It Came From the Nineties Cafe

Cappadocia by @kyrenian

Controversial opinion: Pop music was better in the 90s than the 80s. And it was the last time pop music was good.

And there was actually rock on the pop charts. A lot of it.

These songs were actually all mostly hits, some of them big hits. Even though some are hard rock. Even Canadian kid-show pop queens were recording hard rock hits. That hasn't happened on the charts since... well, since the 90s.

You've got to trust your instincts/and let go of regrets/you've got to bet on yourself now, star/'cause that's your best bet

This one's hard because the lyrics either say the song's name or drop some blasphemy. So the best I can do is: Waaaah-waah-waah-waaaaah-wah-wah...!

I want you to know/I'm hap-py for you/I want nothing but/the best for your both (Spoiler: She doesn't mean it.)

More of a novelty, but memorable: This bed's on fire with passion and love/the neighbors complain of the noises above/but she only [sings] when she's on top That's the radio edit of the lyric.

I woke the same as any other day/Except a voice was in my head/It said seize the day, pull the trigger, drop the blade/And watch the rolling heads

And I don't like a thing about your mother/And I, I hate your daddy's guts too/And I don't like a thing about your sister, no, no/'Cause I, I, I think sex is overrated too

The comfort of a knowledge of a rise above the sky above could/
never parallel the challenge of an acquisition in the here and now.

screaming)I can't stand it, I know you planned it/I'ma set it straight, this Watergate/I can't stand rocking when I'm in here/'Cause your crystal ball ain't so crystal clear

Somebody once told me/the world is gonna roll me/I ain't the sharpest tool in the shed/She was looking kinda dumb/with her finger and her thumb/in the shape of an "L" on her forehead

"I had visions/I was in them/I was looking into the mirror/to see a little bit clearer/The rottenness and evil in me."

The next lyrics give it a way a bit:

Fingertips have memories

Mine can't forget the curves of your body

And when I feel a bit naughty

I run it up the flagpole and see

Who salutes, but no one ever does

Run and tell all of the angels, this could take all night/Think I need a devil to help me get things right/Hook me up a new revolution, 'cause this one is a lie/We sat around laughin' and watched the last one die

I was frying on the bench slide in the park across the street/L-A-T-E-R that week/My sticky paws were into making straws out of big fat slurpy treats/An incredible eight-foot heap

In the time of chimpanzees, I was a monkey/Butane in my veins, and I'm out to cut the junkie/With the plastic eyeballs, spray paint the vegetables/Dog food stalls with the beefcake pantyhose/Kill the headlights and put it in neutral/Stock car flaming with the loser in the cruise control A little later: Soyyyyy... un peredor...

I swear I never took it for granted, just thought of it now/Suppose I abused you, just passing it on/Go!/F*ck!

And I feel, so much depends on the weather/So is it raining in your bedroom?/And I see, that these are the eyes of disarray/Would you even care?

Hey, look around today/Everything don't need to be the same/Feel, I'm feelin, lonely people/People just like me who go it alone/I guess I'm gonna go it alone

Dead I am the pool, spreading from the fool/Weak and want you need, nowhere as you bleed/Dead I am the rat, feast upon the cat/Tender is the fur, dying as you burn. The updated video is much better than the original.

Cheese smells so good/On a burnt piece of lamb/Fag of the year/Who could beat up your man

Please tell me why/My car is in the front yard, and I'm/Sleeping with my clothes on/I came in through the window last night/And you're gone, gone

Hello, Speak up, Is there somebody there?/These hang-ups are getting me down/In a world frozen over with over-exposure/let's talk it over, let's go out and paint the town

Color me any color/Speak to me in tongues and share/Tell me how you'd love to hate me/Tell me how you'd love to care/[Bridge]Well I just want/To shake us up/Well I just want/I just want to/To shake us up

We love the all, the all of you/Where lands are green, and skies are blue/When all in all, we're just like you/We love the all of you

I got my head checked/By a jumbo jet/It wasn't easy/But nothing is, no/[Chorus](Woo-hoo) When I feel heavy metal/(Woo-hoo) And I'm pins and I'm needles/(Woo-hoo) Well, I lie and I'm easy/All of the time, but I'm never sure why I need you/Pleased to meet you

It's all about the he-says she-says bullshit/You better let shit slip, or you'll be leavin' with a fat lip By the way, gotta warn you, the girl who flips up her top is underage. I looked it up a long time ago. Not sure how that made the cut on MTV. Also please enjoy this mash-up/parody.

And that parody rolls right into this one: What's with these homies dissin' my girl?/Why do they gotta front?/What did we ever do to these guys/That made them so violent?
[Pre-Chorus] Woo-hoo, but you know I'm yours/Woo-hoo, and I know you're mine/Woo-hoo, and that's for all of time

A lot of videos in the 90s were on that retro tip: Sell the kids for food/Weather changes moods/Spring is here again/Reproductive glands

There's no going back to that/I'm so numb, can't even react/Didn't say it's not okay/But we aren't feeling the same way/I ain't telling you a secret/I ain't telling you goodbye

Mama tells me I shouldn't bother/That I ought just stick to another man/A man that surely deserves me/But I think you do/So I cry and I pray and I beg

Someone said Give peace a chance/(and that's all that we're saying)/While we're sitting on the fence/(Pretending)Our hearts are in the right place/But your faces shows a trace of
Hypocrisy/Don't tread on me/Now you can see

Wake up, kids, we got the dreamers' disease/Age fourteen, they got you down on your knees/So polite, we're busy still saying please/Frienemies, who, when you're down, ain't your friend/Every night we smash a Mercedes-Benz/First we run, and then we laugh till we cry

You think that we connect/That the chemistry's correct/Your words walk right through my ears/Presuming I like what I hear

Chickity China, the Chinese chicken/You have a drumstick and your brain stops tickin'/Watching X-Files with no lights on/We're dans la maison/I hope the Smoking Man's in this one/Like Harrison Ford, I'm getting frantic/Like Sting, I'm tantric/Like Snickers, guaranteed to satisfy/Like Kurosawa, I make mad films, 'kay, I don't make films/But if I did they'd have a Samurai

This one might be a little obscure, but it's kinda great in a deeply stupid way: Now I know your heart, I know your mind/You don't even know you're being unkind/So much for all your highbrow Marxist ways/Just use me up and then you walk away/Boy, you can't play me that way

I'm the cream of the crop, I rise to the top/I never eat a pig 'cause a pig is a cop/Or better yet a Terminator, like Arnold Schwarzenegger/Tryin' to play me out like as if my name was Sega

Went down the highway/Broke the limit, we hit the town/Went through to Texas/Yeah, Texas, and we had some fun/

On to some more conventional cafe stuff:

So are the tigers included in the rent, or...?

Triple play: Switzerland, horse, pretty girl. Lot of leg in the second video.

More amazing vids of Switzerland.

Iceland accompanied by a guy doing The Crow cosplay.

More Iceland. Wow.

Arguing with a goat. In your heart, you know the goat is right.

A cat is caught cheating.

Introductions are in pawr-dor.

You spend $30 on cat toys. The cat ignores them and plays instead with the receipt, which is now destroyed so you can't return the toys.

Delicious moments captured by photographer Ryan Pernofski.

pic.twitter.com/RGjIDQahgo
— Enezator (@Enezator) September 22, 2023

Baby Laughs Hysterically as Dog Follows Light

Credit: Jukin Media pic.twitter.com/3kVXBeWXbS
— Epoch Animal Lovers (@EP_AnimalLovers) September 28, 2023

Some amazing elephant videos, not all of them cute -- elephants can be scary, too.

In the third clip, a guy stands firm against a charging elephant, causing the elephant to stop his charge.

The fifth clip shows a mama elephant protecting her baby from a charging lion.

Something to brighten your day.. 😊 pic.twitter.com/Xe7bak3Wvm
— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) September 28, 2023

Baby sloth.. 😊 pic.twitter.com/LvQ2oTyPKl
— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) September 29, 2023

Also Cappadocia, also by @kyrenian

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 07:30 PM

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1 That's Italian caffe!

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at September 29, 2023 07:32 PM (krqg6)

2 Controversial opinion: Pop music was better in the 90s than the 80s. And it was the last time pop music was good.

I don't find that controversial at all. It seems quite factual.

Posted by: InZona at September 29, 2023 07:33 PM (qz1Fg)

3 Red red red. I'm seeing red.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at September 29, 2023 07:33 PM (t/2Uw)

4 Though I would argue if you look hard enough, there's some good pop music after the 90s. But you gotta look hard for it.

Try The Hold Steady - they were 2000s and pretty good. But not chart toppers.

Posted by: InZona at September 29, 2023 07:34 PM (qz1Fg)

5 The left has had a meltdown for 5 years because Trump said "Pussy"

Well, he just said "indict the motherfucker".

What now, nevertrump?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at September 29, 2023 07:35 PM (slgIg)

6 "One night in Bangkok makes a hard man humble."

Thailand is calling Ace.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 29, 2023 07:36 PM (gZREx)

7 No word on the sea otters' display...

FREEDOM!!!
R A W S A L E R T S @rawsalerts 🚨#BREAKING: Sea lions have escaped the Central Park zoo due severe flooding
📌#Manhattan | #NewYork
Due to the extreme flooding that is occurring across New York City, the water level in the Sea Lion area rose significantly. As a result, the Sea Lions were able to swim over the glass enclosure and escaped their exhibit at the Central Park Zoo, according to zoo officials. The zoo staff also monitored the sea lion as she explored the area before returning to the familiar surroundings of the pool. Importantly, the sea lion never breached the zoo’s secondary perimeter. The Central Park zoo is closed due to the severe weather

https://tinyurl.com/rs4wc2r6
29 seconds

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at September 29, 2023 07:36 PM (krqg6)

8 The Cranberries were good. That's about it.

Posted by: Mark1971 at September 29, 2023 07:37 PM (xPl2J)

9 When does a yak go "moooooooo"?

When it's learning a foreign language.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 29, 2023 07:37 PM (a3Q+t)

10 So apparently Honda is bringing their first fully electric vehicle to the US, called the Prologue, interesting note, the vehicle will not come with a spare tire.

So now you have two ways to be completely stranded in an EV.

Brilliant.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 29, 2023 07:38 PM (XV/Pl)

11 Wait until the tigers swim out of their enclosures.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at September 29, 2023 07:38 PM (slgIg)

12 Wait till the River Otter gang gets loose.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at September 29, 2023 07:38 PM (qPw5n)

13 "Sailor Moon's got the boom that makes me think the wrong things. "

Yeah.... so much wrong with that song.

But then again the Japanese refuse to be topped, from All Purpose Cultural Cat Girl Nuku there is one track on the first CD titled "Touch me softly."

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 29, 2023 07:38 PM (gZREx)

14 ViralVibes🔊 @happyjohny2
🚨BREAKING🚨: Major flooding in NYC 🗽New York !

City officials declares state of emergency as heavy rain and flooding hits the area.

It’s 2023 and the city sewers can’t handle intense rains!

They have issued a travel advisory as heavy rain and flooding hit the city.

https://tinyurl.com/5a7r4jz3
9 seconds; during the actual rainfall so I thought I'd link it.

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at September 29, 2023 07:39 PM (krqg6)

15 Im not seeing anything by The Wiggles.

Posted by: Diogenes at September 29, 2023 07:39 PM (uSHSS)

16 Today was National Gains Day.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 29, 2023 07:39 PM (a3Q+t)

17 In a sea of red

Posted by: Braenyard at September 29, 2023 07:40 PM (XgGMK)

18 I think I shall meander and do something quite vital to my well being, partake of dinner.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 29, 2023 07:41 PM (gZREx)

19 In Peru, they served Guinea Pig as dinner. It looked just like you might imagine, a cross between road kill and chicken cutlet.

Posted by: Marcus T at September 29, 2023 07:41 PM (GmDse)

20 Pop music was better in the 90s than the 80s. And it was the last time pop music was good.

I don't know about better, but the late 90s early 00s had a lot more VARIETY of music than was played on mainstream radio. Cherry Popping Daddies, Blues Traveler, Bjork, Dave Matthews, Beck, The Cardigans, etc. Some are more creative or unusual than others, but they are all outside the pop norm, and yet all made their way into mainstream radio being played next to standard pop.

Posted by: Musical Moron at September 29, 2023 07:42 PM (NCgXW)

21 They better hope the illegals don't eat them.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at September 29, 2023 07:42 PM (t/2Uw)

22 When does a yak go "moooooooo"?

When it's learning a foreign language.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 29, 2023 07:37 PM (a3Q+t)
***

Piker.
Lets see you get to a hotel.

Posted by: Mary Ann from Babble at September 29, 2023 07:42 PM (uSHSS)

23 Lot of leg in the second video.

And feet!

