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Re:The 1980s Media Panic over Dungeons and Dragons (2016) by nobleach on Friday March 11, 2022 @04:43PM (#30646395)
I remember hearing "While the devil wants to f** me in the back of his car" and thinking, "wow, I'm sure as a 12 year old, I'm supposed to find this thrilling... such aggression , such anger... this guy seems really mad at things he doesn't even believe in." I just wasn't interested in it. Not saying Trent isn't a genius. Or that I don't appreciate all the cool experimentation he was doing back then (sending instruments and vocals through an ARP 2600!!). That lyric just felt like a cop-out to me.

Church camp did get me listening to Metallica though! Fade To Black was such an amazing song... and no amount of "this song was written by the devil to make kids kill themselves" could ever change that.

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Re:The 1980s Media Panic over Dungeons and Dragons (2016) by jmcgough on Friday March 11, 2022 @05:28PM (#30646827)
I appreciate PHM for what it was - important from a technical perspective and a precursor for what was to come. But Trent was in his early 20s so not his most emotionally complex work ;)
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Re:The 1980s Media Panic over Dungeons and Dragons (2016) by dylan604 on Friday March 11, 2022 @05:41PM (#30646968)
I always joked that I wanted to meet the girl that did him so wrong that led to that album.
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Re:The 1980s Media Panic over Dungeons and Dragons (2016) by nobleach on Friday March 11, 2022 @05:45PM (#30647009)
His reaction to Johnny Cash's version of Hurt made me have a great deal of more respect.
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Re:The 1980s Media Panic over Dungeons and Dragons (2016) by partomniscient on Saturday March 12, 2022 @08:29AM (#30651189)
After that he got Broken, then he got Fixed. But well before that he was a keyboard salesman.

I have seen him get angry at a keyboard live. Trent 1, Keyboard 0.

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Re:The 1980s Media Panic over Dungeons and Dragons (2016) by hiptobecubic on Friday March 11, 2022 @11:02PM (#30648899)
Y'all are crazy. PHM is a banging album.
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