Re: Looking Back

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Man, Dylan loses out to shaved balls in a big way. Maybe he should spend a little time on Mr. Bojangles.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 09-23-05 9:37 AM
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Maybe this will help his thread get the love and attention it deserves: Dylan has a special place in my heart because I lost my virginity whilst "Visions of Johanna" was playing. What were your songs?

(Can that compete with shaved balls?)


Posted by: Becks | Link to this comment | 09-23-05 10:36 AM
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Huh, I didn't have music. (I'm pretty sure there was someone else there, however.)


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 09-23-05 10:37 AM
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I was in the field house over the football field at Appalachian State University (summer camp, yo), so there was no musical accompaniment, just awkward, awkward silence.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 09-23-05 10:39 AM
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"Visions of Johanna": good song.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 09-23-05 10:58 AM
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The current Dylan exhibit at EMP focuses a little too implausibly on Dylan, personally, as a moving figure in the Civil Rights movement. I gather this is a little more about the music, less about the mythopolitics?


Posted by: slolernr | Link to this comment | 09-23-05 11:08 AM
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Becks, Cavalleria Rusticana.


Posted by: Tia | Link to this comment | 09-23-05 11:14 AM
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At least Part 1, which is all I've watched so far, had plenty of music to keep me interested. I don't think it's possible to do a Dylan film without some mythmaking, but I didn't find it intrusive.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 09-23-05 11:41 AM
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Not sure which song, but it was the Mazzy Star album So Tonight That I Might See. Lame.


Posted by: silvana | Link to this comment | 09-23-05 11:59 AM
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Is that the one with "Fade Into You"?


Posted by: Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 09-23-05 12:00 PM
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Yup.


Posted by: silvana | Link to this comment | 09-23-05 12:01 PM
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A medley of their hit.


Posted by: Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 09-23-05 12:06 PM
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Something by the Scorpions, I'm sorry to say.


Posted by: Joe Drymala | Link to this comment | 09-23-05 3:13 PM
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The world is closing in

Did you ever think

That we could be so close, like brothers?


Posted by: Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 09-23-05 3:17 PM
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From here I hope?


Posted by: Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 09-23-05 3:18 PM
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You like Dido and can quote the Scorpions? I'm leaning toward "consortium" again.


Posted by: Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 09-23-05 3:20 PM
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The Dido line was mostly a joke.


Posted by: Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 09-23-05 3:21 PM
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And didn't everyone have listen to "Winds of Change" a jibbity-billion times on the radio?


Posted by: Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 09-23-05 3:22 PM
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Well, you've heard of Dido. I hadn't. And you did claim that the number of great albums Sarah McL. had in her was >0.


Posted by: Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 09-23-05 3:24 PM
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A function of age, that. Yours and mine are probably close.


Posted by: slolernr | Link to this comment | 09-23-05 3:24 PM
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20 to 18. And 19 clearly suggests Weiner has not met his RDA of depressive chick rock. How are you on the Indigo Girls, Weiner?


Posted by: slolernr | Link to this comment | 09-23-05 3:25 PM
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Of Sarah M., I spoke the true.


Posted by: Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 09-23-05 3:25 PM
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"No One Like You" is the one seared into my circuits. I think that makes me old.


Posted by: Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 09-23-05 3:26 PM
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I think that makes me old.

I'm thinking you're 35.


Posted by: slolernr | Link to this comment | 09-23-05 3:29 PM
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Silence, excepting the sounds of drunken fumbling.

Good times.


Posted by: Chopper | Link to this comment | 09-23-05 3:29 PM
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I like Bjork.... And Damon and Naomi, especially when Naomi's singing....

But this reminds me: Is "Nine Objects of Desire" anywhere near as good as 99.9F degrees? Stipulate for the moment that I really like that but never listen to the first two albums any more.


Posted by: Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 09-23-05 3:29 PM
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I think that makes me old.

Not so much old, just lame.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 09-23-05 3:29 PM
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He's 35 and inquiring after my consortium.


Posted by: Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 09-23-05 3:30 PM
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What's the age of consent for a consortium?


Posted by: slolernr | Link to this comment | 09-23-05 3:32 PM
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Still 34. But good guessing. So are you younger?

Apostropher, you are a vinegar barbecue-eating blackguard. I bear no responsiblity for any Scorpions songs that were played on Pittsburgh radio in the mid-80s.


Posted by: Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 09-23-05 3:34 PM
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28: I just got pwned, didn't I? D'oh!


Posted by: Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 09-23-05 3:35 PM
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Actually, a tiny bit older. But evidently, listened to small-town bad radio for longer.


Posted by: slolernr | Link to this comment | 09-23-05 3:37 PM
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Yah, I pretty much gave up on the radio when I went to cawlidj.