Posted by: Quentin T. at September 29, 2023 07:42 PM (a3Q+t)

24 I'm a pretty cynical old fuck, been around the block, grouchy with health issues, but I watched the short video with puppy and ducklings and felt better.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at September 29, 2023 07:43 PM (0EOe9)

25 20 days and we will be hugging, shooting, laughing, shooting, drinking and eating and shooting.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 29, 2023 07:43 PM (EvYxc)

26 You ever drank Bailey's from a shoe?

Posted by: Old Gregg at September 29, 2023 07:44 PM (XtkZj)

27 Today was National Gains Day.

Posted by: Duncanthrax

Not according to my portfolio.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at September 29, 2023 07:44 PM (t/2Uw)

28 15 I always thought The Wiggles were gay.

Posted by: Harold Hill at September 29, 2023 07:44 PM (xTRSc)

29 20 days and we will be hugging, shooting, laughing, shooting, drinking and eating and shooting.

That's either a really obscure tune or an extremely fun time.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at September 29, 2023 07:44 PM (Bd6X8)

30 The Buggers were gay...

Posted by: tubal at September 29, 2023 07:45 PM (PCK5/)

31 3 Red red red. I'm seeing red.
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at September 29, 2023 07:33 PM

Ah, I see. Clever reference to the classic 90s-00s band Sister Soleil and their song "Red" https://tinyurl.com/fjh87rkm

Posted by: Musical Moron at September 29, 2023 07:45 PM (NCgXW)

32
*flat, blaring nerd voice*

Hi, guys!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 29, 2023 07:45 PM (MoZTd)

33
29 20 days and we will be hugging, shooting, laughing, shooting, drinking and eating and shooting.

That's either a really obscure tune or an extremely fun time.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at September 29, 2023 07:44 PM (Bd6X

A weekend in the 'Hood.....

Posted by: tubal at September 29, 2023 07:46 PM (PCK5/)

34 32
*flat, blaring nerd voice*

Hi, guys!
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 29, 2023 07:45 PM (MoZTd)

Hi.

Posted by: Old Gregg at September 29, 2023 07:46 PM (XtkZj)

35 Good evening everyone

Posted by: Skip at September 29, 2023 07:47 PM (fwDg9)

36
City officials declares state of emergency as heavy rain and flooding hits the area.

Seven inches of rain hits Schloss Hadrian and we say, "Oh well, it'll be gone in a day or two."

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 29, 2023 07:47 PM (MoZTd)

37 I have no Yak joke tonight because Yaks are no joke.

Yak Proliferation Society

Posted by: Ben Had at September 29, 2023 07:47 PM (EvYxc)

38 I like certain new music but it doesn't qualify as "Pop".
I like vocalist Kurt Elling. Lately he's been teamed up with guitarist Charlie Hunter.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at September 29, 2023 07:47 PM (MeG8a)

39 Ugly Kid Joe - Everything About You (Official Music Video)

not available in your country

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at September 29, 2023 07:48 PM (krqg6)

40 *flat, blaring nerd voice*

Hi, guys!
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 29, 2023 07:45 PM

For maximal nerdic effect, shouldn't that be immediately followed by some sort of loud nasal sounds and/or a Kamalaesque kackle?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 29, 2023 07:48 PM (a3Q+t)

41 {{{Ben Had}}}

I can't wait!!

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at September 29, 2023 07:49 PM (t/2Uw)

42 New music... try George Ezra.., great vocalist.

Posted by: tubal at September 29, 2023 07:49 PM (PCK5/)

43 Due to the extreme flooding that is occurring across New York City, the water level in the Sea Lion area rose significantly.

-
Damn that Piltdown warming!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks Now With Pumpkin Spice! at September 29, 2023 07:49 PM (FVME7)

44 >>Controversial opinion: Pop music was better in the 90s than the 80s. And it was the last time pop music was good.

The zenith of popular music was a 20 year period from 1975 to 1995.

Numerous and sundry musical genres, sub-genres and music scenes came to prominence and significance during this time.

It started to lose steam from 1995 to about 2004 and by 2010, Pop music had become generic, autotuned and quantized of all of it's life vigor and artistry.

Now get off of my lawn.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 29, 2023 07:50 PM (XV/Pl)

45 20 days and we will be hugging, shooting, laughing, shooting, drinking and eating and shooting.
Posted by: Ben Had at September 29, 2023 07:43 PM (EvYxc)

My manager suggested that we have a team shoot. Can't wait until they get my ammo expense report.

Posted by: Beartooth at September 29, 2023 07:50 PM (azYCi)

46 For maximal nerdic effect, shouldn't that be immediately followed by some sort of loud nasal sounds and/or a Kamalaesque kackle?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 29, 2023 07:48 PM (a3Q+t

I've heard of Kafkaesque but never Kamalaesque.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at September 29, 2023 07:50 PM (XtkZj)

47 TXMOME, the most fun you will ever have with your clothes on

Posted by: Ben Had at September 29, 2023 07:50 PM (EvYxc)

48 I have no Yak joke tonight because Yaks are no joke.

Yak Proliferation Society
Posted by: Ben Had at September 29, 2023 07:47 PM

No worries. One was yakked up at #9.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 29, 2023 07:50 PM (a3Q+t)

49 Know most of these as that's what I listened to, just haven't heard many in a few years

Posted by: Skip at September 29, 2023 07:50 PM (fwDg9)

50 @14/andycanuck: If that's a lithium battery powered e-bike he's trying to push out of the water, spontaneous combustion problems might be in its near future. Those battery packs really don't like being shorted out.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at September 29, 2023 07:51 PM (qPw5n)

51 Just saw SOS Blinken singing and playing guitar (lefty). Actually, not that bad, maybe $2 cover charge material and the band eats free. Dirty Jack's Saloon and BBQ, Ladies Night is Thursday.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at September 29, 2023 07:51 PM (0EOe9)

52 32 Hi, Hadrian.

Your dogs could win 37.28% of the time more if you fed them 22.86% more NaLGaPl2. But only if it is fortified with 33.4% of Viramin BH12 in a 78.20 % aqueous solution.

Posted by: Dog Show Math and Chemistry Nerds at September 29, 2023 07:51 PM (xTRSc)

53 willowed lol :

>>SOYLENT GREEN IS ILLEGALS!

Mexican food gives me gas.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 29, 2023 06:44 PM (ZLI7S)

Posted by: wth at September 29, 2023 07:52 PM (v0R5T)

54 Red red red. I'm seeing red.
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at September 29, 2023 07:33 PM

Ah, I see. Clever reference to the classic 90s-00s band Sister Soleil and their song "Red" https://tinyurl.com/fjh87rkm

Posted by: Musical Moron

I was thinking of Taylor Swift actually.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at September 29, 2023 07:52 PM (t/2Uw)

55 I'm generally a fan of 90's music, though I also like music from the 80's. I suppose it helps that I "came of age" during that era, so it's stuck with me for the past few decades.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 29, 2023 07:53 PM (BpYfr)

56 39 Ugly Kid Joe - Everything About You (Official Music Video)

There cover of 'Cats in the Cradle' was amazing.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at September 29, 2023 07:54 PM (cPl+1)

57 Ah, I see. Clever reference to the classic 90s-00s band Sister Soleil and their song "Red" https://tinyurl.com/fjh87rkm
Posted by: Musical Moron

I was thinking of Taylor Swift actually.
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at September 29, 2023 07:52 PM

Oh, I know. No one really knows about Sister Soleil. It was mostly a joke for my amusement, and to see if there might be one other person here who might sound off and say "Hey! I saw Sister Soleil open for Big Britches at the ISU student union in 99"

Posted by: Musical Moron at September 29, 2023 07:55 PM (NCgXW)

58 I pretty much stopped listening to new pop/rock music by the mid nineties. For me it had ran its course and it had no feeling.

Posted by: Beartooth at September 29, 2023 07:55 PM (azYCi)

59 'and tell your hoodlum friends outside,
You ain't got time to take no ride.'
-don't talk back

Posted by: Eromero at September 29, 2023 07:55 PM (NxC5+)

60 Even Canadian kid-show pop queens were recording hard rock hits. That hasn't happened on the charts since... well, since the 90s.
---------
"Echo Beach" Martha and the Muffins

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mL208l_Ho4s

3:39 minutes

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at September 29, 2023 07:57 PM (krqg6)

61 @55

>>I'm generally a fan of 90's music, though I also like music from the 80's. I suppose it helps that I "came of age" during that era, so it's stuck with me for the past few decades.

The first 3 presets on all of my radios is 70's on 7, First Wave and Lithium on Sirius XM, it's essentially music from the 70s, 80s, and 90's.

As I said, 75 to 95, that's the range of popular music for the vast majority of people from 29 to slightly older than 29.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 29, 2023 07:57 PM (XV/Pl)

62 Ugly Kid Joe - Everything About You (Official Music Video)

not available in your country

..

I want to move to that country.

Unless it's, er, Canada.

Posted by: Not trying to be mean but? at September 29, 2023 07:58 PM (LccS3)

63 I know it's out of fashion
And a trifle uncool
But I can't help it
I'm a romantic fool
It's a habit of mine
To watch the sun go down
On Echo beach, I watch the sun go down

From nine till five I have to spend my time at work
The job is very boring, I'm an office clerk
The only thing that helps pass the time away
Is knowing I'll be back at Echo Beach some day

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at September 29, 2023 07:58 PM (krqg6)

64 Yakety yak. Don't talk back.

Posted by: commissar of Plenty and Lysenko stuff in solidarity with the struggle to maintain Moron standards at September 29, 2023 07:58 PM (i2iTx)

65 I am always amazed at what music means in regards to memory. I can put on the 60s or 70s channels on Sirius and am about 90% accurate playing name the artists or name the year. Good game to play on road trips.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at September 29, 2023 07:59 PM (0EOe9)

66 Everyone thinks the music of their teen years is the best and everything else sucks.

That said, '90s music is especially cock-sucky.

Posted by: Wally at September 29, 2023 08:00 PM (hXg2A)

67 Gun control at the TXMOME, every Moron has it.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 29, 2023 08:01 PM (EvYxc)

68 was thinking of Taylor Swift actually.

Swift... they make hams, right?

Posted by: commissar of Plenty and Lysenko stuff in solidarity with the struggle to maintain Moron standards at September 29, 2023 08:01 PM (i2iTx)

69 Yeah, the old "expensive cat toys but the cat prefers the box they came in" routine. It'd be simpler to take a piece of copy paper, screw it up or tear it a bit, and toss it for your cat. The big red cat I lived with in the town house in '85-'86 loved to have me bat a crumpled piece of typing paper up to him, and he'd bat it back to me.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 29, 2023 08:01 PM (omVj0)

70 Rough Trade - High School Confidential
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFwom4D3i4g

She's a cool blonde scheming bitch
She makes my body twitch
Walking down the corridor
You can hear her stilettos click
I want her so much I feel sick
The girl can't help it
She really can't help it now
It's like a high school, high school confidential
High school, a high school confidential

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at September 29, 2023 08:01 PM (krqg6)

71
Oh, I know. No one really knows about Sister Soleil. It was mostly a joke for my amusement, and to see if there might be one other person here who might sound off and say "Hey! I saw Sister Soleil open for Big Britches at the ISU student union in 99"

Posted by: Musical Moron

Now I'm going to have to look that up. It's odd but I listen to music on my phone when I exercise. Mostly country music but blues, reggae, pretty eclectic taste. I'll be doing something and a song will pop into my head or I'll wake up in the morning and a song will be playing over and over, sometimes just one verse.
I like to think my life has a soundtrack but it can be annoying at times. Soon as I logged on and saw the red print, all I keep hearing was Taylor Swift singing the chorus to Red.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at September 29, 2023 08:01 PM (t/2Uw)

72 You Oughta Know is Bobert's theme song.

Posted by: Drive By at September 29, 2023 08:01 PM (52qkP)

73 Oh, no, you didn’t. But “Laid” by James was a pretty funny one-hit wondertune.

Posted by: LadyS at September 29, 2023 08:01 PM (oq25h)

74 "Echo Beach" Martha and the Muffins

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mL208l_Ho4s

3:39 minutes

1980. Far away in time.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at September 29, 2023 08:01 PM (Bd6X8)

75 commissar of plenty, I told you not to talk back.

Posted by: Eromero at September 29, 2023 08:02 PM (NxC5+)

76
Your dogs could win 37.28% of the time more if you fed them 22.86% more NaLGaPl2. But only if it is fortified with 33.4% of Viramin BH12 in a 78.20 % aqueous solution.
Posted by: Dog Show Math and Chemistry Nerds

____________

Well, they're going to get Purina One Skin and Coat.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 29, 2023 08:02 PM (MoZTd)

77 Do they have plumbers in Cappadocia?
Do they have plumbing in Cappadocia?

Posted by: Braenyard at September 29, 2023 08:03 PM (XgGMK)

78 Sabotage and Loser were the only songs worth listening to

Posted by: Jamaica NYC at September 29, 2023 08:03 PM (Eeb9P)

79 Tonight, I assert this was the best song of the 1990's.

Other nights, I will not assert this.

