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56 minutes ago, sanemax said:

Yes, good point, keep drugs illegal 

Regulated and prescribed like methadone would probably be OK. Heroin is much less dangerous to quit cold turkey.

13 hours ago, canthai55 said:

The crime is directly related to the drug being illegal. Criminal gangs make huge amounts of money, and the world has it's War on Drugs - 555 - as a money making operation to try and prevent it.

Want the crime to vanish overnight - remove the crime. Treat drug users as the Public Health problem it is - not a military and police problem

No illegal drugs - no criminal gangs making money from it, no military and police fighting a war that is not winnable. Drugs have never been so available, pure, and cheap as now.

Wake up People.

Also overdoses would drop dramatically if opiates were regulated. Drug users never know exactly what they are buying

23 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

No doubt, but I think they didn't use LSD till later on, and that stuff can have bad effects. I was referring to LSD though that may not have been obvious.

They were  using amphetamines - Ya ba -  since 1960. Speed screws up one's mind - long term - more than any other drug besides something like PCP. It sounds like you just don't like their psychodelic phrase and they only did a few albums like that. Let It Be and Hey Jude were pretty much basic rock and roll.

11 minutes ago, Justfine said:

A lot of people like Justin Bieber

A lot of people like Beethoven and Mozart too.That does not make your opinion any more important than anyone else. 

2 minutes ago, Justfine said:

Prince? Purple Rain one of the most annoying songs in history. Only Queen songs more annoying.

Sounds like a personal opinion. A lot of people love Prince and Queen.

On 1/3/2018 at 5:01 AM, Jingthing said:

I know lots of people like Myrtle Beach. My impression is that it would be considerably more expensive there. But it is a popular retirement city I think especially with golfers.
 

I love it in the summer, but boring as hell the rest of the year. I used to lifeguard there every year, but once I went a month early and it was terrible.

16 minutes ago, transam said:

As for doing drugs, well l reckon there ain't many who were "clean"..

 

The Beatles were taking hard drugs and drinking alcohol before they became famous, starting when they were working crazy hours in Hamburg. None of the Beatles recorded music came about from innocence. 

18 hours ago, toughlove said:

It's the quality of the beef that makes it
In the Vietnamese resteraunts In oz it was my favorite but don't bother with it here, not even close

I felt the same way in Vietnam. The beef was crap. However, I have not been there in 20 years, so that might have changed. Back then, it was trendy to use packaged noodles. Hopefully, they have returned to home made.

6 hours ago, Thongkorn said:

Do some research Yaba is addictive and cheap to buy ,Why would the Thai government put people behind bars even  gave people the death sentence for it,

Actually, he is correct. The addiction is psychological. It is not a physical addiction like opiates. Governments put people behind bars for innocuous weed and have given death sentences as well. That does not prove anything.

I enjoy the McDonald's breakfasts and biscuits. In America you can get them all day. I don't mind a Big Mac every now and again, although after 50+ years eating them, they are not exciting anymore. When I first moved to Thailand, we used to pray for a McDonald's in Chiang Mai and that would be the first stop in Bangkok. Expats are spoiled nowadays.

On 1/9/2018 at 4:26 AM, MaeJoMTB said:

But wanting sex is normal, I don't know of any man that wouldn't have sex every day if it were easily available.

 

By Jove, I think you've got it. Every day if the right sex partners and no strings attached.

18 hours ago, mauGR1 said:

Half a dozen ? Harsh, for me 2 dozen more likely.

But you are spot on about the Stones, and i dare to say most, if not all the great names of pop music , including the Beatles, were copying the music of the American Black community.

imo, all the great pop music of the fabulous 60s owe a lot to the American Blacks.. Just my impression.

All musicians copy each other. That is nothing new. However, IMHO, both the Beatles and the Stones made much better music than the musicians that they looked up to and they were far from the only ones. Many white bands improved on the ideas that inspired them originally - as did Jimmy Hendrix and Prince.

5 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

After the Beatles melted their brains with too many drugs, they made that sort of music and I couldn't be bothered listening to them anymore.

I think you probably had to be high yourself to appreciate it.

 

You did not have to be high. I loved their music before I ever tried drugs and I love it today. A lot of other people feel the same way.

On 1/3/2018 at 5:53 PM, Katipo said:

I agree with your observation, but the Lord of the Rings is based on an extremely well written and highly regards books. Star Wars is not. 

I actually liked the films better than the books, but not so with The Hobbit. I thought the book was better.

10 hours ago, MaeJoMTB said:

If it's good enough for the locals, then it's probably good enough for me.

 

Vietnam had really unpleasant transport for locals back in the early 1990s, when I first started going there. They jammed way too many people in their vehicles, but sometimes there was no other choice. They also had really great tourist buses with plenty of room and comfort (Kim Cafe and Singh Cafe). They were very reasonably priced and would drive you around looking at cheap guesthouses in every city. Great place to visit back then.

