Time Life 60's collection/memories

[mindgames]

I'm an insomniac. This infomercial makes me want to travel in a time machine! I wasn't even born yet maybe I can have the next best thing, a guy that likes to have a retro hair cut and wears vintage clothes. (He'd be a musician no doubt).

This guy singing wild thing is shakin' his head from side to side, he's really gettin' busy.
Its funny the 70's collection is a lot less cheery.

Anybody body have fond (or not) memories of the 60's & 70's they want to share in this post?

I remember seeing the Time magezine with Jonestown Massacre on it, and confusing it for a town near my town and freaking out in my mind, I stop drinking Kool Aid although I learned this year it was Flavor Aid. I bet we still have it too, I need to get that on Ebay.

[Doc]

mindgames said:

I'm an insomniac. This infomercial makes me want to travel in a time machine! I wasn't even born yet maybe I can have the next best thing, a guy that likes to have a retro hair cut and wears vintage clothes. (He'd be a musician no doubt).

This guy singing wild thing is shakin' his head from side to side, he's really gettin' busy.
Its funny the 70's collection is a lot less cheery.

Anybody body have fond (or not) memories of the 60's & 70's they want to share in this post?

I remember seeing the Time magezine with Jonestown Massacre on it, and confusing it for a town near my town and freaking out in my mind, I stop drinking Kool Aid although I learned this year it was Flavor Aid. I bet we still have it too, I need to get that on Ebay.

I agree--it seemed that the performing mood became more serious, darker, trying to be sophisticated and "adult"----to contrast with the slap happy, fun times, "giddy juvenile"
routines of the 60's, especially the early 60's.

I guess nobody wanted to look sappy, teeny-bopperish anymore.

Another issue: It's hard, though, to look and act cute as one ages...........there's not enough botox or eye shadow in the world to gloss over the changes that time make to a person. So, one becomes more cool, more laid back in one's physicality.

BUt that's really not the issue.

The issue you named was the overall mood of rock performers as we got into the 70's, right? Or did I misunderstand? Perhaps also the drug use and the crazy lifestyles made a lot of performers tired, jaded, and cautious. It seems like in the early 80's, MTV videos were often calibrated to put the upbeat/dazzle back into the rock world.

I mean, what has Kajagoogoo got to do with Black Sabbath? How is "Madness" like Led Zeppelin?

They were pushing bands with eye appeal and "glitz" and "show biz glamour" to put corporate rock n roll back into the center of music production....Disco had been killed, bubble gum had been stigmatized, R&B had been fragmented, Country had been either co-opted into Country Pop or ostracized into the shadows------leaving the market wide open for eye popping, tuneful, whipcrack beat oriented 80's GlamRock. Duran Duran, Eurythmics, the new David Bowie style, Michael Jackson's black/white synthesis, etc.......

The heavy, mainstream rock acts had been kicked to the curbed or had disbanded.

See the rise of the Tubes, Men without Hats, Billy Joel's second wave of hits, REO Speedwagon, Survivor, Def Leppard, The Go-Go's, Bananarama, the Police, The Thompson Twins, Dexie's Midnite Rider's, Hall and Oates more rock-funky period, Aussie bands, Irish bands, U2's slicker sounds,

All that electronic rock/fusion, driven by an insistent, effects laden snare slamming popping backbeats on 2 and 4; heavy layered synth chords and lines undergirded by jam-funky 16th note bass riffs, soaring, sizzling guitar solos that broke all rules on scales and volumes, searing vocals in impressive, produced stack harmonies, and and mastering style that beefed all the tracks up with overdrive effects now possible with the new electronic effects generators, drum machines, computers, arpeggiaters, etc----

In other words, soup it all up and grab everyone's ear and tapping foot like the 60's again, but with hyperdriven sounds, and a return to the enthusiastic, catchy motoric pulse of the early groups, and a turn away from the acid, booze, and pot laced psychedelic "aroma" of the music of the early to mid 70's..........with Disco as an intermediate bridge in the latter 70's----a highly latinized synthesis of Latin Salsa, Soul, R&B, and even Ballroom and Swing elements cobbled out of the 40's Big Band Sound-----a monstrosity so smooth and addicting that it put money back in the recording business, but so oneress and detestable to most that it led to a deliberate conspiracy of producers and music industry pros that culminated in the deathknoll pronouncement on the cover of some early 1980's issue of Billboard magazine---DISCO IS DEAD..........