But this is tonight.

https://youtu.be/ZFjfa_RB6Pc?si=T-0NQV7AK22_Bj8v

Posted by: Thesokorus at September 29, 2023 08:03 PM (xYTw4)

80 About the only pop song I remember from the '90s was "Get Over It" by the Eagles, from their Hell Freezes Over album. My vision is that the best rock/pop music ran from about 1960 to 1985, and some of the best country went on to about 1995. That's pretty much it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 29, 2023 08:04 PM (omVj0)

81 I always liked Alanis Morissette. And not just for the naked song either

Posted by: javems at September 29, 2023 08:05 PM (8I4hW)

82 It Came From the Nineties Cafe
.......

This one is cheating a little (from 2000)

https://tinyurl.com/2jwhmzcf

Posted by: wth at September 29, 2023 08:05 PM (v0R5T)

83 You also have to remember the "old people" liked some of the young people music. Went into the Old Man's bakery and they had WHOT Youngstown on the radio, singing along to Herman's Hermits "Henry the Eighth". Thing was the three of them were singing in Finnish. Dad went by Henry. Middle name. Not really. First name Urho.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at September 29, 2023 08:06 PM (0EOe9)

84 The last truly exciting pop song was Bonnie Tyler's "Holding Out for a Hero" from the Footloose movie. And the last truly great year was 1979.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 29, 2023 08:06 PM (omVj0)

85 Pop punk extends through the 70's,80's,90's and 2000's so my preference is covered for over 40 years.

Posted by: Drive By at September 29, 2023 08:07 PM (52qkP)

86 83: I recall WHOT absorbing WSRD, which made me sad. WSRD was a kick ass station.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at September 29, 2023 08:07 PM (cPl+1)

87
Do they have plumbers in Cappadocia?
Do they have plumbing in Cappadocia?
Posted by: Braenyard

The Monkees have no tails in Cappadocia.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 29, 2023 08:07 PM (63Dwl)

88 Some great songs up there Ace. Thanks for them.

Posted by: 496 at September 29, 2023 08:08 PM (Ijkw6)

89 @66

>>That said, '90s music is especially cock-sucky.

That's a outre take.

That being said, that is not to say their is NO good music being made today, it's just that it's less ubiquitous and you have to search for it.

I've been turned on to a couple of bands that were recommended by posters, The Beths and Crown Lands come to mind.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 29, 2023 08:08 PM (XV/Pl)

90 (waiting for Doof to weigh in)
The Boxer by Carbon Leaf was also a good ‘90s tune.

Posted by: LadyS at September 29, 2023 08:08 PM (oq25h)

91 Mammy Eromero liked Perry Como.

Posted by: Eromero at September 29, 2023 08:08 PM (NxC5+)

92 So apparently Honda is bringing their first fully electric vehicle to the US, called the Prologue, interesting note, the vehicle will not come with a spare tire.
----

For Some Teslas, tht is already the case, apparently. Or, the spare is an option, not sure which.

I saw a Tesla being loaded up by a AAA truck, and asked the owner what was wrong. Answer: flat tire, and no spare.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 29, 2023 08:08 PM (XeU6L)

93 You also have to remember the "old people" liked some of the young people music.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at September 29, 2023 08:06 PM (0EOe9)

OHMIGOD, it's my homegirl Tay-Tay!

Posted by: Fifty Year Old Wine Mom in a Lexus at September 29, 2023 08:08 PM (v27SO)

94 1980. Far away in time.
----------
Yep. A different world.

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at September 29, 2023 08:08 PM (krqg6)

95 86 I got a shout out from Boots Bell, WHOT, when I was in Vietnam. Girlfriend and Mom and Dad wrote me.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at September 29, 2023 08:09 PM (0EOe9)

96 I saw a video clip today of a recent concert at Gilette stadium with Billy Joel age 74 and Stevie Nicks age 70. it was not pretty.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at September 29, 2023 08:09 PM (t/2Uw)

97 Nope! The Boxer, 2001. Mea culpa.

Posted by: LadyS at September 29, 2023 08:09 PM (oq25h)

98 Weezer was one of the all-time great pop acts.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 29, 2023 08:09 PM (0FoWg)

99 So apparently Honda is bringing their first fully electric vehicle to the US, called the Prologue, interesting note, the vehicle will not come with a spare tire.
.......

So. Not safe to drive further than one block.

Posted by: wth at September 29, 2023 08:10 PM (v0R5T)

100
Her Majesty and I were sitting on the front porch this afternoon and watched a Gulf fritillary emerge from its cocoon, dry its wings and flutter off. Very neat.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 29, 2023 08:10 PM (MoZTd)

101 I saw a video clip today of a recent concert at Gilette stadium with Billy Joel age 74 and Stevie Nicks age 70. it was not pretty.
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at September 29, 2023 08:09 PM (t/2Uw)

Refill my bathtub with virgin's blood! My wrinkles deepen!

Posted by: Cher at September 29, 2023 08:11 PM (v27SO)

102 Ben Had, I decided to make bluebell's Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip cookies for the MoMe. Now that I don't live at high altitude they should come out good.

Posted by: screaming in digital at September 29, 2023 08:12 PM (aBJcM)

103 Uncle Tupelo was a great band from the 90s. Sadly, the two main guys in the band, Jeff Tweedy and Jay Farrar, hated each other. Still managed to make 4 albums before they imploded.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at September 29, 2023 08:13 PM (cPl+1)

104 96 101 You mean Stevie Nicks is only 70? Where the hell is my Hai Karate? Doable.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at September 29, 2023 08:13 PM (0EOe9)

105 I saw a Tesla being loaded up by a AAA truck, and asked the owner what was wrong. Answer: flat tire, and no spare.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 29, 2023 08:08 PM (XeU6L)

AAA should buy Tesla wheels and offer on-site full size replacement services.

Posted by: Cher at September 29, 2023 08:14 PM (v27SO)

106 Off Cher sock

Posted by: Vanya at September 29, 2023 08:14 PM (v27SO)

107 Weezer! (in Doof’s apparent absence, trying to turn this into a music thread, and pick a fight

)
Your biggest fan here, YD, but bruh.

Posted by: LadyS at September 29, 2023 08:14 PM (oq25h)

108 You mean Stevie Nicks is only 70? Where the hell is my Hai Karate? Doable.

Posted by: bill in arkansas

I dunno Bill. She looked kind of used up if you know what I mean.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at September 29, 2023 08:15 PM (t/2Uw)

109 Hi Diane .......

Just bringing you some extra pillows to more comfortable.........

Posted by: Adam Schiff for Brains at September 29, 2023 08:15 PM (p3lya)

110 99 So apparently Honda is bringing their first fully electric vehicle to the US, called the Prologue, interesting note, the vehicle will not come with a spare tire.
.......

So. Not safe to drive further than one block.
Posted by: wth

And run no more than 15 minutes, Global Citizen.

Posted by: WEF at September 29, 2023 08:16 PM (cPl+1)

111
Tesla Tire Replacement Procedure

1. Remove battery.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 29, 2023 08:16 PM (MoZTd)

112 Your biggest fan here, YD, but bruh.
Posted by: LadyS at September 29, 2023 08:14 PM (oq25h)

Weezer is far less offensive than a lot of the acts from back then. Let's hear your picks then, eh?

Posted by: Vanya at September 29, 2023 08:16 PM (v27SO)

113 You mean Stevie Nicks is only 70? Where the hell is my Hai Karate? Doable.

Posted by: bill in arkansas

I dunno Bill. She looked kind of used up if you know what I mean.
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at September 29, 2023 08:15 PM (t/2Uw)
.......

I heard she's running for the Senate.

Posted by: wth at September 29, 2023 08:16 PM (v0R5T)

114 Your biggest fan here, YD, but bruh.
Posted by: LadyS at September 29, 2023 08:14 PM (oq25h)

They put out catchy pop tunes, one after another, for many years, and never once took themselves seriously. They were a bubblegum pop outfit, and never got it twisted.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 29, 2023 08:16 PM (0FoWg)

115 YD, Islands In The Sun by Weezer is one of my favorite 'new' songs.

Posted by: Eromero at September 29, 2023 08:17 PM (NxC5+)

116 I dunno Bill. She looked kind of used up if you know what I mean.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at September 29, 2023 08:15 PM (t/2Uw)

I know how she feels.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at September 29, 2023 08:17 PM (XtkZj)

117 Rough Trade - All Touch (1982)

Like a razor blade on glass
All touch, but no contact
It hit me like, it hit me like
It hit me like a slap, oh oh oh, all touch
All touch, all touch and no contact

https://tinyurl.com/572euub6
3:39 minutes

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at September 29, 2023 08:17 PM (krqg6)

118 Pop ruins everything.
Metal makes everything better.

Punk combined with Country is pinnacle.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuNRe74vqJc

Posted by: Reforger at September 29, 2023 08:17 PM (B705c)

119 Posted by: screaming in digital at September 29, 2023 08:12 PM

You bringing the 16?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 29, 2023 08:18 PM (a3Q+t)

120 If I had a EV with no tire I would make a wheel mount on roof if I had to.

Posted by: Skip at September 29, 2023 08:18 PM (fwDg9)

121 My teen years were 1980-89, so I'm biased towards the late 70's thru 1986. 87 thru 91 was a dead zone to me, except for "Appetite for Destruction". Got into some of the early 90's grunge, by 1995, I was done with new music, with very few exceptions.

Posted by: Midnioght Ramblera at September 29, 2023 08:18 PM (vqA1l)

122 My ex loved Simon and Garfunkel, and wanted to go to the big concert in Central Park in the 80s. I said no way (got a problem with crowds) and we found out it was going to be televised. Mom came over and got the kids and we had a date night in front of the TV with drinks and snacks. Wifey says "look at that crowd, those people must be nuts when they could watch it on TV".

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at September 29, 2023 08:18 PM (0EOe9)

123 My only EV will be a golf cart.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at September 29, 2023 08:19 PM (XtkZj)

124 uh

*beep* Aye *beep*

Posted by: Dianne Feinsteins empty wheelchair at September 29, 2023 08:19 PM (v0R5T)

125 Is this flooding worse or better than Super-Storm Sandy which nearly wiped New York state off of the map?

Posted by: Kindltot at September 29, 2023 08:20 PM (xhaym)

126 114: I respect the not-taking-oneself seriously part. And no problem with (some) bubblegum pop, just need compelling melody and interesting harmonies. This does rule out a good bit of pop music, for me.

Posted by: LadyS at September 29, 2023 08:20 PM (oq25h)

127 I love a lot of popular music from the 60s and early 70s, despite it predating my birth, but I hope we can all agree that most music today is ear rape.

Alice In Chains and Tool are probably the best bands from the 90s, and I still listen to Guns N Roses’ 3 albums from that decade

Posted by: UGAdawg at September 29, 2023 08:20 PM (tRd71)

128 My experience cats would like the box the present was in

Posted by: Skip at September 29, 2023 08:20 PM (fwDg9)

129 108 You mean Stevie Nicks is only 70? Where the hell is my Hai Karate? Doable.

Posted by: bill in arkansas

I dunno Bill. She looked kind of used up if you know what I mean.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at September 29, 2023 08:15 PM (t/2Uw)

Total Lesbian. Have a buddy who was a roadie for her in the 90's

Posted by: Reforger at September 29, 2023 08:21 PM (B705c)

130 @118

>>Metal makes everything better.

This is the greatest metal performance of all time.

https://tinyurl.com/ypjlaaw6

The only way it could be more metal is if it were encased in metal smelted in the fires of mount doom.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 29, 2023 08:21 PM (XV/Pl)

131 There are some newer artists that I'll actually turn up the volume for when they come on: Charlie Crockett, Jason Isbell, Father John Misty (excepting that one of his that takes the Savior's Name in vain)...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at September 29, 2023 08:22 PM (37q3K)

132 Topic:

The Cure's Post Punk Phase was better than it's Goth Phase, discuss.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 29, 2023 08:22 PM (XV/Pl)

133 So apparently Honda is bringing their first fully electric vehicle to the US, called the Prologue/i]

Here's ETH-Zürich's (it's a college) electric vehicle accelerating 0-60 in under a second. It hits 60 after going about forty feet.

https://tinyurl.com/2p8mtf2b

It's probably spent after about 200 feet.

Posted by: t-bird at September 29, 2023 08:23 PM (CaJIi)

134 It's hard to find big pop stars who aren't always full of themselves. "Uh duh I'm the voice of my generation." "Listen to my political insights." "Music will heal the world bruh." "I visited an Eastern charlatan, and now I'm very spiritual. I did a sitar song and everything." "I changed out my head for a lizard's 30 years back, and now I'm doing a geriatric pole dance, because I AM AN ICON AND I WILL NEVER GROW OLD."

It's nice when they don't do that.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 29, 2023 08:24 PM (0FoWg)

135 108 You mean Stevie Nicks is only 70? Where the hell is my Hai Karate? Doable.

