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If you're going to copy The Onion, you should at least go all the way...put it on random and make 'em defend whatever comes up.

Posted by sweets | January 22, 2007 2:33 PM
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Actually, we copied it from our sister paper The Portland Mercury.

Posted by David Schmader | January 22, 2007 2:39 PM
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Justify your spelling. "Shmader"?

Posted by DOUG. | January 22, 2007 3:31 PM
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I think that Schmader fears The Reaper...


Posted by Monique | January 22, 2007 4:06 PM
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I do NOT!

I am nothing if not obedient to BOC.

Posted by David Schmader | January 22, 2007 4:11 PM
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I'll consider this an unspoken invitation to play along:

Vanilla Ice - Ice Ice Baby
Wham! - Freedom
Musical Youth - Pass the Dutchie
Michael Jackson - Billie Jean
and there's a huge logjam for 5th, though I think the name Eminem tells you more than enough

Posted by Gomez | January 22, 2007 4:39 PM
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I don't know why it is but Schmader, you seem to get more shit on the slog then any one else. Anyways... I'll stand by "justify my pod" I thought it was great. Make sure to get Dan to justify!

Posted by Brandon Dismuke | January 22, 2007 4:58 PM
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So I guess I am supposed to be embarrassed that I have every Blue Oyster Cult album on my I---Pod, including seven versions of (Don't Fear) The Reaper? I'm not.

Posted by elswinger | January 22, 2007 5:41 PM
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Elswinger: This isn't about embarassment. It's about justification. I'm sure you could explain your love of BOC quite eloquently. In fact, I hereby invite—dare?—you to do so.

Posted by David Schmader | January 22, 2007 5:50 PM
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You have SEVEN versions of "(Don't Fear) the Reaper"?? I'm totally jealous. I must hear them.

Posted by Megan Seling | January 22, 2007 6:08 PM
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I don't have it on my ipod, but it is my (not so) secret shame that I think Simpson 2.0's "Boyfriend" is a fun song.

I actually just got an ipod at xmas, so I don't have that many songs on it yet. The only one that I think might require some justification is "Blue (DaBaDee)" by Eiffel 65.

Posted by genevieve | January 22, 2007 11:31 PM
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Since I turn 43 next Monday it’s easier to understand why I like (Don’t Fear) The Reaper. Blue Oyster Cult’s Agents of Fortune came out about the same time I got my first stereo and pair of headphones. I first heard the song when I used to listen to KISW (when it was it really “less talk, more rock”) and The Reaper was played pretty much every night. I never actually bought a BOC album until 1986 when I went to TESC and one of my roommates were totally into them. He showed me how their albums prior to Agents of Fortune are the best, but each album since has had at least a half dozen great songs. I’m not a musician so I don’t know an arpeggio from an asshole, but I found their music more interesting than any of the other hard rock or metal of the time. For an uber-cool factor, Patti Smith used to hang with them when she and they all got their start in New York and co-wrote some of their songs and even spoke and sang on one (Revenge of Vera Gemini) which is on Agents, (and keyboardist Allen Lanier played guitar and keyboards (and co-produced Smith’s debut album Horses).

I could keep going on but I sense people stopped reading a while ago, but I wanted to make a correction to my previous post. I don’t have seven versions of (Don’t Fear) The Reaper. I have seventeen.

Posted by elswinger | January 23, 2007 6:58 AM
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I love the addition of Justify Your Pod, and agree that Dan must be subjected to this as soon as possible.

Posted by atsao | January 23, 2007 7:11 AM
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Goddamnit. I thought I was free from getting Christmas songs stuck in my head for at least a few more months. Thanks a lot, My Chemical Romance.

Posted by Baxter | January 23, 2007 11:24 AM

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