Wildest cat from montana worked with a guy

Years ago this guy I worked with had a copy of some magazine ' s list of 500 Greatest Songs Of All Time.
' Like A Rolling Stone ' was ranked at #1.
My co-worker was bent out of shape ( by society's pliers , no doubt ) by this. He said that song wouldn't even be on his list of 500 greatest.He said it was too long and repetitious, just a lot of talk-singing and dull as can be. He also took exception to many other songs on the list including The Beatles ' A Day In The Life '.
I should add that this guy's idea of great songs were those that included a long blistering guitar solo. If it had that it was a great song.

Years ago some magazine ( Rolling Stone ? ) put out an issue with the 100 or 200 Greatest songs of all time.
' Like A Rolling Stone ' topped the list.
This guy at work was appalled by this.He didn't consider it worthy of being on the list at all. It was boring and just talk\singing and it didn't rawk.
He was equally put out that his main man Johnny Winter didn't get so much as a mention.

Some years back Rolling Stone put out an issue listing the Greatest Songs Of All Time and ' Like A Rolling Stone ' topped the list.
This guy I worked with was quite upset with this. He didn't consider it a song at all , just a lotta talking-singing and no stinging guitar solo. It didn't rawk.

A guy at work used to get uptight whenever some poll or other would emerge listing ' Like A Rolling Stone' as the greatest song in rock.
He said it didn't have a guitar solo therefore wasn't rock at all because it didn't rawk and that Dylan was just talking and not singing and " anybody could do that ".

Guy at work says this isn't even a song . Just somebody talking over music. " Anybody can do that".

A guy I used to work with didn't like it either saying it was "just some guy talking, anybody can do that "

A guy I work with thinks 'Like A Rolling Stone ' is a really crappy song.In fact, he doesn't even consider it a song at all. To him it's " just some guy talking over some boring music". It's worst sin though is it lacks a stinging guitar solo and doesn't rawk and this guylikes to rock!

Lots of mentions herein for 'Like A Rolling Stone' .
And why not? A trailblazing song, powerful and unique.

Not everyone likes it though.

Used to work with this guy who got into a total twist when it appeared as the # 1 song in one of those Rolling Stone issues listing the greatest songs of all time.
He said it shouldn't have been on the list at all, let alone in the top slot, because it wasn't even a song. It was just some guy talking over some music. No guitar solo. It didn't rawk. Anybody could do that.

This guy I work with raves about how sensational the Hendrix version of ' All Along...' is. He can't ( or doesn't ) believe me when I tell him I much prefer the Dylan original. He goes into a rant about how amazing Hendrix's guitar is and how tight the band is behind him and yap yap.

I like this version well enough. Who doesn't? But when I told this guy at work I preferred Dylan's original he looked at me as if I had taken leave of my senses.
He got quite uptight about it too explaining to me that Dylan's version didn't rawk , lacked a guitar solo , was ruined by out-of-tune harmonica and Dylan couldn't sing.

There was this guy at a place I worked at way back who was into music and his favourite genre was white blues ( Johnny Winter was his main man ). He liked lotsa stinging guitar and growly vocals. One day he told me he had read a glowing review of ' Forever Changes ' and was going to get it. I told him he would absolutely would not like it. He bought it anyway. Hated it ! Said it wasn't even music , " just some psychedelic ******** ".

A guy I used to work with came into work one day all pissed off about this " really ****ty " CD he had bought on the weekend after reading how great it was on the Internet.
It was ' Forever Changes '
I had to laugh at him and tell him that it was actually a great album. He wouldn't have it. He maintained it was awful , with no " real songs " and it didn't rawk.

This guy at work came in one morning crying the blues about a terrible album he had bought the day before. It was, he said, the worst album he had ever heard.
He bought it after reading ecstatic reviews of it online.
It was ' Forever Changes '
When I told him that it was a fantastic album he looked at me like I was an idiot and said : " It doesn't rawk! "
This guy's taste ran with white blues and barroom boogie. You know, rawk!

There's this guy I work with who thinks a song doesn' t 'rock ' if it doesn't have a blistering guitar solo in it , the longer the better.
For him , all 50s rocknroll is crap because Johnny Winter doesn't play on any of those songs. Elvis doesn't rock , Jerry Lee Lewis doesn't rock , Chuck Berry doesn't rock. .... . Their songs are ' pop' music to him.

There's a bunch of guys at my work place who are in their mid-to-late 20s. From what I gather their musical taste veers towards rap , hip hop etc.
When Berry died only one of them knew who he was. And the reason he knew was because of the Chuck Berry bit in ' Back To The Future.'

There was a local coffee shop which posted a question on a chalkboard every morning. First person to answer correctly got a free large coffee.
Went there one morning with this guy from work , a real straight arrow type. The question that day was : What brand of motorcycle is on Dylan's shirt on the Highway 61 Revisited album cover? He read the question aloud and said : " Who would know a thing like that?" I said someone like me would. He could not believe I knew this. I gave him the free coffee and got a hot chocolate for myself.

I was telling this guy at work about ' Cop Rock ' and he didn't believe me that there was such a show!

I told this guy at work that one of the guys in The Grassroots played the character Creed in the TV show ' The Office ' but he didn't believe me. He said : ' Why would he do that **** ?"

I was telling this guy at work about this forum and thIs thread in particular as he is a MASH lover.
His advice : " Skip any episode where BJ is wearing a pink shirt".

This guy I work with unbelievably didn't know that Disturbed' s 'Sound of Silence ' was a 60's chestnut. He just thought it was an " awesome" song.

