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a) jimandtonic
b) Jim
c) 28
d) Male
e) Longmont, CO USA
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1) Name three shared albums (+192kbps only) that others have successfully downloaded from you on OiNK or other trackers:
Flogging Molly – Alive Behind The Green Door – FLAC (log)
They Might Be Giants – Then – FLAC (log)
Various Artists – Rushmore Soundtrack – V0
2a) Explain what a ratio is in three or four sentences.
A ratio is a way to track a user’s contribution to a site. There are two factors to a ratio, the amount of data uploaded, and the amount of data downloaded. A ratio is calculated by dividing the amount uploaded by the amount downloaded. For example if a user has uploaded 160 GB, and downloaded 30 GB his ratio would be 5.33.
2b) If you were a member of OiNK, tell us what your ratio was at the time of its closing. (be honest!)
My ratio at the time of closing was 5.8.
3) Briefly summarize the influence of African American culture on Western popular music (answer in paragraph format, eight sentence minimum).
African American culture has a long influence on Western Popular music. The most notable influence began in the 1950s with the advent of Rock and Roll, and escalated with the rise in popularity of Elvis Presley. Elvis was heavily influenced by the blues sound, and mixed “white” music and “black” music. Elvis’ popularity continued to rise in the 1960s, as did the influence of African American music. The 1960s also saw the rise of Motown, which began as a record label owned by an African American releasing music created by African Americans. Artists such as the Supremes, found crossover success and were embraced by American pop culture. Many bands similar to the Supremes also found success and influence. This is really just the beginning; the most recent influence is in the form of hip hop. Hip hop began on the streets of New York in the 1970s. A prime example of its influence and acceptance by Western popular music is the rap category in the grammy awards.

4a) What (in order) are the 5 best releases from the last 12 months?
1) Modest Mouse – We were dead before the ship even sank
2) The Shins – Wincing the night Away
3) Lily Allen – Alright, Still
4) Minus the Bear - Planet of Ice
5) Fountains of Wayne – Traffic and Weather

4b) What (in order) are the 5 best releases from the year you were born?
1) Neil Young & Crazy Horse – Rust Never Sleeps
2) The Specials – The Specials
3) Bob Marley and The Wailers – Survival
4) Van Halen – Van Halen II
5) The Who - Quadrophenia
5) What is the most unjust pitchfork numerical rating? Why? (five sentence minimum).
The most unjust pitchfork numerical rating was the official release of Fiona Apple’s Exrtraordinary Machine. A release of the album produced by John Brion was leaked onto the internet, many thought this was a great release, the record company disagreed, and changes were made. The John Brion release received a rating of 7.8 whereas the official release received a 6.2. I believe this to be the perfect example of pitchfork rating an album based on factors outside of the realm of the music itself. At the time it was sort of cool to dislike the official release. I listened to both versions, and personally thought the official was just as good as, if not better than the leaked version. This is just one of many examples of situations just like this.
6) You are stranded on a desert island. Choose one artist's music: Morrissey, Moby, or Momus? Why? (six sentence minimum).
I would have to choose Morrissey. His music has always been consistently high quality. The smiths are one of my favorite bands from the 80s. His lyrics, while sometimes depressing, can be quite witty, and entertaining. Plus, his social commentary is spot on: “America Is Not The World”. Moby’s music is tolerable, but I think I would go insane after a while, because it would all sound the same after a while. I’m not sure who Momus is, and while I enjoy discovering new music, I would not want it for a desert island.

7) BONUS REQUIREMENT: Please post a picture of yourself. (HINT: do this.)

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srsly if any1 has wfflz invits - omg since oinks been gone...

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sibce u been gone (omg srslyonik) i canna breaaath....

(@dead1) Want invite? Take a picture of yourself holding a sign saying “waffles.fm > what.cd” and email to waff✧✧✧.ad✧✧✧@gm✧✧✧.c✧✧(better hurry… DEAD FUCKING SERIOUS)
(~shinikaru) Or a picutre of your computers ddossing what.cd

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a) binaryan
b) ryan
c) 24
d) male
e) washington, dc
f) see 7)

1) Name three shared albums (+192kbps only) that others have successfully downloaded from you on OiNK or other trackers
What It Is! Funky Soul & Rare Grooves (~320kbps VBR MP3)
The Gun Club - S/T (~320kbps VBR MP3)
20th Century Steel Band - Warm Heart Cold Steel (WAV vinyl rip)

2a) Explain what a ratio is in three or four sentences.
A ratio is the amount of data uploaded, divided by the amount of data downloaded. A ratio is how you make sure that deadbeats aren't leeching without contributing. A ratio doesn't need a three sentence explanation.

3) Briefly summarize the influence of African American culture on Western popular music.
Black people created the Blues. The Blues met Country and begat R&B. R&B begat Rock & Roll. The Blues begat Gospel. Gospel begat Soul. Soul begat Funk and Reggae. Reggae begat Hip-Hop. Hip-Hop begat Rap.

4a) What (in order) are the 5 best releases from the last 12 months?
5. Antelope - Reflector
4. Battles - Mirrored
3. Dirty Projectors - Rise Above
2. MIA - Kala
1. Panda Bear - Person Pitch

4b) What (in order) are the 5 best releases from the year you were born?
5. Violent Femmes - S/T
4. Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five - The Message
3. The Clash - Combat Rock
2. Bad Brains - S/T
1. Michael Jackson - Thriller

5) What is the most unjust pitchfork numerical rating? Why?
I don't read that shit.

6) You are stranded on a desert island. Choose one artist's music: Morrissey, Moby, or Momus? Why?
I choose Morrissey, because who better to feel sorry for yourself with, stranded on a desert island as you are, than Mr. Nosebleeds himself. Robert Smith, that's who, but he wasn't one of the options. Moby is like the worst shit I never listened to in high school so I wouldn't start now. Momus is alright but Josef K was better. I could be consoled in my miserable fate if I had The Queen is Dead. Mother, I can feel the soil falling over my head.

7) BONUS REQUIREMENT: Please post a picture of yourself.
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1118/582051885_735c82172e.jpg

kewl dredz 8)

yeah i actually cut those off like nine months ago but i don't have any more recent pics

do u save them? it might be intersting to go to someone's house and see a jar of dreadlocks on the mantle above their fireplace ;)

in junior high my friend had a mildly retarded brother who had to save his sperm for some reason and we'd always lol about petey's jar of cum. kind of the same idea.

jimandtonic APPROVED
binaryan APPROVED

hey admin, thanks! i just realized the webmail address tied to my ilxor is dead (from an old job). can i get the invite sent to ryanoceros at gmail instead? thanks much!

oh and lingbert i did save them. they're in a trash bag under my bed somewhere. kinda freaky. i was gonna take them to a party and throw them at people i don't like, but then this old rasta guy told me to NEVER LET ANYONE have my dreads, because then they'd have power of me, samson and delilah style. i think he smoked more crack than weed but the idea caught my fancy anyway.

ryanoceros ;)

binaryan APPROVED at new email address

Hip-Hop begat Rap.

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a) faso
b) Jason
c) 23
d) M
e) Shenendoah Valley, VA
f) http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e220/underlit/loo.gif

1) Name three shared albums (+192kbps only) that others have successfully downloaded from you on OiNK or other trackers
Ovuca - Onclements (700 mb flac)
Luke Eargoggle - This Town Stinks EP
Tomas Jirku - We Call Them Acids

2a) Explain what a ratio is in three or four sentences.
This is the ratio of recieved data routed through the tracker over the amount sent.

2b)If you were a member of OiNK, tell us what your ratio was at the time of its closing. (be honest!)
0.84 and rising. I spent hours responding to requests to get power user+ status from a 0.71 ratio in the week before they were shut down!

3) Briefly summarize the influence of African American culture on Western popular music (answer in paragraph format, eight sentence minimum).
Its not hard to see these days, with hip hop being the style of the masses in this neck of the woods. Most people do not realize that techno has African American roots (even though they are suburban roots). The 'big three' in Detroit turned Kraftwerk into the format that inspired many. Chuck did the same for rock and roll. Kingston music ossified itself into dub, reggae, etc. These styles made their way to Brixton where they had a massive amount of influence on British music. Even earlier than that, the northern soul movement was inspired by rare recordings of primarily black soul and proto-funk from America. Jazz was raised in Harlem, a predominantly black area on the island of Manhattan. Even classical music was heavily affected by the adaptation of African polyrhythms by composers like Reich. Disco began primarily as a homosexual African American phenomenon centered in the Lower East Side of Manhattan. That is where and when the modern DJ first existed (I don't believe that Jamaican DJs worked in the same format at all). I know Grasso wasn't black, but this is about culture and not individuals, right?

4a) What (in order) are the 5 best releases from the last 12 months?
False - 2007
Gaiser - Eye Contact
Pram - The Moving Frontier
Shape of Broad Minds - Craft of the Lost Art
Onur Ozer - Red Cabaret

4b) What (in order) are the 5 best releases from the year you were born?
Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
Scientist - Rids the World of the Evil Curse of the Vampires
Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 2
The Other People Place - Lifestyles of the Laptop Cafe
Burial - Burial

5) What is the most unjust pitchfork numerical rating? Why? (five sentence minimum).
Vladislav Delay - Demon Tracks (2.5 stars)
This is still one of the most original ambient albums I have ever heard. It sounds like someone in their artistic prime. It must have taken forever and yet it sounds fresh as if it was improvised. It is a natural progression from his earlier work, yet it was incredibly surprising on the first listens. And to cap it off, he made this incredible and extremely 'trippy' album after going sober.

6) You are stranded on a desert island. Choose one artist's music: Morrissey, Moby, or Momus? Why? (six sentence minimum).
I'd have to go along with Morrisey. I didn't get into the Smiths early enough to keep up with his fans and the bands they got into. Maybe that is why I don't understand a lot of modern indie rock. It didn't choose him because I would rather listen to his music (which I would). Its not because he looks good in a blouse. Its because I'm not getting laid ever again and I want Morrisey to make me feel okay about that.

7) BONUS REQUIREMENT: Please post a picture of yourself. (HINT: do this.)
http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e220/underlit/rundmcjason.jpg

What (in order) are the 5 best releases from the year you were born?

Burial - Burial

you were born last year? from your other answers it sure seems like it.

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ouch. so much for community.

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Jazz was raised in Harlem

And rock was raised in Burkina Faso

Yes! Appoved. here is my email thebestyoueverhad at gmail.com

Email sent. Welcome to the community!

Hmmm. Not seeing it, i even checked my spam. Maybe it takes a while. Perhaps you can try and resend it? I would greatly appreciate it. I miss being part of a community.

a) requested username
heywood

b) first name (no surnames)
mike

c) age
34

d) gender
m

e) geographic location
bay area, US

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1) Name three shared albums (+192kbps only) that others have successfully downloaded from you on OiNK or other trackers
Visioneers - Dirty Old Hip Hop
Cappuccino - Cappuccino
Burial - Burial

2a) Explain what a ratio is in three or four sentences.
it's the amount of data you've uploaded vs. downloaded. if you've uploaded an equal amount as you've downloaded, you've got a 1-to-1 ratio, usually represented as 1.0. the ratio is used on private trackers to keep people sharing like they should be.

2b)If you were a member of OiNK, tell us what your ratio was at the time of its closing. (be honest!)
it was around 0.95 - i had it up to 2.0 but was being sandvine'd towards the end.

3) Briefly summarize the influence of African American culture on Western popular music (answer in paragraph format, eight sentence minimum). Western culture simply wouldn't be the same, worldwide, if not for Af-Am culture. The Blues influenced the biggest rock & roll groups of the century. Jazz and Soul had a major impact on Jamaican culture which in turn influenced the whole of global culture through DJ'ing, & studio techniques pioneered there. Those transplanted Jamaicans in NYC went on to invent Hip Hop - an indirect way Black American culture came full circle. Chicago House and Detroit Techno - both black and in many cases gay music - spawned a global dance culture via the UK. Don't forget dancing - from the 30's jazz era through yesterday black americans have been inventing new moves on the dancefloor, whether the Jitterbug or the Aunt Jackie. Ditto for slang - much of what's cool to say comes from Af-Am culture -- including the word "cool" itself. Would we have a worldwide radio culture, with constant access to new music, if the clamoring for new music coming out of American ghettos wasn't at a fever pitch in the 50's? Black culture = American culture = Earth culture.

4a) What (in order) are the 5 best releases from the last 12 months?
Studio - West Coast
Prins Thomas presents Cosmo Galactic Prism
Lindstrom & Prins Thomas - Reinterpretations
Sorcerer - White Magic
Gui Boratto - Chromophobia

4b) What (in order) are the 5 best releases from the year you were born?
Stevie Wonder - Innervisions
Can - Ege Bam Yasi
Neu! 2
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Roxy Music - For Your Pleasure

5) What is the most unjust pitchfork numerical rating? Why? (five sentence minimum). who cares about pitchfork ratings? if everyone cared about what pitchfork thought about anything, p2p sites would be as homogeneous as radio (US radio at least). I don't read it enough to know or care, frankly.

6) You are stranded on a desert island. Choose one artist's music: Morrissey, Moby, or Momus? Why? (six sentence minimum). Morrissey, come on. Being stranded with Moby's music would mean that although you'd have "Go" and "Next is the E", you're also stuck with the rest of his completely inoffensive and shit-boring catalogue, so no, thanks. Momus? really? seriously? i'm supposed to compare Morrissey to Momus? Not worth the pixels. With Morrissey you get not just great tunes but insightful lyrics to think about while you spend your day cracking open coconuts and killing lizards to eat. I'm not the biggest fan of his but i do own a lot of his work and find it inspiring on at least a music level.

7) BONUS REQUIREMENT: Please post a picture of yourself. (HINT: do this.)
http://b1.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/00694/15/20/694760251_m.jpg

a) Popture
b) Anthony
c) 22
d) Male
e) Brisbane, Australia.
f) http://popturemagazine.com/files/scribbish_logo.jpg

1) Name three shared albums (+192kbps only) that others have successfully downloaded from you on OiNK or other trackers
1. Larry Levan's Classic West End Records Remixes (Made Famous At The Legendary Paradise Garage)
2. Busy P - Rainbow Man
3. VA - Shaolin Soul Vol 1 and Vol 2.

2a) Explain what a ratio is in three or four sentences.
The ratio is a metric of the amount shared compared to the amount downloaded. It is used to ensure speed and fairness for all.

2b)If you were a member of OiNK, tell us what your ratio was at the time of its closing. (be honest!)
Around 0.6 but that was with hundreds of gigs uploaded. I had never been ratio warned and I uploaded releases. My username was 'spacemonkey'.

3) Briefly summarize the influence of African American culture on Western popular music (answer in paragraph format, eight sentence minimum).

Difficult question. There is the argument that the origins of Jazz started from the call and response signing of African American slaves. Certainly Jazz is the first original American art form and was for the most part African American. The blues launched a thousand white rock careers. The backbeat. Motown (regardless that members of the Funk Brothers were white) which remains the best pop music ever performed. I have a huge fondness for African American music. I wrote a profile of ‘Chic’ here http://popturemagazine.com/node/16.

4a) What (in order) are the 5 best releases from the last 12 months?
LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
Ricardo Villalobos Fabric 36
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Studio - West Coast
Panda Bear - Person Pitch

4b) What (in order) are the 5 best releases from the year you were born?
Prince - Purple Rain
Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense
Minute Men - Double Nickels on the Dime
Cocteau Twins - Treasure
R.E.M. - Reckoning

5) What is the most unjust pitchfork numerical rating? Why? (five sentence minimum).
I don’t pay attention to the ratings so I can’t think of a historical injustice. But recently, Muscles 'Guns Babes Lemonade' Rating: 8.3. These are local kids that I have seen many times and are cookie cutter Modular Records trash. Pitchfork hailed them as the final synthesis of dance music with heartfelt songs. I’d rather we went back to listening to Cut Copy, who’s new stuff sounds a lot like early nineties New Order.
6) You are stranded on a desert island. Choose one artist's music: Morrissey, Moby, or Momus? Why? (six sentence minimum).
I’d choose Morrissey. Each year far too many people listen to alone in their bedrooms. My bedroom would be a desert island. I also like the idea of giving Morrissey some sunlight. When I got bored –which would be quickly- I’d fashion instruments from coconuts and do Lionel Richie covers.
7) BONUS REQUIREMENT: Please post a picture of yourself. (HINT: do this.)
http://img152.imageshack.us/img152/3238/mefn3.jpg
(T-shirt is an old grateful dead copy that says ‘god is sound’)

kool

cut copy is fucking balls dude.

!!!!BUT NICE SHOES!!!!

jk

oh battags aren't you a regular?

hey, i think you might like the waffles community page on last.fm, check it out

'Hearts on Fire' is a fantastic song. And there new stuff is shaping up nicely. They've been tucked away with the DFA kids. Ta.

a regular what?

regular jagoff?

Popture, BATTAGS, your invites are in the mail

where'd you send it? it needs to go to
another dimension at g mail dot com

thanks!

and while i *am* a regular jagoff, i still am unclear as to what lingbert was referring to...

i was referring to the waffles community page on last.fm

BATTAGS i sent you an invite via usps (safer)

Popture, do u frequent R1c's B4r? u look liek u doo lulz.

so i failed the test, then? gotcha.

Lingbert did u get my email

not yet. when did you send it?

Ya, sometimes Walter. I'm Djing there Saturday.

he will hand you an invite then

a) miggs210
b) Clark
c) 28 years old
d) male
e) NY, USA
f) no desired avatar

1) Name three shared albums (+192kbps only) that others have successfully downloaded from you on OiNK or other trackers
- Nada Surf - The Proximity Effect
- Danny Elfman - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory S/T
- Blind Melon - Goodfoot

2a) Explain what a ratio is in three or four sentences.

- A ratio represents the value of a user's contributions. For example, if you upload twice as many files as you download, your ratio would be 2.0. This is to ensure that members are sharing their music, thereby contributing it to other users.

2b)If you were a member of OiNK, tell us what your ratio was at the time of its closing. (be honest!)

I was, and my ratio hovered around 2.550 for the last 6 months of OiNK's existence.

3) Briefly summarize the influence of African American culture on Western popular music (answer in paragraph format, eight sentence minimum).

Simply put, Western popular music would not exist as we know it without the African American culture. Looking backward, the R&B sound that we are so familiar with was born out of the jazz and blues of the early 20th century. These types of music were born from the slave songs of the nineteenth century and before. As far as rock music, all of the most influential pop bands of the twentieth century used elements of the R&B, specifically the "Motown" sound. Artists like Elvis Presley, The Beatles, Paul Simon, and countless others have embraced Motowns influence by covering tunes from the genre during their live shows and on their albums. In turn, the widespread airplay these bands received as a result of radio and other media helped them spread the influence of African American culture. It is nearly assured that every musician playing today is influenced in one way or another by this culture.

4a) What (in order) are the 5 best releases from the last 12 months?
1. Iron and Wine - The Shepherds Dog
2. Dinosaur Jr. - Beyond
3. Radiohead - In Rainbows
4. The White Stripes - Icky Thump
5. Mavis Staples - Well Never Turn Back

4b) What (in order) are the 5 best releases from the year you were born?

1979
1. Pink Floyd - The Wall
2. The Police - Regatta de Blanc
3. Neil Young - Rust Never Sleeps
4. Talking Heads - Fear of Music
5. The Clash - London Calling

5) What is the most unjust pitchfork numerical rating? Why? (five sentence minimum).

No idea.

6) You are stranded on a desert island. Choose one artist's music: Morrissey, Moby, or Momus? Why? (six sentence minimum).

I would choose Moby. This seems to be the logical choice because of the time factor. Not that he necessarily has the largest catalog of music, but because its a trip to dissect his tunes. Its impossible to get sick of those complex rhythms and grooves! Hes a diverse artist that can peak my interest at any time, no boredom there.

7) BONUS REQUIREMENT: Please post a picture of yourself. (HINT: do this.)

http://www.flashgutter.com/thumbs/144.jpg

f) no desired avatar

WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT?

a) Wicky2008
b) David
c) 18
d) Male
e) Chicago, IL
f) no desired avatar

1)
Nu Flavor - Nu Flavor
Death Cab For Cutie - Narrow Stairs
They Might Be Giants - Dial-A-Song: 20 Years of They Might Be Giants

2a) A ratio is the amount of data uploaded divided by the amount downloaded. The general idea of private trackers is to make sure people upload as much (hopefully more) than they download. So the idea is to keep your ratio as high as possible by contributing back to the community.

2b)1.30-ish? It was a while ago...

3) African American music influenced pop culture since the rise of blues and jazz, which began going mainstream around the time of the Harlem Renaissance, when the music was finally allowed to mature. Throughout the early nineteenth century these genres as well as r&b and soul grew to greater and greater mainstream popularity. As son as rock & roll was born African American artists like Bo Diddley, Little Richard, and Chuck Berry were on the scene and rose to incredible popularity. In the 60s black women like Aretha Franklin began rising to fame. Then Jimi Hendrix one of the greatest guitar players of all time came and merged the blues, funk, and psychedelic into a string of hits and widespread popularity. With his original take on distortion and wild antics he secured his name legendary status. In the 70's Sly & the Family Stone continued to the funk rock tradition until Michael Jackson Prince, and others changed the path African American music towards its current position. With their pop-dance routines they spawned a massive following. Meanwhile Run-D.M.C. and others brought rap to the mainstream and both these genres have held their popualrity to the present day.

4a)
The Virgins - The Virgins
Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks - Real Emotional Trash
The Rascals - Rascalize
Bryan Scary & The Shredding Tears - Flight of the Knife

4b)
The La's - The La's
Happy Mondays - Pills 'N' Thrills
The Replacements - All Shook Down
Guided By Voices - Same Place the Fly Got Smashed
The Field Mice - Skywriting

5) http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/15658-brian-jonestown-massacre-bravery-repetition-and-noise
Brian Jonestown Massacre - Bravery, Repetition and Noise
First off this is not BJM's best album by any standards. But it is good! And for some reason the reviewer just happens to dislike BJM. This is not a reason to bash the album! If 60's revival isn't your thing then send someone who likes it to review it! I see this all the time on pitchfork, someone who hated the band going into to the review and has preconceived notions about how bad they are. But it at least deserves a 7 from an objective standpoint AKA my friend who neither knows nor cares about garage rock. I rest my case.

6) Morrissey for sure. I have a soft spot for Morrissey, possibly because i grew up listening to the Smiths... But despite that and what anybody says I actually find Irish Blood, English Heart to be a good song. Moby however is just not my thing and his most redeemable value (to me) seems to come when he does movie soundtracks. If he would just stick to that I would commend him because they usually fit very nicely. Otherwise nothing for me. As for Momus, he just kinda scares me. I think its his voice but i just can't finger it. His songs are kind of like if Jack Johnson was a pedophile with an unrequited love for synthesizer.

7) http://i326.photobucket.com/albums/k440/1bugmenot1/mesmile.jpg

I'll mail you this too... I'm doubt your even doing this but at this point I'll do pretty much anything to get onto waffles...

thanking u wicky2008 ur invite is in the mail

I'm a little bit worried, I've got a feeling Wicky2008 c+p'd answer #3.

...good pictho

b) Graham
c) 21
d) Male
e) Boston
f) http://img50.imageshack.us/img50/3433/fdrcg0.th.jpg

1)
-Various Artists - Cold Heat: Heavy Funk Rarities 1968-1974, Vol. 1
-Spank Rock - Fabriclive.33
-Various Artists - Verve Unmixed, Vol. 3

2a)
A ratio is the amount of data you've downloaded as compared with your upload. It can be thought of as an actual ratio (i.e., 236:100) or a decimal percentage (i.e. 2.36).

2b)
My ratio never got higher than .57, unfortunately. In my defense, this was after only 3 months of membership before OiNK's demise.

3)
Oddly enough, most of what are considered the only natively 'American' musical genres originated out of black folk music. These would be Jazz and Blues. Both have of course developed and spawned numerous subgenres in the meantime. Jazz created Funk, Fusion, Soul, and R&B. These in turn created Hip-Hop, Rap, and the like. The Blues led immediately to Rock n' Roll, and from there, virtually the entire canon of western popular music. Outside of the United States,

4a) What (in order) are the 5 best releases from the last 12 months?
1. Craze - Fabriclive.38
2. Diplo - I Like Turtles
3. M.I.A. - Kala
The Apples - Buzzin' Around
4. Kanye West - Graduation
5.

4b) What (in order) are the 5 best releases from the year you were born?
1. Michael Jackson - Bad
2. Eric B. and Rakim - Paid in Full
3. R.E.M. - Document
4. Ice T - Rhyme Pays
5. U2 - The Joshua Tree

5) Um, all of them? I mean, seriously. Have you ever read more pretentious reviews in your life? Not that I like Steve Aoki or anything, but they trashed his album in order to shame an entire genre. There are many reasons to not read pitchfork reviews. I would trust AllMusic over them, even.

6) Probably Moby. I figure that I'm going to have to listen to something on repeat for the rest of my life, so why not listen to the album that already sounds like it's on repeat? Plus, if nothing else, maybe it will catalyze me into killing mysellf that much sooner.

7) http://img246.imageshack.us/img246/3363/apokalypsissd1.th.jpg

If anyone's still out there...

Wow, that was messier than I thought. Clearly, the numbering should be:

4. The Apples - Buzzin' Around
5. Kanye West - Graduation

And the last bit of my dissertation on the African-American contribution to western music should have read: "Outside of the United States, the influence is almost greater. The cross-Atlantic back-and-forth of rock music, particularly between 1950 and 1973, was shaped largely by the African-American tradition. Simply, the western canon as we know would not exist without the contributions, influences, and founding from pioneer African-Americans."

What's wrong with the other wafl thread?

a) Snpteen
b) Alex
c) 23
d) Male
e) CA, US
f) http://popturemagazine.com/files/scribbish_logo.jpg

1) Name three shared albums (+192kbps only) that others have successfully downloaded from you on OiNK or other trackers
1. Larry Levan's Classic West End Records Remixes (Made Famous At The Legendary Paradise Garage)
2. Busy P - Rainbow Man
3. VA - Shaolin Soul Vol 1 and Vol 2.

2a) Explain what a ratio is in three or four sentences.
The ratio is a metric of the amount shared compared to the amount downloaded. It is used to ensure speed and fairness for all.

2b)If you were a member of OiNK, tell us what your ratio was at the time of its closing. (be honest!)
Around 0.6 but that was with hundreds of gigs uploaded. I had never been ratio warned and I uploaded releases. My username was 'spacemonkey'.

3) Briefly summarize the influence of African American culture on Western popular music (answer in paragraph format, eight sentence minimum).

Difficult question. There is the argument that the origins of Jazz started from the call and response signing of African American slaves. Certainly Jazz is the first original American art form and was for the most part African American. The blues launched a thousand white rock careers. The backbeat. Motown (regardless that members of the Funk Brothers were white) which remains the best pop music ever performed. I have a huge fondness for African American music. I wrote a profile of ‘Chic’ here http://popturemagazine.com/node/16.

4a) What (in order) are the 5 best releases from the last 12 months?
LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
Ricardo Villalobos Fabric 36
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Studio - West Coast
Panda Bear - Person Pitch

4b) What (in order) are the 5 best releases from the year you were born?
Prince - Purple Rain
Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense
Minute Men - Double Nickels on the Dime
Cocteau Twins - Treasure
R.E.M. - Reckoning

5) What is the most unjust pitchfork numerical rating? Why? (five sentence minimum).
I don’t pay attention to the ratings so I can’t think of a historical injustice. But recently, Muscles 'Guns Babes Lemonade' Rating: 8.3. These are local kids that I have seen many times and are cookie cutter Modular Records trash. Pitchfork hailed them as the final synthesis of dance music with heartfelt songs. I’d rather we went back to listening to Cut Copy, who’s new stuff sounds a lot like early nineties New Order.
6) You are stranded on a desert island. Choose one artist's music: Morrissey, Moby, or Momus? Why? (six sentence minimum).
I’d choose Morrissey. Each year far too many people listen to alone in their bedrooms. My bedroom would be a desert island. I also like the idea of giving Morrissey some sunlight. When I got bored –which would be quickly- I’d fashion instruments from coconuts and do Lionel Richie covers.
7.)
http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c399/accmaseedbun/DSC00004.jpg

By the way, my email is:
s n p t e e n @ y a h o o . c o m

Difficult question. There is the argument that the origins of Jazz started from the call and response signing of African American slaves. Certainly Jazz is the first original American art form and was for the most part African American. The blues launched a thousand white rock careers.

DEEEP.check webmail bro, I think u'll be rather impressssst :D:D:D:D:D

.......ie welcome to the community

thanks wiltski WE ARE SPREAKDING LOVE HERE

libcrypt, which other one? The one where we all just ask politely?

a) Tesseract
b) Conrad
c) 26
d) Male
e) California, US
f) None.

1) Name three shared albums (+192kbps only) that others have successfully downloaded from you on OiNK or other trackers
1. The Firebird Suite
2. DJ Josh Vickers - Squarbian
3. Mozart - Requiem

2a) Explain what a ratio is in three or four sentences.
A ratio is a value changed over time to inform a person of how much they are downloading and uploading. This is used for many private and public trackers to monitor users who do not seed files as much as they download. This way, removing those users keeps the tracker's torrents healthy with raw contributors who download and seed if their ratio is acceptable. Generally, it is always good to keep a ratio over 1:1.

3) Briefly summarize the influence of African American culture on Western popular music (answer in paragraph format, eight sentence minimum).
In the early 1950's, African American music had emerged in America featuring the unique rhythms and beats used in the jazz era. Along with those rhythms, the blues jazz style soon caught its popularity among many throughout the Americas and influences the emotions and events of the time through music. The chord structure and grooves of this new age had impacted the clique of big band to a new alternative. The musicality and stylistic features of the blues through complex time signatures and melodies would always leave its mark in music history through the events and times it captured. Soon the blues would branch on to soul music, greatly used in the churches for gospel, and continues today. Over time, the melodic and dark, melancholy-filled tones of the blues age and its rhythmic sincerity would live on to influence music for generations. As time passed and music progressed, we can view many of those old musical ideas implemented. Today, hip-hop and R&B use many of their beats and grooves tracing from what the African-American musicians have brought back to America starting straight from the early jazz eras.

4a) What (in order) are the 5 best releases from the last 12 months?
1. Radiohead - In Rainbows
2. Thrice - The Alchemy Index Vol. I: Fire and Water
3. Death Cab for Cutie - Narrow Stairs
4. As I Lay Dying - An Ocean Between Us
5. Coldplay - Viva La Vida

4b) What (in order) are the 5 best releases from the year you were born?
1. Radiohead - OK Computer
2. Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up
3. Youth Group - Forever Young
4. The Verve - Bittersweet Symphony
5. When In Rome - The Promise

5) What is the most unjust pitchfork numerical rating? Why? (five sentence minimum).
These things just piss me off anyway so I don't read them enough to remember.

6) You are stranded on a desert island. Choose one artist's music: Morrissey, Moby, or Momus? Why? (six sentence minimum).
Moby. Definitely Moby. Why? Because he will make you contemplate, and explain all the complex feelings you would feel while you are on a desert island. The guy has so many beats he made a gratis for it for independent films, I mean that alone makes me appreciate his music even more. He is the kind of artist that makes you reflect and reflect and reflect, and, that is all I would do on a desert island, so why not. Also, I might listen to Extreme Ways over and over and maybe find something amazing to do with myself for the rest of my life. It would trip my out... would it? Besides, he's the only M I know out of the 3 M's.

7) BONUS REQUIREMENT: Please post a picture of yourself. (HINT: do this.)

http://img137.imageshack.us/img137/548/raddrg6.jpg

Forgot to mention, my email is thinkcrazyy at gmail dot com.

!!nice pic!!

one final question, tesseract: what is ur estimation of young jeezy's "baller status" in the trap

actually

4b) What (in order) are the 5 best releases from the year you were born?
1. Radiohead - OK Computer
2. Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up
3. Youth Group - Forever Young
4. The Verve - Bittersweet Symphony
5. When In Rome - The Promise

...what the fuck is up w/ this tesseract

i like different types of music?

u r a moran tesser

wait, why?

5) What is the most unjust pitchfork numerical rating? Why? (five sentence minimum).
These things just piss me off anyway so I don't read them enough to remember.

You really don't want an invite do you...

yeah dude what year were you born anyway????????????

my bad, Fixing the order:

1. Rick Astley - Never gonna give you up
2. Youth Group - Forever Young
3. When In Rome - The Promise
4. The Verve - Bittersweet Symphony
5. Radiohead - OK Computer

@wilter didn't mean to offend you if i did. there are some here besides me who didn't read that.

@tesseract: wtf is up with you?????????????????

@wilter

wow. same to you?

ok, if you can't work it out....

4b) What (in order) are the 5 best releases from the year you were born?
1. Radiohead - OK Computer
2. Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up
3. Youth Group - Forever Young
4. The Verve - Bittersweet Symphony
5. When In Rome - The Promise

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ok, big deal?

i fixed it.

loooooooooooooooooooooooool

hey tesseract

@tesseract - u want an invite u best answer my question stupid fast

@am0n i don't know how to answer your question.

ask it

lol i thought wilter was taking umbrage at youth group song

lol yeah that song is fucking retarded tho.

hey tesseract, what year were you born?

2008-26

1982

1. Radiohead - OK Computer (released 1997)
2. Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up (not even an album, on an album released in 1987)
3. Youth Group - Forever Young (not even an album, on an album released in 2006)
4. The Verve - Bittersweet Symphony (not even an album, on an album released in 1997)
5. When In Rome - The Promise (not even an album, on an album released in 1988)

hey look none of those songs/records came out in 1982

guess who's not getting an invite....?

1. it said releases, not albums so it could be either
2. the question is kind of broad, having from the year i am born could mean the order it is wanted to be answered in, the year where i can start listing to present, etc.
3. are you 7 years old? you sure act like it

4. get over it

tesser you are not from california, are you?

hey waffles admin can we ban this aspie ;]

also lol @ Youth Group's Forever Young being the 2nd best 'release' since 1982

paging dr. jagger

sry he's into youth movies or some shi t

the biggest difference between youth movie soundtrack strategies and youth group is that i actually like one or two youth group songs

sorry for shitting up thread

the question is kind of broad, having from the year i am born could mean the order it is wanted to be answered in, the year where i can start listing to present, etc.
the question is kind of broad, having from the year i am born could mean the order it is wanted to be answered in, the year where i can start listing to present, etc.
the question is kind of broad, having from the year i am born could mean the order it is wanted to be answered in, the year where i can start listing to present, etc.
the question is kind of broad, having from the year i am born could mean the order it is wanted to be answered in, the year where i can start listing to present, etc.
the question is kind of broad, having from the year i am born could mean the order it is wanted to be answered in, the year where i can start listing to present, etc.
the question is kind of broad, having from the year i am born could mean the order it is wanted to be answered in, the year where i can start listing to present, etc.
the question is kind of broad, having from the year i am born could mean the order it is wanted to be answered in, the year where i can start listing to present, etc.
the question is kind of broad, having from the year i am born could mean the order it is wanted to be answered in, the year where i can start listing to present, etc.
the question is kind of broad, having from the year i am born could mean the order it is wanted to be answered in, the year where i can start listing to present, etc.
the question is kind of broad, having from the year i am born could mean the order it is wanted to be answered in, the year where i can start listing to present, etc.
the question is kind of broad, having from the year i am born could mean the order it is wanted to be answered in, the year where i can start listing to present, etc.

ok ok seriously

..so tesseract, u really seem to like radiohead (i do too). In fact u said In Rainbows is the best album of the last 12 months.

