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  1. I can't remember every song but here are a few Spirit of Radio Limelight Roll the Bones Dreamline Mystic Rhythms Beneath Between Behind Tom Sawyer Red Barchetta Working Man The Trees Xanadu Earthshine YYZ Time Stand Still Subdivisions Show don?t tell Distant early warning I?m sure I?m leaving out some. They played over three hours. From their new all-cover CD ?Crossroads? I remember hearing Summertime Blues Crossroads The Seeker There were only two songs that I was disappointed not to hear Freewill, where I got my signature Closer to the Heart, a classic audience participation song
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  3. The middle portion of Filter's "Welcome to the Fold" where the music stops and the lyrics "Momma give me my medicine are repeated while he claims that the medicine "makes me feel like a tall tree." I've learned the exact time to fast forward the song to almost avoid this whole area of what is an otherwise really great song. The first 4:35 of the Stone Roses "Breaking into heaven". The song is over 11 minutes long so you still have a lot of good music left if you skip the first part. The SOS thing with the Police could be an attempt to recreate the experience of actually sending an SOS. You do it over and over hoping someone will hear it. However other songs that don't have anything to do with distress signals have similar endings. ...---...
  4. I will watch sports on the networks, but hardly anything at night. The last new sitcom I liked was "Sports Night" which was cancelled so that ABC could show "Who wants to be a millionaire" five nights a week. Isn't the title of that horrible show a rhetorical question? Wouldn't everyone like to have a little spare cash lying around? The stereotype is how liberal 'hand out' types view big business. They?d rather give away money then watch people work for it in a healthy business environment. Always keeping in mind the ?quid pro quo? idea about ?here?s your money now where?s my vote?. Is Dunkin Donuts better off because they can now charge $2.50 for a cup of coffee that used to cost less than a dollar before Starbucks? They aren?t putting anyone out of business, only growing the market for coffee drinkers. More coffee drinkers means more coffee growers and fewer coca plant growers in Colombia. So Starbucks is helping with the war on drugs. How can anyone be against less crack? Controlling the media and controlling the airways is what Clear Channel and Viacom are trying to do. Starbucks is only trying to overcharge for a cup of coffee. Controlling industries is what happens in socialist and communist countries by the govt. Microsoft lucked into its market dominating position when Apple wouldn't license the Mac. Now they fall under anti-trust regulations, and are no longer considered a growth company. If other operating systems become more popular it will diminish Microsoft's market share, but it will possibly allow them to gain back the innovative spirit that started the company, and it will get the regulators off their back. Everyone wins.
  5. The internet providers can no longer give out the names of their subscribers to people wishing to prosecute music being downloaded. So for now, no one is going to come knocking at your door with a warrant. For Jayson I used to use Kazza, but it was slow, and the selection wasn't that good. Plus the "Gain Advertizing" Spyware had to be installed on the computer for Kazza to work. Your suggestion of WinMX has been a godsend. Thank you so much. Great selection, fast speed, and no spyware. Bands that produce good music should welcome file sharing. If I download a song or two and I like them then I'm likely to buy the CD. If I don't like them I won't. Before downloading I used to waste a lot of money buying CDs for the one song I heard on the radio only to find that the one song was the only thing on the CD worth listening to. Now I can sample several of the songs before I purchase a CD. This helps the bands that put out good music and hurts the ones who don't, but might have one catchy type tune. If done this way it's not stealing but simply previewing a CD before a purchase is made. Most record stores let you do this in their stores already. I wish I had been able to sample many of the CDs I have before I purchased them. After "Play", I just assumed anything by Moby was going to be good. Then I bought the CD with him dressed as an astronaut on the front cover. Even though I did like one song, the rest was so bad that I sacrificed the entire CD by breaking it in half. I can avoid further CD sacrifice rituals by checking out some of the music before I buy it.
