Ontos: During college I was a DJ on a local classic rock station and with our shiatty gear we could only play two songs back to back without putting on new discs. I figured out pretty quick that the best way to take a break/knock out a quicky in the back room with a co-ed/run across the street and slam a beer/eat dinner was to put on American Pie and the long version of Freebird back to back. If I remember right, it gives you almost 20 minutes.

Sweet Home Chicago from the Blues Brothers Soundtrack ran for what seemed like 45 minutes.

/used that a lot to line up more records.

consider this: Still one of my favorite songs of all time. There isn't another song that can get a bar full of strangers singing together like this one can.

I love teh song too, but Bohemian Rhapsody can totally pass the bar full of strangers test.

LucklessWonder: consider this: Still one of my favorite songs of all time. There isn't another song that can get a bar full of strangers singing together like this one can.

I love teh song too, but Bohemian Rhapsody can totally pass the bar full of strangers test.

At the time is was recorded, Bohemian Rhapsody was awfully risk in at that point in their career.

stoli n coke:
I worked as a DJ about 10 years ago. I'll vouch that certain songs are flagged for bathroom breaks. Last year, I was driving, and heard my old station play November Rain, One, and the live version of Simple Man with no talk breaks in between. I was tempted to call the station to see if the DJ needed a doctor or something.

You do know that radio stations' playlists are computerized now, and they're played from a hard drive, right? If the DJ wanted, he could program a whole string of songs like this if he needs to take a dump.

Refudiated Strategerist: hurdboy: Refudiated Strategerist: I'm sorry, I forgot to add, forty years in YOUR future nobody will be taking about any of the "hits" of that era as none will have left a scratch on musical history.

Perspective; the president of the United States hadn't been born "the day the music died."

I was born during the Carter Administration. My wife was in elementary school when Kurt Cobain died.

//Farking self-absorbed Boomers.

Thanks for making the point...just how few stations play Nirvana music now. There aren't 5% of the people listening to music right now who can name 10 Cobain songs.

In fairness, Nirvana only had 3 studio albums, and usually an album only gets 1-2 singles that get much play on the airwaves anyway. I was only able to come up with the names of 9 + Lake of Fire, and I like Nirvana/grunge.

/Though I could hum or sing several I couldn't think of the names of

Fano: GungFu: consider this: Still one of my favorite songs of all time. There isn't another song that can get a bar full of strangers singing together like this one can.

Hmmm, I think you've let this one slip your mind. Let me remind you:
Voted number one in numerous worldwide polls as THE song to get a bar full of strangers singing together

I'd vote:

Proud Mary
Sweet Caroline
Satisfaction
You Shook me All Night Long
Sweet Home Alabama
Friends in Low Places
Don't Stop Believing
La Marseillaise
Minnie the Moocher
Day-O
Any song from the Blues Brothers

Needs "The Internationale"!

/ and "Donna Lee"
p.s. I wouldn't be caught singing some of those songs
p.p.s. Bohemian Rhapsody and people who sing it get me, yes, stabby

Refudiated Strategerist: verbaltoxin: Refudiated Strategerist: hurdboy: *yawn*

That's interesting, grandpa.


I'm sorry, I forgot to add, forty years in YOUR future nobody will be taking about any of the "hits" of that era as none will have left a scratch on musical history.

Forgive the oversight.

It's only hung around for 40 years because BOOMERS REFUSE TO STFU ABOUT IT.

/You're old. You've been old since the mid-70s. Get over it.

Yet boomers aren't the ones writing for Rolling Stone or Yahoo or any of the current music magazines any longer. Nor are we program directors or marketing directors for the thousands of AM, FM, Sat or Internet radio services. We have either moved on, moved up or retired. So someone besides boomers will need to be blamed for continuing to talk about it.

The Boomer "market" is still really big and powerful. Because of their numbers, Boomers will continue to influence, if not dominate, popular culture for years to come...

( Until most of them assume room temperature, that is.)

/ this also explains why I have to tolerate crappy 60's-70's music on the radio at work...

hurdboy: Refudiated Strategerist: There aren't 5% of the people listening to music right now who can name 10 Cobain songs.

But the dead-tree reporters think their entire audience remembers when that song was on the radio. I don't. I wasn't born. I also wasn't born for Watergate; my parents were newlyweds. I don't remember the Iran hostage crisis, though I was alive. TFA's author probably thinks of those like they were yesterday.

From his photograph I would imagine he learned of Watergate in elementary school. He doesn't look all that "boomer".

What you might not realize, the boomers went through the same thing with our parents and grandparents music. It is why many of us know all the Dean Martin or Frank Sinatra music or Benny Goodman and Louis Armstrong. That music permeated our era as much as our own. A couple of the top rated TV shows during the Summer of Love [most consider the heart of boomer music] were Dean Martin and Ed Sullivan which had throwbacks to the Forties and Fifties weekly, as well as current music.

