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Republican obstruction dressed up as bipartisanship. Again.

The words do not have to be perfect.

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Reality always lies in wait for … Democrats.

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rich, arrogant assholes who equate luck with genius

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Cheesy Music Open Thread

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I have nothing to offer politics wise, so I thought we could have a cheesy music night, BTW- tomorrow and Monday night I think we are going to have an Artists in our Midst thread or two. It’s been forever since we have had one, and I need some wall art.

Oh, my offering in the cheesy music genre is this:

Can’t wait to see where this post goes.

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  2. 2.

    trollhattan

    Heh, indoozle.

    In honor of Sully, everything by Madonna, back to her great grandmother. Cheese of the Velveta vein.

  3. 3.

    KmCO

    Heard “Moonlight (Feels Right)” on Classic Rewind tonight. I kinda wish I’d been alive in the ’70s.

  12. 12.

    trollhattan

    Look here in my left hand I have Quarterflash and in the right, Loverboy and I’m not afraid to use either. Get rough and there’s Rush, so just don’t mess, m’kay? Cheese-in-a-can.

  15. 15.

    phantomist

    I lived most of my life thinking this was Captain & Tennille, and yes I’m older than you.

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    Librarian

    I remember the 70s, and both this song and Moonlight Feels Right, vividly. I wouldn’t want to go back to the 70s for anything.

  39. 39.

    Steeplejack

    @Alison:

    I punked my little brother when I convinced him the guy’s full name was George Michael Wham! I regret that now, actually.

  75. 75.

    Bob In Portland

    In the summer of 1976 this must have been at or near the top of the hit parade. I was down in Florida visiting my sister and rented a car to drive up to Orlando to visit the sister of a woman I was sleeping with. Driving across Florida the “love bugs” were out. These things just coated the windshield and car.

    The sister worked at the Ringling Brothers Circus.

    Whenever I hear that song I think about her.

  90. 90.

    Hal

    Totally forgot that I had signed up for OT at the job, so now I’m in hour 8 of a 13 hour shift. Oh well. I’m listening to pod casts and eating turkey sandwiches, which is the real problem with the night shift. Way too much over eating.

    I’m also feeling burnt out again on Politics. Sick of hearing about what’s his name, and watching the clown show that is the GOP in America today. On the other hand, I’m really liking New Girl on Netflix. Definitely a good escape from time to time, and I haven’t genuinely liked a sitcom in years.

  107. 107.

    different-church-lady

    Alright, this has been fun, but time to put the death bite in the back of the neck:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THW-5OUTSt8
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_P-v1BVQn8
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egIy4nq6gYQ
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQTsip8i1pU
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oT4pXNacMA
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9o_Zr2p6Yxw
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyujBOU_pFs
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-ZUXQuFcnw

    And the coup de grace:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fZdsosM2wo

  111. 111.

    Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)

    Lorne Green, ur-B-boy Ringo

    His gun is fast, his slow flow is remarkable.

  113. 113.

    trollhattan

    @Groucho48:

    Seems to have been scrubbed from the universe, but the Smothers Brothers did a parody, “Honey House” that killed that sucker flat. Will try to find the vid.

  121. 121.

    Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)

    Whoa, wait a minute….Has this thread gone this far without this, or did I just miss it?

    Richard Harris MacArthur Park

  135. 135.

    Jamey

    @Steeplejack: I think it was the song the Army Rangers blasted at Noriega’s compound during the “liberation” of Panama. If I get two minutes, you get a game misconduct.

  136. 136.

    nineone

    @Gravenstone: Do NOT mess with GOS OG. He WILL eff u up, yo. Just look what happened to Biz Markie. MikkiFikki is like Keyser Soze off happy pills an’ shit.

  138. 138.

    Steeplejack

    @Howard Beale IV:

    The horror, the horror. It reminds me of that patchouli-scented apartment on Stanyan Street where I first made love on a waterbed.

  159. 159.

    Steeplejack

    When I was a summer pool lifeguard in high school, an eight-year-old girl named Tracy was madly in love with me. It was the purest love I would ever know. Sniff.

  161. 161.

    Jamey

    @Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again): Totally! My dad, a frustrated musician wannabe, would deliver passionate disquisitions about Karen Carpenter’s abundant gifts whenever The Carpenters came on the AM in the car when I was growing up. To this day, I cannot drive to the beach without thinking of this song or “Stuck in the Middle,” by Stealer’s Wheel.

    That song has some kick-ass arrangements. Roger Nichols wrote the music and Paul Williams wrote the lyrics… for a TV ad. Richard Carpenter selected the song and arranged it for The Carpenters to perform on one of their albums (I think the second). Magic.

  166. 166.

    nineone

    @shecky: Oh, man. This did not get its’ due from the Assembled this a’morn. This is awful. Spectacularly so. This is family anihilator bad. This is Skynet-give-me-the-keys-to-the-time-machine-so-I-can-take-out-Mr.-and-Mrs.-Osmond-before-they-breed level badness.

    Well done, Sir.

  170. 170.

    Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)

    @Jamey:

    More specifically, it was written for an ad for a bank, which makes it- especially Williams’ lyrics- very cloying….But that bridge, man…With it’s chunky bass and drums, paired with the jabs by the brass…Good shit!

  171. 171.

    CaseyL

    When I was but a dewy-faced adolescent, still able to be trusting toward the world, I was in the car with my mom when this song played. It changed my life: I realized there was true evil in the word, and my mother was in league with it because she refused to let me change the channel or turn the radio off or even leap out of the car and walk the rest of the way home:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlCiDEXuxxA

  172. 172.

    Steeplejack

    Man, Firefox’s memory management has really gotten sucky, especially in regard to YouTube. I’ve had to close and reopen it several times during this thread. It’s like that time my 30-cal overheated on Guadalcanal and I lost Perez, Sapperstein and Cowpoke before I got it going again. Whoa. Flashbacks.

  176. 176.

    Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)

    @Steeplejack:

    Good thing that Brooklyn was handy with a bayonet. Too bad about what happened to him on Iwo, though.

  181. 181.

    Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)

    @Steeplejack:

    I think you’ve lost it, Sarge. That bridge is fucking hardcore. It’s well worth it to put up with the strings and the saccharine vocal arrangements for that bit that’s so visceral you feel it in your taint.

  182. 182.

    nineone

    @Steeplejack: Considering how wonderful the English Beat were, that GP drek is drek in comparison. Point to Jamey.

    @Jamey: Howevah, we take exception to your assertion that this song is too cheesy. It is just cheesy enough, no more, no less. Two demerits for you.

    I love 70’s cheese. Even the classically bad stuff is great.

  186. 186.

    Steeplejack

    Now what the fuck?! There’s been another thread open for over an hour? You could’ve sent a helicopter to take us off the roof, you know. Goddamn.

    Okay, everybody into the APC. We’re going upstairs.

  187. 187.

    Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)

    @Steeplejack:

    What are you talking about? I just ran into Chief at the casino last week. And everyone but me seems to forget about Anderson- remember Anderson, the kid from the Midwest? Had a sweetheart? He’s been a very successful actuary since we got home. Took a while to recover from that STI he picked up from that Solomons Mastiff Bat, but…Well…Anderson!

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    RSA

    I have no music contribution here, but I will observe that Elton John bears a passing resemblance to Dr. Strangelove in this video image.

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