Great tribute, David.
Who died and made you Elvis?
Cordelia ,'Storyteller'
Buffista Music 4: Needs More Cowbell!
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
Sue - Dec 07, 2009 4:48:22 am PST #2095 of 6436
hip deep in pie
smonster - Dec 07, 2009 6:58:38 am PST #2096 of 6436
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
Hind-titty sucking!
DavidS - Dec 07, 2009 7:09:37 am PST #2097 of 6436
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Hind-titty sucking!
I should've given you a footnote credit.
And thanks, Sue.
smonster - Dec 07, 2009 7:36:51 am PST #2098 of 6436
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
I should've given you a footnote credit.
Ah, if anyone it should have gone to my grandpa.
Frankenbuddha - Dec 07, 2009 7:43:59 am PST #2099 of 6436
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Great tribute/rant there, Hec.
Though I'd argue that while he's remained an ornery/contrarian interviewee, things like the liner notes to The Black Rider do indicate he's embraced a certain kind of respectability at least partway.
Trudy Booth - Dec 07, 2009 9:40:05 am PST #2100 of 6436
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
On the off chance some of my fellow My Chem fans are unaware of Mr. Iero's latest attempt to keep himself busy while he's not actively recording, touring, founding yet another band, or ticking off the Secret Service: [link]
smonster - Dec 07, 2009 10:15:04 am PST #2101 of 6436
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
Mr. Iero's latest attempt to keep himself busy
Oh, Frankie.
Cass - Dec 07, 2009 1:18:36 pm PST #2102 of 6436
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
Oh, Frank...
And I thought that Trohman's Moz cover band got all my yay right now.
Trudy Booth - Dec 07, 2009 1:21:02 pm PST #2103 of 6436
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
I love the looks on the faces of the other dogs. Prof. Buckley looks jealous, Peppers, IMHO, does not approve of such nonsense.
(Raise your hand if you knew the names of the dogs...)
DavidS - Dec 08, 2009 2:35:08 pm PST #2104 of 6436
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
From the Guardian's overview of the Noughties:
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There is a parlour game you can play to gauge how dramatically rock and pop music has changed in the course of a decade. Imagine a music fan from the start of the decade is transported to its end, and plonked in front of the Christmas Top of the Pops: how confused would they be? In the case of the 1960s, their bafflement would be total: imagine the fan from 1960 – with his Brylcreem, his Tommy Steele albums and his suspicion that trad-jazz might be the future of pop – gawping incredulously at the sight of Thunderclap Newman and Jimi Hendrix.
The same would go for the 1970s: what would even the most forward-thinking "head", their mind recently blown at the Isle of Wight festival, make of the fact that Jethro Tull and the Moody Blues had been supplanted by punk, disco and Gary Numan?
But the fan of 2000, shuttled forward to 2009's Christmas Top of the Pops (handily taken out of mothballs this year), would probably feel weirdly familiar with the show's contents. They might wonder whatever happened to nu-metal, although the rise of emo might have given them an inkling; and they might be bemused by the sheer number of synthesiser-prodding female singer-songwriters, such as Lady Gaga and Little Boots.
In truth, though, the music that's big in 2009 isn't all that different from what was big in 2000. Rock's lingua franca remains the post-Oasis, post-Radiohead big stadium ballad, replete with keep-your-chin-up lyrics, usually suggesting you "hold on". R&B isn't quite as staggeringly strange and futuristic as it seemed at the start of the noughties: in perhaps the decade's solitary example of genuinely odd and innovative music that wasn't by Radiohead finding a mass audience, producers Timbaland, the Neptunes and Rodney "Darkchild" Jerkins competed to see who could make the weirdest-sounding No 1 single. Yet, judging by the sound of Beyonce's Single Ladies (Put a Ring On It), R&B is still the source of the most thrilling pop music.