My arguments (U2 is better than Backstreet Boys)
- They've been here for 20 years plus, and they're still making music.
- They've actually won Grammys.
- The Joshua Tree and Achtung Baby. Enough said.
- Backstreet Boys only concentrate on sappy and very repetitive, meaningless songs. U2's songs have more variety (though they're quite political)
- Backstreet boys are basically a teenybopper group, focusing only on an audience full of screaming girls.
- U2's lyrics are considered to be great poetry ("I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" is standard reading at my high school, believe it or not)
GF's arguments (Backstreet Boys are better than U2)
- U2 is nothing more than a Guy group (I dispute this 100%)
- Since when was the last time that U2 was nominated for the Grammys? And who just got nominated for the Grammys this year?
- The Joshua Tree and Achtung Baby came out WHEN?
- The Backstreet Boys have best selling albums right now. Does U2 have any at this very moment?
- GF loves romantic songs. U2 probably has only 5 of them. Backstreet Boys? Well.........
- Backstreet Boys are considered to be part of today's generation of music (Dance, R&B, etc). U2 is nothing more than a mere fossil (get with the times, guys.......)
- U2 is old (the members are in their FORTIES now!! Too old!!). Backstreet boys are young. And they look cuter too.
- U2's concert in Toronto sold out within 2 hours. Backstreet Boys concert sold out within 20 minutes.
So, does anyone want to dispute the above facts?
Of course GF maintains that the Backstreet Boys have sold more albums than all of U2 combined. I say she's wrong, that U2 sell alot of albums, and some of their best albums are being sold to this very day. But of course, she asks the question "Did they sell a million copies last year?"
Help Here? Thanks.
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Psychiatrist: "Again."
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--Baloo
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"Any teenager in a deserted, adult-free location who has sex will be hacked to red glistening teen tartare before the evening�s out."
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I'm sure your girlfriend is a lovely person, but I'm afraid she's certifiably insane. :-)
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Jackson: "Basically, he was the original Satan."
O'Neill: "Well, isn't that special?"
-Stargate SG-1: "Serpent's Song"
That in and of itself says that U2 is a great band.
Does anyone else notice some congruities with New Kids on the Block?
New "Kids" on the "Block"
Back"Street" "Boys"
Ok, its stretching a bit, but we'll see how long they actually last.
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"I object to all this sex on the television. I mean, I keep falling off!"
Until the Boys can do that then they will remain a group that can look good, dance in synchronization, and sing sappy songs.
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Ohh, so Mother Nature needs a favor? Well maybe she should have thought of that when she was besetting us with droughts, and plagues and poison monkeys. Nature started the fight for survival and now she wants to quit because she's losing...well I say "Hard Cheese"!
~C. Montgomery Burns
I agree with all you've said. Plus, I add that Bono can write good lyrics if all of U2's songs have more than one meaning.
For the Grammys U2 was nominated this year for best long-form video with PopMart Mexico City, but unfortunately lost to Jimi Hendrix. But you already know that.
U2 has no album out right now, but the soundtrack for "The Million Dollar Hotel" is due out shortly, which heavilly features U2. Many radio sations play "The Ground Beneath Her Feet", from the soundtrack. Other U2 songs are getting heavy airplay as well. The promo single for "The Ground Beneath Her Feet" is already selling for high prices on eBay. The entire soundtrack has already been leaked out and mp3s for all the tracks have already been made and many fans have them.
U2 has way more than 5 love songs as many can be intepreted as a love song. People still listen to U2 and they will still be making music, say 5 or 10 years from now. Doubtful if Backstreet Boys can say the same. Remember Hanson or the Spice Girls? NKOTB?
Age has nothing to do with it. I'm on the largest U2 internet mailing list and we know of fans as young as 13, maybe even younger. Hell, there are even babies or even like U2. U2 has fans of all ages and of all nationalities.
U2 has sold a million albums last year. There was the 1st installment of a 3-set best of. "Sweetest Thing" received massive airplay.
The next album is due out in September or so. The 2nd installement of the best of is also near ready status.
U2 has done terrific covers of other people's songs. They've done The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Elvis Presely, Lou Reed, Johhny Cash, Joy Division, INXS, The Talking Heads, etc.
