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How Ryan Adams is making me rethink my rock collection
CNN ^ | 15 Feb 2019 | Sara Stewart

Posted on 02/15/2019 5:35:38 PM PST by Drew68

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To: dead
She left out maybe the most rock & roll of all rock & roll songs - Stay with Me - Faces

I wonder if Stewart still performs one of his signature hits, "Every Picture Tells a Story" these days?

Can the Stones still sing "Brown Sugar"?

41 posted on 02/15/2019 7:28:29 PM PST by Drew68
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To: Drew68
Pretty soon, the only thing we'll be "allowed" to listen to is hyper-sensitive folk songs...


42 posted on 02/15/2019 7:40:10 PM PST by Kenny Bania (Ovaltine? Why not call it Roundtine?)
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To: Drew68

Rape, murder!
It’s just a shot away
It’s just a shot away


43 posted on 02/15/2019 8:11:23 PM PST by waterhill (I Shall Remain, in spite of __________.)
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Me and the Devil, ooh
Was walking side-by-side
I’m going to beat my woman
Until I get satisfied

~Robert Johnson


44 posted on 02/15/2019 8:17:38 PM PST by waterhill (I Shall Remain, in spite of __________.)
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To: yesthatjallen
"It's Getting Better" has the line "I used to be cruel to my woman, I beat her and kept her apart from the things that she loved. Man I was mean but I'm changing my scene and I'm doing the best that I can"

It's a song. That album also has crooning about Henry the horse dancing a waltz and newspaper taxis appearing at the shore. I suppose she finds that problematic too.

45 posted on 02/15/2019 8:23:13 PM PST by pepsi_junkie
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To: dead; dfwgator
I went back and listened, and you’re right, it’s mostly McCartney singing, with John joining in. But Lennon said he wrote that line about his relationships pre-Yoko. Why he stopped at Yoko, I’ll never know.

John contributed the "It can't get no worse" answer to Paul's "A little better, all the time".

As usual, the two did better with each other even if it was only something short like that or simply smiling.

46 posted on 02/15/2019 9:21:41 PM PST by eddie willers
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To: Drew68

This lesbian needs a life. She gets so many things wrong. And, they are just songs idiot.


47 posted on 02/15/2019 9:47:31 PM PST by Fledermaus (Republicans - As Usless As Democrats)
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To: dead

And he was shot dead not long after that volume came out.

No lie, I was reading it when I heard on Monday Night Football, by Howard Cosell, that he had been shot.


48 posted on 02/15/2019 9:55:08 PM PST by Fledermaus (Republicans - As Usless As Democrats)
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To: lee martell
OTOH, I'd never heard of Ryan Adams before, so...

49 posted on 02/15/2019 10:23:52 PM PST by SunkenCiv (and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
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To: Drew68

And yet all of those look tame compared to much of todays music. Where is the metoo movement on rap lyrics? Must be a cultural thing.


50 posted on 02/15/2019 10:25:56 PM PST by robel
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To: Kenny Bania

You’ve got your “Stupid Girl”

I have mine....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GhPUAVgHZc


51 posted on 02/15/2019 10:28:45 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Drew68
Can the Stones still sing "Brown Sugar"?

Or "Some Girls".....



Now, I’d like to speak about the subject of a certain Mick Jagger – of the Rolling Stones. … And I’m going to talk about the song he sang — a song in which he sings these very words: “Black girls – just want to have sex – all night long.” …

Now, Mr. Jagger, there is only one question I want to ask you — Jaggs. … And you better have the answer, man, you better have the answer, since you have besmirched the character of black women. Therefore, here is my question, Jaggs.

[pause, takes off eyeglasses, suddenly drops the pose, pleading]

Where are all of these black broads, man? …[huge cheers and applause] Hey, like, where ARE they,baby? You got any phone numbers for me, baby? …Please send ’em to me.

