"…and get freaked out by anything over 7"

Yeah, I'm not sure that I can actually believe that assertion from Judkins Major. I'm calling fowl.

What have I done? Gone to Counting Crows concerts, Stars on Ice…nothing really too big.

This is the way that my wife feels about anything past Atari 2600. The first time that she played Super Mario Brothers, she thought to herself "This game is so hard and complicated - if I had a Nintendo, I would never need another game for the rest of my life."

Oh, it was there before you ever played the game. Babies crying is hard-wired by evolution into the most annoying areas of our collective unconscious. And as the comments above imply, there's still a lively debate over whether or not it was wise to take advantage of that in the game.

And I read it as sort of a bold, commanding gesture - "Yah, Yoshi! Devour!". Or a punch to the occiput.

I love those transitional time periods when no one, especially music producers and programmers, is quite sure what "cool" is. You get all sorts of weird music getting major support then. The period right after "grunge" hit was one of those as well. Butthole Surfers getting major airtime? Dinosaur Jr.? Why the…

"The country whined, 'We've gone too far.'" is what I was certain it was. His pronunciation of "can't" was just a little too British for my provincial American ears to parse.

"The primary is ludicrous. You can imagine where it goes from here."

Some good points in this article, but still, I LOVE this game. Wonderfully creative, artistic visuals, great score (man, when you get into the underground, with the glowing flowers and little goblins or whatever carrying lanterns - easily some of the most evocative graphics and music I've ever experienced in a video…

Ayup. Both are way too concerned with authenticity, but adding a moral basis to it the way that some punk purists do really takes it to another level.

I get those all the time. Very often from my mom and much older relatives. And the sad thing is, these artifacts that are supposed to be unique to one particular generation? I often recognize them too - yeah, I remember "records", baby boomers. But I never like and share so as not to encourage folks.

Deafheaven might not be the best part of the metal swamp to dive into if you're just starting out. For folks in your situation, I used to recommend The Map of Metal: http://mapofmetal.com/#/home. Lots of history and all sorts of music - you can start off at the beginning (or even before the beginning) or at one of…

Completely agree. And I note with some amusement and approval that this one word, "bananas", seems to come up a lot when discussing his performances in particular.

Right on. I don't really have much to add to any of these posts; just that both of the Deafheaven reviews on this site (written by different people) seemed to have a weird perspective on black metal. I mean, the idea that black metal hasn't changed since the early 90s Pure Norwegian Black Metal hasn't really been…

Upvoted for Panopticon. Love that guy.

Sorry - I meant better examples than Led Zepplin, Vanilla Fudge, or Blue Cheer. I have no problem whatsoever calling Deafheaven metal, and I completely agree that the presence of not-so-metal parts does not make a band or album or song not-metal.

Some folks (myself included) just find it fun to try and extract that essence of metal that does in fact distinguish it from other kinds of rock. And…yeah, I think there are better "borderline" examples out there.

I come for the CHUGGAs, I stay for the JIGGYJUGGAs!

Sympathy upvote! And you're not pathetic and unreasonable - such folks are out there to meet! College might not be the best place to meet them, but still… Now if only I had some advice to give, but alas.