Things you just don't get



Kid Nickels said:

ummm... yeah when he was like 13.... until he got his nose busted and quit. Not exactly intimidating.

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Unless he fought a **** ton of fights in like a year, he was older than that. The guy took up boxing to fight back against bullies. That's badass enough for me; especially given we now live in a society where we run from, rather than beat down, bullies.

acidboy said:

speaking of billy joel, I don't get why its "cool" to hate on singers like billy joel and phil collins. joel's "the stranger", "52nd street" and "glass houses" were very good pop-rock albums, and he's a very good live performer. and I respect acts like them that have made music for so long- which is well liked save for the hipsters and people who think that phil collins destroyed genesis just because someone in the interwebs said so.

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I like Joel quite a bit, but Collins is utter crap to me. It sounds like all of the worst features of pop music crammed into one package.

Gibonius said:

I like Phil Collins solely because In the Air Tonight was always played leading up to University of Georgia football games. It was close to kickoff and it was always as the stadium was filling up and the energy was building. Now every time I hear that little drum launch it gets me revved up.

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This is a source of great conflict for me. On the one hand, it's fantastic in context. On the other hand, I hate Phil Collins.

Mr. Moo said:

Hate pets, kids are a hassle? You sound like my ex-boss and she's demented.

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Kids are a hassle, and anyone who says otherwise is lying. They're fantastic and worth it, but that doesn't mean they're not a hassle.

HORNS said:

I don't get the popularity - or do I say "genius" - of Elvis Costello.

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I thought I was the only one! I've tried so hard to get into Costello, and all I can think is, "what's wrong with me!? Why does everyone love this stuff!?"

lasbar said:

Politics?
I love Lynyrd Skynyrd and their politics really suck...
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Skynyrd has politics?

globetrotter said:

gentlemen, every now and again I do make a joke.

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By the way, aren't you a huge B-52s fan? I seem to remember you posting that somewhere, and I've always felt like I should hook you up with some Athens/B-52s schwag. I mean, I drive down the Atlanta Highway almost daily.



MrG said:

Unless he fought a **** ton of fights in like a year, he was older than that. The guy took up boxing to fight back against bullies. That's badass enough for me; especially given we now live in a society where we run from, rather than beat down, bullies.
I like Joel quite a bit, but Collins is utter crap to me. It sounds like all of the worst features of pop music crammed into one package.
This is a source of great conflict for me. On the one hand, it's fantastic in context. On the other hand, I hate Phil Collins.
Kids are a hassle, and anyone who says otherwise is lying. They're fantastic and worth it, but that doesn't mean they're not a hassle.
I thought I was the only one! I've tried so hard to get into Costello, and all I can think is, "what's wrong with me!? Why does everyone love this stuff!?"
Skynyrd has politics?

By the way, aren't you a huge B-52s fan? I seem to remember you posting that somewhere, and I've always felt like I should hook you up with some Athens/B-52s schwag. I mean, I drive down the Atlanta Highway almost daily.

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actually, I am a pretty big fan of 3 or 4 bands/artists from the 80's, and that is about it for my musical tastes. so I do like Elvis costello, B-52's, the go-go's, blondie, that's pretty much the range of my musical taste. but I am a huge B-52's fan. one of these days I have to get to Athens. thanks for the kind thoughts.



globetrotter said:

actually, I am a pretty big fan of 3 or 4 bands/artists from the 80's, and that is about it for my musical tastes. so I do like Elvis costello, B-52's, the go-go's, blondie, that's pretty much the range of my musical taste. but I am a huge B-52's fan. one of these days I have to get to Athens. thanks for the kind thoughts.

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You bet.

If you do ever make Athens, the first round is on me!



MrG said:

You bet.
If you do ever make Athens, the first round is on me!

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cool!

I've been away from Athens for ~eight months now and I miss the place. Good food, good music, great weather this time of year. Living in the DC suburbs doesn't cut it compared to Athens, place punches way above it's weight for the population.

Skynyrd has politics?


Unfortunately they do..

