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I wish I could remember now. Almost time to re-subscribe to Showtime...

I can't pick just one favorite Beatles song, but I love the "naked" version of "Across The Universe" so much that it might be my favorite. Other contenders are "I'm Only Sleeping" and "Rain."

After much thought, I'm going to go out on a limb and say that Steely Dan was the best band of the '70s ... if we're talking about bands who started in the '70s and did their best work in that decade, and no solo artists (Springsteen, Graham Parker, etc.). Six amazing '70s albums. Hard to beat the Dan.

Adventure is underrated. But yeah, they probably needed a third '70s album to be serious contenders.

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I'm listening to somebody's MP3 rip of the mono box, but it's a shitty rip, which completely misses the point of the whole thing. I guess I'll just wait until mine arrives and try again. Starting to wish I'd upgraded my shipping option ... I probably won't get it for another several days. At least the stereo box will arrive tomorrow.

I'll give you the uncredited blues covers, and there's no real excuse for it (I've not read enough about Led Zeppelin to know whether an excuse was ever even offered). That's precisely why I didn't defend their first two or three albums against your charge. But I know that Spirit song (I'm a big fan) and I think that one's a coincidence. A common thumb technique combined with a common method of walking down chords. Could Page have heard this and lifted it for "Stairway to Heaven"? Sure, anything's possible -- but it's equally possible that he came up with that opening independently. He does

I've got my own copies coming, but with lossless downloads available, I don't know if I can wait! Combined, the two sets in FLAC are something like 5½ gigabytes (and that's without scans of the artwork). My drive's running a bit low on space. Maybe I'll wait for my own copies after all.

On their first two, maybe three albums, yes. And the first two were in the 60s. From the fourth album on, what did they rip off, exactly?

...and Amazon shipped my stereo box today. I expect I'll get the stereo one first. I cheaped out on the mono box shipping charges, so it's coming via three-legged burro or something. Could be another week or two before it arrives. No matter ... I'll have the stereo box to keep me company until then.

Saw the Auer/Stringfellow lineup at Metro in Chicago in '98 or '99, and they were fantastic. I'm a huge Posies fan too, so that was a real treat for me.

The experience I have far more often is when an album is praised to the heavens by critics, and I think it's shit.

Tower shipped my mono box today.

After reading this post I tried to listen to that song and discovered that I've never ripped the Anthology discs for my external drive here at work. How is this possible?!!??!

Fingers crossed that this happens eventually. Though I'm not sure how many of the albums I'd actually buy (again).

Plus, the Beatles' music has aged a lot better over 40+ years than Scarlett will.

With most music, I'm content with downloaded FLACs and JPGs of artwork. But this is the Beatles. I want the discs, the packaging, everything. I don't know if there's another artist I could say that about.

Ergo, former flavor of the month band. From 1994 or so. Not anymore. Many of us hate on Oasis because we don't think they were ever a very good band. Ever. Like, never. That still allows that 49.999% of albums that came out in the last 15 years could be better than their B side album. And when you consider how crappy the bulk of released albums are (across all genres), that ain't sayin' much.

A dog "inspired" David Berkowitz to kill a bunch of people. Let's outlaw dogs!

from Salon.com today "The Beatles: Rock Band" -- finally, a video game even old people can get excited about By Alex Koppelman Sep. 02, 2009 | The best way to understand "The Beatles: Rock Band" is to think of it as something completely separate from its predecessors in the wildly popular "Guitar Hero" and "Rock Band" series of video games, something different from all the video games that have preceded it, really. Because it's not a video game, not really -- it's a whole new kind of thing, an interactive Beatles experience. And yes, the previous paragraph might as well have been wri

Of course, Ganz was also brilliant in Der Himmel über Berlin, a.k.a. Wings of Desire. This is way more interesting than talking about Oasis.

When it rains, it pours.

I'm not saying he's a dirty player. I'm saying it was a dirty play. He knows better.

I'm appalled by some of the spelling in this thread.

It was the worst kind of cheap shot -- one thrown by a guy who didn't have the stones to throw a real block so he pussed out and went low. He knew what he was doing.