AHDN - Side A - Round 5

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AHDN - Side A - Round 5

Poll ended at 30 Oct 2020, 12:55pm

"A Hard Day's Night"
2
11%
"I Should Have Known Better"
8
42%
"Can't Buy Me Love"
9
47%
 
Total votes: 19
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AHDN - Side A - Round 5

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"Tell Me Why" eliminated with 62.5% of the vote.
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Easy one this time—"Can't Buy Me Love" is the clear lesser of the remaining three.
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Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑
29 Oct 2020, 1:30pm
 Easy one this time—"Can't Buy Me Love" is the clear lesser of the remaining three.
We agree on something.
There's a tiny, tiny hopeful part of me that says you guys are running a Kaufmanesque long con on the board
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I'm delighted people have joined me in disliking Can't Buy Me Love.
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Is ten times worse than prison


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Silent Majority wrote: ↑
29 Oct 2020, 2:05pm
 I'm delighted people have joined me in disliking Can't Buy Me Love.
I thought you might be swayed by CBML's neo-Marxist critique of the commodification of emotion in postmodern society.
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ISHKB. The one I've been voting since round 1.
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Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑
29 Oct 2020, 2:11pm
Silent Majority wrote: ↑
29 Oct 2020, 2:05pm
 I'm delighted people have joined me in disliking Can't Buy Me Love.
I thought you might be swayed by CBML's neo-Marxist critique of the commodification of emotion in postmodern society.
I'm sure how little McCartney believed in the concept has something to do with the weakness of the song,
a lifetime serving one machine
Is ten times worse than prison


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Silent Majority wrote: ↑
29 Oct 2020, 3:14pm
Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑
29 Oct 2020, 2:11pm
Silent Majority wrote: ↑
29 Oct 2020, 2:05pm
 I'm delighted people have joined me in disliking Can't Buy Me Love.
I thought you might be swayed by CBML's neo-Marxist critique of the commodification of emotion in postmodern society.
I'm sure how little McCartney believed in the concept has something to do with the weakness of the song,
Great Debord's ghost, man!
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More like Can’t Buy Yourself Another Round.
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I'm excited to get to the next album, it's going to start getting way harder.
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Silent Majority wrote: ↑
29 Oct 2020, 3:14pm
Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑
29 Oct 2020, 2:11pm
Silent Majority wrote: ↑
29 Oct 2020, 2:05pm
 I'm delighted people have joined me in disliking Can't Buy Me Love.
I thought you might be swayed by CBML's neo-Marxist critique of the commodification of emotion in postmodern society.
I'm sure how little McCartney believed in the concept has something to do with the weakness of the song,
I always thought it had more to do with how he was too cheap to buy anything for this woman.
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Kory wrote: ↑
29 Oct 2020, 6:46pm
Silent Majority wrote: ↑
29 Oct 2020, 3:14pm
Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑
29 Oct 2020, 2:11pm
Silent Majority wrote: ↑
29 Oct 2020, 2:05pm
 I'm delighted people have joined me in disliking Can't Buy Me Love.
I thought you might be swayed by CBML's neo-Marxist critique of the commodification of emotion in postmodern society.
I'm sure how little McCartney believed in the concept has something to do with the weakness of the song,
I always thought it had more to do with how he was too cheap to buy anything for this woman.
He was an unprecedentededly famous photogenic millionaire, the dude bought all the love he wanted.
a lifetime serving one machine
Is ten times worse than prison


www.pexlives.libsyn.com/
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Kory wrote: ↑
29 Oct 2020, 6:45pm
 I'm excited to get to the next album, it's going to start getting way harder.
The next album is inferior for me. Things pick up after that.
There's a tiny, tiny hopeful part of me that says you guys are running a Kaufmanesque long con on the board
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Silent Majority wrote: ↑
29 Oct 2020, 6:48pm
Kory wrote: ↑
29 Oct 2020, 6:46pm
Silent Majority wrote: ↑
29 Oct 2020, 3:14pm
Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑
29 Oct 2020, 2:11pm
Silent Majority wrote: ↑
29 Oct 2020, 2:05pm
 I'm delighted people have joined me in disliking Can't Buy Me Love.
I thought you might be swayed by CBML's neo-Marxist critique of the commodification of emotion in postmodern society.
I'm sure how little McCartney believed in the concept has something to do with the weakness of the song,
I always thought it had more to do with how he was too cheap to buy anything for this woman.
He was an unprecedentededly famous photogenic millionaire, the dude bought all the love he wanted.
Just not with money.
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Forces have been looting
My humanity
Curfews have been curbing
The end of liberty

We're the flowers in the dustbin...
No fuchsias for you.

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Nos Sumus Una Familia
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Heston wrote: ↑
29 Oct 2020, 6:58pm
Kory wrote: ↑
29 Oct 2020, 6:45pm
 I'm excited to get to the next album, it's going to start getting way harder.
The next album is inferior for me. Things pick up after that.
Frankly I don't think they top HDN until Rubber Soul. There are good songs on For Sale and Help, but not nearly the consistency of this one.
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