If you can give me a couple of good paragraphs on why you think it's the strongest album of the last 12 months (including comparing and contrasting w/ other critically acclaimed releases [such as Lil Wayne - Tha Carter III]), you've got urself an invite.

help me help u, tesser

listen to wilter

hey waffles admin can we ban this aspie ;]

-- wilter, Wednesday, August 6, 2008 5:49 PM (21 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

no srsly i regret saying that, i think we should give this endearing guy a chance.

Alright.

In Rainbows was the strongest album for me in the past 12 months because after a long hiatus, they brought one of their most catchy sounds to the world that is much different to what they have striven for in the past. Most Radiohead fans would agree that In Rainbows was not their most complex production, but it definitely contains a large selection of varying songs that does not shine poorly upon their reputation. Although Nude was one of the recycled songs used, it was probably for the best timing to fit the album's conception.

One of the most interesting things about the album's release is that Radiohead chose to let their fans choose how much to pay for the album. The release was in VBR format so that their stance upon the whole idea wasn't to be weakly established. This seemed to speak well throughout its remainder in response to all the current file sharing cases throughout the internet, as fans would actually pay for their music for how much they wanted.

In Rainbows is not repetitive. Every melody and beat is fresh as opposed to Tha Carter III. Its musical ideas are clearly expressed throughout the album, staying fresh throughout its entirety. In short, In Rainbows is and remains a strong album because of its composition, its meaning in its sectioned release, and the new sound it brings to all fans. You will not be disappointed.

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in terms of melody and beat freshness: Tha Carter III >>>>>>>>> in rainbows imo.

You will not be disappointed.

@tesseract: lol@u

Uh, sorry to be back... But was my application decent? Any extra credit projects? I didn't give my email, either, it's grahamwjenkins(a)gmail.com

************EXTRA CREDIT FOR CRACKERJACK************:

rank the samples used on Girl Talk's "feed the animals" from best to worst:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feed_the_Animals

THIS IS FOR APPLICANT CRACKER JACK ONLY AND NOT FOR ANY OTHER APPLICANTS

As used in the Girl Talk pieces, or as originals?

As Originals

ok, how should I get this to you? I have a seven-page word document here. zhare? email? post it here?

posting it here would be best since here is where we are storing the rest of your application

BEST

Michael Jackson "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'"
Earth, Wind, & Fire "September"
Wilson Pickett "Land of a Thousand Dances"
Daft Punk "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger"
The Fugees "Killing Me Softly"
Sly and the Family Stone "Dance to the Music"
Jackson 5 "ABC"
Jimi Hendrix "Purple Haze"
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five "The Message"
Edwin Starr "War"
DJ Kool "Let Me Clear My Throat"
Eddie Floyd "Knock on Wood"
Rod Stewart "Young Turks"
Michael Jackson "P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing)"
Rotary Connection "Memory Band"
Michael Jackson "Black Or White"
Queen "Bohemian Rhapsody"
BLACKstreet featuring Dr. Dre "No Diggity"
Eric B & Rakim "Eric B. is President"
The Police "Every Little Thing She Does is Magic"
Run-DMC "Peter Piper"
Beastie Boys "Body Movin'"
Blur "Song 2"
Daft Punk "Face to Face"
Snap! "The Power"
Afrika Bambaataa & The Soulsonic Force "Planet Rock"
The Gap Band "You Dropped a Bomb on Me"
Dexys Midnight Runners "Come On Eileen"
Kanye West featuring Dwele "Flashing Lights"
Wu-Tang Clan "C.R.E.A.M."
Stardust "Music Sounds Better With You"
George Harrison "What Is Life"
Tag Team "Whoomp! (There It Is)"
Tears for Fears "Head Over Heels"
Eric B. and Rakim "Paid In Full"
Outkast "Ms. Jackson"
AC/DC "Thunderstruck"
Kraftwerk "Numbers"
Nirvana "Lithium"
Jackson 5 "Dancing Machine"
Rick Springfield "Jessie's Girl"
Red Hot Chili Peppers "Under the Bridge"
Aerosmith "Sweet Emotion"
Pras with Mýa and Ol' Dirty Bastard "Ghetto Supastar (That Is What You Are)"
M.I.A. "Boyz"
Bachman-Turner Overdrive "Takin' Care of Business"
Public Enemy "Rebel Without a Pause"
Steve Miller Band "Take the Money and Run"
Lil Wayne with Static Major "Lollipop"
Twisted Sister "We're Not Gonna Take It"
Jay-Z "Big Pimpin'"
Air "Sexy Boy"
Radiohead "Paranoid Android"
The Cure "Close To Me"
Prince "Kiss"
GZA "Liquid Swords"
The Bucketheads "The Bomb (These Sounds Fall Into My Mind)"
Phil Collins "In the Air Tonight"
Kanye West featuring T-Pain "Good Life"
Michael Jackson "Stranger in Moscow"
Ludacris "What's Your Fantasy"
Gorilla Zoe "Hood Nigga"
Snoop Dogg "Sexual Eruption"
Rihanna "Umbrella"
Rich Boy "Throw Some D's"
K7 "Come Baby Come"
Roy Orbison "Oh Pretty Woman"
Pete Townshend "Let My Love Open the Door"
Carole King "It's Too Late"
Tom Petty "American Girl"
The Prodigy "Firestarter"
Rick Ross "Hustlin'"
Justin Timberlake "My Love"
Tom Tom Club "Genius of Love"
Cheap Trick "I Want You to Want Me"
Spank Rock "Put That Pussy on Me"
Yo Majesty "Club Action"
Soulja Boy "Crank That (Soulja Boy)"
Genesis "Invisible Touch"
Huey "Pop, Lock & Drop It"
Ben Folds Five "Battle of Who Could Care Less"
Huey Lewis and the News "The Heart of Rock & Roll"
Quad City DJs "C'mon N' Ride It (The Train)"
Aphex Twin "Girl/Boy Song"
The Cure "In Between Days"
Journey "Faithfully"
Genesis "Mama"
T.I. "What You Know"
Usher "Love in This Club"
The Jets "Crush on You"
Kelis "Bossy"
Ying Yang Twins Jigglin'
The Game One Blood
Fergie featuring Ludacris Glamorous
Elvis Costello Pump It Up
Gwen Stefani with Akon The Sweet Escape
Jibbs King Kong
R. Kelly with T.I. and T-Pain I'm a Flirt
Young Gunz Set It Off
Ali featuring St. Lunatics Breathe In, Breathe Out
Radiohead 15 Step
Three Six Mafia I'd Rather
Birdman featuring Lil Wayne Pop Bottles
Nu Shooz I Can't Wait
DJ Funk Pump That Shit
Deee-Lite Groove Is in the Heart
Madonna featuring Justin Timberlake 4 Minutes
Yael Naim New Soul
Ace of Base All That She Wants
Faith No More Epic
Megadeth Peace Sells
Jagged Edge Where the Party At
Beastie Boys So What'cha Want
The Band The Weight
MC Hammer Too Legit to Quit
Underworld Born Slippy .NUXX"

Wiz Khalifa Say Yeah"
En Vogue Free Your Mind
Soul II Soul Back to Life
Tones on Tail Go!
Jane Child Don't Wanna Fall in Love
Salt-N-Pepa Push It
The Beach Boys God Only Knows
Thin Lizzy Jailbreaka
Heart Magic Man
Mims Like This
Soulja Boy Donk
DJ UNK In Yo Face
Lil Mama Lip Gloss
David Banner Play
Len Steal My Sunshine
Toni Basil Mickey
Fleetwood Mac Gypsy
Schooly D Gucci Time
Busta Rhymes Woo Hah!! Got You All in Check
Fatman Scoop Be Faithful
Ahmad Back in the Day
Ready For The World Oh Sheila
Geto Boys Gangster of Love
Salt-n-Pepa Whatta Man
Lloyd featuring Ludacris How We Do It (Around My Way)
Luke I Wanna Rock
E-40 featuring Lil Jon Turf Drop
Kidz in the Hall Drivin' Down The Block
Veruca Salt Seether
Yung Joc It's Goin' Down
Bubba Sparxxx featuring Ying Yang Twins Ms. New Booty
Missy Elliott Work It
Styx Renegade
Nine Inch Nails Down in It
Youngbloodz featuring Lil Jon Damn!
DJ Smurf Ride On Out, Bounce With It
Yung Wun and DMX Tear It Up
Spencer Davis Group Gimme Some Lovin'
Of Montreal Gronlandic Edit
Milk Laid & Paid II
Kelly Clarkson Since U Been Gone
Eve Tambourine
Cheryl Lynn Got to Be Real
DJ Khaled featuring Paul Wall, Lil' Wayne, Rick Ross, Fat Joe Holla at Me
Nelly Furtado Maneater
Young Leek Jiggle It
Wale The Freestyle (Roc Boys)
Temple of the Dog Hunger Strike
Rick Derringer Rock and Roll, Hoochie Koo
V.I.C. Get Silly
Swizz Beatz It's Me Bitches
James Gang Funk #49
Jay-Z Roc Boys (And the Winner Is)...
Timbaland The Way I Are
Sinead O'Connor Nothing Compares 2 U
Bow Wow Wow I Want Candy
The Guess Who These Eyes
Argent Hold Your Head Up
Mike Jones featuring Hurricane Chris Drop and Gimme 50
Fergie London Bridge
Mary J. Blige Real Love
Boogie Down Productions Criminal Minded
George Harrison Got My Mind Set On You
Lil Mama G-Slide (Tour Bus)
INXS Need You Tonight
Looking Glass Brandy (You're a Fine Girl)
The Velvet Underground Sunday Morning
Lil' Scrappy Money in the Bank
Prince U Got the Look
Vanilla Ice Havin' a Roni
Rage Against the Machine Freedom
Dr. Dre Bitches Ain't Shit
Shawnna Gettin' Some
Unk Walk It Out
Justin Timberlake LoveStoned/I Think She Knows (Interlude)
Webbie Independent
Diana Ross Upside Down
Kraftwerk Tour de France
LL Cool J Mama Said Knock You Out
Chris Brown featuring T-Pain Kiss Kiss

James Nasty You So Hawt"
Chicago Saturday in the Park
Peter Bjorn and John Young Folks
Edgar Winter Band Free Ride
The Cardigans Lovefool
Birdman and Lil Wayne Stuntin' Like My Daddy
Nine Inch Nails Wish
Fine Young Cannibals She Drives Me Crazy
E-40 Tell Me When to Go
Kenny Loggins Footloose
Dude N' Nem Watch My Feet
Swizz Beatz Money in the Bank
Beyonce Get Me Bodied
Birdman featuring Lil Wayne, Young Jeezy & Rick Ross 100 Million
Metallica One
Hot Chocolate Every 1's a Winner
The Cool Kids Gold and a Pager
T.I. You Know What It Is
Michael Sembello Maniac
Eminem Shake That
Beyoncé Ring the Alarm
Big Country In a Big Country
Pink U + Ur Hand
Hot Chip Ready For The Floor
The Carpenters Superstar
Timbaland Give It to Me
Beck E-Pro
Mistah F.A.B. with Turf Talk and E-40 Super Sic wit' It
Yo La Tengo Autumn Sweater
Cameo Word Up!
Bizarre Inc. I'm Gonna Get You
Janet Jackson Nasty
Donna Summer Bad Girls
Missy Elliott Ching-a-Ling
Cassidy with Swizz Beatz My Drink n My 2 Step
Ice Cube AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted
Roy Orbison You Got It
Timbaland Drop
Avril Lavigne Girlfriend
Ice Cube Check Yo Self
Ray J featuring Yung Berg Sexy Can I
Yung Berg Do That There
Busta Rhymes What It Is
Procol Harum A Whiter Shade of Pale
Cat Stevens Here Comes My Baby
David Bowie Rebel Rebel
Dem Franchize Boyz Lean Wit It, Rock Wit It
Audio Two Top Billin'
The Cranberries Dreams
? and the Mysterians 96 Tears
Tone Loc Wild Thing

Trina I Got a Thang for You"
UGK with OutKast International Player's Anthem (I Choose You)
P Diddy featuring Keyshia Cole Last Night
Dolla featuring T-Pain and Tay Dizm Who the Fuck Is That?
Paula Cole I Don't Want to Wait
Butthole Surfers Pepper
Flo Rida Low
Shawty Lo Dey Know
The Spinners The Rubberband Man
Cupid Cupid Shuffle
Jermaine Stewart We Don't Have To Take Our Clothes Off
Aaliyah featuring Timbaland We Need a Resolution
Drama Left, Right
Brobee Party in my Tummy
50 Cent I Get Money
Siouxsie & the Banshees Kiss Them for Me
Britney Spears Gimme More
Rick Astley "Never Gonna Give You Up"

WORST

Sorry it's not more elegant; the formatting didn't quite transfer.

CrackerJack-

Please CLICK HERE for your invite information.

Thanks!

Ouch. Rick Roll'd? Rly? Should have seen that one coming.

who hates the butthole surfers

Don't I get like, a toaster oven or some luggage just for trying?

No. Becuz your application was totes poor holmes.

Which part? Makeup work? I'm really just DYING for an invite. I can send you the paper I wrote for my African-American history class on Jazz as a black political medium. Or show you screens of my ratio. Or forward my oink emails. Seriously, though, I really really really want to be a part of the waffles phenomenon.

Man, I must sound pathetic...

ah no, you don't sound pathetic. you're starting to sound worthy:)

post your jazz paper. show us screens of your ratio. forward me oink emails (webmail works)

My ratio never got higher than .57, unfortunately

o phuck CrackerJack, I only just noticed this :-\

But hey CrackerJack we'd still be very interested in your Jazz Paper + Oink Screens.

OK, I decided to make one big zip file with everything and upload it to zshare. There's my paper, several oink emails and two ratio screenshots. Here's the link:

http://www.zshare.net/download/168932351bc2f3fb/

Enjoy!

trojan:(

:[

I knew that it would be that's why I didn't open it.

What? No one even downloaded it! I think I might give up soon.

:[

tell me how to send these and I will. I have a word document, two jpegs, and two pdfs.

C+P IT IN HERE BRO

the 10-page paper? Here, at the least, are the ratio screens:

http://img147.imageshack.us/img147/2816/demonoidratiowi4.jpg

http://img147.imageshack.us/my.php?image=whatratiohl0.jpg

yes.

JAZZ AND THE SOAPBOX

AFRICAN-AMERICANS AND THE MEDIUM AS A MESSAGE

GRAHAM JENKINS

J
azz has existed since before the 20th Century. At its inception, a music fit only for the seedy bars and brothels (and blacks) of Storyville in New Orleans, it has been reinterpreted, redefined, and refined, until now it is deified as a constant work of art in motion. But – why do the artists play in the first place? Is it for money? Fame? A ticket out of East Nowhere, Kansas? In truth, one of the grand impetuses behind the very birth of jazz was to send a statement; a political message. Essentially, jazz was invented as a musical soapbox.
Now, not everyone has the same take on the genre, as with most art forms. Even the artists themselves disagree as to the particulars of whether their music carries an intentional message or not. The fact remains, however, that jazz is one of the first instances of popular music that conveys some sort of social message.
The Harlem Renaissance brought new levels of social awareness to black culture.
“Deeming themselves free of the ‘myth’ of the ‘old Negro’ and attuned to the ‘new spirit…awake in the masses,’ participants in the Harlem Renaissance and others sought to define the parameters of black expression, uncover an African-American cultural past, and determine how black culture could be used as a tool for social change.”
And a powerful tool it was. Jazz, from the start, was a threat to white society and supremacy. When leftist, Black Nationalist organizations such as Marcus Garvey’s United Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) and the African Blood Brotherhood (ABB) sponsored and hosted jazz concerts, whites (and some upper-class blacks) began to panic. For the first time, there were Negroes expressing themselves publicly, in a manner that whites could not hope to emulate, and there was little they could do to stop it. Consider the experience of Sonia Sanchez’s father, a jazz drummer and high school teacher in the South:
“Her father, a high school teacher in the South, played drums during the summer to support his family. She remembered how one night he risked his life by refusing a drunken white listener's demand that the band dance and play Dixie, illustrating the principle that the act alone of playing jazz was revolutionary during the music's early days.”
Another major concern of the white culture oligarchy was the perceived existence of sexual undertones in the music. The very word jazz supposedly derives from the term 'jass,’ which was rude sexual slang, related either to the term "jism" or to the jasmine perfume popular among urban prostitutes. Slowly emerging from the period of Victorian sexual mores, jazz was yet another opportunity for rebellious white youth to mingle with the opposite sex, the opposite race. The traditional stereotype of blacks as some sort of sex-crazed, perpetually aroused animal did not help, either – white parents were afraid their children would be seduced and corrupted by the ‘evil Negroes.’
The reactionary all-white bands were never as innovative and creative as the black jazz orchestras of the 20’s and 30’s. The music establishment, while at the same time trying to downplay the significance of the new genre, put forth such timeless frontmen as Ted Lewis, Eddie Cantor, and Paul Whiteman – the self-proclaimed “King of Jazz.” The first all-white group to desegregate was Benny Goodman’s in the 1930’s, when he hired Teddy Wilson, Lionel Hampton, and Charlie Christian. Of course, the participation by white artists at all could have proved a drastic setback – “the challenge posed to an exclusively black conception of jazz by white involvement can be viewed as an example of…social dislocation.” It came on the heels of mass desegregation within the nightclubs, bars, and dancehalls. That was one of the first instances of the jazz establishment violated a cultural norm. It was at this time that jazz began to grow outside of the music – “jazz was (also) a business enterprise and a set of institutional relationships, a focal point for political and social debate, a vehicle for individual and communal identity formation, and eventually, an idea.” For the black community, jazz was an expression of solidarity. It tied the working- and middle-classes together, and, sans an over-attachment to a particular style, young and old.
The same period saw the advent of ‘race records,’ intended to bolster the credibility and popularity of a given race. Whites had their Glenn Miller and Benny Goodman, blacks Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong (and King Oliver and Fletcher Henderson and Cab Calloway and many more besides), and in many ways, it resembled the Jack Johnson v. various ‘Great White Hopes’ of the time. Jazz is often compared to boxing – drummer Max Roach says:
“When, where, and how to slip punches is all rhythmic. Setting up somebody is done rhythmically. I know quite a few boxers who make a point of having something to do with a percussion instrument. Sugar Ray Robinson and Johnny Bratton both played the drums. Quite a few fighters got involved with music…”
Without even trying, then, jazz was already making some powerful statements as a self-contained movement. But what, then, about the artists making the music? Drummer Philly Joe Jones offers this:
“All that kind of music comes from…black weakness. You get black power from black weakness…Black torture, poverty, black slavery…I have a strong feeling that’s the best way to protest, protesting through the music. It’s another way to protest, other than the violent way. All your anger comes out there. All the beauty and everything else come out there. It would be hard to provoke a musician to violence unless it was perpetrated on him, you dig it?”