Who has got a hold of music trends today?

What effect will Rupert Murdoch have on the trends in pop and rock over the next few years?

Perhaps NOW is my chance to FINALLY make "Waltzing Mathilda" into a chart topping number one record-----all I need is the right singer and producer, and my fortune is made on
Australian humbug. Oh, the thrill, the ecstasy, the hope of meteoric success from a 16 bar ditty in 3/4 time with barely enough musical interest to challenge the supremacy of "The Macarena" in suburban bar band wedding fiascos.........

[LOVELYRITA]

While I was just a child in the 1960's, the only images of pop/rock stars were on Ed Sullivan, sandwiched between kitschy comics like Charlie Brill and Mitzi Mc Call and ventriloquists....or theSmothers Brothers in the late 60's. It was still, basically a radio age or record age. We bought the records because we liked what the band sounded like, not based on how they dressed or how they looked. As we see those clips of bands I've heard, but never saw, it was a good thing we didn't listen based on how they looked...as it came about later....as Doc mentioned in the 1980's and the MTV era...

In the 1960's we went from the Ward and June Cleaver image of the late 50's and early 60's into a new and crazy world. After JFK's assassination, the world seemed more cruel and with the war in Vietnam reaching a boiling point, the world was forever changed, and became a generation lost in space........

So the 1970's brought about a more selfish generation as the hippies and yippies woke up to find out the Age of Aquarius was not what they thought, and they grew up and had to get jobs....so they glitzed up and put on their boogie shoes and shook their booties.....

When the 1980's came about, the offspring of hippies started to become of age and cried out for their MTV...so they went for the New wave and new romantics....VIDEOS meant that the visual became more important than music with all of the costumes and synthesized music.

By the time the late 80's arrived, the boy bands and other icky music took over....everything was contrived and well orchestrated, but it didn't have a rawness of the 60's rock music, or the fun and spontaneity of the 60's bubblegum acts.

As the 90's rolled around, grundge took over as well as Rap became mainstream....

What's beyond 2000 for the world? I think we need electric polka music.......

[fourthousandholes]

Mindgames wrote:
Anybody body have fond (or not) memories of the 60's & 70's they want to share in this post?

Well....there was that first time, ya know. No, not that! My first time with - er - Mary Jane.
Everyone was saying we should get acquainted, but I'm basically shy, and, ya know,
I wasn't really into the idea of becoming a vegetable.
"Oh no!", my friends assured me. "It's not like that! You don't go crazy! Try it! You'll like it!"
So I did. I was in my freshman year at college. A joint appeared and was passed around.
And after it was all done, my friends said,"So, How ya feelin'?"
"Well....um...I'm feeling 'normal.'" quoth I.
"Well then", they said, "We'll just have to try again!" Another joint manifested, and
circled the room a few times.
"How about now?" they asked. "Um....Gee, I uh, don't feel any different. Sorry."
"No problem!" they laughed, and yet a third "jay" made the rounds.

"Surely by now you're feeling something?" they said.
I wasn't.
"Gosh, I don't know. Maybe I'm just immune or something." I said.
"Well (laughing) you forced us into this!" And for the fourth time a joint circled the room.
"Man, you have to be feeling it now!" my friends said.
I debated in my mind what I should say. I wasn't feeling anything, but I thought maybe
I should just lie, and pretend to be up up and away.
No, I thought, they might ask me what I was experiencing, and I wouldn't know what to say.
"I dunno....I am feeling kinda hungry." I said.
The room broke into manic laughter.
"I'm going down to the snack bar and getting something to eat." I said. "I'll be right back."

