tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14994418.post4808366155026547417..comments2023-12-12T11:39:43.504+01:00Comments on Blurb from the Burbs: MedicatedMoohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08609190990579743429noreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14994418.post-78223145522778125702008-08-14T23:52:00.000+02:002008-08-14T23:52:00.000+02:00I can't believe I've never been to see Billy Joel ...I can't believe I've never been to see Billy Joel live, even when both he and Elton John came around a few years ago. I love <A HREF="http://www.laptopsessions.com/category/billy-joel" REL="nofollow">Billy Joel songs</A> and I love how he tends to stick to his own material and not play as many <A HREF="http://www.laptopsessions.com" REL="nofollow">cover songs</A>. One of these days...ChrisMooreMusichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04365942973589449310noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14994418.post-64671496742101884352008-08-14T11:21:00.000+02:002008-08-14T11:21:00.000+02:00Oh yeah fling away - I'll do the required "mum" sc...Oh yeah fling away - I'll do the required "mum" screen and see how we go ...re the "mum" screen I find it all quite hilarious since I am actually only masquerading as a mature adult!Naomihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15051686083182215146noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14994418.post-88676769960361342132008-08-14T08:55:00.000+02:002008-08-14T08:55:00.000+02:00River, that reminds me of a song I heard about twe...River, that reminds me of a song I heard about twenty years ago - Drop Kick Me Jesus, Through The Goal Posts of Life....Kath Locketthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09677312773827236567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14994418.post-65230500898713495102008-08-14T08:15:00.000+02:002008-08-14T08:15:00.000+02:00Anonymous, what does the Australasian Psychiatry h...Anonymous, what does the Australasian Psychiatry have to say about people who listen to country music? The happy country/rock stuff not the "woe is me, my darlin's left me" stuff.Riverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14794655013673748992noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14994418.post-51616606955306578882008-08-14T02:05:00.000+02:002008-08-14T02:05:00.000+02:00"You are a Dancing Queen"I remember being in Oakla..."You are a Dancing Queen"<BR/><BR/>I remember being in Oakland Colosseum in the 1979 to see the Rolling Stones "Some Girls Tour" and on stage before the show there was a guy announcing a "Smash Your Disco Records" event and starting a "Disco Sucks !! " Chant..I didn't have any disco records so I didn't go. There was a Disco in San Francisco at the time called Dance Your Ass Off Incorporated, I did go there once but I didn't dance. I didn't want to hurt anyone !!tomshideawayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09927685180560464873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14994418.post-14915101291256580352008-08-13T22:50:00.000+02:002008-08-13T22:50:00.000+02:00Great post . . brings back the memories alright. T...Great post . . brings back the memories alright. There is ALWAYS music in my house, I can't stand the silence. I'm always surprised as a uber loyal Double J and now Triple J listener that I know the words to more pop songs than I should! Probably due to the influence of the musak and the fact that we listen to commercial radio at work that keeps dredging up the hits of the 80s and 90's. Appart from a period of appalling bad taste during my yummy mummy days, I've had pretty eclectic taste but was never an Abba fan . . until recently. . .saw Mama Mia on the stage a few years ago and loved the music. I must be insecure about my sexuality, more likely to drive drunk and have unprotected sex,with a propensity to suicide! I'm a psychiatrists field day if my musical tastes are to be analysed! (can't stand Jazz or Opera)Bainohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14156193098088048637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14994418.post-24536708496367291982008-08-13T18:36:00.000+02:002008-08-13T18:36:00.000+02:00Anonymous 2 wrote "It (a study) found that people ...Anonymous 2 wrote "It (a study) found that people who listen to pop music are insecure about their sexuality" <BR/>..... well that would be about 99.9% of us, wouldn't it?<BR/>As Rob Gordon says in the movie 'High Fidelity', "What came first, the music or the misery? People worry about kids playing with guns, or watching violent videos, that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands, literally thousands of songs about heartbreak, rejection, pain, misery and loss. Did I listen to pop music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because I listened to pop music?"