#Sonic Reducer

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

"DEAD BOY! -- DEAD BOY RUNNING SCARED! DEAD BOY! -- CAUGHT IN A NUCLEAR WEIRD!"

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on a mega photo-set of American punk rock band DEAD BOYS, performing live in New York (maybe CBGB, maybe not), c. 1977. 📸: Mykel Board.

"THE DEAD BOYS are part of a new generation at CBGB, a generation that has finally succeeded in erasing that fine line that divides the cool from the retarded. The most prominent of the new bands, they recently signed a contract with Sire Records and their first LP, "Young Snotty And Loud," is due for release in September.

British fans will already know them for the two impressive tracks on the "New Wave" compilation -- "Sonic Reducer" and "Dead Boys."

Stiv Bators (vocals), Johnny Blitz (drums), Jeff Magnum (bass), Jimmy Zero and Cheetah Chrome (guitars) grew up in Cleveland Ohio. They went to Catholic schools (where Stiv claims he used to fake epileptic fits in study hall), worked in factories and eventually joined together in a band called ROCKET FROM THE TOMBS. A fight where they beat up another band with pool cues got them barred from playing in Cleveland clubs. There were fist fights at rehearsals, and on one occasion Stiv attacked Cheetah with a spaghetti strainer." JIMMY ZERO: "I think it was a transitional phase. We were pretty violent people. We hadn't learned to channel it out through music."

-- SOUNDS (UK), "New York's Answer to the Pistols, and they've got the Scars to Prove it." August 27, 1977

Sources: www.picuki.com/media/3226522639417005543 & http://punkrocker.org.uk/punkinterviews/deadboys.html.

[roger-elizabeth-debris]

current status: baked out of my mind, playing fallout new vegas while listening to a local punk radio broadcast, eating popcorn. life's good

[fabulousdowneybrothers]

365 Days of Sprix Records #357 Karl by Fabulous Downey Brothers

Karl Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1pte6x2IHFqoVcx6mF3UMy?si=b7be0aa13cc84a1d

Karl Music Video: https://youtu.be/1yx48Ati0n0

[spilladabalia]

Dead Boys - Sonic Reducer

[coffinsandroses]

the sudden urge to make a Doctor Who AMV set to "Sonic Reducer" because it mentions having a time machine (also the title) but it'd be really out of character probably

[dweeeeeb]

Motivational Music in the Morning ... #Overkill, #SonicReducer ... from #FeelTheFire [Official Audio Track] (1985) #MMitM1

[gnomestruck63]

Death Before Dishonor "Sonic Reducer"

[larabar]

the i-forgot-an-important-thing dread we've all been there

[sonknuxadow]

there is no secret 6th option i am specifically asking who is your favorite out of these guys

[pocketscribbs]

“Nowhere to run…”

“no way to fight…”

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

"THEY LOOKED DOWN ON THE DEAD BOYS BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T UNDERSTAND US."

NOTE: Posted these Cheetah pics previously in a DB set, but they're so good, I figured I'd post 'em by themselves.

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on the feral Cheetah Chrome (and Stiv in the last shot), guitarist/co-founder of American punk rock band, DEAD BOYS, performing live in New York (possibly CBGB), c. 1977. 📸: Mykel Board.

NOISEY: "Time and place can really shape a band."

CHEETAH: "Back then, Cleveland was so commercial. They had Cleveland International Records, who had Meatloaf, and all the disc jockeys were into Southside Johnny and things like that. They looked down on the Dead Boys because they didn’t understand us. They’d say, “that’s not musical,” but it was musical; we were all very good musicians. They weren’t musicians themselves, so they didn’t know if we knew how to do it or not. You could get a lot further in the radio scene back then with cocaine and hookers than you could with good music."

Sources: www.vice.com/en/article/rz7ky6/from-dead-boy-to-plowboy-cheetah-chrome-says-it-like-it-is & Picuki.

[hadesknockedupintheunderworld]

I think the theme of "home", while not always in the forefront, is something that interests me about the Sonic Movie Universe (in a similar way it interested me during Prime)

For Movie!Sonic, home is where you make it first and where your family is second. After his guardian died, he presumably jumped from place to place, and it was a while before he had a stable home. He made himself a home on earth and fell in love with the land and the culture. But you get the sense that as long as he's in hiding and ostracized all the time, it never fully feels like home. So it's important that he got to really experience earth and living in Movie 1 with Tom. It's important that he made earth his home, and then made the Wachowski household his base. No matter where he goes on earth and beyond, he has a family he chose and who chose him he can come back to and be himself around. "Home" for Movie!Sonic began with necessity, progressed due to his growing attachment to earth and what it offers, and fully settled in with him having a more permanent place in this world and support.