  6. I realized last night that I had called Veruca Salt a girl band when all I meant was it was girls fronting a band. Not a 'girl band' like the Spice Girls. When I had read a couple of the interviews with record execs who blamed the fans, us, for why they arn't making enough money, I lost it. I could barely type fast enough to get out all my dissatisfaction with where they put the blame. For years they have fed us mass-produced crap and now they blame us for not being loyal. At least if they are going to mass-produce something let it be something good like when Flea and Dave Navarro backed up Alainis Morissette on "you oughta know". Blaming us, the fans, is what really messed me up. What's really amazing is that Veruca Salt wasn't promoted well. Both the girls were better looking than any of the spice girls, plus the music was really good. Guess their music didn't target the 10-13 year old demographic. The Clear Channel situation is easier to fix than the whining record company problem. The FCC should have never allowed one company to own more than one station in a single market. The CC, Viacom point is that by owning more than one station they are able offer specialized programming that they otherwise couldn't. With profits being the motivation, who would play classic rock, when urban contemporary is the highest rated format. Chicago is a huge radio market with a lot of independant stations and college type radio, but in smaller markets the stations without the most popular format simply can't compete. It costs the same to broadcast Usher as it does to broadcast Led Zeppelin. The Montreal Expos defense. Their whole argument reminds me of plastic surgeons who do 1000 tit jobs so that they can perform one reconstructive surgery on the elephant man's grandson. They really do the one reconstructive surgery so they can justify their own greed being supported by their breast job clients vanity. TV is a pretty good example of how competition can help a monopolistic type market. Except for new episodes of Law and Order and the West Wing, I don't even make it down to the single and double digit areas of the television. The best thing Time Warner had going for them was Ted Turner and his networks but they chose to get rid of him favoring instead to stay with the M&A happy Levin for CEO. I don't watch CNN, but I love TNT. But unlike TV, most people still don't have satellite type radio. There's only so many spots on the dial to put a channel, and until there are other options one or two companies shouldn't be allowed to dominate the market. In my opinion boycotting Clear Channel advertizers won't really work. If Jerry Falwell and his followers haven't been able to effect a change than how much good could a few disenfranchized fans do? Especially when the record companies blame the fans for what is wrong with the music industry. Lawmakers on the other hand do easily cave in to civic pressure. Look at what happened because of the Super Bowl halftime show. They also like words such as 'collusion' and 'unfair trade practices'. Something the airlines and oil companies have been accused of doing. I'm not active in Chicago politics other than voting for the mayor. Too many democrats not getting anything done, Illinois can't even get a state budget approved because of too much infighting between memebers of the Dem. run state government. I do know the guy who took over the job my congressman from Texas used to have. It's an election year, they arn't looking to piss off the votors too much. The record companies just need to provide us with some good music and they will find many loyal fans. I've never heard of Dream Theater, but that could be the best endorsement a band could get. That they are totally unknown. I'll check them out. Got any song, or CD suggestions? Did anyone else show up for work today and find out that they didn't need to be there?
  7. Last thing I?m going to say about all this. I did some more reading, since it is still too cold in Chicago to lay out by the pool or go to the beach on the fourth of July. The record companies it seems blame everyone else but themselves for the current state of music. Its peer to peer networking, it?s media giants like Clear Channel making us pay for airtime. It?s our parent corporations profit concerns. And the worse reason possible. They are blaming the fans for no longer being loyal to musicians. Time Warner needs to bite me. The reasons fans are no longer loyal, is because ?huge acts? like the Spice Girls only appeal to ten-year-old kids. Once those kids turn twelve or thirteen they realize that the Spice Girls suck. Brittney would have been gone long ago if not for the sexual component of her appeal. Middle age men will even watch her videos. Logic would say that a new group of ten year olds would come along and love the spice girls. But these kids have older siblings who would make fun of them and thus new boy and girl bands are needed every few years to avoid the stigma attached to the older acts by their older brothers and sisters. Blaming the fans. What nerve. These are the same record companies who brought us Madonna in the early 80s, armpit hair and all. And the c—t still won?t go away. They even tried to blame CDs, for causing a complacent attitude in the industry during the late 80s as much money was made when music fans were simply replacing their worn out vinyl LPs. The monopoly of the airways is one problem but to blame the fans. Haven?t the hugely grossing reunion tours shown these record companies anything? Fans are more loyal to good music today than ever before. I bought a CD last week that was put out by a thirty-year-old band. At least United Airlines isn?t blaming passengers for why the former worlds largest airline can?t compete with the cute little company out of Love Field and needs a federal loan guarantee to get out of bankruptcy. For years the major carriers have observed Southwest?s business model and steady profits and have done nothing to change the way they do business. I mentioned a girl band in another post called Veruca Salt. For whatever reason (marketing) they never caught on like the Spice Girls. Maybe they needed some clever feminine slogan. Well girl power to the record companies. Look at you now. And for the truly stupid Time Warner who sold off their rap division before hip hop really took off and bought AOL at the height of the internet stock bubble, bravo, you hit the idiocy exacta, and paid your former leader, Gerald Levin over 500 mil a year to make these shrewd business decisions. Making it a trifecta. And now you blame the fans. F—k off.
