Worst threads?

Subject: Worst threads?
From: Brakn
Date: 05 May 99 - 07:33 PM

I know we enjoy reading the silly ones but what are the worst ones.
THIS ONE??

Subject: RE: Worst threads?
From: katlaughing
Date: 05 May 99 - 10:48 PM

Any that start out like: Looking for a song; searching for a song, etc. ALL GENERIC!

Subject: RE: Worst threads?
From: Tucker
Date: 05 May 99 - 10:58 PM

Thanks Kat for not mentioning mine. Tucker

Subject: RE: Worst threads?
From: Rick Fielding
Date: 06 May 99 - 09:17 AM

Gotta be the "Are Debbie Boone and Daniel Boone related"?

Subject: RE: Worst threads?
From: bored in the boondocks
Date: 06 May 99 - 10:48 AM

that thread must have been over two years ago, Rick, if you have the right title. A forum search yielded only a "Daniel Boone" thread, with no mention of Debbie in any of the messages.

Subject: RE: Worst threads?
From: Bert
Date: 06 May 99 - 11:59 AM

"bored in the boondocks"!!! mmmm perhaps we need a "worst handle" thread now.

Subject: RE: Worst threads?
From: dan
Date: 06 May 99 - 12:52 PM

Sappy ones about current events not dealing with music.

Subject: RE: Worst threads?
From: SeanM
Date: 06 May 99 - 02:08 PM

And I'd like to nominate that last entry to be moved over to the 'More Music Less BS!' Thread, with an addendum to review the current contents of it...

M

Subject: RE: Worst threads?
From: Rick Fielding
Date: 06 May 99 - 02:32 PM

Whoops "bored", sorry, that was a joke!

Subject: RE: Worst threads?
From: Bert
Date: 06 May 99 - 02:40 PM

I think it's a given that 'anything' in 'this' thread is a joke.

Subject: RE: Worst threads?
From: Rick Fielding
Date: 06 May 99 - 02:47 PM

Just can't make up my mind today. Guess "more music less B.S." will have to do until something worse comes along.

Subject: RE: Worst threads?
From: Bert
Date: 06 May 99 - 03:02 PM

Aw! I was just going to say that.

Subject: RE: Worst threads?
From: Alice
Date: 06 May 99 - 03:23 PM

considering most folk and blues songs are about love, loss, historical events, conflict, emotions, etc., ... would most of the lyrics in the DT be considered "sappy", if recent threads about Catspaw, Columbine, etc., are "sappy"?

Webster's... one definition of sappy is "immaturely sentimental". Since most of us discussing these events seem to be the over 40 Mudcatters, I submit that we are mature enough to have personally experienced the death of loved ones, the raising of children, and the weight of civic responsibilities. This is why the current subjects have captured our concern. Sentimental, maybe, but a mature sentimentality - the stuff of which folk songs are born.

Subject: RE: Worst threads?
From: Big Mick
Date: 06 May 99 - 08:53 PM

If one does not see the connection between folk/blues music, the conditions that people are living under, the politics that affect their lives, and the current events at the time they were written, probably ought to change over to pop standards or something that is non topical. Everything about our music, and especially in the last 75 years or so, has to do with making a statement, be it political, or on the conditions which people live under, etc.

I think the 'Cat is enhanced by these discussions. It makes it interesting. So if you are not interested, just don't read them.

Mick

Subject: RE: Worst threads?
From: Paul G.
Date: 06 May 99 - 09:06 PM

Seconds to Mick's comments....but then there was that condom thread.... as lemmings over the cliff we went.

Subject: RE: Worst threads?
From: sharon
Date: 06 May 99 - 11:38 PM

How can a thread be bad? Sometimes I see ones which do not interest me, but then again sometimes I go to the seemingly off-the-wall ones, and there is where we seem to be having the most fun for a while. Just because we are music oriented people, doesn't mean that we can't discuss what's happening in the world around us, or laugh at the levity of bumper stickers, or lament the hatred and violence which frightens us at times. I'm glad that mudcatters are real people who laugh and cry and sing about every topic imaginable. Let's not change.... The variety found here is part of what makes this place so irresistable.

Subject: RE: Worst threads?
From: bseed(charleskratz)
Date: 07 May 99 - 12:23 AM

I dunno, I recall one BAAAD one that I got hung up in for a week or so: Bob Dylan with AIDS? --seed

Subject: RE: Worst threads?
From: Sandy Paton
Date: 07 May 99 - 02:33 AM

Does this have to do with ill-chosen attire?

Gramps

Subject: RE: Worst threads?
From: Shula
Date: 07 May 99 - 04:01 AM

Dear Sandy,

Your sartorial segue put me in mind of a thread requesting "heave up" songs. It wasn't actually about the regurgitation of partially digested stomach contents, but, never having heard the term before, I was in some consternation at the prospect. So, perhaps it is the answer to a different query, one that would require: The most revolting (or least appetizing) thread TITLE.

Shula

Subject: RE: Worst threads?
From: leprechaun
Date: 07 May 99 - 04:09 AM

I didn't catch the "heave" thread, but I wonder if they decided it was an onomatopoeia.

Subject: RE: Worst threads?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 07 May 99 - 11:03 PM

Hey, the Heave Up thread was a perfectly good topic until some woman with a Virginia dialect came in and perverted it....
-Joe Offer, lost in Colorado and trying to find the Boone thread-

Subject: RE: Worst threads?
From: Rick Fielding
Date: 08 May 99 - 02:30 PM

Well, I guess before you nominate a REALLY bad thread you should do as complete a search as your old eyelids can manage. That was my first mistake. If anyone can top Aug. 17..8:37 pm., I don't wanna know about it!

Welcome back Joe. If you have any more thoughts on your trip to Colorado, I for one, would like to know them. It all helps.

Subject: RE: Worst threads?
From: katmuse (inactive)
Date: 08 May 99 - 03:23 PM

Rick, save my ol' eyelids along with all my time-eating diversions: How do I find Aug.17, 8:37 pm (now that you've piqued my curiosity)? (Fairly new to Mudcat, trying to get the hang of searching for anything in the threads.)

The "worst" anything is certainly worth looking at! Much better than the "best" anything!

Would it be _topping_ that one or _bottoming_ that one, if one could only find it?

katmuse

Subject: RE: Worst threads?
From: Rick Fielding
Date: 08 May 99 - 09:14 PM

Sent you a personal one kat.

Subject: RE: Worst threads?
From:
Date: 09 May 99 - 09:24 PM

Nobody liked my Suicides' Christmas thread, with proposals for the most depressing Christmas songs in existence.

(For the record, my choices are "First Christmas" by Stan Rogers, and "The Little Boy That Santa Claus Forgot", by an author whose name escapes me at the moment.)

Subject: RE: Worst threads?
From: SeanM
Date: 10 May 99 - 03:20 PM

Hey Tim!

Don't know the LBTSCF author, but decent swingy version was done by Vera Lynn (she may have written it... I dunno), and can be heard (of all places) in the opening sequence of the movie 'Pink Floyd The Wall'

M