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I
nstrumental pieces are obviously one way to protest. Playing style, boycotts, between-song banter – all of these serve as a form of dissent. Of course, venue choice has much to do with it, too. Whether playing at an anti-war meeting, or a Black Panther rally, they both accomplish the same thing. Plus, if the music is being played for and at something believed in, the playing becomes that much more powerful and poignant. Don Byas, one of the great jazz saxophonists, and who played with such legends as Lionel Hampton, Count Basie, and Dizzy Gillespie, put more of an edge on his tone. As told to Arthur Taylor: “…you will notice I’m always trying to make my sound stronger and more brutal than ever. I shake the walls in the joints I play in. I’m always trying to sound brutal without losing the beauty in order to impress people and wake them up. That’s protest, of course it is.”
Nuanced as a solo saxophone or trumpet might be, it cannot match the sheer power of the English language; a power only the human voice can harness. One of the best-known examples of jazz protest, or at least, social awareness, is Billie Holliday’s “Strange Fruit.” The song begins;
Southern trees bear a strange fruit,
blood on the leaves and blood at the root,
black body swinging in the Southern breeze,
strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees.
Also covered by Nina Simone, Cassandra Wilson, and a host of others, the song was first performed by Holliday at the Café Society in New York City. She said that, "the first time I sang it, I thought it was a mistake. There wasn't even a patter of applause when I finished. Then a lone person began to clap nervously. Then suddenly everyone was clapping." Nina Simone also appreciated the power of voice. While for some time (the good part of her career, in fact), she “was always interested in love songs,” she gradually began to move more towards songs with a message, reflecting the changing attitudes of her time and people. She has stated, “…the direction I took musically (was) completely relevant to what black people were doing around the world.” Reflecting the general shift towards more purposeful music, and especially jazz music at that, Simone has been a powerful voice for justice and change.
“The more black people…asserted themselves, the more I was free to say right on! …I can use my voice as an instrument, a voice to be heard all over the world for what my people need and what we really are about…I think it’s my duty to express in music what they’re feeling, and I’m privileged I can do that.”
Obviously, jazz musicians, in no small part, care about their environment and their culture, and see their music as a way to propound that concern. What about the musicians who see it differently? While not as numerous as the proponents, there are many who would like politics to stay out of entertainment altogether. There is a whole subgenre of punditry literature that enjoys berating artists who dare take a stand; the most famous diatribe of all being Laura Ingraham’s Shut Up and Sing. In addition to the notorious conservative talking heads, there are also some jazz artists who would concur.
Erroll Garner, a jazz pianist who played with Slam Stewart and Charlie Parker, among others, thought that politics have no place in music. In a 1970 interview with Art Taylor, he said, “I don’t think there’s any way in the world you’re going to express politics through music, for the simple reason that you could wake up tomorrow to a completely different story. You don’t want to get on the bandstand and play morbid…politics is a full-time job. You cannot play and get involved with that.”
For some, like Garner, it was a matter of philosophy. Others saw it mostly as an emotional downer, such as saxophonist Johnny Griffin. For him, thinking about that kind of meaning within a song would just bring down the whole piece. He stated, “I’m playing my horn to bring out the positive things in people…actually, if I’m too negative I can’t play… As soon as I start playing, music takes me away from all this b.s. (sic) around me… Music is the thing that saves me.” Even yet, another concern was economic. The increasing hostility towards whites, as the practitioners of the nonviolent movements grew disillusioned, was decidedly not designed to bring in white youths. Saxophonist ‘Lockjaw’ Davis says,
“Music has always been the common denominator. The young black militant has overlooked this…There used to be a ratio of fifty or sixty percent white clientele in a colored club. The militant attitude has caused this attendance to drop off considerably…when an individual has to fear for his life to go and hear a jazz artist, he won’t go.”
The arguments against speaking out, as a struggling African-American musician, are quite compelling. The truth, though, is that there is that much more courage required to take a stand and attempt to educate the audience. Regardless of how receptive the audience is to any given message, as long as the beat is thumping and the horns are blowing, they are not going to be particularly pleased. This only addresses matters from a first-hand perspective, however. For, if one has not seen an artist before, on what is he to base his opinions? Critics.

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T
he critic is one of the most often reviled figures in any kind of creative art. The artists view him as incapable of understanding the methodology and effort put into their creations, while the critic sees a bunch of untalented hacks attempting to pass off drivel as art (this is assuming an antagonistic relationship). More often than not, the jazz critics are the fiercest opponent of any sort of non-musical (read: political) influence on the musician’s music. In addition, more often than not, these critics are white.
In Frank Kofsky’s Black Music, White Business, he clearly outlines the relationship between business, press, and talent. The first two are white. The last is black. Guess which one gets the short end. As Archie Shepp famously said, “You own the music and we make it.” In the final tally, though, the vast majority of the white critics are incapable of properly analyzing jazz. As Kofsky writes,
“The majority of books dealing with jazz, especially those written by white American authors, have not withstood the test of time… For the white author of books about jazz has typically been neither a trained musicologist nor a committed Marxist scholar; more often than not, he has brought little to his writing except quantities of enthusiasms for his favorite artists, plus a few vague efforts at aesthetic pronouncements and musical descriptions, both of which usually lack exactitude and are unrelated to any body of theory about anything.”
Repeatedly, white critics criticize that which they do not understand. From the time of Swing as popular music, when Duke Ellington condemned “the critics who had not adequately educated fans about the more artistically inclined bands. Instead, audiences were patronizing the more banal purveyors of the current craze.” As well, as long as jazz was a popular music, or at least one that depended on white patronage, the artists ran the risk of being forever subservient to the whims of whites. “Musicians felt jazz critics were not to be trusted because many were White (sic) and part of the music establishment. Because the revolution in music was against the musical hierarchy, the musicians knew the critics would do everything in their power to defuse the musical revolution.”
So is jazz a social movement? The word itself is not. One cannot tell if it is just from listening to it (unless it is a tune like “Strange Fruit”). Over time, though, the music gradually was fused to the Black Power movement by the concerted efforts of a few individuals. After a certain point, “The black artist must construct models which correspond to his own reality. The models must be non-white. Our models must be consistent with a black style, our natural aesthetic styles, and our moral and spiritual styles. In doing so, we will merely be following the natural demands of our culture.” Jazz artists have been consistent, progressive voices for change in this country, and while at times, the white establishment has drowned them out, jazz as a vehicle for uplift, and as a cultural expression of black identity, remain strong to this day. No one can ever predict where the next musical revolution will begin. But the time is ripe for change. Who will be the next Roach? The next Mingus? Only time can tell.

Bibliography
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Ammon, Jost. "Jazz." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Edited: 5/11/06. Visited: 5/11/06. <http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jazz&oldid=52582309>;.

Baskerville, John D. “Free Jazz: A Reflection of Black Power Ideology”. Journal of Black Studies, Vol. 24, No. 4. (June 1994), <http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0021-9347%28199406%2924%3A4%3C484%3AFJAROB%3E2.0.CO%3B2-C>;

Clarke, Donald. Billie Holiday: Wishing on the Moon. München, Piper 1995.

Harris, Jerome. "Jazz on the Global Stage." The African Diaspora: a Musical Perspective. Ed. Ingrid Monson. New York, NY: Garland, 2000.

Kofsky, Frank. (A) Black Music, White Business: Illuminating the History and Political Economy of Jazz. New York, NY: Pathfinder Press, 1998.

Kofsky, Frank. (B) “The Jazz Tradition: Black Music and Its White Critics”. Journal of Black Studies. Vol. 1, No. 4. (June 1971). <http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0021-9347%28197106%291%3A4%3C403%3ATJTBMA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-P>;

Porter, Eric. What Is This Thing Called Jazz? London, England: University of California Press, 2002

Szwed, John. Jazz 101: A Complete Guide to Learning and Loving Jazz. New York, NY: Hyperion, 2000

Taylor, Arthur. Notes and Tones: Musician-to-Musician Interviews. New York, NY:
Perigee Books, 1977

What mark did you get for this piece?

Well, I go to one of those 'non-traditional' schools where instead of grades, we get 'evaluations.' This is what he wrote on mine:

"Graham's writing is very strong and his conceptualization is often brilliant. Indeed, there are clear signs of genius in his discussion, writing and research. Furthermore, his is a passionate and eloquent voice, with important things to say. His work had great possibilities in both the seminar and his conference research. Indeed, in conference Mr. Jenkins wrote a superb and insightful paper on the degree of political consciousness of jazz artists. "

clear signs of genius in his discussion

lmao

Yeah, he's a little over the top. It's funny, cause then he goes on to talk about how I missed a bunch of classes and fell asleep this one time.

gross maybe he has a crush on u

Good god I hope not.

So... am I worthy?

I'm going to leave it up to the Waffles Administrat0r

^^^nothing personal btw. It's just I've only got a couple on the go atm :)

guys i was able to find cracker jack's paper on an online database of term papers in like 2 seconds. :(

you're gonna have to try harder than that, buddy.

WAAAAAAAAAAT??! So he made all that shit up about his gay prof :(

yeah pretty clever but tbh ive seen that little routine before. u_u

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Man, I'm starting to actually get offended. And I call bullshit. Tell me this is a commitment test or something

it's no test. we're committed to you

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is cracker jack actually sanskrit

संस्कृता वाक्?

when the hunters become the hunted

-- pabs (Pablo A), Friday, February 9, 2007 4:06 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Link

this is all about a torrent tracker site aye? it's just that people are getting weird about it and if something like this is going on I'd kind of like to know about it.

O_o

aye

spaghetti, it's really more like this

u ahole :^\

hahaha, I wonder where you got that from

CrackerJack-

Please CLICK HERE for your invite information.

Thanks!

-- gr8080, Monday, August 11, 2008 6:48 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

oh, thats where.

...and we all enjoyed a good laugh.

ban^

um, yeah. well, keep up those clear signs of genius in your discussion.

xpost

CrackerJack, u just not cut out for this shit.

uh... by 'we' I meant all but 'me'

ILX 2
User has been succesfully banned.

Return to Front Page.

:)

btw only decent recent applicant = poster "snpteen".

And he got his waffles invite str8 away.

Can I have a waffle?

plz post your application ;]

Still accepting invitations ?

I mean - accounts still availible by registered here ?

sup

oh wilter is here, hes 1 of the main guys.. My brother is on waffles.fm, but I'm too proud to ask him for an invite :(

of course they're available. Pls respond as advised above.

my application would be very meager :)

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a) Retallick93
b) Luke
c) 14 years old
d) Male
e) England, UK
f) http://crimg.com/uploads/I%20Love%20Fake%20PeopleSMALLWgSqY.jpg

1) Name three shared albums (+192kbps only) that others have successfully downloaded from you on OiNK or other trackers
- Pink - Funhouse
- High School Musical 3 Senior Year (Forgive me)
- Madcon - So Dark The Con Of Man

2a) Explain what a ratio is in three or four sentences.

- A ratio shows the contribution of one member - and the ratio is upload/download - seed/leech. For example, if you upload twice as many files as you download, your ratio would be 2.0. This is to ensure that members are sharing their music, thereby contributing it to other users. You can't always just seed in order to maintain a good ratio - because if there is no leechers then you arent contributing to your ratio.

2b)If you were a member of OiNK, tell us what your ratio was at the time of its closing. (be honest!)

I wasn't in OiNK.

3) Briefly summarize the influence of African American culture on Western popular music (answer in paragraph format, eight sentence minimum).

I dont really know alot on this subject - I guess popular music we know of today such as Modern Rock and Jazz derrive from Blues which are from old country folk songs - originating from the native americans. Then R&B and Hip Hop derrive from Reggae and Funk which
were first developed in Jamaica in the late 1960's. Oh well, I tried.

4a) What (in order) are the 5 best releases from the last 12 months?
1. AC/DC - Black Ice
2. Kaiser Chiefs - Off With Their Heads
3. Kings Of Leon - Only By The Night
4. Leon Jackson - Right Now
5. Katherine Jenkins - Sacred Arias

4b) What (in order) are the 5 best releases from the year you were born?

1979
1. UB40 - (I Can't Help) Falling In Love WIth You
2. Gabrielle - Dreams
3. Freddie Mercury - Living On My Own (Re-Mix)
4. Take That/Lulu - ReLight My Fire
5. Mr Blobby - Mr Blobby :D:D

5) What is the most unjust pitchfork numerical rating? Why? (five sentence minimum).

Lil Wayne - Tha Carter. 8.7 isn't fair - I have no more to say on the matter.

6) You are stranded on a desert island. Choose one artist's music: Morrissey, Moby, or Momus? Why? (six sentence minimum).

I suppose Moby would keep me awake, and it would probably be worse than water torture. So I would choose Morrissey. Reason being Morrissey is alot more relaxing than all of the others. Momus annoys me, I hate the lead singer. Momus would lead me to commit suicide. Morrissey is my choice I could live with it because its relaxing. Moby would keep me awake all the time.

7) BONUS REQUIREMENT: Please post a picture of yourself. (HINT: do this.)
http://crimg.com/uploads/mesDRTA.jpg

I tried :(

1993*

rectallick93

funny guy, rectal lick - thats a new one. Someone give this guy an invite already, just for that he deserves it.

holy shit, just last night i too was pretending to be a 14 year old boy called Luke on the internet.

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But I am - I swear lel.. :(

LELZ

fuck off Rectallick

Hm - why.. what about my application, wilting wallnut ?

yellow card

Wilting J. Wallnut

rectal you do realize this is not the waffles invite hub as much as it is the retarded gay midget sector of waffles invitations, and frankly, until you prove your height, we cannot offer immediate help.

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Subject: Email from user: retallick93
Date: October 29, 2008 8:50:55 AM EDT
To: mr✧✧✧@o✧✧.e✧✧

So do you alreadt have an invite to waffles.fm ?
retallick93 at googlemail .com ;)

Me thinks I got the Walnut wilt, mah leaves are shrivellin' up

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a) PatternsInTraffic
b) Andrew
c) 19
d) Male
e) Michigan
f) http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a135/opethsoldier/ICONATOR_f59112a8f2bdbc4f2e5c2b48be.gif

1) Name three shared albums (+192kbps only) that others have successfully downloaded from you on OiNK or other trackers
- Something Corporate discography
- Muse Discography
- Against Me! discography

2a) Explain what a ratio is in three or four sentences.
- A ratio is a term used to describe the users activity on a torrent site. Such as how much they download compared to what they have uploaded. A ratio is figured by dividing the amount uploaded by the amount downloaded. It is an effective way to keep track of users to make sure they are making contributions to a site.

2b)If you were a member of OiNK, tell us what your ratio was at the time of its closing. (be honest!)

Unfortunately, I was not a member of OiNK.

3) Briefly summarize the influence of African American culture on Western popular music (answer in paragraph format, eight sentence minimum).

- The influence of African American culture in Western music began in the 19th century with the advent of the blackface minstrelsy, a minstrel show which was a show put on mainly by african americans. With the advent of the minstrel show the, African originated instrument, the banjo became a popular instrument. During the early 20th century there was a great increase in the popularity of African American blues and jazz. During the 70s there was an increase in African American melodic music such as soul, and African American culture lead to the invention of disco. In the 1980's African American pop artists such as Michael Jackson, Prince, Lionel Richie and Whitney Houston were the most successful of the era. Hip hop spread across the country and diversified. Techno, dance, Miami bass, chicago hip hous, los angeles hardcore and Washington D.C. go go developed during this time. Around 1986 rap took off into the mainstream with Run-D.M.C. Through 1990s and 2000s Hip Hop, Rap and R&B became the most popular genre of music for african americans.

4a) What (in order) are the 5 best releases from the last 12 months?
-hopefully this is supposed to be my opinion.
1. Jacks Mannequin - The Glass Passenger.
2. Story of the Year - The Black Swan
3. Juno original soundtrack
4. Jack Johnson - Sleep Through The Static
5. Coldplay - Viva La Vida

4b) What (in order) are the 5 best releases from the year you were born?

1988
1. Metallica - ...And Justice for All
2. Slayer -
3. N.W.A. - Straight Outta Compton
4. Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking
5. Pixies - Surfer Rosa

5) What is the most unjust pitchfork numerical rating? Why? (five sentence minimum).