  8. It could be. That term was never used when I was in school but the combination of 'favorite word' and the 'screaming' comment led me to believe that it was some one word way to say 'sport' 'f---ng'. If it is the KFC spoon/fork combo than that's called a pickerism fetish if Cyber is making women scream with the utensil. I saw this fetish described on an episode of "Law and Order SVU". I hope for everyone's sake he isn't talking about that. The guy on SVU got arrested for poking women and I think he killed one or two of them. Dectectives Benson and Stabler always frown on people getting killed. Ice-T's character on the show doesn't like it either, and you don't want to mess with Ice-T, he used to be a pimp, and I'm sure he's still capable of b**th slapping someone.
  9. The "Surfing Bird" song scene from 'Flamingos; is it art, is it funny, brilliant, or just gross? I never could decide. I could have done without the final scene with Divine and the little dog. Apparently it was memorable as I haven't seen the movie for almost 15 years. John Waters, misunderstood genius or just a weirdo?
  10. I so would like to talk about this, but I, along with Peaches, Musik, and Diggs have been accused of leading other threads into the gutter. Good to see that sport f---ng remains popular among the younger generation. In college, fraternity pledges could get out of hazing if they let an 'active' member of the fraternity be the spectator to a spork. A good way for a college girl to avoid being sporked is to check for cracks in the guys closet door or check for gaps in the curtains or mini-blinds. When I would find a spectator hiding in the closet I would say he could stay but only if he participated and did things with the guy I was with. This offer was never taken up, homophobia, it seems, runs rampant among fraternity members, and the guy who was trying to spork me, ended up alone as I would end the date at that point trying to act all offended. I wasn't really offended and sort of admired the confidence a guy had to hide someone in his closet all night because he was sure he would 'score'. I was offended at being lied to and halfway disappointed for having to try and save my reputation and missing out on the exercize I was hoping to get. Some people call regular 'togetherness' with no strings attached sporking, but to truly be considered a spork, there must be spectators. 'Togetherness' with no strings and no spectators is just sleeping around and not true sporking. Videotaping the 'togetherness' could also be called sporking, but how many sporting events have zero spectators. It's not really keeping with the spirit of the whole thing. Kind of cheating, in a way. I knew girls who enjoyed a good spork, but that type of exhibitionist quality was something I didn't have. I think I might have been OK with it if I had been told beforehand, but the deception and lack of respect for my feelings always bothered me. So Cyber, show some respect and tell the girl you have a friend who would like to watch, she'll respect your honesty and a good time can be had by all. And into the gutter we go again. Sorry.
  11. Yeah, nothing wrong with being big. It's when the consumer loses their ability to choose because a company has taken over the market that things go bad. In the mornings the lines at Dunkin Donuts, Cosi, and The Grind House are all as long as the ones at Starbucks by where I work. As long as people will pay $2.50+ for a cup of coffee, none of these places is going to get hurt too much. I prefer Coca-cola and either donuts or Little Debbies for breakfast. The sugar rush really starts the day off right.
  12. What is your favorite word? FRED ?- my dog?s name, and when I hear it I think of him What is your least favorite word? MATRICULATE -- it means ?going to college? but it sounds like something that could be prevented by wearing adult diapers. What turns you on? BRITISH ACCENTS What turns you off? SMUGNESS and PEOPLE WHO SAY ?MATRICULATE? What is the sound or noise that you love? BUBBLING WATER -- while smoking stuff What sound or noise do you hate? PEOPLE SMACKING THEIR FOOD What is your favorite curse word? S**THEAD, NUMBNUTS, or C*NT -- can't narrow it down, each is so fitting when in the right context. What profession other than yours would you like to attempt? PRO GOLFER What profession would you not like to participate in? CRACK WHORE If Heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the Pearly Gates? ENTRE -- Spicoli?s line when Mr. Hand paid him a visit at the end of the school year.
