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Mark

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Jan 4, 2010, 4:44:55 AM1/4/10
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Sometimes in the middle of the night, I get up
and hear the 1980's playing.

Music was wonderful for a 40-year stretch from
1960 to 1990. Then it all kinda went sour.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEjNjuOx5uM&feature=related

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Mark

Mark Edwards

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Jan 4, 2010, 6:18:43 AM1/4/10
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No cluons were harmed when Mark wrote:
>Sometimes in the middle of the night, I get up and hear the 1980's
>playing.

The 80s sucked.

I messed up a perfectly good marriage; met, married and divorced my
previous ex; worked for a pittance for 80 or more hours a week; nearly let
myself fall prey to deep, dark depression; had to painfully reinvent
myself.

But the music was usually cool. Cyndi Lauper's "True Colors" and "Time
After Time" still make me cry, though.


Mark Edwards
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Glenn Knickerbocker

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Jan 4, 2010, 5:53:43 PM1/4/10
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Mark wrote:
> Music was wonderful for a 40-year stretch from
> 1960 to 1990.

It only seemed that long because the drugs were so bad.

�R

Mark

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Jan 4, 2010, 6:39:09 PM1/4/10
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Go ask Alice. I think she'll know.

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Nicko

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Jan 4, 2010, 6:53:17 PM1/4/10
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On Jan 4, 3:44 am, Mark <blueriver...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Sometimes in the middle of the night, I get up
> and hear the 1980's playing.
>
> Music was wonderful for a 40-year stretch from
> 1960 to 1990. Then it all kinda went sour.

That's a rather short forty years there, my man.

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Dr. HotSalt

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Jan 4, 2010, 8:12:12 PM1/4/10
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Musta been the drugs?


Dr. HotSalt

Doctroid

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Jan 5, 2010, 12:14:08 AM1/5/10
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In article <4B427177...@bestweb.net>,
Glenn Knickerbocker <No...@bestweb.net> wrote:

Music has never been wonderful. Ninety percent of music is crap.

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Mark

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Jan 5, 2010, 5:50:55 AM1/5/10
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On Jan 5, 12:14 am, Doctroid <doctr...@mailinator.com> wrote:

> Music has never been wonderful. Ninety percent of music is crap.

Ten percent of crap is music.

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Mark

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Jan 5, 2010, 6:00:35 AM1/5/10
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I was targeting the "forced" music which predominates
the media. Of course if you want to get more in depth
then we can always highlight the illustrious achievers
of multiple genres and that goes further back.

What gets me is these "classic rock" stations which
pop up all the time, but they only have 34 songs that
they play over and over, while leaving hundreds of songs
unplayed.

It's all a conspiracy to make us pay for satellite radio.

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Mark

Mark

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Jan 5, 2010, 6:09:46 AM1/5/10
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On Jan 4, 8:12 pm, "Dr. HotSalt" <alien8...@gmail.com> wrote:

> > > Music was wonderful for a 40-year stretch from
> > > 1960 to 1990. Then it all kinda went sour.
>
> > That's a rather short forty years there, my man.
>
>   Musta been the drugs?
>
>   Dr. HotSalt

Not really. Well, sure, the mushrooms might explain that
year of the Beatle's White Album and Who's Quadrophenia,
and draft beer did contribute to hot summer nights in smokey
pool halls where the rock nearly went country.

I'm just saying that hip hop is nothing more than very bad
poetry being barked to the illiterate, whereas the British
influence embellished Americana.

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Mark

Matthew L. Martin

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Jan 5, 2010, 7:58:12 AM1/5/10
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You must spend a lot of time in public bathrooms.

Matthew

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Otto Bahn

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Jan 5, 2010, 11:27:51 AM1/5/10
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"Mark Edwards" <Mark-E...@comcast.net> wrote

>>Sometimes in the middle of the night, I get up and hear the 1980's
>>playing.
>
> The 80s sucked.
>
> I messed up a perfectly good marriage; met, married and divorced my
> previous ex; worked for a pittance for 80 or more hours a week; nearly let
> myself fall prey to deep, dark depression; had to painfully reinvent
> myself.
>
> But the music was usually cool. Cyndi Lauper's "True Colors" and "Time
> After Time" still make me cry, though.

If you're lost and you look, I will fine you.

