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Re: Musings on Random Musings   A young man was lost wandering in a forest, when he came upon a small house. He knocked on the door and was greeted by an ancient Chinese man with a long, grey beard

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The thread was hostile and antagonistic to begin with. As far as I'm concerned' date=' Chuck was baited. Indignance that he took the bait and the thread was closed down is disingenuous. You got what you asked for.[/quote']

I knew no good would come from that thread, but Chuck crossed lines.

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But nothing untoward was posted. I mean, if they have a hard-on for someone then they should deal with the person and not close every thread he touches, IMHO.

 

I don't know. I smell a double standard.

Eh, whenever someone gets out of line, he's looked at closer. Not so much a double standard, but probhation perhaps?

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Hey' date=' If I got mad at everyone who disliked the music I liked I'd not be married now :D(intersting fact, my wife loves some of my music and stomachs the rest, but boy does she hate "Love is Like a Rock" from Donnie Iris)[/quote']

There's a name I hadn't heard in ages. My wife & I share some music, but have some strong differences elsewhere.

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It wasn't Recipe a Day, was it?

 

"NO! The crepes parisienne is made with SWISS cheese, you Commie bastard!"

 

No, thank God.... which reminds me, once my arm is out of the sling I need to post the rest of the 50 Chili Recipe challenge.

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I posted recently that the Republican party is controlled by

 

billionaires for the benefit of billionaires and is hardly the "party of the

 

people".

 

In response, I got "The democrats got a bunch of rich folk too".

 

I note with a smile that none of the people who posted the response tried to

 

make the statement that wealthy democrats are anywhere near as self-seeking and

 

callously indifferent to the "common man" as wealthy conservatives.

 

I'm not a conservative (I don't think, though I entirely admit I'm not a liberal and probably have a somewhat stronger anti-liberal bias than anti-conservative one), but still may I say "yuck, phooey on this musing" for the record, but not to engage in debate and move on? :)

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Good answer! And of course I agree with you 1000%, good citizen.

 

Fear the Vallejo Fist, I repeat!

YAY! The legend grows.

 

Though, the Vallejo Kick also rings true.

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It's almost impossible to be stressed out while listening to

 

Luscious Jackson.

 

Oh yeah! :thumbup: Shall rep you shortly for that one! They scored #29 of my top 100 Alternative Songs of 1990-1999 with "Here", #63 with "Ladyfingers", and I really loved "Daughters of the Chaos" even though I didn't feel it made the top 100 cut (although in 1993 I rated that song as #41, just above Nirvana's "All Apologies" and just below Belly's "Feed the Tree").

 

For fun, here's my top 172 Alternative songs of the 1990s (1990-1999) - while I did this from a much larger list of top 100 Alternative songs I have for each of those years to achieve a simple top 100, I actually compiled this top 172 as I felt there was a break-point at 172 below which I felt there was a clear break in quality.

 

Please note they had to be actual singles and not just songs off albums.

 

Oh, and Blink 182 made it to #55 with "What's My Age Again?", though that was their only appearance in the total 1990s list (they had other songs in various individual years though).

 

1. World Party, "Is It Like Today?"

2. World Party, "Put the Message in a Box"

3. Billy Bragg, "Sexuality"

4. Chemical Brothers, "Setting Sun"

5. Mercury Rev, "Carwash Hair"

6. Bjork, "Hyperballad"

7. Beck, "Pay No Mind"

8. Sinead O'Connor, "Success"

9. Wonderstuff, "Caught in My Shadow"

10. Flaming Lips, "Race for the Prize"

11. Green Day, "Time of Your Life (Good Riddance)"

12. Bjork, "I Miss You"

13. Pavement, "Shady Lane"

14. Chocolate Genius, "My Mom"

15. Radiohead, "Stop Whispering"

16. Pavement, "Spit on a Stranger"

17. This Picture, "Naked Rain"

18. Mercury Rev, "Young Man's Stride"

19. Pulp, "Common People"

20. Sugarcubes, "Walkabout"

21. Radiohead, "High and Dry"

22. They Might Be Giants, "Birdhouse in Your Soul"

23. World Party, "Way Down Now"

24. Ben Folds Five, "Army"

25. Love Spit Love, "Am I Wrong"

26. Hole, "Violet"

27. Nine Inch Nails, "Burn"

28. Dinosaur, Jr., "Thumb"

29. Luscious Jackson, "Here"

30. New Order, "Regret"

31. Smashing Pumpkins, "Disarm"

32. Sinead O'Connor, "Emperor's New Clothes"

33. Tom Waits, "Hold On"

34. Drugstore, "El President"

35. Jesus and Mary Chain, "Reverence"

36. Robyn Hitchcock, "Beautiful Girl"

37. Robyn Hitchcock, "Driving Aloud (Radio Song)"

38. Midnight Oil, "Blue Sky Mine"

39. Orb, "Toxygene"

40. Bad Religion, "Atomic Garden"

41. Hole, "Doll Parts"

42. Beck, "Where It's At"

43. Jesus and Mary Chain, "Far Gone and Out"

44. Sleeper, "Inbetweener"

45. Sonic Youth, "The Diamond Sea"

46. Beck, "Jack-ass"

47. Air, "Le Soleil est Pres de Moi"

48. Cure, "Pictures of You"

49. Beck, "New Pollution"

50. They Might Be Giants, "The Statue Got Me High"

51. Beck, "Devil's Haircut"

52. Nine Inch Nails, "Hurt"

53. PJ Harvey, "Down by the Water"

54. Rentals, "Waiting"

55. Blink 182, "What's My Age Again?"

56. Peter Murphy, "Cuts You Up"

57. Moby, "That's When I Reach for My Revolver"

58. Helium, "Honeycomb"

59. Simentara and DJ Soul Slinger, "A Mar (Storm Mix)"

60. Rentals, "Friends of P"

61. Psychedelic Furs, "Until She Comes"

62. Wonderstuff, "Welcome to the Cheap Seats"

63. Luscious Jackson, "Ladyfingers"

64. Lightning Seeds, "Pure"

65. Sugar, "If I Can't Change Your Mind"

66. Superchunk, "Throwing Things"

67. Wonderstuff, "Don't Let Me Down"

68. Nirvana, "Smells Like Teen Spirit"

69. Yo La Tengo, "Sugarcube"

70. Moby, "Run On"

71. Hole, "Miss World"

72. Nirvana, "Sliver"

73. Cocteau Twins, "Evangeline"

74. Bad Religion, "Stranger Than Fiction"

75. Nine Inch Nails, "Closer"

76. Big Audio Dynamite II, "Rush"

77. Cranberries, "Zombie"

78. 10,000 Maniacs, "These Are Days"

