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Side two: Match 5 - "Trapped Under Ice" vs. "Disposable Heroes"...song 1, side two thrash battle. "Ice" is one of my favorite Metallica songs, so it wins. Match 6 - "Escape" vs. "Leper Messiah". "Escape" is pure crap, so "LM" takes this one by default. (For matches 7 and 8, I shall switch the order of the songs a bit, so the instrumentals go head to head) Match 7 - "Orion" vs. "Ktulu". At one time, I could actually play a lot of "Orion" on the guitar...and I usually skipped Ktulu...so "Orion" it is. Match 8 - "Creeping Death" vs. "Damage Inc." - "Creeping Death" is the quintessenti

Too close to call...I think this will require a head-to-head battle of the songs to decide. Both albums, while awesome, did follow a single formula. Match 1 - "Battery" vs. "Fight Fire With Fire" Both songs have the dramatic intro music leading to full-tilt thrash... the winner has to be "Battery" though. But only by a little. Match 2 - Battle of the Title Tracks. "Puppets" wins this one hands down. Match 3 - "For Whom the Bell Tolls" vs. "The Thing That Should Not Be", aka the track 3 slower-song fight. "FWTBT" by a mile. Match 4 - Thrash power ballads..."Fade to Black" vs. "Sanit

We're all dying, Louie. Dying since the day we were born...

I think '85 saw the debut of the "Metal up Your Ass" t-shirt. Which just might have been the best shirt ever.

Even the best TV guys still pretty much blow and take away from the game. Since I can see what's going on (it's TV, remember), I don't need to listen to someone yapping incessently throughout the entire game. That's what radio guys do, and even they don't seem to talk quite as much. During football season, I end up turning the sound off on Fox at least 4 or 5 times a year because the guys just won't shut the hell up. Give me a few mikes on the field, and let me hear the PA guy. That's it.

I can read your mind. P.S. My pal Jeff and I saw the Monsters of Rock tour at the Meadowlands that summer. Interestingly enough, the douchebag bass player for Kingdom Come (who seemed very coked up) tried to convince me and Jeff to drive him into NYC after the show (we were staying at the same hotel). Jeff, who has more balls than me, told him we'd have been happy to if his band wasn't so awful.

Kingdom Come. Pure aural shit.

> Love at First Sting Aside from a slight headache when I went to bed that night (and perhaps some slurred speech during the evening), I was ok. I also felt great the next morning. I just really don't recall drinking 15-20 cups of beer, or whatever it was.

Apparently, I pretty much drank a full Heineken mini-keg by myself Saturday night. Plus a handful of Newcastles, and then part of another Heineken mini-keg.

How is this? Like a country version of American Lesion?

BUMP

Seriously.

I only caught the last 8 or 9 innings of yesterday's Sox vs. Sox game, so I'm not an expert on the Chicago announcers. But anyone who refers to a team they're not a member of as "us" or "we" is a fucking douchebag. That goes for ex-players, announcers, and especially fans.

Or just stop playing the game entirely. Then announce a first and second team All-Star list for each league, by position, afte the season. That would include 1 SP, 1 RP, and a DH for the AL. Personally, I couldn't care less about the actual all-star game. The HR derby is fun, but the game itself is bogus.

That pretty much sold me on both. I'll definitely check 'em out.

It's either that or get into e-fights with people, and I'm far too cowardly to do that.

I should probably be familiar with either/both, but I am not (although I have heard both names before). The Aquabats are ska-ish in their nature, right? And I know nothing of the Travoltas, although I've always assumed they were Ramonesian in nature, a la The Riverdales, Huntingtons, Queers, etc. Does anyone in either band wear a headband?

Totally not true. My funny barometer is broked. What I think is at the very least sometimes funny is, in fact, not funny at all. TRUE STORY.

"Well life is just a party and parties weren't meant to last."

Eddie Murray is pitching for the Reds??? He's gotta be 50 by now...

You, sir, are correct.

YES!

Whatever happened to that one dude who played guitar for Prince up through the 1999 record? He sounded pretty badass trading vocals with the Purple People Eater on "1999", and I saw him again today on VH1 classic for the "Controversy" vid. He totally missed out on the Purple Rain money... Prince = Ken Lay

He plays with dolls. Exhibit A: