thebeatdoctor
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thebeatdoctor

Are you f***ing serious, burger scientist? There are two steps to this: buy good meat, and learn how to grill properly. Good Gawd.

While recognizing that a good bit of hip-hop is over-the-top braggadocio (particularly gangsta rap), for a white kid who grew up in rural Pennsylvania, the Golden Age of '90s Hip-Hop really did give me a window into a world I had no clue about for a very long time.

I have a feeling Cersei is probably going to withhold that federal coin in the next Westerosi fiscal year, even if they get the ramps installed in time. Besides, Winterfell is a sanctuary city now that they let Sansa back. =)

The Targaryens who attacked Harrenhal were apparently smart enough to keep their dragons nice and high in the air. Drogon was in a decent bit of trouble when he landed in the middle of the pit to rescue Dany. He was barbecuing dudes left and right, but he was definitely taking a lot of spears and not handling them

Beric slid his hand along his sword to "light" it when he fought The Hound.

BERIC! #TeamDondarrion

Those first two Mobb Deep records are stone-cold classics. The production and the lyrics capture a very specific sound and a very specific time and place in hip-hop music. I could listen to them every day.

I guess what I mean by "soul" is that you can hear the emotion in the way the guitar is being played. Players like Jerry Garcia, Buddy Guy, Steve Kimock, you can almost hear the emotion in their guitar tone. When Buddy Guy plays a solo in a song about missing his woman, he's able to make me believe his guitar is

SRV is very adherent to the ingrained structure and solo showmanship of blues music, no doubt. But I'd put him a level above the "we play da blues" guys like Joe Bonamassa and SRV's brother Jimmie. I'm a much bigger fan of bands that use solos as an entry point into band-wide jamming, but there are definitely times

I am a huge fan as well. He does, however, occasionally toe a fine line between inspired soloing and the cram-all-the-notes-in stylings of shredders like Satriani and Vai.

I think it would be much more interesting to use Springsteen's songs (and the characters that inhabit them) as the jumping-off point for a musical about working-class America.

Kill Bill definitely gets the style points, but for my money, Ong Bak is one of the greatest, bone-crunchin'est martial arts movies ever made. A lot of kung fu movies emphasize the "swish'n'swop" sound effects of the fights — Ong Bak's sound effects detail just how badly muay thai moves will f*** you up.

Eric Clapton is technically proficient but, for my money, lacks any kind of soul in his guitar playing. I do love me some Stevie Ray, but I'll agree that he had a tendency to cram a few too many notes in at times. Hendrix, though, was a singular talent that did things on a guitar I've never heard anyone else even

Thanks, Skip Bayless. #HotTakeAlert

#GunsOfBrixton4Life

There's even less of a challenge there. Both of those records tower over Pet Sounds IMO.

BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA no.

I feel about Pet Sounds the way Gwen Inhat feels about Sgt. Pepper. I won't call it lame, but it just does nothing for me. Pet Sounds is like 13 versions of the same song done at slightly varying tempos.

Well, okay except YOUR TEAM ACTUALLY PACKED THEIR SHIT AND LEFT TOWN. The Browns' record against Pittsburgh since 2000 is 35-5. How long do they have to get the hell beat out of them before it's not a rivalry anymore?

A lot of things from the 80s are culturally insensitive and sexist 30 years on. The "weird foreign foods for dinner" scene is a little cringeworthy, but the Thuggees are an exaggerated take on the actual Indian cult, using the fictional conceit that when India's colonial rulers tried to wipe the Thuggee out in the