Shuttlecock! Part III - Just the Cock and the Shuttle

[No spoken words]

I just got back from the gym and that's what I was listening to on the treadmill. I ended up doing an hour instead of the lame 30 mins I had planned. Popmart is one of the best things that ever happened to U2.

Boy do I have mixed feelings on Cockmart.

 

[Dalton]

I try to time roadtrips so that I am crossing the Mississippi as the sun is rising or setting, so that I can play Cockland at full blast. As it was meant to be.

 

[phillyfan26]

I could do a Top 50 with ease.

Thoughts on Cockland or All I Want Is Cock?

Whenever I make lists, I feel obligated to make one for the studio and one for live. That's how much there's a difference for me.

Love them both. A studio-only Rattle and Hum would be a very solid album.

 

[corianderstem]

I didn't know that things were that touch and go at your place of work. Sorry.

Thanks. We don't really know what's going on. Big changes are afoot, which I was aware of, but the quarterly earnings call is coming up this Tuesday, and we figure anything really major will hit then.

I was okay until some ass-monkey analysts or somebody predicted we'd be closing more stores and having massive layoffs. And then an email went out from the Corporate PR folks saying "uh ... pay no attention to that ... we mean, we don't comment on rumors."

But yesterday I had small hints from a coworker and our director that while big changes may be afoot for my department, it might work out rather well for me. I remain hopeful.

Anyway.

SHUTTLECOCK! Who's with me?

 

[phillyfan26]

Sorry, broseph, I meant "you" as a general you, not you specifically. We cool now, Brah?

It's all good, broski.

 

[corianderstem]

Boy do I have mixed feelings on Cockmart.

Ayup. Me too.

 

[Dalton]

I'm still trying to avoid most Shuttlecock till the end of February. I'm listening to R.E.M. right now.

Here's an interference truth: I have grown to hate (yes hate) R.E.M.

 

[joyfulgirl]

Boy do I have mixed feelings on Cockmart.

Get on a treadmill with Discocock and Hold Me, Cock Me and tell me you don't love it.

 

[No spoken words]

I try to time roadtrips so that I am crossing the Mississippi as the sun is rising or setting, so that I can play Cockland at full blast. As it was meant to be.

The first time I ever crossed the Mississippi by car was on a road trip from Phoenix to NYC with a woman I was obsessed with. I made sure we listened to Cockland as we crossed. I felt like such a dork, but it also had to be done.

I ended up deciding 1/2 way through that trip that I would rather be shot than date this woman (Believe me, she felt the same way, no surprises there), and proceeded to do like 90 the rest of the way home to end the fucking trip as rapidly as possible.

 

[phillyfan26]

Boy do I have mixed feelings on Cockmart.

When Bono's voice was on, they sounded fucking incredible. Mofo and Please live are two of the best things they've ever done.

 

[corianderstem]

Here's an interference truth: I have grown to hate (yes hate) R.E.M.

Are you trying to get permabanned, too?

 

[lazarus]

Funny. I find the studio version of Bad to be the best thing they've ever done in studio.

This puts your criticism of Cocktung's production in perspective. Namely, you're insane.

 

[phillyfan26]

Here's an interference truth: I have grown to hate (yes hate) R.E.M.

NSW will kill you.

I've heard five of their albums (the first four and Automatic for the People) and dig them all.

 

[No spoken words]

Get on a treadmill with Discocock and Hold Me, Cock Me and tell me you don't love it.

The former does little for me, the latter, though

 

[joyfulgirl]

When Bono's voice was on, they sounded fucking incredible. Mofo and Please live are two of the best things they've ever done.

 

[No spoken words]

Here's an interference truth: I have grown to hate (yes hate) R.E.M.

NSW will kill you.

I will kill you.

 

[phillyfan26]

This puts your criticism of Cocktung's production in perspective. Namely, you're insane.

Say what you want, but I prefer to be able to hear Hedge's guitar parts.

 

[joyfulgirl]

The former does little for me, the latter, though

No? I can't be still when I hear the former. Or the latter.

 

[Dalton]

Are you trying to get permabanned, too?

No one is more surprised by this than me. I was actually listening to Automatic for the People the first time I entered the Holy of Holies, but I literally LUNGE to change the channel when they come on now.

 

[Dalton]

The first time I ever crossed the Mississippi by car was on a road trip from Phoenix to NYC with a woman I was obsessed with. I made sure we listened to Cockland as we crossed. I felt like such a dork, but it also had to be done.

I ended up deciding 1/2 way through that trip that I would rather be shot than date this woman (Believe me, she felt the same way, no surprises there), and proceeded to do like 90 the rest of the way home to end the fucking trip as rapidly as possible.

Everything about this story makes me laugh.

 

[lazarus]

The first time I ever crossed the Mississippi by car was on a road trip from Phoenix to NYC with a woman I was obsessed with. I made sure we listened to Cockland as we crossed. I felt like such a dork, but it also had to be done.

I ended up deciding 1/2 way through that trip that I would rather be shot than date this woman (Believe me, she felt the same way, no surprises there), and proceeded to do like 90 the rest of the way home to end the fucking trip as rapidly as possible.

Nice try. The first paragraph was all I needed to hear to know you strangled this woman with your bare hands and left her in a ditch somewhere.

And BTW people, it's "Mo'Cock", not "Mofocock" or whatever.

 

[No spoken words]

No? I can't be still when I hear the former. Or the latter.

Discocock is just not a favorite of mine. I liked it a lot more upon its release than I do now. Though, when they broke it out for the first time during the Vertigo tour, in Chicago, I was there and definitely was happy to hear it.

As for Mofo, as I said earlier.....that song, when done Live once they hit their Cockmart stride, was simply insane in the best possible way.

 

[phillyfan26]

Disclaimer on all my comments: I have not listened to a U2 album (aside from Boy on my birthday) in about eight months, due to my intention of starting refreshed right before NLOTH to get the context properly.

Thus, I'm expecting a radical shift in my thoughts.

 

[martha]

Ooh, yay, that would be quite awesome.

And believe you me, I am certainly thinking about traveling for a show or two, assuming I am not mercilessly made to be unemployed by then.

Come down for the LA shows. I've got a spare bed if joyful doesn't claim it first.

Unless my dirty house and spraying cat didn't swear her off of my house forever.

 

[coolian2]

Discocock is just not a favorite of mine. I liked it a lot more upon its release than I do now. Though, when they broke it out for the first time during the Vertigo tour, in Chicago, I was there and definitely was happy to hear it.

 

[impy13]

I see Achtung, Birdie has gone by the wayside while I had dinner with my visiting parents.

 

[Dalton]

Sometimes God throws me a bone: Four More Reasons to Drink Red Wine | Newsweek Health | Newsweek.com

 

[joyfulgirl]

As for Mofo, as I said earlier.....

I missed that part. I had to just jump right in - no time for catching up.

 

[phillyfan26]

Discocock is just not a favorite of mine. I liked it a lot more upon its release than I do now. Though, when they broke it out for the first time during the Vertigo tour, in Chicago, I was there and definitely was happy to hear it.

As for Mofo, as I said earlier.....that song, when done Live once they hit their Cockmart stride, was simply insane in the best possible way.

The sound Hedge got when he was simply muting the strings on Mofo's verses was cool as shit.

 

[No spoken words]

Everything about this story makes me laugh.

I ended up making out with her many months later, when we were both terribly drunk. Then, I drove her home (still drunk, me, sigh) where she lived with her boyfriend. I was 23 at the time, I think. Fuck, she was gorgeous. But.....not that bright.

At all.

TMI, whatever, fuck you.