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the_gneech"So which is worse," Greg asked. "'Don't You Want Me Baby' or 'Jack and Diane'?"
"Oh, that's easy, no contest," Brigid said. "'Don't You Want Me Baby' is a perfectly decent song, it just has the misfortune of being played to death. 'Jack and Diane', besides being played to death, is a miserable piece of crap. Therefore, it's much, much worse."
"Okay, well, that settles that, I suppose," Greg replied. "So what happens when you put 'Love Is a Battlefield' and 'Tempted By the Fruit of Another' into the mix?"
Brigid put her hand to hip in exasperation. "I throw the radio across the room so I can listen to the beautiful crunch sound when it hits the wall, that's what."
"Alas, poor radio," said Greg. "Still, it had it coming."
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"Oh, that's easy, no contest," Brigid said. "'Don't You Want Me Baby' is a perfectly decent song, it just has the misfortune of being played to death. 'Jack and Diane', besides being played to death, is a miserable piece of crap. Therefore, it's much, much worse."
"Okay, well, that settles that, I suppose," Greg replied. "So what happens when you put 'Love Is a Battlefield' and 'Tempted By the Fruit of Another' into the mix?"
Brigid put her hand to hip in exasperation. "I throw the radio across the room so I can listen to the beautiful crunch sound when it hits the wall, that's what."
"Alas, poor radio," said Greg. "Still, it had it coming."
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"you were working as a waitress in a cocktail bar..."
Date: 2006-01-09 05:56 pm (UTC)Re: "you were working as a waitress in a cocktail bar..."
Date: 2006-01-09 06:12 pm (UTC)-TG
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Date: 2006-01-09 06:00 pm (UTC)1. Songs are always in quotes. Italics are for albums. Single quotes would work, since it is in dialog.
B. The title is simply "Tempted" by Squeeze. And "Tempted" is a really great song. Brigid has no taste.
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Date: 2006-01-09 07:50 pm (UTC)Oh, yeah, of course... shoot the messenger! That poor radio was completely innocent! You wouldn't burn a book simply because it didn't have the particular story in it you wanted to read, would you? Hmmph!! (stalks off in high dudgeon)
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Date: 2006-01-10 12:55 am (UTC)Not every single DJ in the world , but those
who go out of their way to be tasteless, vulgar and
offensive... a few warning shots aimed over their
heads might not be entirely uncalled-for. >:)
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Date: 2006-01-09 08:03 pm (UTC)I imagine it to be the DJ's fault. Or whoever chose the radio station. They should get thrown across the room, yannow!
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Date: 2006-01-09 08:23 pm (UTC)It's no wonder my poor mp3 player has been through several sets of headphones by now.. I despise DJ's, and other people's programming, generally speaking. About the only time I listen to the radio is in the car, and that's because the CD player is busted.. and then it's NPR/Pacifica/classical music. At least those announcers aren't irritating. ha!
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Date: 2006-01-09 08:37 pm (UTC)The others...bleh.
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Date: 2006-01-09 08:44 pm (UTC)-The Gneech
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Date: 2006-01-09 08:53 pm (UTC)we grew up in an area....
Date: 2006-01-09 11:15 pm (UTC)raised on K-Earth and KKGO...MLD
Must Reject Music
Date: 2006-01-09 09:12 pm (UTC)* Just about anything by Madonna. I only started to tolerate her with the soundtrack of Dick Tracy.
* The Living Years by Mike and the Mechanics (I can stand almost anything else by them, but that song just--UGH!).
* More Than Words by Extreme. One very good singer and one total ham in a duet. It was like water torture.
* River of Dreams by Billy Joel. Leave a Tender Moment Alone was just about as bad.
* Kyrie by Mister Mister. Played to death. (For a while I thought they were singing "Carry a Laser", not "Kyrie Eleison".)
* 99 Red Balloons [English version] by Nena. The German version was tolerable as you didn't care about the lyrics, but maybe you were intrigued. In English, the tragedy is spelled out and the fun dies as collateral damage.
* Tears in Heaven by Eric Clapton. I know why he wrote the song and he was justified in doing so. But DJs trot it out whenever anybody famous dies--often when they don't deserve it.
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Date: 2006-01-09 11:38 pm (UTC)"Don't You Want Me", by the way, is the first popular music song to be played entirely by computers. It was all sequenced, not a single note played by a human being. I did not know this until a musician friend of mine told me the other night.
cheers,
Phil
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Date: 2006-01-10 04:16 am (UTC)cheers,
Phil
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Date: 2006-01-10 04:18 am (UTC)cheers,
Phil
Hey now.
Date: 2006-01-10 08:20 am (UTC)] At least there's something to those songs. All of the above are preferable to the cringeworthy, shallow, novelty claptrap that usually gets trotted out on "80s night", like "We've Got the Beat" or "Walk Like an Egyptian".
] That's my opinion anyway.
.Rae
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Date: 2006-01-10 09:03 am (UTC)However anything by Tracey Chapman should be put on a rocket and shot into space simply because she got the IMO she's got the world's most annoyingly, whiny singing voice.