Am I the only one that switches ABBA off?

My "As long as you can agree what R&R and Blues are of course!" was actually semi-serious. The Blues of Ma Rainey in the 1920s is wildly different to that of Eric Clapton, Stevie Ray Vaughan etc a century later, and a common cause of argument amongst aficionados.
 
AccessBlaster said:
The premise is your driving in your car and ABBA pops on the radio for the tenth time this week, what do you do?
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I can handle that.
I find the Christmas season much worse. There are relatively few Christmas songs played on the radio, and it feels like they are played every hour, for weeks.
While Christmas is supposed to be a celebration of peace and joy, such constant noise tends to make me more frustrated and aggressive.
 
ebs17 said:
While Christmas is supposed to be a celebration of peace and joy, such constant noise tends to make me more frustrated and aggressive.
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Ditto!!
 
We have radio station called kJAzz, on Sundays they feature a DJ who has a show called "nothing but the blues". The DJ plays many songs where rock intersects with blues, it's the best of both worlds in my opinion. It's never repeated and always leaves you wanting more, unlike the canned elevator music.
 
ebs17 said:
I can handle that.
I find the Christmas season much worse. There are relatively few Christmas songs played on the radio, and it feels like they are played every hour, for weeks.
While Christmas is supposed to be a celebration of peace and joy, such constant noise tends to make me more frustrated and aggressive.
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I'm the opposite - I love the traditional, Christian and secular (but mostly Christian) Christmas songs SO much I play them year-round on my Pandora station. I find them incredibly peaceful and calm-inducing.
That said, your experience is common, I'm probably in the minority
I think my experience is born out of a childhood experience I had wherein we stood around the piano and sang those songs with Dad and Mom while Mom played the piano - very good memory
 
Pat Hartman said:
"A number of artists have requested that I not play their music at my rallies ,,,"
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However, these rallies are not about listening to music, but about highlighting individuals and political views. Musicians and other artists have their own views and attitudes and do not necessarily want to be taken over by others with the assumption that they are marching in lockstep.

Who would not have found it extremely macabre if the traditional song "Silent Night, Holy Night" had been played while at the same time hundreds of Jews were being driven into a gas chamber to be exterminated.
 
Does Trump have a public performance license, this is the question?

Swedish supergroup ABBA recently demanded that Donald Trump stop using their music at his campaign rallies, highlighting a common conflict between artists and political campaigns.

Despite ABBA’s objections, Trump’s campaign claims it has the proper licenses to legally play their songs. This incident is part of a broader pattern where artists have objected to the use of their music in political contexts, raising questions about the legal and ethical implications of such uses.
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And it requires his permission to make a political statement?
Are musicians not allowed to make political statements?






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Pat Hartman said:
Now, Alice's Restaurant IS a political song about very funny, TRUE story. It was probably embellished in the retelling but it is still a funny story. If any of you have never listened to it, you might get a kick out of it.
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It's all local for me. Arlo has a farm on the other side of the mountain, The restaurant location and the church are local. The trial was in the town hall courtroom (which was also used in the movie) The judge lived in my Brother in laws mothers house.

About 8-10 years ago I had a case where a couple kids were hired to clean out a house. They illegally dumped the trash and lo and behold there was some mail in the pile of trash. The police questioned the owner who indicated the kids were responsible for dumping the trash. Of course the local paper dubbed the case as a sequel to Alice's restaurant.
 
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