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Post by Sneelock on Dec 8, 2020 20:25:37 GMT
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Post by ~ / % ? * on Dec 8, 2020 20:48:11 GMT
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Post by daveythefatboy on Dec 8, 2020 20:50:54 GMT
Are there too many aliens in David Bowie’s songs?
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Post by *LORD 'X'* on Dec 28, 2020 20:39:59 GMT
Fizzled out too soon!
Maybe one for CLASSIC THREADS?
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Post by daveythefatboy on Dec 28, 2020 21:42:01 GMT
Getting to 11 pages is pretty good for the modern era!
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Post by Sneelock on Dec 28, 2020 22:31:45 GMT
well, I always enjoy "beating a dead horse" as the saying goes. Jagger (who is...77, 78 now?) has mentioned a few times recently, when asked about specific songs that are...you know..a bit "raw"...his latterday line of reasoning is "My God! I wouldn't dare write something like that nowadays! It's really a bit much!" this stuck in my mind more than it did the last time I was frolicking barefoot through the thread.
my wife and I are Bette Midler fans. there was a time in the 80's and 90's when BM was having a considerable middle of the road type success. She, for a time, had replaced Streisand as the person most likely to have their songs played at weddings and all that sort of thing. Anyway my wife and I saw her on some damned talk show complaining about how tacky and tasteless some young up & comers were. well, I'm happy to say my wife had the good sense, as big a Bette fan as she is, to snort though her nose like a horse when she heard this. Bette Midler's mainstream success sort of stalled out and she had the good sense to reintroduce some tacky elements back into her act. good for her. the very IDEA of Bette Midler sitting in a tasteful blouse on a sofa with lace doilies... I was very happy when the filthy jokes and handicapped mermaids went back into the act. Maybe Bette sees herself as tasteful and wants to live a tasteful life. she's smart enough to know that she has a rabid legion of fans who don't look at her that way.
This detour down Bette Midler Lane brings me to loveless' Jagger quote above. well, I think if "Stupid Girl" era Mick met the Mick who made that quote that he'd take a giant piss on him. Older Jagger would probably stand there and take it. He knows younger Mick is his bread and butter. He doesn't need to fall any deeper into a Nostalgia-Hole to know what HIS fans want.
Did Younger Mick long to marry glamour girls and dance in posh nightclubs, vacation in Monaco and befriend royals? maybe. at least he had the good sense not to write any songs about those things.
look at that stupid GURR-ul.
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Post by bungo the mungo on Apr 24, 2021 19:41:52 GMT
how do we feel about the mid-70s misogynist stones?
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Post by Sneelock on Apr 26, 2021 4:29:31 GMT
the poor taste of the ad was mostly (I think) a desperate attempt at drumming up controversy to draw focus from the fact that they were promoting a pretty underwhelming album.
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Post by daveythefatboy on Apr 26, 2021 5:50:19 GMT
It’s such a cartoon. Mind you, I suppose cartoons contribute to the culture too - so I won’t defend it. But it’s on the relatively toothless side of offensive, isn’t it?
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Post by fonz on Apr 26, 2021 20:07:52 GMT
Imagine it airing now...
A different time.
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Post by Charlie O. on Apr 26, 2021 20:43:42 GMT
Imagine it airing now... A different time. I'm not so sure. The way I reckon it, the Stones did it to remind people that they were the bad boys of rock. The Stones don't care about that now, but I don't think a modern band that did want to be perceived that way would think twice about doing an ad like that, or worse even. And they'd have a lot more places to air it.
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Post by Sneelock on Apr 26, 2021 21:39:06 GMT
I'm black and blue by Hoobastank and I love it!
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Post by Sneelock on Apr 26, 2021 21:40:23 GMT
take two: I'm black and blue by Gay Dad and I love it!
it's pretty sad when all my "current" stupid band names are at least ten years old!
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Post by Sneelock on Apr 26, 2021 21:42:06 GMT
I'm black and blue by (Stupid Current Band Name) and I love it!
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Apr 26, 2021 21:54:05 GMT
how do we feel about the mid-70s misogynist stones? The dirty bitches love a bit of slap and tickle don't they?! Wanton sluts! Nice one Mick! Get your faaackin' sword out! Up the lads! Anybody seen Charlie?
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