[puts glasses back on,dignified again] Thank you. … [enthusiastic applause]

52 posted on 02/15/2019 10:31:39 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Repeal The 17th

#6. Gneiss rock collection. Sometimes we take rocks for Granite. Really! No Schist!


53 posted on 02/15/2019 11:18:36 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper (with)
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To: Drew68

She can always take a walk “down by the river”, maybe say “Hey” to Joe.


54 posted on 02/15/2019 11:38:52 PM PST by printhead (I need a new tagline. Happy days are here again.)
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To: Repeal The 17th

That was my first thought as well. The mineral display is better organized


55 posted on 02/16/2019 2:02:52 AM PST by jmcenanly ("The more corrupt the state, the more laws." Tacitus, Publius Cornelius)
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To: Drew68

Later, it was John who was “whipped” by Yoko! (Not physically)


56 posted on 02/16/2019 6:38:28 AM PST by LYDIAONTARIO
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To: Drew68
Could rock be, or have been, less sexist if there had been more women encouraged to take the stage instead of standing below it, waiting to be winked at?

The problem with that is save for a few exceptions, most women rockers suck.

57 posted on 02/16/2019 7:13:23 AM PST by AAABEST (NY/DC/LA media/political industrial complex DELENDA EST)
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To: Fledermaus
This lesbian needs a life. She gets so many things wrong. And, they are just songs idiot.

She loses the point she was trying to make when she veers off into discussing lyrics. That's not the issue. Nobody was ever offended by the songs that Adams wrote. It was his behavior towards women that drew the ire of the #MeToo movement. The argument should be made that if we are going to judge what Adams did, then why not the behavior of rock stars past who did the same things?

John Lennon beat his first wife. Jimmy Page had 14-year old girlfriends. Many of the hair metal acts of the 80s had post-concert orgies demeaning countless young women (many of whom were actually seriously underaged girls) who were then discarded when the party ended.

If the #MeToo movement is going to start with Ryan Adams, where should it stop?

58 posted on 02/16/2019 7:21:00 AM PST by Drew68
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To: AAABEST
The problem with that is save for a few exceptions, most women rockers suck.

The woman at a Motley Crue concert didn't want to jump on stage and sing Kumbaya with Vince Neil. They wanted to go back stage and f*** Tommy Lee.

59 posted on 02/16/2019 7:27:20 AM PST by Drew68
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To: Drew68

The exact people trying to be cool, our weak liberals, whose desperation makes them such great chumps for the globalist fascists of the left, are the ones who will become hoisted on their own petard here.

It is a good thing to take a long hard look (no pun meant there) at men’s behavior with less civilization, and be honest about it. Heavy civilization, usually brought about by stricter moral and religious codes, keeps sexuality circumscribed.

The rock music world is just outside civilization enough to make it exciting. But when we take the closer look, we see the stars feasting on as many pretty young girls as possible, often for a decade or more. Within the few morals of that hedonism, this is normal to expected. Men, unchecked by a society, will rut unfettered with anyone and show no remorse or care for the multiple sex partners they enjoy. Gay men even moreso, sometimes preferring engaging bodyless through a glory hole.

More civilized men, often men like you sitting there having wives or girlfriends, safely ensconced deep within a moral framework, heap praise upon and feel envy toward the rock stars who can orgasm in any girl they want, multiple times a day.

What is good about this trend of now focusing on the natural behavior of men without reins is that the leftists have used our liberal ways to trick us into going down a path toward their control of us, strewing the path with delicious free sex, drugs, and rock and roll.

The #metoo movement is now shining a light on what really happens to girls when mere men who can make music are given the royal pass out of civilization. If we now move to more respect and more care in sexual interactions, it really hurts those who wish us debauched and out of control.

And the lapdog media now looks like an escher infinity drawing. Impossible to revere these pop gods when it’s exposed how they rape little girls or boys. Good to see the left and their liberal sycophants tie themselves into impossible knots of hypocrisy.


60 posted on 02/16/2019 9:22:29 AM PST by Yaelle
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