Comment on Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter, a JRPG, just got released on Steam—and this is a big deal because this game is to PC what Final Fantasy VII was to PlayStation.

• bytesonbike@discuss.online ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Oh boy I’m glad you said that because I didn’t want to sound like an idiot. I’m 40yo and I have no idea who the VU are, nor does comparing them to the Beatles make me excited to look them up.

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• atomicpoet@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  And you just made my point for me. 🙂

  The Velvet Underground are the most important band you’ve never heard about. In many ways, bigger than the Beatles.

  Because the Velvet Underground were the precursors to glamour, prog, punk, new wave, noise, alternative, and grunge.

  Without the VU, there’d be no David Bowie, Iggy Pop, Ramones, Sex Pistols, or Nirvana.

  And the VU were making that kind of music in the ‘60s. Commercial flop, but almost everyone who heard of them started a band.

  If you haven’t heard of the VU, you should watch that Apple Music documentary about them. Of course, after you play Trails in the Sky.

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• atomicpoet@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Auto-correct changed “glam” to “glamour”, and now lemmy.world won’t let me make the edit.

  Anyway, here’s my further opportunity to say that The Beatles changed the world by being everywhere. The Velvet Underground changed the world by changing the people who mattered next.

  And if this motivates you to go listen to the Velvet Underground, then I’m jealous—because I wish I could hear the VU for the first time all over again.

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  • Quibblekrust@thelemmy.club ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    What do you mean they won’t let you? There’s no time limit on edits.

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    • atomicpoet@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      When I try to edit, there’s an error message that says “Network Error”. That error is preventing me from making an edit.

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