tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4480959310171271494.post68826482430189795..comments2024-03-21T02:23:19.513-07:00Comments on STEVE PIECZENIK <b>TALKS</b>: Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08376863188680913389noreply@blogger.comBlogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4480959310171271494.post-36641371438877714962013-05-30T09:14:57.529-07:002013-05-30T09:14:57.529-07:00Do you really think the issue here is a matter of ...Do you really think the issue here is a matter of "taste?"<br /><br />LOL that shows how much you know....<br /><br />My views are supported by the universal consensus of music critics...yes critics, as in EXPERTS on what good music is.<br /><br />If you want to go against the facts of experts and claim that what's good or bad in music is a matter of "opinion" then you can continue listening to bad music such as Huey Lewis, KISS, AC/DC, Metallica, Air Supply, Matchbox 20, Guns and Roses, Lady Gaga, and last but not least....<br /><br />LITTLE WAYNE!<br /><br />[undoubtedly your hero]MITmichaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14712376188659356195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4480959310171271494.post-36552903702963649192013-05-30T08:56:49.245-07:002013-05-30T08:56:49.245-07:00your taste suck as much as Billy Joel's music!...your taste suck as much as Billy Joel's music!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07003782660268133721noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4480959310171271494.post-41735694077004516732013-05-29T22:21:22.351-07:002013-05-29T22:21:22.351-07:00And another thing gerry stevens..
Your pic looks ...And another thing gerry stevens..<br /><br />Your pic looks a lot like Steve Jung. I met him shortly after he got out of prison the second time and he's a hoot. You look just like him, and that' not bad. I like Steve Jung.MITmichaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14712376188659356195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4480959310171271494.post-88702151696789945062013-05-29T22:17:04.161-07:002013-05-29T22:17:04.161-07:00The best girlfriends I've ever had have been M...The best girlfriends I've ever had have been Mexican girls from the Rio Grande valley of Texas - the cities of Brownsville, McAllen, Harlingen, Edingburg, etc....[even the one girl who was a twin from Rio Grande City].<br /><br />These girls are very passionate, and they are always cheerful. They are always smiling, never complain, never feel entitled to anything special, are very appreciative of anything you do....<br /><br />They are gorgeous and sweet and perfect..every one of them.MITmichaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14712376188659356195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4480959310171271494.post-5822595527973350472013-05-29T22:13:33.975-07:002013-05-29T22:13:33.975-07:00I will say this for the PR girlfriend...she was ho...I will say this for the PR girlfriend...she was hot. But not as hot as the Jewish girl from Miami or the other girls she had over from time to time. They were all really hot. PR girls are like Mexican girls in that they're freakin' horny.MITmichaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14712376188659356195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4480959310171271494.post-80683303279918087502013-05-29T22:10:47.801-07:002013-05-29T22:10:47.801-07:00Okay I will say one thing positive about Billy Joe...Okay I will say one thing positive about Billy Joel in that when I lived in Boston in the hot August of 1985 going to MIT I remember "Leave the Tender Moment Alone" on the radio and I liked it. Whenever I hear it I remember moving into my Puerto Rican girlfriend's apartment in Brookline and we had a couple of happy weeks together before she un-masked herself as a psycho-PR bitch from hell [which is what some people do after they've tricked you into a marriage or some other form of fixed relationship. That was a long and unpleasant, cold fall semester but at least there was the first season of Miami Vice to watch and our new roommate was a nineteen year old Jewish girl from Miami who had an awesome ass and totally made up for the shortcomings of the PR girlfriend. <br /><br />I had to make long walks in the cold to the Star Market to get anything decent to eat. The PR girlfriend was as useless in the kitchen as anywhere else. MITmichaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14712376188659356195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4480959310171271494.post-45611310440581636132013-05-29T22:03:08.224-07:002013-05-29T22:03:08.224-07:00So your standard is whatever can make a million do...So your standard is whatever can make a million dollars??