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does anybody know somebody with the entire zappa collection? I have a friend with everything the fall ever released and thats not even comparable to zappas output...well, to be fair theyve had about 10 less years

QUOTE(q\/\/3r+y @ Jan 23, 2006 -> 11:02 PM) aye, the anticipation is getting too high, now me and my friends can't stop talking aobut it...we went through a two month lull of it and now its comin out full force

QUOTE(Yoda @ Jan 23, 2006 -> 09:57 PM) How did it run long? There’s only five songs to the album and it all totals to about 45mins. WYWH was a very good follow up to DSOTM. All five songs are good pieces of composition. And I’m not quite sure what you mean by inconsistent? WYWH could have been a good EP but made it an exceptionally long listen for what it was(album). Inconsistent means it has 2 good songs and three ones that i'd consider "b-sides" or "not to be taken seriously in their catalogue"

QUOTE(Kid Gleason @ Jan 23, 2006 -> 08:43 PM) Without Rob Tyner's vocals, it all seems a bit pointless to me though. we're all young guys, so any option to see a band you listen to a lot that you'll never get to see gain...i mean ...it was only like 12 bucks so not much lost speaking of the sex pistols and stiff little fingers...does anybody like Wire?

QUOTE(WilliamTell @ Jan 23, 2006 -> 08:00 PM) I think mole day is October 23rd, but that's another story. thats what i was thinking

QUOTE(Kid Gleason @ Jan 23, 2006 -> 07:44 PM) Don't forget about the MC5 being WAY ahead of their time and really ushering in the "Alternative/Punk" movement. very good point...my brother saw one of reunion shows...he liked it ... although he said (much like the pixies reunion) that its kind of like watching the chuck e cheese animatronics on stage... and referring to losmediasblancos... i'm starting to feel maybe "classic rock" = english blues? I mean it seems most of the bands on there and on "classic rock" stations derived from that... in that case almost my whole list is not classic rock

have we all heard about snakes on a plane yet?

QUOTE(kyyle23 @ Jan 21, 2006 -> 05:42 PM) Oh yeah, Ryan is developing into a really funny character. He knows he doesnt have enough seniority to talk back to michael, but he never wants to listen to Michael because he is an idiot. I was laughing so hard when Michael burned his foot on his Foreman grill and was trying to get Ryan to rub his feet, among other things. LOL, the foreman grill episode was so funny, seeing the car crash and ...ahh, this show is brilliant...i really was worried it wouldn't translate in the US but they got the right actors. Cause Coupling sure as hell didn't translate well. Coupling was so funny and the US version was PAINFULLY boring....

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Jan 23, 2006 -> 05:04 PM) The basic plotline is actually very accurate. They embellished a little with the relationship stuff I think, and included the normal Hollywood "Communism doesn't work and here's why" stuff...but the story itself is actually very true. During Stalingrad, the Russians made one of their snipers a propaganda toy, the guy killed over 300 Russians or something, and the Germans sent the top instructor from their sniper academy to kill him. The duel dragged on for weeks...eventually at one spot, the guy accompanying the Russian sniper lifts his head and is shot immediately by the German...revealing the German sniper's position. The Russian wins at that point. aye, it was a brilliant movie... i was shocked when my grandpa told me that the russians actually would actually shoot their own men for 'falling back'

QUOTE(LosMediasBlancas @ Jan 23, 2006 -> 06:37 PM) As I was going to agree with bMags about The Velvet Underground, I got to wondering if they're considered classic, what is 'classic rock'? what fascinates me about the Velvet underground is that their popularity is probably 100x higher now than what they were when they broke up. As seen by VU in 87 outselling all 4 of their LPs combined i think it was another interesting thing i find is that Velvet Underground is a pretty common name to people, but most can't name a song by them due to them not really having a single. All tomorrow's parties probably being closest i'd imagine? but they are definitely one of the originators of alternative rock...them and the stooges IMO

How will this affect the economy?

QUOTE(YASNY @ Jan 22, 2006 -> 05:41 PM) Coming up with a top ten list would be extremely difficult, imho. And, of course, nobody is going to agree with you on everything and you'd get slammed on a lot of choices. but he could at least make it interesting...

QUOTE(KipWellsFan @ Jan 22, 2006 -> 09:00 AM) I hate vampires, in movies. in person they're awesome

Wish you were here? That album was so inconsistant and ran long. Now granted i'm not a fan of later pink floyd but i think you'd still have to go with the generic (in terms of always mentioned) dark side. terrible list thou, why not put some stuff that people might not have given a shot back then but have grown a bit of a following now? This is just people giving themselves a pat on the back. No one is gonna see an album on that list and be like "oh man, how did i miss this"...we've all heard all those albums before and Rubber soul>Revolver. anyway if i were to make a list it'd probably be somethin like: Can - Tago Mago Neu!-Neu! Velvet Underground - VU and Nico Led Zeppelin - II Neil Young - After the Goldrush The Beatles - Rubber Soul the Zombies - Odessey and Oracle *actually not sure if this is "classic rock" but i'm confused what that genre means anyway* The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds *same* Brian Eno - Here Come the Warm jets The Stooges - Funhouse ehhh, some glaring omissions but i like it.

QUOTE(The Critic @ Jan 22, 2006 -> 04:34 PM) Glaring omission from this list: LosMediasBlancas That man knows his tunes. seriously, he was a large contributor to the music thread

QUOTE(Texsox @ Jan 20, 2006 -> 12:51 PM) It certainly is sad that Republicans can't seem to get into Journalism. I wonder in this free enterprise system how an industry is able to lock out Republicans so well. And an entire industry will forsake profits, credibility, the public trust, in a united effort to get Republicans and elect Democrats. It must be all the profits they make when Democrats are in office. I wonder if there is a secret daily meeting of all newspaper reporters to discuss how to report all the GOP wrongdoings? Maybe there is a secret internet where only the media go to screw Republicans. LOL, maybe once I become paranoid and drink the GOP koolaid, I'll believe it. Bush is perfect, it's just the media. The GOP whining, despite having 24/7 shills like Hannity/Rush/O'Reilly just makes me laugh. They took a page from the doomsday cults and created a bunker mentality, us vs. the media and soooo many people started slurping the koolaid. aye, who was complaining when judith miller was taking everything the government was spinning to her and claiming it was fact under "confidential sources" before the war in Iraq? Where was the underminding of the bush administration during the most important part of his 8 years presumably?

thanks jim, you're writing is very similar to paul konerkos i noticed...

QUOTE(knightni @ Jan 19, 2006 -> 12:43 AM) I wish i was the frog

You're caught cheating at miniature golf and are beaten to death with a small windmill. hmm

see this is why i'm worried about being a journalist...i'd be laughing too hard to hold the mic towards his face

QUOTE(SSH2005 @ Jan 17, 2006 -> 05:23 PM) Someone has it in their sig. I believe Crede isn't a free agent until after the 2008 season so the Sox still have rights to him for 2007 and 2008. cool, i was thinking that with this contract signed we somehow lose the arbitration rights for the next 2 years...like a whole new contract or something

question...so does this mean that joe is a fa after this year?

the specials s/t was my first...i think i was 9...pretty good i think looking back...

on conan you silly man

this thread reminds me of when the air marshalls shot that one guy who claimed he had a bomb, and a bunch of posters said "oh, the air marshalls gonna get fired because the country has become so PC" and nothing happened, and i've never once heard anyone say, well, i guess we were wrong, they just wait until something like that DOES happen so they can complain about how damn PC the country has become. And they wait to predict about how the PC brigade and Jesse Jackson will be all over some story