 Mister Tibbles  | 29 Jan 2024 4:57 p.m. PST |
Typical Joker. Makes you click but nothing there. |
| robert piepenbrink | 29 Jan 2024 5:14 p.m. PST |
The Joker is often deadly but never serious. |
 etotheipi  | 29 Jan 2024 6:54 p.m. PST |
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| robert piepenbrink | 29 Jan 2024 7:49 p.m. PST |
Please, eto. Certain things--I will not call them music--should just be permitted to die quietly in the dark, lest our children and grandchildren mock us. |
 Parzival | 29 Jan 2024 9:36 p.m. PST |
Don't dis the Steve Miller Band, dude! |
| robert piepenbrink | 30 Jan 2024 4:22 a.m. PST |
Second worst piece of popular music ever. Only "Unchained Melody" tops it in the Piepenbrink Hall of Musical Shame. But what's happened to Dining Room Battles? Has one of his Master Villains made him disappear? |
| Parzival | 30 Jan 2024 7:42 a.m. PST |
"worst piece of popular music" Sorry, no, that's anything by Duran Duran. |
| etotheipi | 30 Jan 2024 1:22 p.m. PST |
If that's the worst music, then you must be a Barbie girl in a Barbie world, my little Ice Ice Baby… lest our children and grandchildren mock us. My kids like SMB. |
| Parzival | 30 Jan 2024 3:00 p.m. PST |
I stand expanded. The "worst piece of popular music" is a massive tie encompassing many so-called "artists" and bands. |
| robert piepenbrink | 30 Jan 2024 3:32 p.m. PST |
I thought Duran Duran was a city in southern Africa? Third place goes to "We are the World." After that, it's open season. eto, I'll need Googletranslate on yours. Doesn't really matter. Songs have been going downhill since the Limeliters and the Kingston Trio both lost their original lineups, and then some deaf-mute invented the electric guitar. Still some nice instrumental stuff, though. I wouldn't want to have missed the age of Williams and Goldsmith. |
| Parzival | 30 Jan 2024 5:36 p.m. PST |
The Kingston Trio may be my father's favorite group (aside from The Statler Brothers).
I learned the words to "The Sloop John B" from my uncle when learning to sail. But the most fun song of theirs has to be "MTA" (aka as "Charlie on the MTA" or "The Man Who Never Returned"), which has a great story behind it. It's not original to the group, and was actually written as a campaign song for a perennial also-ran Boston politician who opposed the "return fees" on the Boston subway system, which travelers apparently had to pay when leaving the train.
Here's the song as made famous by The Kingston Trio: YouTube link And here's the backstory: link |
| robert piepenbrink | 30 Jan 2024 7:03 p.m. PST |
"MTA" is classic Trio. But that takes nothing from "Zombie Jamboree." If I had to pick two for the Limeliters, it would be "Drill Ye Tarriers, Drill" and "Wake Up, Dunya" but "Dunya" is still locked in Deutsche Gramophone's vault. Maybe "Zhankoye."
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| Zephyr1 | 30 Jan 2024 10:12 p.m. PST |
"Typical Joker. Makes you click but nothing there." Or a Zardoz picture… ;-) |