They've worked with many people as well. Such as Johhny Cash, Michael Hutchence, Lou Reed, Tina Turner, Boyzone, The Rolling Stones, Sinead O'Connor, Lucciano Pavovatti (sp?), Wyclef Jean, Jewel, Lauryn Hill, etc.
Many people have covered them. Such as, Cher, The Smashing Pumpkins, Collective Soul, etc.
Many current musicians are fans of U2. There's 3rd Eye Blind, Collective Soul, the lead singer of the Backstreet Boys...or was it the lead singer of Savage Garden, the Smashing Pumpkins, Tal Bachman, etc.
Plus, U2 has had two tribute albums. One is from other artists covering some U2 songs, the other being the London Philharmonic covering U2.
Many songs have been featured in a movie or a televion show. Many of those songs have also been included on whatever soundtrack there was. Can say that with other musical artists, let alone the Backstreet Boys?
U2 is one of the most bootlegged artists out there. Does Backstreet Boys come close? U2 can have well over 10 different boots just for one concert. Imagine a whole tour! And there are also many boots for studio recordings, mixes, remixes and outtakes.
U2 has met the president of the US, as well as other national leaders. Bono has met the pope.
They don't care about wealth and they don't brag about it. U2 has been involved with making our world a much better place to live. They are politically involed.
I can probably say much more.
There is no way to compare U2 and the Backstreet Boys and say Backstreet Boys are better.
Look at that...I get so excited talking about U2, that I make so many mistakes in writing.
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Dilbert: "Then how do I turn you off?"
7: "Believe me, I am plenty turned off."
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7 alarm clock: "Do not touch me."
Dilbert: "Then how do I turn you off?"
7: "Believe me, I am plenty turned off."
I could probaby go on and on.
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7 alarm clock: "Do not touch me."
Dilbert: "Then how do I turn you off?"
7: "Believe me, I am plenty turned off."
And they weren't siding with the Backstreet Boys, let me tell ya.
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"I'd give anything to be able to turn invisible. I wouldn't use my powers to beat people up, but use them to protect the girl's locker room."
Xander Harris
Well, I've gone through most of your replies, and I can honestly say that she can shoot most of them straight through with an arrow........
- Many Radio Stations play more Backstreet Boys than U2 (10 BSB songs to 1 U2). Which means that even THEY are with the times, and shows how Backstreet Boys are more popular than U2...... "The Ground beneath her feet"? None of the radio stations she listens to play it at ALL......
- How can U2 can be considered popular if she never heard of them before she even met me? She knew about the Backstreet Boys before she has even heard of U2. And if U2 was here for 20 plus years, surely she would have heard of their music, that's why she says Backstreet Boys are better.......
- She will also maintain that the Backstreet Boys write their own songs as well.
- She can probably find many people who have heard of the Backstreet Boys and Diddlysquat about U2.
My brother has jumped into this argument. He too is a Backstreet Boys fan *oh dear god!!!* His argument? U2 is nothing more than a Disco Group. Especially after "Discotheque"....... He still bugs me about that..... *GROAN*
I once checked out a Record store and I noticed that many of U2's earlier albums are now selling for $25 Canadian. The Average price for a CD is around $18....... Amazing, isn't it?
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Psychiatrist: "Again."
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And her counter arguments are now based on popularity. Which isn't a measure of quality in any case. Did you SEE The Phantom Menace?
Besides, most of my mates haven't heard of 90% of the music in the US charts. Which autmoatically makes it crap according to her.
(granted, it is crap, but logical arguments have never seemed necessary to me)
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"I'd give anything to be able to turn invisible. I wouldn't use my powers to beat people up, but use them to protect the girl's locker room."
Xander Harris
The Backstreet Boys represent a safe, comparatively unintellectual approach to both music and sex. Afterall, I don't think that anyone can really deny that they are selling more records for sex appeal than for musical talent.
I would imagine that they have more personal trainers to their collective credit than lyrics written. Which I think is a travesty of the higest order. Does anyone really "listen" to music anymore? Not with the injection of video culture into the main artery of American pop life.
However, the paths to stardom in both the recording and film industries are strewn with pretty boys and girls who had no staying power and lost it all after their 21st birthday (or second Hollywood divorce) and could no longer play a high school nark or appeal to the 10-14 year old crowd of kiddies. Leif Garret anyone? Although he is said to be making a more hard-edged comback.
