RTP-area local music and culture

[kevin maxwell farmer <fakirmevern-amch AT yahoo.com>]

http://www.thislife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?episode=339

"In the wake of a break-up, writer Starlee Kine finds so much comfort in 
break-up songs that she decides to try and write one herself—even though 
she has no musical ability whatsoever. For some help, she goes to a 
rather surprising expert on the subject: Phil Collins."


James Hepler wrote:
> But I also want to know what love is!
>
>
> --- Gorman <goylemjax AT yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > foreigner.  But they're
> > easy targets because everyone has heard of them and
> > most people agree that they're beyond their prime.
> >
> > Um, did Foreigner ever really have a prime period? 
> > "Double Vision"
> > was prime Foreigner?
> > Think of any number of bands in their
> > league--Journey, Styx, REO,
> > etc.  While none of these groops have ever done it
> > for me, there's
> > sort of a camp value to some of their work, or it's
> > so bad and over
> > the top, you can least get a laugh, provided you
> > haven't heard it in
> > yrs.  Foreigner is just like stale, flat cola in a
> > plain paper cup.
> > It's just sits there.  Forget about for several yrs,
> > it's still just
> > as boring & uninspiring as before.
> > Juke box Hero?  I wanna know what love is?  Urgent? 
> > head games? hot
> > blooded?