<BR/><BR/>Ashleigh, sweetie-darling-sweetie, you need a holiday!Kath Locketthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09677312773827236567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14994418.post-29398147312742642422008-08-13T13:17:00.000+02:002008-08-13T13:17:00.000+02:00Hmm. I used to listen to all sorts when growing up...Hmm. I used to listen to all sorts when growing up. Dad was (and is) a classical nut and audiophile (see my series about repairs to the Quad speakers, a mere $25K a pair) so we had that all the time. But on my own I listened to everything. Well, everything you could, back in the 1970's and 80's.<BR/><BR/>These days, the kids have the ipod clones at $69 on ebay (I'm tight, and they learned off me), and I like the sounds of silence. And not Simon and Garfunkle. Which was fantastic in about 1986, but these days, real golden silence. We get so little of it. Everywhere you go, bloody muzak or a radio channel. Shopping. Doctors waiting room. Dentist. Commercial buildings. And evil shit neighbours who decide that I need to listen to their music when in my lounge. With the doors and windows shut. And bolted. Hey you prats, I'm not asking you to ENTERTAIN ME. If I want that I'll do it myself, thanks. And my taste is still back in 1986, so kindly F*$% off.<BR/><BR/>Silence is underappreciated, and gives time to think. Without thinking we are lost. No wonder our civilisation seems to be heading to doom. All that mindless crap music repeated over and over in 3 minute cycles. Nobody thinks. ARRRGGHHH.ashleighhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03109431499306884717noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14994418.post-24326429249784334462008-08-13T11:04:00.000+02:002008-08-13T11:04:00.000+02:00From themusic.com.au"And you just thought you were...From themusic.com.au<BR/><BR/><BR/><BR/>"And you just thought you were weird...<BR/><BR/>Psychiatrists assessing their patients should consider their music taste in their assessment, says a study published in the “Australasian Psychiatry”. It found that people who listen to pop music are insecure about their sexuality, jazz types are loners and misfits, rap and metal fans are more likely to drive drunk and have unprotected sex, while fans of metal, trance and emo are more likely to suicide."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14994418.post-43955838833879911642008-08-13T10:15:00.000+02:002008-08-13T10:15:00.000+02:00Franzy - I *knew* you'd hate the ones I mentioned ...Franzy - I *knew* you'd hate the ones I mentioned - I hate most of them now too, precisely for the reasons you (and I) mentioned earlier.<BR/><BR/>Gigglewick - Soft White conjures up all sorts of unpleasant images<BR/><BR/>Myninja - Red Sails was my most listened to TAPE of 1985. It helped me survive matric! (sick to death of it now of course)<BR/><BR/>River - I got it during my 'I hate the Beyonce, rap-crap, nickelback shite on FM and the utter shite on the ad-free JJJ' stage, and preferred silence. Now I'm addicted to the treadmill, I started to use it. And like it. And am keen to find new music to put on it, not just old faves...<BR/><BR/>Naomi - apparently the 'System of a Down' guys have a new album, 'Scars on Broadway.' I got it to review, but it's ~ahem~ a bit too harshly sexist and brutal for my tastes.... maybe I could fling it to you for pre-listening and then one of your boys could have it?Kath Locketthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09677312773827236567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14994418.post-9477473154899687752008-08-13T09:46:00.000+02:002008-08-13T09:46:00.000+02:00Great post Kath! Confession time, I downloaded the...Great post Kath! Confession time, I downloaded the mp3s of all the tracks off the vinyl 1982 Out of the Blue and have them as a folder on my I-Pod, sad but true - Flock of Seagulls, Hooters, Huey Lewis and the News too funny!!!<BR/><BR/>Now my young guitarist is into Metallica, so I have had my share of exposure to them and system of a down!Naomihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15051686083182215146noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14994418.post-9566898924709158192008-08-13T08:28:00.000+02:002008-08-13T08:28:00.000+02:00Kath,GREAT POST.I grew up with a dad who was heavi...Kath,<BR/><BR/>GREAT POST.<BR/><BR/>I grew up with a dad who was heavily into music and a former member of the atrociously named ‘Soft White’ acoustic duo circa 1974 Melbourne pub scene. One of my vaguely coolsie claims to fame is that my parents met in a pub and eloped (not on the same night).<BR/><BR/>My youthful music consisted of whatever my dad put on (which meant Cream, the Yardbirds, the Eagles, and Santana). The first gig I ever went to was Goanna and Cattle Truck (jeeze what happened to Cattle Truck???) and the second was Men at Work, both when I was eight. <BR/><BR/>As a little ‘un I loved Kiss but then developed an enduring love of Split Enz. As a kid I liked pretty much whatever was going including but not limited to Cyndi Lauper, Crowded House, Hoodoo Gurus and Madonna. <BR/><BR/>As a teenager it became the Pixies, The Church, the Chills and the Clouds. By the time I was seeing bands illegally but of my own choice it was the Badloves, the Mavis’, Dead Salesmen and Spiderbait. And whatever local death metal was going – that seemed to be the thing in those days (the mid 90s).