Mr. Heartbreak

Serious? You must be a huge Robert Johnson fan (not that there's anything wrong with that...) I much prefer Gimme Shelter, Live With Me, Midnight Rambler, Monkey Man, You Can't Always Get What You Want, and, especially, the title track.

This is actually very close to my ranking. Anodyne March Still Feel Gone No Depression

The track 2 theory doesn't work too well for the first couple Steely Dan albums: Dirty Work Razor Boy Great tunes, but there are much better ones on those records. Doesn't work well for some of my favorite FZ albums, either: I Ain't Got No Heart Can't Afford No Shoes I think different artists from different times just have different ideas of tracking. Same thing with the Stones. Who thinks Sway is the best song on Sticky Fingers, or that Love In Vain is the highlight of Let It Bleed? Not me.

One good thing about growing up in a New England school system: we learned that not only did we kick the Confederacy's ass, but we were in the right. We're number one! We're number one!

So that line "All of my maps have been overthrown" is really about the advent of the GPS? Wow, that's bizarre...

Not true, Sir. I can get a coffee from Drunken Donuts for about 2 bucks, half the price of Star****s.

Another vote for Hesse. I'd also suggest Magister Ludi (The Glass Bead Game). Great novel.

Okay, then I'll say it. Billy Childish is a complete idiot, a total douchebag, and couldn't be more wrong. Really? Is Helter Skelter music hall? How about Polythene Pam? The Ballad of John and Yoko? Seriously, this guy is the worst kind of wanker: an obscure, self-important dipshit who will never accomplish anything as good as anything as Sgt. Pepper in his entire life. Tjinder Singh is a total fuckhead too. Before "reviewing" an album, it's a good idea to research the band's history if you're going to make comments that aren't about the actual music. Even the most ill-informed Floyd

Not exactly work safe, but fun. Yes, I am still in mourning for The Sopranos.

Vinnie Colaiuta probably gets my vote, with a close second for Keith Carlock. That being said, I like Glenn, too.

The differences between classic horror flicks like The Exorcist and the "torture porn" of today are almost too numerous to mention. I guess the most obvious difference is that some of those classics actually were films and not just movies: they had realistic characters, a reasonable story arc, actual plot points, and so on. This dreck coming out today, as has been stated here already, simply celebrates sadism as a means of abusing the audience. Twenty-first century special effects make it even worse ("Let's show what it really looks like to have her intestines ripped out by bats! Let's give th

When I was a kid their stuff was on the radio all the time. Do Ya, Turn To Stone, Sweet Talkin' Woman, Can't Get It Out of My Head ... all very radio friendly, and just as good as most of the Top 40 I heard, or so I thought at the time. I never bought any of their records, but I knew a lot of the songs ... just didn't hear them for years. Recently, however, I picked up a copy of their greatest hits at the library, thinking I'd check it out for the nostalgia factor. I was stunned by how bad it actually was. Even the songs I thought were great 30 years ago sound like utter crap today. The ov

I liked the ambiguous ending too. It could be interpreted as Kalle mentioned, Tony's last moments, or it could be just an abrupt halt. Either way, I felt like it was a great ending to a great season. I'm gonna miss this show.

Anyone seeking copies of Vegetable Man & Scream Thy Last Scream (or any of the few other unreleased Syd recordings out there) should google "Have You Got It Yet?"

Wow, great article/interview. Good to get that much commentary from the "famously press-shy" Mr. Gandolfini. Thanks for posting that.

Correct, Episode 31, "Another Toothpick." They just showed it recently on A & E.

Dang ... that's one of my favorite albums of all time. They need to have some better bonus tracks on Disc 3: at the very least, remastered versions of Scream Thy Last Scream and Vegetable Man.

What's with all the negative talk of prostitutes in this thread? Working girls gotta make a living too, ya know.

The actor who plays Paulie has a clause in his contract that he will never be a rat ... but that just means that he won't "flip" to the Feds. In other words, he could still betray Tony in the end. Doesn't mean he will survive if he does, though. I predict Tony will make it through alive, though diminished ... maybe even by more personal loss.

Agreed. Nice first post, and welcome to VC!

Do it! Do it! Do it! Go man, go! I just mentioned them in another thread, but I'll do it again: Circuit Riders Let's see ... how about Missing Persons? Nobody ever mentions them on here.

Little did they know just how valuable those tranquilizers would be in 2007.

Speaking of Blue Mountain, there used to be a pretty good band from their neck of the woods called Circuit Riders. I'd put them in this category, too.

Hands down, my number one choice.