Radiohead: The Best Of / The Best Of. - 2.0/4.0

I have been a fan of radiohead for as long as I can remember, and for them to get such a low rating is quite insulting. Considering the cd consists of some of their best songs I would believe it would do alot better. Although i'm not sure how "best of" cds compare to their original releases. I still believe the cd should have gotten at least a 7.0, considering lil wayne got an 8.2 or something rediculous. Either way review have never steered me away, or towards music in the past.

6) You are stranded on a desert island. Choose one artist's music: Morrissey, Moby, or Momus? Why? (six sentence minimum).

Out of the three I would have to choose Momus. The obvious choice would be Moby, but his music doesn't entertain me after a few minutes of listening to it. I chose Momus because his music is... quite bizarre to say the least. And since I would be stuck on an island I would be quite content with his immense library of music. And even though his music is bizarre, it has its own quaint charm. Its kind of addicting. Also... eyepatch.

7) BONUS REQUIREMENT: Please post a picture of yourself. (HINT: do this.)
http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a135/opethsoldier/l_f2978274a6466850dda75c1f2a923d-1.jpg

Moby, but his music doesn't entertain me after a few minutes of listening to it.

PatternsInTraffic OTM

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PatternsInTraffic OTM!!!

1) Name three shared albums (+192kbps only) that others have successfully downloaded from you on OiNK or other trackers
- 50 cent- Massacre
-Modest Mouse- Goodnews for people who love bad news
- Kayne West- Graduation

2a) Explain what a ratio is in three or four sentences.
- A ratio is a number that correlates from how much you have downloaded to how much you have uploaded. A site like waffles only works if there are people uploading as well as downloading. If i wanted to download a few songs i wouldve gone to limewire, i want to be part of the community
2b)If you were a member of OiNK, tell us what your ratio was at the time of its closing. (be honest!)

i wasnt a part of oink :(

3) Briefly summarize the influence of African American culture on Western popular music (answer in paragraph format, eight sentence minimum).

- It statred in New Oreleans with Jazz. It grew up from there east and was soon big in african American cities everywhere. In the 1980s the rap game got started with Run DMC and NWA. This evovled into what we know have as hip-hop and rap.
4a) What (in order) are the 5 best releases from the last 12 months?
-hopefully this is supposed to be my opinion.
1.
4b) What (in order) are the 5 best releases from the year you were born?

1990
-Incubus-beyond the unknown
-Black crows- greatest hits
-Pantera- Cowboys from hell
-Bad Religion- Against the Grain
-Public Enemey- Fear of a Black Planet
1. 5) What is the most unjust pitchfork numerical rating? Why? (five sentence minimum).
I don't pay attention to the ratings at all. It is just something i don't care about. I like music for music not becaue of a rating.

6) You are stranded on a desert island. Choose one artist's music: Morrissey, Moby, or Momus? Why? (six sentence minimum).

Moby because i like more of his songs then the other two
7) BONUS REQUIREMENT: Please post a picture of yourself. (HINT: do this.)

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keith's profile is set to private.
This user must add you as a friend to see his/her photos.

do you have something to hide, keith? The waffles community has no use for people who keep secrets. it isn't my place to admit or deny you, but this does not bode well for you at all.

hi dew dew :-)

yea i know i didnt even think about that when i posted that

hi dew dew :-)

hey pappawheelie whats up

hi dew dew :-)

whats up pappawheelie

dewdew u c me?

Dear DEWDADEW1080:

Congratulations -- you have reached Step 11 in the Waffles 12-Step Approval Program. We're giving you one last chance to prove your fitness for our community. Please answer the following question in four or more sentences:

Imagine you're traveling back in time to early 2005 to visit the guys from Blink 182. What, if anything, do you say to them to convince them not to break up?

Good luck, and we look forward to reviewing your response.

~Larfmau

Please dont break up I could listen to your music all day long, seriously every single one of your songs is amazing, The songs just touch on everyday life so well, you have inspired my generation (1990). Please stay together for all of us, your music is incredible.

u should have told the guys to stage an early intervention for tom, an emo intervention. its a disease...

what part of michigan does ire think patternsintraffic is from?

v v important. invites on teh line

UP

cheboygan?

Bay City???

I'd BET near Jackson.

Parma. Works in Jackson.

Or lives in Warren Dunes. Literally in the dunes.

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I'm 95% sure this dude is a sophomore at marquette u.

anyone got a early christmas presents for me(hint)(hint)Waffles invite)

not for a gentile like you(hint)(hint)(Happy Hanukkah Dew Dew!)

not for a gentile like you(hint)(hint)(Happy Hanukkah Dew Dew!)

seriously though, check your inbox at sundown, big boy

happy hanukkah to you to arular

Hey hook me up please, I need an invite!!

that's the spirit, dew dew!

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redmond a/s/l?

a) requested username
pos69sum
b) first name (no surnames)
Redmond
c) age
38
d) gender
m
e) geographic location
Chicago
f) desired avatar (no cute avatars allowed)
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1) Name three shared albums (+192kbps only) that others have successfully downloaded from you on OiNK or other trackers
-Led Zeppelin discography
-Interpol - Antics
-Metallica Discography

2a) Explain what a ratio is in three or four sentences.
Ratio of how much you upload divided by the amount you download. Torrent sites use ratios to make sure members contribute to the community.

2b)If you were a member of OiNK, tell us what your ratio was at the time of its closing. (be honest!)
It was high - 1.1+.

3) Briefly summarize the influence of African American culture on Western popular music (answer in paragraph format, eight sentence minimum).
African musical influences such as polyrhythmic music, African oral traditions encouraging the use of music to pass on history, ease suffering and communicate, blue notes, call and response, etc. have influenced the development of Western popular music since the time of slavery. The advent of the blackfaced minstrel show in the 1800s helped assimilate African American music into mainstream society. In the 20th century, technological innovations such as the radio and phonograph led to several forms of American music with roots in the African American community becoming popular overseas and transforming American popular music. Ragtime, jazz, blues and swing became popular in the 20's. Rock and roll, doo wop, soul and R&B developed and became popular with white audiences in the mid 20th century. Later, African American influenced music began to splinter into a myriad of styles such as funk, house, go go, etc. In the latter part of the 20th century, the West Indian tradition of toasting and the American tradition of rhyming slang to put down one's enemies led to the development of rap and hip hop. Hip hop is a prominent multicultural movement in today's culture, and has led to many technical and stylistic innovations in the world of music production.

4a) What (in order) are the 5 best releases from the last 12 months?
Vampire Weekend - s/t
Deerhunter - Microcastle / Weird Era Cont.
Fleet Foxes - s/t
M83 - Saturdays=Youth
No Age - Nouns

4b) What (in order) are the 5 best releases from the year you were born?
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Led Zeppelin - III
The Stooges - Fun House
The Who - Live at Leeds
Syd Barrett - The Madcap Laughs

5) What is the most unjust pitchfork numerical rating? Why? (five sentence minimum).
I felt Weezer's red album was unjustly maligned. Rivers has moved back towards the irony and specificity that marked his best lyrics, which I felt was entirely unappreciated in the p4k review. Probably the relatively weak lead off single of Pork and Beans led the p4k reviewer to conclude that this was another lazily written major label cash in in the same vein as Maladroit and Make Believe - but there are some great songs here. My favorites are Troublemaker and The Greatest Man in the World. All in all, it's not as good as blue album or Pinkerton, but it's certainly the best thing they've put out since.

6) You are stranded on a desert island. Choose one artist's music: Morrissey, Moby, or Momus? Why? (six sentence minimum).
Morrissey, can I include the Smiths as well? For some people, I think being stranded on a desert island with nothing but Morrissey's music would be sort of miserable, but not for me. I don't think a lot of people pick up on the self deprecating humor and irony in a lot of his best lyrics. I also really love his thoroughly unique singing voice and campy personal, I've been listening to his music for so long it's like listening to an old friend. Morrissey's discography is also very consistent for an artist who's had such a long career. My favorite stuff of his is, of course, the classic early Smiths stuff - especially the singles collection 'Louder Than Bombs'.

7) BONUS REQUIREMENT: Please post a picture of yourself. (HINT: do this.)
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Please send me an invite!!
possum7meister(at)gmail(dot)com

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^no cute avatars allowed

I would recommend a stately bald eagle or (if you must) a less cartoonish penguin. Do either of these appeal to you?

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Bald eagle please. Thanks for your help!

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drdl

A late response, but, I am from Temperance MI... about a sneeze away from Toledo, Ohio

play

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a) hoopla87 


b) Randy

c) 21 


d) male

e) Michigan

f)
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1) Name three shared albums (+192kbps only) that others have successfully downloaded from you on OiNK or other trackers.
1. The Big Come Up (The Black Keys)
2. Be – (Common)
3. Blue Lines (Massive Attack)

2a) Explain what a ratio is in three or four sentences.

A ratio is the amount a user uploads divided by the amount they download. The ratio is a good way for trackers to ensure users are actually giving to the community and not just downloading a ton without contributing (leeching). A high ratio, then, is a good indication that a user is performing their loyal duties as a community member.

2b)If you were a member of OiNK, tell us what your ratio was at the time of its closing. (be honest!)
~1.3 or 1.4

3) Briefly summarize the influence of African American culture on Western popular music (answer in paragraph format, eight sentence minimum).
African American culture has had a major influence on the development of Western popular music, especially in the 20th century. Originating with old slave songs and oral narratives/traditions, African American music’s origins are evident in early jazz-types, ragtime, and blues music. These music types became popular especially during the 20’s (the Jazz Age). With the popularity of Jazz came the increased mainstreaming of African American culture and minority expression aided by the advent of the radio. These early music types evolved and developed into other genres including soul and R&B. The 50’s and 60’s were high time for these genres, especially among white Americans. In the 70’s, rapping became more and more popular. It built of the previous success of R&B, jazz, soul, blues, and funk, and became popular art forms in the 80’s and 90’s that drew on the influences of African American culture. With the 90’s and today, rap, hip-hop, jazz, and R&B are some of the most popular genres of Western popular music.

4a) What (in order) are the 5 best releases from the last 12 months?
1. Dear Science, (TV on the Radio)
2. In Rainbows (Radiohead)
3. Rising Down (The Roots)
4. Only By The Night (Kings of Leon)
5. Feed the Animals (Girl Talk)

4b) What (in order) are the 5 best releases from the year you were born?
1. Appetite for Destruction (Guns N’ Roses)
2. Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me (The Cure)
3. Sister (Sonic Youth)
4. Rock the House (DJ Jazzy Jeff and Fresh Prince)
5. A Momentary Lapse of Reason (Pink Floyd)

5) What is the most unjust pitchfork numerical rating? Why? (five sentence minimum).
Definitely Kings of Leon’s Only by the Night. They gave that album a 3.8 which is a huge slap in the face of a great indie band. I get that the album was a departure from Kings’ earlier stuff but it was definitely cutting edge and revolutionary for their style. “Closer” alone should up this rating to like at least a 6 or a 7 but that’s just from that one song. Others on the album are too good to pass up. Plus, pitchfork is so hit or miss and well “unjust” just sometimes doesn’t describe how much $*#*@ anger you have toward some of their ratings.

6) You are stranded on a desert island. Choose one artist's music: Morrissey, Moby, or Momus? Why? (six sentence minimum).
Definitely not Moby because, um, you know, Moby’s just so overdone. He’s definitely appealing when you first listen to him but after Play I thought his stuff went way down hill (though I did see him in concert at DEMF this past summer and he was pretty good). Probably wouldn’t go with momus either because I’m not a fan of his stuff (a little too postmodern for my tastes). So I’d probably go with Morrissey. I’m a huge fan of the Smiths (even if they were before my time) and while his solo stuff isn’t as good it’s not bad. Maybe I could spend all my time convincing him to get back with the Smiths (might be a worthy endeavor). Plus, who wouldn’t want a sly British accent accompanying you on a desert island?

7) BONUS REQUIREMENT: Please post a picture of yourself. (HINT: do this.)

http://photos-c.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-sf2p/v10/60/6/20810/n20810_30238378_1708.jpg

Oh and please send me an invite! My email is r a n d a l l 1(at)gmail(dot)com (no spaces).

whoa gr8 pic!

Tell me some more about Radiohead's In Rainbows. I'm particularly interested in Reckoner. Give me a few sentences on why it was widely considered to be the best song of 08.

If I'm satisfied w/ ur response, you'll get an invite : ]

Well In Rainbows is basically a masterpiece (also just for technicalities sake I included it in the 12-month time frame because it only was released on CD in the US in January '08), its kind of the culmination of everything good in The Bends and Kid A, sort of that perfect style of Radiohead that everyone had been itching for but could never get in their previous albums (albeit they were absolutely amazing). Reckoner is by far my favorite song on In Rainbows, easily. When I saw them in concert this past summer they opened with it and their LED light show was just incredible. The song kind of evokes that little bit of cynicism in all of is and Thom Yorke's voice in this song is so eerily soothing. Plus, the simplicity of the beat really emphasizes just how awesome Yorke's voice is in that it achieves a simultaneous melodic and instrumental effect. And that sick part about 3 minutes in where the beat tones down a bit and slowly builds up to the end of the song is a god send of Radiohead bliss.

by far AND easily

haha sorry, just a bit excited over Reckoner =]

not a simple beat imo

that is tru what u were saying about Yorke's voice's simultaneous melodicness and instrumentalness though, so u got yer invite. check your inbox holmes =)!

I COULD FALL ASLEEP INSIDE THE MELODICALLY UNDULATING FOLDS OF THOM'S LARYNX. SEND ME AN INVITE TOO?

THOM'S LIPS ARE LIKE TWO ELECTRIC BLANKETS THAT HUM AND QUIVER IN THE MIDDLE OF A COLD WINTER NIGHT. I COULD FALL ASLEEP BETWEEN THEM, THEY ARE SO INSTRUMENTAL. INVITE PLZ?

why not

just checked my inbox/spam folder and didn't get the invite, wilter. any chance you could try sending again, randall1(at)gmail(dot)com, or does it just take a bit of time? thanks for the invite =]

WOW I JUST CHECKED MY INBOX BECAUSE I WAS EXPECTING AN IMPOTANT EMAIL FROM A COWWORKER. AND I PRACTICALY JUMPED OUT OF MY SEAT WHEN I SAW THE WAFFLES INVITE STARING BACK AT ME. I HAD NO IDEA U GUYS WERE SO FAST!!! I MEAN I KNEW I'D GET MY WAFFLES INVITE WITHIN 72 HOURS, BUT THIS JUST BLOWS ME AWAY. THANX WAFFLES, UR THE BEST!!!!!!

I, TOO, RECEIVED MY WAFFLES INVITE ALMOST IMMEDIATELY. THANX WAFFLES, UR THE BEST!!!!!!

=] =] =]

np

Does it take some time to process? I'm excited about being part of a good torrent community again. Let me know -- possum7meister(at)gmail(dot)com

Hi, my friend got his invite here, how do you do it???

Redmond,

Our records show that we sent an email entitled "Welcome to Waffles!!!" to your Gmail address at 4:32:09 PM GMT on December 28. In order to complete the registration process, please send us a confirmation email including your username, the 17-digit security code which appears at the end of our welcome message, and a few words of gratitude. Only then will your journey to Waffles be complete :)

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~The Waffles Team

:) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :)

I wasn't able to find an email with the subject 'Welcome to Waffles!!!' in my inbox, 'all mail' folder, or 'spam' folder. I really appreciate this! Can you please resend to possum7meis✧✧✧@gm✧✧✧.c✧✧? Thank you so much again.

ugh. My email got mangled

it's possum7meister(at)gmail(dot)com

Whoa, are you the same possum7meister who invented Cinnamon Toast Crunch flavored milk? Small world, dude! I drink that stuff all the time.

Holy crap, that is me!

You should be asking for a Nobel Prize, not a Waffles invite!

Access to some nice torrents would be sufficient.

I'll get on it.

WHAT

a)MagusPOZ
b) Ken
c) 18
d) Male
e) California
f) http://img504.imageshack.us/img504/1125/castawayshe3.jpg

1) Name three shared albums (+192kbps only) that others have successfully downloaded from you on OiNK or other trackers
Stars - Sad Robots EP (192 kbps)
The Decemberists - The Crane Wife (Demos and Instrumentals) (192 kbps)
Laura Gibson - If You Come To Greet Me (FLAC)

2a) Explain what a ratio is in three or four sentences.
A ratio is the ammount you have uploaded divided by the ammount you have downloaded. It's best to mantain at least a 1.00 ratio so that you share as much as you take. More than 1 is always prefered.

2b)If you were a member of OiNK, tell us what your ratio was at the time of its closing. (be honest!)
Not a member of OiNK.

3) Briefly summarize the influence of African American culture on Western popular music (answer in paragraph format, eight sentence minimum).
African American music has been prevaliant in western popular music since the abolishment of slavery. Their blues and jazz helped mix with folk music which ended up making America's most unique art form, rock and roll. Their soul music expanded into popular forms of Gospel and R&B. R&B eventually lead to Hip Hop and Rap, which is are some of the most popular types of music in the modern age. The sounds of rap and hip hop, along with advancedments in rock, helped inspire techno and electronica music. Electronica has a big part on some of the indie rock music that has started to become more mainstream as of late. Rap and hip hop which are mainly an african american dominated genre is popular in other parts of the world such as the UK, which has helped spread Western culture overseas. This is similar to what Rock and Roll used to do.

