@InUnfunky @Bix @JoyfullyDazed

it's called having a discriminating taste ~ hahahahahahahaha

@tgraph52 @Bix @JoyfullyDazed

Well..

I guess you told me.

😏

@tgraph52 @Bix @JoyfullyDazed

Wait —

You like “Love Is A Battlefield”?

🤔😏😁

@InUnfunky @tgraph52 @Bix @JoyfullyDazed I'm more concerned about crossing out Kansas....though I do hope some other of Mrs. and Mr. Geraldo's tunes are ok...😁

@t_heislen @InUnfunky @Bix @JoyfullyDazed

it turns out there's a lot of very very popular bands that I just can't stand..

🎶 😎 🎶 😎 🎶 😎 🎶 😎 🎶

@t_heislen @tgraph52 @Bix @JoyfullyDazed

I misread that as “Gerardo” and thought “Wait — you’re a Rico Suave’ fan?” 🤣

@InUnfunky @tgraph52 @Bix @JoyfullyDazed I can only think of that song in the context of Beavis and Butthead...

@t_heislen @tgraph52 @Bix @JoyfullyDazed

“Beavis And Butthead” was a revelation and a must-see for me. Dead serious. Was a big fan of the early ‘90s “Spike And Mike’s Sick And Twisted Festival Of Animation” which featured so many classic and then-new cartoons…including Mike Judge’s “Milton” which predated “Office Space.” So when MTV ran with “Beavis” I lost my nerdy mind and was NOT disappointed. 🤓👍😏

@InUnfunky @t_heislen @Bix @JoyfullyDazed

I wasn't a fan of MTV and the role they took on as arbiters of success that was based as much on how cool a video you could make as it was on how cool the music was. If you didn't have the look, you didn't get the hit. That, to me, made a real mess of an already difficult business.

So I didn't see much of Beavis' antics.

#ElderlyCurmudgeon

@tgraph52 @t_heislen @Bix @JoyfullyDazed

I hear ya TB and get/understand your POV...but also (as a Gen Xer, obvs) have a diff take.

Aside -- had you watched "Beavis And Butthead" you would've noticed the very heavy satirical angle Judge took with not only his parody of Texas culture and wasted youth, but also the main characters' relentless criticisms of music videos. It was half of each episode, literally the two idiots bashing -- or liking -- music videos. ON MTV.

(cont.)

@tgraph52 @t_heislen @Bix @JoyfullyDazed @Mfieck

Judge got away with quite a bit -- not dissimilar to what hap'd with "Idiocracy" and Fox, tho that's another story -- and the duo's antics and juvenilia camouflaged the biting wit behind the silliness.

Personally -- had I NOT seen "Beavis and Butthead" I might've never gotten into Zappa, believe it or no...as the video for "You Are What You Is " was "critiqued" during one episode. 🤓

But yes, with MTV all too often the superficial sold.

@InUnfunky @t_heislen @Bix @JoyfullyDazed @Mfieck

I knew what Beavis was about I guess, and its satirical/social targeting but just didn't see much of it.

Maybe my dislike for MTV has to do with which songs I crossed off Walz' list. There was a lot of music I didn't pay attention to beginning in the middle 80s when i stopped playing in a band. There was a span of time from the late 80s to early 00s when I didn't listen to very much music at all for reasons.

#ElderlyCurmudgeon

@InUnfunky
Chiming in: Judge got the characters of Beavis and Butthead from a single person. A professor at UCSD. No lie, this guy was both, if you can imagine that.

@InUnfunky @Bix @JoyfullyDazed

said with large heaping helpings of humor 😀

@tgraph52 @Bix @JoyfullyDazed

Yeah, I hear you TB. 👍❤️😎

@tgraph52 @InUnfunky @Bix @JoyfullyDazed

Brings to mind what songs in general make me switch the station instantly:

- Give Me one Reason to Stay
- Low Rider
- Sending out an SOS
- We Built this City
- Copa Cabana

@Sr0bi @tgraph52 @Bix @JoyfullyDazed

Whoa. You dislike “Message In A Bottle”?

What’s “Give me one reason…”? The Tracy Chapman tune?

