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    Architeuthis Ex MachïnaRandall Colburn
    2/21/18 3:00pm

    Addendum: Radio stations need to stop playing “Have you ever seen the rain” and “Riders on the storm” every fucking time it rains. I get it, there’s “rain”” in the title and it’s raining out, you are not clever, this was never clever. It’s like the goddamn wilhelm scream, the knock-knock joke of sound editing.

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      Martian LawArchiteuthis Ex Machïna
      2/21/18 3:19pm

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      JanetArchiteuthis Ex Machïna
      2/21/18 3:21pm

      In related news, I do not need to hear “Hot Town, Summer in the City” every time it’s over ninety degrees out. I know it’s hot already, don’t rub it in!

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    EvenBaggierTrousers7Randall Colburn
    2/21/18 2:38pm

    (raises hand)

    Can we also ban “For What It’s Worth” from the scenes of the hippie protests back home?

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      Don'tDoWhatDonnyDon't DoesEvenBaggierTrousers7
      2/21/18 2:43pm

      the sixties are an important and exciting time. 

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      xy0001Don'tDoWhatDonnyDon't Does
      2/21/18 3:05pm

      the wrong kid died

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    Murry ChangRandall Colburn
    2/21/18 2:32pm

    Eh, CCR just really fits a lot of times. The show Tour of Duty used Paint it Black for an effective intro though:

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      Architeuthis Ex MachïnaMurry Chang
      2/21/18 2:57pm

      I completely forgot about that show.

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      BaltimoronMurry Chang
      2/21/18 4:13pm

      they ran that show in syndication a while ago, and they had cut out all the original music and replaced it with generic sound alikes.

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    Rusty ShacklefordRandall Colburn
    2/21/18 3:09pm

    Fortunate Son is obliquely about the war, because it’s the story of a poor boy who was drafted and sent to war because he was poor and couldn’t get any deferments. And Mr. Bone Spur is in the White House now, so it’s stood the test of time as well.

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      token_liberalRusty Shackleford
      2/21/18 3:33pm

      It has a little added venom in that Fogerty was the poor boy and had to actually serve in the Army while other Bay Area musicians, being children of privileged, didn’t.

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      MyTVNeverLiesRusty Shackleford
      2/21/18 6:59pm

      And also explicitly about war.

      Some folks inherit star spangled eyes
      Ooh, they send you down to war, Lord
      And when you ask them, “How much should we give?”
      Ooh, they only answer “More! More! More!” yoh

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    Darth FabulousRandall Colburn
    2/21/18 2:43pm

    Screw you, Garden State WAS good. I am not a crackpot.

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      squirtloafDarth Fabulous
      2/21/18 3:21pm

      Welcome to the A/V club, Zack.

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      slicetoastDarth Fabulous
      2/21/18 4:06pm

      What’s Natalie like? Is she nice? I bet she’s nice.

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    Mario's Tragic BackstoryRandall Colburn
    2/21/18 2:31pm

    “No one takes a thug seriously if he enters to “Bad to the Bone.””


    Counterpoint- I take the Terminator *very* seriously, as any right-thinking person should.

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      Murry ChangMario's Tragic Backstory
      2/21/18 2:40pm

      Especially if you’re Sarah Connor!

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      TheGCUMario's Tragic Backstory
      2/21/18 3:11pm

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    L.S. DogRandall Colburn
    2/21/18 2:43pm

    How about a trade: Vietnam movies can keep using CCR if comedies stop using James Brown.

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      Wa-D.D. DriverL.S. Dog
      2/21/18 2:58pm

      I feeeeeeel okay with that.

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      morleyL.S. Dog
      2/21/18 5:10pm

      If I could never hear Ain’t No Sunshine at the hour mark of every romantic comedy that’d be great.

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    AutoManimalRandall Colburn
    2/21/18 4:57pm

    According to music producer Joel Sill, who worked on Gump, Fogerty just really hates Fantasy Records head honcho Saul Zaentz.

    “According to music producer Joel Sill”?? The fact that Fogerty hates Zaentz is common knowledge. (“Vanz Can’t Dance” from Fogerty’s 1985 album Centerfield is about Zaentz, and used a pig to depict him in the video.)

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      Coati TuesdayAutoManimal
      2/21/18 5:17pm

      Saul Zaentz was hateable as fuck. He tried to sue Fogerty for Old Man Down the Road, saying that since Fogerty plagiarized himself, he owed Zaentz money — since Zaentz owned the songs Fogerty, who fucking wrote them, was stealing from...

      Which led to Fogerty, in a California courtroom, demonstrating to the judge and jury how he writes songs - how people write songs, basically. And how a guitarist might use some of the same chords even for different songs.

      Zaentz lost that one. But — on the original Centerfield album the song was called “Zaentz Can’t Dance” — legal action forced Fogerty to retitle and rerecord it; and to the credit of Fogerty’s Oakland-accented speech patterns... he somehow makes the “v” in Vantz sound a bunch like a “z”..

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      burlivesleftnutAutoManimal
      2/22/18 8:56am

      Is this the same Saul Zaentz that died in 2014?

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    Rhubarb the PlatypusRandall Colburn
    2/21/18 4:06pm

    The best use of a Credence song is in The Big Lebowski.

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      BaltimoronRhubarb the Platypus
      2/21/18 4:19pm

      I hate the fucking eagles!

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      treatment_boundRhubarb the Platypus
      2/21/18 8:06pm

      Just got home from Illinois.

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    NoOnesPostRandall Colburn
    2/21/18 2:33pm

    I honestly laughing when when The Post opened with Green River.

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      Yo...MTV Raps!NoOnesPost
      2/21/18 5:49pm

      Seriously... How do these ridiculous cliche directorial choices make it through the entire film-making process, and somehow end up front-and-center in the final product?

      ... Gives me hope for my new movie script: “Love is a Mad Dash to the Airport”

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