Eh? This isn't even the second-grossest sex song on Back In Black. (Let Me Put My Love Into You, What Do You Do For Money Honey, respectively).
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Heh?
Can people just stop fucking saying 'pretentious?' Or at least stop using it as a synonym for 'shit I hate'? You don't have to like that song, but claiming that it's some kind of pointlessly cryptic incomprehensible hipster wank instead of a very straightforward pop song is just dumb.
I think you can dislike straight-edge kids without wishing that high school was more full of shaming. There's plenty of that as is.
Look, I'm already way out in fantasy-land here, so just let me pretend.
Because the time, money, and talent spent making these movies could be directed towards better movies instead.
I'm not a huckleberry, I'm a Chicagoan. Same difference, though.
The joke is that "Holy Cow!" was Caray's catchphrase.
I heard that Rizzuto didn't realize his bit was being used as a sex metaphor and got all huffy when he heard the finished song. Which makes me wonder what he did think it was being used for.
No, that's Harry Caray. This was Phil Rizzuto.
Listen, I know this may be hard for us AV Clubbers to understand, but some people have sex without the silk sheets, the Merlot, the multiple supermodels, or even the violin quartet in the background. I hear they even enjoy it, the barbarians!
Well, when you put it that way that makes sense, but in my experience, the second part of that narrative is blaming that era's AOR and prog rock for unjustly keeping them down, which I've heard a lot and which I think is both petty and ridiculous. The dumbest variations I've heard on that story really make it sound…
Yes, they were mostly born in the 50's and that show was from 2003. They weren't able to stop aging at age 28, the losers.
I meant more 'Exhibit A' for how hard it can be to do.
Man, you just can't be pleased, can you?
I'd never blame a musician for their song being mistaken as for what it's actually against by idiots. Springsteen was basically spitting acid at pro-Vietnam War people in Born in the USA, and they took it as fist-pumping rah rah. If that message didn't get through (and that was probably the biggest song in the country…
And if a song's good, I don't care if it's by the high school garage band across the street or the best-selling pop star on earth. Good music is good music. Don't you think that bragging about knowing a band that other people don't know, and thinking that makes your taste in music better, the kind of unearned elitism…
Jesus, Rick Wakeman probably wore a wizard robe once and the whole genre has been paying for it for 40 damn years. Here, video evidence of a lack of wizard-robery: http://www.youtube.com/watc…
And Big Star, I think they're pretty good, but "pretty good" never seems to be good enough for their devotees. I wish I could get into them without having to think about all the insufferable mythology that's built up around them.