The place where I go bowling often, Bayview Bowl, has the entire Cheap Trick box set on the juke box.

Cheap Trick is indeed good bowling music.

Angus Jung wrote:

kerble wrote: I even like "the Flame."

Like Al Campanis, Jimmy "The Greek," Gary Hart, and Paris Hilton before you, a brilliant career has been undone by a single grave mistake.

Sorry2004, kerble.

But Angus of Jung, the kerble, he is only eleven (very Jung, himself) when this song is to take to the radio. Can't we just file this transgression under "dumb kid music?"



no monkey business.


Faiz

NOT CRAP.
My daughter, Narnia, is 9 years old. For her 7th birthday I bought her this beloved live record.

Every Wednesday night at The Copper Rocket (just a bar with pool tables and booths), we go to have $3.00 all you can eat spagetti. It's great spagetti, with sausage and such. Anyway, she has a tendency to clear out the bar by playing Want You to Want Me and Surrender on the jukebox - $2.00 worth. That's all I'll give her.

I love Cheap Trick, but, that many times? Sheesh.

rachael wrote:NOT CRAP.
My daughter, Narnia, is 9 years old... [S]he has a tendency to clear out the bar by playing Want You to Want Me and Surrender on the jukebox - $2.00 worth. That's all I'll give her.

I love Cheap Trick, but, that many times? Sheesh.

Someime circa 1971, my dad gave me a dollar for the jukebox at a tavern in Lynxville, Wisconsin. I believe you got five plays for a quarter in those days. When Melanie's "Brand New Key" came on for the third time in a row, I got a spankin'. Needless to say, it played two more times after that.

It's an interesting juxtaposition, "Brand New Key" and "The Flame."

"Brand New Key" works on a couple of different levels.

For kids, it's a maddeningly catchy song about roller skating.

For adults, it's a maddeningly catchy song about sex.

"The Flame" isn't maddeningly catchy. And not only is it not about sex, it actually celebrates chastity and monogamy ("you were the first, you'll be the last").

As much as I want to be lenient, I have to conclude that liking this song "The Flame" at any age is just completely fucking sick and wrong.

Sorry2004, kerble.

Brett Eugene Ralph wrote:Someime circa 1971, my dad gave me a dollar for the jukebox at a tavern in Lynxville, Wisconsin. I believe you got five plays for a quarter in those days. When Melanie's "Brand New Key" came on for the third time in a row, I got a spankin'. Needless to say, it played two more times after that.

Despite the fact that this punishment was a result of your "Brand New Key" transgression, I prefer to believe that your dad was clairvoyant and administered the "spankin'" in anticipation of this sin:

Brett Eugene Ralph wrote:If you ask me, [the finest single] of the eighties [was] "Sweet Child o' Mine" by Guns N Roses.

Bradley R. Weissenberger wrote:Despite the fact that this punishment was a result of your "Brand New Key" transgression, I prefer to believe that your dad was clairvoyant and administered the "spankin'" in anticipation of this:

Brett Eugene Ralph wrote:If you ask me, [the finest single] of the eighties [was] "Sweet Child o' Mine" by Guns N Roses.

I think it's safe to say that my father has never exhibited any manner of clairvoyance.

Where do we go NOW?

Brett Eugene Ralph wrote:Where do we go NOW?

Let's follow the lead of "Sweet Child o' Mine" and conclude things with meaningless, overwrought shrieking and a hamfisted, out of tune guitar solo.

Bradley R. Weissenberger wrote:Let's follow the lead of "Sweet Child o' Mine" and conclude things with meaningless, overwrought shrieking and a hamfisted, out of tune guitar solo.

I've got a fever, and the only cure is more compressed shrieking hamfisted outoftuneness.

You two, outside...

If there's any GNR to be tolerated, it's the crap from AFD. 'My Michelle' 'Sweet Child O' Mine' 'Rocket Queen' 'Mr Brownstone' are all good poolhall trash songs. That's why the Velvet Revolver made sense- two of our trashiest/tasteless bands unite!