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“We all spent money on various stupid things,” he laughed. “Personally, I was okay. I had a business manager even before the Hi-Infidelity money started coming in. But as a band, we bought an oil well… in Southern Illinois! Why we thought there would be oil there is beyond me…”

Now THAT'S funny
 
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Another upbeat dark song. Heard it last night in car with my son and a friend. And we were talking about how it was a deceptive happy song. Then I saw it on the 90s countdown and remembered this thread had also been bumped so here it is.
 
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IdRatherBeSkiing said:
Another upbeat dark song. Heard it last night in car with my son and a friend. And we were talking about how it was a deceptive happy song. Then I saw it on the 90s countdown and remembered this thread had also been bumped so here it is.
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Surprised you didn't mention the censoring that often gets done to this song. Something to do with crystal meth.
 
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I just saw one of those "Jesus" TV commercials using Johnny Cash's cover of Depeche Mode's "Personal Jesus" as the soundtrack to their message. That song sarcastically mocks televangelists. Just clueless.
 
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The song is actually about Priscilla Presley's unhealthy deification and worship of Elvis.
She described Elvis as her personal Jesus.
 
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The new generation of Burger King commercials, subtitled "Yeah, we really suck, but now we're going to try to suck less", uses The Who's Baba O'Riley as theme music. It's a cool, well-known song, but what's the message they're trying to send? Burger King is a teenage wasteland?

Out here in the fields
I fight for my meals
I get my back into my living
I don't need to fight
To prove I'm right
No I don't need to be forgiven
No no no no no no no
Don't cry
Don't raise your eye
It's only teenage wasteland
Sally take my hand
We'll travel south cross land
Put out the fire
And don't look past my shoulder
The exodus is here
The happy ones are near
Let's get together, before we get much older
Teenage wasteland
It's only teenage wasteland
Teenage wasteland
Oh yeah, teenage wasteland
They're all wasted!

 
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In November 1966, the Monkees' debut single Last Train To Clarksville went to number one. It was an anti-war song but songwriters Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart knew they couldn't make it too obvious or radio stations would not play the song. The lyrics express a draftee's fear: "I'll be leaving in the morning.....I don't know if I'm ever coming home." Fort Campbell, Kentucky, home to the 101st Airborne Division whose troops were fighting in Việt Nam, is 14 miles away from Clarksville, Tennessee.

 
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scotchandcigar said:
The new generation of Burger King commercials
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Watched that video. Huh.... Strange approach, really. Like you said, "we're gonna try to stop being awful". And even a step further, "Fast food fell off." Never addressing why it fell off (aside from BK making subpar product, like why the whole industry 'fell off'). Weird campaign.
 
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