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Robert Quine (Lloyd Cole) Nick Hawkins (Big Audio Dynamite II) Rob Buck (10,000 Maniacs) Dave Schulthise (Dead Milkmen) Ray Charles Karl Mueller (Soul Asylum)

U2, for rhyming "Miami" with "my mammy"

Antarctica is also a continent but the likelihood Antarctic sweatshops... (well, maybe if you're a penguin)

In Philadelphia I seem to remember seeing them both together, w/ Alex opening for STC. More I would add to my list: Dead Milkmen 10000 Maniacs Flat Duo Jets Game Theory Feelies (mid/late-80's lineup) Husker Du Soul Asylum (Hang Time era) X (w/ Billy Zoom) The Alarm Stray Cats Living Colour

Ray Charles Alex Chilton Robert Quine (w/ Lloyd Cole)

The Clash c.1979-1980

How Much is That Doggie in the Window? ~ Patti Page Who Let the Dogs Out? ~ Baha Men Who Put the Bomp (in the Bomp Bomp Bomp) ~ Barry Mann

I only caught a little bit of the Grammys but... - Lady Gaga. The egg thing? big whoop-tee-doo. The song? Eh, it was alright. Madonna's "Vogue" but w/ better vocals. - The country gal with the song about the house and the dog buried in the back yard? Meh - of course she won. - Bruno Mars (that his name, right?) & the b&w soul revival thing? I appreciate the effort & the energy, but you don't have the pipes for it. Nice hair, though.

Ah. I must've seen when they cut into the regular programming w/ a special report. My memory's a little skewed about a lot of stuff that happened in college in 1985

What I wrote in my notebook that day (I was a college junior at the time and saw the event live on tv): "Today I watched seven people die over and over again." A horrible, sad day.

I totally agree with this. Except for the middle 3rd of Bossanova, it's all pretty stellar. I'll also second Nick Drake.

I want to say that Jeff's scream sounds like Donald Sutherland at the end of Invasion of the Body Snatchers, but it doesn't.

You might want to browse thru this thread - a good bit of traditional gospel was mentioned but there's also some contemporary stuff that might fit the bill. My recommendation would be almost anything by Bruce Cockburn and T-Bone Burnett.

Very cool - Skylarking is on my short list of "perfect" albums. Would love to see a domestic CD release of this, altho I can't say I'm digging the new album cover.

You can buy a used copy from Stamps2Go for 25 cents - not a big payday but it's worth more than most of the other denominations from that series. Yes, I'm a reformed ex-philatelist.

When I was 7 I went to our church's annual Sunday School Christmas party. Besides punch and cookies and the requisite Bible reading of the birth of Jesus, our Sunday School class also had a gift exchange. Everyone was supposed to bring a gift. I brought a gift, although for the life of me I can't recall what it was (probably a Hess truck model or something). Anyway, at some point all of the gifts were put in a pile on the floor and we sat around cross-legged in a circle. Beginning with the person next to me on my left we went around, clockwise, each kid selecting and opening a present from the

Merry Christmas to all from the Peachtree state (quite close to the beach)

This one always melts my heart: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pds_K2j3RKM

Yes, it's on the maxi-single cd for "Bittersweet" - it's worth picking up for a few dollars on ebay for that alone. Too bad their cover of "Galveston" wasn't also released as a b-side... I'll always prefer the mumbly smoke-and-kudzu REM of the 80's but, like A-man said, as along as others out there enjoy their new stuff, more power to 'em. As a last hurrah they should drag Bill Berry off his tractor & into the studio and do an album of Jimmy Webb covers. I'd buy that.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiyhqNE8fV4

This. I just can't stand that whole late 80's-early 90's rap-funk/rock genre (Faith No More, RHCP)

Anyone else remember the Bluebells? "Cath" was probably their best known single, but I also swoon for "I'm Falling" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNapx-HjCKI

"Zulus?" "No - I won."

I've always had a mental image of kidsmoke = a kid w/ a magnifiying glass frying insects (spiders included).