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Girls Just Want To...Wha?!

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Posted on August 21, 2016 at 13:01:06
Luminator
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 When I was in 7th grade, Cyndi Lauper was one of our hero(ines). "Girls Just Want To Have Fun" liberated my female classmates, which, in turn, made it more enjoyable for us boys. Girls were further freed, when "She Bop," well..., I hope you will understand. "Time After Time" has stood the test of, well, time, and is as powerful today, as it was in 83/84. And damn it, "Money Changes Everything" ROCKS!

We were used to seeing Lauper in rock and pop culture magazines. So now, she is featured on the cover of....wait for it....AARP.

For my generation, that is a gut punch. F---, we're old...

-Lummy The Loch Monster

 

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RE: Girls Just Want To...Wha?!, posted on August 21, 2016 at 13:06:07
Rockethead26
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 Yep!

 

RE: Girls Just Want To...Wha?!, posted on August 21, 2016 at 13:18:12
slapshot
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 I'm surrounded by 20 year old college students all the time....they help to remind me how old I am every moment.

It goes by quickly...and as Ian Anderson once said..."Life is a long song, but the tune ends too soon for us all."

 

AARP has been trying to reach the younger of the folks who could join., posted on August 21, 2016 at 13:36:11
Smelly_Socks
 So AARP has a TV commercial showing Rock artist etc.. Instead of Lawrence Welk.

I always said some day the fight over the old folks home TV is gonna be over whether it is gonna be Lawrence Welk, Or Bob Dylan..

IMO Lawrence Welk has been the cornerstone of old folks TV.. But not for long LOL

 

Too bad you're old..., posted on August 21, 2016 at 14:47:10
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 you're younger than me.

CL's a bit older than me and also younger than you... and me.

She's still VERY cool, no matter her age.

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Lawrence Welk? Are you Rip Van Winkle?, posted on August 21, 2016 at 14:56:11
Dave_K
 Where have you been? Lawrence Welk was the cornerstone of old folks TV in the 1960 and 1970s. He retired before Cyndi Lauper had her first hit. By the 1980s, if you were watching re-runs of the LWS, you were probably an octogenarian or more :) And that was 30 years ago!

And Bob Dylan is a geezer. That's why we call it geezer rock.

 

RE: Lawrence Welk? Are you Rip Van Winkle?, posted on August 21, 2016 at 15:57:55
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 I used to have Lawrence Welk on the TV with the sound off and play rock through the system. Sometimes they seemed to sync. This was the late 60s if you can relate.

 

Well..., posted on August 21, 2016 at 16:23:57
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 even 63 year old folks still want to have fun! ;)

 

RE: Too bad you're old..., posted on August 21, 2016 at 17:09:05
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 Betcha a nickel he's younger than CL.


ET

"If at first you don't succeed, keep on sucking till you do suck seed" - Curly Howard 1936

 

Two things ..., posted on August 21, 2016 at 17:13:02
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 One, everyone gets old. Kids today, will be old 'tomorrow'.
Two, at least we have really good music to keep us company. Kids today, IMO, don't have music quite as nice to listen to when they're old.

 

RE: Girls Just Want To...Wha?!, posted on August 21, 2016 at 17:13:34
4everyoung
 ....have fun being President :-)

 

Best thing about getting old?..., posted on August 21, 2016 at 17:48:32
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 it beats the alternative.


"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination"-Michael McClure



 

RE: Best thing about getting old?..., posted on August 21, 2016 at 18:54:19
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 ... getting younger? :^)

 

Lawrence Welk is still on PBS... really. LOL nt, posted on August 21, 2016 at 19:04:19
Smelly_Socks
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RE: Girls Just Want To...Wha?!, posted on August 22, 2016 at 00:25:04
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 I stopped reading after the surrounded by 20 year old college students part. Went to another place in the internet. Now I need a nap.

 

RE: Girls Just Want To...Wha?!, posted on August 22, 2016 at 04:29:34
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 ...so is CL.

 

No kidding?, posted on August 22, 2016 at 04:37:02
Dave_K
 I'm in the Boston area and I haven't seen the LWS on either of my PBS stations in many, many years. The last time I can remember seeing it while browsing TV listings was in the late 90s when I was living in OH.

 

RE: Girls Just Want To...Wha?!, posted on August 22, 2016 at 05:01:09
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 I was listening to Miles Davis play "Time After Time" the other day and thinking how age is just a number. Miles was old by then, especially considering his lifestyle, but he recognized a great tune and picked it up, adding the inimitable Miles style.

