the kids are alright, just stupid

The Gipper

@westside-steve said:

I'm guessing you looked these guys up, but since this is a story about Billboard Top Hits is it number ones or just top tens?

>>>edit it is number one hits<<<

I'm wondering which number one hit songs these 10 fellows have written or performed? I don't doubt that it's more that I'm guessing since I'm pretty unfamiliar with postmodern music.

WSS

I am not that familiar with all of them, but clearly Brian May, Jim Morrison, Art Garfunkel, Tom Scholz, and Huey Lewis have all had major hits.

The Gipper

@the-cysko-kid said:
PhD in medieval literature is possibly the most useless degree I've ever heard of. I suppose if you're a rock star you can afford to drop a ridiculous amount of money on a degree with no practical application.

Well, maybe he would think that whatever you got your education is may be just as useless.

Perhaps you are a Hitlerian. Recall that he too thought little of intellectuals and academics and killed them, where if someone was a manual laborer he would use them til they dropped dead.

The Gipper

@chicopee-john said:

It isn't often that The Gipper posts anything interesting, Brother Steve.

I liked this one.

EVERYTHING I post is interesting. (now it it your turn to do just one).

Westside Steve

@the-gipper said:
I am not that familiar with all of them, but clearly Brian May, Jim Morrison, Art Garfunkel, Tom Scholz, and Huey Lewis have all had major hits.

And again since the article is about number 1 Billboard hits...

As for Morrison I credit Robby Krieger and Ray Manzarek with the doors music much more then his stupid drunken blathering poetry. Art Garfunkel didn't write. I'm not sure if Huey Lewis did.

WSS

Westside Steve

I didn't look up the rest but it appears Huey Lewis never had a number one hit. he had 7 in the top 10 but the highest rank was a number 3.

WSS

The Gipper

@westside-steve said:

And again since the article is about number 1 Billboard hits...

As for Morrison I credit Robby Krieger and Ray Manzarek with the doors music much more then his stupid drunken blathering poetry. Art Garfunkel didn't write. I'm not sure if Huey Lewis did.

WSS

Didn't Art write some lyrics at least?

As for Morrison....he did write The Doors lyrics....and your original post had to do with the reading level of song lyrics, no?

So, here you go.....PhD level stuff?:

Oh, my, god. Becky, look at her butt.

It is so big. [scoff]

She looks like one of those rap guys' girlfriends.

But, you know, who understands those rap guys? [scoff]

They only talk to her, because, she looks like a total prostitute, 'kay?

I mean, her butt, is just so big.

I can't believe it's just so round, it's like, out there, I mean— gross. Look!

She's just so... black!

[sir Mix-a-Lot]

I like big butts and I can not lie

You other brothers can't deny

That when a girl walks in with an itty bitty waist

And a round thing in your face

You get sprung, wanna pull out your tough

'Cause you notice that butt was stuffed

Deep in the jeans she's wearing

I'm hooked and I can't stop staring

Oh baby, I wanna get with you

And take your picture

My homeboys tried to warn me

But that butt you got makes me so horny

Ooh, Rump-o'-smooth-skin

You say you wanna get in my Benz?

Well, use me, use me

'Cause you ain't that average groupie

I've seen them dancin'

To hell with romancin'

She's sweat, wet,

Got it goin' like a turbo 'Vette

I'm tired of magazines

Sayin' flat butts are the thing

Take the average black man and ask him that

She gotta pack much back

So, fellas! (Yeah!) Fellas! (Yeah!)

Has your girlfriend got the butt? (Hell yeah!)

Tell 'em to shake it! (Shake it!) Shake it! (Shake it!)

Shake that healthy butt!

Baby got back!

(LA face with Oakland booty)

Baby got back!

(LA face with Oakland booty)

[sir Mix-a-Lot]

I like 'em round, and big

And when I'm throwin' a gig

I just can't help myself, I'm actin' like an animal

Now here's my scandal

I wanna get you home

And ugh, double-up, ugh, ugh

I ain't talkin' bout Playboy

'Cause silicone parts are made for toys

I want 'em real thick and juicy

So find that juicy double

Mix-a-Lot's in trouble

Beggin' for a piece of that bubble

So I'm lookin' at rock videos

Knock-kneeded bimbos walkin' like hoes

You can have them bimbos

I'll keep my women like Flo Jo

A word to the thick soul sisters, I wanna get with ya

I won't cuss or hit ya

But I gotta be straight when I say I wanna *fuck*

Till the break of dawn

Baby got it goin' on

A lot of simps won't like this song

'Cause them punks like to hit it and quit it

And I'd rather stay and play

'Cause I'm long, and I'm strong

And I'm down to get the friction on

So, ladies! (Yeah!) Ladies! (Yeah)

If you wanna roll in my Mercedes (Yeah!)