4a) What (in order) are the 5 best releases from the last 12 months?
1. The Decemberists - Always The Bridesmaid
2. of Montreal - Skeletal Lamping
3. Sigur Rós - Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust
4. Margot and the Nuclear So and So's - Not Animal!
5. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes

4b) What (in order) are the 5 best releases from the year you were born?
1. They Might Be Giants - Flood
2. Pixies - Bossanova
3. Megadeth - Rust In Peace
4. Yo La Tengo - Fakebook
5. Sonic Youth - Goo

5) What is the most unjust pitchfork numerical rating? Why? (five sentence minimum).
Since it's so fresh in my mind, I will have to say of Montreal's Skeletal Lamping. It's really an album that needs to be heard more than once, and it's really just admirable in such a change of sound it is from Hissing Fauna, without it straying way too far. It's sad that Coldplay can release an album that sounds almost like everything else they've ever released, Viva La Vida (6.5), and score higher than Skeleltal Lamping(5.9). It makes pitchfork appear that all they want is the same thing over and over again, and don't want any type of musical expeirmentation.

6) You are stranded on a desert island. Choose one artist's music: Morrissey, Moby, or Momus? Why? (six sentence minimum).
Morrissey. Mainly because I'm quite the fan of The Smiths. And considering he's pretty asexual, I wouldn't have to worry about being rapped in my sleep. Plus, if there are any animals on the island, I'll be the only one to eat them. Although I will have to sit through him constantly singing Meat is Murder because of my meat eating. Looking at his new album cover, he looks pretty strong, which I believe we would need on a deserted island.

7) BONUS REQUIREMENT: Please post a picture of yourself. (HINT: do this.)
http://img504.imageshack.us/img504/8836/pb100103ki0.jpg

a) jonlawndale
b) Ty
c) 18
d) M
e) Midwest
f) http://i462.photobucket.com/albums/qq344/tyjonthomas/68B25704-A1CA-A9DA-7B72D69FA224D9E5.jpg</a>

1) The Skies We Built - EP
Stars - In Our Bedroom and After the War
Anathallo - Floating World

2a) A ratio is an extremely important thing. It is the amount uploaded divided by the amount downloaded. A user always wants a ratio above 1 because that means that you have shared more than you have taken.

2b) ~1.2

3) African American culture has had an extremely significant impact on popular Western music. This influence began in the nineteenth century with the rise of traditional work songs. The banjo, an instrument of African American origin, helped drive African American culture into mainstream Western music. In the beginning of the twentieth century, Blues and Jazz saw a rise in popularity. The Harlem Renaissance has been credited as an integral part of the development of popular music. In the 60's, vocal superstars such as Dianna Ross and Aretha Franklin rose in fame. Black pop artists such as Michael Jackson and Prince rose to the top artists in the world. In the 80's rap rose in popularity due to albums such as Raising Hell by Run DMC. African American culture has had a significant impact on popular Western music.

4a) 1. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
2. Atlas Sound - Let the Blind Lead Those Who Can See but Cannot Feel
3. TV on the Radio - Dear Science
4. Deerhunter - Microcastles
5. Fucked Up - The Chemistry of Common Life
4b)
1. Rollins Band - Turned On
2. Fugazi - Repeater
3. Social Distortion - Social Distortion
4. The Exploited - The Massacre
5. Helmet - Strap it On

5) Anathallo - Floating World 2.7

The album absolutely deserves a rating above a 2.7. The dynamics they reach certainly deserve some sort of recognition. The vocal melodies between to man and women is something beautiful. I grew up watching this band live and they are definitely talented. Maybe around a six or seven or so would be a better rating. The melodies are worth listening to.

6) I would spend time with Morrissey. I am a big fan of the Smiths. I believe he could lull me to sleep at night with haunting vocals. He is an amazing songwriter and an interesting individual. We could talk about politics and he could find me some great fruit, not meat. I would love to be on an island with Morrissey.
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tyjontho✧✧✧@gm✧✧✧.c✧✧ my e-mail

an invite would be amazing

ahh I mean tyjonthomas (at) gmail (dot) com

ah dude you fucked up the morrissey question -__-

I would spend time with Momus. I am a big fan of the Happy Family. I believe he could lull me to sleep at night with lispy, coolly postmodern vocals. He is an amazing songwriter and an interesting individual. We could talk about the racial politics of vending machines and he could find me some great Japanese girls, not fat and boring American ones. I would love to be on an island with Momus.

I totally love the hair jonlawndale but do you need to wear the cans all the time to keep it in place?

Yeah, the cans help.
An invite would help a lot too.

raise ur shirt so we can see the cans

I might have to

I'll do anything for an invite

were you standing next to some type of industrial dryer

Nahh, it's actually a mirror in a strange frame

trippy

5. Helmet - Strap it On

reenactment plzzzz

i'm asking because your hair is going sideways

hah, I understand.
well, I didn't have any type of fan on during that picture.
I'll do a reenactment any day.
invite? or no?

Wow bro you look exactly like Alex Chilton, is he you dad? (yes, your invite depends on how you answer this question)

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If Alex Chilton were my dad he would have taught me to write great pop songs. He would have taught me to play the guitar well. He would have had raised me in New Orleans. He would have introduced me to Richard Lloyd. I have not accomplished any of these things, therefore Alex Chilton is not my dad. I am honored that you think I look like him. Thanks though

Wow, if you'd just written, "yeah, he's my dad," I would've practically tossed the invite in your face. But that was a very thoughtful, mature response, and I'll put in a good word for ya to my peeps.

Somehow I imagine Alex as the type of father who'd hand you the deed to his guest house and the keys to his liquor cabinet the day you turned 12, then drive off and never visit you again until you graduated high school. Maybe I'm just an old cynic.

You could be very right.
Sounds correct

still ♥ him though

Oh yeah, me too.
Lost Decade is great.

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lol pwned

didn't know this site was on some 4chan type bullshit

ilxors in immature acts? tell me this is not so!

like 4chan ever gave anyone a waffles invite

Setting up a honeypot for the gullible and desperate in which they post their pic and can be contacted privately goes a bit further than immature.

hey waffles admin ^^you know what 2 do^^

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^__^

There has been a policy change to the waffles invites thread: Anyone who complains about admin policy will be banned from waffles.fm for a minimum of 10 years.

lol

Ang can I have an invite too?Or you won't give them?(

You need to fill out the invites form first, Grammer. It's posted above.

okay=)
a) Grammer
b) Anton
c) 20
d) Male
e) Moscow,Russia
f) I don't like them, sorry

1) Linkin Park - Numb
Limp Bizkit - Tree Dollar Bill, Yalls
David Guetta - Fuck Me Im Famous

2a) Ratio is the thing,that makes people better,because they only give files with ratio.Not all,but most download from free-ratio trackers and go out
2b)Unfortunately,I wasn't.

3)I think if the African American music won't make influence on Western music,we wouldn't listen to rap or raggey.As I like raggey,of course I think it's a good influence.Of cource,rap and raggey changed a lot on the west,that possibally makes them better.I don't know what could be if African American music wouldn't be in Europe

4a) Metallica - Death Magnetic
Beck - Modern Guilt
Lil Wayne - Tha Carter III
Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
AC/DC - Black Ice

4b) Living Colour - Vivid
Leonard Cohen - I'm Your Man
Metallica - ...And Justice for All
Enya - Watermark
Bon Jovi - New Jersey

5) I don't know what is it,sorry
6)I like the way of Moby life and his music.He is one of my favourite persons.And of course,I'd like to stay with him.He would help to live there.And fans would find him of course=)

Ned Raggey

Привет!

привет=)

Yr application has been rejected because of yr inability to follow its instructions.

What instructions I didn't follow?=( if I don't like images,does this meen anydhing?I will improve,say plz in what way I need to?

As I like raggey,of course I think it's a good influence.

=)

hmm,my English isn't perfect,sorry=) but I think I said what I wanted=)

My opinion can be stupid,but it's MY opinion =D

For instance, there are a minimum number of sentences required for answers that you did not provide. Also, you did not provide the highly recommended picture of yrself.

Note that the application will not be accepted if you simply tack on extra sentences. You must reformulate yr entire answers. Also, please put one or more spaces at the end of each sentence.

I can vouch for this Grammer, I got my invite after the same procedure! Think of it not as 'strict', but as 'correct' and 'thorough'.

Good luck!

okay,thanx to all you=) I'll try to rewrite as well as I can,really=)

Raggey jokes aside, your English is very good, Grammer.

=)

your английский язык is хороший

Рилли? O_o thanx a lot=)

lol aw

a) PatternsInTraffic or GhostOverground
b) Andrew
c) 20
d) Male
e) Temperance Michigan
f)http://www.stcloudstate.edu/music/performance/images/piano-avatar_000.gif

1) Name three shared albums (+192kbps only) that others have successfully downloaded from you on OiNK or other trackers
- Something Corporate - Songs for Silent Movies
- Opeth - Orchid
- Against Me! - Reinventing Axl Rose

2a) Explain what a ratio is in three or four sentences.
- A ratio is a term used to describe the users activity on a torrent site. The number is based on how much they download compared to how much they upload. A ratio is figured by dividing the amount uploaded by the amount downloaded. It is an effective way to keep track of users to make sure they are making contributions to a site.

2b)If you were a member of OiNK, tell us what your ratio was at the time of its closing. (be honest!)

Unfortunately, I was not a member of OiNK. I have a 2.98 or so ratio on Demonoid though

3) Briefly summarize the influence of African American culture on Western popular music (answer in paragraph format, eight sentence minimum).

- The influence of African American culture in Western music began in the 19th century with the advent of the black face minstrelsy, a minstrel show which was a show put on mainly by african americans. With the advent of the minstrel show the banjo, which was originated by African Americans, became a popular instrument. During the early 20th century there was a great increase in the popularity of African American blues and jazz. During the 70s there was an increase in African American melodic music such as soul, and African American culture lead to the invention of disco. In the 1980's African American pop artists such as Michael Jackson, Prince, Lionel Richie and Whitney Houston were the most successful of the era. Hip hop spread across the country and diversified. Techno, dance, Miami bass, chicago hip hous, Los Angeles hardcore and Washington D.C. go go developed during this time. Around 1986 rap took off into the mainstream with Run-D.M.C. Through 1990s and 2000s Hip Hop, Rap and R&B became the most popular genre of music for African Americans.

4a) What (in order) are the 5 best releases from the last 12 months?
-I hope this was supposed to be my own opinion.
1. Jacks Mannequin - The Glass Passenger.
2. Story of the Year - The Black Swan
3. The Academy Is... - Fast Times at Barrington High
4.girl talk - Feed the Animals
5. Cold Play - Viva la Vida

4b) What (in order) are the 5 best releases from the year you were born?

1988
1. Metallica - ...And Justice for All
2. Slayer -
3. N.W.A. - Straight Outta Compton
4. Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking
5. Pixies - Surfer Rosa

5) What is the most unjust pitchfork numerical rating? Why? (five sentence minimum).

Radiohead: The Best Of / The Best Of. - 2.0/4.0

I have been a fan of radiohead for as long as I can remember, and for them to get such a low rating is quite insulting. Considering the cd consists of some of their best songs I would believe it would do alot better. Although i'm not sure how "best of" cds compare to their original releases. I still believe the cd should have gotten at least a 7.0. Either way review have never steered me away, or towards music in the past.

6) You are stranded on a desert island. Choose one artist's music: Morrissey, Moby, or Momus? Why? (six sentence minimum).

Out of the three I would have to choose Momus. The obvious choice would be Moby, but after a few minutes of listening it I seem to lose intrest. I chose Momus because his music is... quite bizarre to say the least. And since I would be stuck on an island I would be quite content with his immense library of music. And even though his music is bizarre, it has its own quaint charm. Its kind of addicting. Also... eyepatch.

7) BONUS REQUIREMENT: Please post a picture of yourself. (HINT: do this.)
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Email - Bozmo3(at)gmail(dot)com

some reason my picture didn't show up

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Hey, I remember you from, like, 3 months ago! We spent hours trying to figure out where in Michigan you came from..... Temperance, I'll be goshdarned. Anyways, happy belated 20th birthday, patternintraffic!!! Always nice to hear from an old pal, & I'll def put in a good word for you w/ the admins. Take it easy.

Thought I'd give a 2009 update :D

temperance, michigan! funny name

haha yeah... When people ask where I live I will normally say Toledo, Ohio because its like 2 minutes away and more people know where that is

never heard of toledo either

do u prefer to muck fichigan or buck the fuckeyes

^^probably the most important question w/r/t an invite - decide wisely

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Ah, well Toledo may not be that known... but its more known than Temperance

oh man... Michigan or Ohio?

I lived in ohio for about 17 years of my life... so I have to go with the Buckeyes.

So how often are new invites dished out?

every hour on the hour

we dish waffles at 8 am fuck ya!!

(est)

You just hold tight there patterns. I am also from Toledo and and so I can say that yr waffles invite is in the pipe and you will enjoy it plenty.

haha thats exciting

Where at in toledo are ya from?

toledo SPAIN

patterns, I have since left Toledo and now live in SF, but I still have plenty of "Toledo soul", if you know what I am saying. I lived many places in T-town when I was there including Maumee, the old west end, and north Toledo.

I just realized my email on my profile was entered as boz✧✧✧@hotm✧✧✧.c✧✧, which is incorrect... its actually boz✧✧✧@gm✧✧✧.c✧✧

bozmo3(at)gmail(dot)com

not hotmail, sorry :c

Guys,I almost wrote this,but I don't understand this:
5) What is the most unjust pitchfork numerical rating? Why? (five sentence minimum).
Can anybody help me?

search out that liz phair 0.0 and go on a rampage

It got worthier))))I don't know where to find this rating

Liz Phair rating

Metallica rating #1, Metallica rating #2

now get worthy, my Спутник friend :)))

heh,txs a lot)

a) Grammer
b) Anton
c) 20
d) Male
e) Moscow,Russia
f)

1) Linkin Park - Numb
Limp Bizkit - Tree Dollar Bill, Yalls
David Guetta - Fuck Me Im Famous

2a) Ratio is the thing,that makes people better,because they only give files with ratio.Not all,but most download from free-ratio trackers and go out.
2b)Unfortunately,I wasn't.

3)African American culture does a very big influence on Western music.In modern life,there is not much styles of music,who are not from America.And most of American genres are made with Spirichuelce,then Blues and Jazz.As you can see,all of them are African American.These three genres made anothers,like Rock,Hip-Hop and others.I can't forget raggey.It made from Rockstedy(I don't know how to write it in English,sorry =( )that was a very cool,of course.But now I don't know any groops,who play it unfortunately.Reggey made ska,D'n'B and dub,my favourites genres.They are popular in Europe,as like all another African American styles of music

4a) Metallica - Death Magnetic
Beck - Modern Guilt
Lil Wayne - Tha Carter III
Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
AC/DC - Black Ice

4b) Living Colour - Vivid
Leonard Cohen - I'm Your Man
Metallica - ...And Justice for All
Enya - Watermark
Bon Jovi - New Jersey

5)Rating of Liz Phair's album is a really an unjust pitchfork.I listened it and liked it a bit.It's not the best release I listened,but it's not worse ofcouse.It can be only an objective opinion of writer if really it can be.I don't know specific of that site
6)I like the way of Moby life and his music.He is one of my favourite persons,because he always helps people in need.He spends money from his concerts to charity.He is a vegan,so he doesn't only think about himself.After these arguments,I think You'll understand that of course,I'd like to stay with him.And i really hope thay fans would find him of course and save us from this island=)

mail:grmmr07(at)gmail(dot)com
And what are tags to show photos or avatars there?where can I see them?
p.s.sorry with my English if smth is wrong =)

f) http://konina.pp.ru/uploads/images/1/4d1aadf2cd.png
7) http://konina.pp.ru/uploads/images/1/ed3275b9db.jpg

Ow,i did it I think)

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eee=) txs a lot)

hehe

How is my ankete?)

Hey,guys.are anybody here?

pretty anklet, Grammer!

Are Anklets, On Men, Gay?

Even more gay than the fact that you shave your legs.

― dork, Saturday, September 16, 2006 6:32 PM (2 years ago)

sorry,but what is anklet?

=(

don't fret!

Are Manklets, On Men, Manly? no need to =( if you can't answer this, Grammer

okay,txs=)

Does anybody know what's with waffles?i couldn't go to mainpage for 4 hours.Now it's good,though=)

are there anybody from waffles?I really want to go there=)

http://i43.tinypic.com/mkdla8.jpg

=)

I heard from someone that waffle invites do not work when sent to hotmail, is this true?

Yes, that it true. You have to use Gmail to receive waffles invites or else a private mail service.

and when can i have it?=(I'm waiting for 5 days...

Yr invite was sent on March 3rd Grammer. Do you have any spam filters on yr email account? Those often cause lost invites.

http://i43.tinypic.com/mkdla8.jpg

I gave my gmail email,but it's empty... grammer(at)gmail(dot)com
maybe now it will be better...

sorry, grmmr07(at)gmail(dot)com
this is right mail

=(

If you mess up you cannot get a second invite, Grammer. If waffles allowed that, there would be all kinds of abuse. Sorry but that's the way the chips fall.

I didn't miss it,I didn't get it at all.I gave this: grmmr07(at)gmail(dot)com mail,but it's empty...It isn't in spam or anywhere...and what should i do?If u gave me an invite,how much timeit works?maybe i could go with that invite...

I think u can look if anybody registered from this invite.To what mail did u send it?

That information is confidential, Grammer.

The invite was sent to grmm✧✧✧@gm✧✧✧.c✧✧.

You do know that Gmail automatically empties yr spam folder, right?

they need more then 30 days to be deleted...

if u can,send it to grammer(at)koderr(dot)info it hasn't got anything that can stop invite.I don't know what was with google,maybe it was google's bag...

Did you miss this part Grammer?

