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A question…

So, we had this conversation last week on the way to our annual lab float trip (which was lovely, by the way…), but I was wondering about the quality of certain decades of music… As in, personally, I’ve never cared for music from the 80s, but I really like music from the 90s. I can listen to the LAUNCHcast “90s Rock” station and consistently find great stuff from Live, Bush, Nirvana, Chili Peppers (you know, back when they didn’t suck…), Pearl Jam, and more…but if I listen to the “80s Rock” station, it’s all generally terrible.

My question, thus, is whether a). music in the 1980s was actually worse than music in the 1990s, or b). because I grew up in the 1990s, is my perception of 1990s music more favorable?

I kinda lean toward answer (a). myself, largely because it seems to me that people can listen to music from the 60s, 70s and 90s with little or no problem, but you have to have a “special taste” for music from the 80s… But then again, perhaps it’s just because I have a softer spot in my heart (yes, I have one, dammit…) for music of the 90s…

Of course, there are exceptions to these rules…there are plenty of bad songs from the 1990s and there are some decent songs from the 1980s… I’m just speaking on a broad basis here…

Thoughts?

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Strange days…

“Times, they are a changin’,” says Bob Dylan… Not that things are drastically different right now from where they were a month ago, but school has certainly shifted to a different “chapter,” so to speak… As of a few weeks ago, I have no classes to attend anymore in graduate school, so I’m working completely on research now. Really, I’ve just been spending the last two weeks getting in to all the literature on the subject(s) I’m investigating, getting papers from the last few years and as far back as 1948…

I guess it’s just that it’s going to be weird getting used to not being spoon-fed information anymore. It’s not like I can go to a textbook for this stuff, or go to a few lectures on a general subject and take an exam after you learn the material… Nope, now it’s reading directly from the fringes of all scientific knowledge, sifting through hundreds of papers and data to try and decide what information to focus on, and what to set aside… It’s just a different kind of learning, a kind that I’m not terribly used to…yet… Kinda like solving a puzzle, really, in that you run across various pieces that you have to fit together. If they fit, you win a Ph.D… 😛

Anyway, life is good, otherwise. We’ve got three weddings to attend in June (let alone our own anniversary…), and we’ll probably spend a little vacation time up in Minnesota while we go to one of them, but that mostly takes care of the weddings for the summer. We’ve gotta figure out what to do with Edie for a few of those weddings, but I’m sure there are plenty of people that’d be willing to watch her (hint, hint…).

Onward, summer!

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Country = Bad

Shoe

Sorry…it just had to be said…hehehe… Although, to their credit, the Dixie Chicks aren’t nearly as appalling as Toby Keith and the like…

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An Adventure…

So, Brooke and I went to Best Buy tonight and bought the new Audio Adrenaline album, “Adios” (their last one, apparently). While we were there, we found some $6.99 movies.

We bought “Wayne’s World” and “Adventures in Babysitting.”

Oh yes. We’re watching 1987’s greatest movie starring Elizabeth Shue, Vincent D’Onofrio, Bradley Whitford, and Penelope Ann Miller.

Could life be any better?

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So, if you’re performing…

…just got back from a concert at The Pageant… Ludo was headlining, and Quietdrive and Princeton were opening (and they all did pretty well, for the record…good concert, overall)…but there was this other guy named Adam Richman who started the whole thing. One guy and his guitar. Sounded so emo it hurt… Regardless, he prefaced one song with a comment from someone reviewing his debut album online:

“It sounds like the soundtrack to an ass-raping.”

Seriously, if someone wrote that about your album…would you tell the audience that? I guess it set the tone for the rest of the songs he performed…

Eeeeesh…

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So, if you're performing…

…just got back from a concert at The Pageant… Ludo was headlining, and Quietdrive and Princeton were opening (and they all did pretty well, for the record…good concert, overall)…but there was this other guy named Adam Richman who started the whole thing. One guy and his guitar. Sounded so emo it hurt… Regardless, he prefaced one song with a comment from someone reviewing his debut album online:

“It sounds like the soundtrack to an ass-raping.”

Seriously, if someone wrote that about your album…would you tell the audience that? I guess it set the tone for the rest of the songs he performed…

Eeeeesh…

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The absolute worst song

So, I defy you people to come up with a worse song than “Summer Girls” by LFO.? Yes, this is the worst song ever written.? I only bring this up because I heard “Hey Ya” by OutKast yesterday…which is a close second…but “Summer Girls” is, by far, the single worst song ever written.? Please…try to find a worse one for me…

Here are the lyrics.? I recommend taking a few shots of tequila before reading them…

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Yeah…I like it when the girls stop by.. In the summer
Do you remember, Do you remember?
…when we met..That summer??

[Chorus]

New Kids On The block,had a bunch of hits
Chinese food makes me sick.
And I think it’s fly when girls stop by for the summer,for the summer
I like girls that wear Abercrombie and Fitch,
I’d take her if I had one wish,
But she’s been gone since that summer..
Since that summer

[Verse 1]

Hip Hop Marmalade spic And span,
Met you one summer and it all began
You’re the best girl that I ever did see,
The great Larry Bird Jersey 33
When you take a sip you buzz like a hornet
Billy Shakespere wrote a whole bunch of sonnets
Call me Willy Whistle cause I can’t speak baby
Sumthin in your eyes went and drove me crazy
Now I can’t forget you and it makes me mad,
Left one day and never came back
Stayed all summer then went back home,
Macauly Culkin wasn’t Home Alone
Fell deep in love,but now we ain’t speakin
Michael J Fox was Alex P Keaton
When I met you I said my name was Rich
You look like a girl from Abercrombie and Fitch

[Chorus]

[Verse 2]

Cherry Pez,cold crush,rock star boogie
Used to hate school so I had to play hookie,
Always been hip to the B-boY Style
Known to act wild and make girls smile,
Love New Edition and the Candy Girl
Remind me of you because you rock my world
You come from Georgia where the peaches grow
They drink lemonade and speak real slow
You love hip hop and rock n roll
Dad took off when you were 4 years old
There was a good man named Paul Revere
I feel much better baby when you’re near
You love fun dip and cherry Coke,
I like the way you laugh when I tell a joke
When I met you I said my name was Rich
You look like a girl from Abercrombie and Fitch

[Repeat Chorus]

Bridge In the summertime girls got it goin on,
Shake and wiggle to a hip hop song
Summertime girls are the kind I like,
I’ll steal your honey like I stole your bike

[Verse 3]

Bugaloo shrimp and pogo sticks
My mind takes me back there oh so quick
Let you off the hook like my man Mr. Limpet
Think about that summer and I bug,cause I miss it
Like the color purple,macaroni and cheese,
Ruby red slippers and a bunch of trees
Call you up but whats the use
I like Kevin Bacon,but I hate Footloose
Came in the door I said it before,I think I’m over you
but I’m really not sure
When I met you I said my name was Rich
You look like a girl from Abercrombie and Fitch

[Repeat Chorus][Bridge]

In the summer girls come and summer girls go
Some are worth while and some are so so,
Summer girls come and summer girls go
Some are worth while and some are so so,
Summertime girls got it goin on
Shake and wiggle to a hip hop song
Summertime girls are the kind I like
I’ll steal your honey like I stole your bike

[Repeat Chorus]