Posted by: bill in arkansas

I dunno Bill. She looked kind of used up if you know what I mean.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice)

Total Lesbian. Have a buddy who was a roadie for her in the 90's

Posted by: Reforger

no wonder she looks like that

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at September 29, 2023 08:24 PM (t/2Uw)

136 My ex loved Simon and Garfunkel, and wanted to go to the big concert in Central Park in the 80s. I said no way (got a problem with crowds) and we found out it was going to be televised. Mom came over and got the kids and we had a date night in front of the TV with drinks and snacks. Wifey says "look at that crowd, those people must be nuts when they could watch it on TV".
-----
Should have hired the Hell's Angels as crowd cotrol!

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at September 29, 2023 08:24 PM (krqg6)

137 Weezer was one of the all-time great pop acts.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 29, 2023 08:09 PM (0FoWg)

Camper Van Beethoven was like an itch you finally got to scratch.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 29, 2023 08:25 PM (xhaym)

138 123 My only EV will be a golf cart.
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Zat's zee plan.

For Party members.

Posted by: klaus schwab at September 29, 2023 08:26 PM (krqg6)

139 @98

>>Weezer was one of the all-time great pop acts.

R.E.M. has entered the chat.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 29, 2023 08:26 PM (XV/Pl)

140 Here's ETH-Zürich's (it's a college) electric vehicle accelerating 0-60 in under a second. It hits 60 after going about forty feet.
------
The first time...

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 29, 2023 08:27 PM (XeU6L)

141 Total Lesbian. Have a buddy who was a roadie for her in the 90's
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Pics or it didn't happen.

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at September 29, 2023 08:27 PM (krqg6)

142 Got watching Alice in Chains video.
Actually been watching 90s Vida lot lately

Posted by: Skip at September 29, 2023 08:28 PM (fwDg9)

143 The only way it could be more metal is if it were encased in metal smelted in the fires of mount doom.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 29, 2023 08:21 PM (XV/Pl)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRWVeHq-oWU

Nothing tops this.

Lars was left for dead.

Posted by: Reforger at September 29, 2023 08:28 PM (B705c)

144 I really like Morgan Wallen.

https://youtu.be/S-OKqDu8YmA?si=0bbsyDfeuAhEiUfM

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at September 29, 2023 08:28 PM (t/2Uw)

145 Ammo makers mourn DiFi's passing too.
https://tinyurl.com/n8adapvk
[IMAGE]

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at September 29, 2023 08:28 PM (krqg6)

146 Went to karaoke with Co-Workers a few weeks back, one where you go in a private booth for it. Despite the ages ranging from 22 to late 50s, the playlist was basically what we have posted here.

The 90s took the mix of fun, goofy, kinda rapey hair metal, and fused it with the angsty grunge time.

I don't know if id shit and listen to complete records of most of these bands, but like hair metal it was perfect for the "Niw That's What You Call 90s" compilation records.

Posted by: Rbastid at September 29, 2023 08:29 PM (y5ht4)

147
https://is.gd/Zq0Eqk
Dail Mail UK
Milley Retire
see Video!

Posted by: zigzag at September 29, 2023 08:29 PM (GlMWF)

148 It seems to me that plug in hybrids are the only thing that makes any sense for a one car family that wants those Green endorphins.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at September 29, 2023 08:29 PM (mE7cY)

149 R.E.M. has entered the chat.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 29, 2023 08:26 PM (XV/Pl)

Now... Michael Stipe. There was one self-serious pop dude. That's what I'm talking about.

Everybody Hurts, Losing My Religion... pop music shouldn't be lugubrious. It's supposed to be *fun.*

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 29, 2023 08:29 PM (0FoWg)

150 Agreed on The Cure, Thomas Bender. Also, it’s funny that I too still love GnR though they were truly awful live (Metallica was the opener, was a tight band even for a non-fan of metal.)
My last gasp of music-threadery is to say, re/ Reformer’s comment, that any woman who left Lindsay Buckingham was…not a woman I’d have been in those days.

Posted by: LadyS at September 29, 2023 08:30 PM (oq25h)

151 I can do a great Michael Stipe impression, especially after a couple of drinks. Just hold my nose and belt it out.

Posted by: Midnight Rambler at September 29, 2023 08:31 PM (vqA1l)

152 I AM AN ICON AND I WILL NEVER GROW OLD."

Have you seen Grandpa Idol doing commercials?

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at September 29, 2023 08:31 PM (mE7cY)

153 A car that accelerates that fast needs some enormous traction and traction control. The driver needs a strong stomach and a steady hand too, I imagine the tunnel vision is like the end of 2001.

Posted by: fd at September 29, 2023 08:31 PM (vFG9F)

154 Early Synth-Wave Cure was Best Cure.

Posted by: garrett at September 29, 2023 08:33 PM (TJKU9)

155 Have you seen Grandpa Idol doing commercials?
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at September 29, 2023 08:31 PM (mE7cY)

No.

Sad.

One of my favorite Beavis and Butt-Heads was when the boys are watching the video for "Dancing With Myself."

Butt-Head says "Beavis... this song has masturbatory overtones."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 29, 2023 08:34 PM (0FoWg)

156 The years have not been kind

https://bityl.co/LQRt

That is why I don't go see the old bands even though they frequently play near me. I want to remember them as the young skinny hair that they used to be. Not old and bald and fat.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at September 29, 2023 08:35 PM (mE7cY)

157 Noticed Weezer made the list twice. Just.

Posted by: From about that Time at September 29, 2023 08:35 PM (4780s)

158 Very unfortunate that I saw this so late.
-----
Cornbread said Giuliani felt her up on the 6th in front of a Trump staffer.
Posted by: pawn
------
Eh, don't believe anything that comes out of her lips (or her book).
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
-----

What I think you're saying is that the cum she just spit out wasn't Mat Gaetz's?

Posted by: BifBewalski at September 29, 2023 08:35 PM (3CCua)

159 Not buying Stevie was a lesbian long ago, bi possibly
After men in her life? Maybe later who knows

Posted by: Skip at September 29, 2023 08:35 PM (fwDg9)

160 FOR THE SINGER OF REM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dA21dyNY3V4

Posted by: fIREHOSE at September 29, 2023 08:36 PM (TJKU9)

161 Now I'm going to have to look that up. It's odd but I listen to music on my phone when I exercise. Mostly country music but blues, reggae, pretty eclectic taste.

Let me make three recommendations to expand your mind.
William Shatner's spoken word album The Transformed Man. Sings Strawberry Fields and Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.
https://tinyurl.com/45jembyn

Wesley Willis, Fabian Road Warrior. Mentally ill homeless Chicago man with a Casio keyboard. Each song is the same keyboard demo song, just with a different tempo and key. It's great when you have the CD and can just skip from track to track and hear the demo song start up every time lol
https://tinyurl.com/4sbyvb8x

Hardest of all...Captain Beefheart's Trout Mask Replica. Hailed as brilliant by avant garde douche bags, and noise by sane, normal individuals. The first song, Frownland, is an auditory punch to all the senses. https://tinyurl.com/m9bnnthh

Posted by: Musical Moron at September 29, 2023 08:36 PM (NCgXW)

162 @154

>>Early Synth-Wave Cure was Best Cure.

True, but their Goth period was pretty damn good to.

Their Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Set is arguably the best performance that's ever happened at that event.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 29, 2023 08:37 PM (XV/Pl)

163 Madison Cornbread is such a shameless, lying little whore. I love her. She just throws whatever out there for money and clicks. A true grifter.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 29, 2023 08:37 PM (0FoWg)

164 All that red text looked like a mistake for a moment.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at September 29, 2023 08:37 PM (k1Qly)

165 I'm not shy about asking questions about somebody's car. Pulled in behind a Chevy Bolt and complimented the guy on a good looking car (it was) and asked a few questions. He was forthcoming, saying they would never be without an ICE car or truck but the Bolt was OK for around town. Range dropped a lot running air (a must around here) and he hadn't needed heat or defrost yet. He said a round trip to Fayetteville would make him nervous.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at September 29, 2023 08:37 PM (0EOe9)

166 Spent a lot of sweaty moments in the back seat of a 58 Ford Falcon listening to WLS out of Chicago. Was more agile back them. And no I wasn't alone.

Posted by: javems at September 29, 2023 08:37 PM (8I4hW)

167 "Everybody Hurts, Losing My Religion... pop music shouldn't be lugubrious. It's supposed to be *fun.*
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

I hate dreary music like that. Boring.

Posted by: fd at September 29, 2023 08:37 PM (vFG9F)

168 Wow that's like a whole jukebox to load into the Wurlitzer.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at September 29, 2023 08:38 PM (CHHv1)

169 I did make the trip to see Little Richard in Pascagoula, even though he was about 80. Still a good show. He would just play the intros to each song and some other piano player would take over so he could just sing without exhausting himself.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at September 29, 2023 08:38 PM (mE7cY)

170 You bringing the 16?
Posted by: Duncanthrax
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If there's room. I probably will be hitching a ride with not one but two excellent Morons, who will likely be loaded to the gills. If driving solo I'd bring the AR, both revolvers, the 1911, maybe the S&W model 52, the shotty, and at least one rifle I do not currently know how to shoot. However, if riding with SD and Ed, if I don't want to end up strapped to the roof with bungee cords, I might have to scale back.

Posted by: screaming in digital at September 29, 2023 08:38 PM (aBJcM)

171 I can easily drive to Myrtle Beach 580 mi from here in 10 - 11 hours, you ain't doing that in any EV.

Posted by: Skip at September 29, 2023 08:40 PM (fwDg9)

172 I heard she's running for the Senate.
Posted by: wth

Coke's in the White House.

Posted by: SFGoth at September 29, 2023 08:40 PM (KAi1n)

173 149. Alright, breaking my word on “last” since it’s a slow thread.
Michael Stipe sweated all over me, once. Dragged to the mythical but in this case true small-venue show, by friends. His hair rained sweat and I was on the front row.
No, I have never forgiven myself. Please don’t shun me, YD.

Posted by: LadyS at September 29, 2023 08:41 PM (oq25h)

174 "Hardest of all...Captain Beefheart's Trout Mask Replica. Hailed as brilliant by avant garde douche bags, and noise by sane, normal individuals. The first song, Frownland, is an auditory punch to all the senses."

Trout Mask is an album you have to come back to after 30 years to get a different perspective. Then in 30 years you can do it again.

Posted by: fd at September 29, 2023 08:41 PM (vFG9F)

175 Posted by: Musical Moron

Funny guy

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at September 29, 2023 08:41 PM (t/2Uw)

176 fiskey wango tox, whatinnableep does any of that even mean, anyway?

jeez, i'm'a have a nother Hamms, maybe that'll help ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - these lying bastardi e stronzi have been lying for decades at September 29, 2023 08:41 PM (YNbPJ)

177 Ok, I gave up. Clicked the first six links, and I hate all of it.

There's plenty of good music from that time period.

Just not that.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 29, 2023 08:42 PM (QBaJw)

178 Star Trek is on. It's the one where the Oompa Loompas watch Chekov get some.

Posted by: fd at September 29, 2023 08:42 PM (vFG9F)

179 >>Hardest of all...Captain Beefheart's Trout Mask Replica.

Anyone who name drops Beefheart is typically a douche.

Posted by: garrett at September 29, 2023 08:43 PM (TJKU9)

180 My teen years were 1980-89, so I'm biased towards the late 70's thru 1986.
Posted by: Midnioght Ramblera

Same. The Seventies, despite both parties wrecking the economy, and fashionistas giving us polyester, wide ties, and bowl haircuts, did give us music from back when people could play their instruments and guitarists could play solos.

Speaking of which (well, I'm strictly rhythm), a few weeks ago I bought a Boss SY-300 guitar synth and am just now learning how to program it. That's a bey0tch, but the sounds and stuff are fantastic.

Posted by: SFGoth at September 29, 2023 08:43 PM (KAi1n)

181
Hardest of all...Captain Beefheart's Trout Mask Replica.

I like Moonlight On Vermont.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 29, 2023 08:44 PM (63Dwl)

182 I don't even really dislike REM. Just the pretense. Just cool down Michael. More Shiny Happy Blah Blah, less Wanky Wanky Boo-Hoo, please.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 29, 2023 08:44 PM (0FoWg)

183 Cappadocia is in Turkey somewhere I take it

Posted by: Skip at September 29, 2023 08:44 PM (fwDg9)

184 Here's the guy's name. I hadn't seen it yet, not that it's my top-priority story:

Breaking911 @Breaking911 6h
Duane Keith "Keefe D" Davis arrested for the 1996 Las Vegas murder of rapper Tupac Shakur

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at September 29, 2023 08:45 PM (krqg6)

185 OK...laughing baby and confused pug made my evening.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 29, 2023 08:46 PM (aQy7p)

186 Eh, not a REM fan, their ok just not a fan

Posted by: Skip at September 29, 2023 08:46 PM (fwDg9)

187 183 Cappadocia is in Turkey somewhere I take it

Posted by: Skip
----------------

No tail monkeys and no plumbers.

Posted by: Braenyard at September 29, 2023 08:46 PM (XgGMK)

188 Just read the previous post -- Classic Ace:

"The most honest thing to ever come out of Madison Cornbread's mouth was Matt Gaetz."

