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scruvs
= Cult of Ray =

353 Posts

Posted - 01/31/2006 :  01:18:21  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Does the radio suck as bad as I think it does, or am I just getting old an grumpy? Every month or so, I try to listen to the radio to make sure I'm not missing anything. And then, I hear stuff about the most loneliest day in the world and how the day should be banned because it's the most loneliest day in the world. I often wonder if the DJs that play this stuff dislike the music as much as I do.

No offense if you like the most loneliest day song. It's not you, it's me. My car rides nicer with the antenna down anyway.




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jediroller
* Dog in the Sand *

France
1718 Posts

Posted - 01/31/2006 :  01:29:47  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Radio

I never listen to the radio
But if they want to play our stuff
That's OK with me
And if they want to play my stuff
That's OK with me
They don't play Slint on the radio
They don't play Sentridoh
They don't play Zappa
They don't play Beefheart
They don't play Can
They don't play The Residents
They don't even play
The Velvet Underground
They don't play Wesley Willis (oh no)
They don't play The Shaggs (no no no)
Sometimes they will play Devo (Devo)

-- By Heavy Vegetable



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Cult_Of_Frank
= Black Noise Maker =

Canada
11687 Posts

Posted - 01/31/2006 :  06:44:37  Show Profile  Visit Cult_Of_Frank's Homepage  Reply with Quote
Podcasting is the new radio.


"If we hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominos will fall like a house of cards. Checkmate."
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starmekitten
-= Forum Pistolera =-

United Kingdom
6370 Posts

Posted - 01/31/2006 :  06:56:10  Show Profile  Visit starmekitten's Homepage  Reply with Quote
Podcasts interest me greatly.

Yes, interesting...
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tacolicker
- FB Fan -

49 Posts

Posted - 01/31/2006 :  09:18:02  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
radio = musical oppression

free the music!!
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Carl
- A 'Fifth' Catholic -

Ireland
11546 Posts

Posted - 02/01/2006 :  05:55:46  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Mainstream radio music has always sucked on the whole, anyway. How many people have worked in jobs were the same radio station is on all day, pumping out the same drivel over and over?!

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cassandra is
> Teenager of the Year <

France
4233 Posts

Posted - 02/01/2006 :  06:31:49  Show Profile  Visit cassandra is's Homepage  Reply with Quote
Radio is not the problem, mainstream radios are, like says Carl. Good radios or good radio broadcasts exist. Radio was (and still is) a great medium to discover music.






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cassandra is
> Teenager of the Year <

France
4233 Posts

Posted - 02/01/2006 :  06:33:32  Show Profile  Visit cassandra is's Homepage  Reply with Quote
and the poet said:

"Radio, live transmission.
Radio, live transmission.

Listen to the silence, let it ring on.
Eyes, dark grey lenses frightened of the sun.
We would have a fine time living in the night,
Left to blind destruction,
Waiting for our sight.

And we would go on as though nothing was wrong.
And hide from these days we remained all alone.
Staying in the same place, just staying out the time.
Touching from a distance,
Further all the time.

Dance, dance, dance, dance, dance, to the radio.
Dance, dance, dance, dance, dance, to the radio.
Dance, dance, dance, dance, dance, to the radio.
Dance, dance, dance, dance, dance, to the radio.

Well I could call out when the going gets tough.
The things that we’ve learnt are no longer enough.
No language, just sound, that’s all we need know, to synchronise
Love to the beat of the show.

And we could dance.

Dance, dance, dance, dance, dance, to the radio.
Dance, dance, dance, dance, dance, to the radio.
Dance, dance, dance, dance, dance, to the radio.
Dance, dance, dance, dance, dance, to the radio."







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Erebus
* Dog in the Sand *

USA
1834 Posts

Posted - 02/01/2006 :  12:29:42  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
quote:
Originally posted by Carl

Mainstream radio music has always sucked on the whole, anyway.