I like every WAR song except that one with Eric Burdon, so 🤷🏻‍♂️😁

“Copa” and “City,” agreed. 😎

@InUnfunky @tgraph52 @Bix @JoyfullyDazed

Two SOS's would have been plenty. Yes the Chapman song. Granted it's not the worst available but it's not for me lyric-wise..

@Sr0bi @tgraph52 @Bix @JoyfullyDazed

I’m thinking I should come up a list of “popular tunes I dislike.” 😝

@InUnfunky @tgraph52 @Bix @JoyfullyDazed

Define popular.
Baby baby Don't get Hooked on Me?
Achy Breaky Heart?

@Sr0bi @tgraph52 @Bix @JoyfullyDazed

“Popular” in the widest and most general sense, not derogatory in any way. Non-classical and not jazz. “Popular music” not necessarily restricted to Billboard lists, etc.

But do go on with examples like “Achey Breaky Heart” which I can’t even pretend to appreciate in an ironic manner. 😎🤣

@InUnfunky @Sr0bi @Bix @JoyfullyDazed

My Personal List of the Icons That Define Pop Music:

Bing Crosby
Frank Sinatra
Elvis Presley
The Beatles
Michael Jackson

and then the Interwebs fucked all that up

#ElderlyCurmudgeon

@tgraph52 @InUnfunky @Bix @JoyfullyDazed

"Fools Rush In" is a must see if youre an Elvis Fan.

@Sr0bi @tgraph52 @Bix @JoyfullyDazed

Are you speaking of the Salma Hayek/Matthew Perry flick?

If so, yes I watched it. Primarily for Salma Hayek. 😆

@InUnfunky @tgraph52 @Bix @JoyfullyDazed

I can name a chart topping hit that probably none of you sing in the shower, but I'll be showing my age for sure.

@InUnfunky @tgraph52 @Bix @JoyfullyDazed

Anyone? Bueller?

@Sr0bi @tgraph52 @Bix @JoyfullyDazed

😏

@InUnfunky @tgraph52 @Bix @JoyfullyDazed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C35DrtPlUbc

@Sr0bi @tgraph52 @Bix @JoyfullyDazed

You win. 🤣👍👍

@InUnfunky @tgraph52 @Bix @JoyfullyDazed

Was hyuuuge in 1963.

@Sr0bi @tgraph52 @Bix @JoyfullyDazed

I’ll take your word for it. 😏

For a millisecond I thought “No way.” But YES! 🤣

https://youtu.be/pxkMEHc4Q6U

@InUnfunky @tgraph52 @Bix @JoyfullyDazed

That early version might have been on the radio when I had my feet x-ray'd at the shoe store.

@Sr0bi @InUnfunky @Bix @JoyfullyDazed

it's more of a novelty song than a pop tune

like this:

The Singing Nun
Dominique

#cosomusic

https://youtu.be/EO7cD6qmydo

@tgraph52 @Sr0bi @Bix @JoyfullyDazed

Apparently a minor kerfuffle with the record company and George Duke (?) sprang into being cuz Taste wanted to do the tune, with Janice-Marie Johnson rewriting the lyrics?

@tgraph52 @InUnfunky @Bix @JoyfullyDazed

So kind of like Midnight at the Oasis?

@Sr0bi @InUnfunky @Bix @JoyfullyDazed

I'm not seeing the connection

@tgraph52 @InUnfunky @Bix @JoyfullyDazed

Can't really see it as another pop tune.

@tgraph52 @InUnfunky @Bix @JoyfullyDazed

I remember that song but I would have guessed 1973 for some reason. Oh yeah. Eres Tu. (not the Tommy Boy version)

@InUnfunky @tgraph52 @Bix @JoyfullyDazed

I Started a Joke would have been a bit less objectionable without "And I fell out of bed hurting my head from things that I said."

Cheesy lyrics may be why I lean toward orchestral stuff - Bobby Hackett, Billy Vaughn, Burt Kaemphert, Nelson Riddle.

@Sr0bi @InUnfunky @tgraph52 @Bix @JoyfullyDazed
I actually like 'Baby Baby Don't Get Hooked on Me', but how about popular and smarmy? 😂