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Added yet another point to that in the comments - little to no campaign-fund necessity. (The icon is essentially what the signs would look like, after all.) And the suggestion of putting Vimes up for the office first was a really good one. As was just going straight to the entire planet, but it's really best if you take these things slowly.
In other news: mumblemumblejohnnydeppshould'vegotbestactormumble. But at least RotK cleaned up.
Watched animated!Wyrd Sisters between yesterday and today. Not bad, all things considered. Those of you who haven't seen either - if you have to pick one, go with Soul Music.
After first period an entire hallway of the school smelled like toast. This was apparently to do with someone's how-to project. Even so, that overwhelming of a smell that early in the morning... just. DUDE. Give me some toast, yo!

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Current Music: "Mud Slide Slim" - James Taylor (stuck in head)

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I'm of the no band without Keith Moon can be considered "The Who" school of thought.

Okay, maybe if -- when JE was still alive -- they'd recruited Ginger Baker, that might have come close. But he's more of a leader than Moon was, so the mix of the band would have been different. I listen a lot to his 1990s instrumental album Unseen Rain ...

Let's see ... When I think of 80s, I think of B-52s, REM, Laurie Anderson, U2, the Police, the Bears ("Fear is never Boring"), the more poppish Ramones albums, Kate Bush ... Most of them started earlier, of course. Madonna, not for music so much as how she made it so far on sheer force of personality. Some metal, like Voivod and Faith No More.

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minkhollow

HOLY CRAP YOU KNOW 'FEAR IS NEVER BORING'! That's got to be a first. (Of course, the version we've got at home is the Raisins, but since Raisins = Bears = Psychodots for the most part it counts.)
And to continue with the 80s thing while I'm here, I mostly get into the one-hit wonder side of things, with a healthy dose of Peter Gabriel. "Take On Me" is one of my favorite songs ever, not to mention the video.
Anyway. Back to the Who. First time I saw then was the Quadrophenia tour in 1996, so that's three-quarters of the band and really not too shabby considering most of my generation thinks you're asking them a question when the band name comes up. ::rolls eyes:: The other was not very long after John died (one of two or three celebrity deaths that's really gotten to me).

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One hit wonders? Y'mean, like Bonnie Tyler's "Total Eclipse of the Heart"? Don't know if Gary ("In Cars") Numan counts, since he seemed to have a career. (But wow, did I loathe Ah-Ha.)

I saw Genesis in the Lamb Lies Down on Broadway tour, which was Gabriel's last tour with the band. (Phil Collins is another drummer I quite like, as his stuff with Brand X shows.) I have a bunch of Gabriel albums, including the first three, which were all eponymous. (A different record company for each.) I loved the bit in "South Park" where somebody tells Stan the most romantic thing he could do would be to stand outside Wendy's window with a boombox playing a Peter Gabriel song, and he does so, using "Shock the Monkey."

So, do you have Smash Your Head Against the Wall? I played that elpee ragged. I have the CD, and enjoy the ultra-faithful cover of Neil Young's "Cinnamon Girl." (Young's Everybody Knows this is Nowhere is also a lifelong fave. (By that you can extrapolate that yeah, I liked Nirvana and I lo-o-ove Radiohead.))

considering most of my generation thinks you're asking them a question when the band name comes up. ::rolls eyes::

But what's wonderful about that is it's back to the original intent of the name!

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minkhollow

Dad loves "Total Eclipse of the Heart" - I think it's all right. And I've heard bits and pieces of "Cars" (primarily thanks to VH1's one-hit wonders countdown) - odd little song but really not too bad. The way I see it, anything released in the 1980s was either hit or miss, and that varies from person to person. Michael Jackson, for example. If you ask me, MISS.
I don't think we've got that one. It's entirely possible that we've got it on vinyl or cassette, but I rarely dig into either of those (the vinyl more often - Simon Townshend, 'Fear is Never Boring,' Quarterflash, Hermit of Mink Hollow before I got it on CD, a few other things I'm forgetting at the moment...).

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justjohn.livejournal.com

Dad loves "Total Eclipse of the Heart"

If he's anything like me, his appreciation of the song probably got a recharge seeing Cate Blanchett dancing around and lipsynching it in Bandits. Best moment of the movie.

To round out my description of How I Spent My 80s, I also listened to a lot of jazz, especially Miles Davis and James Blood Ulmer.

Hey, ever listen to the Rundgren-produced Tubes album Remote Control? It was in the late 70s, before they had a real hit.

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minkhollow

...Not to my knowledge, but I did notice at one point that he produced something for them. ("She's a Beauty" - there's another for the '80s-music list.) And then I sort of filed the fact away in the back of my mind.
I've always been completely bowled over by the amount of work Todd did himself on his albums - all of it, in some cases. Just... wow.