Fashionistas you have arrived 3-25-03 - 10-3-03

[evenodds]

Originally posted by spookyfish

I'm talking here about songs you would hear in the car, and regrettably, my parents were driving early 60's Chevrolets and Plymouths with AM radios. FM was for AOR listening stoners such as yourself.

Stop hating because Bilmore and my parents were cooler than your parents.

I didn't know there was AM radio, until I developed a love for my local football team and still had to go sailing on Sundays.

Even('rents were boomers, not hippies)Odds

[bilmore]

Originally posted by paigowprincess
and its "smoke on water" not "smoke on the water", ozzie.

No, I guess it's not surprising that you can't remember the guys' names.

Originally posted by bilmore
No, I guess it's not surprising that you can't remember the guys' names.

Oh, I know his name. It was Kevin and he was from Fairfield, County. I know what frat he aws in and that he was a huge rugby player. I remmeber that his nose was broken in eight differnet directions and he didnt get it fixed bc it wsnt worth having it broken again in the surgery. I know he enjoyed that Elton John's greatest hits collectino with Island Girl and the Bitch is Back and that we played Beirut.

But I do not know if I banged him. Which hopefully means I didnt.

[Oliver_Wendell_Ramone]

Originally posted by spookyfish
That was a flat out horrible era for songs. The early to mid-70's with the exception of what certain groups that carried on from the 60's, like the Stones, the Who and the Kinks were doing, was a vast wasteland of overproduced corporate bullshit rock, along with the happy balladeer Jims (Croce and Taylor, though JT was pretty strung out at the time) and some really bad crossover country (Kenny Rogers and Charlie Rich or Convoyyyyy!, anyone?).

New York Dolls 1973
Multiple Lou Reed albums 1972-74
Gram Parsons (GP, 1972, Grievous Angel, 1973)
Iggy and the Stooges (Raw Power, 1973)
Bob Marley and the Wailers (Burnin, '73, Catch a Fire, '73, Natty Dread, '75)
Richard and Linda Thompson (I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight, '74).
John Prine (a whole mess of good stuff in the early 70s; ask Bilmore and Wonk).

Anyway, can't disagree that "radio music" went largely to hell around that time. But still some great music. Hell, though it's from one of the band's you acknolwedged in your post, the greatest rock and roll album of all time came out in '72. Sebby, name that record.

Ollie (and, of course, the Ramones were doing their thing by the mid-70s) Ramone

[spookyfish]

Originally posted by evenodds
Stop hating because Bilmore and my parents were cooler than your parents.

Even('rents were boomers, not hippies)Odds

A hater I am not. The horror!

I will be the first to admit that my parents are adorably square. I come from a long line of adorably square people, salt-of-the-earth types, and for that I am infinitely proud. I am sure my own children, when they get to the age of raising their own children, will look back fondly and say, "Gee, my parents are adorably square, but you know, I really see where they were coming from."

Boomers and not hippies? WTF? I see no difference. Virtually all boomer parents, unless (and maybe even if) you were born in the '80's have some deep dark hippy secret in their past. I'm sure that before you were born and they became Republicans, they had an apartment somewhere with hanging beads separating their bedroom, where they smoked pot and had tons of premarital unprotected sex, from the other room in the apartment. Who do you think you're kidding?

spookyfish

[bilmore]

Originally posted by Oliver_Wendell_Ramone Anyway, can't disagree that "radio music" went largely to hell around that time.

But, I was listening to the same stuff you just listed, and I was listening to it on the radio. Was it just that, if you couldn't spell "FM", you were toast?

[spookyfish]

Originally posted by Oliver_Wendell_Ramone

Ollie (and, of course, the Ramones were doing their thing by the mid-70s) Ramone

1972? You could be talking about "Who's Next", but I've posted so much today, I may not be referencing the post you are referring to.

spooky(Um, wait, that could be '71, let me think)fish

[bilmore]

Originally posted by spookyfish

["70's sukd"]

C'mon, man, your sig line was written in '75. Couldn't have been too bad.

[Oliver_Wendell_Ramone]

Originally posted by bilmore
But, I was listening to the same stuff you just listed, and I was listening to it on the radio. Was it just that, if you couldn't spell "FM", you were toast?

Was much of that played on mainstream (i.e. non-college or community) radio back then? I was ranging from like 5 to 8 years old, so I have no knowledge; obviously discovered this stuff much later.

I do know that it was around this time that my parents' musical taste went largely to hell. The record collection suddenly goes from Beatles, Dylan, et al. to Anne Murray, Jim Croce, and Bread. Gordon Lightfoot and Neil Diamond are significant high points. WTF?

[Oliver_Wendell_Ramone]

Originally posted by spookyfish
1972? You could be talking about "Who's Next", but I've posted so much today, I may not be referencing the post you are referring to.

spooky(Um, wait, that could be '71, let me think)fish

Actually, I think Who's Next is terribly overrated.

Next Guess!

[spookyfish]

Originally posted by bilmore
C'mon, man, your sig line was written in '75. Couldn't have been too bad.

That may be true, but I've already given my frame of reference as to why the 70's largely did suck.

I saw a documentary on AC/DC recently and now, aside from that being a phrase appropriate to legal types, I can't get that fucking song out of my brain. They rawk -- a big-dumb-testosterone-fueled rawk, but rawk they do, especially w/Bon.

spookyfish

[spookyfish]

Originally posted by Oliver_Wendell_Ramone
Actually, I think Who's Next is terribly overrated.

Next Guess!

Exile on Main Street. What was I thinking. Forgive me.

And I love the Who, so you can shut the fuck up.

spookyfish

[spookyfish]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield

Well... its not true that I ever sang along with Meatloaf. He's so bad he doesn't even have any comedy value. He's like catching your grandparents fucking. You're compelled to stick around just long enought to see how bad it can get, then run off and wretch.

S(harsh, but accurate)D

My nomination for POTD. Hilarious. Harsh, accurate and Hilarious.

spookyfish

[Oliver_Wendell_Ramone]

Originally posted by spookyfish
Exile on Main Street. What was I thinking. Forgive me.

And I love the Who, so you can shut the fuck up.

spookyfish

We have a winner!

I actually like the Who, too, though I prefer the short, punchy, almost proto-punk stuff from the 60s. I'd probably like Who's Next better if it wasn't such a staple of classic rock radio and the camaro set. Not to sound all sebbish, I mean, snobish.

Ollie (can't explain) Ramone

Originally posted by Oliver_Wendell_Ramone
Actually, I think Who's Next is terribly overrated.

Next Guess!

Eat a Peach