Comments on: Time-Life Music Rocks Your Heart

By: Len Fanizzi

Len Fanizzi — Thu, 12 May 2011 22:35:24 +0000

@TeaParty1776 I agree with all of that. How then, can you make your other statements? Can’t you see the stark contradictions? I’m not trying to make fun of you, I’m trying to educate you. Perhaps it’s time to reevaluate what you believe ‘rational’ and ‘ir

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 12:04:05 +0000

Stockhausen's really cool if you like to argue about the structure of the drums & space section of Dead shows. Or if you think Neil Peart is insufficiently committed to high art.

So...
Can is better than Stockhausen.
The Fall is better than Can.
Wu Tang is better than The Fall.
The Ramones are better than Wu Tang.

Good taste in the avante-garde. It's really about formula.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 12:33:04 +0000

Random tidbit: The super-cute co-host of this Time-Life infomercial is the girlfriend of Cinderella drummer Fred Coury …yeahhhhhhhhhh!!\m/ \m/

By: T'Challa

T'Challa — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 09:35:52 +0000

@Mr. Praline: Stockhausen is playing live in LA!

[www.ticketmaster.com]

By: T'Challa

T'Challa — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 09:35:24 +0000

@mediajunk: Rehab is a bitch, huh?

By: Mr. Praline

Mr. Praline — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 03:14:06 +0000

@mediajunk: Ah, so you're a Stockhausen fan then.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 11:57:43 +0000

OK - That's it, motherfuckers. Fuck Journey.

Oh, I know I know - "Journey is a guilty pleasure". Fuck all of you ironists and misty-eyed Peter Pans - Journey was a cancer and cancer is not "a guilty pleasure". Go on - listen to "Evolution" all the way through. You'll be BEGGING for mesothelioma. I grew up in the Bay Area and "Lovin' Touchin' Squeezin'" haunts my nightmares.

I heard they played it at Slobodan Milosevic's funeral. Sounded great on those hockey-arena amps.

Anna Nicole Smith was listening to it the night she died - it was the only song that moved her.

George W. Bush used to listen to it while blowing lines and would shout "YOW!!!!" when Neal Schon's solo kicked in.

It's customary for Golden Gate Bridge jumpers to request it on 98.5 K-Fox just before their final plunge. I'd do that myself - just to make sure I didn't change my fucking mind.

So you slow-danced to them in junior high? Feelin' nostalgic for zits, blue balls, premature ejaculation, Reagan and Rick Dees? Here's how to ensure you "don't stop believin'" - go spread margarine all over your face, smack yourself in the nuts with rebar and smoke meth.

They were obnoxious, tacky and stupendously stupid and they sold a zillion albums - you are culpable. Every last one of you.

By: T'Challa

T'Challa — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 09:49:50 +0000

Full disclosure: as a burgeoning music fan growing up on Detroit rock radio, I was too young to realize that Journey wasn't cool, and I loved them. I also loved the Pretenders, Clash and Echo & the Bunnymen, so go figure.

Sure, Journey is classic arena-rock cheese. They're also the best at it! I'm probably just being nostalgic, but I can STILL rock out to "Evolution," "Departure" and "Escape," which was hot enough to generate it's own video game:

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1983 was a very good year!

And again, I'm not proud--just honest...

By: Chris Molanphy

Chris Molanphy — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 09:38:23 +0000

@Eugene Langley: A movie that never ends.

Indeed, I daresay it goes on, and on, and on, and on.

By: Eugene Langley

Eugene Langley — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 09:03:23 +0000

@Clevertrousers: My bad. I just needed to get that out of my system before I could get back to focusing on the storyboard for my new tribute video to Heart's "Alone".

By: Clevertrousers

Clevertrousers — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 08:10:56 +0000

@Eugene Langley: Dude... harshing my buzz faster than Nora Ephron interviwing Diane Warren... stop talkin' and crack open another Bartles & Jaymes... Don't stop believin'!

By: Eugene Langley

Eugene Langley — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 08:00:26 +0000

The logic works as long as you look at television as qualitatively different from pop music, but I always thought that one of the main points of MTV was the conflation of TV and pop music. The argument should go one step farther then - power ballads are television because pop music is television and power ballads are pop music. I would even go so far as to say that this identification of power ballads with TV seems to work especially well because power ballads are the purist form of pop music we have.

But, no, wait. We're forgetting that it's actually all a movie. A movie that never ends.

By: Clevertrousers

Clevertrousers — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 07:52:22 +0000

This is some serious baby-makin music for boomers. These songs plus a little Bartles & Jaymes were probably responsible for half the indie rock kids of today…