Let's look at some of the actual music shall we? Off of a disc called simply Backstreet Boys
"Let's have a party"
But all I wanna know is where to party at
Let's have a party, let's have a party
But all I wanna know is where to party at
Everybody, let's have a party
I've been watching you
You've been watching me
Let's stop playing games girl
come and dance with me
don't you hear the music
don't you feel the groove yeah
come on girl get on the floor
I wanna dance with you . . .
Heartwrenching.
Something tells me that if the Boys were onstage and sang the ingredient list to a Captain Crunch ceral box there would still be girls screaming and saying it was the best song they had ever heard. Which, considering their collective limited experience may be sad but true.
And yet, as soon as the Backstreet Boys become Backstreet Men, i.e. that first real wrinkle or perhaps too much middle aged paunch on those washboad abs, the trash heap that is yesterdays news waits with arms spread wide.
By that time, we'll have a new, sexxy, dancy groups to compare to bands like U2.
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Ohh, so Mother Nature needs a favor? Well maybe she should have thought of that when she was besetting us with droughts, and plagues and poison monkeys. Nature started the fight for survival and now she wants to quit because she's losing...well I say "Hard Cheese"!
~C. Montgomery Burns
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*falls over, laughing uncontrollably*
*gets back up about fiteen minutes later and reads it again*
Oh my... She serious believes that, doesn't she? Shoot her now, and put her out of her misery...
She thinks that the radio and adolescent popular opinion is an indication of greatness? For one thing, the radio arguement doesn't even make sense! Of course there will be stations that play more BS Boys than U2! There are also stations that play more U2 than BS Boys. There are also stations that play Beethoven and Mozart and don't play either of those other two!
And just because she hadn't heard of U2 doesn't mean squat. All it means is that she's probably been living in a hole someplace. I wouldn't be surprised to learn that she's heard of Bill Clinton, but not of James Polk. Does that make the former a better president than the latter? Not by a long shot.
BTW, no offense to your girlfriend was intended, so don't go killing me or anything. :-)
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Jackson: "Basically, he was the original Satan."
O'Neill: "Well, isn't that special?"
-Stargate SG-1: "Serpent's Song"
(Just kidding, just kidding! Please don't kill me!)
BTW, the Backstreets don't have a documentary film made about them either. (If you look real close, you can see ME in the part of "Rattle and Hum" that was filmed at Sun Devil Stadium in Tempe, Arizona... during the song, "Where the Streets Have No Name.")
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"Let mental culture go on advancing, let the natural sciences progress in even greater extent and depth, and the human mind widen itself as much as it desires: beyond the elevation and moral culture of Christianity, as it shines forth in the Gospels, it will not go."
Goethe
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"I'd give anything to be able to turn invisible. I wouldn't use my powers to beat people up, but use them to protect the girl's locker room."
Xander Harris
However the sounds of U2 will last.
-For political-Sunday Bloody Sunday
-Gospel-I still haven't found what I'm looking for
-Rap-Numb
-Dance-Mysterious Ways
-Tribute-MLK, Angel of Harlem
-Covers-Some of the best covers not done by G & R.
-Retro-Discotheque(Everyone hated it, but it was a fun song not to be taken seriously!)
-Movie songs-All I want is you, and If God will send his Angels.
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Man it's a real shame when folks be throwing away a perfectly good white boy like that.
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Fool of a Took, throw yourself in next time!!
Gandalf
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"I object to all this sex on the television. I mean, I keep falling off!"
I was at a convention in Pittsburgh once where they played a video showcasing Spock, set to the music of "I still haven't found what I'm looking for."
It was, perhaps, the coolest of that type of video, or, really, ANY type of video I've ever seen.
I can pretty much bet that nothing similar will ever happen to BSB.
(The following is simply my personal opinion, without any numerical factual data to back it up. It is largely a matter of taste (good).
The BSB's music is pap, plain and simple. Homogenized, lowest-common denominator, easy-to-sing, drivel. It means what it says, but it says VERY LITTLE.
And the whole 'popularity' angle is garbage. If a billion people do a stupid thing, it is STILL a stupid thing. 'Pop' bands like BSB are DESIGNED to draw in the mindless or immature masses, who are looking for something to make them 'popular' with the 'crowd' instead of committing the unforgivable sin of being individuals. It's a sad thing, and I see it every day.
