[PenultimateManStanding]

short snippets of songs that are memorable. Here's some of what I mean, taken from memory of an earlier cultural era:

I want it, I want it The Who

Right now I can't read too good
don't send me no more letters, no
not unless you mail them from
desolation row Bob Dylan

And in the end The Beatles
the love you take
is equal to the love
you make

popular culture is always cornball but it would be so easy to make a list of media messages of one kind or another that could scroll down the screen for days, from songs alone even: well its one two three what are we fightin' four, you aint nuthin but a hound dog, blue eyes crying in the rain, was the time of the preacher in the year of O one, blame it on the bossa nova, jimmy dean, james dean, i'm a believer I couldn't leave her, you'll go your way and I'll go mine, another day older and you're deeper in debt, oh suzy q, oh well, last train to clarksville, mouth's full of chocolate covered with cream, get your kicks on route 66, itsy bitsy teeny weeny, my baby does a hanky panky, in the year 2525, if man is still alive, night train, where have all the flowers gone, fighting soldiers from the sky, i guess if you say so I have to pack my things and go that's right hit the road jack and don't you come back no more, give back my ring to me and I will set you free to go with him, baby don't let me be misunderstood, crazy for tryin, and crazy for cryin over you, black leotards and her feet are bare at the sugar shack, sock it to me baby, and she and billie joe were throwin somethin off of Tallahatchie Bridge, paint it black, little old lady from pasedena, etc. There is no reason to stop this anywhere, it could go on for days to recollect all the bilge we have ingested from the media face it it's there even if you've turned it off. Or is it just an exuberent display from a pampered generation that had it too good?

[PenultimateManStanding]

I also liked this one: Baby don't go maybe i'll be back some day.

and this one: Everybody wants to rule the world

and this one: go on and take it take another little piece of my heart

[PenultimateManStanding]

and this one: "what's new pussy cat, whooa uuwohoo whoa"

and this one: "day oh! day ay ay oh!" silly nonsense from the past forget I mentioned it

[basil_hayden]

Why do they always send the poor?" System of a Down.

[SinisterBlueCat]

I woke up this morning and got myself a beer,
The future is uncertain and the end is always neer.


Well Baby I've been here before
I've seen this room and i've walked this floor,
I used to live alone before I knew you
And I've seen your flag on the marble arch
But love is not a victory march
It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah

[Jake_old]

Where on earth are you from?
We're from England
Where you come from
Do you put the kettle on?
Kick it
Nah Nah Nah

[PrairieMule]

PMS-I love these bull sessions. I'm all over the board today. I picked up Hayseed Dixie's Hot Piece of Grass last week and The Police's Outlandis D'Amore. I'll just pick one song for now.

Bellamy Brothers-"Old Hippie"

He turned thirty-five last Sunday
In his hair he found some gray
But he still ain't changed his lifestyle
He likes it better the old way
So he grows a little garden in the back yard by the fence
He's consuming what he's growing nowadays in self defense
He get's out there in the twilight zone
Sometimes when it just don't make no sense

He gets off on country music
Cause disco left him cold
He's got young friends into new wave
But he's just too friggin' old
And he dreams at night of Woodstock and the day John Lennon died
How the music made him happy and the silence made him cry
Yeah he thinks of John sometimes
And he has to wonder why

Chorus:
He's an old hippie and he don't know what to do
Should he hang on to the old
Should he grab on to the new
He's an old hippie...his new life is just a bust
He ain't trying to change nobody
He's just trying real hard to adjust

He was sure back in the sixties that everyone was hip
Then they sent him off to Vietnam on his senior trip
And they forced him to become a man while he was still a boy
And in each wave of tragedy he waited for the joy
Now this world may change around him
But he just can't change no more

Chorus

Well, he stays away a lot now from the parties and the clubs
And he's thinking while he's joggin' 'round
Sure is glad he quit the hard drugs
Cause him and his kind get more endangered everyday
And pretty soon the species will just up and fade away
Like the smoke from that torpedo...just up and fade away

[Tyler_JC]

PrairieMule, you beat me to it!

That's an excellent song for PO relevency. But we already have about a hundred of these threads...Oh well.

[PenultimateManStanding]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Tyler_JC', '
')That's an excellent song for PO relevency. But we already have about a hundred of these threads...Oh well.

[smallpoxgirl]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', ' ')I don't like any new country music and haven't listened to it since the 80s.

[PenultimateManStanding]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('smallpoxgirl', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', ' ')I don't like any new country music and haven't listened to it since the 80s.

[mgibbons19]

Crap!

I didn't realize the old hippie was only 35.

It's time for an "old xer" song.

[PenultimateManStanding]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('SinisterBlueCat', 'I') woke up this morning and got myself a beer,
The future is uncertain and the end is always neer.

[Tyler_JC]

[/quote] These new acts are all derivative from a better time when there was more originality and talent. I blame it all on Randy Travis. (don't know about The Dixie Chicks, good, huh?)[/quote]

No, Dolly Parton song "9 to 5" ruined country music. Urban country music, basically pop music with cowboy hats. Urban Cowboy music sucked then and continues to suck.

The most recent infidel is Shania Twain. Everything that she touches turns to crap. Or started out as crap.

Garth Brooks is either the genre's savior or destroyer depending on who you ask.

Yeah, some of the recent stuff is simply horrible (Rascal Flatts and Kenny Chesney anyone?)

[hotsacks]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Tyler_JC', '<')/div> These new acts are all derivative from a better time when there was more originality and talent. I blame it all on Randy Travis. (don't know about The Dixie Chicks, good, huh?)[/quote]

No, Dolly Parton song "9 to 5" ruined country music. Urban country music, basically pop music with cowboy hats. Urban Cowboy music sucked then and continues to suck.

The most recent infidel is Shania Twain. Everything that she touches turns to crap. Or started out as crap.

Garth Brooks is either the genre's savior or destroyer depending on who you ask.

Yeah, some of the recent stuff is simply horrible (Rascal Flatts and Kenny Chesney anyone?)[/quote]

Waylon Jennings on 'New Country'':
"Garth Brooks did for country music what panty hose did for finger fucking."

[PrairieMule]

[quote="Tyler_JC"][/quote]

No, Dolly Parton song "9 to 5" ruined country music. Urban country music, basically pop music with cowboy hats. Urban Cowboy music sucked then and continues to suck.

The most recent infidel is Shania Twain. Everything that she touches turns to crap. Or started out as crap.

[quote]

PMS & TYLER-

I listen to 95.3 KHYI The Range in Dallas. They play Country AM Gold, Americana, the Austin Sound. Their Tagline is "If you think Shania is more woman than Loretta Lynn, this is not your station.

I saw Dolly in the Woodlands in 1992. She tried experimenting with Garth Brooks and Madonna, it was bad. On the flip side, her classics are timeless. When she did "Hard Candy Christmas", well I'm a strong man but I'm not made of stone.

Anyone else listened to Emmy Lou Harris' Red Dirt Girl?