Though I agree with the gist of this, I think that from about 67-72 radio and pop/rock quality did converge to a greater degree than anytime since. I remember repeatedly hearing Led Zep's "Whole Lotta Love" as a top forty single and being blissfully unaware that it wasn't the product of some hit factory. Ah, the joys of an earplug connected to a transistor radio. Never had it so good.
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Frog in the Sand
-+ Le premiere frog +-

France
2715 Posts

Posted - 02/01/2006 :  12:41:22  Show Profile  Visit Frog in the Sand's Homepage  Reply with Quote
The Radio

The radio
That told me about the death of Billy The Kid
(And the day, a hot summer day, with birds in the sky)
Let us fake out a frontier
A poem somebody could hide in
With a sheriff's posse after him
A thousand miles of it
A poem with no hard corners
No houses to get lost in
No underwebbing of customary magic
No New York Jew salesmen of amethyst pajamas
Only a place where Billy The Kid can hide
When he shoots people
Torture gardens and scenic railways
The radio
That told me about the death of Billy The Kid

- words by Jack Spicer, music by Kat Onoma


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"I want to change the world but it's changing me!"
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BLT
> Teenager of the Year <

South Sandwich Islands
4204 Posts

Posted - 02/01/2006 :  12:57:00  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
I don't look to radio for music. I prefer some of the talk on the sport stations. Bob Valvano, Todd Wright (before he lost his show) and Lee Klein are all pretty good. Maybe some Jim Rome in limited doses, too.


Cyberhugs are for pussies.
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Fartbone
- FB Fan -

USA
171 Posts

Posted - 02/01/2006 :  13:23:03  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
we have indie 103.1 and kxlu 88.9 so i'm doing just fine


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soundofataris
= Cult of Ray =

USA
715 Posts

Posted - 02/01/2006 :  13:34:03  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
On the Radio

this is how it works
it feels a little worse
and when we drove our hearse
right through that screaming crowd
while laughing up a storm
until we were just bone
until it got so warm
that none of us could sleep

then all the styrofoam
began to melt away
we tried to find some worms
to aid in the decay
but none of them were home
inside their catacomb
a million ancient bees
began to sting our knees
while we were on our knees
praying that disease
would leave the ones we love
and never come again

and on the radio
we heard november rain
the solo's really long
but it's a pretty song
we listened to it twice
cause the dj was asleep

this is how it works
you're young until you're not
you love until you don't
you try until you can't
you laugh until you cry
you cry until you laugh
and everyone must breathe
until their dying breath

this is how it works
you peer inside yourself
you take the things you like
and try to love the things you took
and then you take that love you made
and stick it into some--
someone else's heart
pumping someone else's blood
and walking arm in arm
you hope it don't get harmed
but even if it does
you'll just do it all again

on the radio
you hear november rain
that solo's awful long
but it's a nice refrain
you listen to it twice
cause the dj is asleep
on the radio
on the radio
on the radio
on the radio


Regina Spektor

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i try to be mallory but i'm still skippy
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The Holiday Son
= Quote Accumulator =

France
2010 Posts

Posted - 02/01/2006 :  13:47:07  Show Profile  Visit The Holiday Son's Homepage  Reply with Quote
Turn up the radio

They play the radio in my dreams
Takes me back to when I was 17
Dancing in circles on the kitchen floor
I'll play this song 'til I can't take anymore

PJ
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Carolynanna
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<

Canada
6556 Posts

Posted - 02/01/2006 :  16:22:46  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Yeah I like our university station here.

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Don't believe the hype.
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Daisy Girl
~ Abstract Brain ~

Belize
5305 Posts

Posted - 02/01/2006 :  16:26:40  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
good radio here too... lots of "alterative" mainstream to college stations. two are public radio so no commercials... why pay for satelite radio when you have this?
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HeywoodJablome
* Dog in the Sand *

USA
1485 Posts

Posted - 02/01/2006 :  18:19:04  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
The radio isn't completely worthless....PHIL HENDRIE!!

And on party nights you can get out your boogie shoes for Disco Saturday Nights on KBIG.
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PixieSteve
> Teenager of the Year <

Poland
4698 Posts

Posted - 02/01/2006 :  18:24:27  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
i dunno what station it was but i heard pixies - wave of mutilation UK surf on today :O




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Carl
- A 'Fifth' Catholic -

Ireland
11546 Posts

Posted - 02/01/2006 :  23:16:38  Show Profile  Reply with Quote


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cassandra is
> Teenager of the Year <

France
4233 Posts

Posted - 02/02/2006 :  01:04:15  Show Profile  Visit cassandra is's Homepage  Reply with Quote
yeah! my heroes!!

