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halve your cake and eat it too.
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Georgia.. by way of Lawrence Kansas
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American pie! that 6 1/2 minute bullshit suck my dick If I suck your piece of non musical bullshit!?!? the travesty/horror that sack of shit song has inflicted on young listeners to 'classic' rock and roll.... oh the horror! if I wanted to listen to a neo-cryptic song about rock.. gimmie 'smoke on the water' (atleast the bass line is a standard!).
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#917 |
erika
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: "the high up north"
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What the fuck? That made less sense than a beatles song.
American Pie is one of the BEST songs ever written, by far. End of fuckin' story. And Smoke on the Water is about as cryptic as Dick and Jane. It's all fucking PLAIN AS DAY. They went to Montreux, Frank Zappa was at the best place around (the Casino, I think), some stupid with a flare gun burned it down, so they ended up at the Grand Hotel, and they recorded with the 'rolling truck stones thing'. Dumbass.
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When Do I Get Virtual Unreality?
Join Date: Dec 2002
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Much Binding In The Marsh
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[quote=Ibram]What the fuck? That made less sense than a beatles song.
QUOTE] Lol! What are you ? 16- 17? and yet The Beatles are still a yardstick in your life..... That's like me saying 'not as good as the Inkspots version...'
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When Do I Get Virtual Unreality?
Join Date: Dec 2002
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I've found that Ibram has fairly insightful good taste in old music for a lad of his tender years.
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Cardigan-wearing man
Join Date: Mar 2006
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oh, I wasn't knocking his taste, elspode, just commenting on the relevence of 40 year old pop music to todays generation.
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To shreds, you say?
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: in the house and on the street-how many, many feet we meet!
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To shreds, you say?
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Re: American Pie and Don McClean.
He's from my hometown and he went to my junior high, though he was a decade and a half ahead of me. After he got all famous (and shit) he came back to his alma mater to play a few songs in the auditorium. (Also known as a large room full of 13, 14, 15 year olds.) After playing a song or maybe two (I'm guessing 'Vincent' judging by the reaction from us. He pretty much went ballistic and read us the riot act for being snickering, tittering, grab-assing teens who didn't really give a flying fuck about Don McClean. Ibram: and just to imagine what it was like to listen to radio in the 70s, listen to American pie ten times a day for six months then start a thread called "How fucking awesome American Pie Still is after I've heard it 1800 times" Although I still get choked up when I listen to Vincent.
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erika
Join Date: Apr 2006
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Vincent > American Pie.
But I've heard American Pie almost as often as you lot have compared to how long I've been around to hear it, and I still love it. Hell, I knew that song before I was born. (and I knew Rock and Roll Lullaby soon after... my mother is a total rock-and-roller)
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To shreds, you say?
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I'm serious Ibram, ten times a day for six months. It was a different world then. Nothing can withstand that kind of scrutiny. Not so much that the song sucked the way Cowhead describes, but that incessant airplay will ruin any song.
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Join Date: Mar 2006
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Solution: don't listen to FM. (While you're at it, don't watch TV either.)
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Join Date: Jul 2001
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When we were listening to American Pie 10 times a day on heavy rotation, we didn't have FM.
Well, we did, but nobody listened to it then. Them newfangled transistor radios only had the AM band.
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Larger than life and twice as ugly.
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We must all go through a rite of passage. It must be physical, it must be painful, and it must leave a mark. I have no knowledge of the events which you are describing, and if I did have knowledge of them, I would be unable to discuss them with you now or at any future period. ![]() ![]() Don't waste your time always searching for those wasted years |
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