Those special moments where Rattie and get to the same conclusion following very different paths.Rat Patrol wrote: ↑18 Jan 2019, 9:54amWoodstock '99...and only because they burned it down and forgot about it instead of making it a Boomer-ballwashing cultural touchstone.
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Look, you have to establish context for these things. And I maintain that unless you appreciate the Fall of Constantinople, the Great Fire of London, and Mickey Mantle's fatalist alcoholism, live Freddy makes no sense. If you want to half-ass it, fine, go call Simon Schama to do the appendix.
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They were both before my time - though I vaguely remember Live Aid (I would have been 8.5 years old). Neither one really does anything for me & in my opinion the retrospective assessment of both event has "made" them better than they actually were. Maybe I'm just a cynical Gen-X'er - but that's what I think.
I voted for KISS, btw. Even Gene Simmons seems like a better alternative to Woodstock & Live Aid!?
I voted for KISS, btw. Even Gene Simmons seems like a better alternative to Woodstock & Live Aid!?
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Ha - I was just about to mention this event! It sounded like a truly dreadful event, but I applaud the fact that it was exposed as a hollow corporate piece of garbage.matedog wrote: ↑18 Jan 2019, 11:06amThose special moments where Rattie and get to the same conclusion following very different paths.Rat Patrol wrote: ↑18 Jan 2019, 9:54amWoodstock '99...and only because they burned it down and forgot about it instead of making it a Boomer-ballwashing cultural touchstone.
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I have often blamed Live Aid on here for the decline of music in the 80s.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑18 Jan 2019, 10:21amMy apologies. I assumed your 80s music/Phil Collins allegiance would guide you to Live Aid.Heston wrote: ↑18 Jan 2019, 10:00amHey, I voted Woodstock.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑18 Jan 2019, 9:40amHeston did better in his KISS/Replacements and KISS/New York Dolls polls.
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Live Aid - July 1985Heston wrote: ↑18 Jan 2019, 11:43amI have often blamed Live Aid on here for the decline of music in the 80s.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑18 Jan 2019, 10:21amMy apologies. I assumed your 80s music/Phil Collins allegiance would guide you to Live Aid.Heston wrote: ↑18 Jan 2019, 10:00amHey, I voted Woodstock.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑18 Jan 2019, 9:40amHeston did better in his KISS/Replacements and KISS/New York Dolls polls.
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Woodstock is so obviously the one with the better music.
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Both festivals reflect the delusions of their era. Woodstock was hippies believing that they could just will into existence a perfect world of bliss, good dope, good tunes, and good bonking. Live Aid suggested that capitalist greed can be easily offset with charity, that we can have big houses and fast cars and clean consciences. Altamont and Woodstock '99, baby, that's where the chickens came back to roost.
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in that framing, woodstock is, at base, attractive but naive while live aid is built on some fundamentally repulsive assumptions. so still voting woodstock, i guess.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑18 Jan 2019, 12:50pmBoth festivals reflect the delusions of their era. Woodstock was hippies believing that they could just will into existence a perfect world of bliss, good dope, good tunes, and good bonking. Live Aid suggested that capitalist greed can be easily offset with charity, that we can have big houses and fast cars and clean consciences. Altamont and Woodstock '99, baby, that's where the chickens came back to roost.
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Meanwhile back at Woodstock all the hippies were drinking milk shakes and eating home made cookies.BostonBeaneater wrote: ↑17 Jan 2019, 11:28pmFrank Zappa was invited to perform, but refused because he believed that the money raised by Live Aid did not address the core problems facing the developing world and instead aided the developed world by providing ways to get drugs, calling the concert "the biggest cocaine money laundering scheme of all time"
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One of my favourite dumb factoids about Woodstock was that for that weekend it was something like the fifth biggest "city" in the US, but far and away was the safest. It's all fiction—among other things, it wasn't a city and all the "residents" were basically on vacation—but there is a certain seductive power to the myth that the hippies did pull off something amazing at Woodstock.Flex wrote: ↑18 Jan 2019, 1:01pmin that framing, woodstock is, at base, attractive but naive while live aid is built on some fundamentally repulsive assumptions. so still voting woodstock, i guess.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑18 Jan 2019, 12:50pmBoth festivals reflect the delusions of their era. Woodstock was hippies believing that they could just will into existence a perfect world of bliss, good dope, good tunes, and good bonking. Live Aid suggested that capitalist greed can be easily offset with charity, that we can have big houses and fast cars and clean consciences. Altamont and Woodstock '99, baby, that's where the chickens came back to roost.
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I just read that the hippie couple on the cover of the Woodstock album is still together, so that's nice.
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Yeah but they are KISS fans now.
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I voted Woodstock too. Some good artists at both but Live Aid just seemed like an exercise in self indulgence by many of the artists involved.
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Yeah I always felt several of artists used Live Aid for their own agenda. Was it Adam Ant that got slammed for promoting his new single?