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NickHall 
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 Posted: July 27 2013 at 02:41 |
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Breakfast in America by Supertramp. They've written a few great songs, but this isn't one of them.
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Tom Ozric
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Posted: July 27 2013 at 03:25 |
 NickHall wrote:
Breakfast in America by Supertramp. They've written a few great songs, but this isn't one of them. |
I gotta agree with ya there - that babbabadum scat vocal does me head in........otherwise, great band.
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progbethyname
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Posted: July 28 2013 at 18:52 |
Memory Cube wrote:
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As someone who loves video games, I think that "XBOX" line is exaggerated. Even if someone loved a certain system, I don't think anyone would considered it as high as a god.
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Tell that to kids in Korea. 
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Gimmie my headphones now!!! 🎧🤣
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Ambient Hurricanes
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Posted: July 28 2013 at 19:46 |
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"Xbox is a god to me" doesn't really strike me as cringeworthy. In my view (speaking as a Christian), a person's "god" is whatever they put their trust and faith in; your god could be music or yourself or money or even the internet (a real temptation to me sometimes, actually). "The human heart is an idol factory," as John Calvin put it. So I don't consider it all that unfeasible that Xbox could be a god to some teenager, if it consumed all their time and they were basically trusting in it to give any sort of purpose to their lives, using it to escape from the world and satisfy their cravings.
That is in no way meant to demean game lovers or anyone who enjoys playing video games, you can get addicted to anything, anything - a person, a kind of art, a game, food - can become an idol, video games are good but like anything they can be misused.
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I love dogs, I've always loved dogs
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Slartibartfast
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Posted: July 28 2013 at 19:54 |
Genesis, Misunderstanding, it was some kind of mistake... I love the oft loathed Whodunnit though, go figure. 
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Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened... 
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Greg W
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Posted: August 03 2013 at 11:07 |
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About 75% of Dream Theater makes me cringe. Mostly lyrical issues, but sometimes LaBrie's voice grates as well. Musically, for the most part, they are good.
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thellama73
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Posted: August 03 2013 at 11:43 |
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I like a lot of the songs mentioned here, but I was glad to see other people agreeing with me about Golf Girl. I absolutely hate that song and will forever argue that it is terrible. The lyrics are mind numbingly stupid, and the rhythm of the verses with so many one syllable words feels like you're being beaten over the head with a blunt instrument. I would be surprised to find that it took more than ten minutes to write.
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CKnoxW
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Posted: August 03 2013 at 12:22 |
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Most of Counterparts by Rush gets me. Especially "Double Agent."
Yuck
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