  13. When Jerry Garcia died, a congressman was asked how many times he had seen the Grateful Dead in concert. His answer was "Not enough". How many times have I seen Rush? "Not enough" Nice to know, Mike that I'm not alone with this feeling.
  14. Clear Channel along with Viacom (MTV), or corporate radio of any kind is a huge problem. Being a free market capitalist, I respect their right to try and ?corner? the radio market in the country, as the current govt. regulations allow them to do so. However, the ?monopolistic? nature of the music industry dictates that some regulation is needed. Ticketmaster?s monopoly has caused concert ticket prices to increase 800% since ?81 when I first started going to see shows. This figure is based on what I paid for my first Rush concert and what I paid for my tickets to their show last week. Before there was competition in telecommunications a long distance call could cost a dollar a minute. With competition that same long distance call is free, not factoring in the small monthly charge for the unlimited long distance service. The once mighty AT&T announced last week that it was getting out of the residential market altogether because it can?t compete with the lower priced carriers in that market. Their stock price has long reflected the fact that their residential service has no value at all. If their wireless business were factored out of their stock price, it would be a penny stock and probably de-listed from the NYSE. Competition works, but it cannot work where monopolies are allowed to exist. Get hotels on Boardwalk and Park Place and its only a matter of time before you win the game. So ?vote with your remote?, or ?remote voting?, whatever sounds best. Growing up in Dallas there were six stations that I would listen to. Two were hard rock, two were alternative predecessors (the alternative designation wasn?t being used yet), and the other two were classic rock. I was in Dallas last week and bought a car. I was trying to program in some stations and found only two listenable stations. One was alternative and the other classic rock. I couldn?t find one single hard rock station in the whole town. After seeing Scott?s post, I decided to find out why. This was what I found out: As promised, here's some more info on Clear Channel's format switch handed down to Dallas' only true rock station, 97.1 KEGL "The Eagle". The format of "The New Sunny 97.1" does seem to be "lite rock" with zero focus on the local music scene. During the last hour, the station has played: The Beach Boys, Carole King, Wham!, Elton John, Aretha Franklin, Rita Coolidge, Tina Turner and Fleetwood Mac. I found this info using the ?Clear Channel Sucks? link provided by ?Ummagumma?. Thanks for the link and the screen-name tribute to Pink Floyd. The scarier thing is that the only two listenable stations in Dallas both belong to Clear Channel. The situation in Chicago is somewhat better with Clear Channel and Viacom only accounting for 12% of the radio market, but it?s still a problem. Stop trying to get crossover listeners by playing Eminem on an alternative station. Microsoft got in some trouble for using its monopolistic position to promote its web browser and media player. I don?t want to wait 20 years for the government to have to step in and break up the Clear Channel and Viacom monopolies. Instead of trying to appeal to listeners as they are now doing these companies in the future will be dictating to listeners what they have to listen to. This is already being done by MTV with their ceaseless promotion of Brittney and the boy-bands. What these two companies are doing is not the free-market at work, but corporate giants using their vast resources to takeover an industry that lends itself to monopolistic practices. I?m not looking forward to the time when we hear adds like, ?Clear Channel radio, your only source for the Eagles.? Or some other band that can only be heard on stations owned by a particular company. I use the Eagles as an example because of how they insult their long-time fans with the ticket prices of their reunion concerts. My first post to Songfacts dealt with how Atlantic Records almost dropped Peter Gabriel from its label before his fourth solo album. After the release of ?So? that went to #1, I?m sure they are glad they didn?t. What?s frightening is that record companies and the media giants who promote their products have this type of control over what we listen to. If it sounds like I?m agreeing with Scott, it?s because I am. Any industry that can be monopolized must be regulated by the government for the safety of the consumer, or in this case the listener. The current radio environment is not really a monopoly for any one company, but an oligopoly, meaning its dominated by a few large companies. Think of how well oligopolies have worked in the past to see where this situation is going; the US car industry in the 70s before the Japanese competition, airlines before deregulation and competition from Southwest who still shows a profit every quarter, or AT&T, a true monopoly before it was broken up by the government. There is a time for government to get involved in business and now is that time for the music business unless people want to return to the days of dollar-a-minute phone calls or be forced to listen to ?all Brittney, all the time? radio. Great post, Scott