I went to the campus snack bar. They sold candy, potato chips, hamburgers and hot dogs,
and, believe it or not, beer, because we were in New York, and the drinking age at that time
was 18. The place was fairly busy. There was one poor soul behind the counter, filling
the orders and doing the cooking. He was wearing a little paper cap and an apron,
and because it was a hot night, he was sweating quite a bit.
When I came up to the bar he approached me, and putting his hands over the counter,
he asked me what he could do for me.
He was panting just like a dog, and his "paws" were hanging over the edge of the counter.
It occured to me that I should ask him to "roll over and play dead".
I burst into laughter, and quickly backed away from the counter, trying to contain myself.
He went on to the next customer.
After a minute I approached the counter again. I was intending to order a burger and coke,
but once again he put his paws on the counter, panting even harder this time, and asked
what he could do for me. "A b..." I said, before once again bursting into painful convulsions
as I surpressed my laughter.
"A b..." I said again.
"A beer?" he asked.
I nodded yes, realizing I didn't have a chance of maintaining any dignity, and I handed him a dollar.
He handed me a can of Bud, and I quickly beat feet to my dorm.
When I got in the elevator, I was laughing so hard I couldn't stand up, and I collapsed in a
heap in the corner as the other two passengers looked on.
"Good stuff, eh?" one of them said.

[mommybird]

Doc is so elaborate in his musings ! ;D
Rita is good at putting her thoughts together neatly in a package.
4000, you TOTALLY cracked me up with that one. If I would've smoked that much pot at once, I would've passed out cold. You are a very strong man, my friend !
I don't remember my 1st time smoking pot. I was always a lightweight, though. My friends used to laugh at me because I would never take more than two or three hits during a "session".
I would say no thank you, I'm good. They would berate me & tell me that there was no way that I was "stoned" yet !
How little they knew...
One time, we went to go see the laser show at the Laserium. This was located at the Planetarium in Manhattan. I believe that we all cut school to go there.
Someone brought an obscene amount of pot to celebrate the occasion. They rolled really fat joints & handed everyone their own. I looked at mine, & I was like, DAMN !
I don't know how many hits I took from the thing. I honestly don't remember. I do know that after we all smoked, we went into the building. There were alot of stairs to climb, in order to reach the room in the Planetarium where the show was being held. I remember heading up the 1st flight when everything went black. I woke up to my boyfriend's concerned face in front of mine. He caught me as I passed out, and placed me on a bench that was on the landing inbetween flights. He was kneeling over me & he looked really scared. That was the last time I ever smoked that much at once ! ;D
The Seventies were my era. I grew up on Disco, but I really didn't care for it very much. The promiscuity, the dancing, none of it was " my bag ". I listened to groups like The Who, Yes, ELO, ELP, Queen ( I saw them in concert for the Night at the Opera Tour. They were AWESOME ! ;D ), Fleetwood Mac, Jethro Tull, Jefferson Starship, Harry Nilsson, Etc. I know there were more, but I can't remember them now.
Notice the absence of that famous group that I seemed to have developed an obsession with now ? I lost interest in them when I reached around 14 years old !

[LOVELYRITA]

Yes, the 1970's...my first concert....Conway Twitty, and then Merle Haggard...you see, someone my sister knew got tickets to country shows....oh what a thrill...and then Charlie Pride concert...someone didn't show and there was an extra ticket..oh yeah, little sis got dragged to these shows when someone dropped out of going...it was the "You go with me on this show or else you won't get to go anywhere"...threat.......so I went....they started playing the show with the equipment of the arena's....the sound equipment for Conway Twitty didn't get there....So they started to play ...halfway through the equipment shows up....then they tear down the arena's equipment and then we had to wait until they got his on the stage...and they played the whole show over again...by the time Jerry Lee Lewis came on...he was helped onstage...

By this time it was late and we were tired.....you see, A double dose of Conway Twitty went a longgg, long....way!

[Girl]

Ah yes, the good old days...

My first concert, Alice Cooper, 13 rows back, three dollars and fifty cents... sighhhh.

I got into my first disco club when I was 16... it was called the Lorelei Ballroom. The dance floor was massive, and everyone had plenty of room to move... especially on weeknights! ;D

I remember how the girls used to wear glitter around their eyes. So to be different, I started wearing just one silver sequin star at the outer corner of my eye. Before you know it, everyone copied me.

