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The "Wow, it's been four hours since a new thread" thread - Niedermeyer's Dead Horse

Here's a bit of fresh thread to tide you over until something of value is posted.

How 'bout them 80's?

And, kids, remember...



Open thread, obviously.

Posted by: Open Blogger at 07:55 PM




Comments

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1 80s.

Shudder.

Posted by: Zap Rowsdower at March 29, 2015 07:56 PM (MMC8r)

2 Don't remember them. The 80s, I mean.

Posted by: wisenheimer at March 29, 2015 07:57 PM (qnhj2)

3 Wasn't the 80s when the Middle East was in flames, Iran was running wild, oil prices tumbled, and we had a crazy president that was going to destroy the world?

Good times, good times.

Posted by: Zap Rowsdower at March 29, 2015 07:57 PM (MMC8r)

4 Is Reagan president again? Or would it be Zombie Reagan?

Posted by: Yes means Maybe at March 29, 2015 07:58 PM (7wyDO)

5 Somewhere near the top!

Actually.. the 80's are dead to me.. I was so busy with work and side consulting jobs, the whole decade is a blur..

and 80's music sucked.. so that makes it less memorable too.

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at March 29, 2015 07:59 PM (/9Mak)

6 Aw, I love 80's music. Even the crappy songs. Nostalgia.

Posted by: DangerGirl and her 1.21 gigawatt Sanity Prod (tm) at March 29, 2015 07:59 PM (KuU4f)

7 The apotheosis of the 80's would be Prince in assless chaps.

Posted by: All Hail Eris at March 29, 2015 08:01 PM (KH1sk)

8 Oh, yeah. They started with Jimmy Carter, ended with G. H. W. Bush, and had the Challenger accident in the middle.

Meh.

Posted by: wisenheimer at March 29, 2015 08:02 PM (qnhj2)

9 Going Clear: Scientology now on HBO

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at March 29, 2015 08:02 PM (DmNpO)

10 Guns N' Roses - "Paradise City"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rbm6GXllBiw

Posted by: Guns n' Hats at March 29, 2015 08:02 PM (0Ew3K)

11 The 80s was when America could put a man in space.

Well, low Earth orbit.

Posted by: Zap Rowsdower at March 29, 2015 08:03 PM (MMC8r)

12 Chi-Town Jerry. Which sharpener were you talking about? Amazon has quite a selection.

Posted by: Ronster at March 29, 2015 08:03 PM (4NtAn)

13 80s music was the best!

of course, I never listened to any charts crap, it was all SST and Ramones and Dead Milkmen and DKs and etc etc etc

whenever I think of 80s music that's what I remember. Not Michael Jackson and that shit.

Posted by: Bigby's Knuckle Sandwich at March 29, 2015 08:04 PM (FVQaF)

14 Flock of Seagulls vs. Thompson Twins

Posted by: eman at March 29, 2015 08:05 PM (MQEz6)

15 People always think one era, decade, year is somehow 'specially significant. The 80's were probably BIG to kids coming of age. Others, not so much. Probably the last era when I actually paid attention to pop music with any consistency. I have no idea what's popular now or not.

If this is big for you, I'm glad for you, Everybody needs something fun to look back on and remind them that life can be fun and exciting.

Posted by: Bossy Conservative....on Sunday evening at March 29, 2015 08:06 PM (+1T7c)

16 The 80's and the birth of Trash Metal.

The '80's: back before Metallica totally sold out.

Good decade musically.

Posted by: The Thrash Hat at March 29, 2015 08:06 PM (0Ew3K)

17 I seem to remember a lot of people discovered cocaine in the 80's.

Many aren't around today.

Posted by: seamrog at March 29, 2015 08:07 PM (AZQ9o)

18 I graduated high school. I learned Spanish. I dropped out of college twice.
That was the decade they tried to bring back bell-bottoms and Howard the Duck and Dune came out.