<br /><br />If I can't make a million dollars making music than I should shut up??<br /><br />That's like me saying,<br /><br />"Hey all you people shut up about Barak Obama until you can go out and be elected President yourself!"MITmichaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14712376188659356195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4480959310171271494.post-9628879566388223572013-05-29T21:10:34.568-07:002013-05-29T21:10:34.568-07:00ho. no such thing as jazz snobs ; right...in fact ...ho. no such thing as jazz snobs ; right...in fact billy joel is just great when youre in the mood for a plain mans singsong views of life. <br />the greatest song isnt any of the ones you guys drool about anyhow. its that one ''river of dreams''. <br />okay lets see if anyone here can write anything whatever; sing it in the voice of an actual adult male; get it even vaguely recognised; make a million...no? no? well in that case shut up. gerry stevenshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03840301196370929880noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4480959310171271494.post-16770214790550802442013-05-29T14:38:28.429-07:002013-05-29T14:38:28.429-07:00Or check out Aretha Franklin doing "I Say A L...Or check out Aretha Franklin doing "I Say A Little Prayer." Now that's what music should be, not this, "You had to be a big shot last night...."<br /><br />Aretha Franklin:<br /><br />www.youtube.com/watch?v=STKkWj2WpWMMITmichaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14712376188659356195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4480959310171271494.post-33915650272027892522013-05-29T14:34:21.068-07:002013-05-29T14:34:21.068-07:00If you wanna hear what real music sounds like chec...If you wanna hear what real music sounds like check out John Coltrane/Johnny Hartman performing Billy Strayhorne's Lush Life...<br /><br />www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1gELbBMFjA<br /><br />"To ease the bite of it..."<br />"I'll smile inspite of it...."MITmichaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14712376188659356195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4480959310171271494.post-44534189048417941032013-05-28T22:21:47.763-07:002013-05-28T22:21:47.763-07:00She's no Johnny Mercer LOL!She's no Johnny Mercer LOL!MITmichaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14712376188659356195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4480959310171271494.post-20167262620697418862013-05-28T22:11:17.741-07:002013-05-28T22:11:17.741-07:00Diamonds are for---ever!
They are all I need to pl...Diamonds are for---ever!<br />They are all I need to please me.<br />They can captivate and tease me.<br />They won't leave in the night<br />I've no fear that they might..desert me.<br /><br />Diamonds are forever.<br />Hold one up and then caress it.<br />Put it on and then possess it.<br /><br />I don't need love....<br />What good would love do me!<br />Diamonds never lie to me.MITmichaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14712376188659356195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4480959310171271494.post-70943949936844771122013-05-28T22:06:19.255-07:002013-05-28T22:06:19.255-07:00One of the truest lines in poetry was penned by Jo...One of the truest lines in poetry was penned by John Barry for "Diamonds are Forever..."<br /><br />"Men are mere mortals not worth going to your grave for!"MITmichaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14712376188659356195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4480959310171271494.post-90256671852800940142013-05-28T22:04:31.060-07:002013-05-28T22:04:31.060-07:00John Barry would have said....
"You only liv...John Barry would have said....<br /><br />"You only live twice..."<br />"Or so it seems..."<br />"One life for yourself and one for your dreams..."<br /><br />"You live through the years,"<br />"And pay the price."<br />"Make one dream come true you only live twice"<br />"You only live twice..."<br /><br />"And love is a stranger, who beckons you on."<br />"Don't think of the danger for the stranger is gone...."<br /><br />"You live for your dreams."<br />"And pay the price"<br />"Make one dream come true,<br />You only live twice.........."MITmichaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14712376188659356195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4480959310171271494.post-67652358466125047332013-05-28T21:59:41.286-07:002013-05-28T21:59:41.286-07:00"Let the sky-fall!"