I hate most of the the southern ***** tonk classic rock bands. They are so stupid. I will take the British stuff anyday. Though I do like Neil Young and Bob Dylan.



Gibonius said:

I've been away from Athens for ~eight months now and I miss the place. Good food, good music, great weather this time of year. Living in the DC suburbs doesn't cut it compared to Athens, place punches way above it's weight for the population.

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Yeah, every now and then I start to feel a little claustrophobic in Athens, but that quickly passes when I go some place else. It's such a fantastic little place; I could easily spend the rest of my life here.

lasbar said:

Skynyrd has politics?

Unfortunately they do..

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All kidding aside, really? I'm a pretty big Skynyrd fan, and I can't think of any political messages in their stuff. Their music is pretty much entirely Southern pride, whiskey, and chicks.

patrickBOOTH said:

I hate most of the the southern ***** tonk classic rock bands. They are so stupid. I will take the British stuff anyday. Though I do like Neil Young and Bob Dylan.

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Pro tip: Don't ever, ever, ever, ever, ever come to the South and imply that Neil Young and "southern ***** tonk classic rock bands" are somehow the same thing. **** could get you killed.

Also, the "British stuff" owes its entire existence to early Southern rockers. Without the South, the Beatles, Stones, and so on never exist.

lasbar said:

Skynyrd has politics?

Unfortunately they do..

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The TV told me that all Southerners are racist. It never lied before, so why should it now?



MrG said:

Yeah, every now and then I start to feel a little claustrophobic in Athens, but that quickly passes when I go some place else. It's such a fantastic little place; I could easily spend the rest of my life here.
All kidding aside, really? I'm a pretty big Skynyrd fan, and I can't think of any political messages in their stuff. Their music is pretty much entirely Southern pride, whiskey, and chicks.
Pro tip: Don't ever, ever, ever, ever, ever come to the South and imply that Neil Young and "southern ***** tonk classic rock bands" are somehow the same thing. **** could get you killed.
Also, the "British stuff" owes its entire existence to early Southern rockers. Without the South, the Beatles, Stones, and so on never exist.

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Well, Dylan was very much a New Yorker, but I understand the importance of Southern American music to Rock n' Roll, but let's be clear Lynard Skynard and CCR didn't start anything. We owe just as much to the blues in terms of English rock n' roll.

patrickBOOTH said:

Well, Dylan was very much a New Yorker, but I understand the importance of Southern American music to Rock n' Roll, but let's be clear Lynard Skynard and CCR didn't start anything. We owe just as much to the blues in terms of English rock n' roll.

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And the blues owes a lot to English folk music... (Tragically under-credited)



death shot said:

And the blues owes a lot to English folk music... (Tragically under-credited)

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You can't prove this.

patrickBOOTH said:

You can't prove this.

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You're right. Lies, lies, LIES!



patrickBOOTH said:

Well, Dylan was very much a New Yorker, but I understand the importance of Southern American music to Rock n' Roll, but let's be clear Lynard Skynard and CCR didn't start anything. We owe just as much to the blues in terms of English rock n' roll.

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Definitely true about Dylan. I wasn't talking about him. I was really just making a tongue-in-cheek statement about Neil Young and the South.

I think we agree, for the most part. I just wanted to be clear that you can't dismiss the fundamental importance of Southern music in rock 'n' roll. Rock 'n' roll was basically invented south of the Mason-Dixon.

By the way, fun fact: CCR is from California.

death shot said:

And the blues owes a lot to English folk music... (Tragically under-credited)

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Say what?

patrickBOOTH said:

You can't prove this.

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That's because it would be like proving unicorns exist. It can't be done because it's not true.



MrG said:

Definitely true about Dylan. I wasn't talking about him. I was really just making a tongue-in-cheek statement about Neil Young and the South.
I think we agree, for the most part. I just wanted to be clear that you can't dismiss the fundamental importance of Southern music in rock 'n' roll. Rock 'n' roll was basically invented south of the Mason-Dixon.
By the way, fun fact: CCR is from California.
Say what?
That's because it would be like proving unicorns exist. It can't be done because it's not true.

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I hate CCR.