Posts by NoSonOfVine

  • R.I.P. Neil Peart

    I really need to explore Rush more, to be honest. They were one of several of my university bands (remember that era? Where I tried to get into a huge pile of prog rock and it paid off tremendously, because I liked a majority of what I heard?), well sadly Rush never made it into my "love" pile, so I stopped regularly listening to them. Same thing happened to Supertramp.


    OK, for 2020, it's time for me to listen to more Rush 8)

  • TotW 01/04/2020 - 01/10/2020: GENESIS - No Son Of Mine

    The first Genesis song I ever listened to, and that's why it's part of my username. I love this song and it still makes me emotional to this day.


    By the way, One For The Vine hasn't been my favourite Genesis song in years now. My favourite is currently The Musical Box. In fact... I hate to admit it, by One For The Vine has fallen down my ranking of my absolute Genesis favourites by several places. In fact I don't think it's even my favourite on WAW anymore. Is it a good song? Hell yeah! But I've found that I perhaps overrated it a bit all those years. As I grow older, my tastes continue to change. I'm 27 now! :O When I joined the forum, I was 18!

  • Your favorite tracks on ... "Abacab"

    I've warmed up to this album over the years. On the old forum a few years ago I remember making a divisive post about how I was struggling to get into this album. But I've found that, while the album is messy in places and contains very little of their strongest material, it's still an OK album. Nothing special, but enjoyable. :)


    I chose Abacab, Me and Sarah Jane, and Dodo/Lurker.

  • Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

    I saw this movie on the 30th and I much enjoyed it. Overall, I've really, really loved the sequel trilogy and I actually prefer it to the original trilogy although I of course love that as well. I think that the original Star Wars if my favourite original trilogy movie because of its sheer, sweet simplicity. It was the first one and it constructs a magical space fantasy world right before your very eyes. The movies Rogue One and Solo I also enjoy although they have their faults.


    As for the prequels... I really, really dislike them now, to the point where I cannot even watch them anymore. If you guys remember back on the old forum, I watched all these movies in order on DVD, from 1 to 7 (and then 8 when it was released in late 2017) and at the time I tried desperately to defend the prequels but I cannot after multiple rewatches of the other, better, movies. They are completely, irreparably broken in comparison to me.


    I will admit that the Rise of Skywalker is kind of corny at times and runs out of steam towards of the end but I still found it very visually impressive, appropriately dark and epic, and satisfyingly aggressive in its action. I just wish its climax were a bit less silly. It gets an 8/10 from me although I can't give it a score higher than that.


    My ranking of the Star Wars movies is (from best to worst): The Force Awakens, The Last Jedi, Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, The Rise of Skywalker, Solo, Return of the Jedi, Rogue One, The Phantom Menace, Revenge of the Sith, Attack of the Clones.

  • Are political threads allowed?

    Quote from Backdrifter

    It's decent of you to say it but I think you're being harsh on yourself. The Leave rhetoric was persuasive and co-ordinated, while the Remain campaign was terrible and rooted in presumptuous complacency. Many leave voters now feel they made the wrong choice.


    At least you can absolve yourself of direct responsibility for the ensuing Johnson government!

    This is true. I may have voted Brexit (massive mistake) but didn't vote Johnson.

  • Are political threads allowed?

    Just to be clear: Until 2017 I was a Tory because my parents were. So I voted Tory in 2015, Brexit in 2016 (worst mistake of my life) and Tory again in 2017 (although very reluctantly as by that point I was upset with them). I stopped supporting the Tories in 2017 and started supporting the Liberal Democrats. I voted Lib Dem in this year's local elections. However, I then switched to Labour for this election because of tactical voting, and I feel like I want to support Labour from now on.


    So yeah... I'm partially to blame for anything that happens. You guys don't know how much I regret my Brexit vote, it made me depressed in 2018 thinking about it knowing I was so gullible. I'm so sorry everyone. ;(

  • I'm back! Sorry I was gone so long. :(

    Yep, I'm still alive, and I've decided to return after a very, very long break. I don't think posted here in maybe over a year now. I can't remember.


    I'm really sorry. I'm back though :) But while I was gone I managed to correct a lot of problems in my life - like my lack of a social life (I've made a huge number of friends this year - dozens upon dozens - and I'll explain how soon, it's very weird but it's an interesting story!) and I'm of course still listening to a lot of music, the odd bit of Genesis included.


    I'm honestly really pleased this forum is still at least active to some degree. :) I'm going to make an effort to post here semi-regularly now.