We're still working on a plan, but so far it involves being sent to prison and becoming somebody's bitch.

Fred ,'Just Rewards (2)'


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.


DXMachina - Feb 02, 2005 12:43:34 pm PST #7220 of 10003
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

Me, neither.


Atropa - Feb 02, 2005 12:47:25 pm PST #7221 of 10003
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

Neither did I.


DavidS - Feb 02, 2005 12:48:28 pm PST #7222 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Well, there's no use going now since they're old and boring. However, I'll still stand by my statement that R.E.M. in '83 was about the best concert I ever saw.


bicyclops - Feb 02, 2005 1:37:34 pm PST #7223 of 10003

14 May 1982 - Atlanta Arts Festival, Piedmont Park, Atlanta, GA

I was there, but I don't remember much about it.


Polter-Cow - Feb 02, 2005 4:40:21 pm PST #7224 of 10003
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

What's the song in the iPod shuffle commercial? I've heard it before.


Gandalfe - Feb 02, 2005 7:34:26 pm PST #7225 of 10003
The generation that could change the world is still looking for its car keys.

I haven't seen REM, either. Nor have I seen U2.

The five best concerts I've seen:

Howard Jones, 1995 or so. He still sells tons of tickets here in Salt Lake, and makes a point of playing a show if he comes to the states for any reason (like to get his hair cut, by his hairdresser who is also my hairdresser). But, this show, when he could have sold 5000 tickets, he played at a small club (Zephyr, for those keeping score) for about 200 people. Absolutely brilliant.

Sinead O'Connor, 1988, I believe, while she was on top. She sold out the Salt Palace (15000 seats, I think. Where the Jazz used to play), and, at one point, got every one in the audience so quiet you could hear the security guard's walkie talkies.

Dead Kennedys/Black Flag, 1986ish. Wow. All I can say.

Oingo Boingo, many times from 1984-1988. They came thru and played every 6 months or so, and I went to see them every time. My favorite was on their final tour, when a friend of mine had taken so much acid I started frying just from holding his hand going through the crowd.

Crash Worship, 1994. Absolutely insane, tribal shit. It started, for me, with a girl, about 4'10", with a rainbow dreadlock mohawk, buck naked, squeezing watermellon on me. Then came the midgets with drums, the fire pits, the fuck circle, the humming clump . . . . Insane.


Fred Pete - Feb 03, 2005 3:20:42 am PST #7226 of 10003
Ann, that's a ferret.

Also never seen REM. Had tickets to see U2 in 1997, but couldn't go because of work.


Frankenbuddha - Feb 03, 2005 3:22:08 am PST #7227 of 10003
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

I saw REM in Portland, ME the summer of 1985. Good show - Fables/Reconstruction tour.


lisah - Feb 03, 2005 5:14:54 am PST #7228 of 10003
Punishingly Intricate

So according to my friend who I saw REM with in Philly in Oct. '84, she doesn't remember them doing Lionel Ritchie with the dBs but, she said:

REM did one additional encore--Suspicious Minds. REM and the dBs took the stage together, and Bill Berry introduced it by dedicating it to his mom.

The only time I saw U2 was in 1985 (or possibly 86) and Lone Justice opened.


DavidS - Feb 03, 2005 2:22:45 pm PST #7229 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Jilli! And anybody else who likes pictures of pretty boys in eye makeup ::glances around for ita, jen, juliana, Trudy...:

There's a new issue out in the NME series reprinting pictures and articles from the past. The new one is 80s The New Romantics. Adam Ant on the cover. Duran Duran, Bowie, Japan, Eurythmics etc.