I have a standard by which I judge music. I listen to the radio during my 25 minutes to and from work every day. I have 12 stations programmed in, which I skip between. Any song I hear at over 4 times a day , or a dozen times in the course of a week, on the various stations, automatically goes in my 'slush bin,' as a SF editor would call it. (Alternate names: File 13, the Circular File, The OUT Out basket.)
BSB is one of the most overplayed groups on the air today.
I rarely hear U2.
That is how I know U2 is better. They HAVE to play BSB a billion times, to get you to listen to it. To give you no CHOICE but to hear that drivel. But I SEARCH the radio for U2 songs.
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"Nobody knows this, but I'm scared all the time... of what I might do, if I ever let go." -- Michael Garibaldi
They played "Who do you think you are" to a sequence of shots of Kosh, and "Wannabe" (lyrics like "tell me what you want, what you really really want") to a Morden montage.
At that point I think Lee's head exploded. A remarkable sight to be sure.
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Xander Harris
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"My Name is Elmer Fudd, Millionaire. I own a Mansion and a Yacht."
Psychiatrist: "Again."
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7 alarm clock: "Do not touch me."
Dilbert: "Then how do I turn you off?"
7: "Believe me, I am plenty turned off."
I need say no more.
--Baloo
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"Going to church does not make you a Christian anymore than going to McDonalds's makes you a hamburger."
--[Source unknown.]
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) and their personal trainers, as a collective won a Grammy.Milly Vanilly, like the BSB now, were produced out of whole cloth. They were a fabrication. An invention of producers who picked a look and fit the faces to what they wanted to that look. They then had someone else write songs that would appeal to a segment of the population and then had someone else play the actual music.
All of which I think fans the flames of the gf's general "the BSB were up for a Grammy" argument.
Which in and of itself leads to another agrument. The Grammys the last few years have been about record sales and not about music. Which is why the BSB were even up for one in the first place. The Grammys have given in to the evil that is Soundscan. A place where an album's sales somehow equates to inherent excellence. While the two are not exclusive, it is certainly a incorrect to say that simple sales equate to greatness.
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Ohh, so Mother Nature needs a favor? Well maybe she should have thought of that when she was besetting us with droughts, and plagues and poison monkeys. Nature started the fight for survival and now she wants to quit because she's losing...well I say "Hard Cheese"!
~C. Montgomery Burns
"Disco duck" (Rick Dees) was popular.
"The Streak" (Ray Stevens) was popular.
"Convoy" (C.W. McCall) was popular.
"Mairzy Dotes" (I dunno the performer/composer) was popular.
One of the above is now a children's song. I'll bet most of you responded "Huh? Wuzzat?" to all or most of the above titles. Popularity is no measure of greatness. Beethoven had many contemporary competitors, but unless you're a music historian, you probably can't name a single one of them. Beethoven was great. The rest were popular (and not all of them, either).
Just because something is popular NOW has no bearing upon whether it's truly important in the scheme of things. Even when it's important, it isn't always a good idea. Being a Nazi made you important in Germany from around 1933 to early 1945, but it didn't mean you were one of the "good guys", especially if you had Jewish friends and/or relatives.
"Popular" is overrated.
--Baloo
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--[Source unknown.]
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"We were leaving New York this morning and we were checking in at the gate at the airport and the attendant said, 'You must be musicians,' and I said, 'Yes,' and she asked, 'What's the name of your band?,' and I said, 'We're called the Statesmen,' and she said, 'Oh, I've heard of you!'. I think if we'd said, you know, 'We're the Green Egg,' or something, she would have said the same thing." - John Linnell
*Is only half kidding around*
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"Let mental culture go on advancing, let the natural sciences progress in even greater extent and depth, and the human mind widen itself as much as it desires: beyond the elevation and moral culture of Christianity, as it shines forth in the Gospels, it will not go."
Goethe
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Fool of a Took, throw yourself in next time!!
Gandalf
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"I'd give anything to be able to turn invisible. I wouldn't use my powers to beat people up, but use them to protect the girl's locker room."
Xander Harris
But, I cannot be silent. U2 is a lot more like the Backstreet Boys than some of you seem comfortable in admiting. Dare I utter the word "Popmart"? Then we have Bono who compares only with Sting in the catagory of musicians who make more "gutsy political statements" than music. Er...and Adam, uh, guy, of the Beastie Boys. Er, and all of Rage Against the Machine. Though the latter combine both, and make something that is, at the very least, interesting.