Fano: French anthem I give from multiple WWII movies, esp Casablanca

How about La Grande Illusion? If you haven't seen it, you absolutely should.

docmattic: What the fark is the pompitous of love?

The same thing as a douche in the night.

wraithmare: docmattic: What the fark is the pompitous of love?

The same thing as a douche in the night.

I am pretty sure that is not correct. Tell you what...I'll be the proud recipient of a surprise pompitous of love sometime this week, and you can be the proud recipient of a surprise douche in the night. We'll meet back here in a week and compare notes. Sound good?

Balchinian-
You're gonna find true love and be a daddy?


http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pompatus

So says wiki
:)

cjoshuav: I like he song, and I like the movie. Off my lawn please.

but it's so well manicured...

#3. "McLean has steadfastly refused to discuss the meaning of most of the lyrics. "As you can imagine, over the years I've been asked many times to discuss and explain my song 'American Pie,'" McLean wrote in an open letter to fans in 1993. "I have never discussed the lyrics, but have admitted to the [Buddy] Holly reference in the opening stanzas. "

#9. But McLean also expressed disappointment that the Holly references were all some people got out of the tune.

Hey Don, here's a stretch: If you want people to talk about something other than the ONE reference you've admitted to you could, oh...I don't know...maybe talk about a few others?

Crazy enough to work.

Flappyhead: serial arseonist: Cake Hunter: Hell of a banjo player.

This one time, at banjo camp...

Well since you brought it up...

[newspaper.li image 640x480]

Yes please..





/hot in more ways then one

wraithmare: docmattic: What the fark is the pompitous of love?

The same thing as a douche in the night.


Biochemically no different than large quantities of chocolate

Sh*t I forgot to include...

Al Pacino saved that movie from that f*cking train wreck named Keanu something.

/mad props, Mr. Pacino; love your work

Whack-a-Mole: Balchinian-
You're gonna find true love and be a daddy?


http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pompatus

So says wiki
:)

Been there, done that. And honestly, both were sort of a surprise. It worked for me.
Now waiting on a report from those who have had a surprise douche in the night.

Fano: Mugato: verbaltoxin: I'm going to pretend you didn't do something stupid like compare Don McClean to Mozart.

No, I can see boomers comparing their shiat jingles to classical music.

In the buried recesses of my mind I can see some boomers implying their shiat jingles are superior to classical music. Of course, nothing exists before or after them, as they hijacked pretty much everything in relation to themselves in their cultural hegemony; the "Greatest Generation," long thought to be failed lame-os, only became the greatest when boomers started to realize their parents must have been pretty swell to give birth to them.

Fano: GungFu: consider this: Still one of my favorite songs of all time. There isn't another song that can get a bar full of strangers singing together like this one can.

Hmmm, I think you've let this one slip your mind. Let me remind you:
Voted number one in numerous worldwide polls as THE song to get a bar full of strangers singing together

I'd vote:

Proud Mary
Sweet Caroline
Satisfaction
You Shook me All Night Long
Sweet Home Alabama
Friends in Low Places
Don't Stop Believing
La Marseillaise
Minnie the Moocher
Day-O
Any song from the Blues Brothers

You Never Even Call Me By My Name by David Allan Coe
Family Tradition by Hank Jr.

mialynneb: Oh you cockbag! I clicked and looked at the URL as it was loading and couldn't stop it in time.

*shakes tiny fist*

/every farking time I fall for it

I have a neat little plug-in for my browser that shows me what the titles of YouTube videos are, with a preview still as well. For Chrome.

Has made my on-line life much less stressful (so I've compensated by visiting the Fark Politics tab more).

/ stupid me

urban.derelict: Sh*t I forgot to include...

Al Pacino saved that movie from that f*cking train wreck named Keanu something.

/mad props, Mr. Pacino; love your work

Well, Charlize Theron and Connie Nielson both doing full frontals didn't hurt.

Reading about the interpretations of the song has been quite fun, and not being from the US, I'm probably not as overexposed, so I'm quite okay with it.

I'm a bit more conflicted about McLean's "Mountains of Mourne" cover. It's a beautiful version, but that actually makes it miss the point a bit that it's basically taking the piss out of a stereotypical olden times Paddy Potatohead in the big city.

consider this: Still one of my favorite songs of all time. There isn't another song that can get a bar full of strangers singing together like this one can.

Yeah loudly singing the one bit of the chorus they know, mumbling the rest quietly. And acting like complete jackasses while they do it. Farking awesome man

stoli n coke: Well, Charlize Theron and Connie Nielson both doing full frontals didn't hurt.

It's a pleasure to meet you, Mr. Pacino.

/pacino > deniro
//we can all be Italian together any time you want, capice?

Deadwing: Fano: GungFu: consider this: Still one of my favorite songs of all time. There isn't another song that can get a bar full of strangers singing together like this one can.