Posted by: Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 09-23-05 3:39 PM
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No help on the Suzanne Vega?


Posted by: Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 09-23-05 3:39 PM
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Re 22, I think I'm going to start a movement to alter translations of Frege so it's Teh True and Teh False.


Posted by: Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 09-23-05 3:40 PM
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Matt—it would be pwnage if your age and my age had anything to do with impropriety, but in most jurisdictions they don't, so it isn't. I just wanted to double (or possibly sesqui) my entendre, and mentioning your age, though it suggested Teh False, helped to do that.


Posted by: Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 09-23-05 3:47 PM
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34: Sorry, she's far too depressing.


Posted by: slolernr | Link to this comment | 09-23-05 3:47 PM
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Danger! Imminent meltdown!

This, my friend, is depressing chick-rock.


Posted by: Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 09-23-05 3:55 PM
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And this is the farkin' link.


Posted by: Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 09-23-05 3:55 PM
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I should start a blog where I do nothing but explain jokes. People could read it to cause themselves real, physical pain.


Posted by: Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 09-23-05 3:56 PM
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No, no, joke explanations are good. Just ask w-lfs-n.

And Weiner: well, yes. At some point I figured out I could be depressed all by my lonesome and didn't need Lilith Fair and its progeny to encourage me. Does this fall under the heading of the alleged evil that white women do?


Posted by: slolernr | Link to this comment | 09-23-05 4:02 PM
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Gawd, that reminds me, I was once pretty much tipped into a couple-months funk by hearing a Gillian Welch album in a Borders. (Though if it wasn't that it would've been something else--GW was not the only white woman contributing to this.) And, when the post office busted up a bunch of my CDs during a move, I was sort of relieved about the Lucinda Williams, because that album just makes me want to lie on the floor the rest of the day. Damon and Naomi produces more of a pleasant mope.


Posted by: Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 09-23-05 4:09 PM
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It would be pretty funny if someone lost his or her virginity while "Read About Love" was playing.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 09-23-05 4:19 PM
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But Annette Peacock isn't rock.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 09-23-05 4:20 PM
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"Acrobat's Heart" is art song but "I'm the One" and "X-Dreams" are definitely rock.


Posted by: Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 09-23-05 4:23 PM
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Secretly I barely know anything about Annette Peacock.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 09-23-05 4:29 PM
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Except, you know, the Gary Peacock connection means an ECM connection, and an ECM connection means "not rock".


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 09-23-05 4:30 PM
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w-lfs-n is a poser, na-na-na-na-na....


Posted by: Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 09-23-05 4:33 PM
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I actually saw Annete Peacock play live once. And I own one of her CDs. Plus the Bruford album she sang on.

Do these facts increase or diminish my street cred?


Posted by: My Alter Ego | Link to this comment | 09-23-05 4:53 PM
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I'll bet mispelling "Annette" decreases it.


Posted by: My Alter Ego | Link to this comment | 09-23-05 4:54 PM
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Oh, I've heard parts of the Bruford album. I like Bill Bruford, but I think owning a Bruford album (as opposed to Red or an Earthworks album, say) diminishes your street cred.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 09-23-05 5:02 PM
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Live, oh yes; CD, sure, but I'll raise you 2 LPs; Bruford, um, what w-lfs-n said. (Never heard it but it sounds uncool.)


Posted by: Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 09-23-05 5:04 PM
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Weiner is a poser.

Bruford, at least on the first album, was Bill Bruford, Dave Stewart (of Canterbury fame (Hatfield & the North, National Health, Egg, etc), not the other one), Allan Holdsworth, and Jeff Berlin, playing Canterbury-esque fusion. Actually the ones that Peacock sung on are the ones I like the least. And Jeff Berlin's bass sound is really annoying.

Then Holdsworth left and I don't know who replaced him.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 09-23-05 5:07 PM
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John Clark replaced Holdsworth for "Gradually Going Tornado."

So if I own all the Bruford albums, and Red, and several Earthworks albums, does that make it a wash and leave me with neutral street cred?


Posted by: My Alter Ego | Link to this comment | 09-23-05 5:13 PM
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Weiner is a poser.

Bruford, at least on the first album, was Bill Bruford, Dave Stewart (of Canterbury fame (Hatfield & the North, National Health, Egg, etc), not the other one), Allan Holdsworth, and Jeff Berlin, playing Canterbury-esque fusion. Actually the ones that Peacock sung on are the ones I like the least. And Jeff Berlin's bass sound is really annoying.

Signor Pot, I'd like to introduce you to Monsieur Kettle.


Posted by: peter snees | Link to this comment | 09-23-05 5:20 PM
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I own Red. I keep my street cred in a small, airtight container.


Posted by: Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 09-24-05 8:48 AM
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