quartermainefan

This has a lot to do with the collapse of top 40 and the fracturing of radio. When Wham! had a hit with "wake me up before you go go" it was heard everywhere and people young and old would be exposed to it, and from all demographics. And the beauty of top 40 was you could get Madonna and then suddenly Barbra Streisand right after her because everyone had to duke it out on the same chart and the stations played it no matter what the genre. That's how I, a jewish kid with no exposure to rap, hip hop or anything similar growing up (except Blondie's "Rapture") can still word for word go through "Planet Rock" and just as easily sing "you light up my life". And kids just don't get that today. I think the last songs to truly saturate culture were probably "I want it that way" "iivin la vida loca" and "smooth" by Santana. LMFAO did have that really popular song last year but that would be like 1/100th of the radio airplay something like "Every Breath You Take" got. Now that was a song there was just no escaping.

I prefer the Debbie Boone version. The song had a very strong and memorably melody that didn't need any tinkering at all to be catchy and Whitney sort of oversung it and embellished parts that didn't need any help.

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I am not setting a standard. They should sing, and then we should listen and either we enjoy their singing or we don't. I realize Madonna wants to put on a spectacle and she does, but maybe slightly less spectacular so she can sing and not be out of breath would be a good idea. You start with Madonna and you make allowances for the dancing and razzle dazzle, you then wind up saying "well it's Britney" and sooner or later you wind up at Milli Vanilli.

You want to hear them sing, not mime to a track. Lip synching is the refuge for those not good enough to sing live. If they could sing it live, they would. They are singers afterall, or so they would have us believe.

Well, she doesn't have a great voice, and her songs now tend to be these overproduced computer generated sounding garbage forgettable songs. I imagine her setlist this weekend will be mostly stuff from the 90s and earlier. I don't think the vocals on that cheerleader song even sound human, let alone sound like Madonna.

Cool promo. I like that the mean father is going to have a more prominent role. That one scene where he was cutting up the deer or whatever that was was fascinating. Here he is, clearly the richest man alive and he likes being a butcher basically.

I could swear that was Anne Logan's son. I sort of feel bad for DM because this was unearthed just to humiliate her obviously, and it probably was just eccentric innocence run amok. Rose Kelly, get singing lessons!

Dan wasn't killed. That was a really cool scene though. Dan had found the proof that Luke's oil wells were fishy and he had to be silenced before he told Luke. http://youtu.be/NKjy_OrnhS0 It is one of the earliest scenes I remember from watching GH. Soaps just can't or won't be so melodramatic these days. It's corny but it is fun.

wait Carl, are you saying 2002 and Tamara Braun era crap drabfest GH is "classic"? The drab four drove me away from GH for a time, they were just that dull.

There is a difference though between contested and divisive that is a little blurry at times. Ford/Reagan was a little divisive because Reagan wouldn't even shake Ford's hand and unite the party but even that didn't stop Ford until his made a huge blunder at a debate. Carter/Kennedy was divisive because Kennedy took it all the way to the convention, but I doubt Carter could have won under any circumstances. This time though doesn't seem so divisive. The republicans seemed on a runaway train to nominating a guy after two tiny states, and that seems really unfair to everybody else and to the candidate who gets tricked into thinking he actually ran a campaign. Two states and no criticism would just leave Romney a sitting duck for Obama who does know what a tough campaign is all about. The republicans did a fine job in finding a candidate: Their choice is a candidate republicans don't like or a candidate nobody else but republicans like. They need to take a long look at the negative affect if the tea party and the quality of candidates this two-party dalliance has created.

This is the difference btw Obama's verbal gaffe and what Republicans do. Clearly he knows there are 50 states, he was just in the midst of campaigning and his mind slipped. Republicanism is anti-intellctualism. To speak french is somehow a flaw in the mind of a republican. To go to college proves you are not a real American and don't share real American values. Real Americans are ignorant boobs we are told, they must shun science, sneer at advanced education, and just like Obama said--cling to Jesus. If you don't cling to Jesus you are not filled with real American values. Anyone who does anything which deviates from this Green Acres/Petticoat Junction paradise is a liberal elite, part of the lamestream media. If they live in NYC they live in the belly of the beast. They're not the real folk who in Sarah Palin's fantasy world all sound like Jim Nabors as they cast their vote for her and her ilk. And when the republicans wind up with Perry, Palin, Cain, Bachmann and Trump as the people they have to choose from, they wonder where are the real candidates. You reap what you sow.

