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Moldy Rutabaga
Joined: 01 Jul 2003
Location: Ansan, Korea
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We're all one day closer to death.
I wish I had been born around 1950 as well, to experience all that great music and history first-hand. To see The Who or the Stones live and not as some fossilized rehash of the past. To see live music the way it isn't now, overproduced, overamplified, overpriced.
I want to have been in San Francisco and in London and New York, and to have been in one of those bands myself. And I wish I had had a million dollars to not have to work or have responsibilities so that I could see all these bands, camp at Woodstock, follow the Grateful Dead in the 70s, and check out all the punk and new wave in England in the early 80s. I want to have spent thirty years with all the parties and girls but to not have the clap or be sick or have any of the consequences whatsoever. I want to have shocked people with my long hair and motorcycle and bong pipe but not to have genuinely hurt anyone or have been beaten up myself.
But I'm asking for toasted snow, of course. In a way it's nice to have that dream but still have DVDs and mp3s to enjoy that time and all the advantages of living here and now. If I was born in 1950, maybe I also would have been hit by a bus in 1960.
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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| Posted: Mon Nov 13, 2006 6:36 am Post subject: |
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No offense to some people half my age, god forbid, but to paraphrase The Who:
I hope you get your wish and die before you get old (Talkin' 'bout my generation). |
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Tiberious aka Sparkles
Joined: 23 Jan 2003
Location: I'm one cool cat!
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JongnoGuru
Joined: 25 May 2004
Location: peeing on your doorstep
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| Posted: Mon Nov 13, 2006 8:52 am Post subject: |
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| For purely musical reasons, I wish I'd been born around 1925... so as to be a teenager/20-something during the big band era. Now there's some good music!! |
You might want to start a few years earlier, as some of the best Big Band stuff was in the late '30s.
The Big Band era was next on my list, but I didn't want to upset anyone by using a time machine to go back in time and escape the '80s. |
I agree with Krats, in a heartbeat that would be the musical era I'd want to have lived (and of course I'd somehow avoid getting killed in the world wars). And RC is right, that birthyear is much too late if you want to actually dance to the best of that music at snazzy nightclubs where they have cigarette girls and everone smokes and orders drinks like "Manhattans" and "Lime Rickeys". And yes, we'd be living our lives in luscious black & white and we'd look cool and we'd know it. |
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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Mon Nov 13, 2006 5:25 pm Post subject: |
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| JongnoGuru wrote: |
| RACETRAITOR wrote: |
| krats1976 wrote: |
| For purely musical reasons, I wish I'd been born around 1925... so as to be a teenager/20-something during the big band era. Now there's some good music!! |
You might want to start a few years earlier, as some of the best Big Band stuff was in the late '30s.
The Big Band era was next on my list, but I didn't want to upset anyone by using a time machine to go back in time and escape the '80s. |
I agree with Krats, in a heartbeat that would be the musical era I'd want to have lived (and of course I'd somehow avoid getting killed in the world wars). And RC is right, that birthyear is much too late if you want to actually dance to the best of that music at snazzy nightclubs where they have cigarette girls and everone smokes and orders drinks like "Manhattans" and "Lime Rickeys". And yes, we'd be living our lives in luscious black & white and we'd look cool and we'd know it. |
Ahhhh yeah. |
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SPINOZA
Joined: 10 Jun 2005
Location: $eoul
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| Posted: Mon Nov 13, 2006 8:02 pm Post subject: |
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| Ya-ta Boy wrote: |
No offense to some people half my age, god forbid, but to paraphrase The Who:
I hope you get your wish and die before you get old (Talkin' 'bout my generation). |
A tad over-sensitive there. I certainly do not wish to die before I get old. I shall be old and rich and wise.
The Pink Floyd line was facetious - yes (and ingenious in this context) - but not wanting to be older is an important and reasonable consideration here. Third only to being dead or seriously ill, being older, significantly older, is the last thing we all want. I'm sure the 60s and 70s were awesome, but I'm sure becoming my mother's age is too big a sacrifice.
