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Go to Radio Shack and tell them what you want to do. They'll hook you up. If your receiver has a spare pair of RCA inputs, just get a cable that will run from your iPod's headphone jack to the receiver and don't mess with that wireless stuff (my personal opinion).

Pretty good. Overall, though, I think I prefer Tim O'Reagan's album.

Doors songs bore me to tears, with a few notable exceptions. Byrds all the way.

Lola versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One was the album that first made me adore the Kinks, so it would be hard for me to give it anything but #1. So with that in mind, my list would probably look something like this: 1. Lola versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One 2. Something Else 3. Village Green Preservation Society 4. Muswell Hillbillies 5. Misfits ...but also rotating Arthur, Face to Face, and The Kink Kontroversy into that list from time to time...

Yup. In fact, I'm not sure it'd make my list. There's a lot of great stuff here, but there should be an entry or two from A Bit of Fry and Laurie.

I'm just going to have to vehemently disagree with you on that. Don't get me wrong -- I'm not in the Bee Gees hater camp, especially with their early stuff -- but the Kinks' catalog completely owns that of the Bee Gees.

Hey Ken, North Carolina = Whiskeytown.

Kafka wrote in German, but he was from Prague.

Yes. Forgot about this one. Loved it. (aka Lola Rennt.)

Wings of Desire, or as it's known auf Deutsch, Der Himmel

Hey, he had to pick someone. I'd have a hard time with that decision too (though I'd end up picking the Replacements).

My parents had a copy of the first Best Of The Bee Gees compilation (1969), which I listened to a few times before the whole disco thing happened. There's some great stuff on there. They were a terrific group up until they start squeaking. And even then, as much as I hate the stuff, I have to admit it's well-crafted. I would love to hear your mix, because I don't currently have any of their stuff. My band used to cover "I Started A Joke" and maybe one other BGs tune. To answer your inital question, though -- I just fucking love the Kinks, way more than either the Beach Boys or the Bee

I believe he was the last man I added to my fantasy roster ... and then I dropped him before the season started because I was overloaded on third basemen and short on starting pitching.

Bee Gees - "I Gotta Get a Message to You" (haven't heard any in so long, so this is my best guess) Beach Boys - "God Only Knows" Kinks - "Waterloo Sunset," or possibly "This Time Tomorrow" I'm a huge Kinks fan but not so much of the other two. Choosing a favorite Kinks song is torture.

I liked Bob better when he was still working with Ray.

I thought for sure that you'd say $3.63.

At the exit off I-94 where I work (Baker Road/Dexter), you can get unleaded regular for $3.28. In Ann Arbor proper, it's more like $3.39. I drive an Accord, and when we were in Chicago this weekend I put $49 in my gas tank. I could have gotten it to $50, but it wasn't that long ago that I passed the $40 milestone for the first time, and I just wasn't psychologically prepared for that next level of insanity quite yet.

Hilarious. From Salon.com's War Room today: - - - - - - - - - - - - - Remember the Lieberman "hack attack"? Way back in August 2006, the day before Connecticut's Democratic Senate primary between Joe Lieberman and Ned Lamont, the Lieberman campaign's Web site went down. It prompted something of a media frenzy and ugly accusations from Lieberman about his "political opponents" being responsible for the "attack." (Lieberman's campaign manager told reporters, "If Ned Lamont has a backbone in his body, he will call on these people to cease and desist.") The Lamont campaign issued a categor

Maybe Jeff played a few songs at the radio station?

I love Gulf Shores, and Fort Morgan in particular. Lots of good times there when I was a sprout. (I'm guessing it's quite different now -- that was the '70s.) Happy Birthday Brad! It was great to meet you on Friday!