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12-08-2024 , 11:56 PM

#176

Phat Mack

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Originally Posted by golddog

Don't know if it's universally acclaimed, but the song Werewolves of London is an immediate turn the channel on the radio for me. Really dislike it.

Is it because they don't serve pina colladas at Trader Vic's?

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12-09-2024 , 05:17 AM

#177

sailorsaint

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Originally Posted by golddog

Don't know if it's universally acclaimed, but the song Werewolves of London is an immediate turn the channel on the radio for me. Really dislike it.

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Originally Posted by REDeYeS00

pretty sure the first time i heard that song was while watching the color of money
man i knew right then not to act fast or heady and confuse the forest whitaker ability with tom cruise

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Originally Posted by Phat Mack

Is it because they don't serve pina colladas at Trader Vic's?

From the fwiw department: the Dead began covering Zevon's Werewolves while it was on the singles chart back in '78.

I'm not 100% sure, but I believe it to be the only song they covered while it was still charting.

& word has it that Bob Weir's hair was perfect.

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12-09-2024 , 12:33 PM

#178

golddog

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Originally Posted by Phat Mack

Is it because they don't serve pina colladas at Trader Vic's?

It is the lyrics, but not that specifically. Just nonsensical gibberish.

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12-09-2024 , 04:34 PM

#179

lastcardcharlie

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Originally Posted by golddog

Just nonsensical gibberish.

What isn't?

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12-09-2024 , 07:22 PM

#180

golddog

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Rush's Limelight
Pink Floyd's Time
Twain
Shakespeare

Off the top of my head

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12-09-2024 , 07:39 PM

#181

Zeno

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Originally Posted by lastcardcharlie

What isn't?

My Master’s Thesis.

I proved God wasn’t Jewish.

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12-09-2024 , 08:05 PM

#182

lastcardcharlie

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Wittgenstein was Jewish.

Masters theses are jokes.

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12-09-2024 , 08:11 PM

#183

Zeno

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Only partially, I was able to demand more money and influence after I acquired mine.

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12-09-2024 , 08:22 PM

#184

lastcardcharlie

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I didn't get a Distinction for mine. Not that it mattered.

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12-09-2024 , 09:45 PM

#185

REDeYeS00

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Originally Posted by golddog

Rush's Limelight
Pink Floyd's Time
Twain
Shakespeare

Off the top of my head

may i request an important distinction
did you never like it or have you become numb over time
asking cause i agree song fatigue is a thing
but watching artists making music live is one of the most interesting things to me

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12-10-2024 , 01:00 AM

#186

MSchu18

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Originally Posted by golddog

Shakespeare...

Off the top of my head

It's taxing to endure... that is until you begin to realize how many really great modern Artists pay homage by ripping him off at a high level.

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12-10-2024 , 02:20 AM

#187

diebitter

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Shakespeare is such a better playwright than the rest of humanity combined. His story constructions are often weak and padded, but his characters and..... those words.... are beautiful and breathtaking.

I watch every single play on a loose rotation, and am lucky enough to live close enough to the RSC at Stratford to go see them at that lovely, cosy theatre, and have done so many times.

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12-10-2024 , 06:14 AM

#188

sailorsaint

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Originally Posted by REDeYeS00

watching artists making music live is one of the most interesting things to me

This!

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12-10-2024 , 10:59 AM

#189

MSchu18

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Originally Posted by REDeYeS00

but watching artists making music live is one of the most interesting things to me

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12-10-2024 , 11:28 AM

#190

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Originally Posted by REDeYeS00

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I kind of get the feeling I'm missing something. I've never been much of a music person. I enjoy going to concerts or whatever, but don't make a point of it.

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Originally Posted by MSchu18

It's taxing to endure... that is until you begin to realize how many really great modern Artists pay homage by ripping him off at a high level.

Hence, Limelight

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12-12-2024 , 03:55 PM

#191

NajdorfDefense

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Rush and Tom Petty, yuck. Each have maybe one good song. At most.

The Eagles. Blah. Yes, the guitar solo on Hotel California is amazing.

Perry Farrell plain sucks.

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12-16-2024 , 11:54 PM

#192

Phat Mack

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I hope this sets everybody straight.

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12-17-2024 , 02:00 PM

#193

John Cole

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Originally Posted by diebitter

I try to read King Lear every summer. Even Hamlet takes second place to Lear.

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12-17-2024 , 03:48 PM

#194

MSchu18

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He transcends any culture... just ask Akira Kurosawa.

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12-17-2024 , 04:08 PM

#195

John Cole

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Originally Posted by MSchu18

He transcends any culture... just ask Akira Kurosawa.

For those who don't know, Throne of Blood was called by Harold Bloom the best film version of Macbeth. Ran is also a good version of King Lear.

This is one of my favorite film adaptations of Lear. It captures that pre-Christian feel extraordinarily well.

Sometimes I think I've seen too many movies.

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12-17-2024 , 05:20 PM

#196

diebitter

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Ran and Throne of Blood are among the most excellent of Shakespeare adaptations. I think Polanski's Macbeth is also among the best too.

My favourite is Macbeth, always will be but there's many I really really enjoy greatly.

Timon of Athens is incredibly underrated, it kind of plays like 'What would Falling Down be like if it was adapted by Shakespeare'

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12-17-2024 , 08:31 PM

#197

REDeYeS00

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Originally Posted by Phat Mack

I hope this sets everybody straight.

set the record spiral for me

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12-17-2024 , 08:42 PM

#198

REDeYeS00

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Originally Posted by golddog

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Originally Posted by MSchu18

It's taxing to endure... that is until you begin to realize how many really great modern Artists pay homage by ripping him off at a high level.

Hence, Limelight

Limelight is so much more than quoting lines from a few sonnets
teen themes intertwined between the high school romeo trodding hallways as his stage

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12-17-2024 , 09:01 PM

#199

John Cole

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Originally Posted by REDeYeS00

Limelight is so much more than quoting lines from a few sonnets

teen themes intertwined between the high school romeo trodding hallways as his stage

The all's the world a stage speech is said by Jaques in As You Like It. Jakes, the Elizabethan word for toilet, was also called a jacques. As my old Shakespeare teacher said, everything out of his mouth was pure ****.

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