Re: I dream about Paris when I'm high on red wine,
 

That is so very Not Bob. I suppose I can't tie Carter to UK releases, but at home, and better:

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Re: I dream about Paris when I'm high on red wine,
 

So you're giving Gerald Ford credit for The Ramones? Roxy's Country Life credit to Nixon?

Re: I dream about Paris when I'm high on red wine,
 

Don't think for a second that I don't see you over here, prattling on about your dusty 70s AOR.

Re: Is Ted Cruz Satan? Discuss.
 

Re: I dream about Paris when I'm high on red wine,
 

what is your fave Jimmy buffet LP?

Re: Is Ted Cruz Satan? Discuss.
 

Pandering to wingnuts seems like a bad idea.

Re: I dream about Paris when I'm high on red wine,
 

Of all the Not Bobs, I am the Not Bobbiest.

Ah, Cheap Trick - I always think of them as springing onto the scene the following year, fully-formed like Athena from the forehead of Zeus, with the release of Live in Budokan. But that is merely my memory of how they sprung into my awareness.

And my list was not meant to be all-inclusive, and I simply picked the first two albums that I was aware of in 1977 and think are, even now, good. (To be clear, Rumors is a stone-cold classic, while Changes is just (hah! "just") really good.) I mean, I didn't mention Elvis Costello's My Aim is True because I wasn't introduced to it until several years later.

Re: I dream about Paris when I'm high on red wine,
 

I definitely think Nixon should get some credit for Roxy's Country Life. I'd give him credit for all of Woodstock in a way.

Carter gets credit for the heyday of CBGBs. That was on his watch. We're talking Patti Smith here. The Stilettos. Joan Jett. The Shirts. He was also in the big house for the birth of Rap. Grandmaster Flash. Sugarhill Gang. Gil Scott Heron.

Carter was the man.

Re: Is Ted Cruz Satan? Discuss.
 

Texans are often not fond of the constitution. I'm glad the government is finally taking action to represss them.

But it doesn't seem entirely fair to Utah.

Re: I see rainbows everywhere!
 

I wish we could get Congressmen to just say no to drugs.

Re: Is Ted Cruz Satan? Discuss.
 

Someone has to watch out for the black helicopters, no?

Re: I dream about Paris when I'm high on red wine,
 

Yeah, but John Bonham died while Carter was in office. Worse yet, his death was too late to prevent the release of In Through The Out Door.

Re: I dream about Paris when I'm high on red wine,
 

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Re: I dream about Paris when I'm high on red wine,
 

"All of My Love" is basically Elvis. But I have a soft spot for "In the Evening."

If I had to kill one Zeppelin record, it'd be:

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Yeah, "Achilles' Last Stand" is decent, but the rest of it sounds intentionally off tempo. Miserably unfun record.

Re: Is Ted Cruz Satan? Discuss.
 

If I hear one more fucking white suburban douchebag, or clueless fucking soccer mom, talk about how that woman who admonished her son for rioting on camera is a "hero," I'm going to snap the bottom of my martini glass off and spear them in the eye with it... until it punctures their cerebral cortex.

Jesus Fucking Christ. Motherfucker. Goddammit! Fuck, fuck, fuck! The city is on fire due to protests that have to do with police brutality and decades of govt policies that are turning lower middle class areas into third world slums. Now, we might disagree about what should be done about these things. Frankly, I don't think the situation is fixable. But what's not up for debate is that the situation exists, and has been caused in significant part by govt policies and changes in the global economy! The most important and interesting aspect of this thing is not that some Black mother is mad at her son for rioting. And anyone who elevates such a peripheral bit of the story to prominence betrays one of the following:

1. Idiocy (you're actually stupid enough to think the mother/son scene is as important as the broader issues underpinning the riot);
2. Head in Sand-ism (you'd rather focus on any bit of the story that seems possibly positive and allows you to ignore or avoid discussion of the broader issues underpinning the riot); or,
3. Dickheadedness (you're an asshole looking for any way to blame the rioters exclusively, and absolve the system/status quo, which you happen to like, from any responsibility).

Re: I dream about Paris when I'm high on red wine,
 

Re: Is Ted Cruz Satan? Discuss.
 