Not long after, our family moved even further out of town, about 50 miles out in the sticks, and there being no action there... well, I remember hitchhiking into town with a couple of girlfriends, it was the truckers that would pick us up, man when I think back we were SO lucky... then I got my license, and my parents went bowling in town every Thursday, and since the caddy was sitting there doing nothing... At first my dad thought he had a gas leak. But he started noting the mileage and marking the driveway with chalk. Damn! lol

We had a pool table in our basement. On the Thursdays I was home, I was having "pool parties". Since my grandma was upstairs, everyone used to come in through my basement bedroom window. With the music blasting, she was none the wiser, and she was half-deaf anyways. Worked like a charm, till winter set in... busted!

There were so many sets of footprints leading to my bedroom window, I think I was in more trouble for the "business" my dad thought I was running that had nothing to do with billiards. ;D

He should have known better, since I had a steady boyfriend...

Drugs... experimented a little... just made me sleepy, so I didn't bother.

My thing was music festivals.... loved that. They used to hold one every year at the sandpits of all places. The bands were on one side, the public on the other. But it was cool, cause there was plenty of room for everyone, you could spread out.

People would come from all over, you would run into everybody you ever knew. LOL

Good times...

[CoconutFudge]

These stories are amazing. This is making me giggle!

I'm pretty much a "do whatever my parents tell me" type of kid, so I was shocked myself when I went with my redheaded friend to the beautiful waterfalls and actually smoked up. I've never done ANYTHING against my parents' wishes--seriously! Never snuck out, I've never touched alcohol, I've never smoked a cigarette, never stolen money from--heck, I've barely ever eaten a cookie without making sure everything was okay with them! I'm still surprised I did it. I was caught in the moment. It was just last year! I didn't think I was high either until I realized that I was literally unable to contain my thoughts in my head. I told one of my friends that he reminded me of a cougar because of the way his face was arranged or something.... that was one of those things that you want to keep in your head, but I seem to be unable to think something without speaking it! The other thing that I found slightly peculiar would be that I smirked at a blade of grass. I'm highly uninteresting, really.

Ahhh, the good old days....

... you know, the ones that occurred like five months ago? Yes. I'll try to stretch my mind so very far back.

[LOVELYRITA]

I didn't go hogwild with drugs, drinking or smoking....FOOD is my vice....

With a family history of loving sweets, from my father's side,.....desserts...couldn't stop at sneaking 1 cookie.....NO....

Music festivals...the only one I ever went to Rocky Gap 1994....it was a country music festival and Billy Ray Cyrus was the big draw, and that was before Hannah Montana was a twinkle in his wife's eye....needless to say, it was like a "redneck" woodstock. Some guy came on stage and mentioned George Jones and most of the pickled crowd hollered "yeee hawwww".

Needless to say, it was the last time I ever attended a country music festival....

ah, but there is a Time Life Country Music collection that Kenny Rogers promotes...of course, only seen after midnight on most informercial stations....

[CoconutFudge]

I'VE SEEN THAT, LR! ;D I'm in love with infomercials since I'm not too good at sleeping. They're hypnotic.

[LOVELYRITA]

coconutfudge said:

I'VE SEEN THAT, LR! ;D I'm in love with infomercials since I'm not too good at sleeping. They're hypnotic.

They repeat themselves several times with their "offer" and they get boring after the first repeat of songs and artists.

[mindgames]

I think music today is so controlled by the big record companies that it is dying (2nd law of thermodynamics at work?). Even with the MTV bands, I still had music as a big part of my life/day, but now I listen to talk radio because there just isn't anything good ecept for the oldies stations. The digital music has not found a way to mass produce/advertise so if there are good bands putting out music online you have to wade through tons of bad stuff. I still prefer vinyl myself so its not like I am looking that hard.

I have never done drugs or gotten drunk and the few times I drank it was because of pressure from being at parties were everyone was expected to drink. Personally I think pot should be legal. (because of the war on drugs disater). Maybe I should get drunk off my ass just once though?

I know I would be ridiculed for saying so in real life, but I love Conway Twitty! I come across as lusty when I type I'm sure, but I think it is sexy when a man with a southern accent says "darling".

