Subject: A Song From Song Titles
Posted by: albtucker
Date: Dec 10 07
It has been suggested to me that i start this thread here,it may not be deleted, i hope not.
as one of the most popular threads on the boards i am compelled to keep trying(but i'm getting tired)this is a thread to test and enhance your musical knowledge thus helping you in the quizzes.
I know you will have fun so lets go fot it!
Posted by: albtucker
Date: Dec 10 07
It has been suggested to me that i start this thread here,it may not be deleted, i hope not.
as one of the most popular threads on the boards i am compelled to keep trying(but i'm getting tired)this is a thread to test and enhance your musical knowledge thus helping you in the quizzes.
I know you will have fun so lets go fot it!
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terraorca 
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If Johnny Depp based his interpretation of Captain Jack Sparrow on Keith Richards and Pepe Le Pew, then what did he base his interpretation of Tonto on, because that was just bizarro? That's not to say that I don't believe your info, because I do. Reply #2741. Jan 05 18, 8:39 PM |
sadwings
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I know a lot of people who don't like Jethro Tull. They are all Priest and Maiden and Rush fans. Ahyuk! Just kidding. The fact is, there has never been or ever will be any kind of musical group that some people don't like. I already know you don't like Priest or Maiden, Elle, but there is more to it than that. You have a mental block for whatever reason. That's why you just flat out refuse to listen to any of those songs I mentioned 7 or 8 months ago. You already have your mind made up about certain things, and I can't even begin to describe how grateful I am that I'm not like that. I'm not the type who decides I don't like a certain band after I have only heard 2 or three of their songs. I'm a lot more open-minded than that, and that's exactly why I like a wider range of music more than anyone I've ever known in my life. When you mentioned that you probably like a lot of stuff that I don't like, it's actually a lot more like the other way around. In fact, I don't think you have ever once mentioned a band I didn't like. Some stuff I like more than others but that's obviously going to be true with everyone. Of course, there's no law that says you have to love every last thing that ever comes out, just like there's no law that says you have to listen to X number of tunes before you have the right to say you don't like someone. We are all free to choose what we like and don't like the way that we see fit and the way that suits us best. As for me personally, I have to hear music before I decide whether I like it or not, and that doesn't mean two or three songs or five or ten seconds of two or three songs. I don't just automatically assume that everything a certain band has released must sound pretty much the same as the 10 seconds I heard of a song that I really didn't care for. I'll listen to anything at least once, especially after the way I have been greatly rewarded all my life for being that way. It's just too bad there are so many people who are just not made that way at all, but that doesn't exactly make me break my stride while I whistle Dixie down that winding road. So what's up with you not liking the Rolling Stoners, Mark? Not many bands have contributed as much or made as much of an impact on the music industry as the Stoners, and it's not as if all of their stuff sounds the same like Boston or something. I mean, it doesn't bother me that you don't like them, but as I'm typing away here, I'm trying to think if I have ever known anyone who didn't like them at least to some degree, and I haven't been able to do that yet. Just kind of interesting to me when I come across anything at all that is that far out of the norm. Anyway, the world is spinning around and around still. Reply #2742. Jan 05 18, 8:50 PM |
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Okay, Mark, I read your post again and I see what you are saying about the Stoners. Just as you said, you don't love them but you don't hate them. You would probably be just fine at a party or some kind of social whatever if someone decided to slip in a Stones CD, but you aren't the kind to rush out and buy all of their stuff and go to their concerts and all of that. I can relate to that. There are tons of groups I feel that way about, which would obviously be the same with pretty much everyone else. I never knew Keith snorted his dad's ashes. Yes, that truly is very freaky, Elle. I can't imagine what would possess someone to do something like that. Especially knowing that there is no way you are going to get any kind of a buzz on it. I guess he was probably already buzzing right along on something when he did it. Maybe even something as deadly as that marijuana stuff. Anyway, the world just keeps right on spinning around and around no matter what we do or say. Reply #2743. Jan 05 18, 9:07 PM |
| terraorca