"Radio I'd sit alone and watch your light
My only friend through teenage nights
And ev'rything I had to know
I heard it on my radio

You gave them all those old time stars
Through wars of worlds - invaded by Mars
You made 'em laugh - you made 'em cry
You made us feel like we could fly
Radio

So don't become some background noise
A backdrop for the girls and boys
Who just don't know or just don't care
And just complain when you're not there
You had your time you had the power
You've yet to have your finest hour
Radio

All we hear is Radio ga ga
Radio goo goo
Radio ga ga
All we hear is Radio ga ga
Radio blah blah
Radio what's new?
Radio someone still loves you

We watch the shows - we watch the stars
On videos for hours and hours
We hardly need to use our ears
How music changes through the years

Let's hope you never leave old friend
Like all good things on you we depend
So stick around cos we might miss you
When we grow tired of all this visual
You had your time you had the power
You've yet to have your finest hour
Radio

All we hear is Radio ga ga
Radio goo goo
Radio ga ga
All we hear is Radio ga ga
Radio goo goo
Radio ga ga
All we hear is Radio ga ga
Radio blah blah
Radio what's new?
Someone still loves you

Radio ga ga
Radio ga ga
Radio ga ga
Radio

You had your time you had the power
You've yet to have your finest hour
Radio"










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Homers_pet_monkey
= Official forum monkey =

United Kingdom
17125 Posts

Posted - 02/02/2006 :  05:02:33  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
My zeroes.


I'd walk her everyday, into a shady place
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cassandra is
> Teenager of the Year <

France
4233 Posts

Posted - 02/02/2006 :  05:41:32  Show Profile  Visit cassandra is's Homepage  Reply with Quote
I was sure you were going to say something like that...






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Erebus
* Dog in the Sand *

USA
1834 Posts

Posted - 02/02/2006 :  06:39:44  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
please excuse me if this is too obvious:

I was tuning in the shine on the light night dial
doing anything my radio advised
with every one of those late night stations
playing songs bringing tears to me eyes
I was seriously thinking about hiding the receiver
when the switch broke 'cause it's old
They're saying things that I can hardly believe.
They really think we're getting out of control.

Radio is a sound salvation
Radio is cleaning up the nation
They say you better listen to the voice of reason
But they don't give you any choice
'cause they think that it's treason.
So you had better do as you are told.
You better listen to the radio.

I wanna bite the hand that feeds me.
I wanna bite that hand so badly.
I want to make them wish they'd never seen me.


Some of my friends sit around every evening
and they worry about the times ahead
But everybody else is overwhelmed by indifference
and the promise of an early bed
You either shut up or get cut out;
they don't wanna hear about it.
It's only inches on the reel-to-reel.
And the radio is in the hands of such a lot of fools
tryin' to anaesthetise the way that you feel

[Chorus]

Wonderful radio
Marvelous radio
Wonderful radio
Radio, radio...

It was my good fortune to catch Elvis at Austin's late Armadillo World Headquarters on the My Aim Is True tour where he introduced this song during his encore as the single from the upcoming album.
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Carl
- A 'Fifth' Catholic -

Ireland
11546 Posts

Posted - 02/03/2006 :  04:19:29  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
This Is Radio Clash-The Clash.

Interrupting all programmes

This is radio clash from pirate satellite

Orbiting your living room,
Cashing in the bill of rights
Cuban army surplus or refusing all third lights
This is radio clash on pirate satellite

This sound does not subscribe
To the international plan
In the psycho shadow of the white right hand
Then that see ghettology as an urban viet nam
Giving deadly exhibitions of murder by napalm

This is radio clash tearing up the seven veils
This is radio clash please save us, not the whales
This is radio clash underneath a mushroom cloud
This is radio clash
You don’t need that funeral shroud

Forces have been looting
My humanity
Curfews have been curbing
The end of liberty

Hands of law have sorted through
My identity
But now this sound is brave
And wants to be free - anyway to be free

This is radio clash on pirate satellite
This is not free europe
Noh an armed force network
This is radio clash using audio ammunition
This is radio clash can we get that world to listen?
This is radio clash using aural ammunition
This is radio clash can we get that world to listen?
This is radio clash on pirate satellite
Orbiting your living room,
Cashing in the bill of rights
This is radio clash on pirate satellite
This is radio clash everybody hold on tight

A-riggy diggy dig dang dang

Go back to urban ’nam

Radio Song-REM.