[eyesbleed]

The Residents were on the same episode of "Night Music"
as Conway Twitty. Couldn't find any stills on google, but I've
got video of Conway Twitty singing with The Residents, in their
big eyeball heads dancing behind him..... too cool!

Anyway, ever since I was a teen, I went after more independent,
underground music & there has always been tons of great music
for me to try to keep up with.
During the hippie days, I was into a lot of the major artists, but my
main man was Zappa & his Mothers of Invention & Capt. Beefheart.
The 70's was a weird decade. I started it playin' hippy music & Zappa,
then it went into the great Glam era with the likes of Roxy Music,
Steve Harley, T.Rex, Sparks, Bowie, & Rundgren, & then I finished the
70's by smashing all my old LP's & starting a hard core punk band.
Then after a couple of years of nothing but hard punk, the post-punk
stuff proved to be pretty good.... for the 80's.
Ya had The Cure, Joy Division//New Order,
Magazine, The Cocteau Twins, The Smiths, and some
good industrial artists.
As crappy as the 80's were, there was plenty of good music to be found.

By the late 80's it was gettin' heavier again with Ministry & Skinny Puppy
rulin' around here. By the early-mid 90's there was amazin' batch of new metal bands
starting up. Most of these bands have just gotten better since then, & I'm
still a fan of most of this stuff. NIN, & Manson, Pantera, & Korn..., Soulfly, & Sepultura.
The newest Korn ("Untitled") is pretty sad... & I'm not likin' the new Manson.
so I think I may finally be done with those 2 for awhile.

Which gets me up to the big 2000. I seem to have settled in & enjoy
all of the above now.... there's no tellin' what you'll catch me playin' any more.
Plus I've discovered lots more new stuff in recent years.
There's so much good stuff out there.
I've discovered at least a dozen wonderful new artists from myspace alone.
More stuff that I now have to keep up with.

What's fun is takin' my 40gb mp3 player & have it shuffle everything, all 40gb's of music.
There's no tellin' WHAT's gonna come on next!
It's a surprise around every corner!

One thing I've done is jump back to the early pre-beatles 60's & discovered
stuff that I missed coz I was too young.
I've gotten into the girl-groups & the surf music of the early 60's. Great stuff.
Especially the girl groups stuff... I just love that stuff.
Got a girlgroups playlist on my mp3 player that's so long it'll last for days.
Too bad the "brittish Invasion" put most of these people out of work.

So there's my music history in a nutshell. At this point there's so much
good music out there I can't afford to keep up... & I'm always ordering somethin'.
I'm always expecting cd's in the mail from somewhere.

But anyway... back to the 60's.... or for me it would be early 70's. We were a few
years behind out here in the desert. I was one of the 1st wave of god-awful
hippies around here & that was 70-73. It was so easy back then coz the ol'folks
& law enforcement didn't have a clue about this new-fangled mary jane stuff!
We were brazen... they were clueless.... it was a blast!!!

1st concert was Blues Image Ector County Coliseum.
I was so toasted on L-25 laced weed that at one point I clearly remember
thinking that the universe had reversed & my large coke was drinking me!

Some other time I might tell y'all about the time I looked up to pass the joint
& my best friend had turned into a giant brick!

[mommybird]

Eyesbleed, you & my hubby would have a hell of a good time reminiscing about that. He loves telling me about his adventures in acid. Me, I was too chicken to ever try the stuff.
I'll see if I can get him to comment on this thread ! ;D

[eyesbleed]

One thing that made it extra fun for me was the fact
that I could pretty much come & go as I pleased.
My dad didn't care as long as it didn't bother him
& he kept my mom too busy to watch what I was doin'.....
So everything was wide open... have fun!

I figured out early on that if I was polite around the house,
& got my chores done, I could get away with pretty much anything

I guess the highschool years were the nightmare
years for some, but not me. Those years were the best!
Lots of good hippy memories for sure.
Failed art class all thru highschool coz I dared get abstract.
Some of those art classes were a trip!

But we just managed to have lots of fun....
spent a lot of our time hangin' out at the large city park,
and thinkin' us hippies were actually accomplishing somethin'.

