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| Where have all the protest songs gone? Twl,You may want to recheck your numbers. The Great Society programs barely got off the ground before the majority of the funding began to be siphoned off to finance the war in Viet Nam. In any case, total funding for all of Johnson's "Great Socie... | |
| Where have all the protest songs gone? Brucegel, your post has made me feel so much better: we are stuck with Ashcroft's police state, but it's all OK, coz Nader gets self respect & gets to look at himself in the mirror.John Ashcroft, our gift from NaderThanks, Ralph! | |
| What's your favorite instrument to listen to.... Personally, I'm a tuba man | |
| Saddended by the death of Maurice Gibb Very sad indeed,The Bee Gees belong on any short list of great pop groups.What other group can be compared to them? The Beatles didn't even stick together for more than a decade. Abba, The Hollies, even the Kinks, for that matter, are also mere fl... | |
| The Biggest Disappointments in Rock and Roll Point well taken, Rar1While the AOR FM format went in for some harsh, mostly richly deserved criticism in the late 70's, the playlists of (some) of the FM rock stations in those days seem downright adventurous and expansive in comparison to such c... | |
| Joe Strummer RIP Zaikesman, I think that there is a messy problem with semantics here. Punk rock was something that happened in the 70Âs. I t was pretty much over by 1980. The US hardcore/underground scene of the 1980Âs, though it was strongly influenced by punk... | |
| Best female vocals on CD Teenage Jesus and the Jerks! | |
| What are the best live acts? While you still can, you should go see Otis Clay. That is, if real soul music is your thang. Here in Chicago, he gets booked into blues bars occasionally. His live shows are invariably better than those of the more common formulaic blues acts.Not ... | |
| The Biggest Disappointments in Rock and Roll Good point about Bowie, Tok20000:The long-term reputation of Bowie would have been best served by his sudden death say, right after 'Scary Monsters' was released. Bowie's horrid "Let's Dance" is the absolute epitome of the sterile, soulless sound ... | |
| Nick Cave fans? Birthday Party "Junkyard"My nomination for best album to listen to when you are enjoying a BAC of .15 or above. | |
| Early 1970's rock: Name some of your favorites Hallelujah!Get your hands on an old issue of NME or CREEM from 1975, and you will find writers expressing a common belief that the popular music of the early 70Âs was embarrassingly inferior to that of the 60Âs. A more recent critical appraisal ... | |
| Van Halen Hagar Remasters? This thread is brilliant!...and they say that irony is dead. | |
| Gramy Nominations At what mythical time in our nation's past did the masses do anything but consume junk culture?Did they spend their evenings reading the new sheet music for a difficult new piece by Dvorak? Did they argue, late into the night, the relative merits ... | |
| Overrated & Underrated I have seen the Dunn cabs on the shelf in Chicago. The Napa cab is not that hard to find. The Howell Mtn. can be found, but is quite scarce. Try contacting Jim Hightower, Bob Presley, or Todd Hess at Sam's. You should also check with Howard Silver... | |
| The best Carl Orff Carmina Burana? One thing of which I can be certain, the best (of many) appropriations of Carmina Burana for a film score is to be found in the opening sequence of "Jackass-The Movie." |