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  • audiobliss
    audiobliss Posts: 12,518
    edited September 2005
    Hmm...well, according to Micah...you have a crappy album....LOL

    :D
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,948
    edited September 2005
    The live "Ballad of Billy the Kid" and "Captain Jack" from "Songs..." are magnificent.

    BTW, IIRC the live version of "Shes Got a Way" on the aforementioned "Greatest Hits" is the one from "Songs..." which (as I recall) was a hit when that album was new. That's getting to be a while ago.
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  • ND13
    ND13 Posts: 7,601
    edited September 2005
    jesus, Let This Thread Die Already!!!!

    5 Pages Of This!!!
    "SOME PEOPLE CALL ME MAURICE,
    CAUSE I SPEAK OF THE POMPITIOUS OF LOVE"
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  • audiobliss
    audiobliss Posts: 12,518
    edited September 2005
    ...uhh......that'd be 4...and I'm still enjoying it!

    And we all know Micah is...

    :D
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  • ND13
    ND13 Posts: 7,601
    edited September 2005
    We must have our preferences set up differently, cause mine has this going into the 6th page real soon.
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    CAUSE I SPEAK OF THE POMPITIOUS OF LOVE"
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  • audiobliss
    audiobliss Posts: 12,518
    edited September 2005
    Oh, haha; didn't even know you could do that. Neatto...torpedo....

    Now there's something I haven't heard in ages.....LOL
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,948
    edited September 2005
    Let it die? We haven't even really scratched the surface of the corollary Springsteen topic, yet.

    Not to mention the fact that Dylan's only been mentioned once (IIRC)...
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,948
    edited September 2005
    Actually "allmusic's" take is quite interesting: Sez "allmusic": Billy Joel(TM) really wasn't happy with his LA persona, and he really only blossomed when he went back to New York and teamed up with Phil Ramone. "Say Goodbye to Hollywood", indeed...
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  • Cyclesberuff
    Cyclesberuff Posts: 37
    edited September 2005
    is july church the english translation for julio iglesias
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  • audiobliss
    audiobliss Posts: 12,518
    edited September 2005
    :confused:

    If you're serious, yes. However, what's that got to do with anything?

    :confused:
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  • sda2mike
    sda2mike Posts: 3,131
    edited September 2005
    personally.....give me bob seger anyday over billy joell....i'll even forgive we've got tonight :p
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  • Cyclesberuff
    Cyclesberuff Posts: 37
    edited September 2005
    about as relevant as jilly boel is to my life,but i'm just having fun
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  • audiobliss
    audiobliss Posts: 12,518
    edited September 2005
    Ahh, ok. Well, that's what we're about, so...have at!

    :D
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  • Cyclesberuff
    Cyclesberuff Posts: 37
    edited September 2005
    oh, oh permission to have fun!!!
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  • audiobliss
    audiobliss Posts: 12,518
    edited September 2005
    Like RuSsMaN said, though.....'behave'....lol

    :D
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  • thehaens@cox.net
    thehaens@cox.net Posts: 1,012
    edited September 2005
    I'll mention Dylan again...............there must be 18 SACD's avail. on yourmusic.com of his stuff...........all are in my Q.....
    By the way, from what I remember Billy Joel plays Steinway's exclusively...that makes him OK in my book...
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  • audiobliss
    audiobliss Posts: 12,518
    edited September 2005
    Haha. His genius on the piano (his little solos..like in "The Downeaster Alexa") makes him worthing listening to. If it has great piano in it...I wanna hear it.
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  • Micah Cohen
    Micah Cohen Posts: 2,022
    edited September 2005
    Did someone mention Bob Seger?

    I'm thinking: while all you geeks are bopping thru the corporate offices today I could write a whole bunch of stuff about Bob Seger and keep this thread going all by myself... :D

    DIE, THREAD! DIE!

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  • sda2mike
    sda2mike Posts: 3,131
    edited September 2005
    Micah Cohen wrote:
    Did someone mention Bob Seger?

    I'm thinking: while all you geeks are bopping thru the corporate offices today I could write a whole bunch of stuff about Bob Seger and keep this thread going all by myself... :D

    DIE, THREAD! DIE!

