warning! TFC gives me hives*
Personally, I like The Final Cut more than The Wall, but some of that
might be because I first got into Pink Floyd not long after Final Cut
came out and my college friends and I listened to it frequently.
Usually late at night at high volume and with a large number of beers.
For what it's worth, the only Final Cut song Waters played on his
recent tour was Two Suns in the Sunset.
I bought Roger's latest album. I couldn't get through the first song.
I tried the next. Nyet. Another track. Ick. I've never put it on
since.
To each his own, but I liked his new one. Has a lot of "classic
Floyd" touches to it. Sure, Roger compares himself to God in the
first song, but that's pretty much to be expected from Waters.
I'm sure eventually I'll get back in the mood to hear some Floyd and >>>start going through all their albums again. Usually happens every
couple years.
Same here except for my extreme fondness for TWLIB *other* than CN. I >>hatehatehate the way Van Morrison and The Band sang it. Lol!
It took me a couple minutes to figure out what "TWLIB" stood for. I
have The Wall Live in Berlin on VHS tape, and by amazing coincidence I
just got my hands on a working VCR to transfer some old tapes to
digital. Maybe I'll have to give that a viewing - I haven't watched it
in decades.
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