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| Who was the best rock band of the '80s? |
| R.E.M. |
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65% |
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| I don't belong here. |
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dmbfan
Joined: 09 Mar 2006
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I've got you all beat.................................
........Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo................later to be named just, Oingo Boingo.
Danny Elfman's band.
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Don Gately
Joined: 20 Mar 2006
Location: In a basement taking a severe beating
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| Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2008 1:30 pm Post subject: |
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| The band of the '80s was Guns n' Roses. |
I like Appetite for Destruction. But you must remember it is Nicky Wire's favourite album. You dont want to be on the same side of the fence as the Wire.
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I don't have any idea who Nicky Wire is. Appetite still the greatest album of the '80s. |
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Don Gately
Joined: 20 Mar 2006
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Anybody who doesn't see "Shiny Happy People" as a companion piece to "Everybody Hurts" is pretty effin' thick.
One of those songs is the most ridiculously syrupy thing ever written, and the other is bar-none the most depressing pop song ever.
And they're written by the same guy. That's a pretty marvelous output by a brilliant, manic-depressive mind. |
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BS.Dos.
Joined: 29 Mar 2007
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Everybody Hurts is one of the most depressing songs ever written 'bar-none'?
I'd say it was one of the most reassuringly optimistic songs ever written, you know, "So hold on". Big crescendo at the end etc ...thicko. |
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safeblad
Joined: 17 Jul 2006
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| Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2008 3:56 pm Post subject: |
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| Don Gately wrote: |
Anybody who doesn't see "Shiny Happy People" as a companion piece to "Everybody Hurts" is pretty effin' thick.
One of those songs is the most ridiculously syrupy thing ever written, and the other is bar-none the most depressing pop song ever.
And they're written by the same guy. That's a pretty marvelous output by a brilliant, manic-depressive mind. |
happy....as well as sad you say! thats genius! |
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Underwaterbob
Joined: 08 Jan 2005
Location: In Cognito
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| Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2008 4:03 pm Post subject: |
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| safeblad wrote: |
| Don Gately wrote: |
Anybody who doesn't see "Shiny Happy People" as a companion piece to "Everybody Hurts" is pretty effin' thick.
One of those songs is the most ridiculously syrupy thing ever written, and the other is bar-none the most depressing pop song ever.
And they're written by the same guy. That's a pretty marvelous output by a brilliant, manic-depressive mind. |
happy....as well as sad you say! thats genius! |
But not at the same time like Paul Simon's famous song writing formulas: happy lyrics & sad music or sad lyrics & Happy music. |
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Don Gately
Joined: 20 Mar 2006
Location: In a basement taking a severe beating
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| Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2008 10:38 am Post subject: |
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| safeblad wrote: |
| Don Gately wrote: |
Anybody who doesn't see "Shiny Happy People" as a companion piece to "Everybody Hurts" is pretty effin' thick.
One of those songs is the most ridiculously syrupy thing ever written, and the other is bar-none the most depressing pop song ever.
And they're written by the same guy. That's a pretty marvelous output by a brilliant, manic-depressive mind. |
happy....as well as sad you say! thats genius! |
Well, of course it doesn't approach the nuance and intricacies of U2's emotional range ...
...hold on...
...wait for it...
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Fishead soup
Joined: 24 Jun 2007
Location: Korea
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| Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2008 3:05 pm Post subject: |
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| Don Gately wrote: |
| safeblad wrote: |
| Don Gately wrote: |
Anybody who doesn't see "Shiny Happy People" as a companion piece to "Everybody Hurts" is pretty effin' thick.
One of those songs is the most ridiculously syrupy thing ever written, and the other is bar-none the most depressing pop song ever.
And they're written by the same guy. That's a pretty marvelous output by a brilliant, manic-depressive mind. |
happy....as well as sad you say! thats genius! |
Well, of course it doesn't approach the nuance and intricacies of U2's emotional range ...
...hold on...
...wait for it...
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Or the fact that U-2 will jump on the bandwagon with regard to any trendy
political cause regardless of whether the actual band members actually give a hoot about it. Who cares about the poor Aids victims in Africa. It's all about selling records. |
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safeblad
Joined: 17 Jul 2006
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Throw your love around
Love me love me
Take it into town
Happy happy
Put it in the ground
Where the flowers grow |
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Nowhere Man
Joined: 08 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2008 3:36 pm Post subject: |
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| Anybody who doesn't see "Shiny Happy People" as a companion piece to "Everybody Hurts" is pretty effin' thick. |
Anyone who ignores the fact that American Beauty was an external exploration of Magnolia's internal one probably sits around appreciating the crap out of mediocre REM songs.  |
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Fishead soup
Joined: 24 Jun 2007
Location: Korea
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| Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2008 3:39 pm Post subject: |
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| Nowhere Man wrote: |
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| Anybody who doesn't see "Shiny Happy People" as a companion piece to "Everybody Hurts" is pretty effin' thick. |
Anyone who ignores the fact that American Beauty was an external exploration of Magnolia's internal one probably sits around appreciating the crap out of mediocre REM songs. |
It's raining frogs. |
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Underwaterbob
Joined: 08 Jan 2005
Location: In Cognito
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| Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2008 3:56 pm Post subject: |
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| Nowhere Man wrote: |
| Anyone who ignores the fact that American Beauty was an external exploration of Magnolia's internal one probably sits around appreciating the crap out of mediocre REM songs. |
He's a real nowhere man
sitting in his nowhere land
making all his nowhere plans for nobody.
Doesn't have a point of view.
Knows not where he's going to.
Isn't he a bit like you and me? |
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rumdiary
Joined: 05 Jun 2006
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Noone mentioned Queen.
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For a very good reason |
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genezorm
Joined: 01 Jul 2007
Location: Mokpo
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| Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2008 10:19 pm Post subject: |
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| I'd take Queen over REM or U2 anyday. |
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flakfizer
Joined: 12 Nov 2004
Location: scaling the Cliffs of Insanity with a frayed rope.
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Just want to say it's good to see you go back to using a frame from the Scorpio episode instead on the Lisa the Iconoclast one. Much better. |
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