On the positive side I learned about Siouxie and the Banshees

Posted by: Kindltot at March 29, 2015 08:07 PM (t//F+)

19 Superfreak!

Posted by: eman at March 29, 2015 08:07 PM (MQEz6)

20 When I think of 80's music, I think of hair bands -- Def Leppard, Mötley Crüe, Whitesnake, etc

Posted by: L, Elle at March 29, 2015 08:07 PM (RRfF8)

21 I seem to remember a worldwide shortage of umlauts due to the proliferation of metal bands.

Posted by: wisenheimer at March 29, 2015 08:08 PM (qnhj2)

22 In the 80s, I was into 60s music.

Posted by: Zap Rowsdower at March 29, 2015 08:08 PM (MMC8r)

23 The 80s were a helluva lot better than the 70s. PIL, Windows 3.1, and Repo Man. Fuck yeah!

Posted by: Xavier at March 29, 2015 08:09 PM (MB7G/)

24 When I think of 80's music, I think of hair bands -- Def Leppard, Motley Crue, Whitesnake, etc

Posted by: L, Elle at March 29, 2015 08:07 PM (RRfF


Oh yes! My first concert, 1988. Def Leppard with Queensryche as the opening act.

Posted by: DangerGirl and her 1.21 gigawatt Sanity Prod (tm) at March 29, 2015 08:09 PM (KuU4f)

25 Madonna wants to go back there.

Posted by: eman at March 29, 2015 08:10 PM (MQEz6)

26 Flock of Seagulls vs. Thompson Twins
Posted by: eman at March 29, 2015 08:05 PM (MQEz6)


And Kajagoogoo.

THE HAIR!
Migawd, all the HAIR.

Posted by: Kindltot at March 29, 2015 08:10 PM (t//F+)

27 Wasn't this when Michael Jackson was black, and Bruce Jenner was a dude? And O.J. was husband material?

Posted by: Zap Rowsdower at March 29, 2015 08:10 PM (MMC8r)

28 If Reagan were suddenly alive today, would he be:


A: Advising the President
B: Rallying opposition to the the President
C: Scratching frantically at the lid of hos coffin

Posted by: toby928(C) mutters at March 29, 2015 08:11 PM (rwI+c)

29 This 80's lived in the same dimension as Gang of Four, XTC, the Talking Heads, Throbbing Gristle, etc. -- a "dark sector", if you will, of this pop 80's universe.

Posted by: All Hail Eris at March 29, 2015 08:11 PM (KH1sk)

30 80's sucked musically. It was catchy, but decadent and vulgar, paving the way to self hatred and capitulation to militant Islam. I prefer Pink Floyd, or Jefferson Airplane. It was good music, without the airbrushed schlockiness of the 80s.

Posted by: Brucella Jenner at March 29, 2015 08:12 PM (XrHO0)

31 I discovered Led Zeppelin in the 80's. Jimmy Page might as well have been Jesus to me.

Posted by: L, Elle at March 29, 2015 08:13 PM (RRfF8)

32 I didn't mean to stomp NDH's post. I put the gun thread back into draft for a bit. Sorry NDH.

Posted by: Weirddave at March 29, 2015 08:14 PM (WvS3w)

33 Hall & Oates
Queen
Wings

Posted by: seamrog at March 29, 2015 08:14 PM (AZQ9o)

34 In the 80s we were promised flying cars and space travel. We got the internet and President zero.

The 80s were an adventure for me. That was before I got married and settled down. Don't really miss it now though.

Posted by: freaked at March 29, 2015 08:14 PM (JdEZJ)

35 What is with the permed King Kamehameha fauxhawks in all these videos? Think of all the teasing and final net that went down in these guys' dressing rooms.

Posted by: All Hail Eris at March 29, 2015 08:14 PM (KH1sk)

36 A gallon of gas was about a buck.

Posted by: Zap Rowsdower at March 29, 2015 08:14 PM (MMC8r)

37 Stop Making Sense, 1984. My favorite live music film. The Last Waltz is a close runner-up, but I think that was 70s.

Posted by: wisenheimer at March 29, 2015 08:14 PM (qnhj2)

38 Stop making Sense was great! I need to see it again.

Posted by: All Hail Eris at March 29, 2015 08:16 PM (KH1sk)

39 eh I look at it like so

60 s was the big live music era
70s was arena rock and drugs and disco, so experimenting but directionless
80 s was the indy music, self publishing era, as it became financially possible to put out music in small labels.
90s was the big DIY boom, where you could mix burn and do the cover art all on a PC

Posted by: Bigby's Knuckle Sandwich at March 29, 2015 08:16 PM (Cq0oW)

40 Wrestlemania, baby!!

Posted by: Costanza Defense at March 29, 2015 08:16 PM (ZPrif)

41 I was kind of liking the gun thread just disappeared better.

Posted by: Sharkman r at March 29, 2015 08:16 PM (wGCyh)

42 Betamax. Atari. And a good $300 used car.

Posted by: Zap Rowsdower at March 29, 2015 08:16 PM (MMC8r)

43 Phil Collins
Huey Lewis
Dire Straits

Posted by: seamrog at March 29, 2015 08:16 PM (AZQ9o)

44 Is this the emergency gun thread?

Posted by: shredded chi at March 29, 2015 08:17 PM (OmdjQ)

45 two great songs from the 80s. well, Jermaine wasn't great but it was popular and from the 80s

Posted by: joe-impeachin44 at March 29, 2015 08:17 PM (th6S/)

46 the "under the gun" thread.

