Comments on: the workingman’s blues: revision #2

By: ben

ben — Mon, 07 Jul 2003 23:53:54 +0000

…my earlier comment on album-oriented five-o-clock rock. nothing against loverboy — they had their day — but i think my comps need to espouse the rarely heard. you throw that song, or say, “9 to 5″ on there, and it’s like a turd in a punchbowl. (not to equate loverboy or dolly parton with a turd, or my compilation as a punchbowl, but the point is that it’s just too striking). my intentions are for the listeners to say “oh wow! who is this?” not “oh shit, it’s that damned Loverboy song… AGAIN”, and then flip off the CD and the FM station turns on playing Huey Lewis and the News’ “Workin’ for the Weekend”.

By: Hunter

Hunter — Mon, 07 Jul 2003 22:08:12 +0000

I choose this to view this as a clever joke. It helps me to sleep at night.

By: monkeyboy

monkeyboy — Mon, 07 Jul 2003 21:20:55 +0000

come on now, how could you have a workinman’s cd and not have Loverboys “working for the weekend” on there? But oh wait – thoughts of that song beckon back to images of Chris Farell as a chipindale dancer.

By: Hunter

Hunter — Mon, 07 Jul 2003 16:03:53 +0000

You ought to throw “EMI” by the Pistols in there just for the hell of it. And I’m telling you, go with Creedence’s version of “Proud Mary” because it has the rock. And screw Kevin Spacey’s speech, throw in Edward Norton’s dialogue from Fight Club, right after he beats the shit out of himself in front of his boss. And you are a wise man to keep Ani Difranco on her own CDs where no one else can be harmed.