Comments on: Yay Pope!

By: Shell Goddamnit

Shell Goddamnit — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 01:54:52 +0000

Really, Tumbleweed Connection is quite good. So are parts of Madman Across the Water and Honky Chateau. But rock? Only in the sense that King Crimson “In the Court of the Crimson King” or Carole King’s Tapestry is “rock,” i.e. that they were played on AOR stations.

By: Unapologetic pirate of Dr BLT samples

Unapologetic pirate of Dr BLT samples — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 07:22:33 +0000

“Piano Man” is a tough act to follow. The song is absolutely brilliant. Billy Joel was never able to reach, let alone, surpass, the bar he set with that song again. Everything else he did paled in comparison.

By: zombie rotten mcdonald

zombie rotten mcdonald — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 03:05:36 +0000

Rusty Shackleford said,
October 27, 2009 at 18:47

If help doesn’t come soon we’ll have to start eating each other

whattaya mean START, breather-boy?

By: Substance McGravitas

Substance McGravitas — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:14:02 +0000

I got your Elton John right here!

That is a very good YouTube trick. Thanks.

By: OneMan

OneMan — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:06:14 +0000

“So who ghostwrote Hitler’s book?”

Karl Marx, silly!

By: Smut Clyde

Smut Clyde — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:36:01 +0000

So who ghostwrote Hitler’s book? Inquiring minds would like to know.

By: actor212

actor212 — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:34:15 +0000

Because (I just looked it up) “originally marketed as a rocker” doesn’t jibe with She’s Got A Way being on Cold Spring Harbor.

The Cold Spring Harbor album, altho it was his first recorded and released, was NOT his first major studio release (which was Piano Man).

Indeed, there was a huge battle over CSH, which had it been resolved early, would have put Joel firmly in Barry Manilow terror-tory (sic).

The original CSH release was for absolute crap in terms of production values….OK, I realize that;s a niggling point…but there are points you can actually hear the fucking reel-to-reel turning on some of the first pressings.

By: g

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:26:57 +0000

see Scott Johnson is accusing Obama of having his books ghostwritten. By Bill Ayers, one presumes.

Again? I see they’re taking kind of a Lazy Susan approach to the poutrage. This one came up during the campaign, but quickly became eclipsed by other burning scandals, such as the Queen’s Ipod and mustard-gate. I guess they just leave things on the revolve, so that when an idle moment occurs, without an obvious thing to be outraged by (a dinner menu, perhaps? Hula-hooping? The First Dog’s name?) they can spin it round to the front again and work it.

By: Djur

Djur — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:19:09 +0000

I see Scott Johnson is accusing Obama of having his books ghostwritten. By Bill Ayers, one presumes.

By: Dragon-King Wangchuck

Dragon-King Wangchuck — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:35:43 +0000

It’s Still Rock’n’Roll to Me

That is a crappy song. Epic crappy. If it was supposed to be cleverly ironic in that it’s a “rock” song that’s yelling “GET OFFA MAH LAWN” – then it fails because it sucks to much to listen to.

But everyone’s allowed a couple stinkers, right? Should that one song taint everything he’s done since? I mean, I’m just looking for an excuse for kinda liking this.

By: OneMan

OneMan — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:34:48 +0000

“I’m sending my repair bill to National Review forthwith.”

Yeah, maybe they can bleg up some funds to cover it.

By: handy

handy — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:34:14 +0000

Elton John? Hah! I got your Elton John right here!

By: Not-So-Newbie McNymshift

Not-So-Newbie McNymshift — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:20:45 +0000

From Rusty Shackleford’s link:

First of all, TR’s books are pretty good. I wish I could take a red pen to them every now and then

K-Lo taking a red pen to anyone else’s writing done broke my irony meter.

I’m sending my repair bill to National Review forthwith.

By: N__B

N__B — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:19:20 +0000

Sings = songs. Too much drafting going on all over my computer.

By: Rusty Shackleford

Rusty Shackleford — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:17:52 +0000

“It’s Still Rock’n’Roll to Me” is worth some real honest hate. It’s complaining instead of kicking ass.

It’s a VDH column set to music.

By: Xecky Gilchrist

Xecky Gilchrist — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:17:32 +0000

If help doesn’t come soon we’ll have to start eating each other

I think the lengthening darkness is getting to our hosts – you know, Seasonal Affective Disorder. Hence, SADly, No.

It could be worse. We could be hoping for new posts at the Poor Man Institute, where instead of getting SAD they hibernate.

By: N__B

N__B — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:16:39 +0000

S McG – I guess I thought (as much as I thought about it, which was not much) that the “Ballad of the Yellow Berets” was an anti-draft song. He produced at least one truly anti-Vietnam War sings a little later, “2+2=?”.

By: Tommmcatt

Tommmcatt — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:14:56 +0000

Sorry, but I will not register with Clown Hall just to read some drivel by Thomas Sowell. Not. Gonna. Do. It.

By: Substance McGravitas

Substance McGravitas — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:12:43 +0000

Bob Seger on chickens who dodged the draft:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pBdL8chkuM

By: Rusty Shackleford

Rusty Shackleford — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:11:07 +0000

K-Lo on the poutrage remarked upon by Ted the Slacker, in which she expresses the desire to correct the writing of Teddy Roosevelt and points out that you know who else was a powerful writer Hitler that's who.