Posted on 01/28/2024 10:11:49 PM PST by nickcarraway
I can’t stand Journey... Never could.
Well can it or not? Don’t be throwing around hyper-elliptical variances willy-nilly here. You do know they must be proven three times till Wednesday to be accepted as zeta functional, right?
I feel the same way. Bon Jovi and Journy, turn them both off.
I don’t blame him at all. There has been so much actually great music that has been composed in the last 300 years that, why would you even waste your time with Journey or most Pop for that matter?
Gronk doesn’t know the name of a rock group? Well, that shoots his credibility as a modern tv football analyst.
The Superbowl is going to be pretty anticlimactic. There is no way the NFL will let Taylor’s Swift’s team lose. The marketing synergies are far too great to pass up, and the gambling interests know it.
Maybe he’s a classical music fan, or jazz fan or country fan or Mongolian throat singing fan.
The ditzy blonde used to be a standard trope in comedy duos.
Now it’s the dumb jock.
In defense of Rob, that song debuted 8 years before he was even born.
And Steve Perry is now 75 years old...LOL!
Get a real problem, Larry.
Ridiculous clickbait title. Every one of Journey’s hits were recorded before Gronk was born. Plus it’s not like they were such a great band anyway. Their best tunes were probably Wheel in the Sky and Anytime.
It's *also* funny to me as a Journey fan since the early 80s that some fellow Gen Xers and younger Boomers are still stuck in a pretentious-1981-Rolling-Stone-rock-critic view of Journey as faceless corporate balladeers.
They are enormously talented musicians who were capable of far more than commercial radio ever let on. Two of the guys were from Santana--Gregg Rolie who sang "Black Magic Woman", and Neal Schon, a guitar prodigy that Carlos hired at like 15. And even their most commercially successful stuff has some great musicianship and songwriting.
Listen to tracks from first 3 albums of hard rock/experimental fusion if you want the full picture. Here are some of my favorites from that era:
Nickel and Dime note the time signatures on this one.
As a music teacher, and in my 60s, I’ve noticed things have changed. Kids today have a more superficial take on the current hits and after a few weeks, bump them from their mixes, never to be allowed to return.
Also, they show a tortured revulsion for the ‘oldies’, any songs, of yesteryear. If one of their parent’s favs comes on the car radio, their hand darts for the controls at warp speed with a cry of anguish on their lips.
One caveat, home-schooled kids aren’t this bad.
Not unlike me with Taylor Swift. She is famous for singing songs apparently. If I have ever heard one of her songs, I am unaware of it.
Are the players still kneeling during the National Anthem? And they are still playing the Anthem, aren't they?
Not having seen a game since the mid-1970s, when I was changing channels to watch a re-run of "The French Chef" on PBS, I have no first-hand knowledge to fall back on.
Regards,
Neal Schon married the gal who crashed the Obama White House State Dinner with her ex-husband in 2009.
I’d hate to see the headline they’d write about me. Whenever a celebrity death is reported, it seems like I’ve never heard of them and always ask who?
Basically, I don’t believe Gronk. I get that Don’t Stop Believing came out years before. He was born, but Chattanooga Choo Choo came out decades before I was born, and I still heard it a lot. Glee was a fairly popular show for Gronk’s generation, and Journey’s music got a fair amount of play on it.
There is still a lot of great new music being made. What absolutely no longer exists is the ability to turn on the radio and hear it. That is dead and gone. Now, you have to go find it, and you have to know where to look. Turning on the radio for the latest Beatles release is a distant memory.
Rap is the supreme artistic achievement of the Black race
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