| it's not easy being green - 08.20.05 |
| submitter: | noel sies |
| location: | the hague, the netherlands |
| great song |
| category: | Tainted |
| comments: | 83 |
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| wim commented on 06.13.11 | | well I don't teach philosophy and think it's a great song, for froggs |
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| Smart Set commented on 09.28.05 | | What do you teach, noel? I guess Philosophy. |
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| noel commented on 09.28.05 | | no, probably trying to make too much of a statement. And as they say, never try too much, it will backfire |
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| Flaming Lips commented on 09.28.05 | | accepted |
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| Smart Set commented on 09.28.05 | | Are you apologising to Flaming Lips? |
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| noel commented on 09.28.05 | | I'm sorry 'FLAMING LIPS'! |
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| Smart Set commented on 09.28.05 | | No, noel, Nirvana. |
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| noel commented on 09.28.05 | | 'Flaming lips'? |
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| Smart Set commented on 09.28.05 | | ART, you wanna play the baby some "In Utero". |
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| noel commented on 09.28.05 | | I don't think we need to know all the details Art.
Het blijft een mooie hobby voor de avonduren Art, maar niet verder vertellen. |
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| ART commented on 09.28.05 | | I communicate with the little fellow, as if he can hear me, so also with music, the iPod-ears underneath the elastic band of Gwen's trousers and let the music play! Noel...leraar, en wij maar denken dat je met de vuilkar reed ;-) |
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| noel commented on 09.28.05 | | jong geleerd, oud gedaan, Art |
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| Smart Set commented on 09.28.05 | | ART, your baby's not even born yet - give it a break! |
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| noel commented on 09.28.05 | | I liked the later Stevie Nicks era, as in from Mirage onwards, but I recently heard some material from the early 1970's (post blues, peter green etc.) which I quite liked. But I will have to admit that my confesseion gets worse when I also tell you that I like,.............wait for it..... The Corrs!!
Wow, never thought I'd be able to say tha. |
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| ART commented on 09.28.05 | | I forgot to mention: best CD of DS is "On The Night"..it's live and has al the best of..will always be my nr 1..I even let the baby hear it once in a while so that he knows what is good ;-) |
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| Smart Set commented on 09.27.05 | | Early Fleetwood Mac or Stevie-Nicks-era? |
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| Rebecca commented on 09.27.05 | | Hey, even I sing along to the "classic rock" radio stations once in a while. |
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| noel commented on 09.27.05 | | a lot of defensive action going on here. Ok I will admit I like Fleetwood Mac. Well I'm glad I have been given the chance to come out with it. Thank you. See what kind of reaction that turns out |
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| Smart Set commented on 09.27.05 | | ART, when I used the term MOR in relation to DS, I had a vague alarm bell going off in my head which said "ART is a fan", but I pressed on regardless! I don't want to denigrate your choice of music, it's just that DS are what I would term MOR. Having said that, I do quite like a couple of their songs, but I couldn't manage a whole album's worth. I don't think liking DS necessarily says anything about your way of life, it just says what kind of music you prefer. |
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| ART commented on 09.27.05 | | PS: Nancy, I've never ever put my Ipod on stereo, and I sure like the Bose boxes but I've got a big stereo who I normally can hook up...do they really sound that great?I'm convinced that my children will have one big harddisk with a screen and boxes and that'll be everything they need to get trough their puberty |
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| ART commented on 09.27.05 | | now, I wanna interfear, Dire Straits indeed were the first to bring out a commercial CD, they played on radio for the first time around my birth, I listen to them with an avarage of 30min per day in the last 7 years, so one could say I'm a fan...as I have seen 2 shows of Mark Knopfler, and having about 60cd's of them/him/other related artists...I realize I'm putting myself in a vulnerable position, but hey, I just like DS...so am I MOR? that means that I chose for the soft and easy way of life, or do I misunderstand? |
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| Smart Set commented on 09.27.05 | | I didn't trade in the DS CD, I gave it away. I bought two AFOS 7" singles. I didn't say I "didn't really like" them, in fact I said they were pretty good singles. opposite. which, like Dan, I still quite like (whenever I play them, which is about once every seven years). |
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| noel commented on 09.27.05 | | so you had a dire straights album you never really liked and traded it in for a flock of seagulls, which you didnt really like in hindsight. Maker up your mind. I mean what's next! |
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| Smart Set commented on 09.27.05 | | He must have a very short lunch-break. |
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| Nancy Dumpling commented on 09.27.05 | | He's gone again already... |
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| Smart Set commented on 09.27.05 | | Dan, I've noticed that you often pop in, make one comment and then disappear for ages. You must be a busy man, what with all that 12' timber an' all. |
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| Rebecca commented on 09.27.05 | | I got it, it was a joke. |
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| Smart Set commented on 09.27.05 | | The latter, Dan, though I was really just making a joke. I never did like them much in the first place. |
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| DVD Dan commented on 09.27.05 | | SS are you saying you have a true case of CD rot or does "not sound good anymore" mean you don't like the band anymore? |
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| DVD Dan commented on 09.27.05 | | A Flock of Seagulls had 4 top 100 songs, 1 top 10, in the states. The first hit the charts 7-10-1982 the last 8-11-1984. Their hairdo is immortalized in Adam Sandler's movie "The Wedding Singer".
