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  1. So I just realized that AJR have a number one song on the Alternative chart.

    Why are alt stations putting "Sober Up" in heavy rotation? ...Just why?

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    2. Joe Biden

      Joe Biden

      Actually, I might as well confess that I actually deleted those comments. After Steel edited out his comment, I assumed he wanted that one deleted along with the replies to that comment. It was a huge mistake on my part and I apologize.

    3. Joe Biden

      Joe Biden

      Curious as to what the context between those comments were though.

    4. Wumbo

      Wumbo

      welp sorry for assuming that steel

      boy that ajr huh

  2. Can I just say that I hate HATE Disney XD's new strategy in which they now air new episodes at a frequent pace for one month after stagnating them for few to several months? Over the course of this year, we've had two Milo bombs, one Star bomb with another one coming in November, one Pickle & Peanut bomb coming in October, and one Penn bomb (but then again, DXD had been yanking this show on a chain.)

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    2. SG19

      SG19

      Wouldn't surprise me if Star Vs. was partially to blame for Wander's cancellation because the show took off early and Disney may have thought, "Oh, Star could be our next Gravity Falls! Wander doesn't need any more seasons! It's a waste of our resources anyway!"

    3. SG19

      SG19

      Yeah, Disney seems to have the same mentality as Nick in which if a show doesn't become popular during the first season, then it won't earn more than 2 seasons.

    4. SG19

      SG19

      I remember Craig saying that the Disney Television Animation and Disney XD studios liked Wander, but the higher ups thought differently since they're the ones who actually make investments. I guess money really does talk.

  3. My new avatar and username combo is based on one of the all-time best anime characters.

    I've had this idea for a little while, so don't think it's a coincidence that Jjs and I are into the same anime

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    2. CyanideFishbone

      CyanideFishbone

      Skeet has a Big McThankies from McSpanky's to all of us down here wherever he is now. He was an American hero.

    3. NegiSpongie

      NegiSpongie

      I hope you know what salt is :P

  4. HOT TAKE: Rocket Power was a great cartoon and it brings me to shame that we now live in a time where it's now popular to hate it.

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    2. Steel Sponge

      Steel Sponge

      -"It's a product of its time"
      -"It's outdated 90s narm"
      -"The characters are bland and/or unlikeable"

      And I think that's about it.

       

    3. Steel Sponge

      Steel Sponge

      I could actually write an essay on my defense of Rocket Power, so when I feel like doing another think piece post for my blog, I will pretty much, at length, discuss this sudden backlash against RP.

    4. Cha

      Cha

      Otto is the douche, Reggie is the responsible one, Twister is the goof and Squid is the precious soft one. Tito and the dad are good as well in theirown ways. Idk why ppl find the characters bad unless Otto which I understand but lmao.

  5. The fact that we have a large number of guests is still an enigma to me. (437 as of this posting)

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    2. Old Man Jenkins

      Old Man Jenkins

      EVERYONE RUN FOR YOUR LIVES, BOTS ARE TAKING OVER THE WORLD

    3. So Sejima

      So Sejima

      *stares blankly*

    4. Grubby Grouper
  6. Welcome to The Roast of 2010/2011 SBC

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    2. Young Nug

      Young Nug

      there really needs to be an actual 2010-2011 roast thread where a host picks out the "best" stuff and just goes in tbh

    3. So Sejima

      So Sejima

      now time for someone random who was on in that time period to come back in the middle of this :P

    4. crushingmayhem

      crushingmayhem

      I didn't get the trend at first but now I kinda find the whole point behind it.

  7. I'm back from Hollywood.

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    2. Sauce Mama

      Sauce Mama

      Noooo! Too bad I didn't go into the city last week or this weekend. I think we were going to. oh well, next time huh corky? :P

    3. SG19

      SG19

      Welcome back!

    4. ClassicNickelodeon Fan 1
  8. Going on vacation to LA, in which I will be leaving off to today. Bon voyage. I'll post once I come back.

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    2. OWM

      OWM

      Have fun on your trip Steel.!

    3. Steel Sponge

      Steel Sponge

      Apparently, I'm still here for today. But I'll be gone from SBC tomorrow.

    4. Metal Snake

      Metal Snake

      I hope that you have a good time!

  9. I DON'T KNOW ABOUT YOU, BUT I'M FEELING....19.

  10. Song vs. Song vs. Song: "Heavy" (Linkin Park), "Feels Like Summer" (Weezer), "Young and Menace" (Fall Out Boy). a.k.a.: Which comeback single is the most disappointing?

