there is this silly looking, (woo woo) indian at a mall kiosk selling crappy (hippy/lame/new age-ish) merchandise for retards, and i just heard "self control" by laura branigan blaring from his area. it was all midi'd out sans lyrics with a flute as the lead instrument. as if the original from the mid 80's didn't already suck eggs.
it seems to be masking the loathsome xmas music being piped in over the mall intercom. that would be the bright side.
right now, i'm contemplating rupturing my ear drums with q-tips.
certainly one of the most beautiful songs I've ever listened to, IF you have the patience for slow songs or if you say the words slurred together SLONGS.
We watched that movie in my Honors English class in high school, I don't remember why. Our teacher was crazy, one day he taught us all the military phonetic alphabet and had us recite it back to him as he said the letters. A, ALPHA! B, BRAVO! C, CHARLIE, D, DELTA, E, ECHO, F, FOXTROT, G, GOLF, H, HOTEL, I, INDIA, J, JULIET, K, KILO, L, LIMA, M, MIKE, N, NOVEMBER, O, OSCAR, P, PAPA, Q, QUEBEC, R, ROMEO, S, SIERRA, T, TANGO, U, UNIFORM, V, VICTOR, W, WHISKEY, X, X-RAY, Y, YANKEE, Z, ZULU!
He also bought this Yamaha cruiser motorcycle in the spring and told us all about it. He looked like Radar O'Reilly from M*A*S*H, so it was really funny to imagine him cruising around on his motorcycle like he was the Fonz with a teaching degree. He also told us about how his house was haunted by the ghost of this person who had been killed there in the 1920s. After he told that story I said, "Who you gonna call? GHOST BUSTERS!" and everyone started laughing. He got kind of pissed cause he liked telling that story.
Some guy gets an insane crush on a girl he sees in a bar... who has zero interest in him.
One day... the girl is on a date (quite possibly with her boyfriend) - the guy with the crush doesn't like that so much, so he shoots the other guy dead.
Crazy murdering stalker guy high tails it out of town... but he's so obsessed that he ends up coming back.
Dude gets tracked and shot by a posse and limps his way back to the bar.
Somehow the girl decides to come outside and kiss him before he dies.
It's about a showgirl named Lola who wore yellow feathers and a dress cut down to "there".
Fell in love with a bartender named Tony, who worked at the copa cabana, or the hottest spot north of havana.
A diamond wearing man named Rico came in, called Lola over and "went a bit too far" so Tony fought him and there was a single gunshot, but who shot who?
Lola still comes to the show, but it's not a show anymore, it's a disco. She still wears her faded feathers and her dress, and drinks herself blind. She lost youth, she lost her Tony now she's lost her mind!
i was having fun playing the iLike/facebook music trivia/game/thingy. after one day of playing for an hour, i'm a "music junkie" with 1000+ points that guessed 65% of the songs played correctly in an average of just under 4 seconds per song.
i get all the rap/hip hop/rnb and country questions wrong because i don't listen to that stuff.
Mo Horizons: You Gotta Change Girl New Pornographers: All For Swinging You Around The Smiths: William, It Was Really Nothing Kiss: Shout It Out Loud Mike Painter & The Family Shakers: El Diablo’s Smelly Shoes Ingrid Michaelson: The Way I Am Dandy Warhols: Cool As Kim Deal Pixies: Here Comes Your Man Tammi Terrell: What A Good Man He Is Young-Holt Unlimited: Soulful Strut
Manowar, Iron Maiden, and Queensryche, yes. I've heard of Candlemass but I've never gotten around to listening to them. Never heard of any of the others, but thanks for the names, I'll definitely check them out.
Wednesday, January 16, 2008 at 5:10 PM Edited Wednesday, January 16, 2008 at 5:12 PM
if you do check some of them out, here are some starting points:
bathory: started out as thrash/black metal. got into the viking/scandinavian metal a few cd's down the road.
queensryche: outside of the uber brilliant "operation: mindcrime" and a few songs from "rage for order", they don't do too much for me, although (their last release) "op: mindcrime II" is solid and a must if you dig the original.
fates warning: pioneers of prog metal. i honestly know little other than that. "no exit" and "perfect symmetry" are recommended. i may check those out tonight if i get the chance to do some pirating.
voivod: canadian band started out as thrash metal. i love their 1st cd almost as much as "kill 'em all". many point to "nothingface" and "dimension hatross" as their pinnacles.
manowar: not my cup of tea, just thought i'd mention them. i had a buddy who was all about them back in the late 80's.
candlemass: "doom metal". not so much my cup of tea either, but they bring the gloom in a NWOBHM meets prog style. 1987's "nightfall" is recommended.
iron maiden: "caught somewhere in time" and "7th son" are prog metal masterpieces even though they technically fall under the genre NWOBHM.
alright, that's my "it came from the 80's" wrap up.
I dont't remember which thread it was, but Plurry and DL were discussing St. Anger, and after listening to each song more than once for the first time, I think I gotta agree with Plurry, it's not that great. The vocals don't really go with the guitars at all. And every song sounds the same, it's really not that great. It's not terrible, but in comparison to their other masterpieces such as Reload, and ...And Justice For All, it blows.
The one exception would also happen to be the last song I listened to, "All Within My Hand