I have three records (yes vinyl) of theirs. I have to admit after hearing one of their songs recently I thought to myself hey I really do like them still. Another thing you now instantly that a Flock song is playing unlike all the Grunge bands that sound alike. Maybe if I listened to music like I did in the 80's I'd be able tell them apart or not. When ever my wife asks who's that I just say it's Temple of the Pearl Dogs Garden. |
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| Rebecca commented on 09.27.05 | | All you have to do is look up. |
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| Smart Set commented on 09.27.05 | | What a horrific image! |
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| Rebecca commented on 09.27.05 | | Exactly. We have tons of them here, they are in everyone's houses, up in the corners seething about it. They get agitated and swing back and forth in their webs in frustration. |
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| Smart Set commented on 09.27.05 | | "fatal if their jaws were big enough" Do you mean they are highly venomous but their puny jaws can't pierce our mighty skin? We have some critters like that here. |
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| Rebecca commented on 09.27.05 | | The ones here don't take cash but they do like ants. |
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| Smart Set commented on 09.27.05 | | You pays your (protection) money... |
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| Rebecca commented on 09.27.05 | | The ones here are spiders. |
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| Smart Set commented on 09.27.05 | | Thank goodness they don't have jaws. They're a horrible spindly flying insect - aka crane flies. |
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| Rebecca commented on 09.27.05 | | They would be fatal if their jaws were big enough. |
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| Smart Set commented on 09.27.05 | | Aagh, I am being menaced by a daddy-longlegs! |
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| Rebecca commented on 09.27.05 | | When I was in L.A. a couple of weeks ago I met some women who said they had sound on their IM programs that sounded kind of like that. |
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| Smart Set commented on 09.27.05 | | You could have one of those text-to-speech programs and we would all sound like Stephen Hawking. |
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| Rebecca commented on 09.27.05 | | No but I hear lots of other random stuff...I figure it's a remnant of the "good old days." |
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| Smart Set commented on 09.27.05 | | Do these comments usually come out as speech at your end, then? |
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| Rebecca commented on 09.27.05 | | I expect the silent treatment from here on out. The shame! |
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| Rebecca commented on 09.27.05 | | Well the Bee Gees were a big part of it so yes, it's really really bad. |
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| Smart Set commented on 09.27.05 | | That's a minute piece of manure! |
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| Rebecca commented on 09.27.05 | | That would explain it. I had already gone underground by the early 80s. |
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| Smart Set commented on 09.27.05 | | Early '80s, for about five minures. |
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| Rebecca commented on 09.27.05 | | Oh good lord. What was he thinking? |
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| Smart Set commented on 09.27.05 | | That's not too bad, unless it was the Bee Gees you went for. |
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| Rebecca commented on 09.27.05 | | When were they popular? |
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| Smart Set commented on 09.27.05 | | A Flock of Seagulls (to give then their full title) were from Liverpool and the singer/lead gtr had a very silly haircut. Google Image 'em. But they had one or two pretty good singles. |
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| Rebecca commented on 09.27.05 | | Mind you I was very young at the time, and easily misguided. |
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| Rebecca commented on 09.27.05 | | Okay here's the very worst of it - I saw Saturday Night Fever...more than once. |
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| Rebecca commented on 09.27.05 | | And I'll make one thing very clear right now - I never liked Shaun cassidy! |
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| Rebecca commented on 09.27.05 | | I am barely even aware of their existence and have no idea what they did. |
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| Smart Set commented on 09.27.05 | | Any Flock of Seagulls stuff? |
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| Rebecca commented on 09.27.05 | | That's what I thought. I'm thinking about it. |
