STOP BELIEVIN'

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hey wait there are numbers in there! GIS lied!

i see them

this is a thread about hating journey

shit needs to stop

SOMEDAY LOVE WILL FIND YOU

i am glad they do not have journey at my karaoke local otherwise i would hear it nonstop

HO-ooold AW-oof on the FEE-lay-ee-ay-in'!

elmo, you're fired

not cool
not cute
not funny anymore

just stop

no more

this is inspired by guy in the next cube playing Don't Stop Believin' 3x today

also, post-sopranos bandwagoneering

Dammit, Elmo

seriously, fired

it is only one song in the whole universe

is it too much to ask for it to be destroyed forever?

BREAK THOSE CHAINS THAT BIND YOU

find journey "don't stop believin" --> replace boston "more than a feeling"

i would accept this

Robert Anton Wilson would agree w thread title

But it's a good song.

More Than A Feeling also good but lyrics not as good.

Also Asia-Heat Of The Moment is good.

to me, it doesn't really matter if it's a good song anymore. i've heard it at least once every day for the past month, i feel like i am going mad.

wait, why do you have to listen to journey so much? who are these ppl you are hanging with?

this is inspired by guy in the next cube playing Don't Stop Believin' 3x today
-- elmo argonaut, Wednesday, July 11, 2007 9:40 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

ha, guy cube over does the exact same thing!

the guy in the next cube plays journey pretty regularly
also, random car stereos
and strangers yowling this at karaoke nights
and local bar playing live a journey concert dvd wtf
and a few of my friends will jam out to this, too

I LIKE THE LYRICS TO MORE THAN A FEELING BETTER ADAM

fair enough

they don't romanticize dumb stuff like "STREETLIGHTS! PEOPLE!"

Noway, you don't want it, that's the way you don't need it

Oh, I really sincerely love both those things.

xp

not to say that i don't like streetlights and people because u know i do! but it's hackneyed is all i'm saying.

SMELL OF WINE AND CHEAP PERFUME

It's not hackneyed if it's true!

the sentiment always seemed phony to me

That's regrettable, as to me it's always been an expression of sheer amazement at the grand wonder of the contemporary urban experience in its purest form.

The number of times that I haven't been able to put a feeling into words when what I am really feeling is "Streetlights! And People!". I think it embarasses us to hear/read it because the truth is so real that we feel almost...corny. We don't want to point out the ovious, but we're all feeling it. So why not express it?

And now this beautiful sentiment, expressed by the only the brave few, is buried beneath a mountain of intertextuality and guilty pleasure. It's sad. Journey should perhaps turn to calligraphy and forsake a wider audience for a simpler purity of expression.

Is this the thread for me to talk about how much I've been playing Foreigners greatest hits lately?

I think so.

I guess it's actually "Streetlight people livin' just to find emotion hiding somewhere in the night" so it's not really about amazement at the grand wonder of the contemporary urban experience after all. All we are left with the absolute emptiness of lines like:

Everybody wants a thrill
Payin anything to roll the dice,
Just one more time
Some will win, some will lose
Some were born to sing the blues

Well, the grand wonder of the contemporary urban experience may have a bitter aftertaste, but that doesn't stop us from being so utterly mesmerized when we make that initial encounter.

Also, the song goes "woooooooaaaah!" which I've always taken to denote pleasure as opposed to sadness, pain or regret. There's a sense of release there.

That should really be "connote", I think. Forgive my schoolboy error!

Also isn't there something ultimately beautiful about fate, no matter how far one can fall? I like to think so.

I know what everyone is thinkin... that this is the conversational equivalent of playing "Don't Stop Believin'" over and over again.

Tim you left out the last line of that verse which kind of ties the thing together.

Tell us, Steve.

Yeah, I think that interpretation of the "woooooooaaaah" is correct, Adam. But the song's always felt forced to me - were they really inspired to create this little commentary on the souls who venture into the urban environment?

It just feels like cliche, whereas "When I see Marianne walk away" is a simple statement that feels way more real to me.

The line about the movie that never ends...

imho, "livin' on a prayer" has the similar sentiment -- about holding out hope even though life is hard and making a living is even harder, because sometimes there are people who can make it all worthwhile & magical etc etc

Can we also destroy Oh Sherry? Even though that is a Steve Perry song technically.

YES.

*sigh* another great song. This is America's cultural heritage, you people should be proud!

I wonder if he named it "Oh Sherry" because then when radio DJs introduced it they would have to rhyme.

I duetted with my wife on Warrant's "Heaven" at a karaoke thing in London and nobody there knew it. =(

WAHT

That hurts my heart.

Yeah

BTW, current touring version of Warrant has no Jani Lane, and is crap.

haha elmo's thread = FAILS.

sorry elmo

i feel elmo wrt getting sick of this song, but only temporarily. deserves a 3 day ban not a lifeban

(the song, not elmo!)

i agree.

i do not mind standing alone in my opposition to journey. i love fun and generally wouldn't be bothered by journey, but this song has really been raising my dander recently. (although i never really understood the appeal of this song to begin with!)

but elmo didn't you choose this song when we were at karaoke?????

HO SNAP

STOP RELIEVIN'
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i saw a guy relievin' on my way home tonight!

also, post-sopranos bandwagoneering

-- elmo argonaut, Wednesday, July 11, 2007 11:40 AM (10 hours ago) Bookmark Link

i just got around to watching the finale and i think you are right about a bump in this song's popularity as a result of its use there.

wait don't talk about the end of the sopranos here....i'm like 1.5 seasons behind :/

i'm really glad that adam is back.

tehresa, that is fucking a libelous assertion, no way did i choose that song

as i recall, i did MANEATER and HYPERBALLAD and maybe some other things but definitely NOT JOURNEY

i take u to court

H & O's Maneater or the Nelly Furtado one?

no we all sang that song together, dude! i remember v clearly!
maybe travis picked it?

hall&oates yeaaah

i think travis is the likely culprit

you still sang with us, though. i believe that was the finale of our karaoke marathon.

who the hell sings hyperballad at karaoke

u lie

schef, the same type of guy who sings WHITE RABBIT and RIGHT SAID FRED which is exactly what i did last night

dude it was during group song time, right after like, don't speak or something.

right said fred is one thing, i will always cosign on the singing of i'm too sexy

i was forcibly stripped of my shirt during the latter song. not pretty.

it was, indeed, too sexy

the last time i actually sang at karaoke carey picked gloria thinking it was them's gloria instead of laura branigan's gloria and so i had to sing it for her because she didn't know laura branigan's gloria. ;_;

I only know Vivaldi's Gloria. :(

we need to believe. those belief become public truths [absolutley sic]

laurel, you think that is a joke but someone else there that night insisted on singing a song entirely in italian :\

because she didn't know laura branigan's gloria. ;_;

???????

Fuckin' I could really sell LB's Gloria at karaoke. It's right in my favored vocal register (e.g. heartbreaker)

hah i discovered at that place we went in k-town that they actually have a list of opera arias... man, if dan perry and i did karaoke it would be so nerdy but awesome.

white rabbit is my friend's showstopping number. the "feed your head" bit is v. dramatic.

I could do certain lieder by Schubert, Mahler and Debussy but probably nothing operatic.

My wife does killer early Grace Slick but hates karaoke :(

We have a K-Town too.

I am assured by the engineers at my workplace that the K-Town here (near Empire St. bldg) is the part of NYC that most resembles Hong Kong. Counter-intuitive but there you go.

K Town is fun, but I haven't hung out there enough. I like Ctown karaoke better for the creep out vibe