Sweet Papa Crimbo

My daughter related that she tried Haggis while she was in Scotland....she liked it.

It may seem a bit counter-intuitive, but I give the 63 year old Springsteen a pass because there is so much genius of his that is STILL in the vaults. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfTpZYQmtTM#t=39

Wrong on both accounts.

Soooo...we spend two years wiping out the Silence and they end up allied to the Doctor. Galifrey is saved, but they can never return. Not a lot of payoff for the emotional investment

To fully belabor the point...Unless Jeff has a time machine, it is not possible for Jeff to have heard this song when he was writing and recording Sunken Treasure. To really wail on the dead horse...2002 is six years after 1996.

Here's some real blasphemy for you... Elvis Costello has managed to have a 36 year career based on his first four records...almost everything since 1980 has been spotty at best (some notable exceptions, but he has produced a lot of dross in the last 30 years...maybe even fair to call a lot of it crap)

Sometimes I can't help myself. Usually there is such gold in his posts that I will probably remove him from ignore. Besides, IGNORE is really un-democratic.

Sooo...the ONLY reason why somebody wouldn't like The Grateful Dead, Phish and the Dave Matthews Band is because we know ABSOLUTE ZERO about them and are trying to look cool to other "cool" music fans. The Kelvin Scale of music appreciation.

It's the other way around. Jets to Brazil sounds exactly like Wilco. Your post reads like you are saying Wilco is 'stealing' their sound from Jets to Brazil. Perfecting Loneliness came out in 2002. Being There came out in 1996.

Of course, I am usually much more crass than Lou.

Not setting the bar very high

I was watching some Alice Coopers yesterday and today also. I think Steve Hunter played most of the leads on Billion Dollar Babies and the tour. Glen Buxton was a really tragic story.

Alice Cooper...discuss

Appreciation of hyperbole is a lost art amongst the deniens of this board. And who would have ever thought that not liking KISS would be a capitol crime?

Not to derail the Replacements hagiography, but I want to rail on KISS. When I was a teenager (the mid-1970's), I viewed these guys as a JOKE. There were bands that rocked better and harder and didn't have to rely on gimmicky makeup hoo hah. When I run into guys my age (53) who are fans of KISS, it tells me EVERYTHING I need to know about their teenage years. However, there isn't much that is funnier than hearing 12-year olds singing along to a song about Anal Sex

It's a common problem. Bands that got lost or sodomized in the record industry dance in the 70's are often mythologized to the point that the hype overwhelms some really nice bands and records. i posted my response before I red Lou's . It is scary how often we are not only on the same page, but on the same paragraph.

Lou was the right kind of obscure underground artist. He was intelligent and a damn good songwriter.

I think it is attributable to Brian Eno.

Dude, you are a brave and righteously truthful man. Even I am not blasphemous enough to slam the Minutemen and Husker Du (even though you could probably seen the ? forming over my head when I gave them a listen).

http://thumbs.dreamstime.com/z/santa-making-obscene-gesture-7374805.jpg[/url]

I disagree...Donald Trump is MUCH more sincere. Exactly what I was intending to say (being a bit too circumspect). The emperor has no clothes here.

Records that sell a lot and get really popular aren't always pandering to the lowest common denominator. Successful music and successful bands aren't always shit.

When you spend your entire recording and performing career drunk off you asses and extending your middle finger to you audience (sloppy drunk live performances aren't cool)...the legend is greater than the actuality.

I can't wait for Nirvana's induction...I'm sure Courtney will make it ALL about her.

So you moved to New England to get away from racism...