Well argued!

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don't click. dangerous 80's rabbit hole tunage linked in the related videos side-bar.

Lynyrd Skynyrd - The Needle and the Spoon

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Flew too close to the sun on wings of pastrami

Friday - Rebecca Black

I'm saddened to hear these words. AIC first 2 albums are fucking awesome

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I think the thing with AiC, for me, was Layne's voice. Some people hate Billy Corgan's voice. I don't.
I've had the displeasure of seeing AiC twice, once opening for Van Halen like 25 years ago, or whenever FUCK came out,
and just 3 weeks ago opening for G's N' F'N R's, albeit with their new singer. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
I just don't like their songs, except for about 3 or 4. Would?, No Excuses, Them Bones, and I can't think of the other one.
I FUCKING HATE MAN IN THE BOX AND ROOSTER, 2 of the songs that were the most popular. I HATE them.
They played both of them at SF 3 weeks ago, and the most I could do was give a golf clap. While never getting out of my seat. A lot of people contend that they were the best band to come from that era. It's all relative. I think the drummer sucks, the songs seemed to never fucking end, and repetitive and boring as watching paint dry.

P.S. - they're still better than Candlebox.

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Just chillin' like Garret Quillin.

i did a CTRL+F "lou reed" on both pages and got 0 results. what the fuck is wrong with you guys?

1) lou reed - perfect day (the standard of all heroin songs IMHO, it "just keeps me hanging on" you know? =)

2) nirvana - anuerysm (it's pretty much flagrantly obvious in the first 2-3 lines of the song "comeon over and do the twist / overdo it and have a fit / love you so much it makes me sick")

3) colonel abrams - trapped (i've had ppl argue with me on this, but i'm pretty sure all of the colonel's biggest songs are about heroin. *shrug* check out his other "big" songs called "i'm not gonna let you (get the best of me)" and "how soon we forget" to see what i mean)

btw imagine my !!! when i first saw the vintage schwarzenegger flick "red heat" and they go into the quintessential coked up neon-drenched 80s club and i hear colonel abrams' original version going (cuz the first time i heard this was a boards of canada (hell interface) remix and i didn't hear the original until i saw red heat)

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oh yeah and there's an underground rapper out of LA/cali named cadalack ron who calls himself "the methadone don" so i reckon he's prolly got a few rap songs about heroin (call it a hunch) tho i'm pretty sure at this juncture he's been off for years.. maybe even 5+? it'd likely explain the whole "methadone don" thing --- lamentably idk any of his song titles off the top of my head, i just know he's a good dude to banter with online *shrug* so i'm sure you can look up anything by him and likely trip and stumble into a song about heroin.

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I have a vague recollection of Scott Loftus playing it ironically on the little metal station that could, RPM 103.1 in the 80s. It was the MeTv FM of its time.

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Soccer 1,2,3
Spanish Honor Society 1,2,3,4
Forensics 1,2,3,4

"Smiles with Nostrils"

"...no Hmong, go find some blacks"

Do you remember the name of Loftus's sidekick?

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Don't take it personally.

Velvet Underground was mentioned.

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Good people drink good beer - Hunter S. Thompson

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Waiting for the time when I can finally say
That this has all been wonderful, but now I'm on my way

I loved listening to that album under the influence of LSD, many moons ago.

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Good people drink good beer - Hunter S. Thompson

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Waiting for the time when I can finally say
That this has all been wonderful, but now I'm on my way

ok, so we'll agree on Candlebox...lol

Great point on Corgan. His voice isn't very good, but for me their music makes me look past that.

I missed AIC live...was supposed to see them open for Ozzy at ISU Redbird Arena, but drunk, pussified, dipshit Ozzie cancelled. In the studio, Layne's voice always sounded great for me....great guitar, great vocal harmonies. to me, AIC was way more important out of Seattle than Nirvana, but I that's just me. I know many disagree.

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I just remembered- Glenn the Phone Man.

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Don't take it personally.

"Hey Jude"

And if you think it's about Julian Lennon then you probably also think "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" isn't about acid.

This is my favorite song about heroin.

Blind Melon- 2X4

https://youtu.be/yXks26pMNQA

Off topic (or is it?) but I heard "The Banana Splits" theme song on 87.7 the other day. To paraphrase, the drummer doesn't know it's a damn show, he thinks it's a damn fight.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQTq88Ie5sU

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I think it is Jerry who you hate not Layne if you still hate the singing. Really Jerrys harmony was about 60% of all the singing and that is why most people think they sound the same. That being said you may really hate Mad Season and I can't blame Jerry there.

I also loathe rooster and man in the box but I am rather fond of everything else. The last two albums I would say have some of the best recorded sound of rock drums. The playing is fine nothing great but damn the recording is awesome.

Good old VVX, heavy metal out of Highland Park. Also briefly the Jammin' Oldies station before that format got driven into the ground.

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