Game Thread PLAYOFFS - ROUND 2, GAME 1: Blazers @ Warriors - 5/1/16, Sunday, 12:30 (PDT), ABC

All I know is that Davey Jones taught Axl Rose how to dance.

Game. Blouses.

 

All the talking heads could discuss at the end of the Clippers/Blazers series was how unfortunate it was for Chris Paul, Blake Griffin and Doc/Austin Rivers, Boo-fucking-hoo. Because they were suddenly the underdogs.

When the Blazers were the underdogs at the start of the series, it was "The Clippers are clearly superior. The Blazers are lucky to be here." Etc.

Not sure if it's just bias on my part, but the media and the league sure does love to perform verbal fellatio on the NBA darlings.

 

Don't forget "I'm Not Your Stepping Stone" and "Randy Scouse Git".
Also, don't forget "Head":

 

How did this become a "Monkeys" thread? Sly did you do this to take the attention off of you messing with the Game thread?

 

Sigh!

OK - get the thread for the next game going.

 

Guys, can we keep this on topic? Bands that were better than the Beatles.

On topic: Clearly the Beach Boys.

 

I feel like some people had unrealistic expectations about this series..... or they claimed to have realistic expectations, but once the series actually started, they reverted back to the unrealistic expectations.

It's like someone saying, "I know I have no shot with Jennifer Lawrence. I bet if I asked her out, she'd tell me to fuck off."

Then, they walk up to Jennifer Lawrence, ask her out, she says "fuck off," and they get pissed off.

 

So now it's simply Bands that are better than the Beatles? I can answer that one. There are none....

 

I think rationally people understood that the Warriors were a really good team without Curry, but there was a small part of their brain that whispered, "Maybe they're nothing without Curry!" And that, subconsciously, led them to believe that the Blazers had a good chance to win this series.

I feel comfortable with that pop psychology diagnosis of lots of different people.

 

The Travelling Wilburys is not a band. It's the equivalent of golf's Champions Tour. An old fart wankfest.

 

Trust a moderator to keep things focused.

 

The Wrecking Crew worked on their albums and Neil Diamond wrote for them. As far as I know, Zappa never produced or played with them. He loved them though. He appeared in their movie and asked Mikey Dolenz to play with him at one time. Which is quite an honor. Frank loved the musicality put into The Monkeys. You had flower power bands like The Association, The Electric Prunes, produced by guys like Jerry Hester and Dave Hassinger that were just as fake as the Monkeys. Frank saw through the BS.

 

Like Woody Allen's earlier, funnier movies, the Beatles had their earlier, better, faster songs.

 

Well, they did guest on 'The Brady Bunch' which was clearly a sign of transcendent talent.