PopTodd

Heard this story on NPR yesterday and the clips sounded freaking awesome. I'm gonna need to pick this one up. Anyone else heard of this guy? Know his music? STORY HERE What do y'all think? I think it sounds like my next purchase.

HA! My wife and kids are up there right now. My inlaws live up there and I go up at least once a year with the family. Love it. For a nice day trip: go up the Leelanau Penninsula and check out some of the galleries in Leeland and Sutton's Bay. Also, if you have kids, the beach in downtown Elk Rapids (about 15 min. north of downtown TC) is the best around. In June, the water is still pretty cold up there, but because the beach in Elk is pretty much one huge sandbar to about a 1/4 mile out, it gets warm faster. Plus, for kids, it's nice to have that shallow. Also, adjacent to the beach there,

John Popper's harmonica playing is the poor man's Stevie Wonder's harmonica playing. Yngwie Malmsteen is the poor man's Randy Rhoads.

ELO is the poor man's The Move

Well-worth picking up if you're a fan.

I agree. Especially with the ready availability of the music in electronic form, I think that you'll probably see those collector's prices dropping pretty quickly as the market for such things dwindles.

Don't know if you would call this a pop song or not. You certainly could. But it's up for argument. What is NOT up for debate, is the fact that it's perfect.

Yeah. Looking for images for the mp3s I ripped to my iTunes, and I saw the prices that it's going for on Amazon—$70.00 new, $20.00 used. Not bad at all. I've had that kind of luck a couple of times. Also found THIS DISC in a bargain bin about 15 years back. $2, if I remember correctly. Japanese import bargain bin at the late Tower Records on Clark in Chicago.

Nope. Just CDs.

Half Price Books in Highland Park, IL.

Best Coast is the poor man's Rilo Kiley And, again, I like both bands.

Kim Deal

Yesterday, I picked up all of these for a total of $6: • The Replacements - Don't Sell or Buy, It's Crap • Los Lobos - The Neighborhood • Billy Bragg & Wilco - Mermaid Ave., Vol. 2 • The Amps - Pacer • Del Amitri - Twisted • Fatboy Slim - Halfway Between the Gutter and the Stars Great day. Most excited about that Amps record. I loved it back in the day, but lost it in a flood a few years back. So happy to have it again. Oh, and that Replacements thing is an EP that came out around the time of All Shook Down. It has "When It Began" and then a bunch of sloppy-ass outtakes and

I'd also add: Carole King Dolly Parton Chrissie Hynde Aimee Mann and... Jenny Lewis Terre Roche Maggie Roche Suzzy Roche