"It's not time to make a change, just sit down, take it slowly, you are young, it's your fault, there's so much you have to go through. Find a girl, settle down, if you want you could get married."

"I thought I was smart I thought I was right I thought there was a virtue in being cool. So when it came time to fight, I thought I'd just step aside and let time prove you the fool."

Just so you know, I discovered this on my own a week ago. It was only while making this post that I came across the link above. Does that make me clever or put me on the cusp of advanced moronism/near-fatal imbecilia?

I am a Yusef Islam fan! ALLAH ACKBAAAAAH!!!

*plane explodes*

I am a goshdarned Flaming Lips fan. Zaireeka is the greatest album of all time.

AfroPirate!

I had appreciated Cat Stevens, but wrote him off in 1989, when he supported the bounty Ayatollah Khomeni put on Salman Rushdie's head for writing The Satanic Verses.

I was living about 50 yards from his British publisher's headquarters in London at the time. It was really fun coming home from school and having to stand behind baracades at least once a week while the police cleared the building for bombs, or waiting for a mile-long protest march to pass.

I was so happy when the granola chicks in the flat below me threw out their Cat Stevens tapes, and I'm glad he's still not allowed in this country.

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biped, have I told you lately that I love you?

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Dammit biped, how long has this affair been going on?

i see how it is frank, just forget about ME!

How can Cat Stevens endorse sentiments like "find a girl, settle down, if you want you could get married"? Surely it should be "your father will find you a girl, who'll probably be your niece, and you'd better get married or we'll stone the pair of you to death". But I guess that doesn't scan so well.

Everyone seems angry that Cat Stevens is inconsistent, like he's a universal constant that has been thrown into unmitigated chaos.

And all good sci-fi has shown us that "once even Cat Stevens cannot be trusted, we are truly lost beyond hope." (quote of Ash from Alien right before he melts into baby spit-up)

Woa, I never realised that Fight Test was a "cover", but after listening to Father and Son it does make sense.

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Elastica and Wire fans speak out!

The Flaming Lips/Cat Stevens thing was a shock to me when I heard the two songs. I was reading Wikipedia's Nirvana entries the other day when I came across this:

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It is vaguely based around a riff using four power chords (F-Bb-Ab-Db) with more than a passing similarity to a section of Boston's AOR classic "More Than a Feeling", as well as Blue Öyster Cult's "Godzilla". But the starkest similarity is with a song called "Mr Chips" recorded by Crazy Horse, Neil Young's backing band. It should be noted that Kurt Cobain was a big fan of Young's music.

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When I find the link someone at work sent me about Nickleback, I will post it here.

Also, re: Flaming Lips:

"I thought I was smart, I thought I was right, I thought it better not to fight, I thought there was a virtue, in always bein' cool..."

Aren't they from Texas?

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When I find the link someone at work sent me about Nickleback, I will post it here.

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There's also a Coldplay/Sum 41 one floating around out there as well but I can't find it anywhere now.

I've heard a Linkin Park one as well.

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The Flaming Lips/Cat Stevens thing was a shock to me when I heard the two songs. I was reading Wikipedia's Nirvana entries the other day when I came across this:

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It is vaguely based around a riff using four power chords (F-Bb-Ab-Db) with more than a passing similarity to a section of Boston's AOR classic "More Than a Feeling", as well as Blue Öyster Cult's "Godzilla". But the starkest similarity is with a song called "Mr Chips" recorded by Crazy Horse, Neil Young's backing band. It should be noted that Kurt Cobain was a big fan of Young's music.

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I can't find that Mr. Chips song anywhere online. Also I've been listening to a lot of Elastica lately, it's good.

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Blue Öyster Cult is fucking awesome. "Black Blade" is the quintessential prog-acid-rock song.

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I can't find that Mr. Chips song anywhere online.

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Yes... but the sweet spot in their career are the Zaireeka/Soft Bulletin/Yoshimi albums. They're all a bit tamer than the guitar-heavy sonic mish-mash of the older lips, but also have a much stronger melodic sensibility and probably better lyrics. I am a fan of the idiocy of earlier Lips lyrical stylings, though.

Soft bulletin for the win, I might add.

I enjoy the older stuff just because it's a bit dirtier sounding and absurd. I purchased Yoshimi but just wasn't feeling it and sold it to a used place. It's prettier than the older stuff and it defintiely sounds like they have grown up as musicians but I'm in a harder phase right now. Maybe soon I'll go back and listen to it again. Umfum, definitely peep the old stuff. You'll be glad you did.

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I enjoy the older stuff just because it's a bit dirtier sounding and absurd. I purchased Yoshimi but just wasn't feeling it and sold it to a used place. It's prettier than the older stuff and it defintiely sounds like they have grown up as musicians but I'm in a harder phase right now. Maybe soon I'll go back and listen to it again. Umfum, definitely peep the old stuff. You'll be glad you did.

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Ah, here it is: Nickelback vs uh...Nickelback

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Ah, here it is: Nickelback vs uh...Nickelback

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