Bein' a good hippy, I left home at 16 or 17 & stayed with a
friend, but during those few days, we all went to a protest
at the school administration building one evening, a few
things got broken... it all ended up on the front page of the
Odessa American & guess which hippy was front & center on
the front page of the paper that morning??
God I'll bet my dad must've been furious....
(mom got me to come back home & wouldn't let my dad kick my ass)

Oh ya.... big fun all around!

[LOVELYRITA]

Was too young to be a "hippy", but I remembered a moment from my childhood when I was by myself, but put on my own production of "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band" singing into, of all things, a garden hose. Too bad no cameras caught that "performance".

Don't know what made me remember that, but it was one of the things I did when I had nobody else to play with...I had an imaginary "audience".....

With regards to 60's and early 70's music...our first impression was always the music. We may not have ever seen these artists, but we heard the music on the radio and we wanted to buy the records...or 8 track tapes...later on. It was about the music, not the "looks". We didn't have to see high tech videos and polished dance routines from "singers". We didn't have to worry about what a singer or band looked like, we listened to the music.

In the 80's it changed. One had to have a video "look". Gone were the days when the singer just sang, for the most part, they didn't have to hire choreographers to teach them slick dance routines like they had to do beginning in the 80's.

Like the song played, "Video killed the Radio Star"....

[Valis]

I recall the 60s very clearly, because I wasn't there yet ;D

I started out with The Beatles in 87 when I was just 12.
When I got my first CD player the first album I ever bought was Sgt. Pepper, it was just out on CD and my mom infected me with the fever.
For the next 3 years I only had 14 CD's, the whole Beatles collection.

Then I branched out with the solo material and got into other classics like the Floyd, Queen, Led Zeppelin and U2.

In 1991 everything changed, the year that punk broke.
I was more into the hope of Pearl Jam than the nihilism of Nirvana.
The best concert I've ever seen was PJ at club Vera in Groningen in early 92.
They pulled me thru some very hard times, and I always recall singer Ed's great quote "Living is the best revenge".

So thruout the 90s I got very much into the alternative scene, attending lots of festivals, music was my religion.

In 2000 all got to a deeper level.
The Smashing Pumpkins put out a mystery where fans had to dig through all sorts of interesting knowledge to crack the codes to secret websites. www.myspace.com/gatmogfans
That made me aware of lots of the weird things happening in our world...conspiracy, Holographic Universe theory, Magick, Perennial Wisdom, Philip K Dick.
TSP's singer Billy Corgan is the best teacher I ever had.

I'd neglected the Beatles a bit thruout the 90s, but in 2004 I came across the PWR mystery again thru a link on David Icke's site.
And it was so much joy to have an excuse again to reindulge in my childhood's favourites.

The last few years I haven't paid too much attention to new bands, the industry is totally ruined and it is merely by hearsay from friends that I discover any new bands.

My last major festival was Werchter in 2001, after that I thought I'd seen it all.
Still going to concerts, but not wanting to pay loads to see a handfull of good bands I already seen 10 times before.

But now things have changed, finally there's a festival again with a lineup I can't refuse.
At the moment I'm packing my bag again to go way down south to the Belgian Pukkelpop Festival.
Smashing Pumpkins, NIN, TOOL, Iggy and the Stooges, Chris Cornell and many more www.pukkelpop.be

So I'm already going crazy with joy for the coming weekend.

Rock and roll will never die

All Love Jan

[eyesbleed]

valis said:

But now things have changed, finally there's a festival again with a lineup I can't refuse.
At the moment I'm packing my bag again to go way down south to the Belgian Pukkelpop Festival.
Smashing Pumpkins, NIN, TOOL, Iggy and the Stooges, Chris Cornell and many more www.pukkelpop.be

Hey that sounds like a good festival....
My old hippie friends think I'm so weird coz I listen to the same music their kids enjoy... but I know they're really weird for sticking with the same music for decades & decades.
That seems so boring to me! Granted, the music of the 60's & 70's is great & all but damn.... I don't understand why they don't dare venture out of their little safe environment.
...Kick back & catch a buzz & get off on Tool or NIN?
NEVER! THAT'S TOO SCARY!
They just don't know what they're missin... well ya they do coz they bitch about hearing this music blasting out of their kids rooms. I dunno... I don't get it.

