Game Thread PLAYOFFS - ROUND 2, GAME 1: Blazers @ Warriors - 5/1/16, Sunday, 12:30 (PDT), ABC

[BigGameDamian]

Jason Quick said that Terry Stotts isn't afraid to make bold changes.

 

[Minstrel]

When things don't go your way, you talk about music.

Or, if you're in the mood for something less divisive, politics.

 

[kjironman1]

It's Monkees. Learn the band then post.

I stand corrected.

 

[ripcityboy]

Jason Quick said that Terry Stotts isn't afraid to make bold changes.

Drug their Gatorade?

 

[Minstrel]

Drug their Gatorade?

Start Aminu at point guard.

 

[Elton]

Tears For Fears perfectly mimicked BOTH the Beatles and Beach Boys on different albums.

Seeing TFF in July.

 

[Rastapopoulos]

The Beach Boys' earlier simpler songs were superior to the Beatles' earlier simpler songs and their later-'60s more sophisticated songs were far superior to the Beatles' later-'60s more sophisticated songs.

I guess that's why respected musicologists called Brian Wilson "The Best Songwriter Since Schubert".

Oh wait, no. That was the Beatles.

Great harmonies aren't a bad thing,

Neither are bagpipes, in the abstract. But that better not be all you've got going for you.

 

[jlprk]

The Beach Boys' earlier simpler songs were superior to the Beatles' earlier simpler songs and their later-'60s more sophisticated songs were far superior to the Beatles' later-'60s more sophisticated songs.

Great harmonies aren't a bad thing, but I guess since the Beatles didn't have them, that's a convenient thing to sneer about.

Oh, you're after harmonies. I see why you prefer Beatles Year 1 over Year 2. Yes, by Rubber Soul and Revolver they had less of that Everly Brothers sound, evolving into just letting one solo guy lead the singing. Another good thing that faded away, the longer they went on. For most groups, entropy replaces rookie fear after the first hit album or two.

 

[ripcityboy]

Tears For Fears perfectly mimicked BOTH the Beatles and Beach Boys on different albums.

Seeing TFF in July.

Tears For Fears are responsible for more American male teens getting into bland clothes and getting terrible hair cuts in the 80's than any band bar the Smiths.

 

[LuckyShot]

Jason Quick said that Terry Stotts isn't afraid to make bold changes.

Believe it when I see it. Although it is a change for him to even say that, since he usually says it's too late to try anything different.

 

[Trackjack]

Well beside them out shooting and total out rebound us it was better then thought. The problem for us there guards are so much bigger then us overall there bigger then we are at this stage. The bench actually play good tonight in Crabbe and Davis getting in double figures.

 

[Minstrel]

I guess that's why respected musicologists called Brian Wilson "The Best Songwriter Since Schubert".

Oh wait, no. That was the Beatles.

Implicitly applying a quote from a Beatles fan to all "respected musicologists" is first of all pretty silly. Second of all, trying to support an opinion on the quality of art by saying "respected experts say it's great!" is pretty much what people who don't understand art do.

To be fair to you, though, the Beatles' music isn't art.

 

[Elton]

Tears For Fears are responsible for more American male teens getting into bland clothes and getting terrible hair cuts in the 80's than any band bar the Smiths.

Terrible hair cuts? Surely you jest!

 

[Hobbesarable]

Led Zeppelin.

That's one of my favorite groups.

I won't get into the battle of which group is better than another. But I will provide some of my favorite songs of all time (in no particular order).

Jim Croce - Time in a Bottle
Led Zeppelin - Kashmir, Stairway to Heaven
John Lennon - Imagine
Kenny Rogers - Lady (written by Lionel Richie)
Lionel Richie - Hello
Bill Withers - Just the Two of Us
Metallica - Enter Sandman
Stevie Wonder - I Just Called to Say I Love You
Otis Redding - Sittin' on the Dock of the Bay
Steve Winwood - The Finer Things
Jerry Reed - Amos Moses (also enjoy the version by Primus)
U2 - Lemon
Dave Matthews Band - Crash Into Me

 

[Elton]

Tears For Fears are responsible for more American male teens getting into bland clothes and getting terrible hair cuts in the 80's than any band bar the Smiths.

I think you have them and Duran Duran mixed up.

 

[B-Roy]

Start Aminu at point guard.

It's great to have you back Minstrel but I'm starting to question your sanity.

I kid.

 

[jlprk]

Tears For Fears are responsible for more American male teens getting into bland clothes and getting terrible hair cuts in the 80's than any band bar the Smiths.

