You know what really grinds my gears?

[TripleCrown9]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

When two basically similar services don't offer the same content. In this case, MLB.TV and the At-Bat iPhone app. I can pick between maybe 30 classic games to watch on the app, but those games are nowhere to be found on the MLB.TV PS3 app.

[kehlis]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

That's pretty much the definition of a hipster.

Gotta disagree with this.

When I was in college I loved O.A.R. well before they became popular. I saw them in probably dozens of small time college gyms that you would be familiar with such as Elizabethtown, Kutztown, and Bloomsburg (to name a few).

When they became popular though, their music changed from what it was when they first started.

However, I have by no means stopped liking the old music they played that I originally enjoyed, their newer music is just different and not as enticing to me.

[dickey1331]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

I feel like a lot of bands first album is usually their best. At least that's what it seems like to me.

[LionsFanNJ]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

Gotta disagree with this.

When I was in college I loved O.A.R. well before they became popular. I saw them in probably dozens of small time college gyms that you would be familiar with such as Elizabethtown, Kutztown, and Bloomsburg (to name a few).

When they became popular though, their music changed from what it was when they first started.

However, I have by no means stopped liking the old music they played that I originally enjoyed, their newer music is just different and not as enticing to me.

I'm this way with Kings of Leon. I love the catalogue up until because of the Times. I can't stand anything afterwards they went from this southern fried punk band to arena rock imo. Not appealing at all.

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[bigbob]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

Gotta disagree with this.

When I was in college I loved O.A.R. well before they became popular. I saw them in probably dozens of small time college gyms that you would be familiar with such as Elizabethtown, Kutztown, and Bloomsburg (to name a few).

When they became popular though, their music changed from what it was when they first started.

However, I have by no means stopped liking the old music they played that I originally enjoyed, their newer music is just different and not as enticing to me.

Had you stopped liking their old music because they became popular, you'd have been a hipster.. which is exactly what I said it's the definition of being a hipster when someone would stop liking their old stuff when they became popular, just because they became popular.

[Blzer]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

I feel like a lot of bands first album is usually their best. At least that's what it seems like to me.

It depends on the band.

Some have that good and raw: "This is what's been inside of me all along and I wanted to get it out in music form for the first time," and that's just who they were and they hit it perfectly. Later, they will sell out to mainstream radio and do what gets them on FM or iTunes charts more easily, kind of like Lifehouse. Though I'm sure many people don't listen to them, the latest Daughtry album for instance is just... ugh! (though their first album really wasn't that great either)

However, there are some other bands who really find themselves after some time. They learn what the crowd favorites are, they do some touring, they work in the right group members, they test the waters, and they land into a proper molding. For me, Alter Bridge is the exact definition of "getting better with age." Can't wait to see them in concert in less than three weeks, and in anticipation I've been posting every one of their songs chronologically per day on Facebook. Many question who they are, and it eats away at me a little bit inside.

[kehlis]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

Had you stopped liking their old music because they became popular, you'd have been a hipster.. which is exactly what I said it's the definition of being a hipster when someone would stop liking their old stuff when they became popular, just because they became popular.

Oh okay.

I guess I've just never heard the term hipster used with any serious connotation before.

[SuperBowlNachos]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

When people put question marks at the end of sentences that aren't questions.

[shugknight]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

Word Authentication boxes or called CAPTCHA. Some websites make them so complicated to see what the hell you have to type. All I keep doing is hitting next until there is one I can understand. Hate those things!

Here's a trick.. most CAPTCHA's only look at the first word or set of text.

The 2nd word is normally just there for no reason. You can type anything you want for the 2nd word or set of text and it will accept it. You just have to get the 1st set correct.

[jeremym480]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

I'm this way with Kings of Leon. I love the catalogue up until because of the Times. I can't stand anything afterwards they went from this southern fried punk band to arena rock imo. Not appealing at all.

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This was exactly the band I was thinking of when I was reading Kehlis' post.

There was a distinct change in their sound starting with Because of the Times (although I still enjoyed that album), but it was all downhill from there. So much so that I didn't even purchase their last album. I hear the title track and that was enough for me to give it a pass.

Back on topic, it grinds my gears that Youth & Young Manhood is 10+ years old. My how time has flown. It just seems like yesterday I was riding around with the windows down jamming out to Molly's Chamber for the first time.

[SuperBowlNachos]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

Word Authentication boxes or called CAPTCHA. Some websites make them so complicated to see what the hell you have to type. All I keep doing is hitting next until there is one I can understand. Hate those things!

I've come to like those... Only because now they have them where a video has to play first and then it reveals a word (usually an advertisement built in) and I had one yesterday that was a game. There was a vase and you had to drag flowers into the vase while avoiding other items. Like the guy said above you can usually only type the first word

[Rensational14]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

Dark hairs in my bitrthday marks /moles. Struggling everyday to pull em out

[dickey1331]

You know what really grinds my gears?

I've come to like those... Only because now they have them where a video has to play first and then it reveals a word (usually an advertisement built in) and I had one yesterday that was a game. There was a vase and you had to drag flowers into the vase while avoiding other items. Like the guy said above you can usually only type the first word

I saw one where you had a few letters and had to type in the ones that had little circles underneath them. Also saw some that ask you a simple math question like 2+2.

[Majingir]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

On Demand services where you CAN'T fastforward through it.

So when it airs commercials and stuff, you're stuck watching it.

And it's the same commercials all the time, all promoting shows airing on that channel.

[bigbob]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

Waking up 45 minutes after receiving a text that said someone dropped a course I wanted. Damn.