NYC in Rocktober?
 

"Ping! Pow!

Why don't we hook up in the Beer Garden of Queens that day in Rocktober? My Interent boyfriend Sebby will be my date. You can bring Flower.

NYC in Rocktober?
 

Well, unless my internet boyfriend or girlfriend is available (or unless it's my turn with coltrane), I won't be able to go. I can't be the only one without a date!

NYC in Rocktober?
 

I'm confused with the ongoing references to soft alcoholism of middle age, when clearly the Sebby turn of phrase that started the references is the haze of alcohol soft middle age. I always though that the soft reference applied to middle age, not alcohol. No? Or is this just another ripe example of board bastardization of clever ideas? No offence.

Query
 

10cc. Whoever the hell that is. Now, the answer to my age question is?

"Full Figured"
 

I always think of the lesser known tune from Caress of Steel "I think I'm going Bald"

NYC in Rocktober?
 

Rampant bastardization. Paigow should be along shortly to clarify that she invented this particular formulation, which I think may be correct.

NYC in Rocktober?
 

I think your internet bf is too much of a puss to get on an airplane. Where is he, anyawy?

You could always go with Snidely Condescending. I always wanted to meet him.

"Full Figured"
 

Not "By-Tor and the Snow Dog"? That's what I play in my office to get me in the mood when I type Flower posts.

Query
 

Has to be 26 or less.

Communication is the problem to the answer. Agree to disagree but disagree to part.

Query
 

Aren't they the "I'm Not In Love" people? And, I think, that "Cry" song where they morphed the crying faces into the other crying faces in the video. Or just showed a bunch of people crying.

Ah-oh-ah-oh-ah-oh just becaaaauuuuse


I like the happy "walking in the rain and the snow when there's nowhere to go and you're feeling like a part of you is dying" song better than either of the two songs cited above, and never knew it was the same people.

NYC in Rocktober?
 

I am pretty solidly certain that its Soft Alcoholism of Middle Age. I once reused that phrase in an ode to Ollie who I incorrectly thought had invented it and PMed him to give him much belated props for the gem, He then informed me he was mainly sure that he was mostly correct it was a Sebby. I think everyone mainly agrees the soft alcholism refers to the two to four cocktails a night we consume every night as aging attorneys, as opposed to the raging drunks who get to the bar at 11am everyday.

Query
 

I love Baker Street. Love it. Reminds me of riding in the back of my old man's 2002tii (I'm that old) when I was a kid, thinking "Its really going to suck when I have to work someday like the shmuck driving here."

"Full Figured"
 

It now all makes sense.

Query
 

I dont know any young people.

Big boys don't cry
 

Yes on 10cc being the "I'm Not In Love" people. Not sure on "Cry."

NYC in Rocktober?
 

Whoa! Everyone, run!

http://www.srh.noaa.gov/oun/images/lightning.gif

Big boys don't cry
 

Cry is not 10cc. It is two people _____ & ________. I cannot remember who they are though.

Not captain & Tennille. Not Peaches & Herb. Not even those two that sang "Solid" (I forget who they are now too).

eta: Ashford & Simpson sang Solid. fyi.

NYC in Rocktober?
 

Ah, you know me so well, yet you are strangely incorrect as usual. I did not invent it, but once agan, popularized it. I cannot invent everything.

And I reread ncs's post and really don't even understand what the hell she is taling about. Haze of alcohol soft middle age? What?

NYC in Rocktober?
 

We don't take turns. One-on-one sex? How vanilla. Either all four of us are there, or none of us.

I'll make an exception if there are only three of us.

NYC in Rocktober?
 

Sebby took it from a Pink Floyd song though - "lost in a haze of alcohol soft middle age". We are the only two people in the world who appreciate that album*, so I know it to be true.

Thanks for the background though. I like to be up on my bastardizations.



*actually, if I recall correctly, Atticus also appreciates it, but that is not hepful to my thesis here.

Big boys don't cry
 

REally? I thought that was Paul McCartney. Huh. Go figure.

Big boys don't cry
 

I checked, and not that cry song. Don't know who did that one. And it's "it's because" not "just because." The things I learn for love.

10cc
 

Interesting

10cc got their name from Jonathan King who released their first records. King had had a dream about a successful band called "10cc". However, popular belief is that they adopted the name because the average male ejaculation is 9cc and the band was above average with 1cc more than that!

NYC in Rocktober?
 

How can Sebby like "The Final Cut" when he hates Waters so much. It's practically a solo album.

Big boys don't cry
 

That's what this love is . . . that's what we've got.

Now I have that "I can dream about you if I can't hold you tonight" song in my head (Dan Hartman (Heartman?) I think). What movie was that in?

Big boys don't cry
 

etaa: I am totally utterly wrong. 10cc did sing Cry. I would cite it but I lost the page. Look on google.

Query
 

There is a reason you are my internet boyfriend. Well, many, but one is my love for this tune. I tried to download it onto my IPOD but it was not available. In an interesting twist, the Waylon Jennings (!) version was, and it is sublime. One of my favorite workout tunes.

Query
 

I will check with the 23 y.o.

Big boys don't cry
 

That was in Streets of Fire, I think.

Big boys don't cry
 

I could not find it. Weird that.

Query
 

You think that's a happy song? I always found it to be sad, though I'm glad they worked it out.

I also liked I'm Not In Love. These tunes are apparently available to me from the song database on the computer at home. I need to add them to the iPod next time I change up songs.

Query
 

I think I have Baker Street on the database at home too. 1970s 10 disc compilation bought by Mr Man at some point. If I ever figure out the technology to do so, I'll e-mail it to you.

Big boys don't cry
 

look here:
http://lyrics.duble.com/lyrics/0/10c...cry-lyrics.htm

But, I was right - Godley & Creme did Cry, and they were part of 10cc! Maybe when the song was released in Canada, they just said it was Godley & Creme. huh. a mystery.

http://www.vh1.com/artists/az/godley_creme/bio.jhtml

Big boys don't cry
 

Eddie and the Cruisers?

Query
 

It *sounds* perky.

Now I have all kinds of sappy 70s (or early 80s) music in my head. Like Cool Night.

NYC in Rocktober?
 

What?!??! This is not a Sebby original?!?!?!? This is reminiscent of the time that I learned my dad did not invent the term "No Necks", but rather got it from Tennessee Williams who invented "No Neck Proles". Given that my dad has invented his own vocabulary, his being derivative both shattered me and boggled my mind, as did the fact that he is a reader of Tennessee Williams. (Good thing SPanky isnt here, he doesnt want to hear about my dad)

I am a HUGE Pink Floyd fan. What tune is that from?

Query
 

How old are you?
Website says that The Things We Do For Love was popular in 1977. So if a person was 10 when they heard it that would make them 38? So legitimately, if a person was 33 and never heard it, that would be in the realm of possibility, no?

What was the question?

Big boys don't cry
 

The Godley & Creme version was the one with the video and changing faces. Full circle.

Big boys don't cry
 

Nope. Streets of Fire (A Rock and Roll Fable). Got my Micahel Pare movies mixed up.

eta credit to gwnc and to add an "l"

NYC in Rocktober?
 

Because the guitar solo on Fletccher Memorial Home is one of the few soaring parts of a song that actually make you think "hey, this rock shit might actually be considered classical and ageless someday." Gilmour is so fucking underrated.

And I don't hate Waters. I merely note that he's an asshole, and is responsible for fucking up the band. But is he talented? Oh shit. The man's a genius.

I am surprised you'd like Waters. Have you ever read the lyrics to "The Bravery of Being Out of Range"?