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Warren DeMontague

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20. Funny, I hear "These Are Days" and I remember Bill Clinton in 1992.
Mon Oct 7, 2013, 05:16 PM
Oct 2013

Like, we'd had 12 years of Reagan-Bush, and all of a sudden there was this optimism... there was a Democrat who might actually WIN.

I realize, though, it's not superficially the most political song. Stand- I had a flash some time in 1989 while listening to that song that it was BRILLIANT because it was a genius song--- in part by masquerading as a really stupid one.

Drugs may have been involved.

But say what you will about R.E.M., or Natalie Merchant, they kept at it and they have a diverse body of work to show for it. I can't spend a ton of time criticizing S O'C's work, but I do feel her current thing with Miley smacks of opportunism. And once it became clear that her "concern" wasn't appreciated, she should have backed off and not "doubled down" yargle bargle.

JMHO.


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Well according to Annie Lennox: Revanchist Oct 2013 #1
And yet, that same song could be considered to be a 3rd wave, porn-ological, "choosy-choice" anthem Warren DeMontague Oct 2013 #2
Everyone who considers themselves a vanguard in their time... ElboRuum Oct 2013 #3
Holy fuck, I guess this thread hit a nerve, huh? Warren DeMontague Oct 2013 #4
Complete with "limp dick" jokes ProudToBeBlueInRhody Oct 2013 #5
Oh, however shall I survive. Warren DeMontague Oct 2013 #6
Am I to assume that there is something afoot... elsewhere? ElboRuum Oct 2013 #8
Oh, just yet another case of three posts in TMG causing a 50 post extravaganza, elsewhere. Warren DeMontague Oct 2013 #9
Now I understand Mary Poppins and her near perpetual feigned exasperation... ElboRuum Oct 2013 #11
How can one be a sexless, calcified old impotent coot AND a pathological lust-filled phallopressor Warren DeMontague Oct 2013 #14
My guess is they think we're supposed to get upset by it ProudToBeBlueInRhody Oct 2013 #16
If I whang-whang-whanged on the alert button the way some people here do Warren DeMontague Oct 2013 #17
Truthfully... ElboRuum Oct 2013 #7
Exactly. Last I head from Sinead O'Connor, again, she was ripping up the picture of the Pope. Warren DeMontague Oct 2013 #10
I assume you mean this one... ElboRuum Oct 2013 #12
Yes. I remember those tunes. Not exactly heavyweight-politcal stuff, even for the 80s. Fairly fluffy Warren DeMontague Oct 2013 #13
True. ElboRuum Oct 2013 #18
Funny, I hear "These Are Days" and I remember Bill Clinton in 1992. Warren DeMontague Oct 2013 #20
Another great "deep" 80s artist... Tracy Chapman opiate69 Oct 2013 #22
Yeah, Tracy Chapman is great. Warren DeMontague Oct 2013 #23
"some of them want to abuse you, some of them want to be abused" is a critique of Capitalism? Warren DeMontague Oct 2013 #15
See, now you're just being mean... ElboRuum Oct 2013 #19
Here, he explains that even though the Fed is scaling back its bond-buying program, Warren DeMontague Oct 2013 #21
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