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Not Mobile and Quad spec



>And, don't forget the toast and tee!

Kevin:

That's "toast and tea." Even on the road, the Brits WILL have their traditions. I prefer coffee and bagels, myself.

>Oh Mark, where have you gone?

Not "mobile," obviously. No, really, the rest of WN is such mature, powerful and intelligent Rock music...then here comes "I'm just a hippie gypsy/Beep beep!" Also while interesting the "guitar enveloper" effect is rather trite. The rest of the album is anti-gimmick, and (as I understand it) the band was moving away FROM their gimmicky past. Flavor of the month. Which, BTW, is a great song by The Posies.

>Bracing for response from women everywhere! Mc included!

You know what I mean...very young breakups usually include an insult session where the girl "tells the guy off" by citing everything bad about HER personality. I didn't mean to imply there was something wrong with schoolgirls. The way schoolboys treat them, they're entitled.

>Going Mobile is a classic gem, though it *is* a little song, but
who says quality must come in big packages?

Lew:

Me. Which is to say Dogs Part Two is no Pinball Wizard. Or Dogs, for that matter.

>by a non-Kevin lister

Mc:

?

>Well said! I love GM, too.

Jim:

That's right...leave me here, all alone, twisting in the wind...

>BTW, I think Pinball Wizard is crap, as a song, total rubbish, bullshit, 

Lew:

Typical pool player reaction...

>Man, this song was a staple for us on *every* road trip.

Kevin:

Try "Road Fever" by Foghat and/or "Me And Bobby McGee" by Janis (really a hitchhiking song, but hey I used to hitch all over the country so...) for better results. Going Mobile might work if I planned to go to Disneyland or somewhere equally silly...Dollywood or something...

>Mark! You need a road trip!

That IS true! To the Smoky Mountains. But (leaving out a rank about the lousy Bush economy) alas...to quote Tony Soprano, I gotta earn.

>have a video of My Wife and I driving down to Ocracoke
on our honeymoon in '98 and the GM is cranking in the
background!

Ken:

Now I am truly abandoned. All I can say is Sheesh. 

BTW, you were just an hour N of the "home of Whodom in SC." You should made the trip. I could have gotten you a tour of the Baba Center.

>what was it that let Jimmy down in QUAD. Was it his Mod friends, or was
it the Mod movement as a whole.

Scott:

I think it's the movement. He thought it was the way to live (what most are looking for at his age), the answer, the path, the key. And it was all too human and flawed like everything human-created tends to be.

>I mean, what was Jimmy trying to escape from?

His ideals about Mod. Angry because it's not what he thought it was (which means angry at himself).

> (I'm not really taking 
into account one ending over the other - the album ending or the film
ending).

There IS a big difference, and the story of the movie is not the story on the album. For one thing, Jim (as far as I can tell) doesn't have four personalities in the movie. He's just confused, and who wouldn't be doing all that speed mixed with Gin? And how he's treated by Steph, although again it's what HE thinks the relationship is which makes him angry.

The end of the album has him realizing his confusion but not resolving it. Turning to love, like John Lennon or something. It really has nothing to do with the Mod movement. Typical Townshend ending, Tommy ends the same way. The movie of course has a gesture, the destruction of the scooter, to show he's rejected Mod and is ready to move on.

>Or did the entire *movement* let him down? Is he rejecting Mod altogether?

It says (in the 1996 concert) "Mod let me down." But that's another version...
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