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"Southern Pacific" by Eleventh Dream Day.

I discovered Car Seat Headrest this year -- my favorite album of 2016 (in a year of great album releases). I also discovered an old band that I really like -- Stereolab

^^^ Well played, sir.

More songs about placentas. Great.

The Waco Brothers. /close thread/

Iggy's version of "Something Wild" before John Hiatt's.

^^ Double Jinx

^^^ Speaking of Nazareth (words I've never typed before), I heard their version of "Love Hurts" before The Everly Brother's..

^^ Jim DeRogatis had Schmilco ranked #30th for 2016. So if Schmilco was a college football team, they would be playing in the Camping World Independence Bowl.

Ike & Tina Turner's cover of "Proud Mary" written by John Fogerty (CCR).

Three Dog Night's version of "Mama Told Me Not to Come" written by Randy Newman.

The first concert I took the whole family to was They Might Be Giants at the Vic in Chicago. It was a 13 and over show. When we got to the front of the line, the guy asked to see ID's. Two of kids didn't have ID's and it took me around 10 minutes to explain that 13 and 14 year olds don't have ID's that show their birth dates!! After he spoke to his supervisor and I assured him that I was their father and they wouldn't cause any problems, he relented and let the whole family in. We had a gas!

I almost forgot this one. I saw The Kinks play in Champaign, IL in 1980 (maybe 1981). The opening act was a band called Johnny Cougar and the Zone. They sucked. Johnny Cougar was aping Springsteen and failing miserably at it. Two years (or so) later, Johnny Cougar changed his stage name to John Cougar Mellencamp (and subsequently dropped the whole "Cougar" nonsense) and became the next big thing -- though I've never been much of a fan of his.

Fables Of The Reconstruction is also a great record. And so is Document IMO (sorry PT). Really no way of getting around the argument that R.E.M. was one of the greatest American bands ever.