But that isn't the point. There is no point. There is every point. But U2 lyrics are not poetry. Soul Coughing lyrics are poetry with a capital OET. I prove it to you thusly.
An excerpt from Screenwriter's Blues
Gone savage
For teenagers with automatic weapons and boundless love
Gone savage
For teenagers who are aesthetically pleasing
In other words
Fly
Los Angeles beckons the teenagers to come to her on buses;
Los Angeles loves love
Of course, this stems from the fact that M. Doughty, singer and songwriter for Soul Coughing is a poet himself. And Soul Coughing references are fifty thousand times cooler than U2 references. What does U2 have to compare to "I absorb trust like a love rhombus" or "I ride the fader and I ride it low, I'm going to slip into the field like Han Solo and". Or has a song that mentions Josie and the Pussycats and the inner processes of atoms? In the same song, mind you. Well?
They Might Be Giants, of course, reference Gigantor, which is of course ninety-nine thousand times cooler than U2, but in a Japanese financial empire cool.
(I'm sorry, but I couldn't help myself.)
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"You are stupid and evil and do not know you are stupid and evil."
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Gene Ray, Cubic
It took me YEARS to figure out "Mairzy Dotes" was really Mares Eat Oats.
and does eat oats
and little lambs eat ivy
a kid'll eat ivy, too,
wouldn't you?
ARRGH! Now that song'll be in my head for the next two days...
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"Nobody knows this, but I'm scared all the time... of what I might do, if I ever let go." -- Michael Garibaldi
T.S. Eliot was a poet, but he couldn't dance.
e.e. cummings was a poet, but he couldn't (s)
*i
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Ohh, so Mother Nature needs a favor? Well maybe she should have thought of that when she was besetting us with droughts, and plagues and poison monkeys. Nature started the fight for survival and now she wants to quit because she's losing...well I say "Hard Cheese"!
~C. Montgomery Burns
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A side point, one that is worth mining in another thread, is that I am incredibly not happy.
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"You are stupid and evil and do not know you are stupid and evil."
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Gene Ray, Cubic
Yes, come with me to the wonderful world of Jazz. A place where one doesn't even necessarily need words to write poetry.
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Ohh, so Mother Nature needs a favor? Well maybe she should have thought of that when she was besetting us with droughts, and plagues and poison monkeys. Nature started the fight for survival and now she wants to quit because she's losing...well I say "Hard Cheese"!
~C. Montgomery Burns
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Man it's a real shame when folks be throwing away a perfectly good white boy like that.
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Man it's a real shame when folks be throwing away a perfectly good white boy like that.
I like Joe Satriani. I doubt anybody's heard of him here. He's a guitar virtuoso. He's got more talent in his finger than the Backdoor Boys have put together.
You can't say otherwise, or you haven't heard his music. But nobody's heard of him.
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"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."
-Mark Twain
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"This is a brand new song...we haven't recorded it yet, but we're going to now." - John Flansburgh
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7 alarm clock: "Do not touch me."
Dilbert: "Then how do I turn you off?"
7: "Believe me, I am plenty turned off."
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"This is a brand new song...we haven't recorded it yet, but we're going to now." - John Flansburgh
Another thing about image. U2 got popular with their music and then got an image. BSB was molded to the image that would make them popular. Take away their image and they are just another group of paid vocalists.
On a side note, I don't think anyone ever argued who was the cutest out of U2.
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"This is a brand new song...we haven't recorded it yet, but we're going to now." - John Flansburgh
The Edge is obviously the cutest member of U2. You can't argue over that.
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"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."
-Mark Twain
So Dane, you were at Tempe? Do you remember this quote?
"..... her Lover's turnin' on the Television. And I can't tell the difference between ABC News, Hill Street Blues, and the Preacher on the Old Time Gospel Hour, stealing money from the sick and the old. For the God I believe in isn't short of Cash, Mister."
That's one of my fave quotes and it's currently used as my sig over at TrekBBS.
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"My Name is Elmer Fudd, Millionaire. I own a Mansion and a Yacht."
Psychiatrist: "Again."
This is doubly cool because the Sandman comics referenced her BACK.
