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Not Afraid · 06-25-2010, 04:04 PM

As someone who has equally significant blind spots, I am not surprised that Alex didn't know of Kurt Cobain. I couldn't, without a doubt, name a Nirvana song without getting it confused with the other grunge bands that sound mostly the same to me.

I was at P&P and listening to a song that "stole" (ie "sampled) from the Tom Tom Club. I mentioned that this was a TomTom Club song and I got blank stares. When I was told this was "so and so" doing this song I said "never heard of her". They tried further clarifying by saying that the woman was in "BellBivDevo" (or whoever it is correctly spelled). When I said I had never heard of that group I got more looks of disbelief. My response was that, if they didn't know the TomTom Club, Tina Weymouth, Chris Franz and the Talking Heads connection I should be the one with the look of disbelief on my face.

Alex · 06-25-2010, 05:37 PM

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They tried further clarifying by saying that the woman was in "BellBivDevo" (or whoever it is correctly spelled).

Just to show that my musical knowledge is not universal, I do know that BellBivDevo is a band that wore silly red terraced hats.

Kevy Baby · 06-25-2010, 06:24 PM

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Just to show that my musical knowledge is not universal, I do know that BellBivDevo is a band that wore silly red terraced hats.

See, you're wrong again. When Devo joined forces with Archie Bell (after he broke up with the Drells) and Beverly Bivens (previously of We Five), they changed their terraced hats to blue.

Alex · 06-25-2010, 06:28 PM

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See, you're wrong again. When Devo joined forces with Archie Bell (after he broke up with the Drells) and Beverly Bivens (previously of We Five), they changed their terraced hats to blue.

You had to ruin it. I've heard of Devo (though I exhausted my knowledge of them with the hat thing; well that and Kevin Yee is very proud of the time he did some Disney CM event wearing the hats). No idea on the others.

Oh, and Devo endorsed huffing canned whip cream.

06-25-2010, 04:04 PM	#1
Not Afraid HI! Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 17,108	As someone who has equally significant blind spots, I am not surprised that Alex didn't know of Kurt Cobain. I couldn't, without a doubt, name a Nirvana song without getting it confused with the other grunge bands that sound mostly the same to me. I was at P&P and listening to a song that "stole" (ie "sampled) from the Tom Tom Club. I mentioned that this was a TomTom Club song and I got blank stares. When I was told this was "so and so" doing this song I said "never heard of her". They tried further clarifying by saying that the woman was in "BellBivDevo" (or whoever it is correctly spelled). When I said I had never heard of that group I got more looks of disbelief. My response was that, if they didn't know the TomTom Club, Tina Weymouth, Chris Franz and the Talking Heads connection I should be the one with the look of disbelief on my face.
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