Comments on: They Might Be Giants: Eli Manning’s Purple Reign http://stuckbetweenstations.org/2008/02/11/they-might-be-giants-eli-mannings-purple-reign/ Music matters as if music mattered Sat, 05 May 2012 17:22:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: shacker http://stuckbetweenstations.org/2008/02/11/they-might-be-giants-eli-mannings-purple-reign/comment-page-1/#comment-320 shacker Tue, 12 Feb 2008 05:29:14 +0000 http://stuckbetweenstations.org/2008/02/11/they-might-be-giants-eli-mannings-purple-reign/#comment-320 No fair putting Prince in the same sentence with James Brown and Sly Stone! Well, on freak terms maybe, but not on funk terms! Prince is to funk as Tom Petty is to the delta blues. But I haven't heard the Black Album, so reserve judgment. p.s. <a href="http://www.theonion.com/content/news/patriots_season_perfect_for_rest" rel="nofollow">From The Onion</a>: “The utter lack of humility they displayed alongside an equal lack of any joy in the game, that toad of a coach, and that cologne-ad quarterback… If they have to act that badly while playing that well, you really want to see them fail in the biggest way possible. Thank God almighty, that’s what we got.” No fair putting Prince in the same sentence with James Brown and Sly Stone! Well, on freak terms maybe, but not on funk terms! Prince is to funk as Tom Petty is to the delta blues. But I haven’t heard the Black Album, so reserve judgment.

p.s. From The Onion: “The utter lack of humility they displayed alongside an equal lack of any joy in the game, that toad of a coach, and that cologne-ad quarterback… If they have to act that badly while playing that well, you really want to see them fail in the biggest way possible. Thank God almighty, that’s what we got.”

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