I honestly have no idea of any Tears for Fears songs. By the 80s, I had written off popular music. It was dead to me.

Well beside them out shooting and total out rebound us it was better then thought. The problem for us there guards are so much bigger then us overall there bigger then we are at this stage. The bench actually play good tonight in Crabbe and Davis getting in double figures.

posted during the game...

Crabbe does well because he has height for a guard. Lillard and McCollum suck because they're shrimps.
I wish we'd trade one of them for a tall guy like Klay.

 

[ripcityboy]

Terrible hair cuts? Surely you jest!

There were literally thousands of guys who looked like this in the 80's. Probably working in IT now and hoping no one sees their old Depeche Mode posters.

Yes. I'm over generalizing.

 

[jlprk]

That's one of my favorite groups.

I won't get into the battle of which group is better than another. But I will provide some of my favorite songs of all time (in no particular order).

Jim Croce - Time in a Bottle
Led Zeppelin - Kashmir, Stairway to Heaven
John Lennon - Imagine
Kenny Rogers - Lady (written by Lionel Richie)
Lionel Richie - Hello
Bill Withers - Just the Two of Us
Metallica - Enter Sandman
Stevie Wonder - I Just Called to Say I Love You
Otis Redding - Sittin' on the Dock of the Bay
Steve Winwood - The Finer Things
Jerry Reed - Amos Moses (also enjoy the version by Primus)
U2 - Lemon
Dave Matthews Band - Crash Into Me

You like slow music, except that Amos Moses is fast. I like quickness, some jerky beat that makes you get up and jump around. But it also must have a good tune. They don't write them like anymore.

 

[Elton]

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There were literally thousands of guys who looked like this in the 80's. Probably working in IT now and hoping no one sees their old Depeche Mode posters.

Yes. I'm over generalizing.

"You know, I don't want to sound like a queer or nothin'..."

 

[jlprk]

Well, the gong sounded and it's 4 pm. Bedtime. Good night all. Where's my Geritol.

 

[Minstrel]

I think the hair styles were more of an era effect.

 

[ripcityboy]

"You know, I don't want to sound like a queer or nothin'..."

Hey. I don't hate their music. "Songs From The Big Chair" is great. I love the Smiths as well. But if you were a little kid and you were constantly exposed to their fans (older brothers and sisters) they weren't cool. It's the reason kids of my generation plugged a cheap Japanese- made guitar into a Marshall Stack with a Big Muff and invented Grunge. Your rebelling against what came before. And thank god for that!

 

[Elton]

Hey. I don't hate their music. "Songs From The Big Chair" is great. I love the Smiths as well. But if you were a little kid and you were constantly exposed to their fans (older brothers and sisters) they weren't cool. It's the reason kids of my generation plugged a cheap Japanese guitar into a Marshall with a Big Muff and invented Grunge. Your rebelling against what came before. And thank god for that!

I don't want to sound like a queer or nothin...

 

[ripcityboy]

I don't want to sound like a queer or nothin...

Well. Trey Parker and Matt Stone do have nice asses.

 

[Elton]

Hey. I don't hate their music. "Songs From The Big Chair" is great. I love the Smiths as well. But if you were a little kid and you were constantly exposed to their fans (older brothers and sisters) they weren't cool. It's the reason kids of my generation plugged a cheap Japanese guitar into a Marshall with a Big Muff and invented Grunge. Your rebelling against what came before. And thank god for that!

I felt the same about my older brother and Van Halen.

 

[ripcityboy]

I felt the same about my older brother and Van Halen.

I am not a huge Van Halen fan. But I hate hipsters and critics who are revisionist dickheads and try to deny Eddie his place in history. He was the most influencial guitar player in rock after Hendrix, and you cant imagine the world without him.
The single humbucker into the bridge of a Strat. Nobody had done that.

 

[Elton]

I think the hair styles were more of an era effect.

So true...funny how it seems...

 

[Elton]

I am not a huge Van Halen fan. But I hate hipsters and critics who are revisionist dickheads and try to deny Eddie his place in history. He was the most influencial guitar player in rock after Hendrix, and you cant imagine the world without him.
The single humbucker into the bridge of a Strat. Nobody had done that.

Actually wished he had the balls to make an instrumental album a la Satriani or Vai. (Wild Life soundtrack notwithstanding)

 

[EGame]

Well that wasn't an ideal score to see. But if there is anything to take from this is that we got blown out first two games against the no good clippers and still won the series! So there is that.