I don't know of any other times this has happened.
And the chick's got an entire song that consists of names of FLOWERS! o_0
Also, as I understand it a lot of bands in the 60's and later referenced the writer William S. Burroughs.
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"Nobody knows this, but I'm scared all the time... of what I might do, if I ever let go." -- Michael Garibaldi
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"You are stupid and evil and do not know you are stupid and evil."
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Gene Ray, Cubic
Oh, and I pronounce "Bono" w/ a long 'o'. If he wanted a short 'o', he should have spelled it "Bonno". :-)
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Jackson: "Basically, he was the original Satan."
O'Neill: "Well, isn't that special?"
-Stargate SG-1: "Serpent's Song"
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"This is a brand new song...we haven't recorded it yet, but we're going to now." - John Flansburgh
But seriously, did your girlfriend really think why she likes BSB? I know Michael and I have only three reasons we like the group.
1. The members are cute to us (Hey, Michael and I are gay, so sue us!)
2. They are currently the "it" band, but I think N'Sync will dethrone them soon though
3. It's the only music to put Michael and I in the mood to..ahhh..."exercise"
We both listen to what's popular in music, not just BSB. We both know the reason we like their music, and it's pretty superficial. We listen to Ricky Martin and to Marc Anthony when we both are in the mood to dance salsa, we listen to the Foo Fighters when we feel like driving like maniacs on the road, and we listen to certain rap songs like the song with Dr. Dre and that annoying white guy whenever we feel b*t@hy.
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We did it on the floor,
We did it by the door,
We did it all night,
We did it under a light,
So how about for tonight we do it some more...
Then I stand by my comment made earlier about Justin's sense of taste.
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"Sometimes I wish the planet would be scoured with cleansing fire. Other times I just wish Frank would be."
Sol System
BINGO!!!!
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"My Name is Elmer Fudd, Millionaire. I own a Mansion and a Yacht."
Psychiatrist: "Again."
And Tahna, I definitely remember that quote! That concert was far and away the best I've ever seen (and I'm a Rush fan, too, so that's saying something).
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Dane
"Mathematicians have long held that a million monkeys banging on a million keyboards would eventually reproduce the collected wisdom of the human race. Now, thanks to the internet, we know this is not true." -- Robert Silensky
I saw Stevie Ray Vaughn and Joe Satriani on MTV unpluged one night. I had always liked Joe, but Stevie made him look like a beginer that night. Joe needs to be pluged in to sound right, all his music is for electric.
I got my first Miles Davis disc a couple of months ago. I may have to get another soon, the man could play!!
Try Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, for some more great jazz, their bass player, Victor Wooten is the best in the business.
( small correction. I did not see the Rush, Hemispheres tour. I heard most of the music at the Permenant Waves tour)
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Fool of a Took, throw yourself in next time!!
Gandalf
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I'd give my hands to be able to play like he did.
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"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."
-Mark Twain
Which disc did you get? I could recommend others depending on what your tastes are.
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Ohh, so Mother Nature needs a favor? Well maybe she should have thought of that when she was besetting us with droughts, and plagues and poison monkeys. Nature started the fight for survival and now she wants to quit because she's losing...well I say "Hard Cheese"!
~C. Montgomery Burns
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"Life's a bitch, then you die"
-USS Vanderbilt, Vanderbuilt Class starship
I really don't know how the world works these days.....
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"My Name is Elmer Fudd, Millionaire. I own a Mansion and a Yacht."
Psychiatrist: "Again."
I'll give you a hint: It doesn't. :-)
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"Can't shake the devil's hand and say you're only kidding."
-They Might Be Giants, "Your Racist Friend"
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"Sometimes I wish the planet would be scoured with cleansing fire. Other times I just wish Frank would be."
Sol System
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We did it on the floor,
We did it by the door,
We did it all night,
We did it under a light,
So how about for tonight we do it some more...
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"Sometimes I wish the planet would be scoured with cleansing fire. Other times I just wish Frank would be."
Sol System
"Not all teeny bop idols are neccessarily shitty musicians. Jim Morrison and John Lennon were both poets, for instance.
Anyone who makes their musical tastes based solely on doability is an idiot. As much as I wanna bang Jewel or Sheryl Crow, I feel both have artistic ability
And I don't trust the musical taste of any man who does not appreciate muffy"
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"Sometimes I wish the planet would be scoured with cleansing fire. Other times I just wish Frank would be."