Posted by: seamrog at March 29, 2015 08:18 PM (AZQ9o)

47 musical decades, common definitions

60s flower power
70s disco
80s hair bands
90s rap
00s edm
10s (?)

or

60s soul, blues
70s early metal, zep
80s arena rock
90s grunge, rap
00s more rap, edm
10s no discernible common culture

Posted by: Feh at March 29, 2015 08:18 PM (g/zj9)

48 I think one of the most significant things to come out of the 80s was the IBM PC. For better or worse it set a standard that stuck.

Posted by: freaked at March 29, 2015 08:18 PM (JdEZJ)

49 A gallon of gas was about a buck.
Posted by: Zap Rowsdower at March 29, 2015 08:14 PM (MMC8r)
---
Ah, but now we're getting into Dueling Yorkshiremen territory, like my parents' constant "a Baby Ruth bar only cost a nickel -- but you never had a nickel!" lament.

I was working for peanuts back in those days.

Posted by: All Hail Eris at March 29, 2015 08:18 PM (KH1sk)

50 >>>>80's sucked musically. It was catchy, but decadent and vulgar, paving the way to self hatred and capitulation to militant Islam. I prefer Pink Floyd, or Jefferson Airplan


whenever I read something like this I laugh and pity the speaker, honestly. you just didn't know, dude. didn't know where the fun was, where to shop, i dunno. i just know you didn't.

Posted by: Bigby's Knuckle Sandwich at March 29, 2015 08:21 PM (Cq0oW)

51 ahem, "Rap" is not music.
It is poetry.
It is not prose.
It is crap.

Thank You.

Posted by: seamrog at March 29, 2015 08:21 PM (AZQ9o)

52 Hall & Oates
Queen
Wings

***

I saw Hall and Oates in concert a couple of months ago. I had no idea how many burnouts and hippies would be there.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at March 29, 2015 08:21 PM (DmNpO)

53 Those were good years. Unlocked doors on my campus, no HIV, great Pres., economy, and girls were still girls and no LGBTQ, etc. seems very normal compared to the current freak show.

Posted by: Hmitchell3rd at March 29, 2015 08:21 PM (m5msJ)

54 I got married and had two kids. Damn an expensive decade.

Posted by: Nip Sip at March 29, 2015 08:22 PM (0FSuD)

55 I got my first crappy job in the 80's. I think I was paid $3.25 an hour. I worked at a toy store in the mall.

Posted by: L, Elle at March 29, 2015 08:22 PM (RRfF8)

56 ahem, "Rap" is not music.

It's poetry for illiterates.

Posted by: wisenheimer at March 29, 2015 08:23 PM (qnhj2)

57 48 I think one of the most significant things to come out of the 80s was the IBM PC. For better or worse it set a standard that stuck.

Posted by: freaked at March 29, 2015 08:18 PM (JdEZJ)
******************************
Stop yer whining. Remember, Worse Is Better.

Posted by: UNIX Hater's Handbook at March 29, 2015 08:23 PM (cIoI4)

58 rap is to Music
as
islam is to Religion

Posted by: seamrog at March 29, 2015 08:24 PM (AZQ9o)

59 Whenever I see the name Hall & Oates, I mind immediately go to "whiter than Darryl Hall's underballs." Thanks Ace!

Posted by: L, Elle at March 29, 2015 08:25 PM (RRfF8)

60 I think one of the most significant things to come out of the 80s was the IBM PC.

Picked up an IBM-label 486 this weekend off a pile at an electronics recycling drive. Boots Win 3.1.

Posted by: Zap Rowsdower at March 29, 2015 08:25 PM (MMC8r)

61 34 In the 80s we were promised flying cars and space travel.
Posted by: freaked at March 29, 2015 08:14 PM (JdEZJ)


Um, I'm pretty sure that was the 50s.

