I agree. RSG must be in kill mode today.

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Originally posted by goathouse's seminal post:
I agree. RSG must be in kill mode today.

It was the wording of "you metacritic types". It has an inherently bad connotation to it. I may have taken it differently, but you have to admit that it's easy to take it that way.

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Originally posted by Fall Of Troy:

He merely said that he's known this band for a while and he thanked us for giving an unknown band some exposure. I thought it was a classy first post. Keep it up c-bear!

Oh, I wasn't dismissing his recognition of the band at all. It's bands like these that need to not be so unknown.

To C-Bear (I guess that's what we call you now, haha): I apologize for my cyanide flavoured assault, but as someone who has been educated to see the connotation in words, (Thanks, Writer's Craft) I will politely ask you to carefully word your posts. I say this because I did the same as you, and got what I gave you; an undeserved e-attack based on the simple misunderstanding on the connotation and tone of your statement.

DON'T YOU SEE HOW MUCH TEXT WE'VE WASTED ON THIS LAME ISSUE?

If you wish to see tangents at work, C-Bear, take a look at one of the Pitchfork threads to wish I caused a chocolate related tangent. It was amusing.

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I suppose. I usually kill people on site when they do shit like that too, but it didn't come off snide to me at all.

I apologize if I gave the wrong impression, but I certainly wasn't trying to be dismissive of anybody. I just meant it as a kind of "you guys", that's all.

And trust me, I'm like about five steps away from being the most utterly unhip person in the world. It ain't an "I'm cooler than you all because I'd heard of these guys three years ago" thing. Very much the opposite, actually: it amazes me, in an "but I'm usually so far off on my own little wacko planet!" kind of way, that a band I've heard of is breaking out all of a sudden.

Bottom line, I'm not a pompous hipster -- I'm much more of a self-deprecating goofball. If that clarifies anything, anyway.

Goofballs are celebrated in the province of Metacritic forums.

I think what might be happening here is that this music forum has gathered the RAA (as we call them) under it's wing as our own child. We get defensive if someone start saying they are really adopted.

RAA is ours. They can only truely be yours as well if you join us.

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Originally posted by Shadrach:


RAA is ours. They can only truely be yours as well if you join us.

*Whiny Luke Skywalker voice* I'll never join you!

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Originally posted by youandwhosearmy:

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Originally posted by Shadrach:


RAA is ours. They can only truely be yours as well if you join us.

*Whiny Luke Skywalker voice* I'll never join you!

*Darth Vader voice* It is your DESTINY!

We should email the RAA and tell them we are assuming command of their band

It will now be called the CRAA (Communist Republic of Alberta Advantage).

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Originally posted by craigbear:
I may be one of the five people in North America (okay, eight if we include the band themselves) who were actually familiar with these guys before you metacritic types hyped them up. I live about a block away from one of the bars they used to play when they were just getting started (well, okay, it's a donut shop now, but it was a bar at the time.)

Just wanted to thank you for giving a deserving band a hand!

Does this mean our thread is showing up in Google searches of the Rural Alberta Advantage?

Yes, indeed! A Third-Page Result

Boo-yah we're beating wikipedia.

the more exposure RAA gets, the better. This is a fantastic album that I could easily have ignored if this board hadn't sold it so much.

I'm not sure if it has a lasting appeal like NMH does - really, what could? - but wow, if this hasn't knocked me on my ass. I really love it, and I really wasn't expecting to.

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Originally posted by RavingLunatic:
Yes, indeed! A Third-Page Result

Not only that - this blog entry links to this thread:

Eyeweekly article

Very cool!

Wow, that is awesome.

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Originally posted by RavingLunatic:
Yes, indeed! A Third-Page Result

We are movin' up in the world: We are now second page!

I don't know how to do one of those cool screen shots, so you'll have to take my word for it.

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Originally posted by thefanste:
We should email the RAA and tell them we are assuming command of their band

I just got done e-mailing the band and giving them a link to this thread. Let's see if they reply.

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Originally posted by The Fall of Troy:

I don't know how to do one of those cool screen shots, so you'll have to take my word for it.

Neither did RL. Check his screen shot. He just googled it right before taking the shot. I bet if you copy his search word for word you will find out how to do it.

ctrl-alt-print screen, then paste it in the image editor of your choice.