Re: Breaking: The Angry Anger did not make the cut.

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Too easy.


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 12-16-09 5:08 PM
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1: Did ya ever wonder if I'm trolling you trolling nosflow? Huh? Did ya?


Posted by: Stanley | Link to this comment | 12-16-09 5:12 PM
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I have actually wondered that.


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 12-16-09 5:13 PM
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Oh. Well, I'm not. But that's funny.


Posted by: Stanley | Link to this comment | 12-16-09 5:14 PM
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Very well, then.

I think "Truman Peyote" is my favorite from the list.


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 12-16-09 5:15 PM
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Perhaps relatedly, I have recently innovated the following aphorism, basing it on well-known folk forms: "there's many a slip 'twixt the dress and the lip".


Posted by: nosflow | Link to this comment | 12-16-09 5:37 PM
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"Van Gobots" impeached! It should be "Van Go/x/bots" or something, no?

But they're right that "Fuckface Unstoppable" is genius. And Mkng Frndz, despite sucking as a band, have an enjoyably amusing name.


Posted by: nosflow | Link to this comment | 12-16-09 5:43 PM
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I confess: Fuckface Unstoppable was one of the ones I didn't get.


Posted by: Stanley | Link to this comment | 12-16-09 5:47 PM
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I don't think it's a matter of getting anything. It just hits you, you know?


Posted by: nosflow | Link to this comment | 12-16-09 5:50 PM
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I see.


Posted by: Stanley | Link to this comment | 12-16-09 5:55 PM
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Unstoppably! I concur: excellent.


Posted by: redfoxtailshrub | Link to this comment | 12-16-09 5:56 PM
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"Ska Skank Redemption" is good too.


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 12-16-09 5:59 PM
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12: Indeed. There are a lot of fantastic ska band names out there. Which is a pity, because, as with reggae, I can listen to ska music for about three songs, and then I'm done. (Excepting Operation Ivy, who might not even count as ska anymore.)


Posted by: Stanley | Link to this comment | 12-16-09 6:02 PM
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I like ska.


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 12-16-09 6:09 PM
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But then, my musical taste is notoriously meaningless. I also like Taylor Swift.


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 12-16-09 6:11 PM
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15.2: A dog whistle to my most recent FB status update? Hm.


Posted by: Stanley | Link to this comment | 12-16-09 6:13 PM
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Taylor Swift is very pretty.


Posted by: nosflow | Link to this comment | 12-16-09 6:14 PM
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16: Yep. Which song?


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 12-16-09 6:15 PM
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PopCanon used to do a ska-ified cover of "Up the Junction" which I like.


Posted by: nosflow | Link to this comment | 12-16-09 6:16 PM
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17: I remember watching one of her videos when someone here linked to it and being shocked to discover that she was blond. (I'm not sure why this was so shocking.) I had only heard her on the radio before.


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 12-16-09 6:17 PM
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I'm sure they wouldn't mind.


Posted by: nosflow | Link to this comment | 12-16-09 6:18 PM
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16: Yep. Which song?

"Love Story"


Posted by: Stanley | Link to this comment | 12-16-09 6:21 PM
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22: Ah yes. That one was very frequently on the radio when I was listening to it regularly.


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 12-16-09 6:23 PM
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Is that song more ridiculous than its video? It is hard to say.


Posted by: nosflow | Link to this comment | 12-16-09 6:23 PM
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24: Totes true. Totes don't care.


Posted by: Stanley | Link to this comment | 12-16-09 6:25 PM
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Never stop being you, Stanley.


Posted by: nosflow | Link to this comment | 12-16-09 6:27 PM
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Oh man, I had never seen that video until just now. It's awesomely ridiculous and overwrought, just like the song.


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 12-16-09 6:33 PM
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I just watched it again, because it's so awesome.


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 12-16-09 6:37 PM
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I like two Taylor Swift songs - Tim McGraw and Fifteen. Oh, and Our Song, so three.

However, when I was watching the CMAs (don't judge), it was painfully obvious that her vocals are really awful - especially when compared with someone like Carrie Underwood (who I don't particularly like, but she can actually sing). That said, she's fifty bazillion times more talented than I and really, really good at (co)writing catchy songs that capture that teenage feeling beautifully.


Posted by: Parenthetical | Link to this comment | 12-16-09 6:39 PM
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Does she actually co-write the songs?


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 12-16-09 6:40 PM
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It is my understanding that she does, yes. Off to wiki.


Posted by: Parenthetical | Link to this comment | 12-16-09 6:41 PM
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Re: OP... Gotta love the all female tribute band Paradise Titty.


Posted by: Turgid Jacobian | Link to this comment | 12-16-09 6:41 PM
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I thought she co-wrote most of her songs, but it appears (according to Wikipedia) that she has the sole writing credit on most of her big hits, which is impressive for a Nashville star.


Posted by: Parenthetical | Link to this comment | 12-16-09 6:44 PM
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Taylor Swift? Seriously? Just a few weeks ago I said something to Rory along the lines that I was thankful she doesn't listen (and force me to listen) to crap. Her response: "You mean, like Taylor Swift?"


Posted by: Di Kotimy | Link to this comment | 12-16-09 6:46 PM
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That is impressive. I was assuming she just had someone else write them. It does make sense, though; the lyrics tend to sound like they were written by a teenager. There's a certain authenticity to the feeling of teenagerism that you hear surprisingly little of in popular music.


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 12-16-09 6:47 PM
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Taylor Swift? Seriously?

I'm not proud.


Posted by: Parenthetical | Link to this comment | 12-16-09 6:47 PM
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I like her mostly because when I was listening to the radio a lot her songs were in heavy rotation on both the Top-40 and the country stations, and they were the only stuff on the country stations I could stand.