LMAO

Posted by: ShainS -- Deplorable AND Listless Vessel AND Overimaginative Scamp at September 29, 2023 08:46 PM (2O5Io)

189 @171

>>I can easily drive to Myrtle Beach 580 mi from here in 10 - 11 hours, you ain't doing that in any EV.

An Average EV has a sub 250 mile range under optimal conditions, so you would have to stop to charge, minimally, 3 times, using a level 1 charger it would take a 12 hours to recharge your vehicle or overnight, using a level 2 charger it would take 6 hours, using a level 3 charger it would take about 2 hours to recharge, so...

Anyway, I'm bored discussing EV vehicles.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 29, 2023 08:46 PM (XV/Pl)

190 Everyone thinks the music of their teen years is the best and everything else sucks.

Yes. So cheap and shallow. The sure mark of a stupid man.
People sure love to get into that shit though. "Our song at The Prom." It is all just exactly that important to them, and no more.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at September 29, 2023 08:46 PM (4PZHB)

191 Not a smidgen* of fraud!

*a smidgen is 500,000 or more

https://tinyurl.com/2t7c9pm7

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at September 29, 2023 08:46 PM (slgIg)

192 Early Synth-Wave Cure was Best Cure.
-----------------
True, but their Goth period was pretty damn good to.

Their Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Set is arguably the best performance that's ever happened at that event.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 29, 2023 08:37 PM (XV/Pl)

Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me

The fact it's a double album, and a goodly portion of it is a mess is part of what makes it so great.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 29, 2023 08:46 PM (QBaJw)

193 "Spent a lot of sweaty moments in the back seat of a 58 Ford Falcon listening to WLS out of Chicago. Was more agile back them. And no I wasn't alone.
Posted by: javems"

That sounds kind of like BOC's song "Dominance and Submission".

Posted by: fd at September 29, 2023 08:46 PM (vFG9F)

194 "pop music shouldn't be lugubrious"

That's what death metal is for.

Posted by: SFGoth at September 29, 2023 08:46 PM (KAi1n)

195 The best music since the early 70s has been born of DIY music.

From Motown to Dischord and beyond. It all comes from Independent Musicians who then get ripped by the labels and their sound gets fucked out.

Rinse and repeat.

Posted by: garrett at September 29, 2023 08:46 PM (TJKU9)

196 My continuing FWP. Drove to Bumfuck Georgia on Wednesday so the wife could visit her perpetually dying father. Water pump broke on the car as soon as I pulled into the hotel parking lot, literally, as I pulled in. The nearest Toyota place is in Brunswick, an hour away. The nearest car rental is 35 miles away. Thursday AM I limped the car the five blocks to a repair place recommended by the Indian hotel owner, "Go see The Spaniard", was supposed to get it back today but No!, they broke a bolt getting the old pump off and spent all day today fucking with it. I am supposed to check out tomorrow and drive home but we shall see if they have it fixed in the morning.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at September 29, 2023 08:47 PM (mE7cY)

197 Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me

The fact it's a double album, and a goodly portion of it is a mess is part of what makes it so great.
Posted by: BurtTC at September 29, 2023 08:46 PM (QBaJw)

But then there's Pornography.

Strange Day is one of the 10 best songs of all time.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 29, 2023 08:47 PM (QBaJw)

198 My biggest regret in life is not becoming a rock star.
Some day I'll write a book about it.
A documentary about the bitchenest band that never existed.

Posted by: Reforger at September 29, 2023 08:47 PM (B705c)

199 Radios appear

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 29, 2023 08:48 PM (63Dwl)

200 That sounds kind of like BOC's song "Dominance and Submission".
Posted by: fd

We put him in the back seat and took him for a ride. Yeah! The radio was on. He could dig the locomotion but too much revolution, 45 RPM.

Poughkeepsie gets SERIOUS about rock and roll!

Posted by: Susie and Charles the Grinning Boy at September 29, 2023 08:48 PM (KAi1n)

201 From Motown to Dischord and beyond. It all comes from Independent Musicians who then get ripped by the labels and their sound gets fucked out.

Rinse and repeat.
Posted by: garrett at September 29, 2023 08:46 PM (TJKU9)

But enough about the Replacements...

Posted by: BurtTC at September 29, 2023 08:48 PM (QBaJw)

202 "I like Moonlight On Vermont.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr."

I like Ella Guru, but Dachau Blues has a memorable lick.

Posted by: fd at September 29, 2023 08:49 PM (vFG9F)

203 OK, EVs are shit but...

@elonmusk 18m
Hip-firing my Barrett 50 cal

Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 29, 2023 08:49 PM (IG4Id)

204 Anyway, I'm bored discussing EV vehicles.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 29, 2023 08:46 PM (XV/Pl)

If I ever win one of those billion dollar Powerballs, after I look after the family and pay my taxes and such, I will:
-Get my pilot's license
-Have a reproduction Arado Ar234 with modern engines and avionics built to fly around it. Ever since I was a kid, always thought that was one of the coolest looking planes ever, with the glass nose.

Posted by: Vanya at September 29, 2023 08:50 PM (v27SO)

205 15. Im not seeing anything by The Wiggles.
Posted by: Diogenes at September 29, 2023 07:39 PM (uSHSS)

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Had to make a 20 hour, 2 day trip to visit family & that was the only CD we had in the car for the kids. That was waaay too much Wiggles. Nonetheless, we went to a couple of their shows and they were surprisingly enjoyable. It was the original iteration of the group, not whatever they have now with the chicks and non-binary dinosaur.

Posted by: Hoplite Housewife at September 29, 2023 08:50 PM (anHSL)

206 SFGoth, hello from your old stomping grounds. I miss the Chess and Dress posts, and your comments on sartorial styles of various periods. Good luck with the music. How os Prettygirl?

Posted by: LadyS at September 29, 2023 08:50 PM (oq25h)

207 Rasmussen Reports @Rasmussen_Poll 3h
Georgia 2020 Counterfeit Ballots Case:
Judicial Capture & Kill

Judge Robert McBurney has now done nothing on the case for 141 days, ignoring repeated motions in violation of Georgia Code 15-6-21(b) which requires case progress by 90 days. These ballots must be huge trouble.

KevinKelton 🍊 @KevinKelton2 Aug 15
💥⚖️ Update on the Fulton County Counterfeit Ballot Inspection Case.

Judge Robert C. McBurney's intentional gamesmanship in dragging out this case is beyond absurd and now illegal.

The attached Motion was filed by the Petitioners and is datestamped by the Court on May 16.

💥⚖️ According to Georgia Code 15-6-21(b) Superior Courts, Time for Deciding Motions - Judge McBurney had 90 days to address the Motion. Today is 91 days. He failed.

💥⚖️ 15-6-21(d) further states if any judge fails or refuses; such conduct shall be grounds for impeachment and the penalty is his removal from office.

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at September 29, 2023 08:50 PM (krqg6)

208 Why was DiFi protecting Tupac's murderer?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at September 29, 2023 08:51 PM (slgIg)

209 Yes. So cheap and shallow. The sure mark of a stupid man.
People sure love to get into that shit though. "Our song at The Prom." It is all just exactly that important to them, and no more.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at September 29, 2023 08:46 PM (4PZHB)

Our prom song was a Billy Joel song.

It's a good thing I didn't have a gun.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 29, 2023 08:51 PM (QBaJw)

210 "You Oughta Know" has one of the wickedest bass lines ever to grace the Top 40. Flea from Red Hot Chili Peppers laying down Jaco-esque finger funk.

Posted by: parsimony at September 29, 2023 08:51 PM (q1I67)

211 Strange Day is one of the 10 best songs of all time.
Posted by: BurtTC

Strange day has found us. It's tracked us down. It's going to destroy our casual joys.

Talk about lugubrious.

Posted by: SFGoth at September 29, 2023 08:52 PM (KAi1n)

212 There's a FB meme about today's Billy Idol with him singing "It's a nice day for a light sweater."

Posted by: Notsothoreau at September 29, 2023 08:52 PM (Ds/Wi)

213 Other contractor been playing 80 < many haven't heard in a long time. Many heard 10,000 times so didn't need to hear again.

Posted by: Skip at September 29, 2023 08:52 PM (fwDg9)

214 "You Oughta Know" has one of the wickedest bass lines ever to grace the Top 40. Flea from Red Hot Chili Peppers laying down Jaco-esque finger funk.
Posted by: parsimony

Blue Oyster Cult's "Shooting Shark" (Roeser/Patti Smith) has Randy Jackson playing a grooving slap bass. In fact, BOC's longtime OG bassist had to go take a lesson from Jackson to play it.

Posted by: SFGoth at September 29, 2023 08:53 PM (KAi1n)

215 Spent a lot of sweaty moments in the back seat of a 58 Ford Falcon

Good trick as first year for Falcons was 1960.

Posted by: Thanatopsis at September 29, 2023 08:55 PM (sNtYB)

216 @204

>>If I ever win one of those billion dollar Powerballs, after I look after the family and pay my taxes and such, I will:

Vehicle wise, I already have an exotic vehicle, a Wrangler with a Corvette engine stuffed into it.

I would probably get a Helicopter and do pirate traffic reporting if I had a billion dollars.

That and two chicks at the same time.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 29, 2023 08:55 PM (XV/Pl)

217 It’s been quite odd that Way, Way Downriver hasn’t been called out for doing what he almost always does, here. I guess no one else has noticed.
shrugs.

Posted by: LadyS at September 29, 2023 08:55 PM (oq25h)

218 184 Here's the guy's name. I hadn't seen it yet, not that it's my top-priority story:

Breaking911 @Breaking911 6h
Duane Keith "Keefe D" Davis arrested for the 1996 Las Vegas murder of rapper Tupac Shakur
Posted by: andycanuck

The first time I ever heard of Tupac Shakur was the day after he was shot, and someone had to tell me who he was. Keeping up to date on the latest in culture was never a strong suit of mine.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at September 29, 2023 08:55 PM (cPl+1)

219 "Our prom song was a Billy Joel song."

I didn't go, but ours was "We May Never Pass This Way Again". Bleech. I sure hope f'n not.

Posted by: fd at September 29, 2023 08:55 PM (vFG9F)

220 @elonmusk 18m
Hip-firing my Barrett 50 cal

Someone needs to invite that guy to the MoMe.

Posted by: Oddbob at September 29, 2023 08:56 PM (nfrXX)

221 Strange day has found us. It's tracked us down. It's going to destroy our casual joys.

Talk about lugubrious.
Posted by: SFGoth at September 29, 2023 08:52 PM (KAi1n)

We don't deserve casual joys. None of us.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 29, 2023 08:56 PM (QBaJw)

222 I guess Elon is ready for the remake of Tremors!

Posted by: Notsothoreau at September 29, 2023 08:56 PM (Ds/Wi)

223 SFGoth, hello from your old stomping grounds. I miss the Chess and Dress posts, and your comments on sartorial styles of various periods. Good luck with the music. How os Prettygirl?
Posted by: LadyS

Well hello. I do miss the Chess Thread even though I don't play it. (I know how the pieces move, but that's about it.) Sadly, sartoriality isn't lately in my reality. Long story. Prettygirl is cleaning up before dinner. She's a sweetheart but just not a great (or even good) rodent hunter. She just wants to be friends with them. Other cats who come into the yard, them she'll fight. Sigh.

Posted by: SFGoth at September 29, 2023 08:57 PM (KAi1n)

224 Lottery vehicle? Easy.

Mini-Mog with NBC package, sat-coms, and solid tires.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 29, 2023 08:57 PM (IG4Id)

225 If it weren’t for 90’s pop/rock I wouldn’t know that “John McEnroe” rhymes with “Smackin’ the ho”

Posted by: Bacon Jeff at September 29, 2023 08:58 PM (knTBo)

226 We left the Prom early to go see 2 sets of the McCoy Tynor Trio at the Village Vanguard.

Roy Hargrove sat in for the 2nd set.

Posted by: garrett at September 29, 2023 08:58 PM (TJKU9)

227 Clintons/Tupac Update:
https://tinyurl.com/2j69xamm

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at September 29, 2023 08:59 PM (krqg6)

228 "There's a FB meme about today's Billy Idol with him singing "It's a nice day for a light sweater."
Posted by: Notsothoreau"

That reminds me of the Kiss song "I, used to Rock and Roll all night, but now my hair's turnin' gray."

Posted by: fd at September 29, 2023 08:59 PM (vFG9F)

229 >>>The cat ignores them and plays instead with the receipt

lol That escalated quickly.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at September 29, 2023 09:00 PM (klJTj)

230 I didn't go, but ours was "We May Never Pass This Way Again". Bleech. I sure hope f'n not.
Posted by: fd at September 29, 2023 08:55 PM (vFG9F)

I bet you had girls at your school. Mine was all boys.

We had no excuse.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 29, 2023 09:00 PM (QBaJw)

231 Good evening, horde!

I'm late. That's a lot of links up there, and I haven't gotten through them all, but I'm happy to see Don't Steal My Sunshine.

It is a lot brighter and "pop"-ier than my usual likings, but it's hard not to listen to that and be kinda happy.

