Is Your Favorite Relationship Song All “Junk Food?”

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Dec 022009
 

Healthy Hannah!

BOSTON — An initiative to encourage healthy teen relationships says songs by Jamie Foxx and Lady Gaga are the musical equivalent of junk food.

A teen panel working with the Boston Public Health Commission has determined that their songs are among the top 10 with “unhealthy relationship ingredients.”

The commission on Tuesday released its list based on a “nutrition label” rating popular songs on healthy relationship themes.

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This study is pretty stupid, but I thought we could have fun with it by including songs hits and non-hits from all genres and all years.

My vote is for “The One I Love,” by REM, or “I Used To Love Her,” by Guns & Roses, as the Junkiest Musical Junk Food
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Last Man Standing: Song Title Q&A

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Dec 012009
 

Many moons ago Townsman sammymaudlin had an idea for Last Man Standing centered on song titles in the form of questions and answers. We’d since forgotten all about it, but luckily I found a reminder that I scribbled on a piece of scrap paper all those years ago. Posts must follow from the previous song title, so that a song title in the form of a question must be followed by an entry in the form of an answer. You may only post ONE song title at a time. You cannot just list a bunch of song title questions or song title answers in a row because you’re smart. The goal is to create song title dialog. Answers should be at least somewhat related to the questions. You’ll be standing especially tall if you can ask a question that builds off the previous answer.

I’ll start things off with a song title in the form of a question:

Q: “What’s New Pussycat?”

The first comment that anyone posts here, therefore, should be a song title that answers this question.

A:

Who’ll get the last word in, someone posting a song title in the form of a question or someone posting a song title in the form of an answer?

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Hear Factor, deux: No-Name Movie Soundtrack

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Dec 012009
 

Before the year is up I plan on running all of the Hear Factor, deux contributions that I received way back when. Here’s a contribution from a Friend of a Townsman… That’s right, even a would-be Townsman wants to play along, so why don’t you show him how it works and see if our efforts can’t encourage this blogger in his own write to simply put in some time with us directly? We don’t bite, at least not to the point where we’re breaking skin. Thanks, Friend of a Townsman!

No-Name Movie Soundtrack (~57 MB)

What’s Hear Factor?

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When Bad Lyrics Happen to Good Songs

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Nov 302009
 

A dime for your thoughts…

I was listening to “A Dime a Dozen,” by Carla Thomas, the other day.

I love almost everything about this song. It’s pretty perfect, except for those lyrics, which are, as near as I can tell: “You’re so sweet, sweeter than apples, and just like an apple, nobody can sample.” There’s some other stuff in there that I can’t quite make out but it doesn’t sound promising.

I don’t need brilliant lyrics with every song. I’m fine with words that merely sound cool even if they don’t make much sense to me. I also don’t mind if they are just the simple lyrics of a more innocent era. My favorite song of all time is “Good Lovin’,” by The Rascals, so I am by no means a lyrics snob. But “A Dime a Dozen” did make me start to wonder how bad the lyrics would have to be to make an otherwise cool song unlistenable.

So, what song do you think has the biggest gap between cool music and crappy lyrics?

Conversely, what song do you think has the biggest gap between crappy music and cool lyrics? (I’m guessing there has to be a Dylan song to fit this bill.)

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Black Friday at Rock Town Hall

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Nov 292009
 


It’s that time of the year, the beginning of the holiday shopping season. Year-round Rock Town Hall supports the music, film, and publishing industries with our humble RTH store, Amazon search portal, and other links and suggestions for possible pick ups. When you’re ready to begin shopping for rock-related products, we ask you to consider making an online order through our Amazon links. Along with the search portal on the right side of our page, you’ll some suggestions in the RTH store links that kick off our RTH Approved Links, on the left side of our site. It may be a place to get a few ideas cooking. Every order contributes a few cents toward the maintenance costs of running Rock Town Hall. Thanks!

While you’re shopping for musical goodies, consider these additional vendors (after the jump) and their Townsperson-produced goods and services! Your support of their works also keeps this place strong.
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