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« Reply #15 on: May 05, 2006, 08:29:58 AM »
OMGWTF of Set: "Smuggler's Blues."  Maybe I'd like it better if it were called "Plum Smuggler's Blues."  But as well-written as the song is, it's just way difficult for me to ignore how smirking and smarmy Glenn Frey is.
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« Reply #16 on: May 05, 2006, 08:30:22 AM »
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BOS to Pat Rent-A-Car's "We Belong," her best and most mature work (not that one implies the other).


Too bad Dave doesn't seem to agree.  Guess which is the only song of hers in the 10@10 archive?
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« Reply #17 on: May 05, 2006, 08:30:53 AM »
VHM "Smuggler's Blues", as we await Miami Vice: the Movie.
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« Reply #18 on: May 05, 2006, 08:31:04 AM »
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BOS to Pat Rent-A-Car's "We Belong," her best and most mature work (not that one implies the other).


Too bad Dave doesn't seem to agree.  Guess which is the only song of hers in the 10@10 archive?


If it involves a "lipstick case," I don't want to know.
“The choir of children sing their song.  They've practiced all year long.  Ding dong.  Ding dong.  Ding dong.”

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« Reply #19 on: May 05, 2006, 08:32:03 AM »
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OMGWTF of Set: "Smuggler's Blues."  Maybe I'd like it better if it were called "Plum Smuggler's Blues."  But as well-written as the song is, it's just way difficult for me to ignore how smirking and smarmy Glenn Frey is.


Agree with your analysis.  I either start by going "Oh God, here's Glenn Frey", and then wind up grooving a bit, or else the other way around.  Today it's the other way around.
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« Reply #20 on: May 05, 2006, 08:34:07 AM »
You know, I have still never heard the Tom Petty song that "Run to You" purportedly lifts from.
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« Reply #21 on: May 05, 2006, 08:34:12 AM »
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BOS to Pat Rent-A-Car's "We Belong," her best and most mature work (not that one implies the other).


Too bad Dave doesn't seem to agree.  Guess which is the only song of hers in the 10@10 archive?


If it involves a "lipstick case," I don't want to know.


Well then, you don't wanna know.

And I don't wanna hear this Bryan Adams song, in which seems to me the rhythm guitar is stolen from Donnie Iris.
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« Reply #22 on: May 05, 2006, 08:36:17 AM »
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You know, I have still never heard the Tom Petty song that "Run to You" purportedly lifts from.


Er, that would be a long list of TP tunes, no?
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« Reply #23 on: May 05, 2006, 08:36:29 AM »
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You know, I have still never heard the Tom Petty song that "Run to You" purportedly lifts from.


Dave plays this in '85 for some reason, but thankfully not often.
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« Reply #24 on: May 05, 2006, 08:37:35 AM »
Preemptive AAACCKKK!!!!   Jinx!
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« Reply #25 on: May 05, 2006, 08:37:51 AM »
WOW!  One of the EMP presentations was on Phil Collins' "Against All Odds."  Makes this an especially weird listen.  (I still need to post some of my conference reactions.  WIll do that today.)
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« Reply #26 on: May 05, 2006, 08:38:24 AM »
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! WOS Phil Collins, the Barry Manilow record that never was.
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« Reply #27 on: May 05, 2006, 08:39:47 AM »
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BOS to Pat Rent-A-Car's "We Belong," her best and most mature work (not that one implies the other).


Too bad Dave doesn't seem to agree.  Guess which is the only song of hers in the 10@10 archive?


If it involves a "lipstick case," I don't want to know.


Well then, you don't wanna know.


And that's just unthinkable.  "Love Is a Battlefield" and "Invincible" are simply incredible songs, and it'd be entertaining to get "Fire and Ice" and "Sex As a Weapon" every once in a while too.  Not to mention "Hell Is for Children," another worthy entry in the "Sounds Better When Sung By Fred Schneider" songbook.
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« Reply #28 on: May 05, 2006, 08:40:17 AM »
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WOW!  One of the EMP presentations was on Phil Collins' "Against All Odds."  


and what was that about? they defended it? trashed it? compared it to "I'll Never Love This way Again"?
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« Reply #29 on: May 05, 2006, 08:41:20 AM »
yikes, this has turned into Cheeze City!  Oh! Milo!
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