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RGMike

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Tue 7/5/05: It's 1980
« Reply #15 on: July 05, 2005, 10:15:46 AM »
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Wow, Dave casts "Jackson Browne" spell vindictively against the Princess and does 2d4 damage!


"2d4" ? is that hip-hop speak?

This is the same JB we heard last week from Bob, no?
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« Reply #16 on: July 05, 2005, 10:17:34 AM »
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I wish Dave would play "Freedom of Choice" instead of this.  It's far more relevant to our current relationship with media and entertainment.

"Freedom of choice is what you got.  Freedom from choice is what you want."

Agreed, but  wasn't that on a later LP? - "The New Traditionalists" I remember it around 1982ish

You know, I really have no idea.  Devo never really changed their sound so I'd never know one album from another.  (BTW, I do like "Whip It" a lot; I just hear it a lot.)
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« Reply #17 on: July 05, 2005, 10:18:57 AM »
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Wow, Dave casts "Jackson Browne" spell vindictively against the Princess and does 2d4 damage!


"2d4" ? is that hip-hop speak?


Even worse: D&D-speak.  "2d4" means "roll a four-sided die twice."  The resulting number indicates the amount of damage done.

Ooh!  BOS to Yoko's wishing bell (which I mistakenly assumed to be an elevator opening for YEARS).
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« Reply #18 on: July 05, 2005, 10:19:04 AM »
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I wish Dave would play "Freedom of Choice" instead of this.  It's far more relevant to our current relationship with media and entertainment.

"Freedom of choice is what you got.  Freedom from choice is what you want."

Agreed, but  wasn't that on a later LP? - "The New Traditionalists" I remember it around 1982ish

You know, I really have no idea.  Devo never really changed their sound so I'd never know one album from another.  (BTW, I do like "Whip It" a lot; I just hear it a lot.)


Both Whip It and Freedom of Choice were on the same album (I bought it), I think named "Freedom of Choice"
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« Reply #19 on: July 05, 2005, 10:19:28 AM »
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"2d4" ? is that hip-hop speak?

You've obviously never played Dungeons & Dragons- which, come to think of it, was something I was doing in 1980!

ETA: Gaz explained it better while I was busy composing these brilliant lines...

My copy of Double Fantasy kept skipping. I took it back- exchanged it- and that kept skipping, too. Do you think the spirit of John Lennon was pissed at me?
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Tue 7/5/05: It's 1980
« Reply #20 on: July 05, 2005, 10:20:30 AM »
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I wish Dave would play "Freedom of Choice" instead of this.  It's far more relevant to our current relationship with media and entertainment.

"Freedom of choice is what you got.  Freedom from choice is what you want."

Agreed, but  wasn't that on a later LP? - "The New Traditionalists" I remember it around 1982ish

You know, I really have no idea.  Devo never really changed their sound so I'd never know one album from another.  (BTW, I do like "Whip It" a lot; I just hear it a lot.)

just googled it and you were right - same album as whip it
http://www.freedomofchoice.com/devo/songs.asp
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Tue 7/5/05: It's 1980
« Reply #21 on: July 05, 2005, 10:23:24 AM »
BOS to Dire Straits
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« Reply #22 on: July 05, 2005, 10:27:05 AM »
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My copy of Double Fantasy kept skipping. I took it back- exchanged it- and that kept skipping, too. Do you think the spirit of John Lennon was pissed at me?


If so, he was pissed at me too: When I was a member of BMG they advertised that DF had Yoko's "Walking on Thin Ice" on it, so I ordered it.  Found that it wasn't on there, so I returned it in a huff.

P.S.  I wasn't playing D&D until 1982, and didn't do well at it: I loved creating characters but got impatient with the adventures.  The final straw for my brother was when I used half my allotment of gold pieces to buy 25 chickens: I argued that they were a performing chorus called "Pick O' the Chix."  I was promptly killed off.  I hated having an older brother sometimes.
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« Reply #23 on: July 05, 2005, 10:29:43 AM »
WOS (natch) to somnambulent Doobs, "Real Love."  Why don't they steal away, why don't they steeeeal uhhhh-waaaaay?
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« Reply #24 on: July 05, 2005, 10:31:35 AM »
assuming this Doobs is a Gaz WOS -- this isn't even one of MY fave McDonald trax  -- too too obvious an attempt to clone "What a Fool Believes".

Gaz, your av is freaking me out.  "Journey when their album covers were cheezy."
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« Reply #25 on: July 05, 2005, 10:32:37 AM »
I get the feeling there were lots of inferior copies of "Double Fantasy" made because they were made in haste following John's murder (I hadn't gotten 'round to getting mine until after).

As for why Yoko's song wasn't on there: ya got me.

As for your chickens: you should have spent the rest of your gold on razor wire for their feet & arrowheads for their beaks. Then they could have been "attack chickens" as well as "performing chickens". It's all in how you present it, babe.  :D
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« Reply #26 on: July 05, 2005, 10:32:45 AM »
Heh: followed by a visit to the Real Love Canal.
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« Reply #27 on: July 05, 2005, 10:33:54 AM »
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Gaz, your av is freaking me out.  "Journey when their album covers were cheezy."

And when their video games were even cheezier!
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« Reply #28 on: July 05, 2005, 10:34:00 AM »
pretty exciting back then, eh?  crank it up!
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« Reply #29 on: July 05, 2005, 10:34:56 AM »
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Heh: followed by a visit to the Real Love Canal.


I always figured Hooker Chemical made antibiotics and prophylactics :wink:
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