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[MarkBastable]

I listened to their 2nd, 3rd, and 4th albums obsessively, so it gets a 9.8/10.

Now, if you'll allow me to drain the passion out of things, and just stand by while whatever.

All I've ever heard of Anderson's before is O Superman.

I rather liked that for about two minutes and then I got bored for thirty seconds, and then it irritated me and I stopped it. Which doesn't necessarily mean I didn't think it was any good or, actually, that I thought it was boring. In fact, I'm tempted to write several hundred words about the ways in which it was interesting. Which, in turn, doesn't necessarily mean that I liked it.

7/10

Here's a scary thing: today, that could be conceived, recorded and mixed on an iPhone. Using the Thumbjam app I've done some very similar stuff to pass the time while commuting to work. Which doesn't mean that I think I'm an influential urban avant gardiste, by the way. The innovative techniques she was using are now a standard part of the contemporary musical vocabulary. But that loop and sequencer thing is a lot of fun to play around with.


Meanwhile, in another part of the forest....

You may not be an old-fashioned girl, but you're gonna get dated.

[billl]

All I've ever heard of Anderson's before is O Superman.

That one also didn't used to run so long back then, and has a good video, considering.

Meanwhile, in another part of the forest....

You may not be an old-fashioned girl, but you're gonna get dated.

9/10

I wasn't really into those guys and that scene as much as a particular girl I liked (if ya know what I mean), but she was wiser than me, and even though those guys sounded "old style" and didn't dress half as looney as Adam Ant, they were, in retrospect, great and I get to look back and imagine that I was into that stuff (again, if ya know what I mean), and have great memories, etc. I mean, she didn't have a car, but I did, nothing to brag about though, just something to get me started off with, but I was doing better than a lot of buddies, etc. That clip is particularly great, nice video and nice playing, cool song.

Here's something else I remembered, from after I knew better what's what, a time when there's no longer any reason to wear people out with mysteries about what I might've meant. I mean I really liked this music at the time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__GbqPyXmJ8#t=8m17s

[Jack of Hearts]

Well, if only one could say they weren't acquainted with whatever brand of awful that was... but having grown up in it, 2/10. For the five string childhood ma, and the tear in your beer. (What's disturbing is that this poster is also acquainted with the sentiment that surely must precipitate these godawful songs-- godawful lyrically speaking, at least).


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TbmP...=results_video






J

[Paulclem]

Excellent 8/10

I was introduced to JJ Cale in the 1980s. Fantastic music. This was on the first album of his i heard.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlppIdtLw5A

[Sancho]

Just a shade twangy for my taste, pero me gusta mucho nunca menos. 8/10. Don’t’cha just dig it when you hear a tune by the dude who wrote it (J.J. Cale) and it’s better than the one you hear on the radio all the time (Skynyrd)?

But then, every once in a while somebody covers/interprets a tune and you wind up liking it more than the pop version.

Bad Case of Lovin’ You, Billy Gibbons:

http://youtu.be/M8rjBH3-KaQ

[Jack of Hearts]

Jesus. 8.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMTKb-pgxGI

[Jack of Hearts]

3 out of 10, Jack, you idiot.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOIsYA1QDuk

[Sancho]

Sorry, Jack. I’ve been busy-busy-busy.

That Weezer tune right there is a real toe tapper. 8/10 The Muppets really take me back. Do you remember Jim Henson’s Muppets in The Land of Gorch from early SNL seasons? Probably not. He had a hilarious cast of characters: King Ploobis, Queen Peuta, Scred, and of course, The Mighty Favog – “It’s gonna cost ya.”

Yes, well, so anyway, I think I’m dating myself, but I first saw this guy around about that time. I was in high school and madly in love with a girl, who I took to the show. She later dumped me hard and I haven’t seen her since around 1980. But I’ve had an idealized image of her in my head for the past 30 years. (I’m still a little bit smitten)

I know, it’s kinda weird.

I have no idea what she looks like now and, for that matter, I don’t really remember what she looked like then. I kept her photo for a while, but my wife found it and ripped it up, which made for a chilly couple of nights around the old homestead.


Anyway, here’s Springsteen from his ’05 studio album, Devils & Dust:

http://youtu.be/Xe-5Z3YzVcs

[Lokasenna]

Eh, never been a fan of the Boss. His music isn't bad, just really not my thing. 3/10.

How about another cultural icon?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvKRbi2ovDY

[MarkBastable]

Eh, never been a fan of the Boss. His music isn't bad, just really not my thing. 3/10.

How about another cultural icon?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvKRbi2ovDY

I'm too appalled even to rate it.

[Lokasenna]

I'm too appalled even to rate it.

[Buh4Bee]

I know you are a medievalist, but this is taking it to far.

[Sancho]

Eh, never been a fan of the Boss. His music isn't bad, just really not my thing. 3/10.

How about another cultural icon?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvKRbi2ovDY

Boy Howdy!

Charlemagne deserved better. Much better.
I’m getting my cow bell and going back down to New Orleans to try and expunge that video from my brain.

Cakewalk anybody?

Dave Bartholomew, Shrimp Gumbo:
http://youtu.be/WxVcNYsKwLA

[Volya]

6/10

UB40 - Johnny Too Bad
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MJNSoRNX4Q

[MarkBastable]

6/10

UB40 - Johnny Too Bad
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MJNSoRNX4Q

I was exactly the right age for UB40, and I was a white kid from precisely the multicultural background to which they ought to appeal. But they gave me an ache behind the eyes then, and they still do now. It just all sounds so unconvincing and utterly devoid of balls. Nah..... 2/10

Before my time, this, but timelessly moving....


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11fFE9lR56U