Here's one of my nineties faves: Would You, by Touch and Go:

https://tinyurl.com/2p9csssh

Trumpets!

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at September 29, 2023 09:00 PM (OX9vb)

232 223. I always picture you strolling down Heritage Drive in a velvet smoking jacket, with long silver hair, a few cats trailing, singing “My Old School.”
Give prettygirl a scratch, if you will.

Posted by: LadyS at September 29, 2023 09:01 PM (oq25h)

233 Guy must have confessed at this late point, or wrote a book how he killed TwoPack.

Anyway, have to turn this off.
Hope you all have a great evening.

Posted by: Skip at September 29, 2023 09:01 PM (fwDg9)

234 "I bet you had girls at your school. Mine was all boys.
We had no excuse.
Posted by: BurtTC"

There were 2100 students at my school. You see what Student Council Democracy brings you.

Posted by: fd at September 29, 2023 09:03 PM (vFG9F)

235 Maybe Lamont really is 29 . . .

Posted by: a.moron at September 29, 2023 09:03 PM (F6Xpw)

236
Running against the current as usual, I saw a post on a blog that some Finnish feminists had compiled a list of 240 forgotten or neglected female composers. I commented, "Any Bachs or Mozarts we missed?" It was not appreciated.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 29, 2023 09:03 PM (MoZTd)

237 >>>In the third clip, a guy stands firm against a charging elephant, causing the elephant to stop his charge.

Yeah he took a defensive posture with a stick. That's the kind of thing that works... until it doesn't.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at September 29, 2023 09:03 PM (klJTj)

238 If it had been my choice, it would have been Alice Cooper's "Schools Out".

Posted by: fd at September 29, 2023 09:05 PM (vFG9F)

239 208 Why was DiFi protecting Tupac's murderer?
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy

227 Clintons/Tupac Update:
https://tinyurl.com/2j69xamm
======
Hadn't read your #208, CAT, when I posted #227 or I would have worked it in!

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at September 29, 2023 09:05 PM (krqg6)

240 There were 2100 students at my school. You see what Student Council Democracy brings you.
Posted by: fd at September 29, 2023 09:03 PM (vFG9F)

Yes. Every committee I'm on, every number over one dilutes the quality of the committee that much more.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 29, 2023 09:06 PM (QBaJw)

241 Elon Musk @elonmusk 11h
Is the German public aware of this?

GermanForeignOffice @GermanyDiplo 9h
Yes. And it’s called saving lives.

Elon Musk @elonmusk 1h Replying to @GermanyDiplo
So you’re actually proud of it. Interesting. Frankly, I doubt that a majority of the German public supports this. Have you run a poll?

Surely it is a violation of the sovereignty of Italy for Germany to transport vast numbers of illegal immigrants to Italian soil?

Has invasion vibes ... 🤨

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at September 29, 2023 09:08 PM (krqg6)

242 66 Everyone thinks the music of their teen years is the best and everything else sucks.
That said, '90s music is especially cock-sucky.
Posted by: Wally at September 29, 2023 08:00 PM (hXg2A)

Nope. Not me. Late 70s, everything was so overplayed that I got sick of it all. I loved the 80s, found lots to love in the 90s and 00s, and even now I find good music with enhanced playlists on Spotify.

There are always good musicians. It's the radio environment that's changed--we stream music, and don't have common musical experiences like we used to.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at September 29, 2023 09:08 PM (OX9vb)

243 I always liked Alanis Morissette. And not just for the naked song either
Posted by: javems at September 29, 2023 08:05 PM (8I4hW)

Look up "whiny" in the dictionary, and they her picture there.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 29, 2023 09:09 PM (lmFLQ)

244 I really hate Windows 11, it will update you're OS and install "security patches," and their is no way to turn it off.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 29, 2023 09:09 PM (XV/Pl)

245 My helicopter would have to fit in my underground house. With my Striker.

Posted by: Eromero at September 29, 2023 09:09 PM (NxC5+)

246 Im not seeing anything by The Wiggles.
Posted by: Diogenes at September 29, 2023 07:39 PM (uSHSS)

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Had to make a 20 hour, 2 day trip to visit family & that was the only CD we had in the car for the kids. That was waaay too much Wiggles. Nonetheless, we went to a couple of their shows and they were surprisingly enjoyable. It was the original iteration of the group, not whatever they have now with the chicks and non-binary dinosaur.
Posted by: Hoplite Housewife

When a toddler, Junior-ette really REALLY liked the Wiggles. It was on if she was not asleep. One day I was watching her so Smash could nap, and one of the singer/dancers was flossing some,...well shaped birthing hips to a rendition of Cold Speghetti.

Posted by: BifBewalski at September 29, 2023 09:10 PM (3CCua)

247 The song at my prom was that horrible, awful Green Day treacle. Time of Your Life. I was standing there with my girlfriend thinking "Where's Carrie when you need her?"

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 29, 2023 09:11 PM (0FoWg)

248 90s pop better than 80s pop? That's not controversial, that's blasphemous.

Posted by: Mad Max in VA at September 29, 2023 09:12 PM (4+3qm)

249 In the third clip, a guy stands firm against a charging elephant, causing the elephant to stop his charge.
--------------
Yeah he took a defensive posture with a stick. That's the kind of thing that works... until it doesn't.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at September 29, 2023 09:03 PM (klJTj)

They say if an elephant is coming at you, flapping its ears, it's not a serious charge, it's bluffing you.

If the ears are flat, you're in deep poopoo.

I hate to think how they trial and errored that one.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 29, 2023 09:12 PM (cSGQP)

250 "Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 29, 2023 09:11 PM"

LoL. I hate that song.

Posted by: fd at September 29, 2023 09:12 PM (vFG9F)

251 LoL. I hate that song.
Posted by: fd at September 29, 2023 09:12 PM (vFG9F

Yeah. It blooooows.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 29, 2023 09:14 PM (0FoWg)

252 Sigh. I didn't recognize one damn song in that list of lyrics.

Posted by: MartynWW at September 29, 2023 09:14 PM (sHP7b)

253
What's this "prom" of which you speak? Marrying Her Majesty was a strike of good fortune because no other woman has so much as flirted with me.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 29, 2023 09:15 PM (MoZTd)

254 165 I'm not shy about asking questions about somebody's car. Pulled in behind a Chevy Bolt and complimented the guy on a good looking car (it was) and asked a few questions. He was forthcoming, saying they would never be without an ICE car or truck but the Bolt was OK for around town. Range dropped a lot running air (a must around here) and he hadn't needed heat or defrost yet. He said a round trip to Fayetteville would make him nervous.
Posted by: bill in arkansas

In the exact same position. My Prius died, and we got a Bolt. Wife drives it around for all the random kiddie stuff (school, activities, groceries, etc), but we have an ICE car for trips and such. AC doesn't seem to be a major energy drain...the car actually does a good job tracking energy use by system, and it seems pretty minor. The few times we have to charge it away from home, it's still about 20% cheaper (dollar per mile) than my Prius was, and it's incredibly cheap charging at home.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at September 29, 2023 09:16 PM (NCgXW)

255 Emerald Robinson ✝️ @EmeraldRobinson 11h
The truth is that @BrianKempGA is working with Democrats to convict Trump in Georgia.

Meanwhile @GaSecofState is attending Mark Zuckerberg’s “voter conferences” to stop Trump in 2024 election.

The Georgia GOP has to be replaced from top to bottom.

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at September 29, 2023 09:16 PM (krqg6)

256 The Babylon Bee
@TheBabylonBee

Trump Indicted For Murder Of Tupac
https://buff.ly/3rEjJvS

Posted by: Mister Ghost at September 29, 2023 09:16 PM (TGPs7)

257 Mom died on the 10th, just around sunrise, and we had to put Big Henry down on the 27th. The rock music was a nice diversion today. Wife and I went to Iceland in 2019. The videos of those amazing waterfalls don’t need any music. We went snorkeling in crystal clear water in Silfra, at the junction of two tectonic plates. Amazing, do it if you get the chance. Thanks for everything Ace.

Posted by: Longwing at September 29, 2023 09:16 PM (Ainee)

258 Come to think of it.... Green Day always sucked. I mean not as much as all that... that song was really, really lame. But I can't really come up with one song of theirs that I liked.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 29, 2023 09:17 PM (0FoWg)

259 244 I really hate Windows 11, it will update you're OS and install "security patches," and their is no way to turn it off.
Posted by: Thomas Bender

Have a laptop that had Win10. The last update MS put on it corrupted a ton of files rendering my laptop into a brick. Did all the troublehshooting available, no dice. I was going to put Linux Ubuntu on it anyway since Win10 is ceasing updates next year. Running ok so far. I have another laptop with Win10. I put Linux on that next year. Unless it gets bricked by MS before that.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at September 29, 2023 09:17 PM (cPl+1)

260 Amen to Dash my lace wigs! Shared musical experiences are vastly, vastly underrated as re/ human happiness and real community.
Went to the symphony last night. Not only am I 29, but have been a lifelong lover of music- of pretty much all sorts. Honestly thought that Fetterman was in the front row, based on red hoodie and bald head. Guy was too short and had no minders. But the thought was so amusing it nearly distracted me from a really good pianist’s playing Rachmaninof’s 4 by memory. No sheet music. Incredible!

Posted by: LadyS at September 29, 2023 09:18 PM (oq25h)

261
All chores are easy when you can just tell someone else to take care of them.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 29, 2023 09:18 PM (MoZTd)

262 Breaking911 @Breaking911 6h
Duane Keith "Keefe D" Davis arrested for the 1996 Las Vegas murder of rapper Tupac Shakur
Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at September 29, 2023 08:45 PM (krqg6)

I killed a six-pack once. Am I being hunted, too?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 29, 2023 09:18 PM (lmFLQ)

263 Daniel Baldwin @baldwin_daniel_ 3h
“If you want to drive 14 minutes to the candy store, electric vehicles are very good.”
- Pres. Trump hammering California’s auto regulations

Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper 3h
NEW 🚨 Trump in California: "Under a Trump administration, gasoline-fired engines will be allowed, but child sexual mutilation will be banned."

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at September 29, 2023 09:19 PM (krqg6)

264 I killed a six-pack once. Am I being hunted, too?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 29, 2023 09:18 PM (lmFLQ)

Was it a Hamm's?

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at September 29, 2023 09:20 PM (mE7cY)

265 For me the Era of Talking Heads, Go-Go's, B-52's, and Bananarama was the most fun Pop music of all . A lot of other great pop bands at the time too.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 29, 2023 09:21 PM (S6gqv)

266 So there are two Jim Varneys?

Posted by: BourbonChicken at September 29, 2023 09:21 PM (ybIRR)

267 Mom died on the 10th, just around sunrise, and we had to put Big Henry down on the 27th. The rock music was a nice diversion today. Wife and I went to Iceland in 2019. The videos of those amazing waterfalls don’t need any music. We went snorkeling in crystal clear water in Silfra, at the junction of two tectonic plates. Amazing, do it if you get the chance. Thanks for everything Ace.
Posted by: Longwing at September 29, 2023 09:16 PM (Ainee)

Peace to you.

Since you mentioned Iceland and rock music though, have you heard Sigur Ros?

Bombastic and distinctly Icelandic, I'm pretty sure they're the biggest thing over there. And their music seems to go quite well with the landscape.

If you've never heard of them, start with the album, Tak.

I've described it as the closest thing to a perfect record as anything I've heard. Don't bother translating the lyrics, unless you want to. It's just, I dont' think you have to in order to get it.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 29, 2023 09:22 PM (WJ9zD)

268 Britpop of the 80s was good. Mainstream American stuff was crrrrap

Posted by: Montec at September 29, 2023 09:23 PM (zc99N)

269 a really good pianist’s playing Rachmaninof’s 4 by memory. No sheet music. Incredible!
Posted by: LadyS at September 29, 2023 09:18 PM (oq25h)

Wow! I'll bet it was lovely!

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at September 29, 2023 09:23 PM (OX9vb)

270 DC_Draino @DC_Draino 4h
Trump Landslide if RFK Runs
“A third of Democrat voters would likely vote for RFK if he runs as an independent in the 2024 election, according to a new Rasmussen poll, potentially handing victory to Donald Trump.”

This is why Dems block RFK from debates
[Newsweek feature story link]

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at September 29, 2023 09:23 PM (krqg6)

271 Was talking heads pop? I wouldn’t categorize it as such. Same as REM.

Posted by: Montec at September 29, 2023 09:24 PM (zc99N)

272 If the Democrat voters spike an election for the Uniparty that would be yuuuuuge.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 29, 2023 09:25 PM (0FoWg)

273 I used to work in service to the ad business in Chicago. All the young ad execs in the '90's just LOVED Green Day. I was in my 20's then and was like WTF is this corporate, watered down joke of a "punk" band. Made total sense that the vapid ad content creators thought GD was great.

TBH the original punk movement wasn't my thing but I respected its authenticity.

