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British Expats (https://britishexpats.com/forum/)
-   Canada (https://britishexpats.com/forum/canada-56/)
-   -   To moderators: Is it OK for non-Brits to post here? (https://britishexpats.com/forum/canada-56/moderators-ok-non-brits-post-here-422726/)

dbd33 Jan 31st 2007 4:17 am
Re: To moderators: Is it OK for non-Brits to post here?
 
Originally Posted by YYZlover (Post 4346534)
Can add to it.

Nickelback
Tea Party
Jeff Martin
Kim Mitchell
Max Webster
Triumph
3 Days Grace

:rofl:
Plainly you're another one who didn't grow up with English.

"I wanna be great like Elvis without the tassels
Hire eight body guards that love to beat up assholes
Sign a couple autographs
So I can eat my meals for free

I think I'm gonna dress my ass
with the latest fashion
Get a front door key to the Playboy mansion
Gonna date a centerfold that loves to
blow my money for me"

is worthy of Rush.

dbd33 Jan 31st 2007 4:18 am
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Originally Posted by iaink (Post 4346641)
Jethro Tull..."living in the past." 'nuff said.:D
Contemporaries of Rush, innit?

I thought I was being kind in not citing Peter Frampton.

iaink Jan 31st 2007 4:20 am
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Originally Posted by dbd33 (Post 4346650)
Contemporaries of Rush, innit?

I thought I was being kind in not citing Peter Frampton.
Aye, every one of them eligable for the Saga discount.

I suspect LHK will love canadian "mix" radio:) Reason enough to emmigrate.

YYZlover Jan 31st 2007 4:22 am
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Originally Posted by iaink (Post 4346641)
Jethro Tull..."living in the past." 'nuff said.:D
And they're not Canadian.

But they are good though.

YYZlover Jan 31st 2007 4:24 am
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Originally Posted by dbd33 (Post 4346643)
Plainly you're another one who didn't grow up with English.
Actually, I did. I grew up tri-lingual. Sadly forgotten one.

As for the lyrical quote - there is a difference between UK and Canadian irony ;-)

dbd33 Jan 31st 2007 4:35 am
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Originally Posted by YYZlover (Post 4346690)
there is a difference between UK and Canadian irony ;-)
That is, quite genuinely, the first time I've heard the idea that Canadians have irony. Are you saying that the lyric doesn't mean what it says? Are Nickleback actually gay? I find that very hard to believe; I think they're simple minded literalists and anyway, just look at them!

LHK Jan 31st 2007 4:40 am
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Originally Posted by dbd33 (Post 4346615)
I loath the lyrics because, in the rare instances that they make any sense at all, they espouse the philosophy of the neo-facist Ayn Rand. They seem to me to be abhorent people with a gross inflated opinion of themselves, besides which their brand of pomp rock is tedious in the extreme.

Where are you on ELP, Jethro Tull and Uriah Heep?
Agree with you as far as Ayn Rand is concerned, but when I started listening and getting hooked to Rush, I was a teenager (not too much upstairs... hmm... actually, lots of weird things upstairs... :eek: ). Still, can't help but love them. Sorry, but they rock! :thumbup:

Well, none of my friends back then were into ELP, so, I sort of skipped that class. Used to listen a bit of Jethro Tull and just a wee of UH.

What about Zappa, Beatles, Metallica, Iron Maiden and Ozzy (pre-The Osbournes)?

YYZlover Jan 31st 2007 4:41 am
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Originally Posted by dbd33 (Post 4346753)
That is, quite genuinely, the first time I've heard the idea that Canadians have irony.
The Canadians I know do.

Are you saying that the lyric doesn't mean what it says? Are Nickleback actually gay? I find that very hard to believe; I think they're simple minded literalists and anyway, just look at them!
As I don't know them I would not be able to tell if they are gay or not. Besides, what does that have to do with anything?

And for lyrics, just check out some of David Coverdale's stuff, or Beatles (argh! I'm bashing the crown jewel of British musical heritage!). Even ABBA's swedish lyrics were quite simple.

Americans do the same. Britney Spear "baby hit me one more time" comes to mind.

Oh wait! That hit song was written by a swede.

:eek:

YYZlover Jan 31st 2007 4:44 am
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Originally Posted by LHK (Post 4346777)
Ozzy (pre-The Osbournes)?
Diary of a mad man.
Bark at the moon
Shot in the dark

'nuff said.

Ps. Moderator: I think we need to move this thread to the maple leaf forum or at least split it and change the topic on it.:thumbup:

Atlantic Xpat Jan 31st 2007 4:44 am
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Originally Posted by iaink (Post 4346641)
Jethro Tull..."living in the past." 'nuff said.:D
Seen the 'Tull' in concert 3 times over the years. (& I'm probably about your age as opposed to dbd33 who is ancient). Last time was at the Brentwood Centre (this is all in the UK) which was a bit of a drop down from the rock festivals they used to play. Damn good though.

dbd33 Jan 31st 2007 5:07 am
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Originally Posted by LHK (Post 4346777)
What about Zappa, Beatles, Metallica, Iron Maiden and Ozzy (pre-The Osbournes)?
I know of the Beatles but think them overrated. I don't think I've heard any of the others since, wow, since the seventies.

dbd33 Jan 31st 2007 5:13 am
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Originally Posted by YYZlover (Post 4346789)
As I don't know them I would not be able to tell if they are gay or not. Besides, what does that have to do with anything?
They sing about wanting access to the Playboy mansion. That suggests a seventies style machoism, think David Hasselhof, which if they were gay would be both ironic and cutely camp. I don't think they're ironic though, I think they're from the middle of nowhere, grew up listening to their parent's Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath records and now really want to be Gene Simmons circa 1978.

dbd33 Jan 31st 2007 5:15 am
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Originally Posted by Atlantic Xpat (Post 4346807)
Seen the 'Tull' in concert 3 times over the years. (& I'm probably about your age as opposed to dbd33 who is ancient). Last time was at the Brentwood Centre (this is all in the UK) which was a bit of a drop down from the rock festivals they used to play. Damn good though.
The joy of being ancient is that I saw Jethro Tull, Yes, Pink Floyd, ELP and many other dinosaur bands but cleansed myself with "Anarchy in the UK".

YYZlover Jan 31st 2007 5:19 am
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Originally Posted by dbd33 (Post 4346944)
The joy of being ancient is that I saw Jethro Tull, Yes, Pink Floyd, ELP and many other dinosaur bands
Apart from ELP, same here.

Never got in to punk though. However, Sex Pistols today is more classic rock than punk, really.

YYZlover Jan 31st 2007 5:20 am
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Originally Posted by dbd33 (Post 4346928)
They sing about wanting access to the Playboy mansion. That suggests a seventies style machoism, think David Hasselhof, which if they were gay would be both ironic and cutely camp. I don't think they're ironic though, I think they're from the middle of nowhere, grew up listening to their parent's Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath records and now really want to be Gene Simmons circa 1978.
My point is - what does sexual preferences have to do with anything?


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