79. Fatboy Slim, "Rockafeller Skank"

80. Julian Cope, "Beautiful Love"

81. Young Fresh Fellows, "Picture Book"

82. Tom Waits, "I Don't Wanna Grow Up"

83. Ben Folds Five, "Brick"

84. Weezer, "The Good Life"

85. Liquorice, "Cheap Cuts"

86. Bjork, "Venus as a Boy"

87. Hole, "Celebrity Skin"

88. Sonic Youth, "Kool Thing"

89. Swervedriver, "Rave Down"

90. Tori Amos, "God"

91. Imperial Teen, "You're the One"

92. Spinanes, "Lines and Lines"

93. My Bloody Valentine, "Only Shallow"

94. They Might Be Giants, "Istanbul (Not Constantinople)"

95. Coldcut, "Timber"

96. Stereolab, "The Noise of Carpet"

97. Mercury Rev, "Bronx Cheer"

98. Pavement, "Stereo"

99. Sugar, "Helpless"

100. Primitive Radio Gods, " Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth with Money in My Hands"

101. Nitzer Ebb, "Give to You"

102. Coldcut, "Natural Rhythm"

103. Cure, "Mint Car"

104. Pavement, "Gold Soundz"

105. Alanis Morissette, "Ironic"

106. Sarah McLachlan, "Into the Fire"

107. Lemonheads, "If I Could Talk I'd Tell You"

108. Papas Fritas, "Hey Hey You Say"

109. Tori Amos, "Talula"

110. Coldcut, "Atomic Moog (Herbalizer Mix)"

111. Butthole Surfers, "Pepper"

112. Bjork, "Possibly Maybe (Remix)"

113. Curve, "Missing Link"

114. Nine Inch Nails, "Wish"

115. Curve, "Fait Accompli"

116. Radiohead, "Fake Plastic Trees"

117. Tori Amos, "Silent All These Years"

118. Sugarcubes, "Hit"

119. Blur, "Song 2"

120. Mark Eitzel, "Southend on Sea"

121. Live, "Lightning Crashes"

122. Bjork, "Alarm Call"

123. Pearljam, "Corduroy"

124. Magnapop, "Open the Door"

125. Sarah McLachlan, "Possession"

126. Bjork, "Joga"

127. Bjork, "Isobel"

128. Bob Mould, "Egoverride"

129. Sinead O'Connor, "You Made Me the Thief of Your Heart"

130. Dinosaur, Jr., "Feel the Pain"

131. Swervedriver, "Duel"

132. Breeders, "One Divine Hammer"

133. PJ Harvey, "Perfect Day, Elise"

134. Bob Mould, "It's Too Late"

135. Darling Buds, "Sure Thing"

136. Smashing Pumpkins, "Tonight, Tonight"

137. Belly, "Now They'll Sleep"

138. Bjork, "Human Behavior"

139. Sundays, "Here's Where the Story Ends"

140. Yo La Tengo, "Upside-Down"

141. Pixies, "Dig for Fire"

142. that dog, "Never Say Never"

143. Sugar, "Tilted"

144. Swervedriver, "Sandblasted"

145. Beck, "Loser"

146. Sugar, "Gee Angel"

147. REM, "Losing My Religion"

148. Smashing Pumpkins, "1979"

149. Polara, "Source of Light"

150. Sugar, "Changes"

151. They Might Be Giants, "Snail Shell"

152. Billy Bragg, "You Woke Up the Neighborhood"

153. Curve, "Chinese Torture"

154. Nitzer Ebb, "Family Man"

155. House of Love, "Beatles and the Stones"

156. Jesus and Mary Chain, "Head On"

157. Superchunk, "Hyper Enough"

158. Morrissey, "We Hate it When Our Friends Become Successful"

159. Sonic Youth, "Disappearer"

160. Overwhelming Colorfast, "Tomorrow"

161. Deluxx Folk Implosion, "Daddy Never Understood"

162. Breeders, "Cannonball"

163. Moby, "Bodyrock"

164. Sebadoh, "Rebound"

165. Velocity Girl, "Sorry Again"

166. Cure, "The 13th"

167. Chemical Brothers, "Let Forever Be"

168. New Fast Automatic Daffodils, "Stockholm"

169. Lisa Loeb and Nine Stories, "Stay"

170. Sinead O'Connor, "Jump in the River"

171. Wonderstuff, "Cut the Ropes"

172. Lemonheads, "Confetti"

 

Oh this brings back many memories, and lots of songs and even bands I haven't thought of in years. Wow. Good stuff here (to me anyway).

 

PS - sigh - I had intended to compile a few CDs containing all of these, I really should have...

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Oh dear God I'm surrounded by heretics!!!

 

Blink-182 is a rock/punk band from San Diego, CA. And I don't mean like REAL punk... I mean soft-core 90's mainstream-style punk. Hard drums and guitar licks. You'd recognize a few of their sings, I'm sure.

 

They rock my world.

 

Yeah, my girlfriend takes me home when I’m too drunk to drive

And she doesn’t get all jealous when I hang out with the guys

She laughs at my dumb jokes when no one does

She brings me mexican food from Sombrero’s just because

(yeah, just because)

 

And my girlfriend likes UL and DHC

She’s so smart and independent, I don’t think she needs me

Quite half as much as I know I need her

I wonder why there’s not another guy that she’d prefer

 

And when I feel like giving up

Like my world is falling down

 

I show up at 3am

She’s still up watching vacation,

And I see her pretty face

It takes me away to a better place and

 

(I know that everything [3x]) everything’s gonna be fine

(I know that everything [3x]) everything’s gonna be fine

 

Yeah, my girlfriend takes collect calls from the road

And it doesn’t seem to matter that I’m lacking in the bulge

She laughs at my dumb jokes when no one does

She brings me mexican food from Sombrero’s just because

 

And when I feel like giving up

Like my world is falling down

 

I show up at 3am

She’s still up watching Vacation,

And I see her pretty face

It takes me away to a better place and

 

(I know that everything [3x]) everything’s gonna be fine

(I know that everything [3x]) everything’s gonna be fine

(I know that everything [3x]) everything’s gonna be fine

(I know that everything [3x]) everything’s gonna be fine

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Oh, and Von D-Man, hope you feel well soon - do you think this is the nearly-inevitable adjustment sickness most people (but especially Americans) get when they settle in a new country with its new various funky stuff and less sterilized water?

 

(PS - to be clear, "less sterilized water" is not a slam whatsoever, apparently US water is cleaner than even Canadian water, and some believe it's "too" clean in that it shields the human system from too many microbes and such that the body would do better to bulid an immunity to anyway - at least I've heard that claim from some ex-pats)

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