Posted by: parsimony at September 29, 2023 09:25 PM (q1I67)

274 Not sure I categorize The Talking Heads as 'Pop'.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at September 29, 2023 09:25 PM (cPl+1)

275 #270 addendum:

DC_Draino @DC_Draino 4h
If RFK runs as an Independent, yes it will take votes away from Trump, but I think it will take *far* more from Biden (which is why Dems have blackballed Kennedy and banned him from debates)

Kennedy’s greatest strength in GOP circles is his anti-vax stance

Health Freedom moms will be drawn in by that, but Kennedy is pro-choice so I think that neutralizes much of his appeal [more at link]
https://tinyurl.com/3auwhfj6

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at September 29, 2023 09:26 PM (krqg6)

276 265 For me the Era of Talking Heads, Go-Go's, B-52's, and Bananarama was the most fun Pop music of all . A lot of other great pop bands at the time too.
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 29, 2023 09:21 PM (S6gqv)

*fistbump

That was good stuff.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at September 29, 2023 09:26 PM (OX9vb)

277 Way too many peeps confusing protest votes in a Democrat primary with votes in a general election. If RFK gets 1% I’ll be surprised. And these are the same votes that the Green Party and other communist parties get every election. Same on the right. Constitution party and others get 1% combined every election,

Posted by: Montec at September 29, 2023 09:27 PM (zc99N)

278 Man, thanks for this post, Ace. 90's alt rock, maybe the last great pop music movement.

Posted by: parsimony at September 29, 2023 09:27 PM (q1I67)

279 269: Yes, it really was. Choral work, too, after the piano/orchestral section. Amazing talent, and a much-needed respite for my husband and me.

Posted by: LadyS at September 29, 2023 09:27 PM (oq25h)

280 "Mom died on the tenth." Sorry to hear that. I hope Big Henry wasn't her husband.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 29, 2023 09:27 PM (S6gqv)

281 I used to work in service to the ad business in Chicago. All the young ad execs in the '90's just LOVED Green Day. I was in my 20's then and was like WTF is this corporate, watered down joke of a "punk" band. Made total sense that the vapid ad content creators thought GD was great.

TBH the original punk movement wasn't my thing but I respected its authenticity.
Posted by: parsimony at September 29, 2023 09:25 PM (q1I67)

Basket Case as a Bossa Nova

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uk8v6K2Nxk

Posted by: Kindltot at September 29, 2023 09:27 PM (xhaym)

282 Not sure I categorize The Talking Heads as 'Pop'.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work

New Wave art rock.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 29, 2023 09:28 PM (IG4Id)

283 To me 80s pop was Michel Jackson, Whitney Houston, Madonna, Paula Abdul, shit like that.. Not talking heads or REM or B52s.

Posted by: Montec at September 29, 2023 09:28 PM (zc99N)

284 TBH the original punk movement wasn't my thing but I respected its authenticity.
Posted by: parsimony at September 29, 2023 09:25 PM (q1I67)

Some musical genres are part of a larger cultural shift, and punk definitely was. So it's possible to not "get" the music, if one was not there at the time (I sure wasn't). In which case, the music has to stand or fall on its merits, and yeah, like any other musical style, there's great punk, and there's crap. Sometimes from the same artists, mere months apart.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 29, 2023 09:28 PM (WJ9zD)

285
Voting for RFK, Jr. because he's anti-vax is like voting for Hitler because he liked dogs.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 29, 2023 09:29 PM (MoZTd)

286 DC_Draino @DC_Draino 5h
Imagine you’re an older Democrat barely getting by on social security and wondering why everyone turned Trans

You show up to the polls next November and see 3 names:
Trump
Kennedy
Biden

That pen is going to circle Kennedy so fast it’ll make Ross Perot’s head spin

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at September 29, 2023 09:29 PM (krqg6)

287 Talking heads kind of defy categorization.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 29, 2023 09:30 PM (S6gqv)

288 Wow - some great 90s music in the content. Thanks, Ace!

I saw some mention of The Cure in the comments. For my money, Head On The Door is their masterpiece. Fantastic from start to finish.

Posted by: Doof at September 29, 2023 09:32 PM (oYEbH)

289 Talking heads kind of defy categorization.
Posted by: Tom Servo

No, I just told you; new wave art rock.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 29, 2023 09:32 PM (IG4Id)

290 >>Way too many peeps confusing protest votes in a Democrat primary with votes in a general election. If RFK gets 1% I’ll be surprised. And these are the same votes that the Green Party and other communist parties get every election. Same on the right. Constitution party and others get 1% combined every election,

How many votes did Ross Perot get?

I don't expect RFK to get 1/3 of the Dem vote but it doesn't make a lot of sense to me that a lifelong Democrat from one of the most prominent Democrat families in the history of this country who is only going Indy because of Democrat election rigging would take more votes from Trump

Posted by: JackStraw at September 29, 2023 09:32 PM (ZLI7S)

291 244 I really hate Windows 11, it will update you're OS and install "security patches," and their is no way to turn it off.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 29, 2023 09:09 PM

Every time someone bitches about Windows, I'm always reminded of Bill Gates in The South Park Movie, and remember we've ALWAYS botched about Windows lol.
https://tinyurl.com/mt6dm27

Posted by: Moron Analyst at September 29, 2023 09:32 PM (NCgXW)

292 Kennedy’s greatest strength in GOP circles is his anti-vax stance

Health Freedom moms will be drawn in by that, but Kennedy is pro-choice so I think that neutralizes much of his appeal [more at link]
https://tinyurl.com/3auwhfj6
Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at September 29, 2023 09:26 PM (krqg6)

He's also quite vocal opposing the Deep State, and slaughtering foreigners for fun and profit.

And I think the Gope party is massively clueless about just how strong those two points are with their traditional voters. I also happen to believe there are plenty of traditional Democrat voters who are done with this crap.

Abortion is no longer a federal issue. It matters much less now what a presidential candidate thinks about it.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 29, 2023 09:32 PM (kZPKR)

293 Of course coastal bias meant news tonight was all awash with the flooding in NYC.

My thought was: well, at least it'll dampen the violent crime rate for a day.

Posted by: logprof at September 29, 2023 09:34 PM (9mXNr)

294 No, I just told you; new wave art rock.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 29, 2023 09:32 PM (IG4Id)

I disagree. Art rock new wave.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 29, 2023 09:34 PM (kZPKR)

295 Tom Servo @ 287-
'You ask yourself 'How did I get here?'

Posted by: Eromero at September 29, 2023 09:34 PM (NxC5+)

296 @286

>>That pen is going to circle Kennedy so fast it’ll make Ross Perot’s head spin

Sadly, this is probably as metaphysical a certainty as possible.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 29, 2023 09:34 PM (XV/Pl)

297 @295

>>You ask yourself 'How did I get here?'

Fun Fact: There is in fact, water at the bottom of the ocean.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 29, 2023 09:35 PM (XV/Pl)

298 I saw some mention of The Cure in the comments. For my money, Head On The Door is their masterpiece. Fantastic from start to finish.
Posted by: Doof at September 29, 2023 09:32 PM (oYEbH)

I wouldn't argue. They had quite a run for a while there. Whichever one hits you hardest, that's up to you.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 29, 2023 09:36 PM (kZPKR)

299 Of course coastal bias meant news tonight was all awash with the flooding in NYC.

My thought was: well, at least it'll dampen the violent crime rate for a day.
Posted by: logprof at September 29, 2023 09:34 PM (9mXNr)

Maybe the sewers backed up because of all the hobos living in them?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 29, 2023 09:36 PM (lmFLQ)

300 Fun Fact: There is in fact, water at the bottom of the ocean.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 29, 2023 09:35 PM (XV/Pl)

Duh, same as it ever was.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 29, 2023 09:36 PM (kZPKR)

301 http://acecomments.mu.nu/?blog=86&post=406252#c38806087
Thank you. Don’t know them. I’ll look them up.

Posted by: Longwing at September 29, 2023 09:36 PM (Ainee)

302 Posted by: BurtTC at September 29, 2023 09:32 PM (kZPKR)

Everybody is sick of this shit show. But they have to start pushing back. On the Right we don't have anyone abandoning the Uniparty yet. But if I were a Dem? Hell yeah I'd vote for RFK. Or anyone the Party hated.

I'm just waiting for a right winger to say "fuck this, I'm out, vote for me and kill the GOP."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 29, 2023 09:37 PM (0FoWg)

303 Not Hitler; voting for Kennedy is like voting for Trotsky because he pisses Stalin off so much.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 29, 2023 09:37 PM (S6gqv)

304 I wouldn't argue. They had quite a run for a while there. Whichever one hits you hardest, that's up to you.
Posted by: BurtTC at September 29, 2023 09:36 PM (kZPKR)

A lot of musical appeal is the connection to time and place. Who you were with and what you were doing when you first listened to stuff. Head on the Door takes me back to my ages 15-18, which were fantastic times.

Posted by: Doof at September 29, 2023 09:39 PM (oYEbH)

305 GermanForeignOffice @GermanyDiplo 9h
Yes. And it’s called saving lives.

Or slave trading.

Posted by: t-bird at September 29, 2023 09:39 PM (CaJIi)

306
Stalin: sends you to the Kolyma

Trotsky: gives you a box of chocolates before sending you to the Kolyma

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 29, 2023 09:39 PM (MoZTd)

307 >>That pen is going to circle Kennedy so fast it’ll make Ross Perot’s head spin

Sadly, this is probably as metaphysical a certainty as possible.

Why is that sad? Wouldn't that split the Dem vote and ensure Biden's demise?

Posted by: Archimedes at September 29, 2023 09:39 PM (I/Qkd)

308 Thank you. Don’t know them. I’ll look them up.
Posted by: Longwing at September 29, 2023 09:36 PM (Ainee)

I hope you do, and that it's a revelation to hear them.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 29, 2023 09:39 PM (kZPKR)

309 'Nothing is better than that. Is it?'

Posted by: Eromero at September 29, 2023 09:40 PM (NxC5+)

310 Stalin: sends you to the Kolyma

Trotsky: gives you a box of chocolates before sending you to the Kolyma

However, during the train ride to the gold fields, you discover that the chocolates are poisoned. Trotsky was asshoe.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 29, 2023 09:41 PM (I/Qkd)

311 Abortion is no longer a federal issue. It matters much less now what a presidential candidate thinks about it.
Posted by: BurtTC at September 29, 2023 09:32 PM

Abortion is no longer a Fedeal issue, so it is ramped up to 11 for the pro-abortion Dems. Planned Parenthood has been so successful BECAUSE they never concede an inch of ground, and now that there are "backwards Red states denying women essential Healthcare and basic human rights", they will hammer it home, nonstop, in every election across this nation. They think it's an absolute winner, and with recent election trends...I'm not sure they're wrong.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at September 29, 2023 09:41 PM (NCgXW)

312 Or slave trading.
Posted by: t-bird
-----
Great response.

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at September 29, 2023 09:43 PM (krqg6)

313 Newsflash: spider venom-induced boners are now a thing.

https://tinyurl.com/2n4ynsky

Posted by: Archimedes at September 29, 2023 09:43 PM (I/Qkd)

314 Mom died on the tenth." Sorry to hear that. I hope Big Henry wasn't her husband.
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 29, 2023 09:27 PM (S6gqv)

Oh did I ever need that laugh. No, mom couldn’t keep a husband or they couldn’t keep her. Big H was the best dog. He was living proof that a dog can have a soul.

Posted by: Longwing at September 29, 2023 09:43 PM (Ainee)

315 A lot of musical appeal is the connection to time and place. Who you were with and what you were doing when you first listened to stuff. Head on the Door takes me back to my ages 15-18, which were fantastic times.
Posted by: Doof at September 29, 2023 09:39 PM (oYEbH)

I was in Germany when I first found The Cure. Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me, I had it on tape, and remember being stuck in a tent, listening to it over and over between guard duty shifts. I can still smell the canvas, feel the heat blasting down the center of the cots, even see the dim lights of the tent, with mud up to your knees if you weren't careful where you stepped outside the tent.

A lifetime ago.....

Posted by: BurtTC at September 29, 2023 09:44 PM (kZPKR)

316 Stop Making Sense movie is set for re-release next year = 40th anniversary

I'm definitely going.

I remember seeing it at the TLC in Philly so many years ago

Posted by: kallisto at September 29, 2023 09:44 PM (scXbt)

317 @307

>>Why is that sad? Wouldn't that split the Dem vote and ensure Biden's demise?

Listen, Trump got 74 million votes in 2020, there were more than likely a crap ton of old school Donks that voted for him.

Biden's "support" is from true-believers, they are not going to peel off from the Borg collective and vote for RFK, and that makes up the bulk of Donk voters.

This isn't 92 and RFK is not Ross Perot.

