Can't Buy Me Box Sets

[Joe Allonby]

This is one of my pet peeves. They do it at Fenway too. The song is
goddawful, yet nobody dares criticize the practice which started after
9/11. "America the Beautiful" is a nice patriotic song. Ray Charles
sang it there in a torrential downpour. "God Bless Amerca" is a
maudlin, childish piece of crap written for a failed Broadway play and
revived during WWII by Kate Smith for propaganda purposes. Just
because it has the words "America" and "God" in the title doesn't make
it good.

On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 10:29 PM,  <malignd at aol.com> wrote:
> He's actually not much worse than that awful, fat Irishman who's always
> singing God Bless America (Amer-EEE-ca) at Yankee games.  And people think
> that guy's great ...
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com>
> To: David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>
> Cc: John Carvill <johncarvill at gmail.com>; pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Sent: Tue, Sep 29, 2009 8:02 pm
> Subject: Re: Can't Buy Me Box Sets
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> its the fucking Skipper
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> (of course there is aerosmith's come together)
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> the ladies are cute at least
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> I love the Russians
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> i found an old directory of USSR personalities from 1971 and picked
> out some of the highlights--this stuff writes itself
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> Select Portraits of Prominent USSR Personalities, July 1971
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> A prominent sculptor who worked on a five-meter high memorial to
> secret policemen who fell at Stalingrad on a 14-meter high square
> pedestal.
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> A party functionary, responsible for the chemical industry as Donetsk
> Oblast Party Committee secretary, transferred in 1941 to some other
> post; awarded three Order of Lenin.
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> A celebrated novelist and playwright, severely wounded at Lozovaya
> Station in 1942, whose books on the partisan movement in Minsk and
> eventual liberation of Soviet forces, were not well received by
> critics in 1952 who demanded that writers should turn out works on
> topical themes like kok-saghyz and peat compost.
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> A secretary (or second secretary) of the Central Committee of the
> Komsomol whose responsibilities comprise sports, mass defense,
> propaganda and agitation, special projects, and working with
> schoolchildren.
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> A top functionary of the Belorussian writer's organization, a veteran
> of fighting in Poland and in Germany, mostly by writing sketches and
> verses for army newspapers--he urged refrainment from revenge against
> the defeated Germans by writing a novel with synthetic partisan heroes
> and brutish German officers and soldiers.
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> A noted novelist who wrote a call for correction of defects of Soviet
> reality without going beyond the limits set by the party.
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> A doctor of historical sciences who as director of the Institute for
> History of the USSR made sure it was orientated more toward the
> future.
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> A most outstanding monumental sculptor, whose works include Soviet WW2
> heroes, an ensemble of Soviet soldiers in a Berlin park whose main
> figure is a victorious Soviet warrior carrying a girl and smiting a
> swastika with his sword, has now crowned his career with a work called
> 'Lenin-Our Banner', whose erection he plans in the near future.
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> A new director general of TASS which serves 3,000 Soviet newspapers,
> all radio and TV, all journals, various organizations and
> institutional offices and correspondents in over 100 foreign
> countries, information exchanges with foreign press agencies, and
> which also produces more than 3 million words of information every 24
> hours.
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> On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 5:53 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> The worst cover of a Beatles song ever! (Let It Be)
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> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvPugOWeZiA&feature=player_embedded#t=32
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>> On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 11:26 AM, John Carvill <johncarvill at gmail.com>
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>>> NP, really, but this (p)review of the forthcoming Beatles Remasters,
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