Posted by: rickl at March 29, 2015 08:25 PM (sdi6R)

62 56 ahem, "Rap" is not music.

It's poetry for illiterates.

Posted by: wisenheimer at March 29, 2015 08:23 PM (qnhj2)
***
Oh, that's a keeper. Ugh, yeah, know what ahm sayin?

Posted by: UNIX Hater's Handbook at March 29, 2015 08:26 PM (3F6F8)

63 Huey Lewis and the News' actual music is subject to debate. Their musicianship, however, was pretty dang good.


Kinda like Rush or Led Zeppelin. I don't like their songs, but I respect their ability.

Posted by: Bob's House of Flannel Shirts and Wallet Chains at March 29, 2015 08:26 PM (yxw0r)

64 Rubella @ 30

Dude. Go home. You're drunk.

Posted by: shredded chi at March 29, 2015 08:28 PM (OmdjQ)

65 Win 3.1 turned out to be like the girl from the Ring movie.

Posted by: Bigby's Knuckle Sandwich at March 29, 2015 08:29 PM (Cq0oW)

66 Huey Louis was from the 80s and this is a Nood. Coincidence? I think not.

Posted by: Harold Camping at March 29, 2015 08:29 PM (3F6F8)

67 Huey Lewis and the News' actual music is subject to debate. Their musicianship, however, was pretty dang good.

They were a kick-ass live band.

Posted by: wisenheimer at March 29, 2015 08:29 PM (qnhj2)

68 60s buck
70s merle
80s dwight
90s dale and wayne the train
00s stopped caring
10s wtf

Posted by: Feh at March 29, 2015 08:32 PM (g/zj9)

69
They were a kick-ass live band.


Posted by: wisenheimer at March 29, 2015 08:29 PM (qnhj2)



I saw 'em at the Oakland Coliseum back in the day. They put on a good show, no question.

Posted by: Bob's House of Flannel Shirts and Wallet Chains at March 29, 2015 08:32 PM (yxw0r)

70 They were still promising that future stuff in the 80s. We hadn't completly given up hope yet.


The IBM PC set a hardware standard I should have said. There were several OSs around.

Posted by: freaked at March 29, 2015 08:32 PM (JdEZJ)

71 U-2
Bob Seger
Steve Winwood

Winwood joined "The Spencer Davis Group
at the age of 14, he co-wrote and sang lead on "Gimme Some Lovin" released in 1966.

wow

Posted by: seamrog at March 29, 2015 08:33 PM (AZQ9o)

72 "A gallon of gas was about a buck."

I don't remember the exact price when I started driving but I remember a few gas stations that the pumps didn't go over a dollar so they just put a sticker on it saying you need to double the amount shown.

Posted by: lowandslow at March 29, 2015 08:34 PM (yoX7S)

73 HEY! KOOL AID!


oh yeah

Posted by: Bigby's Knuckle Sandwich at March 29, 2015 08:35 PM (2EAjI)

74 55 got my first crappy job in the 80's. I think I was paid $3.25 an hour. I worked at a toy store in the mall.

Posted by: L, Elle at
-------------------------
Heh. Memories.
81? 82? Fourteen, I think. Maybe $2.50 per hour under the table.
Upholstery shop - stripping furniture. The shit I found in people's old couches...

Posted by: shredded chi at March 29, 2015 08:36 PM (OmdjQ)

75 I saw U2 in concert in the 80s. They are an excellent live band. Actually, every band I've seen live has been good except for the Rolling Stones. They sounded like shit. They actually got booed.

Posted by: L, Elle at March 29, 2015 08:36 PM (RRfF8)

76 /runs through a brick wall

Posted by: Bigby's Knuckle Sandwich at March 29, 2015 08:36 PM (Cq0oW)

77 I saw U2 in concert in the 80s. They are an excellent live band. Actually, every band I've seen live has been good except for the Rolling Stones. They sounded like shit. They actually got booed.

Posted by: L, Elle at March 29, 2015 08:36 PM

What year was that?

Posted by: otho at March 29, 2015 08:38 PM (tBSrv)

78 80's music pervs

George Michael

Michael Jackson

Bobby Brown

Posted by: seamrog at March 29, 2015 08:38 PM (AZQ9o)

79 Earworm: Honeycomb's big...

Posted by: Dude in the Hideout at March 29, 2015 08:38 PM (16bOT)

80 >>> What year was that?
Posted by: otho at March 29, 2015 08:38 PM (tBSrv)

I have no idea. I spent alot of that decade drunk or stoned. It was somewhere btwn 1987-1991. I saw them at the Cotton Bowl.

