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I have both of those on vinyl. The Airplane one is an early pressing, and still sounds fantastic.

I love those songs, but both could lose their parentheses and be just fine: What's So Funny About Peace, Love and Understanding? I Don't Want To Go To Chelsea

I think it works for certain songs, but 90% of them should drop the parenthesis. One case of it working: Voodoo Child (Slight Return)

All of Verlaine's singing is a bit off -- more than a bit, usually -- over his whole career. (This has never prevented me from loving his stuff.) This sounds awesome.

If you haven't heard that song, you should. Then it'll all make sense.

I've had this one for a few years but only dragged it back off the shelf this morning. It's good, a bit quirky ... I'll need to spend a little more time with it to form an opinion.

Hopefully Dexter uses this opportunity to call Rita out on her undisclosed first marriage ... seeing how she cares so much about honesty and all. I'm with Harry on this one ... he never should have married her.

I'm back to thinking it was Anton.

I've heard some of that ... Eddie was amazing.

I haven't recorded any tracks in 2009, so I can't list my best ones. Or did you mean my favorite tracks?

I've seen a trailer for this on TV a couple of times and have been ... um ... intrigued: The Men Who Stare At Goats http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SreufFevUSw

That's an interesting thought.

I have always suffered from this affliction. The silver lining is that every so often I pull something down off the shelf and listen to it as if for the first time ... and often in such cases, I'm blown away and have a "new" album to obsess over for a while. It's rare that I sell off unwanted discs, so I have hundreds of dusty ones waiting to be (re-)discovered.

I thought the same thing when I saw that. The name of the album is Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit.

One of the all-time greats, and a fixture of my childhood. RIP, Soupy.

Nowhere near the best album of the year. I'm currently listening to one of the (much) better ones: ^ Also probably not the best of the year, but it'd easily make my top ten.

Excuse me Uh will ya excuse me I'm just trying to find the bridge Has anybody seen the bridge? Please... Have you seen the bridge? I ain't seen the bridge Where's that confounded bridge?

From the thread title, I thought a label called Petition was going to be pressing vinyl.

"Dance to the Music" - Sly & The Family Stone Doesn't really discuss songwriting per se, but describes the construction of a song, layer by layer.

"Number Three" - They Might Be Giants

Lots of good stuff mentioned here already, so I won't repeat any of that. Here are twenty amazing '90s albums by artists who've yet to make an appearance in this thread. In no particular order. The Mommyheads - The Mommyheads Orange Humble Band - Assorted Creams John Cunningham - Homeless House The Semantics - Powerbill Spoon - A Series of Sneaks Neal Casal - Fade Away Diamond Time Posies - Frosting On The Beater Crowsdell - Dreamette Gigolo Aunts - Major Chords and Minor Themes Owsley - Owsley Sam Phillips - Martinis & Bikinis Superdrag - Head Trip In Every Key Candy Butchers - Fallin

Any list that omits the self-titled Mommyheads album is an incomplete list.

Big Head Todd and The Monsters - both "Broken Hearted Savior" and "Bittersweet" Buffalo Tom - "Taillights Fade" Bettie Serveert - "Palomine" The Lemonheads - "Drug Buddy" and "Down About It" Belly - "Feed The Tree" I'll have to think a bit ... there's a lot more where those came from.

I doubt a hitting coach could charge anyone but the very highest-paid players anywhere near $100,000 per year. The major league minimum salary is $400,000. Lots of guys still make well under $1M per year.