 

And I can't understand why!, posted on August 22, 2016 at 11:07:49
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 Welk continues to be rerun early Saturday evenings on the San Diego PBS station. I'm in my mid-70s and can't figure out why? He certainly doesn't appeal to my generation. Can there really be that many even older folks watching to justify keeping him on?!?

"The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing, if you can fake that you've got it made." Groucho

 

I think he's now referring to , posted on August 22, 2016 at 13:25:50
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 "hip years", not orbits around the sun. :)

 

RE: Well..., posted on August 22, 2016 at 17:29:44
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 They still do. It just takes longer. ;)

 

Hey!, posted on August 22, 2016 at 18:47:56
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 I represent your comments. :)

 

My favorite Lauper moment was when she teamed up with, posted on August 23, 2016 at 08:09:46
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 Capt Lou Albano.

When "professional" wrestling was entertaining and gloriously stupid. Not that I was ever a fan but in those days when there was nothing else on ...

Then NRBQ did a song about Capt Lou.

You just could not help but like Lou Albano. So I changed my view of Lauper. She was bubble gum entertainment before, with this interlude I figured she had the proper amount of self-deprecatory humor in her.

Must admit I enjoyed TIME AFTER TIME more than I would have if this nonsense had not occurred. Maybe I should not say "enjoyed" more like I paid attention to it and heard what was there after my barrier was broken down.

Anything can happen in the world of pop music and that is what makes it interesting. Unfortunately there is more of nothing happening but I remain hopeful.

 

I saw her at a Pink concert..., posted on August 23, 2016 at 10:44:53
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 ...in Sydney, Australia a couple of years ago.

Lauper was sitting a few seats down from us.

Pink did a cover of "Time After Time" and Lauper was in tears at the end.

 

RE: Girls Just Want To...Wha?!, posted on August 23, 2016 at 19:27:05
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 She & Eric Brazilian - who was - playing in a very good band then "THE HOOTERS" wrote the song in Manyunk, just outside of Philadelphia. I was living in Philly and saw 20+ Hooters performances. And I saw Lauper too. I suppose too, that this is one of my hallmarks of youth. Lummy - just die dancing t' that madd slammin' beat!

 

RE: Girls Just Want To...Wha?!, posted on August 23, 2016 at 19:42:09
Tweaker456
 Thanks for rubbing it in Sue.

 

RE: Girls Just Want To...Wha?!, posted on August 24, 2016 at 06:50:23
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 My music heyday started when I was a teenager. At the time I gave the age of these performers no thought at all. I was very surprised to find out how old Alex Harvey was. But if you think about it, you are say 15 and these are accomplished musicians, and it takes tie to get there. If they were in their 30s they were 15 or more years older. So now I am 56, 56 + 15 is getting up there.

Really, back then I never gave their age a single thought. Now we see them dying all over the place, but that is what happens to old people. It is not untimely like when the Big Bopper, Valence and Holly got in that plane wreck. That was before I was born and they would probably all be dead by now anyway.

Like when your Parents die, what is the alternative ? For them to see you die, and you don't want that, that really is hard on someone.

But these old musicians, they certainly were not going to live forever. And with the partying lifestyle most of them had it is surprising how long some of them lived.

 

RE: Two things ..., posted on August 27, 2016 at 11:28:11
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 Your post reminded me of something I've often thought over the (many, in my case) years. It seems to me that during my teen years, '63-'69, "my/our" music was more carefree or happier (?) than what I heard in the '80's and after. I know I'm not phrasing it quite the way I wanted to, but I hope you get my meaning. Music (to me) seemed to get more angry, intense, and less fun, if you will. I don't mean to imply there was no good music after my teen years, I know old farts like me tend to think we had the best music ever, but from what I heard my daughters & her friends listening to, I thought that it was just not as much fun & for what it's worth, my kids feel the same. And like I said, I'm not condemning all music after the '70's, because obviously I only sampled a small slice in those years. Just a thought.
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RE: Two things ..., posted on August 27, 2016 at 14:52:54
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 Old farts are lucky. I was born in 1960 and when I was young, I mean under 30 I used to say I would give up all the rest of the years of my life to have been born like 10 or 11 years earlier. I like 1950s music, I like Buddy Holly and all that. In the late 1960s was when they got their shit together on how to design a car. I drove a 1950 Chevy and I tellya, it was like work. But I would have been a baby then.

I probably would have been an innovator, I probably would have a patent on variable valve timing because I experimented with it. If I had the electronic expertise I might have a few more patents.

