POLL: The Clean vs. The Chills

goooood question -- why don't you make one

you guys i have to tell you something
i bought a copy of that book for $24 this morning and i have confirmation that it is on its way from dunedin
(willing to loan within the midwest, mrs advance and henriettalinita)

still would like to discuss the gun imagery
I mean, have we considered the number of gun songs during roughly the same period elsewhere in the world?
is there a way to search this? any librarians know the answer to this question?

I think that would be complicated. I mean, I do feel like in a period/scene where the archetypal band is the sex pistols, gun imagery might not be too rare?

I will definitely take you up on the offer to borrow that book at some point!

Only database I can think of with searchable song titles is Spotify. I don't know if you can combine with searching by year.
Ah ha http://www.spotify.com/us/blog/archives/2008/01/22/searching-spotify/

you can search by song title on allmusic, but I'm not sure how far that'd get you

i mean none of the songs i noticed containing gun imagery have titles that would suggest heavy artillery
except for one, and even that is debatable (point that thing)

Just off the top of my head: That's when I reach for my revolver, Machine gun (slowdive), uh...
well there's this
http://www.popculturemadness.com/Music/Shooting-Songs.html

copacabana
hahaha oh geez

maybe this is a red herring, who knows. i just heard like 3 in one day and it seemed unusual.

am I missing the gun reference in pink frost?

isn't there a gun? i'm not super familiar with that song! you would know better than i would.

I don't think so...she's dying but I always thought that song was about gaia and I don't think you can kill gaia with a gun

also i would not put "the man who shot liberty valance" and "copacabana" within the same musical framework, whereas these flying nun songs are at least somewhat related

like i said, there may be nothing there and i am letting my imagination go (too) nuts

it would not be the first time

anyway i am looking forward to reading this book

cough

i have that book, i like it.

there's a gun in this plus some other weapons:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWGHvFHMiNk

fake eyeball, that's quite a rattle you've got. hope you feel better ;)

Book arrived from Dunedin today in the following wrapping: (from the outside in, all taped shut elaborately)

Brown mailing paper covered in stamps
Cardboard sleeve for book about stamps of indigenous people
plastic bag
brown paper

Lots of photos, not long, no idea how anyone would pay $384 for it but w/e. Looking forward to reading this evening!