Recent content by Charlie Steiner

Haven't they moved on to teammate's sisters?

I missed the debut of MTV but it wasn't long afterward that I saw my first video on that channel, Message of Love by The Pretenders. Might still be my favorite song of theirs.

If it's the one I'm thinking of, I will mention that there's a quality to it that I was going to touch on about his career in general, and this isn't much of a spoiler; he was very self-referential and liked to call back to previous work. Great if you're a fanboy/girl but :tumbleweed: if you're...

No AI here, just 100% Steiner's brain: John Waite began his musical career in the mid-1970s, finding moderate success with the English band The Babys. He then went solo in the early 80s, joined a new band with old bandmates, Bad English, in the late 80s and returned to recording and performing...

My artist for round #5 is John Waite.

Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss.

I don't know if @KarmaPolice remembers me teasing my next selection as somehow having a connection to Jonathan Cain/Journey, so here's the reminder. Now that I've confirmed all the material I need is available on Spotify, I will announce that my artist for Round 5 is: John Waite. For those who...

1. I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing - The Hillside Singers You weren't raised with Jesus. You don't know what happens to people when they believe in things. - Don Draper season 7, episode 14, Person to Person There isn't another more appropriate song on the face of the planet for the show...

2. Is That All There Is - Peggy Lee You know what? You're filthy rich. You don't have to do anything you don't want to. - Peggy Olson (to Joan)- season 7, episode 8, Severance Coming into this exercise, all I knew of Peggy Lee was her song Fever. Just browsing her Wikipedia page showed me how...

3. The Best Things in Life are Free - Robert Morse Every time an old man starts talking about Napoleon, you know they're gonna die. - Roger Sterling This selection is for all the Mad Men and theater geeks out there; much like everything else that went into the show and its attempt to immerse...

Like I said in the write-up, it was wikkid that framed Betty's character and how JJ played her that helped me see the actual genius of it, which really unlocked a lot of how I understood the whole show after that. Regarding the bolded, the show certainly did that a lot, and there's at least 1...

4. My Way - Frank Sinatra Well...whenever I'm really unsure about an idea, first I...I abuse the people whose help I need. And then I take a nap. - Don Draper, season 7, episode 6, The Strategy Those of us who are more ignorant of the past than we realize didn't know that Frank's most...

You're taking "Never meet your heroes" to a new level.

5. You Keep Me Hangin' On - Vanilla Fudge We find ourselves rich in goods, but ragged in spirit--reaching with magnificent precision for the moon, but falling into raucous discord on Earth. We are caught in war, wanting peace. We're torn by division, wanting unity. We see around us empty lives...

Unless you rank them chronologically. :whistle: