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2006-06-06 -Short Attention Span Theater-
How Aussies Plan to Kill the Party
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Posted by Steve White 2006-06-06 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11129 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 
Silvias' Mother says... would work as well.

-M
Posted by Manolo 2006-06-06 00:23||   2006-06-06 00:23|| Front Page Top

#2 You are too kind. Thank you ever so much for your thoughtfulness. Only next time, could he have more clothes on? With regard to Mr. Manilow's music, though, the classical training he got in his youth, the discipline he learnt writing commercial jingles, and the years he spent writing for and accompanying "The Divine Miss M" singing to the denizens of New York City's gay bathhouses most assuredly shows in his own music. ;-)
Posted by trailing wife 2006-06-06 00:52||   2006-06-06 00:52|| Front Page Top

#3 I thought they would go for local dreckmeisters Air Supply before they went for Barely Man-Enough.
Posted by Desert Blondie 2006-06-06 01:02|| http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com]">[http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com]  2006-06-06 01:02|| Front Page Top

#4 "You voted for John Howard, mate? That's clearly antisocial. Off to the Manilow Tank for you to do your penance: a minimum of 32 "Hail Mandys" and 15 "Can't Smile Without Yous"
Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious  2006-06-06 01:03||   2006-06-06 01:03|| Front Page Top

#5 And what, pray tell, can Manilow' songs do for the community that police officers/constables enforcing "disturbing the peace" or "loitering
/vagrancy" statutes, etal. can't do!?
Posted by JosephMendiola 2006-06-06 02:24||   2006-06-06 02:24|| Front Page Top

#6 I don't know if it will curb anti-social behaivor but the suicide rate should go up.
Posted by Cheaderhead 2006-06-06 09:36||   2006-06-06 09:36|| Front Page Top

#7 Looks like the Aussies have discovered the 'brown noise'.
Posted by mcsegeek1 2006-06-06 10:23||   2006-06-06 10:23|| Front Page Top

#8 The answer is One man, One word - it's also well proven as a soultion to agression:

Hasselhoff!

Hey, it worked on the Germans.
Posted by Oldspook 2006-06-06 10:59||   2006-06-06 10:59|| Front Page Top

#9 The Grateful Dead beat them to this tactic long ago. In 1969 when crowds would hang around even after the 4am encore, they'd clear them out by playing Dylan singing "Lay Lady Lay." Not as cruel and unusual as the Manilow ultimate weapon, but those were simpler times and the WMDs weren't as lethal yet.
Posted by Odysseus 2006-06-06 11:04||   2006-06-06 11:04|| Front Page Top

#10 Comming soon to the "Over the Rhine" area in Cincinnati:
It's Liberace!!!!!!!
Posted by bigjim-ky 2006-06-06 12:21||   2006-06-06 12:21|| Front Page Top

#11 Damn you Steve White! Now I have that crappy MacArthur Park rattling around my head which is possibly the worse tune ever. Now I need brain bleach.
Posted by JerseyMike 2006-06-06 12:59||   2006-06-06 12:59|| Front Page Top

#12 Hasselhoff!

If not Hasselhoff, then Shatner!
Posted by SLO Jim 2006-06-06 13:04||   2006-06-06 13:04|| Front Page Top

#13 I'm pretty sure Shatner is covered in the Geneva Conventions or something.
Posted by lotp 2006-06-06 13:47||   2006-06-06 13:47|| Front Page Top

#14 Aw hell, if you're gonna break out the Shatner, why not be completely ruthless to these punks and play William Hung?

......she bangs......she bangs......
Posted by mcsegeek1 2006-06-06 14:00||   2006-06-06 14:00|| Front Page Top

#15 They play classical music in Southern California areas to keep gang bangers from hanging out in parking lots after movies. This is something theaters came up with though, not a city/county/state thing.
Posted by rjschwarz 2006-06-06 14:09||   2006-06-06 14:09|| Front Page Top

#16 Awwww, don't pick on Barry. I like his music.

This picture is dedicated to Em, Barbara and Trailing Wife.
Thanks! :-D (Though he needs to button his shirt in the photo.)

Many years ago, in larger cities, you used to be able to go into a public recording studio and make a record - sort of a souvenir, nothing professional or anything. (I remember seeing one in Norfolk, D.C., and of course NYC.) Barry's father or grandfather (I forget which) took him into one when he was about 10 to make a record, which they kept, though you don't hear him singing - you hear the grandfather saying "come on, Barry, sing. Sing, Barry, sing" etc.

His producers used it to open one of his albums - first you hear the old record with the grandfather's voice, then it seamlessly blends into Barry singing. It was really cool.

I used to have that album (back when "albums" were actual records) - don't remember the name of it, but I'd get it in CD if I knew it.

Another of his songs started and ended with a famous piece of classical music. Another had a medley of the commercials he'd written - Pepsi, McDonalds, etc. As TW says, he was well-trained.

Dis him if you will, but he had (still has?) a beautiful voice, and his songs had an actual melody. Unlike many others of that - and this - era.
Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut  2006-06-06 16:14|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html]  2006-06-06 16:14|| Front Page Top

#17 Barbara, if you're really interested in trying to track down that album, allmusic.com is an excellent resource. If you can remember other songs on the album, you could figure it out in no time.

I would like to nominate the following party-killing songs: "Three Times a Lady", "Safety Dance", "Billy Don't Be a Hero", "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go", maybe also the Meow Mix advertising jingle and the Final Jeopardy song.
Posted by ryuge 2006-06-06 17:48||   2006-06-06 17:48|| Front Page Top

#18 Thisn a Disco thread isn't it!
Posted by 6 2006-06-06 18:28||   2006-06-06 18:28|| Front Page Top

#19 

Why do you think Capt. Kirk's face is in his hands. He knew his CD - either this or frisbee golf...
Posted by BigEd 2006-06-06 19:41||   2006-06-06 19:41|| Front Page Top

#20 Don't forget Leonard Nimoy.
Posted by Glomp Angiger6514 2006-06-06 21:02||   2006-06-06 21:02|| Front Page Top

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