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| Smart Set commented on 09.27.05 | | MOR = middle of the road = bland. Go on, tell us some! |
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| Rebecca commented on 09.26.05 | | I've never been MOR (if I'm translating that correctly) but I can recall some embarrassing musical choices from my early years. |
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| Smart Set commented on 09.26.05 | | So you're a teacher are you, noel? Do your pupils know about your streetmattress thing? |
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| Smart Set commented on 09.26.05 | | As I recall, "Brothers in Arms" was one of the very first mega-unit-shifting CDs and played a big part in popularising the medium. But I was joking about it. I did buy it, but quickly realised I didn't like it much and gave it away to my mate Russ whose tastes were more MOR. I used to have some 10CC LPs, too, but enough embarrassing confessions. |
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| Rebecca commented on 09.26.05 | | Scary. And the 80s was past the days of "dialing" a phone even. But what is a Syltec G3 interlink? |
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| noel commented on 09.26.05 | | In 20 year's time nobody under 20 will know what a CD is. I have a 1980s telephone in my classroom and the kids don't know what it is. |
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| noel commented on 09.26.05 | | not to fear, i can recomend you a 'syltec'G3 interlink. It will set you back a few hundred but it's well worth while |
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| Rebecca commented on 09.26.05 | | LOl. I didn't know they even had CDs in the 80s but I certainly know what you mean! |
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| Smart Set commented on 09.26.05 | | My "Brothers in Arms" CD certainly has. I thought it sounded great in the '80s! :( |
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| noel commented on 09.26.05 | | definitely. There's a good chance that my old records will survive all my CDs |
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| Rebecca commented on 09.26.05 | | I've also heard that CDs deteriorate over time. |
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| noel commented on 09.26.05 | | technically speaking a record is also richer and warmer. It has harmonics that effect what we hear which go lower as well as higher than our rather pathetic hearing. Sorry I'm getting carried away |
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| Rebecca commented on 09.26.05 | | Um, sure, Noel, I'm just saying that no matter what the reason, if a record sounds richer and warmer to us then that's the way it sounds. |
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| noel commented on 09.26.05 | | Couldn't agree more with you Vogon. People are usually stupified when they hear records the way they should sound. Rebecca, I think enlarging your perception, through experience maybe, is a very important part of eveything else |
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| Rebecca commented on 09.26.05 | | all we know is our perception so anything else is not an important part of our experience. |
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| A. Scientist commented on 09.26.05 | | It's distortion but we perceive it as "warmth". |
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| Vogon3 commented on 09.26.05 | | nothing beats the sound of a record the richness is just not there on a cd or digital |
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| noel commented on 09.26.05 | | you're missing out, believe me |
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| Nancy Dumpling commented on 09.26.05 | | I hardly use my stereo now - like you, iTunes and Bose Ipod speakers (best $300 I ever spent) rule the house at my place. |
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| ART commented on 09.26.05 | | I use iTunes, and have about 10000 songs on harddisk, that means that my stereo isn't used that much anymore...I wonder how my kid is gonna experience the music-scene in his twenties |
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| noel commented on 09.26.05 | | Smart: sorry, I ran out of time. Anyway, the shop window says 'Doorwtje', which might be a joke about someone called 'Doortje' and, well it's not really a shop but rather one of our famous 'coffee houses' where they sell anything but that and which are usually frequented by dope heads.
Art, yes I am once again very much into music. I bought myself a new stereo and i'm listening to all my old records and having a wonderfull time doing so. TV hasn't been on in about two months |
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| Smart Set commented on 09.26.05 | | noel? NOEL!! Wake up, man! It's question time. |
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| ART commented on 09.23.05 | | Noel, you're in a music-period? |
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| Smart Set commented on 09.22.05 | | What does it say on the shop window, noel? Is it a desert- island merchant's? |
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