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Post by graucho on Dec 20, 2018 7:42:27 GMT
StevenTounsand is no Greil Marcus
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Post by antiram on Dec 23, 2018 12:23:38 GMT
Well, I will agree that the Shangri-Las probably had the most annoyingly nasal female voices on a top-10 record until Linda showed up. Among the things that I always found yukky about Ram (and Wild Life), near the top of the list are Linda's vocals, which are nails on a chalkboard to me.
I wonder how many Jamaicans dug "Love Is Strange"? That one always harshes my buzz.
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Post by Boozin' Susan on Dec 23, 2018 14:09:16 GMT
Well, I will agree that the Shangri-Las probably had the most annoyingly nasal female voices on a top-10 record until Linda showed up. Among the things that I always found yukky about Ram (and Wild Life), near the top of the list are Linda's vocals, which are nails on a chalkboard to me. I wonder how many Jamaicans dug "Love Is Strange"? That one always harshes my buzz. Hey, antiram! Er...enjoy..(?)
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Post by antiram on Dec 23, 2018 16:53:05 GMT
Well, I will agree that the Shangri-Las probably had the most annoyingly nasal female voices on a top-10 record until Linda showed up. Among the things that I always found yukky about Ram (and Wild Life), near the top of the list are Linda's vocals, which are nails on a chalkboard to me. I wonder how many Jamaicans dug "Love Is Strange"? That one always harshes my buzz. Hey, antiram! Er...enjoy..(?) I tried to be a tough guy and endure it, but when she soared for that high note at 0:52, my computer monitor cracked. At least I finally know what the lyrics are, after 40 years of detesting the thing. Now I have a lot more ammunition.
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Post by Boozin' Susan on Dec 23, 2018 19:32:03 GMT
Hey, antiram! Er...enjoy..(?) I tried to be a tough guy and endure it, but when she soared for that high note at 0:52, my computer monitor cracked. At least I finally know what the lyrics are, after 40 years of detesting the thing. Now I have a lot more ammunition.Merry Christmas!
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Post by respiratoryproblems on Jan 4, 2019 23:08:10 GMT
Anyone not on Europe time missed the Yoko thread earlier today - something about an interview and how she was going to explain how she influenced John Lennon or some vague shit.
It was pitiful - once again a load of middle-aged dudes queuing up to give their thoughts on why a non-white woman with a close connection to The Beatles is (verbatim) 'evil' and how they proudly hate her (again more or less verbatim). It got nuked pretty quickly, so can't pinpoint the culprits, but the level of vitriol was off the scale; I'm genuinely at a loss to understand how someone over the age of 18 (generously) can still give enough of a fuck about an 85 year old artist who was married to a dead musician four decades ago that they like to want to see her ground into some sot of sacrificial offering to the great Beatard god.
Me, I fucking detest John Lennon, but I appreciate that his greatest emotional bond was with someone that makes grown men furious, and I think he knew that too. Which is pretty funny in a bloody-minded way.
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Post by hoffa_nagila on Jan 5, 2019 0:42:41 GMT
Anyone not on Europe time missed the Yoko thread earlier today - something about an interview and how she was going to explain how she influenced John Lennon or some vague shit. It was pitiful - once again a load of middle-aged dudes queuing up to give their thoughts on why a non-white woman with a close connection to The Beatles is (verbatim) 'evil' and how they proudly hate her (again more or less verbatim). It got nuked pretty quickly, so can't pinpoint the culprits, but the level of vitriol was off the scale; I'm genuinely at a loss to understand how someone over the age of 18 (generously) can still give enough of a fuck about an 85 year old artist who was married to a dead musician four decades ago that they like to want to see her ground into some sot of sacrificial offering to the great Beatard god. Me, I fucking detest John Lennon, but I appreciate that his greatest emotional bond was with someone that makes grown men furious, and I think he knew that too. Which is pretty funny in a bloody-minded way. The one where she talks about how she helped write Jealous Guy, featuring quotes from John Lennon where he says pretty clearly that she helped write Jealous Guy?
My favorite argument is "well, he could have credited her if he wanted to. Paul did with Linda." If you're enough of a beatard to make that argument, then you're enough of a beatard to know that MaKKKa got a lot of backlash over that, and eventually used the simple writing credit "McCartney" which in fact meant both he and the missus.
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Post by bradman on Jan 5, 2019 0:45:17 GMT
They know she'll clock out some time soon, so now Olivia Harrison is getting some of that shit. It's fascinating how Beatle fandom brings out the absolute worst in so many people.
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Post by hoffa_nagila on Jan 5, 2019 2:04:02 GMT
Price.pittsburgh opines...
How can someone write so much, yet say so little?
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Post by mintyjackhole on Jan 5, 2019 3:17:00 GMT
Price.Pittsburgh would go far if we still did poater tourneys.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 5, 2019 3:39:42 GMT
I feel in some part the rage against Yoko is nothing more than silly jealousy that John found true love and the SHiTes have Steve Hoffman and a 20% off $75 or more at eBay coupon code. I have no opinion on Yoko, she’s not my favorite person but I know nothing much about her except her Lennon connection from the 60s to 1980. If causes that much grief to a bunch of Hoofyville followers then she has gained points in my eyes.
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Post by hoffa_nagila on Jan 5, 2019 3:52:08 GMT
I feel in some part the rage against Yoko is nothing more than silly jealousy that John found true love and the SHiTes have Steve Hoffman and a 20% off $75 or more at eBay coupon code. I have no opinion on Yoko, she’s not my favorite person but I know nothing much about her except her Lennon connection from the 60s to 1980. If causes that much grief to a bunch of Hoofyville followers then she has gained points in my eyes. It's a glorious mixture of racism and misogyny. John Lennon is asposed to be the alpha male. All boys can stroke their dicks and hope it grows as big as Johnny's. And then he's letting some jap brainwash him? He's baking bread? He got cucked. It's on level with catching your dad taking it up the ass. Yoko is the yellow embodiment of your wife/girlfriend/mom yelling at you for not cleaning the jizz off your cardboard Ringo. Yoko's screams are literally what they hear when the wife tells them to take out the trash, or to stop shaking and crying.
Sometimes, I have to wonder if on some level, Yoko was marrying down. But then, I think even John knew that. He had a big ego, but there are plenty of moments where he seems happy to be the husband behind the wife. For all his faults, Lennon exhibited far more self-awareness than any proper SHiTE could possibly muster.
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Post by GeddyLeePierce on Jan 5, 2019 4:05:17 GMT
Let’s not give these aging crackers too much credit: it has everything to do with Pearl Harbor.
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Post by hoffa_nagila on Jan 5, 2019 4:11:44 GMT
Let’s not give these aging crackers too much credit: it has everything to do with Pearl Harbor.
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Post by AnalogRearEnd on Jan 5, 2019 4:37:19 GMT
We all remember the day when AntiFa National (((Socialist))) Germany nuked Pearl Harbor.
A day that will live in infancy.
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