RFK will take more votes from Trump than Biden.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 29, 2023 09:44 PM (XV/Pl)

318 I just saw that the Talking Heads movie is out right now. This year is the 40th anniversary, not next year.

YES

Posted by: kallisto at September 29, 2023 09:46 PM (scXbt)

319 Of course coastal bias meant news tonight was all awash with the flooding in NYC.

They should shelter in the subways.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at September 29, 2023 09:46 PM (NKKjZ)

320 Or slave trading.
Posted by: t-bird at September 29, 2023 09:39 PM (CaJIi)

The UN actually makes a classification difference between human smuggling and human trafficking.
They consider human smuggling to be a shared violation by conspiracy between the transporter and transportee.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 29, 2023 09:47 PM (xhaym)

321 Abortion is no longer a Fedeal issue, so it is ramped up to 11 for the pro-abortion Dems. Planned Parenthood has been so successful BECAUSE they never concede an inch of ground, and now that there are "backwards Red states denying women essential Healthcare and basic human rights", they will hammer it home, nonstop, in every election across this nation. They think it's an absolute winner, and with recent election trends...I'm not sure they're wrong.
Posted by: Moron Analyst at September 29, 2023 09:41 PM (NCgXW)

If it's such a winning issue for Democrats, then why would a Republican try to run on outlawing it nationally?

Seems to me the smart move is to say it's a state issue, and then shut up about it.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 29, 2023 09:47 PM (kZPKR)

322 It’s cute how people still think people voting matter.

Posted by: Montec at September 29, 2023 09:47 PM (zc99N)

323 I'm probably going to have to retire when Win 11 comes out. It's getting harder and harder for me to deal with new OSs.

I help keep the planes flying with test gear running XP.

Posted by: pawn at September 29, 2023 09:47 PM (5g9YU)

324 I disagree about RFK. The 20 somethings I know despise Biden, but they think Trump is the Debbil Incarnate. They would love to have an RFK to vote for.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 29, 2023 09:48 PM (S6gqv)

325 If it's such a winning issue for Democrats, then why would a Republican try to run on outlawing it nationally?

—

I present you Exhibit A of the stupid party.

Posted by: Montec at September 29, 2023 09:48 PM (zc99N)

326 @322

>>It’s cute how people still think people voting matter.

Listen, most of us are old and have very little time left, let us have just one little figment of a bygone age.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 29, 2023 09:48 PM (XV/Pl)

327 "Fear Of Music" played on a cheap record player placed at the far end of a hall and turned up to 9 was a sonic experience that will probably never be duplicated.

Posted by: fd at September 29, 2023 09:49 PM (vFG9F)

328 Biden's "support" is from true-believers, they are not going to peel off from the Borg collective and vote for RFK, and that makes up the bulk of Donk voters.

This isn't 92 and RFK is not Ross Perot.

RFK will take more votes from Trump than Biden.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 29, 2023 09:44 PM (XV/Pl)

If you counted Biden's "true believers," you'd be hard pressed to find 20 million votes for the guy. And even if you added in Democrat "true believers" who'll vote for him because of party loyalty, you'll get maybe 40 million.

The rest are manufactured.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 29, 2023 09:49 PM (kZPKR)

329 >>Biden's "support" is from true-believers, they are not going to peel off from the Borg collective and vote for RFK, and that makes up the bulk of Donk voters.

>>This isn't 92 and RFK is not Ross Perot.

>>RFK will take more votes from Trump than Biden.

No, these times are very different. RFK was already polling at 15% in the Dem primary, essentially what Ron is polling. So he's either significant or Ron isn't.

The Democrat Party isn't a complete Borg. There are moderates like Manchin everywhere. They are just outgunned and out moneyed right now by marxists.

And Biden is bleeding support. Lots of Democrats buy food and gas and don't want don't be invaded by illegals. Look at NYC for proof. No real Trump voter is flipping to RFK.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 29, 2023 09:50 PM (ZLI7S)

330 Listen, most of us are old and have very little time left, let us have just one little figment of a bygone age.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 29, 2023 09:48 PM (XV/Pl)

Indeed. Boy928 says that I have Boomer Optimism, the belief, down in the bone, that the systems can be saved.

He says the Republic is dead, try to prepare for what comes after.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at September 29, 2023 09:50 PM (NKKjZ)

331 I was racking my brain thinking of 90s band like, came up with No Doubt.

Nope.

Formed in 1986.

Posted by: kallisto at September 29, 2023 09:50 PM (scXbt)

332 Listen, most of us are old and have very little time left, let us have just one little figment of a bygone age.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 29, 2023 09:48 PM (XV/Pl)

There is also the argument that you might as well, since it is a small investment.

Of course, some of us do other things than sneer, too.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 29, 2023 09:50 PM (xhaym)

333 MAGIC!!!

https://tinyurl.com/akfpmvf4
16 seconds; please, go to the link.

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at September 29, 2023 09:50 PM (krqg6)

334 Abortion can be a local or federal
Issue. It doesn’t matter. The Dems scare the shit out of 18-40 year old women with it. And it works. They’re convinced I’d they vote GOP they’ll be living in a literal Handmaid’s Tale world, dontchaknow.

Posted by: Montec at September 29, 2023 09:51 PM (zc99N)

335 I just thought of a 90s band I like - Collective Soul!

that's the one

Posted by: kallisto at September 29, 2023 09:51 PM (scXbt)

336 He says the Republic is dead, try to prepare for what comes after.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at September 29, 2023 09:50 PM (NKKjZ)

Is your son pre-med?

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 29, 2023 09:52 PM (0FoWg)

337 Biden's "support" is from true-believers, they are not going to peel off from the Borg collective and vote for RFK, and that makes up the bulk of Donk voters.

I think there are many libs now looking for an alternative to an utterly corrupt and manifestly incompetent Biden. I think you overestimate their loyalty. A vote for RFK is a protest vote, and one that will give them a little frisson of naughtiness.

RFK will take more votes from Trump than Biden.

Just saying it doesn't make it so. In any case, the original comment stipulated a Dem voter, so within the confines of the situation as stated, Trump voters are irrelevant.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 29, 2023 09:52 PM (I/Qkd)

338 I'm just waiting for a right winger to say "fuck this, I'm out, vote for me and kill the GOP."
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 29, 2023 09:37 PM (0FoWg)

Same. I'd swoon.

Posted by: Thesokorus at September 29, 2023 09:52 PM (hwuPq)

339 Oh, so tempted to make a political comment about RFK/abortion/Youngkin sweeping in to “save “ VA and hence…nah, I’ll just wave to Doof.
Talking about music is more edifying and just as pertinent to what we now face. Worn out my welcome, though, probably, and the ONT should be nigh.
If Bitter Clinger is reading, greetings to a brother.

Posted by: LadyS at September 29, 2023 09:53 PM (oq25h)

340 In before the Trump Wars!

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at September 29, 2023 09:54 PM (NKKjZ)

341 If it's such a winning issue for Democrats, then why would a Republican try to run on outlawing it nationally?

Seems to me the smart move is to say it's a state issue, and then shut up about it.
Posted by: BurtTC at September 29, 2023 09:47 PM

If you think it's a smart move to say it's a state issue, I guess you think the "Republican trying to run on outlawing it nationally" is an idiot? Besides, who's the R candidate with any chance that is saying that? Not Trump, so I assume you meant DeSantis?

I wasn't sure, so I went to his campaign website. In the "about DeSantis" section, it says he signed legislation "Protecting the unborn", but I don't see anything about supporting a nationwide abortion ban.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at September 29, 2023 09:54 PM (NCgXW)

342 I disagree about RFK. The 20 somethings I know despise Biden, but they think Trump is the Debbil Incarnate. They would love to have an RFK to vote for.

As with the kick so many of them seem to get from cosplaying the 60s, I think many of them would like to vote for a Kennedy, and see if the magic still happens.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 29, 2023 09:54 PM (I/Qkd)

343 *waves back to LadyS*

Posted by: Doof at September 29, 2023 09:54 PM (oYEbH)

344 @329

>>So he's either significant or Ron isn't.

Ron is insignificant, RFK is compelling.

I could easily see RFK peeling off old school donks who are part of Trump's Rust Belt Coalition and GOP Blago types.

All I know is if Biden, RFK and Trump are on the ballot, its going to be a gigantic f**king mess.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 29, 2023 09:55 PM (XV/Pl)

345 I just thought of a 90s band I like - Collective Soul!

that's the one
Posted by: kallisto at September 29, 2023 09:51 PM (scXbt)

Shoegaze was a phenomenon that blossomed in England in the early 90s.

A number of great bands started there. Some are still active.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 29, 2023 09:55 PM (kZPKR)

346 338 I'm just waiting for a right winger to say "fuck this, I'm out, vote for me and kill the GOP."
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 29, 2023 09:37 PM (0FoWg)

Same. I'd swoon.
Posted by: Thesokorus at September 29, 2023 09:52 PM

We might see it, depending on Trump’s court cases, and how the GOP handles his status in the primaries once he's (sham) convicted.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at September 29, 2023 09:55 PM (NCgXW)

347 Sublime was also formed in the 80's.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 29, 2023 09:55 PM (xhaym)

348 Curtsies to Doof, and g’night all.

Posted by: LadyS at September 29, 2023 09:56 PM (oq25h)

349 G'rump928(c)

This group would do a great job writing Constitution 2.0.

I want some real teeth in some areas.

Like the laws on the Lone Star Planet.

Raising taxed is not an option.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 29, 2023 09:56 PM (u82oZ)

350 All I know is if Biden, RFK and Trump are on the ballot, its going to be a gigantic f**king mess.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 29, 2023 09:55 PM (XV/Pl)

It moved.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 29, 2023 09:56 PM (kZPKR)

351 The income tax is chattel slavery. A debt you didn't chose, can't avoid, and will never be paid.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at September 29, 2023 09:57 PM (NKKjZ)

352 350 All I know is if Biden, RFK and Trump are on the ballot, its going to be a gigantic f**king mess.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 29, 2023 09:55 PM (XV/Pl)

It moved.
Posted by: BurtTC at September 29, 2023 09:56 PM

It sure did! I love thinking about a good old fashioned shit show!

Posted by: Pete Buttigieg at September 29, 2023 09:58 PM (NCgXW)

353 351 The income tax is chattel slavery. A debt you didn't chose, can't avoid, and will never be paid.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at September 29, 2023 09:57 PM

Fuck you. Pay me.

Posted by: Uncle Sam turned Godfather at September 29, 2023 09:59 PM (NCgXW)

354 All I know is if Biden, RFK and Trump are on the ballot, its going to be a gigantic f**king mess.

And if RFK does run, and pulls lots of votes, it should please those of you who are convinced that the election will be frauded away.

The courts give Trump the back of their hands when it comes to voter fraud, but I very much doubt they'd be willing to do that to a Kennedy. Thus, Biden loses those votes, and the Dems are defeated.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 29, 2023 09:59 PM (I/Qkd)

355 The fact that the so called Democratic Party isn't allowing a challenger to Biden says it all. Denying RFK security is equally damning.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at September 29, 2023 10:00 PM (MeG8a)

356 NOOD. ONT is up

Posted by: Doof at September 29, 2023 10:01 PM (oYEbH)

357 The drums have stopped!

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at September 29, 2023 10:02 PM (NKKjZ)

358 All I know is if Biden, RFK and Trump are on the ballot, its going to be a gigantic f**king mess.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 29, 2023 09:55 PM (XV/Pl)

As opposed to...last time? It's all gigantic f**king mess from now until the end. I suspect.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at September 29, 2023 10:02 PM (OX9vb)

359 Ding - dong, the ding-dong, ha-ha-ha!

So who's working the pool? Napolitano! Mitch! DeGrassley?

Some yucksters gots to go!

Posted by: Dr. Bone at September 29, 2023 10:03 PM (KVGVf)

360 RFK will take more votes from Trump than Biden.

I think you're saying that voting for RFK Jr. is more palatable to NeverTrump than voting for Biden.

Imagine, though, you voted for Biden, as a NeverTrumper or Democrat über Alles, and RFK Jr. were an option this time around.

Posted by: t-bird at September 29, 2023 10:04 PM (CaJIi)

361 The only one I watched to completion was Steal My Sunshine.

Posted by: Rodney Smith at September 29, 2023 10:14 PM (D86sc)

362 Here's on you missed:

Hear me now/and don't forget/I'm not the man my actions would suggest.

https://youtu.be/oJwWmz8Mp3U?si=7srfG-HWdAffdV4l

Posted by: tankdemon at September 29, 2023 10:20 PM (DyNpK)

363 Holy crap.

Just got home from work. What an amazing cafe. I will be listening to every tune. Memories. Great music. I hope you had as much fun putting this together as I did listening to it.

Thank you.

Posted by: nurse ratched, otter 841 superfan, she's still free! at September 29, 2023 11:32 PM (9kQYH)

364 ugh, I couldn't make it through most of these because the first 6-8 were so lame. The Ugly Kid Joe song is the only one I'd even really heard before but most of them really sucked ass. Not a good argument the 80s was better than the 90s. The 80s were better because of one little 5 letter acronym: NWBHM. End of story. 90s sucked because grunge ruined everything. Later 90s alt rock was better, but still no comparison. 80s metal ruled.

Posted by: docweasel at September 29, 2023 11:44 PM (isGT3)

365 Aloha

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