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I like money better than people. People can so rarely be exchanged for goods and/or services!

Willow ,'Showtime'

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.

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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.

Atropa - Feb 03, 2005 2:23:22 pm PST #7230 of 10003

The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

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.

Squeeeeeee! Well, guess I need to go to the good magazine store this weekend ...

Jesse - Feb 03, 2005 3:34:53 pm PST #7231 of 10003

Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Heather! Did anyone mention Beck's Sea Change for weepies? It's a breakup album. Lost Cause always makes me cry.

Angus G - Feb 03, 2005 4:24:16 pm PST #7232 of 10003

Roguish Laird

I saw U2 around the Joshua Tree era (back when I was a fan!) and to be honest it was rubbish, it put me off going to big stadium shows forever. My rule of thumb now is that unless I could (hypothetically) hit the performers with a tomato from where I'm standing/sitting, I'm not interested in live shows.

Michele T. - Feb 03, 2005 4:32:32 pm PST #7233 of 10003

with a gleam in my eye, and an almost airtight alibi

You'd be surprised how far a tomato can go if you put your arm into it, Angus.

tina f. - Feb 03, 2005 5:04:02 pm PST #7234 of 10003

My first REM show:

4 March 1989 - Kemper Arena, Kansas City, MO
support: Robyn Hitchcock

set: Pop Song 89 / Exhuming McCarthy / Welcome To The Occupation / The One I Love / Turn You Inside-Out / Orange Crush / Sitting Still / Feeling Gravitys Pull / Time After Time (Annelise) / Cuyahoga / Being The Begin / Driver 8 / Pretty Persuasion / These Days / Get Up / Life And How To Live It / It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
encore 1: Stand / Tired Of Singing Trouble / I Believe / Crazy / You Are The Everything
encore 2: Finest Worksong / King Of Birds / Academy Fight Song
encore 3: Summertime / Auctioneer (Another Engine) / Perfect Circle / After Hours

I was in 8th grade as well and it was my first concert evah. I bought a bootleg of it that summer at Recycled Sounds in Westport (KC) and that was my first bootleg ever. When I used to make tape mixes I put the version of "Acadamy Fight Song" from this show on just about every mix I made.

So I moved to Chicago this week and my new roommate, actually my old (college) and once again new roommate, has a music collection to kill and/or die for which I have been listening to while unpacking. It's like I got 500 new CDs without paying a dime!

My update on the mix swap: I haven't had any buffista mixes to send on in a few months and I never did send a new copy of mine on to Angus because I had no CD burner.

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