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From the Onion: Rock Fans Outraged As Bob Dylan Goes Electronica NEWPORT, RI—Audience members at the Newport Rock Festival were "outraged" Monday when rock icon Bob Dylan followed up such classic hits as "Like A Rolling Stone" and "Maggie's Farm" with an electronica set composed of atonal drones, hyperactive drumbeats, and the repeated mechanized lyric "Dance to the club life!" "We came here to see the authentic Dylan, the one with the Stratocaster guitar and signature wild blues-rock band behind him," audience member Robert Hochschild said. "Then he walks out with these puffy headphone

This is one of his great Letterman appearances: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0akXKxbflM&feature=player_embedded

Sad news. His appearances on Letterman were always fantastic.

He also overdoes it with the quotation marks ...

I'm still a big Tanya Donelly fan. On her website she has a series of demos from Star and a note explaining that they were supposed to be a second Breeders' album.

I can't believe there is going to be a one-hour TV special for LeBron to make his announcement. What is going to happen in the first 59 minutes?

Inspired by the 1990s pop rock thread: Bettie Serveert - Palomine

You are right. After I posted it I almost went back and changed it to "Love him or begrudgingly respect and admire him, there was ..."

I love that song. I still like the studio version more than any live version I have heard.

I wonder what percentage of people read Prince's claim that the internet is over on-line?

Love him or hate him, there was a pretty interesting article about Mariano Rivera in Sunday's NYT Magazine. The on-line version includes a really cool infographic detailing his cut fastball.

Lawn Dart by Ed's Redeeming Qualities It was the third of July and the weather was fine Ed brought the hot dogs, the croquet set was mine But the red ball was missing and three mallets were bent Ed suggested lawn darts so to K-Mart we went We looked by the yard games, we looked by the grills But we couldn't find lawn darts come high water or hills We talked to the sales clerk and she started to cry She said "They're off the shelves now," and she told us both why: A kid was pegged in the head with a lawn dart Her dad didn't see 'er, that's the worst part; A kid was pegged in the head with

No Girlfriend? That is still my favorite M. Sweet album. For me his stuff wasn't as good without both Robert Quine and Richard Lloyd.

And didn't REM (or was it wilcoworld?) release a live version of Country Feedback that Wilco plays on? I swear I have that somewhere ...

I don't know if they count as pop rock but I am still a big fan of Buffalo Tom. I saw them (for the zillionth time) a few weeks ago and they still sound great. They played some new songs and said that they have recorded an album's worth of new material but are not sure when and how they will release it.

This Red Sox injury thing is getting ridiculous. Jason Varitek suffered a broken foot Wednesday night and is expected to miss six weeks.

He was great in May of this year but seems to have settled back down in June. (Although his home run off of Lincecum the other day was pretty sweet.)

This is a tough one for me. Blood on the Tracks is probably my favorite album of all time and I totally agree with Sir Stewart's sentiment above. It's a nice respite and I think it is a great vocal performance (for Dylan). That said, after about five minutes of it I am ready to move on ...

Did Merge put the "Just Like Heaven" cover on instead?

Well it's two: "Lose" (track 8) is a Lou rocker that I don't like that much. For me it's a real drop off from the first seven songs. And I appreciate your point about "Poledo" but I can't call an album flawless if there are songs that I skip and probably half the time I listen to You're Living All Over me I skip Poledo. Another tough one for me to leave out is Husker Du's Flip Your Wig. I absolutely love that album - except for the two instrumentals at the end. They are OK but they just feel sort of tacked on.

And now Victor Martinez is hurt. He left the game in the 4th after taking a foul ball off his foot.

I almost listed this but I will admit that I often skip the two Lou Barlow songs at the end.

It's mentioned below in the Kink's thread but maybe Pete deserves his own thread.

Nice tribute to Quaife here on the site for my friend who made the movie about trying to reunite the Kinks.