Hey, I can't find nothing on the radio
Yo! turn to that station

The world is collapsing
Around our ears
I turned up the radio
But I can't hear it

When I got to the house
And I called you out
I could tell that you had been crying, crying
It's that same sing song on the radio
It makes me sad
I meant to turn it off
To say goodbye
To leave in quiet
That radio song
Hey, hey, hey

I've everything to show
I've everything to hide
Look into my eyes
Listen

When I got to the show
Yo, ho, ho
I could tell that you had been crying, crying
It's that same sing song and the DJ sucks
It makes me sad
I tried to turn it off
To say goodbye, my love
That radio song
Hey, hey, hey

The world is collapsing
Around our ears
I turned up the radio
But I can't hear it
Yeah

I tried to sing along
But damn that radio song
Hey, hey, hey
Hey, hey, hey

I've everything to show
I've everything to hide
Look into my eyes, listen to the radio
I turned up the radio
But I can't hear it
No, I can't hear it
Hey, hey, hey

Check it out
What are you saying
What are you playing
Who are you obeying
Day out day in?
Baby, baby, baby, baby
That stuff is driving me crazy
DJs communicate to the masses
Sex and violent classes
Now our children grow up prisoners
All their lives radio listeners

pas de dutchie!
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Homers_pet_monkey
= Official forum monkey =

United Kingdom
17125 Posts

Posted - 02/03/2006 :  05:44:18  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
quote:
Originally posted by cassandra is

I was sure you were going to say something like that...






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Haha, I did think you would expect me to, but rather than surprise you I thought I wouldn't dissapoint.


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cassandra is
> Teenager of the Year <

France
4233 Posts

Posted - 02/03/2006 :  05:55:10  Show Profile  Visit cassandra is's Homepage  Reply with Quote
once a Homer, always a Homer...






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Homers_pet_monkey
= Official forum monkey =

United Kingdom
17125 Posts

Posted - 02/03/2006 :  06:09:15  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Indeed. I will leave the Queen thing alone now, I promise.


I'd walk her everyday, into a shady place
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starmekitten
-= Forum Pistolera =-

United Kingdom
6370 Posts

Posted - 02/03/2006 :  07:30:51  Show Profile  Visit starmekitten's Homepage  Reply with Quote
BBC Radio 6 is ok.
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VoVat
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<

USA
9168 Posts

Posted - 02/03/2006 :  12:57:48  Show Profile  Visit VoVat's Homepage  Click to see VoVat's MSN Messenger address  Reply with Quote
I'm not a big fan of the radio. I'll listen to it while I'm driving, but I usually have to switch channels a lot. I have no objection to radio as a medium in general, though.



"If you doze much longer, then life turns to dreaming. If you doze much longer, then dreams turn to nightmares."
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cassandra is
> Teenager of the Year <

France
4233 Posts

Posted - 02/04/2006 :  01:19:19  Show Profile  Visit cassandra is's Homepage  Reply with Quote
talking about the Smashing Pumpkins:

"Radio
Play my favourite song
Radio
Radio
Radio
I'm alone
Radio
Radio
Please don't go
Radio
I peer thru curtains on empty streets
Behind a wall of caller i.d.
No one's out there
To hear if I care
About the troubles in the air
As I of the morning now come
Pick up where my thoughts left off
Cause I'm home to die on my own
As my radio
Plays my favourite song
Radio
Radio
Radio
Don't you know
Radio
Radio
That radio
I'm alone
I blow the dust off my guitars
In the attic with the stars
I read your letters
To feel better
My tears upon the fading ink
As I of the morning now gone
Pick up where my thoughts left off
Cause I'm home to die on my own
As my radio
Plays my favourite song
Radio
Radio
Radio
I'm alone
Radio
Radio
Radio
Please don't go
I sit in the dark light
To wait for ghost night
To bring the past alive
To make a toast to life
Cause i have survived
What is it you want
What is it you want to change
What is it you want
What is it you want to change
What is it you want to change
Radio"







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Carl
- A 'Fifth' Catholic -

Ireland
11546 Posts

Posted - 02/04/2006 :  17:52:38  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
"Tonight the radio is rockin', I'm gonna hear my favorite song if it takes all night!"