Posted by: L, Elle at March 29, 2015 08:40 PM (RRfF8)

81 Rubella @ 30

Dude. Go home. You're drunk.
Posted by: shredded chi at March 29, 2015 08:28 PM (OmdjQ)
***
You do realize it's hate speech to call me "dude". Care to step outside, tough guy?

Posted by: Brucella Jenner at March 29, 2015 08:43 PM (3F6F8)

82 one hit wonders?

Rupert Holmes- Pina Colada song
Lipps Inc. --- Funkytown
Dexy's Midnight Runners--- C'mon Eileen
Martika-- Toy Soldiers

Posted by: seamrog at March 29, 2015 08:47 PM (AZQ9o)

83 I have no idea. I spent alot of that decade drunk or stoned. It was somewhere btwn 1987-1991. I saw them at the Cotton Bowl.

Posted by: L, Elle at March 29, 2015 08:40 PM

Oh, ok. Yeah they were pretty bad then. The 80's were not kind the the RS. Mind you, they starting sucking in the late 70's, particularly live, though they still had the odd recording/s in them. By the mid 80's it was all suck all the time. I dunno how they got away with the live shows, really. All tinsel and no tree.

Posted by: otho at March 29, 2015 08:47 PM (tBSrv)

84 and yes, I am using the Billboard Number 1 hits site to cheat, why do you ask?

It's the least I can do. NDH ended the threadbare drought.

Thanks NDH.

Posted by: seamrog at March 29, 2015 08:49 PM (AZQ9o)

85 78 80's music pervs

George Michael

Michael Jackson

Bobby Brown
***
It was a slippery slope that led to people like Marilyn Manson who explicitly adopt a perverse persona, instead of coyly disguising it.

But I've always been amused by the irony of Marilyn Manson being the normal guy pretending to be a pervert, and Michael Jackson being a pervert pretending to be the normal guy.

Posted by: Brucella Jenner at March 29, 2015 08:50 PM (cIoI4)

86 85 BJ

An astute comment, but under that sock?

hilarious !

Posted by: seamrog at March 29, 2015 08:58 PM (AZQ9o)

87 Heresy!

Ozzy. Van Halen, Def Leppard, Motley Crue, ACDC,

The 70s were HORRIBLE music and fashion wise. Just terrible, (except the mustaches).

Posted by: DavidM at March 29, 2015 09:00 PM (desf5)

88 Brucella

First - let me apologize for the autocucumber on your name.

Second - I'd be glad to "step outside." I would blast my Cerwin Vega D9's at you with some Joe Jackson, Steely Dan, Nu Shooz, LL Cool J, Talking Heads, Clash, yadda yadda yadda...

then you would admit that the 80's rocked.
And get off my lawn.

Posted by: shredded chi at March 29, 2015 09:01 PM (OmdjQ)

89 39 eh I look at it like so

60 s was the big live music era
70s was arena rock and drugs and disco, so experimenting but directionless
80 s was the indy music, self publishing era, as it became financially possible to put out music in small labels.
90s was the big DIY boom, where you could mix burn and do the cover art all on a PC

Posted by: Bigby's Knuckle Sandwich at March 29, 2015 08:16 PM (Cq0oW)



That's a good way to look at it.

I came of age in the 70s, but I gravitated towards 60s music at the time. I was never very fond of either 70s or 80s music. Sure, there's some good stuff in every decade, but most of it doesn't appeal to me.

To continue your chronology, in 2010s we now have crowdsourced funding for recording records. Bands can appeal to their fans to finance the recording of new albums, and offer downloads and physical discs. This completely cuts out record companies and record stores and renders them obsolete. Musicians can interact with their fans directly, one-on-one.

My favorite 1980s band, 10,000 Maniacs, has gone this route. They released an album of new material in 2013, "Music From the Motion Picture", and they have another one coming out in April, "Twice Told Tales", which consists of covers of traditional folk songs from the British Isles. Both were pre-funded by their fans via PledgeMusic. And we pledgers got to watch and hear the albums as they were being made, with periodic online updates from the recording and mixing sessions. That's pretty cool.

Posted by: rickl at March 29, 2015 09:05 PM (sdi6R)

90 HEY leave brucella alone.

it's still hurting from Dennis Miller calling it

"Bruised Gender"

that sounds painful, as in, take a bow, whack!

