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Why is everyone posting in the 2017 thread? No more living in the past

I don't like that song either. But there's a lot of great post -"Shiny Happy People" R.E.M just as there's a lot of great post 'Heavy Metal Drummer" Wilco.

I've argued with my friends over this for years -- I think you can build a case for R.E.M. as the greatest American rock band ever.

Yes. Jason was no longer with the band at the time. But Shona was.

I highly recommend "Scene of the Crime" an album she recorded with the Drive-By Truckers as her backing band.

I'll send you a message with the details.

Drive-By Truckers

Bumping this old thread for the benefit of those of you (like me) still listening to music on an old iPod classic. I found a guy on eBay who will swap out the hard drive on my 164gb iPod with a 360gb flash memory. It's more expensive than I thought it would be, but now I'll be set for life (or longer) and won't have to be as selective about the music I purchase for fear of running out of storage. The seller claims it's seamless -- everything (music and album artwork) gets transferred over and he replaces the battery for free.

The riff from "How Soon Is Now?" was my ringtone for several years.

Set list from Friday's show in Chicago: 1. You are Here 2. Forever 3. Black Flowers 4. Don't have to be So Sad 5. Ashes 6. She May, She Might 7. Naples (Antitem cover) 8. Big Day Coming (acoustic) 9. Here You Are ---------------- 10. Out Of The Pool 11. From a Motel 6 12. Here to Fall 13. Shades of Blue 14. For You Too 15. We're an American Band 16. Shaker 17. Autumn Sweater 18. Today Is The Day 19. I Heard You Looking (with Rick Rizzo and mark Greenberg of Eleventh Dream Day) ---------- 20. That's What You Always Say (Dream Syndicate Cover with Rizzo and Greenberg) 21. Prisoners of Rock 'n'

They were great! Two sets -- the first of which was pretty quiet (lots of songs from the new one). The second set rocked. Rick Rizzo and Mark Greenberg (both from Eleventh Dream Day) joined them onstage for three songs including "I Heard you Looking." Ira probably said 20 words total between songs. Have fun tomorrow.

I watched two excellent documentaries recently. The first is "Icarus" on Netflix -- about the Russian Olympic doping scandal. The second was on MTV[!] - a career retrospective on R.E.M. that originally came out in 2014.

In a word, "no." The Cubs are loaded. And you can't begin to imagine how much it hurts me to say that!

Yo La Tengo

Gary Sheffield?

Winston -- Harmon Killebrew, Alex Rodriguez and Ken Griffey Jr.?

Opening Day is here. Happy New Year, baseball fans.