But that's not how it works. I think I was born about 11 years too late, but then there was the draft and I could have been sent to Nam, or actually would have moved to Canada or whatever. When someone attacks this country I will fight to the death for my countrymen, but I WILL NOT go to another country that has not attacked us and attack them. The founders of this country were against shit like that and so am I, to this day, and yes that means the middle east because those enemies there were not born, the US government created them.

But to live through those times would have been something. People hopping up cars, rebuilding engines in the garage, and the music pretty much suits me rather than this garbage the media moguls promote. I can't stand radio or TV anymore. Even the country station, Rascal Flats is NOT COUNTRY. And TV, Star Trek was great. It was just about a weekly event. Kids, shutup, go in the closet or go outside, or else. There were no VCRs. Down in Cleveland, listen to CKLW, which was a really good rock station in Canada that we could pick up. So my life wasn't all that bad, but if I was born ten years earlier it would have been better. As long as I wasn't drafted of course.

People bitch about the fact that Ted Nugent shit his pants to avoid the draft, but look at the scumbag politicians who start this shit and their sons do not go to get killed. Fukum.

But anyway, the music you listened to as a teenager was made by people likely ten years older than you. Look at what's her name doing Stairway To Heaven with the remaining members of Led Zepplin in the audience. Lead singer from Heart or something. And she did it well. but the camera did focus on the members of Led Zepplin and they got gray hair and whatever. But what did we expect ? Really, we never expected this. We thought them to be immortal and while they might be in some ways, their bodies are not.

This last few years have not been good for rock stars etc. From what I hear an unprecedented number of them have died. Alex Harvey died young, but I didn't consider it young back then. Older than both of my Parents. When I found out how old he was I was was in shock that he could rock. Now I see he died pretty young being ten years older than he when he died. What a trip.

Time is a MF. If things could stay like they were in like 1975 it would be great. I finally got a good job, illegally without a work permit, I had a car, no license just threw a spare set of plate on it and drove. Always had money. You didn't need insurance back then because of two reasons, there were less assholes on the road and we rented. When you bought a house was when you got car insurance. But then people did seem to know how to drive and the car actually was protection rather than the cause of your injuries. They had real metal in them.

I don't watch TV but if I do I want to see people smoking cigarettes and not wearing seat belts. I remember a guy in California committed suicide over the helmet law. Who are they to tell me to wear a helmet ? If I am on a motorcycle doing 80 MPH and get in a wreck I want to be dead, not in a wheelchair and Depends for another forty years. That makes them money though. When you die, their money stops. Think about it. They want you sick and hurting and injured, and to boast about how they saved you, when you did not want to be saved.

If I was born when I would rather be born I would be like 67 now.

I work at a place that deals in Karaoke equipment and some band and DJ stuff. I have been exposed to the newer music situationally. I cannot stand it. I can't stand the new TV shows that look like they gave the camera to a ten year old. The music is made on a computers or whatever, almost everything on my PC/server was at one time in public domain so fukum.

Alot of these musicians grew up in times I wish I would have. It is not anyone's fault, it is just the way time goes. From what I see, there are very few really good ones today. Luckily some people do restore and whatever those old recordings. You listen to a good copy of music from the 1950s you might be surprised at the sound quality. I was. I was like "Damn, the 45 didn't sound like this".

And realize, all that Cindy Lauper was recorded on analog, and on equipment that was not all that much better than what they had in the 1960s. It simply was not that bad.

 

RE: Girls Just Want To...Wha?!, posted on August 27, 2016 at 17:40:21
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 Yes...the price we pay for being aware of our mortality. I struggle with the whole thing at 60. Faith gets me by, but that doesn't mean I don't question the whole life thing.



See ya. Dave

 

RE: And I can't understand why!, posted on September 6, 2016 at 19:11:14
Terry P
 It must be because of the Lawrence Welk resort in the North County. Gotta support that tourism!

 

RE: Girls Just Want To...Wha?!, posted on September 8, 2016 at 01:52:16
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 I just bought Cindi's "Detour". Listened to it on the plane.

Ick.

I had to force myself to finish the CD, because I knew that if I stopped in the middle, I'd never play that CD again.

A few of the tracks aren't bad, including some of the ending ones. There's hope that I'll run it through the player once more. Probably not soon, though.

Mind you, "aren't bad" is not the same as "appealing".

When I get my mind cleaned-out, I have "At Last" to listen to. Bought "At Last" and "Detour" together.

 

RE: Girls Just Want To...Wha?!, posted on September 23, 2016 at 00:57:36
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 Luminator - I haven't been at the asylum for a long while. Good to see you still kicking around. I remember your CDP shootouts from about 10-12 years ago. Bought my Cary 303/300 as a result. Still have it and happy.

 

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