Hmmm, I think you've let this one slip your mind. Let me remind you:
Voted number one in numerous worldwide polls as THE song to get a bar full of strangers singing together

I'd vote:

Proud Mary
Sweet Caroline
Satisfaction
You Shook me All Night Long
Sweet Home Alabama
Friends in Low Places
Don't Stop Believing
La Marseillaise
Minnie the Moocher
Day-O
Any song from the Blues Brothers

You Never Even Call Me By My Name by David Allan Coe
Family Tradition by Hank Jr.

None of you know of the power of "Cheeseburger in Paradise"?

I'm surprised the Bronies haven't popped into this thread, considering the article included a parody of "American Pie" called "Pinkie Pie."

Pinkie Pie

Sabyen91: Deadwing: Fano: GungFu: consider this: Still one of my favorite songs of all time. There isn't another song that can get a bar full of strangers singing together like this one can.

Hmmm, I think you've let this one slip your mind. Let me remind you:
Voted number one in numerous worldwide polls as THE song to get a bar full of strangers singing together

I'd vote:

Proud Mary
Sweet Caroline
Satisfaction
You Shook me All Night Long
Sweet Home Alabama
Friends in Low Places
Don't Stop Believing
La Marseillaise
Minnie the Moocher
Day-O
Any song from the Blues Brothers

You Never Even Call Me By My Name by David Allan Coe
Family Tradition by Hank Jr.

None of you know of the power of "Cheeseburger in Paradise"?

Since your bring up Buffet, "Margaritaville." Or "Why Don't We Get Drunk and Screw."

I "always heard" that the references to the candlestick and the unyielding marching band were allusions to our involvement in Vietnam. (Not sure specifically how.)

Surool: Lord Jubjub: theorellior: Nina_Hartley's_Ass: CASEY KASEM'S AMERICAN TOP 40 - 1/15/72

There were two separate versions of "I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing" on the charts at the same time?

[shudder]

That song got more play because of the Coke connection than it did in its original conception.

The song started as a Coke commercial... so it is only fitting.

WIKI: The Coca-Cola Company waived royalties to the song and instead donated $80,000 in payments to UNICEF.
- damn. they didn't have to do that. what drugs were they on to do something so... non-cutthroat?

WIKI: In the mid-1970s, another version of the commercial was filmed for the holiday season. This reworking featured the same song, but showed the group at night, with each person holding a lit white candle. In the final zoom-out crane shot, only the candle flames remain visible, forming a triangle reminiscent of a Christmas tree; this impression is cemented by a Coke-bottle logo superimposed at the top of the "tree", and the words "Happy Holidays from your Coca-Cola bottler" below. This version was reused for many years during the holiday season.
- that's the version I remember. A very happy image. It was so fking Big Blue Marble... and I loved Big Blue Marble. That commercial was a stop everything and watch TV moment for a little kid like me. Had the Coke calendar and everything. The 70s were so full of hope, what the fk happened?


/another great commercial... the one where all the kids say peace in different languages, and the Russian girl goes 'Mir'.... so simple, so Cold War, so beautiful

Fano: runcible spork: Fano: GungFu: consider this: Still one of my favorite songs of all time. There isn't another song that can get a bar full of strangers singing together like this one can.

Hmmm, I think you've let this one slip your mind. Let me remind you:
Voted number one in numerous worldwide polls as THE song to get a bar full of strangers singing together

I'd vote:

Proud Mary
Sweet Caroline
Satisfaction
You Shook me All Night Long
Sweet Home Alabama
Friends in Low Places
Don't Stop Believing
La Marseillaise
Minnie the Moocher
Day-O
Any song from the Blues Brothers

Needs "The Internationale"!

/ and "Donna Lee"
p.s. I wouldn't be caught singing some of those songs
p.p.s. Bohemian Rhapsody and people who sing it get me, yes, stabby

If I could speak Russian I'd replace the Internationale with this Hell, even my capitalist ass wants to take off my hat when I hear it.

French anthem I give from multiple WWII movies, esp Casablanca

Memories of the Cold War... that farker was right, a couple months ago: the Olympics *are* whack now.

I'd like to thank mjones73 because THE REST OF YOU ARE AWFUL, AWFUL FARKERS.

Seriously, the worst.

/Not you

pretty sure that the bar-rilingest song in america has to be "piano man"...

AdolfOliverPanties: I prefer "Vincent."

I love that song. I also love American Pie. Fark the haters.

/it's as old as I am

My GF and I debate this song endlessly.

She says it's a musical puzzle, and while it may be so rooted in McLean's own subjective experiences as to render its meaning opaque, the net effect of the lyrics is to create a word-picture in song that trancends the sum of its parts.

I say she's full of shiat.

/We have the same debate about "Hotel California"
// Both make me all stabby

Ceiling Moran: I'm surprised the Bronies haven't popped into this thread, considering the article included a parody of "American Pie" called "Pinkie Pie."

Pinkie Pie

Just couldn't leave well enough alone, could you?
/Oh well, thread's pretty much done now anyway...

The "stupid movie" is better than the song.

/The original was a hate crime.
//Madona's cover was the Holocaust.