I have a great-grandfather who served in the army. He died years before I was born, but some stories about his time in the service have been passed down to me. He was in France 100 years ago today and probably felt immense relief that it was over coupled with sadness over the deaths of the soldiers he befriended.

I know quite a lot about the music from the 1910's, so I'll share some interesting American songs from World War I.

"Joan of Arc" sung by Willie Weston in May 1917.
https://archive.org/details/78_joan-of-arc_willie-weston-bryan-weston-wells_gbia0013578b
This song represents an unusual aspect of American support for entry in World War I - sympathy for France's plight. There has been a historic appreciation for France because they gave important help to us in the War for Independence. Since the fighting in Europe posed no threat to us across the Atlantic, the threat it posed to France was used to drum up sympathy. The singer, Willie Weston was a popular vaudeville performer who came from an English theatrical performing family that immigrated here when he was a child. He frequently participated in entertainment shows at rallies to sell war bonds to help finance the war.

"For Your Country and My Country" sung by Willie Weston in May 1917.
https://archive.org/details/78_for-your-country-and-my-country_willie-weston-irving-berlin_gbia0013578a
Another recording by Weston. This songs hints towards a simmering problem the U.S. had in recruiting soldiers. We had a huge population of immigrants and children of immigrants from Germany and Austria-Hungary who didn't want to fight against those nations, and they had to be convinced to fight. Check out these lines:

"America has opened up her heart.
Every nationality
And now she asks from every nation
their appreciation.
It makes no difference now from where you came.
We are all the same."

"Over There" sung by Nora Bayes in July 1917.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGLwJGv1fAQ
This is the most well-remembered American song from World War I. Nora Bayes was a well-known singer who performed many shows for soldiers. This song was written by George M. Cohan. He was enormously popular as an actor, songwriter, and playwright and arguably played the most important part in shaping the American musical. His songs written in support of the war were sung frequently.

"I Didn't Raise My Boy to be a Soldier" sung by the Peerless Quartet in January 1915.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-C2qOAgMCl4
The Peerless Quartet was a vocal Quartet employed by Columbia Records. This is one of several "protest songs" written from 1914-1916 before the U.S. entered the war. The war felt distant to Americans in those early years and most supported isolationism. The song's poignant lyrics describe the grief and anger of a mother who doesn't want her son to go to war.

"What victory can cheer a mother's heart
when she looks at her blighted home?
What victory can bring her back
all she cared to call her own?"

>>12558
Well yes, there's a fine and often blurred line between respect and contempt. At least, my attitude is the same in both cases. Saves a lot of mental effort. Being needy of someone, and also pursuing someone out of a grudge, or even wanting people to need you, I view to be immature and feminine behaviors. It's how women act.

I don't see how somebody not caring about you is a problem at all. Their care or lack of it is their own problem/business. Imagine a stranger walks up to you on the street and says "I don't care about you". Great, the feeling is mutual, so there's no problem.

In general, I don't like to patronize/validate someone as if he was my property or something. Whether he wants to be validated/patronized, well, that's his own problem, innit. I don't see why I owe anyone attention, and furthermore, feeling entitled to other peoples' attention in the first place seems selfish to me.

In general, I trust others to be independent, proud individuals who don't need no authority or crutch or validation or whatever from other people. If they aren't such people, well, that's their problem again, huh.

(Probably why I don't have friends or gf, since I have no need of anybody, others having need of me seems like a burden)

t. edgy schizoid cunt

>>9182
I looked at his channel before and was not particularly impressed. It seems to me that he gets all his information from rate your music, wikipedia, /mu/ charts, and Scaruffi.
I don't think he is anything special; he just capitalized on a untapped market for a specific niche in an effective way. For me to watch/listen a music reviewer/recommender they need to offer me something that is not just a guy's cursory opinion or a summary off rym. Very little that he has talked about was new to me. If I've already listened to many of the albums and genres that he recommends, he has nothing to offer me except his personal opinion, which I care little about anyways as he tends to follow rym trends and not be original or unique in his perspective. I am not saying that he is a no effort hack or talentless or stupid; he just does not really offer anything new to anyone that has already gotten "into" music.

Examples of music channels that I like (that aren't about teaching instruments or music theory):

Samuel Andreyev
-A Canadian composer that both analyzes music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77OL5ekPnk8
and gives interviews with seldom interviewed artists: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWgfVVbK4bA

MrLtia1234
-Two British Blokes that have delved deep into the 70s prog scene (they've read many books, biographies, and testimonies from that scene),
and so give a very unique and detailed perspective on prog music (including a greater than 1 hour long review of The Wall and a Frank Zappa mini-series were they cover many of his material throughout the years): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmCC9KdfcEA&list=PLMoEsgm9rdqYVmcJVkqM-VHZ8x8KsBxgV

Jon Whitney
-I talked about him before ITT. He is the owner of brainwashed.com, I'll let the wikipedia article give a good summary: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainwashed_(website)
He hosts material for dozens of obscure independent artists, as well interviews key players of various scenes throughout time (with a focus on industrial and neofolk):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Anjor7F2P7g

Classical Music/ /Reference Recording
-Not an explicit recommender/reviewer per se, but has many interesting classical records on their channel (also features remasters exclusive to the channel as some of the people that are part of the channel team are audio engineers). Here is an interesting rendition of The Goldberg variations from Helmut Walcha -a blind pianist on harpsichord (a far cry from Gould, Richter, Schiff, Hewitt, etc): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCAb5ig90rA&list=PL3UZpQL9LIxOLRwxl1dEfDrH3c8mX5UB1&index=7

I usually have a distaste for Gould, but this Brahms performance changed my mind about him as I now see his more delicate and less eccentric side:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Az9c8Skylhk&list=PL3UZpQL9LIxOfigsjIfHNN6AuqZVVmfGR&index=9
Some other renditions that I particularly enjoy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6JGv4QVGr4&index=6&list=PL3UZpQL9LIxOfigsjIfHNN6AuqZVVmfGR
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mc3bS2E7GME&index=3&list=PL3UZpQL9LIxOLRwxl1dEfDrH3c8mX5UB1

>>11911

> is it justifiable

Generally speaking a lot of things can be "justifiable" with varying shades of no, but I think the word you may mean is ethical, in which case it is varying shades of no.

>cut vocal chords, declawing

It isn't

>spaying and neutering

Mainly this is actually done to cut down on the number of ferals, which of course in turn leads to more animals with more sufferings getting randomly hit by cars and such or given away to "shelters" which execute most stray cats and dogs they get without ever finding them a home.

>docking tails and ears

No. Mutilating a dog's ears or tail I find especially cruel since they use them to communicate and detect things.

Most of the people who engage in these practices are already some of the worst shit human beings anyway, who often do things like that because they'd rather have their animal mutilated than bother with a potentially dirty tail wagging. I don't even know why someone like that would get a pet to begin with.

>>11875

Hi and welcome to our tiny oldfriend oasis.
I vaguely remember your threads from kc.
Is it possible to tame wild bunnies and do you eat some of them or you have them just for fun?

>>11911

>take out claws so they wouldn't hurt furniture or cut vocal cords so they wouldn't have loud voice.

Banned as animal abuse on the EU.

>Does neutering belong to the same category

Not really because the animal in question can still have a normal life. For female animals it even has health benefits compared to giving birth x-times. I personally don't support it for
pets, though.

>>11912

>I don't even know why someone like that would get a pet to begin with.

Agree.