Welcome to General Chat - GAW Community Area
This General Chat area started off as a place for people to talk about things that are off topic, however it has quickly evolved into a community and has become an integral part of the GAW experience for many of us.
Based on its evolving needs and plenty of user feedback, we are trying to bring some order and institute some rules. Please make sure you read these rules and participate in the spirit of this community.
Rules for General Chat
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Be respectful to each other. This is of utmost importance, and comments may be removed if deemed not respectful.
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Avoid long drawn out arguments. This should be a place to relax, not to waste your time needlessly.
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Personal anecdotes, puzzles, cute pics/clips - everything welcome
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Please do not spam at the top level. If you have a lot to post each day, try and post them all together in one top level comment
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Try keep things light. If you are bringing in deep stuff, try not to go overboard.
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If you find people violating these rules, deport them rather than start a argument here.
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Feel free to give feedback as these rules are expected to keep evoloving
In short, imagine this thread to be a local community hall where we all gather and chat daily. Please be respectful to others in the same way
That's the only REM song I know. Might have to listen to them. I don't know why but didn't get into them. I loved The Romantics and years ago found an album in good condition. Still listen to them when I want to go back to 81-85, my high school years. By 85 I was either into old classic rock, little bit of 80s country and a little bit of pop.
I believe that Michael Stype is gay, but that never influenced his lyrics at all. He kept that out of his songwriting, fortunately. R.E.M. did some rather exceptional neo-Country songs that are great. I had many of their albums on audio cassette, but never replaced them with CDs. This "best of" album is the only CD of theirs I own, and it has all my favorites, plus some I hadn't heard of before.
I'm going to check them out. Thanks for posting, I had forgotten about REM. Recently I've been listening to 80s rock music full albums. I've always thought the better or deeper songs were not released on radio. Over the last two years I've been listening to GNR & Queen a lot. I've listened to country music for the past thirty years and at this time in my life I need rock music to escape life sometimes. I'm all over the place with music and my mood chooses what I'm listening to. If I'm sad it's Led Zeppelin. If an artist is Gay I'll listen to the music if I like it. When they start pushing their agenda I'm out. Freddie Mercury and George Michael were gay and very talented, probably a lot more I'm forgetting. Michael Jackson, not sure about other than just weird or controlled. I rarely listen to him but loved it back then.
There was a fantastic shoegaze band I fell in love with in high school in the early '90s called Kitchens of Distinction. Beautiful stuff. But the more I listened to the lyrics, I was like, "Holy crap, this guy is totally GAY!" Full of accusations, holding society responsible for his F'ed up mental well-being instead of blaming his depravity and faggotry. I loved the music until I started paying attention to what he was saying in the lyrics, and it ruined it for me.
(shoegaze band) is a new term I'm not familiar with. I went full country in the 90s and didn't explore any genres except classic rock. Maybe because I was newly married with a baby. For some reason I thought I had to loose some of myself to be good wife and mom🤣 Crazy thoughts we get in our heads.
We had an amazing classic rock radio station 80s & 90s. RDU 106.1 and now that is talk radio. They play rock from every decade. There's still a version of that station but nothing like what it was. They do still honor 50 minutes no interruptions for commercials. Today it's the only radio station I'll listen to.