Oh yeah, I'm not a fan, but just because we're posting radio songs:

The Corrs-Radio.

It's late at night
And I'm feeling down
There're couples standing on the street
Sharing summer kisses and silly sounds

So I step inside
Pour a glass of wine
With a full glass and an empty heart
I search for something to occupy my mind

But you are in my head
Swimming forever in my head
Tangled in my dreams
Swimming forever

So listen to the radio (listen to the radio)
And all the songs we used to know, oh, oh
So listen to the radio (listen to the radio)
Remember where we used to go...

Now it's morning light
And it's cold outside
Caught up in a distant dream
I turn and think that you are by my side

So I leave my bed
And I try to dress
Wandering why my mind plays tricks
And fools me into thinking you are there

But you're just in my head
Swimming forever in my head
Not lying in my bed
Just swimming forever

So listen to the radio (listen to the radio)
And all the songs we used to know, oh, oh
So listen to the radio (listen to the radio)
Remember where we used to go...

I listen to the radio (listen to the radio)
And all the songs we used to know, oh, oh
I listen to the radio (listen to the radio)
Remember where we used to go...

You are in my head
Swimming forever in my head
Tangled in my dreams
Swimming forever
(Swimming forever)
Swimming forever

So listen to the radio (listen to the radio)
And all the songs we used to know, oh, oh
So listen to the radio (listen to the radio)
Remember where we used to go...

I listen to the radio (listen to the radio)
And all the songs we used to know, oh, oh
I listen to the radio (listen to the radio)

pas de dutchie!

Edited by - Carl on 02/04/2006 19:56:28
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HeywoodJablome
* Dog in the Sand *

USA
1485 Posts

Posted - 02/05/2006 :  11:41:40  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
How about the Mexican Radio song, who sang that?


Begin the day with a friendly voice
A campanion unobtrusive
Plays that song thats so elusive
And the magic music makes your morning move
Up on your way hit the open road
There is magic at your fingers
(da da dada da don't remember this part)

All this machinery making modern music
Can still be open hearted
Not for fooly charted (is that what he says?)
It's really just a question of your honesty

One likes to believe in the freedom of music
But glittering prizes and endless compromises
Shatter the illusion of integrity

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floop
= Wannabe Volunteer =

Mexico
15297 Posts

Posted - 02/05/2006 :  12:03:27  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
quote:
Originally posted by Fartbone

we have indie 103.1 and kxlu 88.9 so i'm doing just fine


Horale Cabrones



indie 103 was cool before it had commercials
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Superabounder
* Dog in the Sand *

USA
1041 Posts

Posted - 02/05/2006 :  12:18:29  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
quote:
Originally posted by HeywoodJablome

How about the Mexican Radio song, who sang that?




Stan Ridgeway and Wall of Voodoo sang that excellent song.
I still have a soft spot in my heart for AM radio and riding around in the seventies in the back of my brothers' cars late on summer nights after Rangers baseball games and listening to the static filled mono of the radio in their car. And also walking the dog with my dad while we listened to the transistor radio broadcasts of those same games. I still like trying to find a station on my shitty clock radio and deciphering all the noise and spanish stations and broadcast sounds coming out of that little speaker. FM sucks here in Texas aside from a few selected shows throughout the week.

Another good radio song: Left of the Dial by the Replacements, although all the words except those escape me.



I tend to think of human beings as huge rubbery test tubes, too, with chemical reactions seething inside
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HeywoodJablome
* Dog in the Sand *

USA
1485 Posts

Posted - 02/05/2006 :  20:19:48  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
quote:
Originally posted by floop

quote:
Originally posted by Fartbone

we have indie 103.1 and kxlu 88.9 so i'm doing just fine


Horale Cabrones



indie 103 was cool before it had commercials



I was just thinking about this today. They used to call it Cool Radio before right? It was pretty damn cool.
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Carl
- A 'Fifth' Catholic -

Ireland
11546 Posts

Posted - 02/06/2006 :  03:13:32  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
"Sick of music-top 40 sucks."-Suicidal Tendencies, 'Suicides An Alternative.'

pas de dutchie!

Edited by - Carl on 02/06/2006 03:14:12
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