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   Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@social.coop)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Jun-2025 00:07:42 JST Christine Lemmer-Webber

   In my list of top albums to listen to while working is Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross' score to The Social Network https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUnOL6T3FN0

   I have listened to it many, many times

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     Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@social.coop)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Jun-2025 00:10:00 JST Christine Lemmer-Webber

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     The "expanded" version, which I linked above, has some curious song titles though, including "Cocksucker"

     What was the rationale for this song title though, I wonder? Was it because of one of the things a character in the movie says (or originally said)? Or is it generally just a homophobic slur which found its way in?

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     Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@social.coop)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Jun-2025 00:10:39 JST Christine Lemmer-Webber

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     I mean, many of Trent Reznor's older songs did have questionable titles. The Quake soundtrack, which I absolutely love and listen to a lot, has "R*pe" as one of its track names. I mean, common in the 90s sadly, pretty sure a Nirvana song had that also on the album Bleach

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     Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@social.coop)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Jun-2025 00:11:25 JST Christine Lemmer-Webber

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     Ok I challeneged a couple of track names in the last two posts but also some of these track names in the published pre-expanded soundtrack are really quite phenomenal, including "Hand Covers Bruise". What a name!

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     Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@social.coop)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Jun-2025 00:12:58 JST Christine Lemmer-Webber

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     And really there are few albums that will just carry you through nearly two hours of work with so much assistance with focus as this album. I really recommend keeping it in your regular "I need help focusing" rotation

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     bri (brhfl@digipres.club)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Jun-2025 00:25:03 JST bri

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     • Zalasur 🇺🇦

     @zalasur @cwebber well, we know the origin story of that one (according to al jourgenson at least) and it is homophobia, albeit from the owner of wax trax. though i don’t think co-opting someone else’s homophobia really excuses it.

     being a queer kid who was into electronic music in the ‘90s really had its ups and downs lol

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     Zalasur 🇺🇦 (zalasur@mastodon.surazal.net)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Jun-2025 00:25:04 JST Zalasur 🇺🇦

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     @cwebber Reznor also released a track for the Black Sabbath tribute album We Sold Our Soul for Rock and Roll under "1000 H*mo DJs" (they did a cover for Sweet Leaf which was really good but yeah that whole thing was really cringey).

     Christine Lemmer-Webber repeated this.
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     Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@social.coop)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Jun-2025 00:25:51 JST Christine Lemmer-Webber

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     • bri

     @brhfl @zalasur being a queer kid in the 90s really had its ups and downs in general lol

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     Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@social.coop)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Jun-2025 00:40:27 JST Christine Lemmer-Webber

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     • Krazov

     @Krazov Oh, yeah that makes sense. The original game didn't have a "track listing", so yeah.

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     Krazov (krazov@mstdn.social)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Jun-2025 00:40:28 JST Krazov

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     @cwebber It was "It Is Raped," and the title surprised me, but from what I know, the official titles were given only a couple of years ago for the vinyl/official/outside-of-the-game release. Back in the 1990s, we would use level names for them. Even if he sat on these titles for decades, it's not really an older song title.