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Otto Bahn

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Jan 5, 2010, 11:29:15 AM1/5/10
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"Mark" <blueri...@yahoo.com> wrote

> > Music was wonderful for a 40-year stretch from
> > 1960 to 1990.
>
> It only seemed that long because the drugs were so bad.
<
<Go ask Alice. I think she'll know.

Rabbit chasing is considered rude by many.

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Glenn Knickerbocker

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Jan 5, 2010, 2:22:35 PM1/5/10
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Mark wrote:
> Not really. Well, sure, the mushrooms might explain that
> year of the Beatle's White Album and Who's Quadrophenia,

Were they a year taken together, or a year each? I'm trying to figure
out whether that leaves eight or nine years still unaccounted for.

�R

David DeLaney

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Jan 5, 2010, 11:34:25 AM1/5/10
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Mark <blueri...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>What gets me is these "classic rock" stations which
>pop up all the time, but they only have 34 songs that
>they play over and over, while leaving hundreds, if not thousands, of songs
>unplayed.

I've fixed your musical warning for you.

>It's all a conspiracy to make us pay for satellite radio.

Dave "or to download and not pay at all" DeLaney
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Otto Bahn

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Jan 5, 2010, 2:56:42 PM1/5/10
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"David DeLaney" <d...@gatekeeper.vic.com> wrote

>>What gets me is these "classic rock" stations which
>>pop up all the time, but they only have 34 songs that
>>they play over and over, while leaving hundreds, if not thousands, of
>>songs
>>unplayed.
>
> I've fixed your musical warning for you.

I can't tell you how much IAWTP. Then again, our local
classic rock station has gone out of its way at night to
actually play some of the non-standard classic tunes.
It's part of promotion to establish a cool identity, and
they include a little story about the song/band. The
other night I even heard I Don't Know You by NRPS. I was
floored.

Damn fine song too. I'd forgotten how tight some of their
instrumentation was.

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Adam Funk

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Jan 5, 2010, 4:14:02 PM1/5/10
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On 2010-01-05, Matthew L. Martin wrote:

> Mark wrote:
>> On Jan 5, 12:14 am, Doctroid <doctr...@mailinator.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Music has never been wonderful. Ninety percent of music is crap.
>>
>> Ten percent of crap is music.
>
> You must spend a lot of time in public bathrooms.

"Hey, stop that! This is an elevator!"


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Mark

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Jan 5, 2010, 4:29:40 PM1/5/10
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On Tue, 05 Jan 2010 07:58:12 -0500, Matthew L. Martin wrote:

> Mark wrote:
>> On Jan 5, 12:14 am, Doctroid <doctr...@mailinator.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Music has never been wonderful. Ninety percent of music is crap.
>>
>> Ten percent of crap is music.
>
> You must spend a lot of time in public bathrooms.
>
> Matthew

If you will excuse me, Some cute little brunette named Tammy
stole her boyfriend's car and credit cards and put me up on
the 14th floor of the "Yachtsman" for a week in Myrtle Beach,
while spending thousands by day, and smoking the sheets by night.
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anon

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Jan 5, 2010, 4:32:37 PM1/5/10
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> influence embellished Americana. You need to know that I
> often wax on poetically being that I am a creative geniuos.

>I hung a new big mirror in the bathroom the other day. Then I
> hung another mirror behind me on the opposite wall. Now I can't
> stop standing in between and looking down my infinite
> replication tunnel...of myself.

Holy fuckin shoit are you a delusional twat!

Mark

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Jan 5, 2010, 5:28:47 PM1/5/10
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I'm 54 years old and am well aware of what schizophrenia is,
and it's various manifestations apart from other psychological
abberations.

Klaatu

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Jan 5, 2010, 6:10:39 PM1/5/10
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> The worst offender is Lead Zeppelin. These self-centered cretins]
> to this day believe thaey can rock, look at Percy, he's a goddamned
> prune.
> And what is all this shit about gold medallions and stolen children?

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> Mark

WITH are you talking about?

Fuck you, everyone who smells as bad as you do, and the fucking horse
that rode your ignorant ass through the door Markie.

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phy

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Jan 8, 2010, 3:28:42 PM1/8/10
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Mark <blueri...@yahoo.com> wrote in news:5f6e2655-341f-4802-b882-
cb64e8...@o28g2000yqh.googlegroups.com:

> Sometimes in the middle of the night, I get up
> and hear the 1980's playing.

The 89's sucked. I lived in Kentucky all through the 80's. Maybe it was
Kentucky that sucked. Yeah, I bet that's it.

-phy

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