13 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

Bowie was very much a niche market. Only song he ever made I liked was Little China Girl. Most of his stuff I'd change the channel.

Bowie is one of the most popular, innovative artists of the rock era. He is not a favorite of mine, but there is no refuting his talent and contribution to music.

David Robert Jones (8 January 1947 – 10 January 2016), known professionally as David Bowie (/ˈboʊi/),^[2] was an English singer, songwriter and actor. He was a leading figure in popular music for over five decades, acclaimed by critics and other musicians for his innovative work. His career was marked by reinvention and visual presentation, his music and stagecraft significantly influencing popular music. During his lifetime, his record sales, estimated at 140 million albums worldwide, made him one of the world's best-selling music artists. In the UK, he was awarded nine platinum album certifications, eleven gold and eight silver, releasing eleven number-one albums. In the US, he received five platinum and nine gold certifications. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Bowie

13 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

Heavy metal- hated by way more people than like it. Same with genres like punk, rap, hip hop etc.

To be included it would have to be loved by all, or at least not hated.

Are Elvis, Fleetwood Mac, Dire Straits etc hated by anyone?

NOTHING is loved by all. Yes Elvis, Fleetwood Mac, Dire Straits are hated. Even the Beatles are hated by some people, which I don't understand at all. I am not crazy about the heavy metal genre in general, but Led Zeppelin is one of my favorite bands of all time and a hell-of-a-lot of people agree. See the Wiki blurb below with professional opinions. 

My favorite LP is Led Zeppelin III which has mostly acoustic stuff. I still play it often today.

Led Zeppelin are widely considered one of the most successful, innovative, and influential rock groups in history. They are one of the best-selling music artists in the history of audio recording; various sources estimate the group's record sales at 200 to 300 million units worldwide. With RIAA-certified sales of 111.5 million units, they are the second-best-selling band in the US. Each of their nine studio albums placed in the top 10 of the Billboard album chart and six reached the number-one spot. They achieved eight consecutive UK number-one albums. Rolling Stone magazine described them as "the heaviest band of all time", "the biggest band of the Seventies", and "unquestionably one of the most enduring bands in rock history". They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995; the museum's biography of the band states that they were "as influential" during the 1970s as the Beatles were during the 1960s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Led_Zeppelin

19 hours ago, mikiea said:

gay shxt ....

Obviously, but not over the top. Homosexuality is mostly biological, so normal for them. Sometimes the gay agenda gets pushed too hard, but this seems reasonable to me.

12 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

To qualify, a musician/ group would have had to be not only extremely popular, but actually change music that the masses listen to, not just a load of druggies for a few years. Elvis did that, Dylan did that, the Beatles did that ( remember how guitar bands were finished? LOL ), probably the Beach Boys did that. Rolling Stones, Dire Straits and Fleetwood Mac were huge and still popular. For the purposes of THIS thread, Led Zeppelin doesn't even register.

It would be easy to consider every group that we individually liked as "the best", but the proof is in longevity, not just past popularity.

Even my mum liked the Beatles.

 

I only started the thread to point out that musicians that started this century are mainly just commercial products and will change nothing, and be forgotten in 50 years.

Nothing you have said here rules out Led Zeppelin in any way. You just don't like them. Talk about influencing others. They almost created  heavy metal along with Black Sabbath. However, I agree with you on the Velvet Underground. Loved the song "Heroin" though - one of the best drug songs of all time.

14 minutes ago, JLCrab said:

The topic title is Best Music from the last century not music you liked from the last century with pickings from all over the place. I would go with these 5 as Best (and most influential) POP music from the last century in no order:

 

The Beatles

The Rolling Stones

The Beach Boys

Jimi Hendrix

Bob Dylan 

 

I agree with the first two and Dylan (even though I am not a fan) is probably number 3, but after that, IMHO, there are a lot of other possibilities. I would probably put Led Zeppelin next on the list.

I feel the same way as the OP about what happens to my body, but am not going to worry about something that I don't care about. If someone wants to have a service or cremate me, no problem.

4 hours ago, Justfine said:

What is a 10? If just looks you find after 10 mins the person is a 1

Maybe you do. If all I am looking for is physical attractiveness and sex appeal, I am usually content with who I end up with short time term. A long term relationship is very different.

36 minutes ago, 1BADDAT said:

Just because you claim my experiences are anecdotal and know how to use google doesn't make it so. 

Maybe you should look up the definition of anecdotal before launching into another one of your condescending little lectures.

2 hours ago, Justfine said:

 

Nothing wrong with anecdotal stuff if you know the person gives reliable info.

 

Some guy on the internet that you know nothing about? Not really.