Iggy & The Stooges were way ahead of their time, I remember when I 1st bought the Raw Power LP I didn't like it at all.
I was still a hippie & still happy with all the trippy hippie music,
Raw Power was all this raw aggression & noize & it left this naive hippie a little unsettled!
But a few years later......... damn that's a great album, crank it up!

[LOVELYRITA]

I remember my dad telling me that when he was a "pup", as he referred to himself when he was young, that Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra was "wild and weird" to my grandfather, whose music was such ditties as "Bicycle Built for Two" "My Merry Oldsmobile" and "In the Good Old Summertime".

People of my dad's generation stuck to their Big Band music and the crooners...they didn't get into the Beatles or Rolling Stones....

So I guess it's the same for your generation sticking with Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin...

and when their kids are in their 40's, those bands you mentioned will be "aged" and they'll listen to them while something even more scarey comes along for that generation....

[LOVELYRITA]

Last night I saw Peter Fonda hosting a Timelife"Flower Power" collection....

This ties in with the 60's time capsule. It was funny they had middle aged people who were hippies who bought this collection....

Yes, they are now investment bankers, politicians and infomercial customers...

[mindgames]

Jimmy Kimmel had a very cool white albino rapper on Wed. I think his name is Brother Ali I don't know the name of the song he did, I think it was uncle sam its on utube but it was about how you wouldn't give money to a crack whore begging on the streets with bleeding gums because you don't support drugs but you give money to the government who ships the drugs in, I searched a long time and couldn't find the exact lyrics but they where amazing!

There is a song that I do not know who sings it is a dark headed guy and a blonde woman the video is a cartoon (some new band could be forieghn like swedish or british because of the accent) and it was used in a commercial (don't know what). and a great part of the song is whistling but I don't know any of the lyrics. Does anyone know the name of this band or song by chance? (worth a try)

Speaking of bands I remembered the Butthole Surfers song Pepper and I wondered breifly if it was PID related.

[CoconutFudge]

mindgames said:

There is a song that I do not know who sings it is a dark headed guy and a blonde woman the video is a cartoon (some new band could be forieghn like swedish or british because of the accent) and it was used in a commercial (don't know what). and a great part of the song is whistling but I don't know any of the lyrics. Does anyone know the name of this band or song by chance? (worth a try)

That song is literally constantly in my head. It makes me craaaaazy! But it is called "Young Folks" and it is by a band called Peter, Bjorn, and John. I went on a road trip with a friend a while ago and she put on this song 90248290348 times in a row.

You needed to know none of that, but now you do anyway. Yay for you!

[mindgames]

Wow someone knew the name thanx, yes that song drove me crazy at first but I have heard it so many times I am liking it now, I found an old forighner (sp) Vinyl the album with the song Urgent on it and I could swear that, that whistling was on the album, later I figure a commercial must have been on the TV playing that song. Talk about stories write. i mean right ;D

coconutfudge said:

mindgames said:

There is a song that I do not know who sings it is a dark headed guy and a blonde woman the video is a cartoon (some new band could be forieghn like swedish or british because of the accent) and it was used in a commercial (don't know what). and a great part of the song is whistling but I don't know any of the lyrics. Does anyone know the name of this band or song by chance? (worth a try)

That song is literally constantly in my head. It makes me craaaaazy! But it is called "Young Folks" and it is by a band called Peter, Bjorn, and John. I went on a road trip with a friend a while ago and she put on this song 90248290348 times in a row.

You needed to know none of that, but now you do anyway. Yay for you!

[CoconutFudge]

mindgames said:

Wow someone knew the name thanx, yes that song drove me crazy at first but I have heard it so many times I am liking it now, I found an old forighner (sp) Vinyl the album with the song Urgent on it and I could swear that, that whistling was on the album, later I figure a commercial must have been on the TV playing that song. Talk about stories write. i mean right ;D

No problem! It's a really distinctive song and it's totally always in my head. I definitely don't hate it, but man, hearing it 39042394 times on a trip is a few million too many! ;D