Posted on 04/22/2016 6:27:20 AM PDT by Biggirl
And such talent crosses the different music styles.
Just set up the NO Rush thread a couple of minutes. Must be doing a golf weekend. Mark for certain will be off, Jewish Passover starting tonight.
Buck Sexton in today for Rush; haven’t seen TGO’s sub noted, yet. Maybe it’ll be a ‘calmer’ thread today. One can hope so.
I never bought any of Springsteen’s records.
Never even pirated one of his albums from a friend on a cassette.
Music is one of those esoteric things. Either they appeal to you, or they don’t, and to me Springsteen is in the latter category. Same with U2, I just don’t dig their sound. It doesn’t make them less of a performer, it just doesn’t work for me.
I hope so. I have been just setting the thread up and leaving, listening to baseball or going out that evening. This is why I am waiting for things to “calm down” on Levin to give out the Kitchen Aid Blender Award. Things are slowly are starting to calm down Rush wise but I am stay careful and make good posting choices as best as possible.
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“missed that...is usually /s for sarcasm...”
You are right. My bad. Sorry for the confusion.
“I spent some time yesterday listening to ‘Sign O’ The Times’ for the first time in years - I’d forgotten how good the entire album was.”
Love that album. It’s one of his most underrated masterpieces.
I read that Edie Van Halen wrote part of “Beat It”.
He played the guitar solo.
Prince was half Italian!
He's getting a permanent roll on TWD next season.........
Absolutely. Sorry. I didn’t mean to imply otherwise.
That’s just snarky BS. The fact of the matter is entertainers enter our home, musicians probably more often than any other. When one of them dies, especially one we started listening to very young, it’s a hit on the self. It’s a reminder or mortality, it’s a reminder of your own personal history. And it’s a natural normal human reaction to mourn this. This kind of thing was actually much BIGGER in the past, whole countries have shut down temporarily for the death of an entertainer. If anything now, because the entertainment world has gotten so fragmented, there’s actually LESS adulation than before.
This one comes at an odd time because it feels like the music industry is under assault by Father Time. Massive icons of multiple genres have been taken in the last 4 months. But there’s really nothing unusual or “lost” about he mourning level. Sadly there’s also nothing unusual about the curmudgeons who feel the need to pee on people during sad times.
That’s a great graphic, I get a kick out of it every time. I have a feeling it will get a lot more use before Keith himself winds up in an obituary.
I suppose that I am a curmudgeon. Comes from seeing a lot of death in my life. Sort of changes your perspective.
“Whole countries have shut down temporarily for the death of an entertainer”.
Really? An entertainer? When/where? We talking about Al Jolsen or something? Any time since we’ve had two world wars?
I’ve seen plenty of death in my life. That’s no excuse to be rude. Plenty of times people I’m not interested in die, and instead of clicking on that thread to tell everybody how much I don’t care, I ignore it. Because I understand that we get to be different people, and that losing someone who helped you be you, even if only through spinning disks, is a painful thing. It’s especially so with music, since most of our musical tastes are set in our teenage years, a time when we feel immortal (hence why we do so much stupid stuff) we also feel our musician are immortal. When musicians die it is in many ways a direct assault on our sense of mortality, it’s the world saying “remember how immortal you felt when you discovered this guy, guess again”.
Mostly in the 19th century. There’s a few opera singers that caused national days of mourning. Pretty intense stuff, especially when you consider that it was before recordings so most of the mourning people had never really heard the person, they simply knew that their world had lost somebody. We weren’t as afraid of death then. When people died we went ahead and wallowed in it and felt the loss, and didn’t think there was something wrong with still discussing it 24 hours later. This was back when we’d put corpses in the parlor and do wakes in our home, before we changed the name to “living room” and shoved death to its own building.
Since the 2 world wars we now have the funeral parlor, and this mentality of getting it over with and moving on. It’s funny really, that in a world where we’ve gotten so good at fending off death we’ve gotten so bad at dealing with it. When life expectancies were lower and you were apt to have a lot more loved ones die in any year we were much better at accepting death and internalizing it. Now we fear it so much we even fear people processing it.
It is interesting that you considered my comments “rude”: I merely expressed the opinion that this event wasn’t worth the wall-to-wall coverage that it was getting. Whatever musical contributions he gave, to me it wasn’t worth the emotional intensity I saw.
I served in war. I saw a year and half’s worth of our young guys killed and many more of the enemy. I came back from that experience with a different perspective on life and youth. I never again had interest in pop music, nor sports, nor other fascinations that popular culture seems to consider important. Reality for me was and is the 58,000 dead and the quarter million wounded (I am one of those) of my war. The death of an entertainer, any entertainer doesn’t register to me. Well, OK; I actually did mourn the loss of Martha Rae but not because she was any great shakes as a singer but because she dropped in on us during one of our patrols in a forward area and we were thrilled to have our own personal USO show from her.
Some entertainers have greater gifts than others and I understand that. I can also understand how Prince’s music is tied to your memories of
your youth. But from my perspective, the young lives we lost in combat died specifically to protect all the rest of us, a considerably more valuable loss.
I understand that Prince was important to you and that’s fine. I have a different perspective and I always will.
It IS rude. There’s no “consider” about it. To go into an area where the people are mourning somebody, and calling into question that mourning IS rude. It is the most basic definition of rude. It is the dictionary example.
Your “perspective” does not matter here. This is a discussion where people are mourning him, and if you don’t like that DON’T CLICK ON IT. It’s very simple. When there’s threads on dead people that don’t interest me, I don’t click on them, you know why? Because I don’t want to be rude to people in mourning. It’s a simple concept that oh so many just refuse to understand.
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