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JL21 wrote:
docellis wrote:I think it would be awesome. On acid.
Yeah, but everything is awesome on acid.
If I was on acid seeing all those old people singing "Sweet Caroline" might've been enough to send me into a trip I may have never recovered from.

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He sings a song which is close to my name, not exactly my name but close. For whatever reason, whenever I'm with a group of friends and there is alcohol involved they feel the need to sing this song to me, over and over, loudly, in bad voices, anywhere. Did I mention loudly?

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JL21 wrote:Ever since I was very young, Neil Diamond's popularity has mystified me. It still does. I suppose I could see his popularity being legitimate now, in some hipster douchebag irony kind of way. But beyond that, his popularity fails me.
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TimeForGuinness wrote:
JL21 wrote:Ever since I was very young, Neil Diamond's popularity has mystified me. It still does. I suppose I could see his popularity being legitimate now, in some hipster douchebag irony kind of way. But beyond that, his popularity fails me.
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I thought that was unnecessarily harsh myself.

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TimeForGuinness wrote:
JL21 wrote:Ever since I was very young, Neil Diamond's popularity has mystified me. It still does. I suppose I could see his popularity being legitimate now, in some hipster douchebag irony kind of way. But beyond that, his popularity fails me.
thanks

I think you were really fortunate to have the tickets, TFG. I'm a fan.

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Socnorb11 wrote:
TimeForGuinness wrote:
JL21 wrote:Ever since I was very young, Neil Diamond's popularity has mystified me. It still does. I suppose I could see his popularity being legitimate now, in some hipster douchebag irony kind of way. But beyond that, his popularity fails me.
thanks

I think you were really fortunate to have the tickets, TFG. I'm a fan.
Thanks, I've always been a fan. He puts on a great show...Forever in Blue Jeans and Holly Holy were great.

I guess the 15,000 old people there were the hip-replaced-sters?

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i think it sounds fun. even without acid.

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My ex wife got free tickets. This morning I asked her how it was and she [expletive], "I was sooo pissed!" and I was like why? and she was like "He played Sweet Caroline 3 times but he didn't play hardly any of his hits, what a waste" and I'm like, well, he does consider himself a still functioning artist who does have new work he wants to play and she was like " I asked the couple behind us how much they paid and they said $130 each!! Holy [expletive] I would have been pissed to pay that and not hear Cracklin Rose"

And I said, Oh.




lol at hipster douchebag irony. like the a holes that kept playing We Built This City at the kickball game the other day.

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lukethedrifter wrote:My ex wife got free tickets. This morning I asked her how it was and she [expletive], "I was sooo pissed!" and I was like why? and she was like "He played Sweet Caroline 3 times but he didn't play hardly any of his hits, what a waste" and I'm like, well, he does consider himself a still functioning artist who does have new work he wants to play and she was like " I asked the couple behind us how much they paid and they said $130 each!! Holy [expletive] I would have been pissed to pay that and not hear Cracklin Rose"

And I said, Oh.




lol at hipster douchebag irony. like the a holes that kept playing We Built This City at the kickball game the other day.
I was pissed that there was no Cracklin' Rose.

And Sweet Caroline was ok once...not twice. I must have passed out for the 3rd time around.

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I've never been to a concert where they played the same song more than once much less three times, even when it was the biggest hit the person had. Maybe he forgot he already played it, and then forgot again.

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