  15. Ahhh, If Clear Channel and MTV would play their music more, they would be more popular. How did your friends react to the music? You said favorably. So they must have good taste. Airplay is the problem, not peoples' taste, as you yourself pointed out by mentioning your friends' reactions. We can do it your way: Your friends + Oasis = new Oasis fans MTV + New Kids on the Block = new fans for next boy band MTV + BSBoys = new fans for next boy band MTV + NSync = solo Justin fans See, now who is to blame? The kids who are listening to the boy bands or MTV for not providing real music. Fans by default. That is unless the vicious cycle is stopped. By playing Oasis for your friends you are doing your part. And good for you. When I was four or five a neighbor played the Beatles for me and I was saved from disco. Think of it as a grass-roots campaign. Being young it will be easier for you to infiltrate the sleeper cells of boy-band fans and effect a change than it would for some old person like me. You could be a real force for good music in your generation if you would just stop complaining about the woes of American musical taste and work to change the hearts and minds of the previously unenlightened. So your mission, if you choose to accept it...... Take care Scott. You can keep using my last name also if you must. ::
  16. I've never known one person who liked the Backstreet Boys. The only person I've known who liked Nsync was on these boards and she outed herself. However, I've known many people who really liked Oasis. I live in America, possibly it's the quality of my sub-set of aquaitences. It's not even both Gallaghers with the attitude thing, only the one with the heroin problem. Many rock stars have attitude problems. I try to say good things about Oasis as much as I can, because I feel that many have overlooked their music. The Backstreet Boys might have won a poll of 10-13 year olds but no one else. Your buddies at Clear Channel, MTV, and the record producers are the problem. If you don't like America then move. Where did your beloved Nirvana come from? Other countries have problems also, the anti-American rhetoric is getting old. Blame the people who are responsible for the boy-bands not the people who listen to them because they are on MTV all the time. Other than sweet Peaches, no one past their teen-age years listens to the stuff. Even though there was no MTV, disco was marketed to my generation in much the same way yet I came out of the 70s unharmed. Just because the other kids in your school don't know Oasis doesn't mean you should make broad generalizations about a whole society's bad taste in music. Since you live here, why don't you try and focus on what's right about this country instead of channeling your energies in such a negative way. Nirvana would make a good starting point for your list since they are from America and I know you like them. "Democracy is the worst form of government except for all the others." And an English guy said that. Then he was voted out of office in '45, then voted back into office in '51. But that's how it works. If you don't like things so much, make yourself a fake ID and go vote. If dead people in Chicago could vote for Kennedy then I'm sure you could pass for the age of majority.
  17. Everything people have written plus Van Halen AC/DC Fleetwood Mac Boston Motley Crue Black Sabbath / Ozzy Don't give up on this quest. I was a white girl from Texas who hated Country and Western music. And do check out the Beatles, It's not quite as 'hard' as some of the other groups that have been listed but neither are the Doobie Brothers or Fleetwood Mac that I listed.
  18. And Scott and I disagree again. What a shock. I did agree with everything he wrote about Oasis when I was scanning all the posts I missed on my vacation. If you liked "Morning Glory", their third CD is even better. In a 'pitch meeting' I would call it, "Smashing Pumpkins meets the Beatles." The singing was what I thought was the worst part of the movie. Sometimes South Park can use music well, like Cartman's hand puppet of Jennifer Lopes. Or the boy-band the guys formed. I didn't enjoy how the singing was used in the movie. For me, it wasn't that bad of a movie, only a disappointment after watching the show. I probably shouldn't have listed it on this post because it was not the worst film I have ever seen. I felt cheated and slightly violated after watching "The Guru". It's hard to think of a worse movie that I would try and watch. The 'career path not taken' known as "Pretty Woman" was 'pretty' bad when thinking about the message the movie sent to young women. "If you can't get a good job, become a whore, and maybe you will meet a rich guy." I'm not a feminist and don't believe women should have protected rights. I don't want to ever get a promotion simply because I am a woman. However, choosing prostitution as an alternative to education and getting a job should not be glorified. "Go to school for twenty years and you might never become a millionaire. Put on a short skirt and walk Sunset Blvd. and you can become one in a week." This movie might also be another reason I dislike Julia Roberts. All those teeth still make her look like a horse. I can't stand Richard Gere either; hmmm. I see that Scott is still using my last name for his first name. :beady: Remember I'm older and was here first; try to be original. ::
  19. Monty Python, the funniest group of men who ever wore women's clothing. Maybe the funniest group of men ever. The original cast of SNL would have to be up there also, Murray, Chase, Belushi, Akroyd, Morris, recurring guest spots by Steve Martin. I'm currently addicted to watching "The Office" and "Coupling" on the BBCA channel, as well as the reruns of Monty Python they show. "Wallace and Gromit" were also amusing.
