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A weekend break from the monotony (Rock 'n Roll Vanity)
A mind in need of rest ^ | 4/21/13 | Baynative

Posted on 04/21/2013 4:18:03 PM PDT by Baynative

To break the monotony of the media rushing to make fools of themselves over the Marathon bombing story I thought I'd bring up a subject that got me thinking earlier today while listening to a classic rock station instead of my usual talk show selection.

I lived through the 70's explosion of hard rock music and although some of it still gets me rocking in my own geriatric way. I thought I'd ask if anyone here had bands that were popular that they never liked, or/and still don't care to hear.


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Music/Entertainment
KEYWORDS: music; rock
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To: InvisibleChurch

OK, you’d know - I’ve never listened to any Bosses.


101 posted on 04/21/2013 7:41:06 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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To: Robert DeLong

You are one brave soul as crazy as the market is! I wish I had the intestinal fortitude. :)


102 posted on 04/21/2013 7:41:32 PM PDT by berdie
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To: Telepathic Intruder
"Classic rock radio stations just seem to play the same tired songs over and over again."

I've toyed with the idea of recreating a radio show to reintroduce the renegade FM format of the late 60s and mid 70s when they played anything and everything in long sets and you were not always sure who you were hearing.

103 posted on 04/21/2013 7:42:20 PM PDT by Baynative (Lord, keep your arm around my shoulder and your hand over my mouth.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Natalie with 10,000 Maniacs...Don’t You Know What The Night Can Do.

One of the best!


104 posted on 04/21/2013 7:44:19 PM PDT by berdie
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To: jespasinthru; Diana in Wisconsin

Agreed on Merchant’s merchandise. But this is a thread about our hates not loves.

How about Pat Benatar, then?


105 posted on 04/21/2013 7:45:18 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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To: Fresh Wind

Electric Light Orchestra reminds me of the modern-day Trans-Siberian Orchestra. Overwrought and overly pretentious. Mannheim Steamroller sort of fits in that mold too but I do like their Christmas music.


106 posted on 04/21/2013 7:50:43 PM PDT by SamAdams76
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To: berdie
I play small. I'm trying penny stocks right now. If any of them take off I could be sitting on quite a little stash (have 3 stocks - 12,000 shares of 1, 100,00 shares of another - 5,000 shares of the 3rd).

I wish I had tried the stock market back in the mid 80's. Could have made a killing. It was almost impossible to lose from the mid 80's until 1999. I had a friend who bought Yahoo and made 500,000. I really just wanted to learn how to play the market (figured it was more fun than a casino), and if lucky make some money and if not then I would only blow a certain limit I had said I would play with.

107 posted on 04/21/2013 7:51:41 PM PDT by Robert DeLong (u)
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To: Robert DeLong

10,000 shares that 2nd one should be.


108 posted on 04/21/2013 7:52:27 PM PDT by Robert DeLong (u)
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To: Robert DeLong

I wish you much, much luck and success!


109 posted on 04/21/2013 7:54:58 PM PDT by berdie
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To: reaganbooster
Thanks! That restaurant, for those who might be somewhat familiar with the Boston area was located on Revere Street in Revere, MA, maybe a half mile from the beach. It was called the "Ritz" but was actually more of a dive bar that practically sat over the old Boston & Maine railroad tracks. I believe it is a chinese restaurant these days.

Another band I did not like from the 1970s was Kiss. I never did get that scene. Four men dressed like clowns from the gates of hell playing mostly awful slabs of derivative "hard rock". Yet most of my friends at the time went nuts over them. I only liked one song from that group, the ballad "Beth" which reminds me of the first girl I had a crush on back in late 1976. Only her name was not Beth, but Teresa. No songs I'm aware of that have Teresa in the title.

110 posted on 04/21/2013 8:07:36 PM PDT by SamAdams76
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To: SamAdams76

Sergio Endrigo disagrees. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncSgXn8882U


111 posted on 04/21/2013 8:10:32 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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To: berdie

Thank you.


112 posted on 04/21/2013 8:11:55 PM PDT by Robert DeLong (u)
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To: SamAdams76

Joe Dolan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAeWVM14BXU


113 posted on 04/21/2013 8:11:58 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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To: Baynative

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1AYUcpmYkI


114 posted on 04/21/2013 8:15:30 PM PDT by Sir Francis Dashwood ("Arjuna, why have you have dropped your bow???")
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To: Baynative

I can’t listen to the early Rush stuff, but right around Permanent Waves, Geddy’s voice became more normal.


115 posted on 04/21/2013 8:16:42 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Revolting cat!
Mick Jagger complained in a recent interview that the public doesn’t want to hear anything new, and that’s the reason why they won’t go in the studio. Pity.

He is right, though. Nothing makes people head for a beer run or a bathroom break quicker than, "And here is something from our new album."

116 posted on 04/21/2013 8:18:37 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Revolting cat!

Thanks for the links! I favor the Joe Dolan version as I’m mostly Irish. However, my high school Teresa was Italian so the Sergio version is probably more appropriate to remember her by.


117 posted on 04/21/2013 8:21:01 PM PDT by SamAdams76
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To: dfwgator

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sStExSxmPuE


118 posted on 04/21/2013 8:24:58 PM PDT by Sir Francis Dashwood ("Arjuna, why have you have dropped your bow???")
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To: SamAdams76

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sStExSxmPuE


119 posted on 04/21/2013 8:25:41 PM PDT by Sir Francis Dashwood ("Arjuna, why have you have dropped your bow???")
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To: SamAdams76

Another band I did not like from the 1970s was Kiss. I never did get that scene. Four men dressed like clowns from the gates of hell playing mostly awful slabs of derivative “hard rock”.

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That’s a great description of Kiss. I actually went to a Kiss concert at college, believe it or not, in Grand Forks, North Dakota. Loudest, craziest event I ever been to. Don’t know why I went to it but at the time (1978)they were a hot
band and it was an excuse to party. Think I lost some brain cells that night. Anyway, their whole marketing effort seemed to revolve around those crazy costumes and Gene Simmons’ super long tongue. It was “erotic” to the girls, you know :)


120 posted on 04/21/2013 8:27:30 PM PDT by reaganbooster (The democrat party symbol should be the grim reaper instead of the donkey.)
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