If you mess up you cannot get a second invite, Grammer. If waffles allowed that, there would be all kinds of abuse. Sorry but that's the way the chips fall.

but damn,i don't know whap is this...i didn't do anything.my mail is empty,i can give u a password if u don't trust me.maybe it was a google problem...

i think u can see if i used my invite,so u can see that i didn't...I think i'm very unlucky don't I

i'll try to speak to gmail support,but of course it won't give anything...i'm always unlucky

I'm curious if I was accepted to get an invite or not

they said that if i don't have a letter,u may have a message that i didn't get it...

patternsintraffic, u didn't get invite too?maybe it's not our problem...

Well I'm not sure or not if I did. The reason I ask is because if you click on my name and you click "send email to this person" it sends it to a hotmail account I dont use anymore.

and in my profile i accidentally put my email as bozmo3(at)hotmail(dot)com when its really bozmo3(at)gmail(dot)com

so who knows.

http://i43.tinypic.com/9ks043.jpg

so i don't get an invite?

ow,sorry.Txs baudelairex,and all you=)

daaaaaamn...it said me this:
Sorry
You need to be invited to sign up to waffles.fm! If you followed a link in an invitation email, be sure you copied and pasted it correctly
what could i do?

and can u say me what does this message mean?

Огорченно грамметика
Вам нужно быть приглашенным подписать до waffles.fm! Если вы последовали за соединением в электронной почте приглашения, то уверен вы скопировало и наклеило ее правильно что смогло я сделать?

i copied link right,but when i clicked to it,it said this.What can i do to go to waffles?I think u see,that i really want

we don't believe you really do want.

I'm sure everybody really do want

I don't want. I never wanted waffles. I haven't copied the links or followed the instructions. I'm not going to answer these questions. I don't want to receive your message --- Not under these circumstances. I'm not even sure what this is.

vvaffles

worst president ever

a) faultfinder
b) Michael
c) 20
d) male
e) Saint-Petersburg, Russian Federation
f) http://img443.imageshack.us/img443/7243/a370a7bd6jpglo3.jpg

1) Name three shared albums (+192kbps only) that others have successfully downloaded from you on OiNK or other trackers
I.Holger Czukay - Movies (FLAC)
II.Jori Hulkkonen - Different (FLAC)
III.Almamegretta - Vulgus (LAME V0)
2a) Explain what a ratio is in three or four sentences.
Ratio is a division of downloaded data by uploaded data. The good ratio equals 1.0 and above. If you have ratio below 1.0 you risk to be banned from private trackers.
2b)If you were a member of OiNK, tell us what your ratio was at the time of its closing. (be honest!)
I'm not ex-OiNK member.
3) Briefly summarize the influence of African American culture on Western popular music (answer in paragraph format, eight sentence minimum).
African American culture began to influence mainstream American music in 1800s and caused appearance of ragtime by the end of XIX-th century. African American culture caused jazz & blues in early XX-th century. In 40s - 50s African Americans developed Rock'n'Roll. And then soul in 1950s. In the 60s African Americans created R'n'B, funk. In 70s — reggae, disco, hip-hop. Techno, jungle, acid synthesized in 80s.
4a) What (in order) are the 5 best releases from the last 12 months?
1. Together through life – Bob Dylan
2. Invaders Must Die – The Prodigy
3. We Started Nothing – Ting Tings
4. Viva La Vida – Coldplay
5. Exotic Creatures of the Deep – Sparks
4b) What (in order) are the 5 best releases from the year you were born?
1. Protection – Massive Attack
2. Proof of Youth – The Go! Team
3. Real Gone – Tom Waits
4. Nevermind – Nirvana
5. Tender Prey – Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
5) What is the most unjust pitchfork numerical rating? Why? (five sentence minimum).
I don't read pitchfork.
6) You are stranded on a desert island. Choose one artist's music: Morrissey, Moby, or Momus? Why? (six sentence minimum).
I would not choose Momus cause its music relaxes. Moby is great. But his music like sounds of faraway lands. Nope. Morissey is good to move on. So I choose Morrissey.
7) BONUS REQUIREMENT: Please post a picture of yourself. (HINT: do this.)
http://img218.imageshack.us/img218/6646/img4720q.jpg

Привет!

Здравствуй!

turtleneck

whadda shitty moustache

we're sitting in his lap looking up @ him 8-(

a real waffles guy, his girlfriend's moustache is better

I would not choose Momus cause its music relaxes. Moby is great. But his music like sounds of faraway lands. Nope. Morissey is good to move on. So I choose Morrissey.

Based on this^ and only this^, I have sent u one webmail w/ futher instruction, faultfinda

Welcome to a waffles = )

wilter, I haven't received your e-mail.

fattyfinder, check your email. the invite's been resent

It seems webmail ds not work.
I've entered email in my profile.

*SiGh*

are applications for waffles.fm memberships still being accepted? if so, i would love to fill one out

They are, yes, I've got my membership from this lovely site here. You do need to fill out the form though, otherwise your request won't be applicable.

yea i saw the form, i just didnt want to try it if it was a dead thread. some of those questions are tough though...

a) requested username
ichow222
b) first name (no surnames)
Ian
c) age
19
d) gender
Male
e) geographic location
Chicago, Il
f) desired avatar (no cute avatars allowed)
No Desired Avatar

1) Name three shared albums (+192kbps only) that others have successfully downloaded from you on OiNK or other trackers

Fleet Foxes – Fleet Foxes (FLAC)
Grizzly Bear – Horn of Plenty (FLAC)
Kings of Leon – Only By the Night (FLAC)

2a) Explain what a ratio is in three or four sentences.
A ratio is everything that someone has uploaded weighed against everything that someone has downloaded. A ratio close to 1 is desirable as seeders are what keep trackers healthy. Low ratios are the problem with trackers like TPB, although some individuals will upload and seed files they download at least until they attain a 1:1 ratio, many will simply hit and run torrents leading to torrents with a few seeders but hundreds of times more lechers. Users with high ratios are the upside of private trackers but maintenance of a high ratio is extremely important to the survival of these private trackers.
2b)If you were a member of OiNK, tell us what your ratio was at the time of its closing. (be honest!)
Not a Member

3) Briefly summarize the influence of African American culture on Western popular music (answer in paragraph format, eight sentence minimum).
African American Culture, has had a myriad of effects on Western popular music, some individuals may even go so far as to say that African American culture has touched upon every genre of music in Western popular culture. African American culture has had an effect on Western music since the foundation of America with the forced immigration of slaves from Africa. Many forms of traditional American music like blues, jazz, salsa, and rumba derive from African musical traditions. For example, the tradition of blues music came about as a result of the confluence of European instrumentation and African tribal and folk songs. African speech patterns and the use of pentatonic scales led to blues notes in jazz and blues and were adapted to these new genres of music when African-American individuals learned how to play European instruments. Rock and rhythm music has its roots in these older forms of American music, so one could say that African American culture has touched all of these forms of music. Rap also finds its roots in African American culture as centuries before the existence of hip-hop, the griots, or poets, of West Africa were delivering stories rhythmically over drums and sparse instrumentation.

4a) What (in order) are the 5 best releases from the last 12 months?
1. Animal Collective – My Girls
2. Grizzly Bear – Southern Point
3. Kings of Leon – Sex on Fire
4. Fleet Foxes – White Winter Hymnal
5. Flume – Bon Iver

4b) What (in order) are the 5 best releases from the year you were born?
1. Uncle Tupelo – Whisky Bottle
2. Superchunk – Slack Motherfucker
3. Teenage Fanclub – Everything Flows
4. Yo La Tengo – Did I Tell You
5. Wonderful World – Flaming Lips

5) What is the most unjust pitchfork numerical rating? Why? (five sentence minimum).
I don’t really follow Pitchfork and their reviews of music but I’d have to say that the most unfair rating I’ve seen recently is the review of the Kings of Leon album, Only by the Night. After reading the review, it seemed that Pitchfork was attacking the band and Caleb Followill more than looking analytically at the music. They totally ignored the haunting narrative that the album establishes: the album is named after a line in an Edgar Allan Poe short story and the album follows a mystery woman from a spooky town who took Caleb’s heart and soul and the rest of the album quests to get both back. The entire album is surreal and is a great piece of art, it may not have been the greatest Kings of Leon album but it deserved much better than a 3.8 rating from Pitchfork and they certainly deserve such a scathing review.

6) You are stranded on a desert island. Choose one artist's music: Morrissey, Moby, or Momus? Why? (six sentence minimum).
I would definitely choose Morrissey in this case. Although Moby has an extensive catalog of music to choose from, I find that his music is often bland and repetitive. I think I would go crazy if I had to listen to him for the entire time that I was stranded on a desert island. Momus is a great artist and I am a fan of Josef K but I’m not sure that I would want to listen to his unique brand of quirky pop while stranded on an island. Morrissey’s music is also extremely significant and often contains a deep message about the human condition, it would be ripe for analysis on the island. I am also just a fan of the Smiths and Morrissey’s rich voice. Huge fan of Irish Blood, English Heart.

Image: http://photos-e.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-snc1/v1973/164/93/1223880694/n1223880694_30845284_8412.jpg
wasn't sure how to attach the image to the site...

Thanks and Let me Know if you guys need more info from me...

***DingDingDingDingDingDingDingDingDing*** — looks like we've got a lucky boy in the Waffles waiting room tonight!

here's a special SUPER BONUS question for my good friend Ian:

8) Explain, in 3 sentences or more (hint: do at least 5), why it's incorrect to describe the following songs as releases:

Uncle Tupelo – Whisky Bottle
Yo La Tengo – Did I Tell You
Wonderful World – Flaming Lips

8a) Redo question 4b (hint: ummmm try and get it right this time, bro-heem ;-)

8b) redo question 4b while you're at it. it's even wronger than the last one, imo.

"redo question 4b while you're at it," I should've written. what are you waiting for?

FUCK, should say 4a

I quit.

8)

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sorry, about the mistake, I didn't look closely enough at the previous successful posts as a guideline.

8.) The songs you described can not be described as releases because they were not independently released but were rather released as parts of albums. For example, Everything flows by Teenage Fanclub would classify as a release because it was released as a single track in 1990 and pressings were made of the track as a single. It would have been much more correct and apt to list albums as opposed to individual songs especially because the artists intended for these songs to be experienced collectively. I believe that in our electronic era, people often pick and choose individual tracks out of works to listen to but they do not consider the artists work as a whole. The artists intend to portray a particular message by grouping these tracks together and focus a lot of attention on the order that they put the music together, individual tracks on an album then are not releases.

8a.)
1. In a Priest Driven Ambulance - Flaming Lips
2. Bossanova - Pixies
3. Twin Infinitives - Royal Trux
4. Fakebook - Yo La Tengo
5. Nowhere - Ride

8b.)
1. Merriweather Post Pavilion - Animal Collective
2. Veckatamist - Grizzly Bear
3. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
4. A Kid Named Cudi - Kid Cudi - If you haven't heard this mixtape before, don't judge it on the single "Day 'N Nite" I think that song is way too overrated and other tracks on the album are much better. The album has a great narrative and my favorite track is "The Prayer." Hopefully Kanye doesn't destroy this artist..
5.Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend

Sorry it took so long to reply, i didnt see the responses until now. Hopefully my answers are alright now, if I didnt answer what you were looking for... let me know...

damn "Day 'N Nite" was a total highlight for me... having said that tho, tell me why all my homies are telling me "Merriweather.." owns Fleet Foxes s/t?

There's no doubt that merriweather is leaps and bounds above fleet foxes s/t. Fleet foxes has managed to put a wonderful spin on traditional folk-type music and has created music that is always engaging. Pecknold's vocals are prefectly complemented by the instrumentation in the album. For example, in the track, "Your Protecter" the usage of a flute in the background only serves to add greater weight to the album. My favorite tracks on this album would have to be "Your Protecter" and "White Winter Hymnal." I have just found that although I love the album, the originality of Animal Collective's album totally blows Fleet Foxes out of the water. Animal Collective on Merrweather, has managed to create a perfect balance between their electrosynth background sounds and the poppy lyrics that Panda belts out. Animal Collective just has a completely unique sound that can not be. Although Animal Collective has mastered their unique sound in this album, i believe the relationship created between tare and panda is amazing as Panda's straightforward melodies are perefectly complemented by Tare's bridges and choruses. I also dont really miss Tare's blurting vocalizations, although it was used as a sort of punctuation, I always thought they were sort of jarring.

You also can't beat the album name. I live quite close to Merriweather Post Pavilion and I have very clear memories of going there when I was younger and I can imagine myself having quite a few similar memories to the band members.

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i was the user banned above, i'm just curious as to why I was banned. If it was because for the last question, i did read a pitchfork review for reference and focused on the points that caught me when i listened to the music but I answered every single question I was asked truthfully. Honestly, the only reason that I looked at another review was because I couldn't explain why I liked Merriweather Pavilion more than i liked fleet foxes s/t, i just do. I think plain and simple that the music just sounds better and that it flows a lot better... I cant say that one album has intrinsic merits over the other one, i'm not a professional reviewer and I was just trying to join a valuable sharing community, I would definitely say that my bittorrent and seeding experience as well as my ripping experience would make me a valuable member.

R.I.P.ping experience

hey ichow I just got off the phone with our Dean of Admissions. he says "maybe."

***hint hint*** you might wanna check your inbox, bro-heem (^_~)

wow thanks, i really appreciate it. I haven't received the message and I tried sending a webmail to my account just to make sure that the issue wasn't with ilxor. would you mind sending it to the email associated with ichow222. the email just for reference is ianchow2✧✧✧@✧.northwest✧✧✧.e✧✧.

I think the reason its not working is because of this:
I heard from someone that waffle invites do not work when sent to hotmail, is this true?

― patternsintraffic, Saturday, March 7, 2009 7:35 PM (2 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Yes, that it true. You have to use Gmail to receive waffles invites or else a private mail service.

― Alas, those pwns never came. (libcrypt), Saturday, March 7, 2009 7:43 PM (2 months ago) Bookmark Suggest

The other account is tethered to aol, and its not in either the spam folders or the mail folder.

sorry ianchow2012 @
u.northwestern.edu

u like to eat?

chow, mein see u

@wilter: nope i still dont see it...

@I CHOW WHY DID U POST THIS:

a

― ichow222, Thursday, 14 May 2009 03:51 (7 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

ON THE ANIML COLLTIV THRED ON ILM?

****posted from Waffles Server****

not sure why people are so mad about this!

― rip dom passantino 3/5/09 never forget (max), Wednesday, May 13, 2009 1:50 PM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

a

― ichow222, Wednesday, May 13, 2009 1:51 PM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

^ zing

hmmm im not sure waffles is the right place for smart alecs like ICHOW... I'll leave this one up 2 the other admins.

kudos 2 iCHOW in any case,

Peace.

i'm honestly not sure how that got posted, it was accidental and you can't delete posts but i didn't intend anything by typing the letter a...

hmmmm sloppy work, chowdog.

i thot u wanted an waffles invite!!

came for the waffles, stayed for the roffles

aw, quit waffling and come clean, chowy. we all know you were starting to spell out the message "a r e y o u o n f u c k i n g c r a c k w h i n e y," posting one letter every 12 hours for the next two weeks until you drove the point home.

i still havent gotten my invite, can it be sent please?

sure!

o my god ichow why dont u go back to trolling animalcollective threads :c(

i'm not trolling i was just told that i could have an invite and i wanted to ask if it could be sent because i havent received anything in the past week

I didnt receive anything admin 2

ichow a dick

clau✧✧✧.latisn✧✧✧@gm✧✧✧.c✧✧

name

if only it was claudia dot latinsista at gmail
it would be invite time 4 u

well it's not, but claudia.latisnere at gmail is ok, isn't it?

oh sure, invite is on the way

There you are, now I'm at gmail as clau✧✧✧.latinsi✧✧✧@gm✧✧✧.c✧✧, you must must be very delighted to make people do things to get an invite, I'd be if I were you.

u offering to post pix?

sure why not, wait a minute

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didn't work, here it goes again http://i249.photobucket.com/albums/gg234/gorupo_yo/DSC_0435.jpg

At least I tried, have a nice life!

nice knowing u

man see u

OK, I'll play.

a) dehory
b) Albert
c) 27
d) M
e) New York, NY
f) http://yfrog.com/5espkrsj

1) Arthur Russell - First Thought Best Thought
Arthur Russell - Another Thought
In Sync - Storm/Warm
Marcin Czubala - Mezcalinna
Soul Capsule - Waiting 4 A Way
(All at Torrentech)

2a) In the BitTorrent world, ratio refers to the amount of data uploaded (or seeded) over the amount of data downloaded. A ratio of 2.0 means that you've seeded twice as much as you've downloaded. A ratio of 0.2 means you've downloaded five times as much as you've seeded. Seeding is what keeps BitTorrent afloat, so maintaining a good ratio is essential.
2b) I was not a member of OiNK. My ratio at Torrentech is 1.72.

3) It is almost impossible to think of a popular musical genre where African American culture has not played a central role. Although it's pretty much accepted nowadays that the early blues music laid down by figures like Mamie Smith and Blind Lemon Jefferson eventually (via Muddy Waters, Chuck Berry et al) became the foundation for later pop/rock musicians like the Beach Boys, Elvis Presley and Bob Dylan, it's still easy to take for granted how thoroughly African American culture is engrained in the popular musical imagination. Look beyond jazz, Motown and the very obvious modern hegemony of Hip Hop/R&B-derived sounds, and you can see its influence on everything from electronic dance music (techno, house and disco were all products of urban black culture) to country and bluegrass (they wouldn't exist without gospel spirituals and the banjo, both of which have Afro-American roots). Call-and-response, the pentatonic scale, and polyrhythm (to name but a few motifs of African American-inspired/derived music) have been and remain key elements of all aspects of popular music.

