danheilman.bsky.social
Coming to you from that oasis of sanity they call St. Paul, Minn.
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Sometimes (not always, but sometimes) not knowing who they are is what they appreciate most.
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Yep. I interpreted it as a reference to the kind of very heavy conversations about pop songs that only teenagers tend to have.
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Nick Lowe stepped on my foot. He apologized.
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With all due respect, we're gonna need a lot more than "disturbing."
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Brooks is a genius, but he was slipping. He had been since 'High Anxiety.' Genre parodies are a dead end.
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I agree there's something special about a young songwriter who can write from the perspective of an age they haven't reached yet. Robbie Robertson was able to do that at times, too (e.g. "Rockin' Chair").
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With the Waitresses, Scandal, and Roman Holliday soon to follow.
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If everybody's a genius, that means nobody is.
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George Clinton's "Loopzilla" mentions two or three different R&B stations.
Also, at one time it wasn't uncommon for an artist to re-record part of a song so that it mentioned a particular station, e.g. "Life is a rock, but WLS rolled me."
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Some folks just have the complete package at a tender age. 'My Aim is True' was released when Elvis Costello was 22.
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That seems to have been extra common during the MTV era -- where because a song was played a lot on that channel, it was easy to presume that it was a big hit. E.G. "New Year's Day" never made the top 40 in the U.S. despite being played to death on MTV, Friday Night Videos, etc.
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I have bad news, you wretched witch: Yes, you can.
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If there was one thing music lovers were not clamoring for in 1980, it was overpriced 10-inch EPs.
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*thumps chest* ME CHASTENED
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Yes! Gotta wait in the car until your favorite song is over. You never know when you'll hear it again.
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AKA Marty Severson. I'm old enough to remember when Z-93 first came on the air (spring 1976, after WIZM bought the station and changed it from WWLA).
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When the LAPD says you're going overboard, friend, you are going OVERBOARD.
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It seems the name made its way to north-central Texas as well (see item 2).
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Why yes, that's exactly why, Einstein.
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The last MLB game I went to, I literally could not have a conversation with the person next to me because of the non-stop racket coming from the P.A. system.
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She was appointed exactly because she doesn't know anything.
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Nitpick: He recorded for Liberty, whose catalog was acquired by Capitol long after his death.
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Sudano and Summer were married right around the time this record was released. They stayed together until she died 32 years later.
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"Workin' at the Car Wash Blues" by Jim Croce.
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It’s telling how she’s surprised that people called out her callousness. She must truly believe that having a cold, cruel heart is just a normal way to be.
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All true, but it is worth remembering that the Hot Lips character (Sally Kellerman) grew over the course of the movie as well. At first she was an obnoxious tight-ass, but by the end she was one of the cool kids. No real exposition saying so, that's just how the character's arc was presented.
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I knew someone from the exurbs who swore he would never come to Minneapolis again because the last time he did he saw a homeless person. Not was murdered by, not was mugged by, not was harassed by....SAW. A homeless person.
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A junior high classmate was sent home for wearing a T-shirt showing Bucky Badger with both middle fingers upraised and the legend FUCK 'EM BUCKY. Even as a rebellious teen I sort of saw where the school was coming from.
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I'm a little hurt that he didn't thank me for my attention to this matter.
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Definitely. Do a little shopping, grab a beer and a burger at Ground Round, take in a movie. There's no longer anything there to build your trip around.
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They lie. They get caught. They lie some more. They get caught. They double down on their previous lies. Etc.
Exhausting.
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It's heartening that the president's press secretary takes her job so seriously that she's having literal children ask questions instead of actual reporters.
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I believe Lobo was a victim of poor research. The western part of the state was and is fertile for growing wheat, but the eastern part just doesn't have the right soil.
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Debatable:
David + David - Welcome to the Boomtown (from their *only* album)
English Beat – Mirror in the Bathroom (Save it for Later might be better known)
The Damned – Neat Neat Neat (ditto re New Rose)
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Raspberries – Go All the Way
Procol Harum – A Whiter Shade of Pale
The Music Machine – Talk Talk
The Byrds – Mr. Tambourine Man
Rick Derringer – Rock and Roll, Hoochie Koo
Zapp – More Bounce to the Ounce
Dwight Twilley Band – I’m on Fire
The Troggs – Wild Thing
Jo Jo Gunne – Run, Run, Run
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The Concordia Ballroom was something of a destination for punk bands for a little while. The Replacements, Black Flag, and the Circle Jerks played there around that same time.
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His motto when it came to his condition was, "It is what it is, and it ain't what it ain't." Great reporter, great writer, great guy.
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They've been overhead in Mac-Groveland since 3:00 this morning. Wind + runway construction.
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For Tarantino fans, whence the line about "a pair of pliers and a blowtorch"...spoken by Dean Wormer from 'Animal House.'
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Ha, ha, ha. And I forgot to add: Ha.
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Mitchell!