Was she mad at him for rioting or scared that he would end up like Freddie Gray?

Re: I dream about Paris when I'm high on red wine,
 

Fuck that shite. The Dead Boys - Young Loud and Snotty.

Re: Is Ted Cruz Satan? Discuss.
 

I have found that if you ignore twitter, yahoo/yahoo comments, espn comments, and use facebook infrequently, these type of inane soccer mom comments (or any other idiocy) cease to exist. It's glorious - try it out.

Re: I dream about Paris when I'm high on red wine,
 

The one about parrots and old pot-bellied white dudes in horrible fucking shirts.

Re: Is Ted Cruz Satan? Discuss.
 

I'm not sure the "!" after "global economy" works there. I believe you want the reader to take the sentence as a given, a foul truth perhaps, but not something that could be questioned. The "!" seems inappropriate for that, and weakens the argument.

Re: I dream about Paris when I'm high on red wine,
 

So...Migration?

I know almost every Buffett song. As a wee lad in the '80s my parents consistently played:

• James Taylor
• Bob Dylan
• Bonnie Raitt
• Jackson Browne
• CCR
• Jimmy Buffett
• Rolling Stones

It's weird hearing a Buffett song now (30 years later) and knowing the words.

Re: Not my half, of course
 

Damn man. Just insult half the board.

Re: Not my half, of course
 

There are parrots on this board? That's unsettling.

Re: Not my half, of course
 

I'll give you unsettling. NotBob and I are becoming friends IRL when I visit where he lives. So far we meet at bars, but if things keep moving forward eventually I expect I'll be invited to his house, and then he controls the music:confused: Any advice?

Re: Not my half, of course
 

Give us a kiss.
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Re: I dream about Paris when I'm high on red wine,
 

You were lucky. i know the words to every Harry Nilsson song.

Could it be a faded rose from days gone by?
 

Helen Reddy. Anne Murray. Fuck you.

Re: Could it be a faded rose from days gone by?
 

I know show tunes. Grease, Man of la Mancha, Jesus Christ Superstar... I could go on and on -- we went to Broadway a lot, and then heard the albums over and over again.

It's a wonder I'm not gay, come to think of it.

Re: Could it be a faded rose from days gone by?
 

Throbbing Gristle. You've Got Foetus On Your Breath. FUCK YOU.

Re: I dream about Paris when I'm high on red wine,
 

"Jump in the Fire"... Good times. Mom was so happy and played that song over and over an over again late at night. She'd sleep until 3:00 the next day!

Re: Could it be a faded rose from days gone by?
 

She's 41 and her daddy still calls her "baby."
 

I'll take "AM radio in the mid 1970s" for $500, Alex.

I'm pretty sure in older than you and Less (and I know I'm a damn bit holder than Young Coltrane), and I was the youngest of 5, so the music my parents listened to in my youth did not include Harry, Helen, Anne, or Jimmy. Mom was a fan of big bands - especially Tommy Dorsey recordings when Sinatra was his singer.

Dad (as older brother Not Nick puts it) "liked both kinds of music - country AND western." His favorite two albums were Johnny Cash's Live at Folsom Prison and Johnny Horton's Greatest Hits. When sufficiently motivated, I can still sing A Boy Named Sue and Sink the Bismarck to great acclaim.

Anyway, I still blame Jimmy Carter for James Watt, Ed Mease, and the virtual destruction of Head Start. And did we have all of these food poisoning recalls (ice cream now? Wtf?) before Reagan gutted the USDA?

Re: I dream about Paris when I'm high on red wine,
 

I've never heard of him.

Re: Could it be a faded rose from days gone by?
 

Don't know who Helen Reddy is.

Re: Could it be a faded rose from days gone by?
 

I had to google this to see if it was a real musical act.

Re: I dream about Paris when I'm high on red wine,
 

He's never heard of you either.

Re: Could it be a faded rose from days gone by?
 

"I Am Helen Reddy - If you don't know who I am, watch this."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xhVxpx7aCQ

Re: Could it be a faded rose from days gone by?
 

They have never Googled you. But surely you know the predecessor group to Scraping Foetus Off The Wheel.

Re: Could it be a faded rose from days gone by?
 

O.K., so this was actually rather endearing. Good for Helen!