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Hey, how goes it? I'm an industrial maintenance/ammonia refrigeration student who has been a musical hobbyist for a few years (still learning the basics though). I look forward to talking to everyone here!

Hi. Favourite bands now, go!

and don't worry, our opinion of you will only entirely be formed based on your taste.

And your first avatar.

Hey Scnowyy, welcome to Music Banter.

I have way too many, let's sort this by genre.

Rock/Punk Rock/Alternative Rock:
The Offspring
Green Day
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Tool
Audioslave
Modest Mouse
Ram Jam

Hard Rock/Metal:
Five Finger Death Punch
Metallica
Guns 'n' Roses
Megadeth
System of a Down
Rise Against

Grunge:
Nirvana
Soundgarden

Blues/Blues Rock:
Gary Clark Jr.
Jimi Hendrix
The Black Keys
The White Stripes
Courtney Barnett
Barns Courtney

Jazz:
Stevie Wonder
Frank Sinatra
Peggy Lee
Louis Armstrong
Sammy Davis Jr.
Dean Martin
Ella Fitzgerald
Billie Holiday
Sarah Vaughan

Classical:
Chopin
Vivaldi
Grieg

Other:
Jason Mraz
Two Steps From hell

There are others that I am sure I am forgetting, and will regret not including.

Props on representing Ram Jam.

That’s the worst 4 bands written in procession I’ve ever seen. :beer:

Welcome to MB.
Which brands of ammonia do you like?

:beer:

Favorite Megadeth albums? I'm one of the weirdos who love the 90's period the most. Add So Far, So Good, So What and most of my favorite MD albums would be covered.

E tu? I always feel like I'm the only person on Earth who doesn't worship Tool.

Hi, Scnowwy, do they still make those Ammonia cokes? (apparently they were popular in the sixties)

Their music is boring as ****. I hate the way their fans act like they’re on to some kind of incredible pyramid unlocking psychedelic secret. It’s like yo people, it’s not deep. It’s not psychedelic. It’s boring ass watered down metal.

You'd have to not be aware of any kind of prog rock besides Pink Floyd singles to consider Tool in any way progressive or experimental and not just tepid, pretentious alt metal.

I'd say "Killing Is My Business.... and Business Is Good." (My favorite 90s Megadeth album would be Countdown to Exctinction.)

And as far as Tool goes, it's mostly just nostalgia for me. My mother listened to them when I was young.

I had never heard of that, but after looking it up, if you were to do that with the type of ammonia used in refrigeration, you would die a painful death.

Ammonia used in refrigeration is very different from the type you buy at the store. The stuff you buy at the atore has about 2-3% ammonia, the stuff used in refrigeration is anhydrous ammonia, which is at least 99.997% pure ammonia. That being said, I am not sure what companies/"brands" actually supply anhydrous ammonia... I'll ask around and get back to you on that.

I actually read about ammonia cokes from my former boss who is now a writer. Apparently they sold them at the soda counters in the fifties and sixties. I think it was from something called spirits of ammonia which I assume could have been used in cooking at the time. (It wasn't actually ammonia obviously)

Yeah, pure ammonia is NH3. According to Google, the stuff used in ammonia coke is ammonium hydroxide, which is NH4OH. Apparently you can also still buy the stuff.

B-but the Fibonacci sequence!

What punk band were Pearl Jam cashing in on? Led Zeppelin?

Killing Is My Business goes head to head with Rust in Piece for me. 90s I guess Countdown to Extinction, but I have a sort of attachment to Risk cause I'm always the only one in the room ready to defend it.

I don't hate Risk. The standout song on that album for me was "Time: The Beginning."

Wut? The Time songs are awful and even I won't carry water for them. "Insomnia" and "Breadline" are the co-headliners.

Get ‘em!

Eh, I still like his voice in "The Time: Beginning." That being said, I do also get "Enter the Arena" and "Crush 'Em" in my head occasionally.

What's your thoughts on the 2000s albums?

Because that’s the label they were given.

Cobain agreed with you.

I give not the slightest **** about Megadeth after Risk. They've had the odd good song, but Dave Mustaine's "return" to thrash is a ****ing sham. He clearly doesn't care and is just doing it for the money (ironically, given why he left it in the first place). They are so tepid and dull now that I don't know why so many people even bother. Just listening to Mustaine bitch about politics like a Rush Limbaugh caller makes me want to shoot myself in the head.