I've thought about this a lot. I've thought many times that it probably would've been better for me to be a teen in the late 60s and my age now in the late 70s, since 67 to 80 is where 90% of my fave music comes from.....psyche, Bowie, Floyd, Kraftwerk, early Metal, Punk and post-punk. Another thing I've always admired about past music eras is that everyone bought the same records. Popular culture was less heterogenous. Nowadays, a music conversation will go:
"Do you like Hard House, Brian?"
"Well, I'm more into Garage and Drum N'Bass"
Sucky stuff in comparison to 1967 where almost everyone - man, woman, kid - bought Sgt Pepper and Beggars' Banquet the year after.
Then I realized how cool it was to grow up on Duran Duran, Guns N'Roses, Nirvana, Faith No More, Depeche Mode, and the Rave scene in the early 90s. Plus - where would I be without internet and free downloads? Poorer. |
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Satori
Joined: 09 Dec 2005
Location: Above it all
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| Posted: Mon Nov 13, 2006 8:13 pm Post subject: |
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"Do you like Hard House, Brian?"
"Well, I'm more into Garage and Drum N'Bass" |
It's simply unconscionable for anyone to be into hard house, dnb, or garage. Everyone must be into strictly funky pure house music, or they must be executed like the worthless scum that they are, starting with you... |
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SPINOZA
Joined: 10 Jun 2005
Location: $eoul
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| Posted: Mon Nov 13, 2006 8:22 pm Post subject: |
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| Satori wrote: |
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"Do you like Hard House, Brian?"
"Well, I'm more into Garage and Drum N'Bass" |
It's simply unconscionable for anyone to be into hard house, dnb, or garage. Everyone must be into strictly funky pure house music, or they must be executed like the worthless scum that they are, starting with you... |
I don't give a toss about techno. So it looks like the Spinmeister gets a pardon!  I wasn't involved in my above hypothetical conversation. Sure, some techno's excellent, but, as with any genre, most it is shyte and enthusiasts ought to start sh@gging and stop w@nking. |
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Big_Bird
Joined: 31 Jan 2003
Location: Sometimes here sometimes there...
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| Posted: Mon Nov 20, 2006 6:04 pm Post subject: |
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But I'm awfully glad I'm not 56. No offence to anyone who is that age, I just don't particularly yearn to be 28 years older. You guys had your fun and it's only fair that you're shorter of breath and one day closer to death. |
I don't know about you Mr Spinoza, but I intend to enjoy every bloody year I'm around until that triumphant day I finally join my warrior Saxon ancestors in Valhalla!
Fast forward some decades...
A stooped and gnarled old Spinoza is shuffling down the street, on his way to his local, legally coked up to the eyeballs (successfully having legalised class A drugs after many years of tireless campaigning), wheezing and snorting, incontinence pad bulging, rheumy eyes squinting...and along comes nasty old Big_Bird....who can't resist taking a swing at him with her walking cane....
THWACK! "Take that yer silly old goat!" she screeches maliciously...before starting off on her old fashioned 2020 moped...
"You evil old crone!" rails Spinoza impotently shaking an ancient wizenend and infirm fist...
"Hehehe! Catch us then, yer doddery old git!" The cantankerous old matriarch roars off... grinning evilly...cackling witch-like....long wild blue-rinsed hair streaming out behind her...followed by several surly looking youths (Big_Bird's future grand chicks) on their shiny Harleys |
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re:cursive
Joined: 04 Jan 2006
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What year did the first proto-hominid bang two sticks together for the first time? That would have been far out man.
If not that, then maybe on the 8th day of creation when god sent a 909 floating down the river Nile.
Or maybe tomorrow so I could live through whatever new musical thing is on the way and still have my youth. |
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Tiger Beer
Joined: 07 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Tue Nov 21, 2006 3:22 am Post subject: |
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I was born right at the right time. Alternative music peeked when I was in college.
In addition, got to grow up with all the 60s, 70s and even some of that 80s music. The best was the alternative music that paked at the end of the 80s and exploded in the early 90s. |
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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Tue Nov 21, 2006 6:22 pm Post subject: |
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| I changed my mind. I want it to be March 2007. The Slackers are coming to Korea! |
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