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Kai's Stupid A.I. experiments: #2 A much, MUCH better lineup for Ozzfest 2001 (with setlists!)

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     I am obsessed with setlists.  Looking them up, studying them, what bands do and don't play, positions where certain songs end up.  What usually opens a show, what closes a show.   In my spare time I love typing setlists.  A sad eccentric hobby, but its my own.      Sometimes what I'll do is I'll make bills with the opening bands as well.  Well one thing I started doing is rewriting Ozzfest history.  We all know nu-metal is trash, and unfortunately, by the 00s Ozzfest became Ozzy or Black Sabbath headlining, followed with a bunch of awful crap that self-respecting oldheads (or kids that hate the music of their generation) would rather shoot on stage than listen to their music. 2001 was particularly awful.     Well, I decided to use AI to make what I wanted Ozzfest 2001 to be.  And here's what it generated:      No, it didn't read my mind (thank god), I specifically picked those bands myself. ...
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Ten 1986 albums that are better than Master of Puppets (and 5 albums that aren't)

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          You know what I don't think is all that good that's turning 40?  Metallica's Master of Puppets .  Now as the title gives away, I don't think it's the worst album of 1986 either.  So since it turns 40, I figured I'd remember the record accurately, but fairly, so let's start with 10 albums I think are objectively better than Orion and the betas.  These are in no-order, any-genre, and reverse alphabetical order seems more satanic, so we'll go with that. So here are at least 10 albums that beat Master of Puppets  fair and square: The Smiths- The Queen is Dead Jangle-acoustic pop rock masterstroke.  This ranks higher than the album on the official 1986 RYM album list.  I agree, but they both are outflanked by.... Slayer- Reign In Blood The most obvious alternative ever.  No cleans, no quiets, just pure loud, vicious rage.  Certainly not the only album to do this, but arguably the most legendary.   Run D...
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Changes Lovebites need to make to step up to the next level. (now with post-Outstanding Power assessments)

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           For those of you new here, Lovebites, the Japanese speed/power metal band that is of uniform Y chromosome, is my favorite modern metal band.  I love them and want them to be the second biggest thing to come out of Japan (I say second because nothing will ever beat Nintendo).  I want them to become the thing that so called metal elitist complain about, even though they are THE band of the metal elitists, as I am KING of the metal elitsts (I was hating the bands of my generation long before it was cool for any of you to do).      That said, they aren't there yet.  And I feel like if they stay the course as things are, its just not gonna happen.  So here I am, in all my armchair-quarterback-backseat-driver-pundit glory, with my suggestions on how Lovebites can ascend to the level of their (and my) heroes of Judas Priest, Iron Maiden and Motorhead.  Either with the next record (and by that I mean the one after ...
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Kai vs RYM metal charts: the 00's decade

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          Not sure why I'm doing this.  Definitely against my better judgement.  I guess just stopping on 2002 didn't feel quite right.  I guess to proper finish out the decade I changed the chart maker from a specific year to a decade.  Some of these will be repeats of course.  For the final time, let's go holy diving..... 1. System of a Down- Toxicity      Covered this already.  Best of the decade?  No.  But again, at least it ain't Blackwater Park . Should this be on a top 10 of the decade: Oh....I suppose. Would this be on my top 10 of the decade:   No. 2. Electric Wizard- Dopethrone      Wow, nothing from post 2003 is considered better than this, huh?  I can think of a few albums that do such.  And as I said, I like Dopethrone .  Would understand if lead guitar was louder in the mix. Should this be on a top 10 of the decade: Yes Would this be on my top 10 of the d...
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Kai's stupid A.I. experiments: #1: Tarja Turunen blows up the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

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     So my brief thoughts on A.I.:  I think it was forced upon us by billionaires to begin the acceleration process of human extinction.  I am all against it being used in music or any music creation form or fashion.  Album covers, music videos, music itself, if you're a metal band and you use it rather than pay someone, fuck you you drop down a peg.      However, I am 100% in favor of A.I. for the purposes of metal shit-posting!  I don't have the patience to draw.  So I decided to use it for my brain. I entered in the following text: TARJA TURUNEN AS A SKY SORCERESS USING MAGIC POWERS TO BLOW UP THE ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME. This is what popped out: Why a sky sorcreress you ask?  Cos I was trying to get a replication of the Destruction's The Antichrist  album.  Which as you know from me constantly talking about how it's the best album of 2001, looks like this: So I guess I wanted it to turn out like that except T...
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