For Movie Tails, I surmise that "home" to him is where Sonic is. He was ostracized (possibly even bullied/picked on) back home for his two tails. After listening to some of his lines in movie 2, Tails read to me like a character who'd been treated as weird or an outcast and ended up isolating himself as a result. I got the impression that when he wasn't indulging in his love of technology/mechanics (or perhaps even at the same time) he was holed up in his base, watching a live stream of Sonic and his adventures, even after the conclusion of the first movie's events. He knows everything about Sonic, down to knowing that he doesn’t take showers, before even meeting him properly. Tails is not at home on earth nor particularly entranced by earth itself (in opposition to Sonic, who became entranced with it). He only even goes there to warn Sonic and to help him out. But Sonic's place—Sonic's home—is on Earth, in Green Hills, with Tom and Maddie, and Tails has formed an actual bond of friendship with the hedgehog he formed a possibly parasocial relationship with used to watch on a screen. Before, I think Tails was just content with watching or being helpful. But now? Now that he's spent time with Sonic, Sonic makes him feel normal. Sonic makes him feel like even "weirdos" can do great things. Sonic makes him feel valued. He's no longer content just watching because Sonic is more his home than the place he grew up in ever was. Home to him is with the people you choose, the people who make you feel at home, the people you want to be around. The Wachowski household is Sonic's home because he loves earth, green hills, and because he has mutually taken Tom and Maddie as his parents. Earth and the Wachowski household are only Tails' home as long as Sonic is there.

And for Knuckles... He has the set up to fall in love with earth in a similar way Sonic did. He grew up/was born in a similar place to him. And yet, all of the beautiful nature on earth doesn't matter to him. Knuckles, as of the beginning of the Knuckles series, had adopted a different approach to Sonic. Sonic tried to make home for himself wherever he could, no matter how many worlds he'd jumped to. In contrast, Knuckles never bothered to do this. He only pursued the mission, never bothering to make a home when he'd be off to the next world soon enough (especially if it seemed trivial in the face of his life's mission). And it's pointed that although he's able to participate in what earth offers the same way Sonic is in movie 1 (Knuckles learning how to bowl or Sonic going to a bar), he is not at home because of those things. He's able to slow down and appreciate what earth offers, the same things he couldn't bring himself to acknowledge before, and yet he's not at home on earth because it's beautiful or because it has food he likes or whatever. He very pointedly makes a connection with Wade and his family. The Whipple family is home. Not the earth, not even the house itself. He feels comfortable when with them, he enjoys the time on earth he spends with them, and he is able to appreciate Earth better when he experiences it with them (in contrast to Tails, who never had any sort of arc of appreciating what one can experience on earth to me). Home to Knuckles isn't easily quantifiable (more of a feeling really), but it’s about the people who make you feel at home. It's about the people who helped him relax and feel more comfortable not always putting his focus into the mission.

Sonic, who can make home anywhere, who always appreciated what was great about living on earth, and whose "home" was finally made permanent when he spent time with Tom and Maddie.

Tails, who never truly felt home until he spent time with Sonic, who doesn't particularly care for what earth has to offer, whose home is wherever Sonic is.

Knuckles, who never allowed himself to feel at home or tried to make a home until he began to travel with Wade and open up to new experiences, who began to enjoy earth and yet considers his home with the Whipple family specifically.

Sonic would protect the earth he lives on even if everyone he cared about was gone. Tails would protect the earth he lives on so long as it's Sonic's home. Knuckles would protect the world he lives on not just to keep the master emerald secured, but so long as this place is home to the Whipple family, with whom he enjoys experiencing Earth with.

Do you... Do you get me?

[crowberriesart]

He's showing off his flight suit

[antirepurp]

rotating sonic and metal sonic in my brain. the same person in two different flavors of existence. one of them has a voice and agency, the other does not. both convinced the other is a cheap imitation of the true self. i am orbiting the idea of them being forced to the role of the other in particular in some way, where sonic becomes the one who lacks autonomy over his own existence and the ability to fight back, and metal is granted unconditional freedom to exist as he wishes. either way they should take a stab at metal as a true rival in a way that matters again

[carbon--14]

i need a frontiers extra story dlc where shadow is trapped in cyberspace and it just so happens that he’s stuck in ark and ends up completely losing it after a while. stuck there indefinitely with fragmented, painful memories, unsure if anything he’s ever done is right (again), no way out. and then after he breaks free (with the help of sonic, of course) he’s finally able to fully let go, and he and sonic have a heart to heart about everything. he wants to start moving forward rather than looking back, he wants to define himself by his future, not by his past. he wants to live freely in honor of maria. the black arms don’t matter, the amnesia doesn’t matter, the times he’s been tricked by eggman don’t matter. he just wants to be shadow. not a weapon, not a pawn, not the ultimate lifeform. just… shadow. and he hopes sonic can help him learn how to do that.

sega let my boy move on please i’m begging you.

[brainworms-all-night-long]

Here's a funni idea/trope to distract from all the sadness:

Nine having an evil monologue while standing atop of his epik purple tower, and he's venting all his thoughts and emotions alright, exept uh, in his angry haze he kinda forgor sound would not travel that far down and the hedgehogs, discussing a plan all the way at the ground level, literaly have no idea Nine is even talking