Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site pyuxn.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!pyuxww!pyuxn!rlr From: rlr@pyuxn.UUCP (Rich Rosen) Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Re: Bad lyrics Message-ID: <1183@pyuxn.UUCP> Date: Thu, 4-Oct-84 14:21:45 EDT Article-I.D.: pyuxn.1183 Posted: Thu Oct 4 14:21:45 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 6-Oct-84 03:45:52 EDT References: <114@ssc-vax.UUCP> Organization: Bell Communications Research, Piscataway N.J. Lines: 15 > I have to nominate "Morning Train," or whatever it was called. You remeber > the top 40 tune: "My baby takes the morning train, he works from 9 to 5... > It was a song with no redeeming value whatsoever. > -- Mark ...uw-beaver!ssc-vax!adolph Of course it had a purpose!! It served to remind women of their proper place, waiting at home for their man, the breadwinner and head-of-household, to come home each night. One of the cornerstones of new conservative movement. Bring back those old values and those problems will go away. Whether any of this qualifies as "redeeming value" is questionable at best. (It would seem that much of the so-called adult so-called contemporary so-called music serves the above function.) -- If it doesn't change your life, it's not worth doing. Rich Rosen pyuxn!rlr