    Have fun today. Say hi to Polk for me, eh? :cool:

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  • Spawndn72
    Spawndn72 Posts: 453
    edited September 2005
    Bob Seger is total crap! The first 20,000 times I heard every freakin one of his songs played to death on the radio they were ok. After that I never want to see another chevy commercial ever again. Not that I have anything against chevy, I own one, but if I have to hear "Like a rock" one more freakin time, I will scream!!!!!!!!! And it won't be just any scream.....Mark my words......Mark them I say......
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  • sda2mike
    sda2mike Posts: 3,131
    edited September 2005
    well, he's got more balls than billy joel! :cool: that's my point! you want top-notch r&r, by an artist who didn't quite hit the big-time yet? give live bullet from '76 another try.....i admit seger's music has fallen into the play it till they puke radio stations... his music, particuarly the early stuff is to me, the epitome of rock and roll!!! and i'm a derailer :D
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  • shack
    shack Posts: 11,154
    edited September 2005
    I'm only going to say this once and it REALLY pains me to do so :( becase it's the 2nd time in two months which is more times than the last 3 years...... Micah is right about "Songs in the Attic". I picked it up last night for $3 at the used CD store. I'm not going to say everything else is crap (especially his early work)....but this may very well be Joel's finest disc.
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  • PolknPepsi
    PolknPepsi Posts: 781
    edited September 2005
    Bob Seger..oh boy! I listened to that fiddle down in Georgia stuff and when they came out with "like rock" and it was all ok.

    But now the younger crowd like what is on radio disney is just better and more with the times.......maybe for the young crowd but still OK and much better.
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  • Micah Cohen
    Micah Cohen Posts: 2,022
    edited September 2005
    Well, I was sort of kidding. But since sda2mike mentioned "Live Bullet," and since shack needs more guidance from me (and seems to be coming around to The Dark Side), I should say that when I was a tot I had both "Live Bullet" and the follow up live LP, "Nine Tonight," on, I think, CASSETTE, and I loved them both. They are hard rocking, Ted Nugent-y, Mitch Ryder-esque American music. I would bet that Bob Seger, in those days, was one hell of a show. The band was big and blowsy, loud and tight, and the live set was non-stop energy. That's what I remember about them on those LPs, anyway.

    Now, I have not listened to either of these recordings since that time. And I would never in a million years bother with a Bob Seger studio LP, even one of the old ones. And my reaction to rockers, whomever, selling their songs to commercials is first one of disgust and then one of ignore-ignore-ignore. If I ignore this trend, it will go away.

    I wonder what these live Seger albums would sound like to me today. (Plus, is it me or do I recall that neither live LP was ever released in its complete form on CD; they were always missing some songs cut for time or something? Sort of like Kansas's amazing live album, "Two For The Show," which has never been on CD in its complete form. Otherwise, I'd own it.)

    Re: early Billy Joel, after being blown away by "Songs In The Attic"...
    I'm not going to say everything else is crap...
    I think you should let loose and just do it. Go ahead. GO AHEAD and be free and just say it. Everything else is CRAP. I am telling you. SAY IT!

    I'm your father, Luke. :cool:

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  • sda2mike
    sda2mike Posts: 3,131
    edited September 2005
    PolknPepsi wrote:
    Bob Seger..oh boy! I listened to that fiddle down in Georgia stuff and when they came out with "like rock" and it was all ok.

    But now the younger crowd like what is on radio disney is just better and more with the times.......maybe for the young crowd but still OK and much better.


    i think MAYBE that was charlie daniels...waddya think?? :rolleyes:
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  • shack
    shack Posts: 11,154
    edited September 2005
    When you have lots and lots of opinions...the law of averages alone says "couple of them" will be right. ;)

    Never. I'll never turn to the Dark Side. You've failed!
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  • sda2mike
    sda2mike Posts: 3,131
    edited September 2005
    shack wrote:
    When you have lots and lots of opinions...the law of averages alone says "couple of them" will be right. ;)

    Never. I'll never turn to the Dark Side. You've failed!

    Dark Side.....Now There's an album!!! ;)
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  • jcaut
    jcaut Posts: 1,849
    edited September 2005
    sda2mike wrote:
    Dark Side.....Now There's an album!!! ;)


    You are a derailer, aren't you! :D

    I've got "Nine Tonight" on CD and I'm pretty sure it's the same as the version I've got (somewhere) on cassette. I could be wrong about that, but I think it's the same. I enjoy listening to it through once, but then I have to put it up for a while until I forget about it. Not something I can listen to regularly.

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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,948
    edited September 2005
    so... what is "The Law of Averages", anyway? Has the Supreme Court ever ruled on it?

    Is it like the concept of "regression" of a trait (e.g., height) in a population, from whence came the concept of '[linear] regression analysis'?
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  • shack
    shack Posts: 11,154
    edited September 2005
    mhardy6647 wrote:
    so... what is "The Law of Averages", anyway? Has the Supreme Court ever ruled on it?

    Is it like the concept of "regression" of a trait (e.g., height) in a population, from whence came the concept of '[linear] regression analysis'?

    The formal mathematical result that supports the law of averages is called the law of large numbers. It states that a large sample of a particular probabilistic event will tend to reflect the underlying probabilities.


    The phrase "law of large numbers" is also sometimes used to refer to the principle that the probability of any possible event (even an unlikely one) occurring at least once in a series increases with the number of events in the series.

    ie: In a statictical context, Micah "should" be right from time to time.
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