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Greg - 2007-02-27 18:41:53
Great song! I always forget about it. It was happily included in the Rhino punk collection (No Thanks!) a couple years back. There's also a great updated version of Glad To Be Gay from the mid-90s stuck on different compilations. It's even better than the original!
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Philip - 2007-02-27 18:45:31
You know I can never let a sentence like the following slip by without exhorting you to let it fly, however much in vain my efforts may ultimately be:
"I am not hazarding an opinion on whether more options is a good thng or a bad thing or inconsequential."
Your readers want to know where you stand on these kinds of issues!
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Greg - 2007-02-27 21:53:24
Philip--the rantings of a fellow IHoP reader--despite my nostalgia for rock and roll radio, and the change to personal stereos and play lists, my experience as the parent of a teenager is that music is still very much a shared, communal, even tribal experience with them. The medium of delivery is different but I can't say I've noticed any difference in the importance of the music, the impact, and the role in their lives. A difference I've noticed between 15 year olds and say.. 25 to 30 year olds, is that music video is less often the source of new sounds or experiences. THAT is positive, I believe in that it re-connects the artist with the personal experience of the listener/fan.
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Philip - 2007-02-27 22:53:34
Greg -- I'm extremely happy to hear such encouraging findngs from the front lines -- I do worry, for what I guess are obvious reasons.
(I also always forget how great those old TRB songs are.)
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Sue - 2007-02-28 02:55:04
When I came to NY for college, my freshman-year roommate used to play Power In The Darkness all the time. I was unfamiliar with TRB and punk in general; back in New Jersey we'd listened to a lot of Marshall Crenshaw and new wave. It made a big impression. Somehow this record focused all that new-found joy of being on my own in the city, that sense of power, of being old enough to do what I wanted and young enough to get away with it. And my roommate was a good tutor. She was secretly in a very grown-up relationship with her high school English teacher. She was really, really cool.
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Greg - 2007-02-28 06:27:39
Grown up relationship? Like they balanced their checkbooks together and argued? J/K Marshall Crenshaw was great! Where is he now? Where is he now? Last I heard from him I think was on one of those WNEW Hunger-Thons with Southside Johnny, Patty Smyth, John McEnroe(northside Johnny) and Little Steven. See, now that's what my kid is missing with no r&r radio--weird pairings that can only happen at Hunger-Thon!
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Paula - 2007-02-28 11:09:09
Your readers want to know where you stand on these kinds of issues!
I like to see every angle of a situation and entertain the possible (perhaps hidden) benefits of each angle. There are very few things that cause me to think that the world is goin' to hell in a handbasket.
So I honestly don't know if having one radio station to choose from is better than having podcasts, internet radio, iTunes, etc.
Maybe in the old days, kids had to be a little more open-minded and suffer through Loverboy in order to get to the Rubinoos, but maybe kids today will have more confidence in themselves because they can choose, er, Lustmord over Pretty Ricky.
I do wonder if kids today ever have to look things up in an Encyclopedia. As I sit here, I can still remember the smell of our World Book Encylopedia--it smelled like learnin'.
What does the internet smell like? (Straight line, please resist it).
But that's just sentimentality, it doesn't mean nothin'.
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Baby Party - 2007-02-28 11:29:17
Lillian Roxon's Rock Encyclopedia!
That is all.
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Greg - 2007-02-28 12:14:59
I celebrate the end of the Encyclopedia and the dawn of unlimited free information. I will admit that this celebration is limited to reference materials.
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Paula - 2007-02-28 14:13:21
Baby P: this is the second time this week that LR's RE has come up in conversation. I am astounded that I had never heard of this before, or if I did it made no impression on me. Now I wanna read it!
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Steve - 2007-02-28 14:50:20
Marshall Crenshaw was great! Where is he now? Where is he now?
Marshall Crenshaw never went away. He's as active now as he ever was. Typing his name with a .com into a browser shows that MC's played 10 shows so far in 2007.
I think without any defining radio/MTV telling kids what they "should" listen to these days, they tend to be more open-minded about music than "our" generation was.
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Baby Party - 2007-02-28 16:11:50
LR's Rock Encyclopedia was my bible from ages 11-13, when I first became obessed with popular music. I don't know what happened to my copy. It may have been a library book, now that I think about it...I should track it down.
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Greg - 2007-02-28 16:18:48
Baby Party--Don't track it down now! The overdue fines are going to be deadly! Steve--Thanks for the info. I guess I should have followed my own advice and embraced Wikipedia and Google. I'd also like to think that kids are more open-minded. I've only got the ones I'm exposed to to measure by... but there is probably regional marketing information available online at no charge! Have to remain conscious of the weakness of judging the whole by NYC and in particular Brooklyn.
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Rebecca - 2007-03-01 11:09:25
Re: the Roxon Encyclopedia...I too was obsessed! There are certain bands or albums that I can't think of without envisioning their entries in this book. For example, Tubular Bells.
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ignatz - 2007-03-04 12:58:12
This song reminds me of 1X 2X Devastated, by DM3. They'd sound great played back to back. Or maybe I'm just letting the numbers inhabit my brain...
Hey, I saw Marshall Crenshaw at a free block party a couple of years ago. He played to a bunch of unappreciative hicks who didn't know who he was, and he seemed bemused/amused by the situation.
First time visiting this blog...
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Paula - 2007-03-05 14:18:20
welcome, Ignatz!
Which hicks did he play to?
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