Then turn around! Stick it out!

Even white boys got to shout

Baby got back!

Yeah, baby... when it comes to females, Cosmo ain't got nothin' to do with my selection.

36-24-36? Ha ha, only if she's 5'3".

[sir Mix-a-Lot]

So your girlfriend rolls a Honda, playin' workout tapes by Fonda

But Fonda ain't got a motor in the back of her Honda

My anaconda don't want none

Unless you've got buns, hun

You can do side bends or sit-ups,

But please don't lose that butt

Some brothers wanna play that "hard" role

And tell you that the butt ain't gold

So they toss it and leave it

And I pull up quick to retrieve it

So Cosmo says you're fat

Well I ain't down with that!

'Cause your waist is small and your curves are kickin'

And I'm thinkin' bout stickin'

To the beanpole dames in the magazines:

You ain't it, Miss Thing!

Give me a sister, I can't resist her

Red beans and rice didn't miss her

Some knucklehead tried to diss

'Cause his girls are on my list

He had game but he chose to hit 'em

And I pull up quick to get wit 'em

So ladies, if the butt is round,

And you want a triple X throw down,

Dial 1-900-MIXALOT

And kick them nasty thoughts

Baby got back!

(Little in the middle but she got much back) [4x]

Westside Steve

Light My Fire hit #1.

Robbie Kreiger wrote the bulk of the lyrics.

WSS

Westside Steve

Art just sang.

WSS

The Cysko Kid

@westside-steve said:

I didn't look up the rest but it appears Huey Lewis never had a number one hit. he had 7 in the top 10 but the highest rank was a number 3.

WSS

Heart and soul didn't hit number 1?

The Cysko Kid

@the-gipper said:

Well, maybe he would think that whatever you got your education is may be just as useless.

Perhaps you are a Hitlerian. Recall that he too thought little of intellectuals and academics and killed them, where if someone was a manual laborer he would use them til they dropped dead.

I do think people who style themselves as intellectuals are douchebags that much is true.

The Gipper

@the-cysko-kid said:
I do think people who style themselves as intellectuals are douchebags that much is true.

The Cysko Kid

You're very incorrect if you think I'm ignorant but having to style yourself an intellectual is just a form of hipsterism. Look at Isaac Asimov's face in that picture and tell me it's not begging to be punched.

The Cysko Kid

Him trying to wedge all his books into one overarching universe was a bad idea.

Westside Steve

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, drink deep or touch not the Pieriain spring.

WSS

DieHardBrownsFan

Like my brother used to say, "feeling good is good enough"

Westside Steve

Well at least good enough for me and Bobby McGee...

WSS

The Gipper

@the-cysko-kid said:
You're very incorrect if you think I'm ignorant but having to style yourself an intellectual is just a form of hipsterism. Look at Isaac Asimov's face in that picture and tell me it's not begging to be punched.

There is a simple solution: If you don't want to be thought of as ignorant.....don't act and say ignorant things.

The Gipper

@the-cysko-kid said:
Him trying to wedge all his books into one overarching universe was a bad idea.

I understand. You have improved in the space of a single post.

The Cysko Kid

Well you explain how medieval literature is a useful degree and I'll be willing to listen. There may be ten jobs in the world where that would be a necessary requirement and I'd be willing to bet they're all filled and not by former members of the velvet underground.

The Gipper

@the-cysko-kid said:
Well you explain how medieval literature is a useful degree and I'll be willing to listen. There may be ten jobs in the world where that would be a necessary requirement and I'd be willing to bet they're all filled and not by former members of the velvet underground.

Is everything all about a job?

Well, here you go.....he can get a job in a library, in a bookstore, in a publishing house, and things of that nature.

My son's college roommate had a degree in some kind of literature and is a publicist for a NYC publishing house. So, there may not be a direct job in studying medieval literature per se....but there are jobs out that that want people that have the ability to apply the skills they learn in studying literature to whatever it is they have available.

http://careers.penguinrandomhouse.com/

http://disneycareers.com/en/career-areas/corporate/publishing/

http://careers.hmhco.com/

http://umph.org/JobOpenings/tabid/466/Default.aspx

https://depts.washington.edu/engl/ugrad/publishjobs.php

http://www.kenyon.edu/directories/offices-services/career-development/the-kenyon-career-network/

And here are some people that got a similar degree at the same school:

E.L Doctorow, Author of Ragtime

Laura Hillenbrand, author of Seabuiscuit and Unbroken

Robert McCauley, Editor for Playboy

Matthew Winkler, Editor for Bloomberg News

Jim Bellows, former Editor of the Washington Post