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Back in the early to mid sixties, you were either a Beatles fan or a Stones fan, unless of course you were a surfer, but not many of those in the midwest. I didn't like the Beatles right away because all the girls loved them. I didn't like the Stones because only the bad boys loved the Stones. Over time, I grew to appreciate the Stones and really enjoy the Beatles. As a matter of fact, I think that the Beatles and the other groups that wrote their own music, will be thought of, as we think of Bach, Beethoven and the like now. Time, that is the key. Bach and Beethoven were thought of as way way out there in their time, particularly Mozart. I think that in 400 years, the Beatles, the Stones, Bob Dylan, and the Who, will be looked upon as the Classics. Just my opinion. By the way, when I use the phrase, "no offense intended," that means that everybody is going to have their own opinion, and I'm not intentionally trying to piss somebody off. Unintentionally, I really don't have much control over. Reply #2744. Jan 06 18, 12:07 AM |
| terraorca
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Also, Ian Anderson was a magician with that flute. I have a great deal of respect for the Environmental activism that Jethro Tull showed over the years, and long before it was cool to be green. Reply #2745. Jan 06 18, 12:10 AM |
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Someone else around here said almost exactly the same thing you did about how the world will feel about bands like the Stones and the Beatles several centuries from now. That may very well be true. I think that in the year 2525 - if man is still alive - I can't remember any more of the words! :-p Reply #2746. Jan 06 18, 10:27 AM |
| terraorca
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I said it on a different thread. Reply #2747. Jan 06 18, 12:48 PM |
| terraorca
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In The Year 2525 by Zager and Evans from 1969 In the year 2525, if man is still alive if woman can survive, they may find In the year 3535 Ain't gonna need to tell the truth, tell no lie Everything you think, do or say Is in the pill you took today In the year 4545 You ain't gonna need your teeth, won't need your eyes You won't find a thing to chew Nobody's gonna look at you In the year 5555 Your arms hangin' limp at your sides Your legs got nothin' to do Some machine's doin' that for you In the year 6565 You won't need no husband, won't need no wife You'll pick your son, pick your daughter too From the bottom of a long glass tube In the year 7510 If God's a coming, He ought to make it by then Maybe He'll look around Himself and say Guess it's time for the judgement day In the year 8510 God is gonna shake His mighty head then He'll either say He is pleased where man has been Or tear it down and start again woah woah In the year 9595 I'm kinda wondering if man is gonna be alive He's taken everything this old earth can give And he ain't put back nothin', woah woah Now it's been 10,000 years Man has cried a billion tears For what he never knew Now man's reign is through But through eternal night The twinkling of starlight So very far away Maybe it's only yesterday In the year 2525 If man is still alive If woman can survive They may thrive In the year 3535 Ain't gonna need to tell the truth, tell no lies ... Classic one hit wonder! Reply #2748. Jan 06 18, 2:38 PM |
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That thought did cross my mind after I made that last post. Yeah, you may very well be right. One thing is certain, there is just simply not nearly enough creative room left in rock music for anyone to suddenly come along and have as much of an impact as the Beatles and the Stones had. The world will never see anything like that again, so it only stands to reason that names like the Stones and the Beatles among a few others will keep coming up throughout future generations. Reply #2749. Jan 06 18, 2:39 PM |
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Wow, you slipped that last one in right behind me. Yeah, classic one hit wonder, indeed! There are surely a lot of those around. What do you think about blues music, Mark? That's something that goes back well before we were born. I never really cared much for it when I was a kid or in my 20s and 30s, but it has grown on me over the years. One of the biggest things I didn't like about blues was that it seemed like the words just got repeated far too often. You know, like a chorus with only one line that got repeated four times. By the same token, one of the things I like about any song in general, as far as the lyrics go, is when the chorus changes each time, whether it be one or two lines or just one or two words. To me that shows creativity and successfully operating outside the norm. That kind of thing has always caught my attention and won my approval. Even so, the blues seems to be growing more and more on me as time goes by. Reply #2750. Jan 06 18, 3:03 PM |
| terraorca
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I never really cared for the Blues because the name of the genre brought me down, and who really wants to be down, I know I didn't. I don't know very much more than a smattering of Blues because of that very reason. Reply #2751. Jan 06 18, 3:10 PM |
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I have found over the years that some of that blues is actually kind of uplifting and just makes you want to tap your feet and get into the groove and just have a good time. That country stuff has always brought me down far more than blues, although I do like some of it. I think blues and country both go pretty good with a few cold beers, and if you have a mind to take a comforting little shot or two of some good ol' bourbon, hey, nothing wrong with that. I guess you are probably not a barfly like I have been over the years, but I like to kick back and have a few beers or drinks with pals and listen to the ol' jukebox and maybe shoot a little pool now and then. It's not like I do it every day like some of the folks that you will meet in any bar, just maybe a couple of times a month is about it for me. Sometimes not even that often. So what kind of stuff do you like to do for recreation, Mark? Reply #2752. Jan 06 18, 4:42 PM |
