Comments on: No, Presidents Do Not Have Any Sway Over The Pop Charts http://idolator.com/5154922/no-presidents-do-not-have-any-sway-over-the-pop-charts Music News, Reviews, and Gossip on Idolator.com Sun, 27 May 2012 03:24:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Anonymous http://idolator.com/5154922/no-presidents-do-not-have-any-sway-over-the-pop-charts/comment-page-1#comment-857882 Anonymous Wed, 18 Feb 2009 12:21:03 +0000 http://d3e2c044408d63a93e35f29edd71784d#comment-857882 <P>Wow, Thierry. Sam Cooke isn't as artistically relevant as 10,000 Maniacs or Bruce Hornsby? You really don't have a clue as far a music history is concerned. Tell you what...run that same line by Bruce Hornsby (who's a HUGE Sam Cooke fan himself). I wouldn't have to set you straight--he would.</P> <P>Erik Greene<BR>Author, "Our Uncle Sam: The Sam Cooke Story From His Family's Perspective"<BR>www.OurUncleSam.com</P> Wow, Thierry. Sam Cooke isn’t as artistically relevant as 10,000 Maniacs or Bruce Hornsby? You really don’t have a clue as far a music history is concerned. Tell you what…run that same line by Bruce Hornsby (who’s a HUGE Sam Cooke fan himself). I wouldn’t have to set you straight–he would.

Erik Greene
Author, “Our Uncle Sam: The Sam Cooke Story From His Family’s Perspective”
http://www.OurUncleSam.com

]]> By: Chris Molanphy http://idolator.com/5154922/no-presidents-do-not-have-any-sway-over-the-pop-charts/comment-page-1#comment-857862 Chris Molanphy Wed, 18 Feb 2009 03:54:49 +0000 http://d3e2c044408d63a93e35f29edd71784d#comment-857862 <p>@<a href="#c10805237">SamsNeph</a>: That was sarcasm, Eric. Thierry's a Sam fan, not a hater. Ya might wanna reread the comment with that lens on.</p> @SamsNeph: That was sarcasm, Eric. Thierry’s a Sam fan, not a hater. Ya might wanna reread the comment with that lens on.

]]> By: Thierry http://idolator.com/5154922/no-presidents-do-not-have-any-sway-over-the-pop-charts/comment-page-1#comment-857852 Thierry Wed, 18 Feb 2009 02:33:52 +0000 http://d3e2c044408d63a93e35f29edd71784d#comment-857852 <p>@<a href="#c10805237">SamsNeph</a>: See the two comments above.</p> @SamsNeph: See the two comments above.

]]> By: Maura Johnston http://idolator.com/5154922/no-presidents-do-not-have-any-sway-over-the-pop-charts/comment-page-1#comment-857872 Maura Johnston Wed, 18 Feb 2009 01:48:23 +0000 http://d3e2c044408d63a93e35f29edd71784d#comment-857872 <p>@<a href="#c10805237">SamsNeph</a>: psst, eric... i think he was trying to pick out another example of the writer's idiocy.</p> @SamsNeph: psst, eric… i think he was trying to pick out another example of the writer’s idiocy.

]]> By: Eugene Langley http://idolator.com/5154922/no-presidents-do-not-have-any-sway-over-the-pop-charts/comment-page-1#comment-857892 Eugene Langley Tue, 17 Feb 2009 06:57:35 +0000 http://d3e2c044408d63a93e35f29edd71784d#comment-857892 <p><i>The same could be said about rap.</i></p> <p>Now there's a sentence that says more than it thinks it does.</p> The same could be said about rap.

Now there’s a sentence that says more than it thinks it does.

]]> By: Anonymous http://idolator.com/5154922/no-presidents-do-not-have-any-sway-over-the-pop-charts/comment-page-1#comment-857902 Anonymous Tue, 17 Feb 2009 06:02:17 +0000 http://d3e2c044408d63a93e35f29edd71784d#comment-857902 <p>What a stupid ass article.</p> What a stupid ass article.

]]> By: Thierry http://idolator.com/5154922/no-presidents-do-not-have-any-sway-over-the-pop-charts/comment-page-1#comment-857912 Thierry Tue, 17 Feb 2009 05:44:41 +0000 http://d3e2c044408d63a93e35f29edd71784d#comment-857912 <p>And in no way is Sam Cooke as artistically relevant as 10,000 Maniacs or Bruce Hornsby. Also, those disco albums Springsteen released during the Carter years (Darkness or The River, which makes it by a few weeks) really sucked.</p> And in no way is Sam Cooke as artistically relevant as 10,000 Maniacs or Bruce Hornsby. Also, those disco albums Springsteen released during the Carter years (Darkness or The River, which makes it by a few weeks) really sucked.

]]> By: Maura Johnston http://idolator.com/5154922/no-presidents-do-not-have-any-sway-over-the-pop-charts/comment-page-1#comment-857922 Maura Johnston Tue, 17 Feb 2009 04:49:04 +0000 http://d3e2c044408d63a93e35f29edd71784d#comment-857922 <p>@<a href="#c10790999">Chris B.</a>: Plus she's a woman in rock! Oh no!!</p> @Chris B.: Plus she’s a woman in rock! Oh no!!

]]> By: Chris Molanphy http://idolator.com/5154922/no-presidents-do-not-have-any-sway-over-the-pop-charts/comment-page-1#comment-857932 Chris Molanphy Tue, 17 Feb 2009 04:45:51 +0000 http://d3e2c044408d63a93e35f29edd71784d#comment-857932 <p>Saith Sclafani:</p> <p><i>As the Clash sung in one of their hardest hitting political songs, "Clampdown," "What are we gonna do now?"</i></p> <p>...in a great song written and released in 1979, while Carter was in office and before Thatcher had really done anything. WHOOPS! There goes the thesis!</p> Saith Sclafani:

As the Clash sung in one of their hardest hitting political songs, “Clampdown,” “What are we gonna do now?”

…in a great song written and released in 1979, while Carter was in office and before Thatcher had really done anything. WHOOPS! There goes the thesis!

]]> By: Chris B. http://idolator.com/5154922/no-presidents-do-not-have-any-sway-over-the-pop-charts/comment-page-1#comment-857942 Chris B. Tue, 17 Feb 2009 04:12:38 +0000 http://d3e2c044408d63a93e35f29edd71784d#comment-857942 <P>If Lily Allen hits #1 on the Billboard album charts this week, what will that do to his thesis? Isn't "Fuck You" a protest song, even if it has a hook?</P> If Lily Allen hits #1 on the Billboard album charts this week, what will that do to his thesis? Isn’t “Fuck You” a protest song, even if it has a hook?

]]> By: Lax Danja House http://idolator.com/5154922/no-presidents-do-not-have-any-sway-over-the-pop-charts/comment-page-1#comment-857952 Lax Danja House Tue, 17 Feb 2009 03:56:02 +0000 http://d3e2c044408d63a93e35f29edd71784d#comment-857952 <p>I can't believe what I just read. This is what happens when sub-editors get laid off.</p> I can’t believe what I just read. This is what happens when sub-editors get laid off.

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