Guy at work loved it and said , somewhat unbelievably to me, that he never heard the original.

This guy at work claimed to not know the Simon and Garfunkel version and was only familiar with Disturbed's take on it which he said was "awesome".

Years ago I was a union steward at my job and management had a problem with this guy who had attendance issues. He missed a lot of time and there were progressive disciplinary meetings and warnings were issued to him.
Each time I warned this guy it was no joke and he would be fired if his attendance didn't improve. He seemed unconcerned.
Finally , he and I were brought into a meeting and he was told he was being terminated..
I had him file a grievance and explained the whole situation to him and said it was possible he would be rehired if it was arbitrated successfully but that took time and to look for another job immediately etc etc.
The next day this guy showed up for work and couldn't seem to understand he was no longer working there.

Used to work security at public housing and a lot of it was dealing with neighbour's complaints about other neighbours.
A common complaint was loud music.
Got a call one early morning about loud music at a townhouse complex.
Normally the loud music would indeed be loud and it would be something like Led Zeppelin or hip hop \ rap but in this instance it was The Beach Boys ! This guy had ' In My Room ' just blasting.

More often than not I couldn't see the hidden image on those things but I worked with this guy who just squinted his eyes and he was able to see them quickly and clearly.

Hey , listen...you think you got it bad with a coworker who whistles?
I work with a guy who sings the same song day after day after day after day.
And that song is ' I's The Boy '.
Not familiar with 'I's The Boy '?
" I's the boy ( pronounced ' by' ) who builds the ship \ And I's the boy who sails her \I's the boy who catches the fish \ And brings ' em home to Liza "

That 's it. That's the whole song. He sings it about 50 times a shift.

I could walk up to every person in my work place and ask them who Frank Zappa is and the only response I would get that would be even close would be : ' The new guy? "

Some time ago I attended a work-related safety seminar. Dull as dull can be. But one of the speakers had an Elvis t-shirt on.
During a break I approached him and asked if he was a fan or did someone just give him the shirt. He laughed and said he was a " huge " fan of Elvis.
I launched into a conversation about his music and whether he preferred the Sun stuff over the early RCA sides or if he preferred newer Elvis.
The guy looked at me and I realized he didn't have a clue what I was on about.
He just said : I like everything."
And so it goes...

Went to a work-related seminar some time ago where one of the speakers was wearing an Elvis t-shirt.
During a break I approached him and asked if he was a fan. He said he was, a big fan. Talked a bit about E and asked if he preferred the Sun era over other Elvis periods.
He didn't have a clue what I was talking about but said he liked everything Elvis did. For this guy then any Elvis song would be a signature song including ' Queenie Wahine's Papaya'

Ran into a guy I used to work with many years ago recently. We exchanged pleasantries and parted ways.

Afterwards though I was recalling him when we worked together. He was only about twenty and one day he was telling us about music and bands he liked. I don't remember what names he said but he did say he was just " getting into" The Beatles. Fab!
I asked if he had heard the White Album. He hadn't and I offered to make him a copy of he was interested. Always glad to spread The Word , you know.

A few days later I followed up on my promise.
I asked him the next day if he had listened to it . He had.
And?
His response (verbatim): " It was OK "

You kept all those receipts? That's wild.
Your post reminded me of this guy I used to work with. He had a battered old wallet that was about the size of a football and he kept it in his back pocket where it stuck out in a funny way.
One day I asked him why it was so huge. He said he kept his receipts in it.
He took it out and, honest to God, produced a receipt for some toothpaste he had bought three years earlier.

This guy I used to work with was adamant that he saw a clip on YouTube of the day Lennon and McCartney met.
He said it was definitely them and that it showed John and Paul talking and Paul playing a song on his guitar.
This was incredible, I told him. Would he video it on his phone so I could watch it?
He brought it in the next day. It was a clip from the movie ' Nowhere Boy'

A guy at work preferred the Stones version. When I told him I much preferred the Temptations beautiful vocals and the impeccable arrangement , he replied that the bass on the Stones take was " badass".
Not even sure what that means really.

This guy I used to work with came in one day and started whining about this Godawful new song he had heard on the radio.
He said it was by The Commodores or Earth Wind and Fire.
I had no idea what it could have been but asked what some of the words were or what the chorus was.
He said it was about being rescued.
Was it ' Emotional Rescue' possibly, I asked.
He said that was the chorus.
That's The Rolling Stones, I said.
No, he replied, it's not them.

Worked with this guy who told me he was getting this "amazing" Beatles compilation from one of those CD clubs.
I asked which one it was but he didn't remember the title. He only knew that it had a lot of early Beatles songs on it.
He brought in the club catalogue and pointed it out. It was ' Anthology 1'.
I told him what this set actually was but he wasn't having it.
When he got it he was disappointed.

This guy at work tells the tale of the time his Dad took him and his brother to see ' 2001..' when it came out.
They were eight and six years old and bored to death.

It never bothers me or uptights me when someone says they don't like or they don't care for the music of The Beatles.
That is to say as long as they know the music of The Beatles.
A guy at work said they were ok if you liked 'soft ' music. Had he heard the White Album I asked. He had not . Or ' Revolver ' either.
Another person told me she didn't like the group because of "all the screaming " . What has that got to do with anything ?
Another person ( and this particular clown went on and on about how bubblegum The Beattles were ) used to say they were only good for listening to on the radio. I asked him once to name one song of theirs that was not released as a single. Fail.

A guy I used to work with said The Beatles were too "soft" for him.
I said several songs on the White Album were hardly soft.
He said : " What's the White Album?"