| terraorca
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Recreation, hmm, that's a tough one. Physically, I'm not able to do the things that I used to call recreation. So, I've changed, now I enjoy cooking, reading, watching sports on tv, spending quality time with family. Not necessarily in that order. But I went back to school in the fall of 2016, to earn the degree that I was too big of a goofball to earn way back when. So a good part of my time is spent going to class, writing papers, reading textbooks, and just generally being a college student. How about your recreation, Kevin? How about your recreation, Elle? Reply #2753. Jan 06 18, 11:41 PM |
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Well, you kind of reminded me of me when you mentioned not being physically able to do stuff now that you could do before. I guess you could say that applies to myself as well. I dorked up and got myself paralyzed from the waist down in a little auto accident back in '91. However, I have been lucky enough to live alone without any assistance ever since, and I have had a lot of good times since then, so I really can't complain too much about it. There were several different things that I should have died from when I had my accident. Anyway, I have no transportation and don't really ever go anywhere except to the grocery store across the street from me and to the little bar right next to it. I shot pool in a league for a number of years and got myself a trophy for being the top player of my team which I am pretty proud of since I was the only player in that particular league at that particular time who was in a wheelchair. I just play for fun nowadays. I find it to be a very interesting game. Other than that I am just pretty much of a homebody. Got internet service for the first time in my life just last April and I guess you could say my computer and the things I do on it is pretty much my main hobby now. I used to love to work the Penny Press word puzzles that you find at the magazine stands, but I just don't really have time for those any more because I'm always on my computer! :-p Elle's biggest hobby is just causing trouble. She is a professional troublemaker. Just kidding, Elle! :-p Your turn to tell us how you recreate! :-) Reply #2754. Jan 07 18, 2:31 AM |
| terraorca
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Anybody seen or heard from Elle lately? I hope she is ok. Reply #2755. Jan 08 18, 12:37 PM |
Blackdresss
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I'm back. Mostly. I hope. Kevin, you assume far too much when you assume I don't like bands I don't like, but haven't even listened to. Of course I've listened to them. How would I know I don't like them if I didn't give them a fair shot? Trust me, there is probably a story behind every band I truly just do not like. Or a singer. Or even just a song. I don't like Hall and Oates, either, but didn't you hit us with a little Duran Duran up there? I was answering your lyrics with similar lyrics. I consider music, and being able to read and play music, knowing another language. I'm sure Jazzee feels the same way about knowing how to read Braille. I know I can't read Braille, but I do wish I could. And I really want to learn ASL. Reply #2756. Jan 13 18, 10:27 PM |
| terraorca
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Isn't ASL today's Duel Topic of the Day, good luck? Reply #2757. Jan 13 18, 10:30 PM |
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Yeah, I think it is. Mark, Depp said he thought The Lone Ranger was so ridiculously rude and horrible to Tonto in the old TV series that he decided he wanted to play him in the film, and make him equally condescending to the new and improved Lone Ranger. I didn't see it, but I've seen photos of him being Tonto. Johnny Depp is a trippy little dude. I think he designs all his own costumes. I also read somewhere that he appeared in the ride at Disneyland where the Pirates are singing their song -- is that the "Small World" ride? I think it might be. He just suddenly "came alive" and sang with the animatromic (?) pirates. Can you image how freaky that would be? Have you seen "Sweeny Todd, The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street"? Reply #2758. Jan 13 18, 11:39 PM |
| sadwings
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Hey, Elle, nice to have you back again. Yeah, that Johnny Depp guy is pretty far out there. Plays some pretty freaky roles, but I guess he must be pretty talented. Reply #2759. Jan 14 18, 12:41 AM |
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I guess he must be. Kebbin, I really like your new avatar. And wait, you don't want to hear any of my stories about why I might not like a band, singer, or even a song? But I have so many... I read in another thread that your laptop also has a touch screen option?? I've never heard of that, but I'd love to try it. I keep thinking I need to add an iPad to my collection, but I've never tried one. I know people play trivia on their phones; I don't even like to TALK on my phone, so I can't imagine using it for much of anything else. So, Zager and Evans. They only had that one hit, but didn't they write about a bajillion songs for everyone else? Or do I have them mixed up with another writing duo? Reply #2760. Jan 14 18, 5:03 PM |
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