Song of the Moment: Future Days

[McParadigm]

It'd be a better song if at some point he said "THESE FIVE WORDS I SWEAR TO YOU! I SEE OUR FUTURE DAYS!"

[McParadigm]

I'm currently sitting comfortable at zero friends.

I'll be your friend.

[aurynsdad]

Ok, but the chart placing was brought in to rebuke bodysnatcher's comments about making a "bad song less bad."

No it wasn't. I quoted that comment because I felt that the chart placing was a "higher compliment" to the song than that comment, which IIRC you said was the highest compliment. Whether a song is good or not, it selling well is undoubtedly a compliment.

[aurynsdad]

I found myself super moved by this song actually yesterday. I guess when you get close to losing someone you adore, cheesy shit hits the soul :\

This comment warms my soul. Almost lost a loved one today. I need to hear this again.

[Thejambi]

I played it as my wrecked Grand Am was towed away.
































Still no.

[Lament]

Ok, but the chart placing was brought in to rebuke bodysnatcher's comments about making a "bad song less bad."

No it wasn't. I quoted that comment because I felt that the chart placing was a "higher compliment" to the song than that comment, which IIRC you said was the highest compliment. Whether a song is good or not, it selling well is undoubtedly a compliment.

If you recalled correctly, you would recall that I did not make that comment. BurtReynolds did. But since he gets less respect around here than Rodney Dangerfield and is constantly forgotten/omitted by everyone, you've attributed it to me.

And if you honestly believe something selling well is "undoubtedly a compliment," well, then I suppose there's not much worth saying. Glenn Beck sells a lot of books. Hell, Mein Kampf sold 10 million copies in Germany before Hitler died. That's a pretty great compliment!

[Lament]

Nevermind, Burt, bodysnatcher said it was the highest compliment. Someone finally remembers to include you, and it's erroneous.

[BurtReynolds]

It really hurt when I read that, but I didnt say anything.

[Lament]

But at least this time is was bodysnatcher being forgotten, and not you. That's a step in the right direction, right?

[BurtReynolds]

I took out the intro and outro Bo'B wankfest

It's a start, I guess.

it certainly makes a bad song less bad.

[bodysnatcher]

But at least this time is was bodysnatcher being forgotten, and not you. That's a step in the right direction, right?

[bodysnatcher]

Whether a song is good or not, it selling well is undoubtedly a compliment.

That's a fairly objective statement for such a subjective artform

[stip]

Ok, but the chart placing was brought in to rebuke bodysnatcher's comments about making a "bad song less bad."

No it wasn't. I quoted that comment because I felt that the chart placing was a "higher compliment" to the song than that comment, which IIRC you said was the highest compliment. Whether a song is good or not, it selling well is undoubtedly a compliment.

If you recalled correctly, you would recall that I did not make that comment. BurtReynolds did. But since he gets less respect around here than Rodney Dangerfield and is constantly forgotten/omitted by everyone, you've attributed it to me.

And if you honestly believe something selling well is "undoubtedly a compliment," well, then I suppose there's not much worth saying. Glenn Beck sells a lot of books. Hell, Mein Kampf sold 10 million copies in Germany before Hitler died. That's a pretty great compliment!

We've finally crossed the Future Days = Hitler Rubicon

[aurynsdad]

We've finally crossed the Future Days = Hitler Rubicon

[Lament]

We've finally crossed the Future Days = Hitler Rubicon

And I've finally figured out what hand gesture should go with the song live.

[stip]

[stip]

I laugh while in the next room my wife is busy coordinating the planting one of the saplings from the tree outside Anne Frank's window on the lawn of the capitol building.

[Lament]

Just like the Third Reich was ultimately defeated, Future Days will be as well.

[BurtReynolds]

It's cheesy as hell, but it's unapologetically cheesy, which matters.

What also mattes, I think (a lot) and what separates this from, say Bon Jovi, is that it's coming from a band that normally doesn't write in terms of cheese, and has a pretty large back catalog moving entirely in the opposite direction. Cheese is a problem when it is lazy and manipulative and it is all you do. But there is an authenticity to it when the cheese is an exception, rather than the rule. It becomes an honest, unguarded, pure sentiment.

I didn't want this statement to go unpunished, but I don't even know where to begin with this absurd bit of illogic.

[stip]

One place is probably as good as another.