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  6. If there's a draft...

    in Creative Writing

    Posted

    with the possibility of future conflict in Iran looming, i wrote this to express how i feel about how i play into this whole situation. (i'm currently 16)

    if there’s a draft, my life is over

    if there’s a draft, my life is through

    if there’s a draft, I’ll never do things

    that I’d really like to do

    if there’s a draft, I’ll either die or

    come back home and never learn

    and I’ll grow to be an old man

    for my younger days I’ll yearn

    if there’s a draft, my life is pointless

    time will just have passed me by

    if there’s a draft, I’ll never come home

    and my parents both will cry

    if there’s a draft, I will do nothing

    only ask the question “why?â€

    if there’s a draft, my life was worthless

    I’ll have lived life just to die

    I’ll never have a family,

    and I won’t pass on my name

    the town will mourn a week and then

    forget me all the same

    my parents won’t get over it

    till my brothers sent out next

    to march in line and follow orders

    can’t tell one man from the rest

    I really hope there is a God

    so I’ll have some place to be

    when I’m shot and killed

    while still not seeing all I’d like to see

    so before I die I think I’d like

    to let some people know

    I hope there is a God so when I die

    I’ll have some place to go.

  7. some questions

    in Questions and Answers

    Posted

    I know from many interviews and articles I read since the early seventies, and also from people that knows Lou Reed, that he actually never was the pathetic junky this song would make people think he was. In fact, I believe he was a tourist with heroin

    why does that discredit him as a songwriter? and no one should say because he presented himself as something he's not, because that's the whole nature of the business. The Who weren't really mods, Kit Lambert just presented them that way so they'd have a following. it can be disputed if the Clash were really "punks" in the sense that they were shown to be when they first appeared. "the Clash" is one hell of a punk album, but we see once they were allowed to make the kind of music they wanted to make they strayed more towards songs with horn sections and reggae beats. could it be that they rode the punk wave that was big at the time to get where they got? I love all these bands but in order for any of us to have heard of them they needed to get big, by playing off of what was big at the time. Lou Reed just happened to do songs on things that, while they may have been big at the time, were too controversial to sell records.

  8. some questions

    in Questions and Answers

    Posted

    I've compiled some questions that I wondered about the answers to but didn't think necessarily merited their own posts.

    1) In the Beatle's song "The End" who plays which guitar solo? I can pretty distinctly hear three different solos being played, but have no idea who plays which one.

    2) Does anybody else own the Velvet Underground's "Loaded" and have noticed that the times of the songs on the sleeve are different than the actual play times of the songs?

    3) At the end of the movie "Quadrophenia", Jimmy doesn't go off the cliff with the bike, right? What does that mean?

    4) In the Pink Floyd song "Matilda Mother" at 1:58 is the splicing of two takes as bad as it sounds or is it just some scratch on my CD?

    5) Is Terry Kath not the most under rated guitar player of all time? Listen to the first few Chicago albums! He's incredible!

    6) Why is Bruce Springsteen in the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame without the E Street Band?

    7) (this isn't a real question but...) Did anyone know that Lou Reed wrote "Heroin" while attending Syracuse...in 1964!? While the Beatles were writing:

    "hold me, love me, hold me, love me,

    ain't got nothin' but love, babe,

    eight days a week"

    Reed penned:

    "Then I really don't care anymore

    'bout all the Jim-Jims, in this town

    and all the politian's makin', crazy sounds

    and ev'rybody puttin' ev'rybody else down

    and all the dead bodies piled up in mounds..."

    And I guess, I just don't know. That's just amazing to me.

    Please give me some feedback, and hopefully some answers. Thanks!

  9. Supergroup

    in Music Discussion

    Posted

    this is like my third post on this thread but i was thinking about it the other day and had to check what i put. as it turns out it's almost completely different now.

    Neil Young- lead guitar, vocals

    Lou Reed- rhythm guitar, vocals

    Joe Strummer- rhythm guitar, vocals

    John Entwistle- bass

    Keith Moon- drums

  12. Top 10 Led Zeppelin Songs

    in Music Discussion

    Posted

    (i know i've said this on another post but) the live version of "Over the Hills and Far Away" is by far my favorite Zeppelin song. of studio versions in no order i'd have to say:

    Thank You

    Ramble On

    Misty Mountain Hop

    Stairway to Heaven (which i notice no one has put thus far...maybe i'm just not old enough to have it been overplayed yet)

    The Crunge

    Over the Hills and Far Away

    Ten Years Gone

    Out on the Tiles

    Hey, Hey, What Can I Do?

    Kashmir

  15. FM radio sucks

    in Music Discussion Classic

    Posted

    i hate how "Should I Stay or Should I Go?" and "London Calling" are the only Clash songs ever to be played on the radio. and that thought The Velvet Underground & Nico is reguarded as one of the greatest albums of all time, i've never heard a single song from it on the radio. also, i have 157 Floyd songs at the moment, and i've probably heard 10 on the radio.

  21. Change the Lyrics!.

    in Fun & Games

    Posted

    this is my scooby doo based parody of the Who's, "Who Are You?"

    Scoo—by doo, doo-doo, doo-doo,

    Scoo—by doo, doo-doo, doo-doo,

    Scoo—by doo, doo-doo, doo-doo,

    Scoo—by doo, doo-doo, doo-doo,

    He woke up around 9 on Wendsday,

    he ate breakfast until noon,

    And ‘till eleven o’clock last night,

    he was chasing around a goon,

    Scooby found him in a beat-up shack,

    he had checked there on a knack,

    Scooby Dooby saved the day again,

    someone get that dog a scooby snack!

    oh Scooby Doo,

    (Scoo—by doo, doo-doo, doo-doo)

    how do you do it Scooby Doo?

    (Scoo—by doo, doo-doo, doo-doo)

    cuz I really wanna know

    (Scoo—by doo, doo-doo, doo-doo)

    yah I really wanna know

    (Scoo—by doo, doo-doo, doo-doo)

    Eating grinders with his friend Shaggy,

    they don’t need no beer or drugs,

    Eatin’ then solvin’ a mystery,

    they don’t do pot they do hugs,

    Carryin’ food around from place to place,

    it’s hard work all that haulin’,

    Let’s unmask the guy and get it done,

    Holy Crap! it’s Joseph Stalin!

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