4a) DJ Sprinkles - Midtown 120 Blues (mule musiq cd 9)
Kassem Mosse - Workshop 08 (WORKSHOP 08)
Mount Kimbie - Maybes EP (HF 021)
Joker/2000F & J Kamata - Digidesign/You Don't Know What Love Is (HDB018)
Omar Souleyman - Dabke 2020 (SF049CD)

4b) Whitehouse - Dedicated To Peter Kürten (WDC 881010)
Alvin Lucier - I Am Sitting In A Room (VR 1013)
Can - Delay 1968 (SPOON 012)
Scientist - Scientist Rids The World Of The Evil Curse Of The Vampires (GREL 25)
ESG - You're No Good (FAC 34)

5) Occasionally I read at the Philip Sherburne and Martin Clark columns on Pitchfork (glad they returned), but I don't read the reviews. In fact, since using a numerical system for judging music (down to the decimal point) is nonsensical at best, I'd say all of them are equally unjust.

6) If I picked Morrissey or Momus, I might actually be tempted to sit and listen to their music rather than devoting all of my energies and efforts to building a giant mirror made out of CDs to signal for help. Moby's not-insignificant cassette tape discography would also allow me to construct a raft with which to drift slowly back to civilization and my lovely music collection.

7) http://yfrog.com/424982026j

since we're talking numerical systems for judging, i give ur application 0.5/10

can u trade me a torrentech invite btw?

Sure, bring on the waffles.

j/k torrentech is for absolute clowns

waffles 4 eva, bro.

lol

http://www.cookieclown.com/CookieAd07_015__2_.jpg

^ New picture for bonus requirement. Just in case it'll bump my application's numerical score.

^ ban

Yah, lol@troll

a) polyphonic (or polyphonique)
b) Michael
c) 31
d) male
e) Oakland, CA, USA
f) http://farm1.static.flickr.com/172/447378169_01bf5d100f_m.jpg (or something else if that's too cute)

1) I've never participated in a torrent site like this one before. I've been happy to just use Soulseek, but a friend of mine raved about Waffles, so I'm interested in checking it out. I fully intend to be a valued contributor.

2a) A ratio is "a relationship in degree or number between two similar things." In this case, those "similar things" are a user's uploaded and downloaded data. Ratios exist to ensure that users don't simply log in and take as much as they want without contributing.

2b) Never checked out OiNK, but I'm sure it was great.

3) I'm no expert, but at the very latest, black influence on American popular music began with the blues. It's possible that the spiritual songs of enslaved workers informed earlier musical forms. The blues continues to influence modern pop music, even musicians such as the Velvet Underground (for example) who tried to remove traces of the blues from their sound in order to differentiate themselves. As the century continued on, black musicians participated in most of the major developments in American popular music. (I assume you know what they are!) But black Americans didn't only influence American music; they also influenced music throughout the world. There would be no Mulatu Astatqe without Duke Ellington and his peers, and there would have been no Jimmy Cliff had there not been a Sam Cooke. And those artists have in turn influenced American artists, creating a better world in the process. *cue soaring choir*

4a) Vivian Girls, Vivian Girls
Micachu and the Shapes, Jewellery
Blaq Poet, Blaqlist
Bibio, Ambivalence Avenue
The Oh Sees, Help

4b) Ramones, Rocket to Russia
The Clash, The Clash
Kraftwerk, Trans-Europe Express
Television, Marquee Moon
The Congos, Heart of the Congos

5) What is the most unjust pitchfork numerical rating? Why? (five sentence minimum).
Who gives a shit about Pitchfork? (x5)

6) Moby's music does nothing for me. Momus is a better webboard participant than he is a songwriter. Morrissey on the other hand participated in four great records with the Smiths, and several decent albums as a solo artist. His has an amazing chin. He has a ton of style. Latino dudes and dudettes love him. What's not to like?

7) http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/310496614/yo2_bigger.jpg

Anyone from waffles still reading these? If so email me at tow✧✧✧@gm✧✧✧.c✧✧
Got my original OINK invite...

towser at gmail dot com

hi can i hav a oink invite please

Hi, it seems I'm a bit late for breakfast, but would still love some freshmade waffles along with this strawberry jam & bowl of cream just sitting in my table...

a) Rockmaniac
b) Pete
c) 30
d) Male
e) Stockholm, Sweden.
f) http://yfrog.com/4pmewsepia2g

1) Manic Street Preachers - Journal for Plague Lovers (Remixes) (320 kbps mp3)
kent - Du & Jag Döden (FLAC)
Mew - Half the world is watching me (10-Track Version) (FLAC)

2a) A ratio is the result you get if dividing the amount uploaded by the amount downloaded
As in if I'd download 1 GB of Music, I'd need to upload 1 GB to keep it at an even 1.0.
If I want say a 3.2 ratio in this particular case you need to upload 3.2, if you dl 2 GB
- you need to up 6.4 GB to maintain that ratio.
You always strive for ratios better than 1.

2b) 1.3

3) What can I say. African American culture is more or less the root of everything musicwise.
You can find relations to everything from today's pop - which's pathway was pawed by the likes of
James Brown, Smokey Robinson, and the recently passed Michael Jackson. Without these artists,
music such as Justin, Britney (Not that that'd sadden me the least) - or any kind of Hip-Hop -
Would never have been able to be accepted and reach the masses. The black going into white people's
music I'd say began with Elvis, who's biggest influence was the Blues, which was up until then,
only for blacks. But gained respect in the white crowd, with the rise of Elvis.

4a)

Has to be albums or are singles + eps in the competition?

Albums Only

1. Muse - The Resistance - Album of the year until kent comes out
2. Mew - No more stories... - Well, they done it again...
3. New Moon OST - OST only, can't stand the Twilight series.
4. Morrissey - Years of Refusal - not Morrissey's best, but still a masterpiece.
5. Glasvegas - Glasvegas - album of the Year last year, released in Sweden, 18th October,
so barely made it, but I had to mention it.

w singles and EPs included:

1. kent - Töntarna
2. Glasvegas - A Snowflake Fell (And It Felt Like A Kiss)
3. Muse - The Resistance
4. Mew - No more stories...
5. Manic Street Preachers - Journal for Plague Lovers (Remixes) (EP)

4b)

1979...

hard...

1. Michael Jackson - Off The Wall
2. Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
3. The Clash - London Calling
4. Queen - Live Killers - my favourite live album from them without any competition.
5. Pink Floyd - The Wall

5) I'll have to go quite recent.

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/13453-the-resistance/

Muse - The Resistance was given a meager 5.9 / 10

Why, because they out of some obscure reason despised everything muse did since Origin of Symmetry...

[quote]"So let's take the warm fuzzy bigness of the music at face value. It's understandable if the Buckley mannerisms
and Mercury multi-tracking on "The United States of Eurasia" aren't your cup of tea. You may cringe at the Pavlov-approved crescendos that surge through "Guiding Light", the sort of thing where you imagine a ProTools preset producers have nicknamed "10,000 People Holding up Bics They Bought Especially for the Concert."
And then there's "Exogenesis", the aforementioned "Symphony" in three parts.
Now a Daydream Nation style knowing "trilogy" this is not. There's massed strings.
There's half-time chest-beating theatrics ready for flashpots and Vegas set design.
If it's not quite Keith Emerson's territory-- or Celine Dion's, for that matter--
it's a similarly grandiose ballpark where the fans wear slightly different clothes. [[/quote]

And a music enjoyer's reply to this garbage:

Muse are stadium arena rock at its best. With influences such as Freddie Mercury,
paired with the intenseness of Matt's voice, how can you fail?
Sure it may be very much inspired by Bohemian Rhapsody - but in a worthy groovy kind of setup and performance.
And I'm sorry Bitchfork, but who on this earth with anything close to a brain,
and well possibly cleaned out ears would consider Jeff Buckley a bad influence?

Matt's greatest hero is the classical music composer - and moreso performer -
Rachmaninov - and - all hail Rock Music - but would it have existed
without the likes of Mozart and beethoven practising their pianos day and night -
and - making musical love to them - later inspiring Great Balls of Fire,
from a certain Jerry Lee Lewis. The Energy Prevails, through both Guiding Light -
and the 3 part symphony that kicks the shit out of any album's ending
till this day, bringing back memories of Jerry Lee hammering on Rachmaninovs piano,
leaving sweat marks on the first and last sets of keys - after dancing on the black and whites
to the heartbeats of Uprising. This is the album everyone dreams of getting to create.

6) Easy. Morrissey. I've grown up with his music, crying and sweating to "The last of the famous international playboys" -
Mr. Steven Patrick Morrissey.
Momus's music says nothing to me so I'll leave that at that. Moby gave me a veeery short dancefloor craze in the 90's - but despite being a anti-animaleater, like Morrissey, I don't think he'd give anything even close to satisfying my musical hunger
nor my internal lack but lustful need for Teenage Angst poetry. Supplied better than by noone other than Morrissey. All the way from wanting to die as a teenager just from boredom, and molding the likes of Manic Street Preachers, esp Richey. - to
living in America, while doing a song on how much better England and Ireland are - in an amusing and very sarcastic expression - Only Morrissey can walk that mile.

7) http://yfrog.com/5simg0430tj

and my none hotmail email would be jooeyman (at) mail (dot) com.
So please send invite to that email instead of the hotmail I registered with...
If you feel I deserve one.

Thanks in advance

/Pete.

The black going into white people's music I'd say began with Elvis, who's biggest influence was the Blues, which was up until then,
only for blacks.

jooeyman, buddy, have you ever heard of Frank Hutchison? Darby & Tarlton? Dock Boggs? Your knowledge of early American pop music seems to be woefully undeveloped, and that just won't fly on Waffles. Tell ya what, if you write me an essay (6 sentences minimum)(HINT: do at least 8 sentences) on the early history of white country blues, I'll pretend you never made such an ignorant fool of yourself, and you might have a fighting chance of joining the Waffles community just in time for Hallowaffleen. Deal?

I'll give it a shot, here goes:

In the 1960's the greatness of the blues, was discovered by white American and European musicians.
Quite a few of these blues-inspired bands became legends.
Many of these are well-renowned and known to many still today.
Bands such as The Rolling Stones, Fleetwood Mac, Canned Heat, Cream and The Yardbirds made the blues appeal to young white audiences, something that black blues artists had yet not been able to do in America.
With the exception of white crossover covers of black rhythm and blues songs. Such as Frank Hutchison - already recording in the early 1920's - and thus considered the first white man to record the blues. Soon to be followed by Darby & Tarlton - who with their songs "Birmingham Jail" and "Columbus Stockade Blues", coupled on one record, managed to sell more than 200 000 copies.

Rock has since the 1960's undergone several quite a few blues revivals.
For example Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page, and even Eddie Van Halen - are inspired by the blues
- and used it as a foundation for their own offshoot styles. With this inspiriring generations to listen to
as well as to play the blues.

=D

Thank You, Thank You! *Bows to the Waffle Master*

So is there any chance that I can expect some waffle in my mailbox?

Please - Send it to jooeyman (at) mail (dot) com

Thanks a lot!

/Pete

AUTOMATED MESSAGE:
User Rockmaniac: your invite has been forwarded to =D (at) =D (dot) com, per your request. Please allow 24 to 72 hours for delivery. Welcome to the Waffles community, etc.

AUTOMATED MESSAGE:User Rockmaniac: your invite has been forwarded to =D (at) =D (dot) com, per your request. - ummm...is that just censoring my mail - or did this go wrong in some way. I just ask to be safe.

Please Master of Waffles! Hear my call! Let me know if I did something wrong - or if I can actually expect fresh waffles in my mailbox, which is not =D (at) =D (dot) com, but jooeyman (at) mail (dot) com.

Oh please be so gracious and fill me in. I'm too hungry not to be in the know!

Thank You Lord Waffles for thy generousity!

May Jam & Cream be with Thee.

uhh jooeyman stop sending me emails you fukkin lunatic sheesh.

jooeyban

hahaha wilter

sorry wilter. but what would you do if you get no reply man?

besides still didnt get that invite. I know I'd contribute to the site. I have a bunch of rare swedish indie that'd do waffles good. only as an example I have a full Honey is cool discography (Karin from the Knife's old indie band) that I'd love to contribute with...was my no1 most downloaded torrent on oink back in the day. got me around 3 gb up on one 320kbps album...

besides I believe I did earn my invite, did i not?

it sure felt like it.

again sorry wilter, but i just wanted to know what was going on.

please gimme a fair chance.

/jooeyman's alter ego.

a) requested username:Midway3stacks
b) first name:Trenell
c) age:23
d) gender: male
e) geographic location: Orlando, FL
f) desired avatar http://www.xcomment.com/g3/img/lilwayne_4012908055810.gif
1) Name three shared albums (+192kbps only) that others have successfully downloaded from you on OiNK or other trackers: never been on Oink
2a) Explain what a ratio is in three or four sentences:
Ratio is the amount of how much you download and how much you share(upload).
Say if I DL 2G of music then upload 1G of music my ratio will be .50. Its better have a higher ratio so one is not seen as just a leach.
2b)If you were a member of OiNK, tell us what your ratio was at the time of its closing. (be honest!)
Never was a member.
3) Briefly summarize the influence of African American culture on Western popular music (answer in paragraph format, eight sentence minimum).
It started way back when rock and roll music which was the blues sped up influenced some of the earliy rock and roll pioneres like elvis presley. At the time chuck berry was recording it was a sound that was not heard before and often duplicated after that. And many other black artist of that time had to put on a “show” to be noticed. Until record company’s saw the potential in R’n’B, soul music, and a few record company’s started pushing these type of records eg Motown, chess records. Then years passed R’n’B survived the 60’s-80’s.The 80’s a new genre of music emerged Hip Hop. This genre has influenced everthing and is a steadly growing market. Afiracan American music has beeply rooted its self in all aspsects of music.
4a) What (in order) are the 5 best releases from the last 12 months?
1. The Carter 3
2. Jay-z: Blueprint 3
3. Wale: attention deficit
4. Lil wayne : Rebirth
5. Young Money: We are young money
4b) What (in order) are the 5 best releases from the year you were born?
1. Black Sabbath- seventh star
2. Janet Jackson-control
3. RUN D.M.C.- Raising hell
4. Alice cooper-constrictor
5. Slater- reign in blood
5) What is the most unjust pitchfork numerical rating? Why? (five sentence minimum).
Im going to be honest I have never read a pitchfork rating
6) You are stranded on a desert island. Choose one artist's music: Morrissey, Moby, or Momus? Why? (six sentence minimum).i would choose moby maybe for the fact that if you listen to anyone’s music long enough you can find the music to be some what listenable. So I can just honestly say that anyone of these artist I would take and listen to just for the simple fact that I will maybe go deaf after a while. So even if the music completey blows I would be ok IMO. There is no thing as bad music just horrible musicians that’s how I feel
7) BONUS REQUIREMENT: Please post a picture of yourself. (HINT: do this.)
http://i48.tinypic.com/2wdy3wn.jpg

a) requested username
WackyWar4

b) first name (no surnames)
Sean

c) age
19

d) gender
male

e) geographic location
St. Louis, MO

f) desired avatar (no cute avatars allowed)
http://img690.imageshack.us/img690/4703/avatar14067.jpg

1) Name three shared albums (+192kbps only) that others have successfully downloaded from you on OiNK or other trackers
Broken Social Scene - Bee Hives (320kbps)
Animal Collective - live at variety playhouse 2009 (320)
Digable Planets -Blowout Comb (320)

2a) Explain what a ratio is in three or four sentences.
A ratio it the amount one has downloaded divided by the amount one has uploaded. It is the key to watching members of a site, and whether they are just leeching and not actually seeding things. A way to keep the riffraff out.

2b)If you were a member of OiNK, tell us what your ratio was at the time of its closing. (be honest!)
i wasn't a member

3) Briefly summarize the influence of African American culture on Western popular music (answer in paragraph format, eight sentence minimum).
The whole start to jazz, which brought along things such as soul was started by African Americans. That with the help of things like Motown got swirled into popular music, and started becoming interracial. Another influence it has was the birth of hip hop from soul, which is a major factor in pop music, and today where it has transformed to rap. Without African American culture we would not have half the music we have today.

4a) What (in order) are the 5 best releases from the last 12 months?
Fuck Buttons - Tarot Sport
Lightning Bolt - Earthly Delights
Washed Out - High Times
Raekwon - Only Built for Cuban Linx
Cymbals Eat Guitars - Why There Are Mountains

4b) What (in order) are the 5 best releases from the year you were born?
Low End Theory - A Tribe Called Quest
De La Soul Is Dead - De La Soul
loveless - My Bloody Valentine
Steady Diet of Nothing - Fugazi
Green Mind - Dinosaur Jr

5) What is the most unjust pitchfork numerical rating? Why? (five sentence minimum).
I think girls was the most unjust rating at 9.1. The simple indie pop tunes, and standard vocals brought nothing to the table. Sure, it was an okay album, but for it to score that high on such an egotistical scale is dumb. I can't stand girls album's pop tunes for more than 4 minutes. I hope pitchfork would wise up about their idiotic rating scale.

6) You are stranded on a desert island. Choose one artist's music: Morrissey, Moby, or Momus? Why? (six sentence minimum).
I'd have to pick Morrissey, as much as it might sweep me into depression, especially being alone on an island. I was always a fan of the smiths, it's what i was raised on. Meat is murder and The Queen is Dead are both pure gold, so i would always choose Morrissey, despite his rocky solo career in my opinion. Moby might have been an interesting choice though..

7) BONUS REQUIREMENT: Please post a picture of yourself. (HINT: do this.)
http://img713.imageshack.us/img713/3962/photoel.jpg

hey appearantly demonoid sux. i didn't know because i was using them and they seemed fine and a demonoid invite code isn't worth a Waffles invite. well is there any way that i can get one?

Will trade a KG invite for a Waffle