Sol System
Anyone up for a menage a trois?
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We did it on the floor,
We did it by the door,
We did it all night,
We did it under a light,
So how about for tonight we do it some more...
Ha HA! Oh my.
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"You are stupid and evil and do not know you are stupid and evil."
--
Gene Ray, Cubic
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"Sometimes I wish the planet would be scoured with cleansing fire. Other times I just wish Frank would be."
Sol System
I'm surprised there aren't more disgruntled DJ's from 'cool music' radio station in water towers with high powered sniper rifles.
Listening to the Backdoor Boys 90,000 times a day surely would make one go ravenously murderous.
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"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."
-Mark Twain
I'd say he needs theraphy, but our sex life would then suffer...
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We did it on the floor,
We did it by the door,
We did it all night,
We did it under a light,
So how about for tonight we do it some more...
Oh, and *sign*. Not to call everyone here a complete tit, but...you're all a bunch of complete tits.
Justin said "anyone up for a menage a trois?"
He was asking if anyone wanted to have sex with him and Michael. Since I would rather have my ball ripped off and fed to me in a sandwhich, I deceided to humoursly misunderstand what he meant, and pretend he meant listening to three BSB songs at once.
Straight over your heads people. Tsk.
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"Sometimes I wish the planet would be scoured with cleansing fire. Other times I just wish Frank would be."
Sol System
Postscript -
quote:
Since I would rather have my ball ripped off and fed to me in a sandwich
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"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."
-Mark Twain
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"Going to church does not make you a Christian anymore than going to McDonalds's makes you a hamburger."
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It doesn't matter if you don't know what you're doing as long as you look good doing it.
[This message has been edited by fructose1 (edited March 05, 2000).]
Wait... Nevermind. I'd rather not wonder about that...
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"Can't shake the devil's hand and say you're only kidding."
-They Might Be Giants, "Your Racist Friend"
That or he sat on a bicycle the wrong way...
As for my comments earlier, I was kidding about having a threesome. That would defeat the purpose of a monogamous relationship.
And a harpoon is an interesting substitute for a dildo though, but Michael and I are not into S/M, just light bondage.
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"Life is like a dick, sometimes you just wanna f**k it"
-Yun Zhu
USS Vanderbilt NCC-73121, Vanderbilt Class Starship
And S&M is an album by Metallica, who are ninety billion times better than the Backdoor Boys.
(Just trying to bring this topic back on topic)
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"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."
-Mark Twain
[This message has been edited by Ultra Magnus (edited March 05, 2000).]
I just bought that album and listened to it over the weekend. That is the coolest thing I have ever heard. I was dubious as to what Metallica would sound like backed up by a full symphony orchestra, but... WHEE!
MAN, it's really GOOD!
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"Nobody knows this, but I'm scared all the time... of what I might do, if I ever let go." -- Michael Garibaldi
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Homer: "I can see what's happening. They did it to Jesus, and now they're doing it to me."
Marge: "Are you comparing yourself to our lord?!"
Homer: "Well, in bowling ability..."
-The Simpsons
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"Sometimes I wish the planet would be scoured with cleansing fire. Other times I just wish Frank would be."
Sol System
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Homer: "I can see what's happening. They did it to Jesus, and now they're doing it to me."
Marge: "Are you comparing yourself to our lord?!"
Homer: "Well, in bowling ability..."
-The Simpsons
Now, if I could only find my other testicle, we'd be back in business.
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"Sometimes I wish the planet would be scoured with cleansing fire. Other times I just wish Frank would be."
Sol System
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"Nobody knows this, but I'm scared all the time... of what I might do, if I ever let go." -- Michael Garibaldi
Ah, the Simpsons...and Star Trek: whatever number. Klingons approaching once again, Kirk and everybody with arthritis and Scotty in Engineering who can't raise shields because he's so fat he can't reach the console even if he's at his station. Okay that's enough from me.
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7 alarm clock: "Do not touch me."
Dilbert: "Then how do I turn you off?"
7: "Believe me, I am plenty turned off."
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"Life's a bitch, then you die"
-USS Vanderbilt, Vanderbuilt Class starship
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Man it's a real shame when folks be throwing away a perfectly good white boy like that.