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AaronMLuke

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On 11/19/2024 at 12:12 PM, AaronMLuke said:

Joey and myself  went to see Iron Maiden  in San Antonio this past Sunday as tourists. I can not recommend them  enough, great and welcoming fans. Stellar show. As a Maiden newbie  standout songs were The Prisoner , May I play with madness and Wasted Years . Great show.

Edited my original post. Sorry about the double post.

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zendragon

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8 minutes ago, Octopus said:

New Kendrick album dropped 

Ate at Tam's burgers on Wednesday (not the one in the video although I do believe I drive past that one as I cruise down Long Beach toward Rosecrans) 

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twiztor

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39 minutes ago, Octopus said:

New Kendrick album dropped 

!!!

was this a surprise release, or did i just miss the announcement? can't wait to get home and listen now

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supremebve

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16 minutes ago, twiztor said:

!!!

was this a surprise release, or did i just miss the announcement? can't wait to get home and listen now

Complete surprise release.

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odessasteps

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The radio station where I’m eating has now played, in the last half hour, the Friends theme by the Remebrandts (the whole song) and we built this city. Are they trolling people today? 

Curt McGirt

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I do too. It's just a big Boston/Foreigner/Journey song. 

120 Minutes on MTV Classics is hitting out of the ballpark tonight. They started with the Cure doing "Charlotte Sometimes" (!!!), went right into KMFDM's "A Drug Against War" (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!), then Depeche Mode, Violent Femmes, and Morrissey's "Suede Head"*. It's neat! 

* This song should have been not just a clue but an arrow on fire pointing at the fact that good ole Paul was a jerk. The title ended up being taken by their fans as an actual fan name, while the lyrics are about hating them. (Maybe he was right?) Meanwhile having found a band nicely approximating the Smiths/Johnny Marr so he could continue with his career anyway.

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BloodyChamp

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YMCA is in my guilty pleasures top 10.

I thought there was a discussion somewhere I was in about Yngwie Malmsteen but I can’t find it. I’ve shared before that I work at a nightclub and he was there tonight, for the first ever real 80s heavy metal show in the 13 years that I’ve worked there. He was absolutely amazing and awesome and just everything. I thought I was in LA and I thought it was 1988 for a while. I’ll never forget seeing that mfer shred. About as soon as you got tired of hearing the same shredding over and over he’d play something out of nowhere. He played Smoke on the water and a famous blues song that I can’t remember the name of. He played the Star Spangled Banner and he played 2 of his old songs that came on the radio in the 80s. It 

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Curt McGirt

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I've got the Rising Force S/T but never cared for it. The biggest thing I remember about him for is him being drunk and saying something homophobic on a flight, a woman throwing water on him, and some other Swedes taping his rant after... which is still absolutely hilarious. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUFzzy1Qg5w

Go figure, 120 Minutes just played the actual Smiths, with a video where Morrissey hired a bunch of kids to get their hair cut like him and bike around wearing Smiths shirts. 🤨

BloodyChamp

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Legendary legend doing legendary things ftw. He lived in a straight up fantasy world in the 80s. His albums aren’t the funnest thing to listen to but I could have stood there and listened to it live for forever. It was that good.

twiztor

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20 hours ago, RazorbladeKiss87 said:

I know it has a bad reputation but I actually like "We Built This City." 

Jefferson Airplane > Jefferson Starship > Starship

that being said, "We Built This City" is fine. i don't hate it or anything, but it just feels so empty. I never thought to put it in the same wheelhouse as Boston or Journey, but that fits 100%. Bands that are technically good, but i just don't feel any connection to. (Foreigner is 100% my shit tho)

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BloodyChamp

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I love JA and JS and I’m proud of Grace Slick for bouncing back and making some $$$ in the 80s but I absolutely hate all normal 80s radio filler music. That includes some songs mentioned here lol! But that’s just me.

Curt McGirt

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18 hours ago, twiztor said:

(Foreigner is 100% my shit tho)

Me too. They were just an AOR singles machine, in a good way. Everything they did watch catchy as hell, well-written, perfectly played. They felt more like a band that the industry found and struck gold with instead of a prefab band invented to make them cash. You can get their greatest hits and there isn't a single song out of what, probably 20? that isn't actually great. And they were a straight-up rock band too, with a hell of a singer especially. I got all the respect for Foreigner. Boston too, because Tom Scholz came out of MIT and Polaroid and used that money to build a recording studio in his basement and fund studio time; he was a musical tech wizard who made his own signature amplifier; and he even had the cheek to eventually put out an independent album titled Corporate America 😄 Plus those first albums are untouchable. 

It is really weird to hear "We Built This City" and think this is an antecedent of the same band that did "White Rabbit". They really should do an Arena Rock documentary if they're doing a Soft Rock doc. REO (straight outta Champaign, IL; we even have an honorary REO Speedwagon Way haha), Styx, the bands above, etc. It'd be pretty interesting. You can throw in that awesome story about the guy from the Phillipines who ended up getting the job as singer in Journey off being seen doing a cover song. 

 

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Cobra Commander

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Drake is suing over alleged payola involving the song "Not Like Us"

While I am not an attorney, I must say that it feels like a questionable move to remind people of a popular song where the singer kept calling you a pedophile. Especially when that's not the thing you're suing about.

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Death From Above

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I can't get down with most of the late 70's-80's designed stadium rock. although even I'll admit that when Journey were on they were something else. Now on the other hand, if we were talking hair metal, Dokken were hot shit for a minute there before Dan destroyed his voice and spent another 35 years limping from one gig to another. In My Dreams is to me what You've Got The Touch was to Lo Wang in the Shadow Warrior reboot. Legit one of my favourite songs ever.

https://youtu.be/nIIDvKCzFgo?si=G7Q2wAUPQjtEHzdI

 

Curt McGirt

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Always liked that song a lot. They were more my style of basic '80s metal than full-on glam rock (which I pretty much despise) but I listened to some albums in the past and didn't dig 'em. It might actually be Don's voice which has never impressed me much. I went ahead and snagged the first two for a revisit and so far so good. 

Coincidentally I'm re-reading the Slash bio and Guns ended up getting the same Aerosmith tour as Dokken there in that video; I guess they switched off as openers do. Guns were pretty amazed that they themselves were that popular. 

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Zimbra

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18 hours ago, Cobra Commander said:

Drake is suing over alleged payola involving the song "Not Like Us"

While I am not an attorney, I must say that it feels like a questionable move to remind people of a popular song where the singer kept calling you a pedophile. Especially when that's not the thing you're suing about.

There is now a second filing against UMG: https://www.billboard.com/pro/drake-second-legal-action-umg-iheart-pay-for-play-defamation/

UMG also distributes Drake's music so clearly there is no way this could blow back on him.

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