Favorite musicians/bands?
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The End is indeed a beautiful song. In fact, when the list came out of what was going to be on LOTL, I was a bit disappointed that that song and Force of Nature (my own personal favorite off of Backspacer) were not on it. I mean, how many live versions of Jeremy do we need, exactly?
Yeah, I was really excited when he started to play the song. I felt pretty lucky as it was the first time they played it live on the tour.
I need to check out the new AiC. I hear such good things about it.
To this day, when I think of MTV in the early 80's, the first mental picture that enters my mind is Sting, running up and down among all those candles.
Holy '80s flashback, Batman!
I couldn't talk my dad into including MuchMusic on the cable bill back then, but the regular channels had music video shows, which I watched faithfully every day after school. To this day I think there's no better video than A-Ha's Take on Me, even though I don't like the song much.My husband is a vinyl collector and also has an impressive collection from the 70s and 80s. He's lived in England all his life, and it's interesting to see the difference in quality between his old records and mine, which are mostly Canadian. On the whole the English ones are of much better quality than my Canadian ones, which are thin and wonky and sound very tinny compared to his. Most of my records are from the late 70s and early 80s, which probably explains the crappy quality. The exception is my record of Bruce Springsteen's Born in the USA, which sounds so good I never bothered to get the album on CD.
A few years ago my husband went to Argos (a catalogue store) to buy a new record player, and when he got home he realised the stylus was damaged. So he brought it back to the shop to ask for an exchange, and when he explained the damage to the pimply teenager behind the counter, the pimply teenager asked, "What's a stylus?". My husband, then in his early 40s, was not impressed and felt very old!
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Arrrrrrrrgh!
Nope, there was no button. It's still kind of a hack, really.
Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!!
Man, I have tried about every combination of html nonsense, both here and at YouTube, to post a frakkin' video here, with zero success!!!
Tried all of our little buttons with the URL, the embed code, etc....no luck! Tried quoting someone else's video to see the codes around it - no luck!
But I guess there never was a button at all!
The spaces above were just for the sake of example. You'll want to omit those when using the tags to embed a vid.
You'll want just the plain URL and not the embed code. If you click on the "Share" button below the video frame on the YouTube page (using the PJ "Come Back" vid as an example here) you'll get a highlighted URL for that vid you need only copy and paste. If you copy/paste from the address bar at the top of the browser window instead, be sure to leave off the "&feature=player_embedded" part - I think that probably ought to get rid of the extra html gibberish you were describing.
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To this day, when I think of MTV in the early 80's, the first mental picture that enters my mind is Sting, running up and down among all those candles.
Holy '80s flashback, Batman!
I feel the same way about that A-Ha video - it is truly impressive, even if the song is painfully 80's-dated now. Dire Straits Money For Nothing, which was cutting edge video at the time, did not fare so well in terms of retaining video impressiveness. But I still love that song, so there you go!
Here in the US, records got progressively thinner over time - I remember some of my parents records being really thick...but also easily breakable. If you dropped one on the floor, it would most probably shatter, whereas later records might well survive. And then they got even thinner and sort of 'bendy' - if you were not careful with them and did not keep them in their covers, they could easily warp. And never, EVER leave them in direct sunlight or near any sort of heat source.My husband is a vinyl collector and also has an impressive collection from the 70s and 80s. He's lived in England all his life, and it's interesting to see the difference in quality between his old records and mine, which are mostly Canadian. On the whole the English ones are of much better quality than my Canadian ones, which are thin and wonky and sound very tinny compared to his. Most of my records are from the late 70s and early 80s, which probably explains the crappy quality. The exception is my record of Bruce Springsteen's Born in the USA, which sounds so good I never bothered to get the album on CD.
A few years ago my husband went to Argos (a catalogue store) to buy a new record player, and when he got home he realised the stylus was damaged. So he brought it back to the shop to ask for an exchange, and when he explained the damage to the pimply teenager behind the counter, the pimply teenager asked, "What's a stylus?". My husband, then in his early 40s, was not impressed and felt very old!
To this day, I have never been able to leave CDs in a vehicle because of this. 
EDIT for M'S's post: Yeah, I actually figured it out last night. For some reason it didn't work at first, but then later it did. Don't know why I was getting that html code around the video when I was using the URL...but later it worked...so maybe I didn't copy the whole address or something the first time. Who knows? Anyway, I've got it now! And thanks again!!!! I had been trying to figure that out on my own forever.
I like a lot of Americana music such as Bruce Springsteen, Neil Young, Bob Dylan and more contemporary acts like The Gaslight Anthem, The Hold Steady, The National, Frank Turner, and Kevin Devine. I also love classic r&b, soul, and gospel like The Temptations, Sam Cooke, Otis Redding, Smokey Robinson, John Legend and The Roots. My favorite era of music is most definitely the greater 60s (1957-1973). I genuinely love pretty much everything that came out of this time period and after taking a Historical Research Class on the 60s, I have an even greater appreciation for the times and the music.
Okay...had a chance to check out these three songs today.
Of the three, my favorite is probably Acid Bubble. Although I'd have really liked Your Decision best if it wasn't for the gross bit at the tail end of the video.
Although on the plus side, the Your Decision video helped me warm up to the new guy - not as grungy-hot as Layne...but not bad, I don't mind saying. (Hey...I'm a girl - what'cha gonna do??? 
)Nope, not bad AT ALL.
Check My Brain is a very cool video and I like the song itself quite a bit...but sometimes that monotone-ish guitar thing they've got going on underneath is a tad much. I am going to look for a live version of this tonight though, to see if I like it better live. I like the song itself a lot though. And no doubt about it - the band still does sound like AiC....and no one else! Which is a huge plus.
I also spent a fair amount of time re-watching some of the old stuff...and even posted a few comments. Which was almost cathartic, in a way (although I did end up flaming the shit out of some moron who posted idiotic trash talk about Layne's death on the No Excuses video - teehee!
Maybe part of the catharsis? ) . Interestingly, there is still a lot of grief out there over Layne (as well as some 'WTF Anger', which I can also relate to - you know...the whole "Why didn't they just drag him out of his place and commit him or something - ANYTHING to keep him alive until he could pull together the strength to keep fighting!" I mean, how did NO ONE find him for TWO weeks? Had everyone in his life totally given him up for dead already? I've spent a LOT of time struggling with the idea of how alone he must have felt while he was still alive, if it took them that long to find him dead. I'm sure you've thought some of this stuff too....)But anyway, the more I read and wrote, the more I realized that I REALLY need to give this new guy a chance. I mean, it's not his fault that Layne isn't there - in fact, of everyone even remotely connected to AiC, he is the LEAST responsible! And you're right - he doesn't appear to be trying to just walk in and take over where Layne left off. At least on the videos, he seems to be sort of easing his way into place - not screaming "HERE I AM, FANS! You can forget Layne now!"
I like his demeanor about the whole thing, is what I'm trying to say. The guy is in a tough spot...but he seems to be aware of the fact that there is still a lot of grief out there, and he's trying to be sensitive to that. Which makes me like him.
So now I'm going to try and find some more songs from the new CD...and continue to work through my Layne-related 'issues'.
Powder Burns is a great cd, though I confess I liked the flow of Blackberry Belle a little better, however from the 4 songs I've heard I think Dynamite Steps might just surpass them both.
Dulli is one of the few artists who can do no wrong, even a song I don't like the first few tmes grows on me after a few more spins
in case you haven't heard the 2nd single yet here it is
on the corner...
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