I'll stick with the original 4 Lads' version of "Istanbul," thanks. Fun '50s novelty.
Yeah, we're building a race of frog-people. It's a good time
Xander ,'Selfless'
Buffista Music II: Wrath of Chaka Khan
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.
Fred Pete - Sep 26, 2004 7:55:53 am PDT #5094 of 10003
Ann, that's a ferret.
Polter-Cow - Sep 26, 2004 7:56:25 am PDT #5095 of 10003
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Substitute "Istanbul" for "88 lines" and you are me.
But they did do it. Just not first. Which I actually didn't know until recently.
You have, like, zero respect for me now.
I mean, still.
Scrappy - Sep 26, 2004 8:26:04 am PDT #5096 of 10003
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Do NOT be dissing the two Johns. Any of you. I will hunt you down like the dogs you are and make you listen to Whitesnake albums until your ears bleed.
Steph L. - Sep 26, 2004 8:30:42 am PDT #5097 of 10003
I look more rad than Lutheranism
I was gonna say! TMBG can do no wrong by me. I love their version of "Istanbul."
Mr. Broom - Sep 26, 2004 8:33:42 am PDT #5098 of 10003
"When I look at people that I would like to feel have been a mentor or an inspiring kind of archetype of what I'd love to see my career eventually be mentioned as a footnote for in the same paragraph, it would be, like, Bowie." ~Trent Reznor
I have all their albums. Anyone so much as thinks a negative thought about TMBG, s/he gets it. a man came up to me and said "I'd like to change your mind/by hitting it with a rock," he said, "though I am not unkind"
DavidS - Sep 26, 2004 9:11:53 am PDT #5099 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Anyone so much as thinks a negative thought about TMBG,
You mean like, "They used to be good but their last five albums sucked and were tuneless?"
Scrappy - Sep 26, 2004 9:43:19 am PDT #5100 of 10003
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Hec is dead to me.
DCJensen - Sep 26, 2004 9:44:15 am PDT #5101 of 10003
All is well that ends in pizza.
I haven't been to a concert since the 80's.
I went to a bunch of nostalgia tours. I think the last one was Gary Lewis and The Playboys at a packed house in Detroit Lakes, MN. After the concert, he brushed by me in the crowd.
Before that saw Jan & Dean with The Trashmen in Fargo, ND.
Before that I think it was the Beach Boys, at the We Fest venue in Detroit Lakes, MN. That same venue saw Three Dog Night and The Grass Roots in a triple bill with another band I can't recall.
I saw Ricky Nelson just before his untimely death, and Juice Newton, and a couple of others. I wanted to apologize to them for having to play a fieldhouse in Wahpeton, ND.
I think I saw more, but a lot of the concerts sort of run together in my mind.
I'm sure I saw the Johnny Holm band, and Head East.
Oh, and I went to a concert by the Glenn Miller Orchestra. Some of the players were very old.
DavidS - Sep 26, 2004 9:45:52 am PDT #5102 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Hec is dead to me.
Enlighten me then - which of their last five albums didn't suck.
Mr. Broom - Sep 26, 2004 9:49:59 am PDT #5103 of 10003
"When I look at people that I would like to feel have been a mentor or an inspiring kind of archetype of what I'd love to see my career eventually be mentioned as a footnote for in the same paragraph, it would be, like, Bowie." ~Trent Reznor
You appear to be making the cutoff at "John Henry", which is a favorite of mine but not the end of an era. "Factory Showroom" is solid front to back, for starters. I could defend each and every track in depth if required. I honestly don't understand what "tuneless" means in this context.