Comments | barbarienne: I weep for the future.

barbarienne

I weep for the future.

Apr 07, 2009 16:22

Ya know, it doesn't surprise me too much that the frats across the way are playing music that was popular when I was in high school and college. I mean, when I was in college, we were all listening to Led Zepplin, the Beatles, the Moody Blues, and the Rolling Stones, and I'm sure the 40-somethings were thinking "Hey, we used to listen to this when ( Read more... )

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maradydd April 7 2009, 21:49:11 UTC

Derh? The Cure have had quite a career these last thirty years...

paleologa April 7 2009, 21:58:42 UTC

This.

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barbarienne April 8 2009, 01:35:38 UTC

You are all absolutely right. Corrected in main post.

dorianegray April 7 2009, 22:16:06 UTC

Look on the bright side. They could be playing the complete catalogue of Lock, Stock and Barrel.

rhia_hilldancer April 7 2009, 22:56:08 UTC

but, friday i'm in love was released in the 90's! i'm with you, though. if you are going to play the cure, it should be 10:15 on a saturday night, killing an arab, or boys don't cry. now i wanna listen to the cure... hahaha

jon_chance April 7 2009, 23:11:51 UTC

I just had to pop in to say how much I love "Tainted Love"! Awesome, awesome song.

Dexy's Midnight Runners on the other hand, I despised. I cannot say I hate them now since that would mean I would need to care one way or the other.

onyxhawke April 8 2009, 05:19:46 UTC

What's wrong with Dexy? or Soft Cell? Next you'll be talking smack about Cutting Crew, White Snake, Winger and Wang Chung.

barbarienne April 8 2009, 16:54:33 UTC

There's nothhing wrong with any of these groups, any more than there's anything wrong with The Captain and Tennille, The Carpenters, or Lipps, Inc. I even own "Come On Eileen" on 45, and re-bought it from iTunes.

I'm just flabbergasted that of everything 80s, that song in particular would have such legs.

delkytlar April 8 2009, 15:56:58 UTC

VH1 just ran a marathon of "100 Greatest One-Hit Wonders of the 80s". What do you want to bet that some guys at the frat house watched it all, and decided it would make a great playlist? Which it would, of course.

However, having been a member of an Irish fraternity in the 80s, if I never hear U2 again, it will be too soon. Dexy's is protest music of the best kind to my ears after four years of non-stop U2. The only time they ever played anything other than U2 in our fraternity house was when I commandeered the tape player (remember cassette tapes?) and played three hours of George Thorogood and KISS. It was the only party we ever had where people actually got up, air-banded, karaoked, and danced!

barbarienne April 8 2009, 16:57:02 UTC

I'll grant that even U2 could get tiresome after a while. (Though my sister does like to tell the story of how in her freshman year of college, a little-known Irish rock band with a good-looking lead singer played at the school...)

delkytlar April 8 2009, 18:10:34 UTC

Your sister got to see The Pogues live? That's cool! :P