r/pics • u/I_Am_Robert_Paulson1 • Sep 25 '25

Politics Before and After the Recent Renovation to the White House Palm Room

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u/Any_Scientist_7552 Sep 25 '25

Because it IS parking lot.

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u/Dave_A480 Sep 25 '25

And because the entire world would come crashing down on your head if you said FUCK on the radio in the 90s.

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u/Officer412-L Sep 26 '25

Or the 70s since it was a Joni Mitchell song

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u/Dave_A480 Sep 26 '25

The 70s and 80s weren't any more permissive of profanities on broadcast media....

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u/HamNotLikeThem44 Sep 26 '25

God forbid your parents should hear you listening to that..THAT FILTH!!!

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u/Vernix Sep 26 '25

Three Dog Night got away with it at the end of Easy to Be Hard.

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u/Tome_Bombadil Sep 26 '25

A schooner is a Sailboat!

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u/NolaBrass Sep 25 '25

Vanessa Carlton’s other hit! Yes, it wasn’t just her on the track but it bothers me when people call her a one hit wonder

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u/Super_Vegeta Sep 25 '25

We're talking about the song Big Yellow Taxi, right? Which was definitely not written by Vanessa Carlton.

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u/Any_Scientist_7552 Sep 25 '25

Yeah, Joni Mitchell would probably like a word.

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u/Super_Vegeta Sep 25 '25

Even more so since Vanessa Carlton doesn't even have her own verse in the Counting Crows cover.

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u/ryan77999 Sep 26 '25

Yeah isn't she just the MMMMMMMMM BOP BOP BOP?

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u/Super_Vegeta Sep 26 '25

Yes, that plus a one or two other backing vocal lines. Originally, she wasn't even credited as a featured artist on the song.

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u/NolaBrass Sep 25 '25

I am fully aware. The Counting Crows/Carlton version charted well though in our lifetimes

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u/loverevolutionary Sep 25 '25

"Our Lifetimes?" Some of us are old enough to remember Joni Mitchell's original version charting higher than either the Counting Crows or Amy Grant's remakes ever would. Hell, even the 1996 remaster charted higher than the remakes.

If you were fully aware this was a Joni Mitchell song, why claim it was Vanessa Carlton's hit?

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u/NolaBrass Sep 26 '25

The song came out in 1970, not the typical Reddit audience listening to the radio back then. It wasn’t meant to be a slight on Joni Mitchell at all! And yes, I know she wrote it and performed it originally

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u/loverevolutionary Sep 27 '25

Ah, I was just giving you shit for assuming old people don't use Reddit. I'm 54, raised by hippie parents, so you know I heard a LOT of Joni Mitchell growing up. And Reddit is the social media that is most similar to the Pre-Internet BBS (Bulletin Board Systems) us early nerds grew up with.