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   Sisyphos said, 14 days ago

   A man’s gotta do what a man’s gotta do–especially to wake the nearly-dead rockers.

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   ejcapulet said, 14 days ago

   Careful - she might use that guitar on your head!

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   jrbj said, 13 days ago

   I used to have every one of Anne’s albums. She didn’t drink herself to death, she didn’t get stoned, never cancelled a concert tour to go into rehab and she sang beautiful music.

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   TheSkulker said, 13 days ago

   Right on jrbj!

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   cabrobst said, 13 days ago

   And she was much kinder on the eyes than say…
   Amy Winehouse

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   Avolunteer said, 13 days ago

   Was???

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   j42case said, 13 days ago

   No doubt Anne was a great artist. I never cared for Joan Jett, anyway. Who needs testosterone in a leather skirt? But the insinuation in the comic was perfect for the time in which it was written. Of course, they could have used “Karen Carpenter” instead, and Milo would have been killed!

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   Ghille said, 13 days ago

   Anne Murray was Elvis’ favorite female singer! He stated so in interviews, said she had the best natural singing voice he ever knew.

   Pretty high praise….and he was alive then, too!

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   Ray C said, 13 days ago

   Anne Murray IS, not WAS. She does have a beautiful, mellow voice and a very pretty face. Her songs may be dull by today’s standards, if you consider having an actual melody to be dull.

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    farren said, 13 days ago

    What a bunch of fogies. And I say this as a 60-year-old fan of pretty much all music, mind you. Anne Murray was a pretty good musician, all told, but hardly one of the greats, no matter what Elvis might say in one of his drug-addled moments. Joan Jett is also a pretty good musician, with several times the energy of Anne Murray. And if you think Jett’s stuff doesn’t have a melody, then you have little idea of what a melody actually is. What I really hate is this creeping Rush Limbaugh style of criticism where if you don’t like it, make up stuff you don’t know anything about.

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    Doctor Toon said, 13 days ago

    farren - I’m hearing you, I’m 47 and I listen to stuff like this
    Age is a number.

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    spiritoflionelhutzlives said, 13 days ago

    …yes, but can either Anne or Joan’s singing sterilize frogs a hundred yards away like Yoko Ono’s singing?…

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    Kim said, 13 days ago

    Miss Murray is a truly great singer,wonderful and smooth on the ears….farren she was always a singer,maybe play a little piano or guitar,but,first and foremost a singer,and this comes from a fan of all music,in his late 50s.So hey little snowbird spread your wings and fly

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    Ray C said, 13 days ago

    farren: you’re attacking something I never said. I did not say Joan Jett’s music was not melodious. In fact, most rock is pretty melodious Much of today’s music has no melody. I also never said that energy was bad. Pat Benatar, Chrissie Hinds, Heart, Joan Osborne are pretty energetic as well as singing songs with melody, and so they are among my favorites.
    I would say that you’re the one making things up; attacking a straw man.

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    Ushindi said, 13 days ago

    I don’t think I want to get involved…

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    cholldekkgher stenst... said, 13 days ago

    Sometimes Rock ain’t pretty
    Sometimes Roll gets kinda gritty
    But when ya get past yer prime
    And you play like a slime
    Then it becomes downright s#*tty

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    SherlockWatson said, 13 days ago

    Rock ‘n’ roll isn’t pretty, and neither is Tess Turbo.

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    farren said, 13 days ago

    Guess you don’t know what a straw man is, either. Setting up your own straw man (“much of todays’ music has no melody”) is the straw man here, not my statement.

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    thepeoplesmushroom said, 11 days ago

    Anne Murray?!?!? the canadian singbird is a COMPLETE BORE!!

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