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I get mad at people who overuse emoticons.

I don't mean you in particular have a weirdo accent, just that we might sound funny to non-Americans.

But to someone from India, or Scotland, you sound like a weirdo with that accent.

Accents rule.

Go to "My Fusion" at the top and click "Control Panel". Then select "Avatar Settings". Upload your image, either from your computer or a photo site, and there you go.

I like crooked noses.

Let me clarify my point a little bit: You're Pete Townshend and you write "Bargain". The record sells a lot, it's a hit at shows, it's on the radio constantly. It goes down as an all-time classic, still played on the radio 35 (or however many) years later. You've played it live 3,000 times in your life. Whatever personal meaning the song had originally has been mostly stripped away over the years, and you're sick of even playing it. Then, today Buick offers you a million bucks to put the song in an ad. What would you do? I agree with Shawna and B-F, that writing is personal. And there are some things I'd never consider "selling" - something incredibly emotional about my wife or daughter. Something a little less personal? I can buy my wife that apartment in Paris with just a signature? Why the hell not.

Mine, too, but everyone has some throwaways. Not saying that any song used in commercial is one, but I can see the temptation.

I think we discussed this sort of thing about The Who a long time ago. We may put these songs on pedestals, but to the writers/artists they're just some song they wrote 20 years ago. Someone wants to give me $1,000,000 to use it in a commercial? Why wouldn't you take it? It's not a lot different from selling an album, or a concert ticket. Or a concert t-shirt, for the love of god.

Weed will do that.

Gillian Welch rules.

Sorry to hear that, B-F.

You should enjoy these. (bad quality, but the harmonies!) (long intro, bad quality, but cool) (with my god Jon Brion!)

Anything with Jerry Douglas playing straight bluegrass will blow your mind. Nobody should be allowed to play a dobro like that.

I am a giant fan of classical music. Late Romantic, specifically. Mahler is my personal god, with Chopin a fairly close second. Stravinsky is underappreciated. J.S. Bach, too, even though he's arguably the most famous. It's astounding what that man did. Not a Mozart fan, but I appreciate him. Beethoven's late String Quartets? Amazing, and pretty much unheralded. I'm really loving Rachmaninoff right now, as well as the Britten "War Requiem". Come on, let's argue about 20th Century composers.

Exactly. Sue are smart.

The latter, just so you have to love rap.

No, we do get it. There's no need to repeat it in every post, since we'd gotten past establishing that you're not a rap fan. This thread is about a more general topic than that.

It's bound to be here: http://wc02.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&token=ADFEAEE4781CDC4AA57520CE9D374AC79460FD1CD047F9861129495092B63E45910977F250FC8C99FDFB75AB7BACE02CA45A089FC9E455FDD6653E2DED93&sql=10:j9fwxqwrldke

Yes, Blue - we get it.

Blue, I was merely pointing out that themes are pretty universal in music. Certain ones may be more prevalent in a particular genre, but that doesn't make it better or worse.

Jane, I don't get offended.

Lucky, please do be honest. I agree that some people do have that opinion of Southern Rock and Country. I just meant that I haven't seen that here, at least not intentionally. On a related note, I've seen the Allmans 5 times live. So I don't think it's redneck. Of course, I live in South Carolina...

Blue: "For somebody living in the south during the 70's,the music was a part of our culture and way of life." Ditto today and rap. "I think many tend to see that culture and it's music as being "redneck" and nothing more." Where did anyone here say that? "I think that's why I become defensive about it when it is slammed on here,including those who have said artists like Charlie Daniels are really country,not rock,because he plays a fiddle of all things." I said that about Charlie, but it was hardly a slam. It was more an observation that he plays a fiddle. "Maybe I don't understand how people can like a music style that is so much about violence,drugs and racism." All genres of music have the same themes.