Let an EXCELSIOR be an EXCELSIOR, and let sleeping LOLS lie

I really did not get The Fall until one day in 2011 I suddenly loved them. It was weird.

GOAT = greatest of all time

More people at ATP would rather go see The Fall than Cheap Trick - most people in the UK have never heard of either - which in Cheap Trick's case is possibly the real UK/US divide.

Wow, this rush of Cheap Trick love is roughly analogous to the time Richard Harris album sales spiked in the wake of Weird Al dropping "Jurassic Park".

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/09/Ll-cool-j-goat.jpg

cheap trick owns the fall, end of discussion

― dayo, Monday, April 2, 2012 3:13 PM (6 minutes ago)

this is soooo wroooong

Speaking as an Amurrican, I probably like the Fall more than Cheap Trick, who did have a handful of unassailable songs (everyone forgets the UBER classics like "Southern Girls" and "Elo Kiddies").

I love the Fall, have seen them live half a dozen times, but couldn't turn down the opportunity to see Cheap Trick. Anyway I'm taking this to ILM to prevent further derailment.

surely albini putting the fall and cheap trick on at the same time counts as irl trolling

I'm afraid we're losing sight of the brilliance of DWH's post.

Your mommy's all right
Her dinner tonight
Might just seem a little weeeeeird
Placenta
Placenta
Baked in a cheese souffleeeeeeeee

Also, What's ATP?

Adenosine Tri Phosphate

All Tomorrow's Parties

Joey Ramone would apparently sing Surrender with them onstage at Lollapalooza.

Placenta
Placenta
Don't give your fetus a-wa-aaay

An artist-curated festival, Jeff Mangum ran the one just gone.

I don't believe the world revolves around the United States of America, but I have to admit I've been shocked that the entire Planet Earth hasn't been dancing to the classic rock hits of Cheap Trick or REO Speedwagon all these years.

A few months ago, my Australian bride and I finally had the WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU MEAN YOU'VE NEVER HEARD "MR. ROBOTO"? conversation.

Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go listen to this Tesla bootleg.

ysi?

don't cheapen Cheap Trick by lumping them in with REO Speedwagon

I do think that to the average Briton Cheap Trick probably sounds like the Status Quo with more spunk or something, whereas in the US they were first-wave new-wave, grouped together with Blondie and The Cars, y'know: almost punk!

― the guy was ugly human (loves laboured breathing), Monday, April 2, 2012 11:40 AM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

do not google Status Quo + more spunk, for the love of god

― good luck in your pyramid (Neil S), Monday, April 2, 2012 11:43 AM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

crut, all those Illinois bands not from Chicago sound alike to me.

i wouldn't wanna get on the wrong side of those 50000 mark e smith fans ...

http://betterpropaganda.com/images/artwork/50X000_Fall_Fans_CanXt_Be_WrongX_39_Golden_Greats-FallX_The_480.jpg

... but yes, if the fall & cheap trick were playing simultaneously then i'd go to see cheap trick over the fall too.

we all have that sweater vest

man I wish I had that sweater vest

I knew Surrender from Fast Times At Ridgemont High, plus Dream Police and If You Want My Love, and of course The Flame and Don't Be Cruel which were briefly favorite songs when I was 13 when my ears were still made of wood.

Mr Veg helped me fill in the blanks and then The Sex-America-Cheap Trick box set changed my life permanently, Cheap Trick-wise.

I didn't know anything about Journey, or Tesla til I moved here...I knew REO Speedwagon though.

Can't imagine being a boy on the verge of puberty and seeing my mom naked on the reg.

― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Monday, April 2, 2012 12:39 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I can

― Euler, Monday, April 2, 2012 12:40 PM Bookmark

hee hee

I misread that at first as 'my mom naked on the rag' and was like WHAAAAAT

loooooooooooord

I think "your mama" insults are kinda common in the US too...? Anyway, even if it's a "Latin" thing, I wonder what are roots of it? I guess mothers are held in higher esteem in Latin countries than in Northern Europe, for example...

― Tuomas, Tuesday, 15 June 2010 12:02 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Tuomas, your mother is held in high esteem by many, mainly me.

― Euler, Tuesday, 15 June 2010 12:08 (57 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

4ref

bam

hahah

never saw fast times at ridgemont high either btw

If you gis it while listening to Cheap Trick and the Cars, you'll pretty much get the idea.

the movie is about a guy who is addicted to 80s music and looking at google image search

Excited to post my ballot and show just how uninterested I was in affecting the overall results.

haha wrong thread hee hee (ducks)

Every day I regret bookmarking this thread.

sadtrombone.gif

when someone said the 33 1/3 guys didn't want to do a cheap trick book and i was like "IMPOSSIBLE THEY ARE BELOVED BY ALL." this thread has made me sadder + wiser

I dislike both Cheap Trick and Fast Times at Ridgemont High

how do you feel about The Fall or Kiss?

my sister is a professional mommy blogger and she complains abt her commenters all the time on facebook

^ sounds like a salon.com article headline

I love Guns 'n Roses, like this album, but despite this, it is still my lifelong dream to throw a potato at Axl Rose during a concert.

― Heroin Kills (Brad Nowell's Soiled Undergarments), Saturday, May 8, 2010 10:24 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Why "potato"?

― t**t, Monday, May 10, 2010 8:36 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

What finally made him decide, "You know, I've weighed all my options and all their potential consequences, and I'm going to throw a potato at him?"

Potato makes sense to me, tho'

― bendy, Monday, May 10, 2010 8:43 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

"Actually, I think there's some decent stuff on it."

― he's always been a bit of an anti-climb Max (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, May 10, 2010 9:01 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

On the potato?

― i don't believe in zimmerman (Hurting 2), Monday, April 2, 2012 2:48 PM (54 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

haha

suggest mash up

Argh

Maybe he was baked when he thought of it.

well we've made a hash of the excelsior thread

Appetite For Au Gratin