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 12-16-09 6:49 PM
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Another strike for the chosen one!


Posted by: nosflow | Link to this comment | 12-16-09 6:51 PM
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Wow, that describes my attitude toward music eerily perfectly.


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 12-16-09 6:52 PM
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one of her videos when someone here linked to it and being shocked to discover that she was blond.

Was it this post, teo? My Taylor Swift addiction runs deep.


Posted by: Stanley | Link to this comment | 12-16-09 6:55 PM
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really, really good at (co)writing catchy songs that capture that teenage feeling beautifully.

Using the name of a Neko Case song ("That Teenage Feeling") to praise Taylor Swift: I think this is some sort of heresy, ().


Posted by: essear | Link to this comment | 12-16-09 6:56 PM
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Yes! That was it.


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 12-16-09 6:56 PM
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I guess this is now the Taylor Swift blog.


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 12-16-09 6:56 PM
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It is not obvious that () was using the name of a Neko Case song, as such.


Posted by: nosflow | Link to this comment | 12-16-09 6:58 PM
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43: Better or worse than the Jessica Biel blog? Discuss.


Posted by: Stanley | Link to this comment | 12-16-09 6:58 PM
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41: I know, I did it on purpose. It may be heresy, but it is actually true.


Posted by: Parenthetical | Link to this comment | 12-16-09 6:59 PM
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Man there were a lot of good ones in that stanbandnaming thread.


Posted by: Turgid Jacobian | Link to this comment | 12-16-09 7:00 PM
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See if I ever come to your defense again, P.


Posted by: nosflow | Link to this comment | 12-16-09 7:00 PM
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45: I was able to comprehend the Jessica Biel thing.

(And yesn I'm being snobby what with not really having any particular musical taste.)


Posted by: Di Kotimy | Link to this comment | 12-16-09 7:01 PM
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Better or worse than the Jessica Biel blog?

Way better. This time it's about the music.


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 12-16-09 7:02 PM
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Teo, how do we know Biel can't sing. Certainly she's pneumatic.


Posted by: Turgid Jacobian | Link to this comment | 12-16-09 7:07 PM
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To put 37 in context, many of the radio stations in question were located in Farmington, where people love their country music. Even the Top-40 stations there sometimes play (straight-up, non-crossover) country songs. Other stations were encountered in the course of long drives through other, similar parts of the small-town and rural Southwest, in some of which there were no non-country stations at all.


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 12-16-09 7:10 PM
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51: We don't, but that very fact shows that ogged's obsession with her had nothing to do with her singing voice.


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 12-16-09 7:11 PM
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See if I ever come to your defense again, P.

Oops. Let me try to expand a bit.

Taylor Swift captures, in all of her inelegant phrasing and fairy tale romance, who I actually was in high school, much to my chagrin. I just wasn't that smart, that unconventional, that emotionally mature. I think that it is exactly the sort of sentimental, nothing matters more sort of love that she sings about that the "brave friend" of "That Teenage Feeling" is holding out for. Neko Case, the adult, is well aware of the pain that growing up brings - her songs are far too mature (in my opinion) to capture the sheer idiocy of high schoolers. Swift, on the other hand....


Posted by: Parenthetical | Link to this comment | 12-16-09 7:13 PM
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Yes, I know it was prurience-on Ogged's part-not healthy appreciation for her pipes.


Posted by: Turgid Jacobian | Link to this comment | 12-16-09 7:14 PM
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(Also, I am really amused with myself that I'm trying to defend this at all. Her songs are really, really hokey.)


Posted by: Parenthetical | Link to this comment | 12-16-09 7:25 PM
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54 sounds reasonable. Though I haven't listened to Taylor Swift enough to really get it.

If the blog has to be obsessed with some woman, I vote against Taylor Swift and Jessica Biel and in favor of Neko Case or Jenny Lewis.


Posted by: essear | Link to this comment | 12-16-09 7:27 PM
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I second 57.2.


Posted by: Parenthetical | Link to this comment | 12-16-09 7:34 PM
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"My Cousin, The Emperor" should have been "The Archduke, My Cousin".


Posted by: essear | Link to this comment | 12-16-09 7:35 PM
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I don't know why, but 29 reminded me of That Summer Feeling. Even in December.


Posted by: Witt | Link to this comment | 12-16-09 8:13 PM
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"Barrio Speedwagon" is an awesome name. Presumably they play conjunto power ballads.


Posted by: M/tch M/lls | Link to this comment | 12-16-09 8:42 PM
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I think Christina Hendricks should be the blog's new Jessica Biel.


Posted by: rob helpy-chalk | Link to this comment | 12-17-09 7:10 AM
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I saw Swift on Saturday Night Live and was really impressed. Not so much for the music, but for her stage presence and comedic ability--she really went for it and showed a real gift. I think she's going to be famous for a long, long time.


Posted by: Chopper | Link to this comment | 12-17-09 7:39 AM
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Catching up on this thread, I started to listen to the video of the Taylor Swift song linked in 22. Started, because the video was suddenly interrupted for an advertisement. Is that the way they do things on youtube now?


Posted by: eb | Link to this comment | 12-18-09 6:30 PM
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Ms. Hendricks is apparently going to star in an adaptation of one of Bérubé's books.


Posted by: nosflow | Link to this comment | 12-18-09 6:33 PM
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Life As We Know It is within arm's reach of me right this moment. Too bad that movie has nothing to do with it (though, really, with the crap Katherine Heigl has been turning out, maybe that's for the best. I still regret watching 27 Dresses and I'm generally a sucker for bad movies.)


Posted by: Parenthetical | Link to this comment | 12-18-09 6:55 PM
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