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    2. Cha

      Cha

      quit - ariana ft cashmere cat

      i mean

    3. Katniss

      Katniss

      Actually it's a Cashmere Cat song feat Ari :funny: 

    4. Cha

      Cha

      with ari, everyone is a ft guest :whitney:

  11. We now live in a day and age where people are writing articles all about one single detail from A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving. That detail involves Franklin sitting alone at the right side of the table on a lawn chair and how it can only be established as segregation or isolation and/or Schulz being racist and I can 100% understand why some are mad about this now, and I just noticed this so I don't know if people addressed this as an issue years ago, but it feels iffy to make these accusations without doing prior research on the animators or illustrators who designed that one particular detail, or on Schulz himself.

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    2. Wumbo

      Wumbo

      Like I said, I honestly doubt anyone writing these "articles" are actually morally outraged by Franklin sitting on one side alone in the Thanksgiving special. The reason these articles are written are because they generate controversy (ergo, clicks) out of thin air.

    3. MMM

      MMM

      Yeah. Apparently this started from everyday social media folk, but that doesn’t warrant all these articles about it and such.

    4. Wumbo

      Wumbo

      Most of the stuff I've seen commenting about this was done in a lighthearted way

  12. Status update: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH :) :) :)<a href=http://www.sbcforums.com/forums/public/style_emoticon...

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    2. Old Man Jenkins
    3. Sauce Mama

      Sauce Mama

      Would you say you were Servin' Up Smiles, Mister OMJ? :)

    4. Old Man Jenkins

      Old Man Jenkins

      Ahahahahahaha, your still on my enemies list :)

  13. 33 members online since today. What?

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    2. Steel Sponge
    3. crushingmayhem

      crushingmayhem

      Same question I've been asking myself.

    4. Burgerpants

      Burgerpants

      well you know what most people on the internet are like;

      WE GOT

      NOTHING BETTER TO DO

      THAN WATCH TV

      AND HAVE A COUPLE OF BREWS

  14. Back.

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    2. Space Cowboy
    3. Wumbo

      Wumbo

      Good! Now send me your best SpongeBob episodes list. :P

    4. Hayden

      Hayden

      Put up the new UWS that Jjs wrote :D

  15. Now that Gravity Falls has concluded, I've now got to find another animated series to be a big fan of and keep track with. I should join the "annoying" SU fanbase and become an "annnoying" fan myself.

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    2. Steel Sponge

      Steel Sponge

      Yeah, I was totally joking about the 'annoying' part. If some people are still going to give the SU fanbase the kind of reputation, I can joke around with that.

      Seriously though, I could become a big fan of Steven Universe. But I could give any other show a bigger chance.

    3. WhoBibbles

      WhoBibbles

      You can still watch SU while you can catch up on others. SU is on hiatus anyway and that happened a lot.

    4. Joe Biden

      Joe Biden

      Rick and Morty?

  16. Can someone explain to me what AJR and Theory of a Deadman are doing on the Alt charts and why we're still apparently making both groups a thing?

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    2. Steel Sponge

      Steel Sponge

      AJR was pretty fine at first with "I'm Ready..."

      But then they released one of the worst albums of 2017. It's not as horrifying as Spectrum Pulse suggests, who gave it a 1/10, but it still operates at least at a strong 2/10 for me. The Click is the kind of album that could've had some good potential, but yet it was completely ruined by the way it was executed.

    3. Steel Sponge

      Steel Sponge

      And in case you guys aren't warned, let me recap on some of the tracks on AJR's album.
       

      Spoiler

       

      "Overture" starts off good before proceeding into a chopped and screwed drop. And when it tries to redeem itself with the emotional-sounding portion, it then creates a messy mashup with a few of their other tracks. "Weak" has those horrible pseudo-Beach Boys falsettos in the chorus. "Sober Up," the song currently on the Alt charts, entails the singer telling a girl he hasn't known since recess in second grade to make him sober and has a pick-up line that goes "My favorite color is you." In "Netflix Trip," the singer looks back on the most important times of his life (his first crush, watching his mother grieve his grandfather's death, his eighth grade graduation) and connects them to his experience with watching The Office on Netflix, which happened during all those times. In "I'm Not Famous," the singer flaunts about he has no haters, doesn't get judged so much, and that no one cares about what he does because he's not a celebrity. "Three-Thirty" breaks the fourth wall ("how am I supposed to fit this in 3:30?") and tells its audience that they should listen before they skip the song because the band is only human and they don't stay for long. There's even one line that goes "I thought I had ADHD, but that's a real thing, and I'm just lazy." "The Good Part" is one of the most ironic titles for a song and has the second-most annoying set of falsettos on the album. And "No Grass Today" has a drop that sounds like....well, something in which I can't provide a link to. (TubeChop is not working for me ATM.)

      Really, if you want to indulge in an album with a similar sound, I suggest just sticking to Jon Bellion's The Human Condition. It's not a superb album, but it's definitely polished a lot better than The Click.

