Re: Find me the adjective

On Mon, 12 May 2008 16:53:07 -0400, N Jill Marsh <njmarsh@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>On Sun, 11 May 2008 22:07:57 -0500, QueBarbara
><que.barbara.lanc@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>It's interesting that the two songs Dover mentioned (The Night Lights
>>Went Out in Georgia, One Tin Soldier) are all within a few years of
>>others in the same genre, like Billy Don't Be a Hero, Tie a Yellow
>>Ribbon, The Night Chicago Died, The Morning After.  Major suckatage.
>
>The Canadian Broadcasting Cor****ation has an excellent radio program
>called "Randy's Vinyl Tap", which is pretty much Randy Bachmand
>yakking and playing whatever he wants to play.  The last couple of
>shows have been "stuck at number two", where he plays a great song
>that never made its way up to number one on the Billboard chart, and
>also the song that kept it off.  It's been really funny if it's a BTO
>or a Guess Who song for either category.
>
>Some of the selections have been funny, some of them have been a
>little sad, but boy, does a show like that ever throw into perspective
>the amount of horrible horrible crap music produced in the 1970s.  The
>baby boomers should just shut up and re-read Sturgeon's Law.
>
>"One Tin Soldier" beat out something pretty good, or maybe I'm just
>confused.  "Puppy Love" beat out "Spanish Harlem" which is just about
>enough to make a person cry.
>

Is that the Paul Anka vs Ben E. King originals, or the Donny Osmond vs
Aretha Franklin covers?
Either version of either song, that's a travesty. But that's nothing
new - just because it's more popular doesn't make it good.

-- 
Bill in Vancouver