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!!!"Relax" by Frankie Goes to Hollywood (1984)

"Well, they deserved at least one ''song'' better.

In fact, I feel pretty strongly that the whole Frankie phenomenon woulda made this country a little brighter. Even if it wasn't really that much longer-lived over there either. For the record, when I cover bands like this, it makes it seem like Europe gets all the fun stuff. Uh, they listen to a lot of crap over there too, don't get me wrong.

But Frankie Goes to Hollywood is a band that summed up the over-the-top, boundary-pushing ridiculousness of the 80's, and they deserved their place in pop culture history. Great song, great other songs.

Check them out, go do it... when you wanna listen to it."
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"I'll tell you what ''we'' deserved: another [[Music/TheFugees Fugees]] album.

It's clear that Pras wasn't interesting enough to be a rapper on his own; he needed The Fugees. But in retrospect, The Fugees all needed each other. [[Music/LaurynHill Lauryn]] is now literally insane and hasn't made an album in 15 years. Wyclef basically disappeared into his own pretensions and political volitantism and...

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"I'll "Uh, I'll tell you what ''we'' deserved: another [[Music/TheFugees Fugees]] album.

It's clear that Pras just wasn't interesting enough to be a rapper on his own; he needed ''needed'' The Fugees. But in retrospect, The Fugees all needed each other. [[Music/LaurynHill Lauryn]] is now literally insane and hasn't made an album in 15 years. Wyclef basically disappeared into his own pretensions and political volitantism dilettantism and...



"It might've seemed differently in '98 when Lauryn and Wyclef were getting nominated for all those awards, but it's clear now they were all at their strongest together. And as for Pras solo, well he never became a ghetto superstar like he wanted. It happens.

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"It might've seemed differently in '98 when Lauryn and Wyclef were getting nominated for all those awards, but it's clear now they were all at their strongest together. ''together''. And as for Pras solo, well well... he never became a ghetto superstar like he wanted. It happens.
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I'm not sure I wanted more than one album from them, but, ya know, they're just such a unique, different band. They do a lot of the same kind of genre-hopping that reminds me of Music/{{Beck}}, especially Beck's funkier stuff. If they had managed to get a little more airtime, I wouldn't have complained at all.

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I'm not sure I wanted more than one album from them, but, ya know, they're just such a unique, different band. They do a lot of the same kind of genre-hopping that reminds me of Music/{{Beck}}, Music/{{Beck|Musician}}, especially Beck's funkier stuff. If they had managed to get a little more airtime, I wouldn't have complained at all.
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Soon, I imagine The Proclaimers will be called back to their home planet, and that will be a tragedy when that happens. But for the time being, I am proud to [[JustForPun proclaim]]: Yes, The Proclaimers are a good band.

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Soon, I imagine The Proclaimers will be called back to their home planet, and that will be a tragedy when that happens. But for the time being, I am proud to [[JustForPun proclaim]]: proclaim: Yes, The Proclaimers are a good band.



Yeah, yeah, let's finish it there. We're done. [[JustForPun We are too sexy to continue]]."

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Yeah, yeah, let's finish it there. We're done. [[JustForPun We are too sexy to continue]].continue."



I don't want to say he deserves worse, because I don't begrudge him his success at all. He's clearly very good at his job. He's earned his radio empire--his "[[JustForPun 'Disco]] [[Series/DuckDynasty Duck' Dynasty]], if you will--but... if you played me 'Disco Duck' and asked me if it deserved to launch its singer into a showbiz career that lasted ''40 years''... *''groan''* Oh boy, uh...

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I don't want to say he deserves worse, because I don't begrudge him his success at all. He's clearly very good at his job. He's earned his radio empire--his "[[JustForPun 'Disco]] "'Disco [[Series/DuckDynasty Duck' Dynasty]], if you will--but... if you played me 'Disco Duck' and asked me if it deserved to launch its singer into a showbiz career that lasted ''40 years''... *''groan''* Oh boy, uh...

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