  20. Ever hear U2's remake of "Night and Day" by Porter? It's on one of those "Red, Hot, and Blue" tribute CDs for Aids research. An amazing song. Sinatra also redid the song but the U2 version is way better than his and I love Sinatra.
  21. Any movie the Lifetime channel might show that is "Based on a true story". How many movies about date rape and teen pregnancy can actually be made? The Sundance movie channel has also been getting on my nerves lately. Apparently whenever a gay man either comes out or gets aids, one of his friends will have a camera rolling, and will somehow get the footage made into a movie. After watching the TV show, "South Park, Bigger, Longer, and Uncut" was a huge disappiontment. If you take 'South Park' out of the title it sound like a great role for John Bobbit to play. The real problem with the movie was that my expectations were so high after watching the show on TV. Like what happens when you read a book before seeing the movie. "Lord of the Rings" was an exception to that rule and I thought the movies were better than the books. Which is saying a lot for Peter Jackson when the 'trilogy' was my second favorite book(s) of all time. "Catch 22" and "Bonfire of the Vanities" were simply horrible after reading the books. Again, expectations could have played a part, but many reviewers agreed with me on "Bonfire". I really like skiing and so I'll end up watching any ski movie just in case it's good, or there might be some good ski footage. "Ski School", "Hot Dog", and "Aspen Extreme" all sucked. I'm a big fan of Marisa Tomei and will watch most of her movies at least once. What happened with "The Guru"? So bad it should have ruined her career. "Flawless" with Robert DeNiro was also really bad. I don't like going to movies unless I feel it is something that needs to be seen on a big screen. The chairs are too uncomfortable. The last movie I saw in a theater was "Return of the King". I do watch a lot of cable TV. Here's a question. If the Starz channel only provides quality programming why are they now showing the movie "Gigli"? Wasn't it voted the worst movie of last year? A little more truth in advertizing from the Starz channel would be nice. "If it sucks so bad that HBO, Cinemax, Showtime, and The Movie Channel won't show it, we will." "Sorority Boys" is also being shown on the Starz channel.
  22. It's so difficult to classify music. There was a post about 'best in each genre'. One of the categories was 'Arena Rock'. I listed Depeche Mode simply because they once sold out the Rose Bowl for three straight nights. Over 300,000 saw their show in a three day period and somehow filling a stadium should be a criteria for 'Arena Rock' even though I knew that wasn't the exact sound the genre was calling for.
  23. Great CD, purchased it yesterday. Got to see a few of the songs performed live last week. Mike, arn't you going to see them this week? I posted a few of my thoughts about the show in the 'Concerts' section. The post was called "Worth any price" because I got drunk after the concert and somehow lost my watch that was given to me at work several years ago and had to be replaced and before I could return to work. After you see them I would be interested in any thoughts you have on the show.
  24. Wow, how much things can change in a week. Every board has five new pages of posts and the Zeppelin people have gone techno. 1) Depeche Mode 2) BT (Brian Transeau) 3) Crystal Method 4) New Order 5) Erasure 6) Happy Mondays 7) The Ocean Blue 8) Bronski Beat 9) Thomas Dolby 10) Moby I could have listed a lot more that I like. Techno can include so many things. Like techno was 'alternative' when 'alternative' simply meant an alternative to hard rock and disco. I'm not even sure if everything I listed should be included. I would say it feels good to be back at work but why start getting reaquainted with a lie.
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