I Loved 1968. Let's do it again!

[Fenian_Bastard]

From the ISG report:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061206/ap_on_re_us/us_iraq_violence_figures

I am accused occasionally of Vietnamizing Iraq beyond the limits of analogy.
OK, barefaced lies about the level of violence, promulgated for domestic political purposes only? (The Iraqis, after all, have a pretty good bead on the actual casualties, I'd guess.)
Check.
Puppet government with no popular support?
Check.
Embedding US advisors with the Iraqi army?
Check.
Can't leave/Can't stay?
Check.

 

[buckweaver]

Cool. Can I be a May '68 French student? ;D

 

[pallister]

Hippies suck.

 

[Chi City 81]

Hippies suck.

Outing alert -- pallister is Eric Cartman. :D

 

[Boom_70]

From the ISG report:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061206/ap_on_re_us/us_iraq_violence_figures

I am accused occasionally of Vietnamizing Iraq beyond the limits of analogy.
OK, barefaced lies about the level of violence, promulgated for domestic political purposes only? (The Iraqis, after all, have a pretty good bead on the actual casualties, I'd guess.)
Check.
Puppet government with no popular support?
Check.
Embedding US advisors with the Iraqi army?
Check.
Can't leave/Can't stay?
Check.

Good Music

Not even close

 

[Starman]

But when you talk about destruction

Don't you know that you can count me out ...

IN.

:o :o :o

 

[Boom_70]

I wanna change the world but I don't know what to do

 

[dooley_womack1]

Some big differences:

--No draft now.
--Easy access to credit cards now, leading to a false sense of affluence.
--Closer sexual equality and sexual freedom are now a given, not a new frontier.
--Music was much better then.

 

[The Big Ragu]

Good Music

Not even close

Pshah. 1968 gave us such classics as Hurdy Gurdy Man, by Donovan and Harper Valley, PTA, by Jeanne C. Riley.

Seriously. Hey Jude (Beatles), I Heard It Through The Grapevine (Marvin Gaye), Mrs Robinson (Simon & Garfunkle), Born To Be Wild (Steppenwolf) are among the songs of 1968. Not a bad year... even if I only experienced half of it.

 

[Boom_70]

Good Music

Not even close

Pshah. 1968 gave us such classics as Hurdy Gurdy Man, by Donovan and Harper Valley, PTA, by Jeanne C. Riley.

Seriously. Hey Jude (Beatles), I Heard It Through The Grapevine (Marvin Gaye), Mrs Robinson (Simon & Garfunkle), Born To Be Wild (Steppenwolf) are among the songs of 1968. Not a bad year... even if I only experienced half of it.

Yeah - that was my point.

Also did not have the internet to debate fenian

 

[21]

The Dow hit a high of......985.

A stamp cost 6 cents.

Gallon of gas (regular, which you did not pump yourself): 34 cents.

 

[D-Backs Hack]

And the Tigers and Cardinals in the World Series.

Hey, maybe we are doing it again.

 

[dooley_womack1]

J_R, could we send the Sherminator back to 1968?

 

[D-3 Fan]

Good Music

Not even close

Pshah. 1968 gave us such classics as Hurdy Gurdy Man, by Donovan and Harper Valley, PTA, by Jeanne C. Riley.

Seriously. Hey Jude (Beatles), I Heard It Through The Grapevine (Marvin Gaye), Mrs Robinson (Simon & Garfunkle), Born To Be Wild (Steppenwolf) are among the songs of 1968. Not a bad year... even if I only experienced half of it.

My old man raised me on the music from the '60s when I was growing up in the '80s.. Today's stuff doesn't hold a candle or jock to the music back then.

Stop hating on Jeannie C. Riley! Harper Valley brought us a sultry Barbara Eden and Nannette Fabray!!

"I'm just mad about Saffron,
And Saffron's mad about me..."

 

[Inky_Wretch]

Hippies suck.

Without them, the late 60s/early 70s would have sucked.

 

[D-3 Fan]

Hippies suck.

Without them, the late 60s/early 70s would have really sucked.

There you go. Carry on....

 

[Inky_Wretch]

Hippies suck.

Without them, the late 60s/early 70s would have really sucked.

There you go. Carry on....

I concede the point.

 

[spnited]

Billboard's Top 20 for the year 1968:
Some great, some good, some pathetic:

Here are the 20 biggest songs of 1968 according to Billboard Magazine.
= Song/Artist High Chart
# 1 Hey Jude - The Beatles # 1
# 2 I Heard It Through The Grapevine - Marvin Gaye # 1
# 3 Love Is Blue - Paul Mauriat # 1
# 4 Honey - Bobby Goldsboro # 1
# 5 People Got To Be Free - The Rascals # 1
# 6 (Sittin' On) The Dock Of the Bay - Otis Redding # 1
# 7 This Guy's In love With you - Herb Alpert # 1
# 8 Mrs. Robinson - simon & Garfunkle # 1
# 9 Love Child - Diana Ross & The Supremes # 1
# 10 Tighten Up - Archie Bell & The Drells # 1
# 11 Hello, I Love You - The Doors # 1
# 12 Judy In Disguise (With Glasses) - John fred & His Palyboy Band # 1
# 13 Grazing In the Grass - Hugh Masekela # 1
# 14 Harper valley P.T.A. - Jeannie C. Riley # 1
# 15 Green Tambourine - The Lemon pipers # 1
# 16 (Theme From) The valley of The Dolls - Dionne Warwick # 2
# 17 Young Girl - Union Gap featuring Gary Puckett # 2
# 18 Those were The days - Mary Hopkin # 2
# 19 The Horse - Cliff Nobles & Company # 2
# 20 Born To Be Wild - Steppenwolf # 2

 

[Ben_Hecht]

Eight out of twenty isn't bad.

 

[Bubbler]

Words cannot describe how much I hate Judy In Disguise.

And 1968 is BH and AMB in terms of epochs. Before "The Horse" and After Marching Bands tried to make it their own ... every single one of them.