<BR/><BR/>At the moment I seem to be listening to ‘Employment’ by Kaiser Chiefs on almost constant rotation with ‘Veneer’ by Jose Gonzalez, 'Broken Boy Soldiers' by the Raconteurs and ‘Graceland’ by Paul Simon occasionally making an appearance.<BR/> <BR/>I like to embrace my inner dork. It makes the (very) occasional flashes of coolness seem that much more surprising to people.gigglewickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15920541341649189801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14994418.post-86846847909813633942008-08-13T07:56:00.000+02:002008-08-13T07:56:00.000+02:00Two and a half YEARS before you used your i-pod?? ...Two and a half YEARS before you used your i-pod?? Wow,that's a record I'm sure.Riverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14794655013673748992noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14994418.post-34517808420227989072008-08-13T07:49:00.000+02:002008-08-13T07:49:00.000+02:00Do you think you'd have liked them any if you hadn...Do you think you'd have liked them any if you hadn't been forced to listen to them?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14994418.post-69247990795045371652008-08-13T07:03:00.000+02:002008-08-13T07:03:00.000+02:00My god. I hate every single song and artist mentio...My god. <BR/>I hate every single song and artist mentioned in this post. Everything you've listed or even mentioned I have never willingly listened to, instead I've been forced into it by FM radio, musak, working at weddings, parties. Every piece of music here represents the ubiquity of Baby-Boomer/Gen-X culture over pretty much everything since and is why pretty much everyone I know doesn't like my taste in music.<BR/> <BR/>That said, I can understand completely why you love every single thing you've listed. They are (mostly) all great songs and artists and hearing ABBA for the first time would have been magic.franzyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02400212989359954521noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14994418.post-38136288066011964682008-08-13T03:41:00.000+02:002008-08-13T03:41:00.000+02:00I had no chance to form musical taste in my early ...I had no chance to form musical taste in my early teens - our mobile houshold had one am tranny reserved by dad only for the cricket, and a record player and associated stack of records of which the 1812 overture, captain beaky and johnny cash live at san quentin (which does rock)were the closest things to popular music.<BR/><BR/>I got a walkman for my 14th birthday and am still proud that <I>red sails in the sunset</I> was my first purchase.myninjacocklehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10061734136188769866noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14994418.post-78858212648137253022008-08-13T03:01:00.000+02:002008-08-13T03:01:00.000+02:00Ah yes, 'Master Blaster' - you're thinking 1980, m...Ah yes, 'Master Blaster' - you're thinking 1980, my friend, not 1979! Add 'Echo Beach' and even (gasp) Cliff Richard's 'Dreamin' to that list, and I was there too!<BR/><BR/>BS - I stand corrected. I also remember paying an enormous $42 to see Dire Straits at Footy Park in early 86, which was a big step from shelling out $28 to see Midnight Oil at Memorial Drive in 1985...Kath Locketthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09677312773827236567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14994418.post-74173283089924746152008-08-13T02:03:00.000+02:002008-08-13T02:03:00.000+02:00Hey, tickets to the ABBA concert were *fifteen* do...Hey, tickets to the ABBA concert were *fifteen* dollars, not fourteen. This was outrageous at a time when the standard ticket price was $9.90<BR/><BR/>(I still recall listening in 1973 to my older brother on the phone to a friend explaining that no, $5.00 was just too much to pay for a ticket to see the Rolling Stones at Memorial Drive)<BR/><BR/>And interesting that you should say your iPod is full of 1984 music - I read something the other day where some bloke was claiming that one's musical taste is formed in the early teens and rarely wavers thereafter - reckon he might have been onto something.<BR/><BR/>cheers<BR/>BSAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14994418.post-8660158070493718562008-08-13T01:06:00.000+02:002008-08-13T01:06:00.000+02:00I was there rollerskating at the basketball courts...I was there rollerskating at the basketball courts, at the showgrounds too. The tune I remember most is Stevie Wonder's "Master Blaster". Everyone would get up for that one!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com