       

       

    4. Wumbo

      Wumbo

      use ytcropper my dude

  17. Here's a strange question I have for any other music fan on here. I've been thinking about making a supercut at some later point, so I'd like to know if anyone knows of a song or songs with a chorus that ends at "tonight."

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    2. Wumbo

      Wumbo

      that one starts with "tonight"

      you had one job

    3. Steel Sponge

      Steel Sponge

      I should've also mentioned that I'm also counting songs that have lines containing a similar dialect to examples like "Hey Soul Sister" despite not exactly taking place at the end of the chorus. "We Are Young" has the one part that takes a short pause before it leads to the "tonight" long note and the very last word from the song is, of course, "tonight." (Working title for the supercut is the "...tonight/tonight. Supercut")

      Asking for examples for songs that have a chorus that end at "tonight" is my way of getting things started. For those who are wondering how many examples I've got/found so far, I have 31 including "Hey Soul Sister" and the "We Are Young" near-example, holding on for around 10-20 more. Unless you folks want to be surprised by the final result, I'll be willing to share what I've got for when you guys end at a roadblock.

    4. Wumbo

      Wumbo

      "A Thousand Miles"

  18. For those who are interested to see me on there, I now have an account on RateYourMusic:

    https://rateyourmusic.com/~Steel_Sponge

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    2. President Squidward

      President Squidward

      its a site where you can rate singles, albums from many artists, well known or less known out of 5 stars. you can even rate all of the songs off of an album you listened to. you can also review music and recommend music to friends. its a good site

    3. Rebel the Wolfgirl

      Rebel the Wolfgirl

      fuck it, might create an account

    4. Rebel the Wolfgirl
  19. As a random hot take from me, I'd never image that I would turn a complete 180 towards my feelings on a particular song, but "Riptide" by Vance Joy has become a definite example of a song that I used to really like but I now can't really stand.

    It's not close to my bottom 10 in terms of the year-end hot 100 list for 2015, but the more I delve into the song, I've since felt that it's pretty much "I'm Yours" except on a ukulele and if it tried to be thought-provoking. The one major pitfall that I've had with "Riptide" is that its lyrics mean and suggest absolutely nothing, as well as the mere fact that the song is practically a mish-mash of half-baked songwriting ideas.

    I was easily captivated by the melody, the creative input for its lyrics, and the build-up towards the bridge, but nowadays, I can't feel that same way.

    Also, I wouldn't call it a complete 180, but I'm also willing to admit that my thoughts on "Want U Back" by Cher Lloyd has grown on me since when I've disliked it for quite a long time. i'm sorry

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    2. President Squidward

      President Squidward

      Whos Vance Joy? Wasn't he one of those bland folk bands like Mumford and Sons and Lumineers or something?

    3. Steel Sponge

      Steel Sponge

      ye, but Vance Joy is the stage name for just one guy.

    4. Wumbo

      Wumbo

      Riptide isn't an awful song but everything Vance Joy has released since then has been a lesser version of it

      and Want U Back is still bloody awful we don't need to revisit that one

  20. Welp, I'm gonna be out of town in a while for the day. I'll see you guys on Sunday.

  21. OH LOOKIE! I JOINED THE FAD!

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    2. Clappy

      Clappy

      *puts a blue paw print on Shovel*

    3. So Sejima

      So Sejima

      *makes patty sponge join our fad*

    4. OWM

      OWM

      C'MON! YOU CAN BE PERIWINKLE!

  22. I'm going on vacation starting today in LA. See you guys soon.

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    2. EVSPONGEFAN
    3. President Squidward

      President Squidward

      Beware of the smog! :P (because I was in LA a couple days ago)

    4. Ron

      Ron

      Amazing city, enjoy!

  23. Look at me. I'm a jar of Seahorse Radish.

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    2. Sweat

      Sweat

      Clappy said STEELHORSE radish ;)

    3. Clappy

      Clappy

      Our employee of the month is correct

    4. Steel Sponge

      Steel Sponge

      Now I am properly labeled.

  24. I have a strange feeling that somebody is hacking is into random accounts to increase the members online count. Like, what are the odds of ANY of the banned members except Storm coming back at this occasion?

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    2. Steel Sponge

      Steel Sponge

      I'm not worrying about it. And I know it's not none of you guys. But this still very odd.

    3. Steel Sponge

      Steel Sponge

      *it's not any of you guys.

    4. Jjs Goodman

      Jjs Goodman

      It turns out it may have been an issue with social media log ins (ie Facebook, Twitter, etc.). Basically, it seems like what happened was, if a user logged into facebook, they would login to SBC as well if their account was connected. We've turned it off for now.

      Heh, so yeah....those 256 users were not fairly earned. Let's...just pretend this never happened.

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