"Let the sky-f..."Let the sky-fall!"<br /><br />"Let the sky-fall!"<br /><br />"Let the sky fa----lll!<br /><br />MITmichaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14712376188659356195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4480959310171271494.post-6200093421867039042013-05-28T20:36:05.926-07:002013-05-28T20:36:05.926-07:00You know I have to say Dr.P as a psychiatrist sure...You know I have to say Dr.P as a psychiatrist surely you know that addicts always have an incredible excuse why the fall off the wagon.....<br /><br />"My ball team lost the game so I felt so bad I had no choice than to start using drugs again..."<br /><br />"I heard my nephew fell off his bike and skinned his knee so I had to get drunk...."<br /><br />"I didn't get the promotion I put in for so of course I went on a three day crack binge..."<br /><br />All too familiar from these kinds of assholes.MITmichaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14712376188659356195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4480959310171271494.post-5105696120139461682013-05-28T20:32:16.235-07:002013-05-28T20:32:16.235-07:00I guess you must like "Hughy Lewis" and ...I guess you must like "Hughy Lewis" and "Culture Club" also.....<br /><br />For what it's worth every critic of popular music has Billy Joel on their "worst music" list. Just look it up.<br /><br />Billy Joel had both of his hips replaced about two years ago.<br /><br />That's prolly the real reason why he hits the sauce.<br /><br />Anyway unlike Paul McCartney, Jimmy Webb or any other real artist Billy Joel is a physical wreck who looks twenty years older than his real age because he's no artist but just another rocker bum.MITmichaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14712376188659356195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4480959310171271494.post-42094954109626911272013-05-28T20:26:54.472-07:002013-05-28T20:26:54.472-07:00And the same thing for this "Adele," who...And the same thing for this "Adele," who can't write worth a shit.MITmichaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14712376188659356195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4480959310171271494.post-38247068473722808492013-05-28T20:24:47.642-07:002013-05-28T20:24:47.642-07:00Now putting on my "psychological warfare anal...Now putting on my "psychological warfare analyst's" hat let me say that the forms, themes, messages, values and beliefs contained in the predominating popular arts of any culture tell the whole story about what's going on in that society.<br /><br />It's like a "rosetta stone" which can un-lock every important issue about the state of a society, country, etc....<br /><br />Also it's undeniably true that artistic genius has to have struggle and tension in order to generate. No great artist [and Paul Simon and Paul McCartney are great artists] ever became great by living in an easy and decadant society.<br /><br />No where is this illustrated more than in black culture, whereas in the past when they were truely impoverished, and socially repressed, their artists generated truely sublime and elegant music such as Billy Strayhorne, Charlie Parker, and everthing created until hip-hop came along.<br /><br />Since all the suppression and real struggle has been relieved just look at what they do now....<br /><br />To a lesser extent the same is true of whites - Lady Gaga, Taylor Swift, and all the rest of these vapid acts.MITmichaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14712376188659356195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4480959310171271494.post-51844990716514500862013-05-28T20:17:34.451-07:002013-05-28T20:17:34.451-07:00Billy Joel is a major talent and is one of my favo...Billy Joel is a major talent and is one of my favorite musicians. But, if he can go on a binge because of 9/11 ("It really, really hurt that man could do that to man," he continues, "And then there was a breakup with somebody, and it took me a while to get me back on my feet again." - NYT), please don't tell him who brought down the Twin Towers. I believe he still has some music in him, and I'd rather he didn't know.Patrick Barry Barrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06433384010532508362noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4480959310171271494.post-30224166159782404352013-05-28T20:14:59.107-07:002013-05-28T20:14:59.107-07:00Dr.P are you living in a time-warp?
You state tha...Dr.P are you living in a time-warp?<br /><br />You state that you went to Billy Joel concerts spending the few pennies you had when you were growing up in Harlem....<br /><br />Hmmmm....<br /><br />Billy Joel was first performing in the mid-1970s, then had to hide from his label to escape his contract, then re-emerged in 1977 to record "The Stranger."<br /><br />This was all well over a decade after you left home, and in fact by this time you had already finished Medical School and graduate school at MIT....<br /><br />I don't know if this is all "time compression" or something, but this story cannot be true.<br /><br />Furthermore, although I don't know this to be true I doubt that you ever grew up or lived in Harlem. I think your parents had much more means than that or you wouldn't have been able to afford the Universities and schools you attended much less invest in real estate in Lebanon, Bulgaria, and at one time "own a bank."<br /><br />As for Billy Joel's musical abilities...<br /><br />As a composer he stinks. He's the worst of popular music/top 40/tin pan alley. "Just the Way You Are" was his one ballad, and it's good. But everything else is just garbage, including "Keep it to Yourself It's My Life!" and "Only the Good Die Young" and "Uptown Girl" and "It's all Rock and Roll To Me..."<br /><br />The era he fell into was the 1980s, and was characterized by only crap like "Duran-Duran" and "Hughy Lewis and the News" and "Billy Idol" and similar pure fecal shit.<br /><br />Now the era which spawned him was the richest in popular culture - the early 1970s with Cat Stevens, David Gates, Paul Williams, Leon Russell, Jimmy Webb, Paul Simon, and even Hal David and Burt Bacharach were able to pen a few hits early on for such as the 5th Dimension and other extremely talented performers. And this doesn't even mention the best of the black composers and artists such as The Delfonics, The Stylistics, Bloodstone, and on and on......<br /><br />The cultural and social tensions and struggles which produced these kinds of exemplary talents no longer exist here, and we are the poorer for having lost those creative tensions.MITmichaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14712376188659356195noreply@blogger.com