Posted by: seamrog at March 29, 2015 09:07 PM (AZQ9o)

91 The indie record thing actually took off earlier than the 80's, it was a product of the 70's. It became more of a big thing in the early 80's though and it was then that a lot of indie bands had a major impact on the music landscape.

Posted by: otho at March 29, 2015 09:13 PM (tBSrv)

92 it may be true that this thread, like the 80's, is kaput.

Posted by: seamrog at March 29, 2015 09:13 PM (AZQ9o)

93 Bullshit. The 80's will never die!

Posted by: otho at March 29, 2015 09:14 PM (tBSrv)

94 I saw U2 live in 1983 and 1985. They were a damn good live band, and Bono is--for all his well-documented faults--was a natural leader, and very charismatic.'It's fashionable to hate them because they seem to be old hat--although they had no problem selling out this upcoming tour--and I don't know anyone younger than 35 who doesn't hate them.
I said it before, Bono will always have my respect because he never took cheap, easy shots at Bush--or Jesse Helms, or any Republican. He treated them with respect and got results. Witless American rockers like Springsteen never accomplished anything because they just refused to sit down with conservatives. God forbid, they get a photo op out of it....

Posted by: JoeF. at March 29, 2015 09:20 PM (8HGb7)

95 91 The indie record thing actually took off earlier than the 80's, it was a product of the 70's. It became more of a big thing in the early 80's though and it was then that a lot of indie bands had a major impact on the music landscape.
Posted by: otho at March 29, 2015 09:13 PM (tBSrv)



Even so, the indie bands of the 1980s started out that way but still wanted to be signed to a major label. 10,000 Maniacs followed that path.

Today, that's apparently unnecessary, except for those who simply want to get rich and become celebrities.

But actual musicians can bypass that, if they just want to make their own music without interference and are OK with not getting rich in the process.

Posted by: rickl at March 29, 2015 09:25 PM (sdi6R)

96 Even so, the indie bands of the 1980s started out that way but still wanted to be signed to a major label. 10,000 Maniacs followed that path. Today, that's apparently unnecessary, except for those who simply want to get rich and become celebrities. But actual musicians can bypass that, if they just want to make their own music without interference and are OK with not getting rich in the process.

Posted by: rickl at March 29, 2015 09:25 PM

Yeah, it's a totally different business these days. It's true that most, if not all bands of the early 80's wanted a major deal... but, there were pro's and con's to doing it when indies were making big inroads and getting serious radio play. Not all took the deals on offer, they were usually onerous, restrictive contracts for little in the way of %ages. The majors were still operating on the mid 70's model. The downside to a major contract was that it could kill your career as a band, while not providing all that much more in $$$. You could end up owing THEM $$$. A big factor in going major was the draw of videos. Back then, video was hella expensive and this was before MTV. If you wanted to get serious AM play you needed video. But, you could still do well on FM as indie and sell bucketloads and for longer than you might if you went major, got a video, but the major would kill, rip you off or bury you through sucky distribution and promotion.

Posted by: otho at March 29, 2015 09:40 PM (tBSrv)

97 U2
Hampton Coliseum. December, 1987.

Wasn't even a fan, but it was a concert, so...
The Bodeans opened for them , but I don't remember any of it. I ate more mushrooms that night than any human should in a lifetime. Tripped balls.

At intermission, lights came on, I instantly was fine. Euphoric, to say the least.
Then U2 came onstage and it was the greatest concert I've ever seen, heard, or been to.
I still don't like their music, but it's a show that you shouldn't miss.

Posted by: shredded chi at March 29, 2015 09:41 PM (OmdjQ)

98 Still annoyed at U2 for the physical assault they committed on my iPhone and forcibly downloading their last shitty album onto it.

Posted by: Buzzion at March 29, 2015 09:44 PM (z/Ubi)

99 I survived the 80s.

Enough said.

Posted by: 2soonold2latesmart at March 29, 2015 11:54 PM (Sot2r)

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The Story the Rightwing Media Refuses to Report!
Our Lunch with David "Glengarry Glen Ross" Mamet
The House of Love: Paul Krugman
A Michael Moore Mystery (TM)
The Dowd-O-Matic!
Liberal Consistency and Other Myths
Kepler's Laws of Liberal Media Bias
John Kerry-- The Splunge! Candidate
"Divisive" Politics & "Attacks on Patriotism" (very long)
The Donkey ("The Raven" parody)
News/Chat