Even they are depressing there. This is typical Labine-esque depressing crap under some misguided notion that depressing and unhappy is more realistic and adult than happy or funny. Fill the scenes with melodramatic speeches of misery and just sit back and wait for everyone to tell you how it is great writing.

what a horrible commercial. "Celebrate the holiday with everyone depressed"

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That costume party is when I first started watching OLTL. I swear it lasted an entire month.

It's really a shame that Ron Paul is a white supremacist, jew hating radical, because a lot of the things he says make sense and I give him credit in that he truly believes what he says. He is absolutely right in that the country has been brainwashed into thinking that if we do not have a billion times more bombs than the rest of the world combined we are weak. He is right that there is no reason why we have 25,000 troops in Germany and another army in Japan, and who is paying for them? He is right that the war on drugs leads to racist results, and he is right that chickenhawks have no business sabre rattling. And while every other republican talks about strict constructionism, no one is stricter than Ron Paul. His one failing is when it comes to abortion, and suddenly he forgets he is for states rights. The US is a war mongering country more than any other. No one likes to admit it, but there has not been a decade since the 1930s when the US was not somewhere establishing dictatorships, overthrowing governments and being overseas killing people. The 40s was correct, there was a world war on (that psycho Ron would not have fought), but the 50s on out has been an American crusade to establish an empire. Korea, Viet Nam, Lebanon, Nicaragua, El Savaldor, Iraq, Grenada, Iraq again, Kuwait, Afghanistan, Libya...how is it possible for one country to never be invaded but be perpetually at war? Eisenhower told us the answer: beware of the military/industrial complex. There is just too much money to be made from war for the arms makers to allow us to get out of it. Ron Paul is also right when he warns us why empires collapse. Rome, Britain, the Soviets...they all fall down eventually and if the US keeps on spending it will too. Obama should co-opt some of Ron's talking points to get the military budget cut. If you can get by on 30,000 nukes, you can get by on 15,000.

hi politics thread, my prediction for the caucus is (based on nothing but a hunch) Ron Paul Santorum Romney Ron Paul took a lot of deserved hits about racism and white supremicism and whatnot (he is the darling of stormfront.org and that pretty much says it all) but the media loves to underestimate him and discount him. His young supporters are more devoted to him than anyone else's supporters are devoted to them. I think he will fare better than the 20-22% predicted for him and come in closer to to 25-30%. I just don't see a scenario where his supporters let him down. Santorum might still win because all the Perry, Bachmann and Gingrich diehards are going to be forced to make a gut check and there is no sense in sticking with a dead horse and Santorum is acceptable to the backers of all these candidates (not that they have many in the first place). He might pick up a third of the rats fleeing the sinking ships. Romney is a fake. The establishment touts him, the so-called insiders in the state are behind him, but only 25% of republicans like him, and like is not love. He will finish up there but the lack of passion for him will hurt him. Romney will finish well enough so that his friends at the networks say he did well enough to win by just finishing near the top, and they will crown him the nominee. That's fine, because I never heard of a president being elected when 75% of his own party wishes it was anyone but him. In any case, the republican party really needs to reevaluate how they do things because this time they gathered together a group of clowns and know-nothings. They spent a decade championing anti-intellectualism and demonizing Harvard and colleges in general, and now this is what they have to show for all their hard work, the likes of Perry and Herman Cain as front running candidates worthy of the attention of Meet The Press. You reap what you sow I guess. Nate Silver, the oracle who gets everything right has it for Romney though with a 42% chance of winning, but that doesn't account for sentiment on the last day, trends, people talking to each other and what have you. But he is usually right, which is why the NY Times gobbled him up.

That was a pretty spiffy wedding. Everyone looked so nice in their formal clothing, especially Nina and Cliff. Erica, strangely enough, looked the worst of the entire crowd I thought. It was just too much. Palmer and Daisy were such a perfect couple, I love the long close up on Palmer's face as he realizes Daisy is there and he is just staring. The other thing I loved about AMC back then is how they would have these charming musical introductions to scenes maybe over an exterior shot. It's too bad soaps did a way with that kind of detail. Maybe it was corny, but it worked.

I remember a friend and I watching that together in college. It was the first time we ever saw a soap end before and we were fascinated. I am glad the aol videos are out there and now being streamed on YT but I wish just a little later will eventually make its way. I don't need to see Preacher and Del again, but I would love to see again the back to back murders of Nora and Nicole again.

does anyone know how to play this on a mac?

This was so true. Palmer was the man until he got destroyed at the altar of Opal. I never understood why they did that to such a great character.